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Stephen Lunn

Stephen LunnSocial Affairs Editor

Stephen Lunn is The Australian’s Social Affairs Editor, covering social policy issues including ageing, population, disability, welfare, and migration. He has previously been the paper’s environment writer and Tokyo correspondent. He has also worked in public policy advocacy in the private sector, and practised as a lawyer in Australia and the UK. Stephen has a Masters degree in law from the London School of Economics.

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08/10/2019: Australia's e-safety commissioner Julie Inman Grant (left) with American e-safety ambassador Alicia Kozakiewics in Melbourne Stuart McEvoy/The Australian.

Arming the young online

Since her abduction at 13, Alicia Kozakiewicz has been on a mission to a educate on internet safety.

08/10/2019: Vietnam War veteran Brian Lynch, leaves the Aged Care Royal Commission in Melbourne, after giving evidence about his particular needs in aged care. Stuart McEvoy/The Australian.

‘Honour Billy’s pledge to vets’

Australia should honour the pledge by Billy Hughes 100 years ago to look after soldiers of the Great War, says a Vietnam veteran.

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Mid adult woman sitting home alone, worried.

Psychiatrists want role in suicide fight

Psychiatrists should be more involved in designing Australia’s suicide prevention strategies, the peak psychiatry body says.

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Older women are traditionally reluctant to seek help when facing housing instability.

Older women sleep in cars

Older women struggling to pay rent in 50s, 60s and 70s finding themselves homeless.

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Profoundly deaf couple Elizabeth and Walter Karn with their dog Tyson who is also deaf (through age) and has been taught to understand sign language at their Horsley home in the Illawarra south of Sydney.Elizabeth is appearing before the Aged Care Royal Commission on Friday to talk about how she is denied support for an interpreter for the occasions she needs them under the MyAged Care system. Her and Walter are too old to access the NDIS and don't feel part of the aged care world but that is where they have been sent for support, which they aren't getting.

Deaf ‘falling through cracks’

Deaf to tell royal commission their aged care concerns are not being heard.

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Buyers settle for second best

What if the banks, instead of holding on to a portion of the RBA’s cuts, had passed them on in full to customers?

Stephen Lunn, Mackenzie Scott and DAVID TANNER

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Kate and Rob Cooper pose with their sons Ned, 8, George, 6, and Humphrey, 4 at their AirBnb property in Red Hill, Friday 27th September 2019. Both parents were privately educated but are struggling to get by each month on the income of two working parents plus an AirBnB and Kate's networking marketing business. Photo Stefan Postles.

Aussies forgo upper-class tag

Australians tend to over-estimate other people’s income and underestimate where they sit.

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Matt Hearn, 28 and partner Tiffany Newton, 28 at their home in Bacchus Marsh.

Are you really middle class?

In today’s Australia there’s a disconnect between incomes and our own perceptions.

DECEMBER 10, 2004: Residents outside the general store at the Aboriginal community of Balgo, in the Kimberley. 10/12/04. Pic Leon Mead.Western Australia / Aborigines

Indigenous suicide risk four times higher

Suicide remains the leading cause of death for all Australians aged 15-44.

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Rental stress is rising

With more than six million in rental accommodation, the incidence of rental stress among low-income house holds is rising.

Stephen Lunn and REMY VARGA

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