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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InfrastructurePolitics

The Metro Tunnel Melbourne Picture: Vic Gov

Taxpayers hit with $800m blowout for Metro Tunnel

Victorian taxpayers will stump up at least another $800m to fund cost blowouts in Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel train project, which will now come in at more than $15bn.

Stephen Lunn

Changing citiesNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - Daily TelegraphPhotos - Monday, 1 January 2024:Sunrise at Bondi beach and the early risers.Picture: Daily Telegraph / Monique Harmer

Priced out: The great suburban migration

Housing affordability is changing who lives in the inner suburbs of our big cities. Find out if you live in a suburb where the demographics are rapidly shifting.

Stephen Lunn

NDISNation

Close up women hand holding wheel on a wheelchair during sunset

Disability support outside the NDIS

With the government looking to take pressure off the National Disability Insurance Scheme, consultations are about to get under way about what broader disability support might look like.

Stephen Lunn

PopulationNation

Large crowd of people on Bondi Beach in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney on 2 January 2023. The red and yellow coloured uniforms and surfboards of surf lifesavers are visible in the crowd. The red and yellow flags indicate the area where it is safe to swim. This image was taken at the northern end of the beach in the early afternoon.

Post-Covid arrivals higher than SA’s entire population

Almost two million international migrants have arrived in Australia since the end of Covid restrictions in late 2021.

Stephen Lunn and David Tanner

$5.6bn reformsPolitics

CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - September 12, 2024: The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, and the Minister for Aged Care, Anika Wells hold a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Anthony Albanese’s sunset clause: aged care at home

Older Australians will receive more support to see out their final years in their own homes while self-funded retirees could pay an extra $13,000 a year for residential aged care, under ‘once-in-a-generation’ reforms.

Stephen Lunn and Sarah Ison

commentaryPolitics

Focus on homecare is only way forwards

The government’s new blueprint for aged-care focuses on delivering more care in the home, and rightly so, given that is what we all prefer.

Stephen Lunn

LIVE: Politics NowNation

Anti-war activists protest the Land Forces 2024 International Land Defence Exposition at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Police mounted unit charges protesters at South Wharf. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

‘Hypocrites’: Police chief slams protesters after acid attack, rubbishes Greens concerns

Victorian police commissioner Shane Patton said the conduct of the anti-war protesters outside the Land Force Expo in Melbourne was ‘absolutely appalling’ with up to 2000 protesters ‘there with the intent to confront’.

John Ferguson, Mohammad Alfares, Tricia Rivera and Stephen Lunn

SuicideNation

A woman sitting alone and depressed in sunset

Suicide prevention strategy targets social, economic drivers of distress

Australia’s suicide rate has been stuck at unacceptably high levels for decades, with more than 3000 people dying by suicide each year. A proposed new strategy will look to address the social and economic drivers of distress as well as improve individual mental health.

Stephen Lunn

commentaryNation

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 25, 2017: Australian Royal Navy members march in the ANZAC parade.

Suicide report must not just collect dust

The royal commission into defence and veteran suicide final report recommendations can deliver better outcomes for our former and serving military personnel. They deserve no less.

Stephen Lunn

Nation

Woman working from home at standing desk is walking on under desk treadmill

Ditch the ‘flexibility stigma’ on hybrid work, bosses told

Greater job flexibility is seeing more women in their 30s, 40s and 50s shifting from part-time to full-time work, a new study finds.

Stephen Lunn

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