‘System harms long-term jobless’
Community organisations and unions want the Albanese government to use the 2024 budget to fix an employment services system that relies on a Robodebt-style automated payment suspension system.
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Unis to raise bar for trainee teachers
Indigenous trainee teachers will be exempted from tough new entry rules for university and be tested on Aboriginal language ability instead, in a bid to bolster the First Nations teaching workforce.
Social media fuels teen extremes
It comes as police arrested seven teenagers allegedly connected to the Wakeley church assailant through an encrypted group chat that shared extremist ideology.
‘Can’t be world internet police’: Dutton
Peter Dutton has backed X Corp owner Elon Musk in his legal dispute with the online safety watchdog, declaring Australia can’t act as the ‘internet police of the world’.
‘Angels walking tall through the hell of war’
Anthony Albanese has thanked the villagers in Papua New Guinea who risked their lives to support Australian soldiers in need, calling them ‘angels walking tall through the hell of war’.
Spend on hotels for homeless surges
Public spending on hotel rooms for homeless people has surged from $0 when the state Labor government was elected nine years ago to $3.6m this year.
Inflation means tax cuts could ‘pose a risk’
A leading economist has declared the revamped stage 3 tax cuts in next month’s budget now pose a greater economic risk than when they were first announced, thanks to inflation remaining stubbornly high.
Mining invest pipeline ‘leaks $68bn a year’
The nation’s peak mining lobby says that $68bn in investment is being lost each year because of poor policy settings while only one in five major projects reaches completion.
PM ‘doing nothing on mental health’
The outgoing chair of Mental Health Australia Matt Berriman has accused Anthony Albanese of dismissing the crisis, revealing the Prime Minister refused to meet with him during his three-year tenure.
Albanese has over-estimated himself his whole political life
Next month marks Anthony Albanese’s second anniversary as Prime Minister. The Mocker took the liberty of writing his speech for the occasion.
Our duty to stand against erosion of time: PM
Anthony Albanese says he ‘feels the weight of history’ in his pride, after hiking two days to a memorial site on the Kokoda Track for Thursday’s Dawn Service, where 99 Australians died and 111 were wounded.
‘Radicalised’: Threat of ‘teen terror seven’
Seven teens linked to the alleged 16-year-old Sydney church terrorist have been arrested on the eve of Anzac Day, after more than 400 police officers executed 13 search warrants across NSW.
Foreign students forced into sex slavery
People-smugglers are targeting tertiary education, universities warned, with cases of forced marriage, bonded labour, death threats and blackmail against international students referred to police.
PM must log on to our clear and present dangers
Anthony Albanese and his senior ministers must take seriously and not sideline the pleas of national security chiefs.
Labor MPs reveal budget to-do list
Labor MPs call for a clamp down on property tax concessions, HECS debt reform, extending energy bill relief and other cost-of-living measures in the May budget.
Frustrated mental health boss quits
The head of Australia’s peak mental health body has resigned citing a ‘lack of traction’ from the Albanese government despite a national crisis.
On the Kokoda Track with two prime ministers
Like rock stars in the jungle, Anthony Albanese and James Marape were welcomed by locals, some of whom had walked days to join celebrations.
$4m-plus ‘wasted’ on Olympic consultants
More than $4m in taxpayer money has been spent on external advice for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games, some of which was ignored, in a move the state opposition has blasted as ‘wasteful’.
Social media to blame for ‘every problem we face’
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil says ‘just about every problem’ in society is being caused or made worse by social media, declaring it is unacceptable for tech giants to make billions wreaking social havoc.
Inflation a sleeper issue? It just won’t go to bed
Anthony Albanese can’t rely on a cut in official interest rates to help him get over the line at the next poll.
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