The government will slash spending in real terms on the National Disability Insurance Scheme over four years, as it undertakes a massive “reset” of the program. People with lower support needs will be moved off the scheme and over the next two years the average spending on plans will reduce […]
Politics
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is off to another Middle Eastern war, which is likely a surprise to many given how contentious the country’s involvement in the Iraq war was. The Albanese government has decided to send a RAAF E-7A Wedgetail surveillance aircraft to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), along with 85 personnel […]
Deposed Liberal leader Sussan Ley formally resigned from parliament on Friday – and sent a blunt challenge to her successor, Angus Taylor, in her farewell statement. Speaker Milton Dick will now set the date for the byelection in the regional New South Wales electorate. The poll is expected to be […]
US President Donald Trump has insisted the United States will now be “running” Venezuela after US forces bombed the capital on January 3 and whisked Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife out of the country to face federal charges in New York. Trump has promised that “large US oil companies” would be going […]
There has been massive global interest in the new social media legislation introduced in Australia aimed at protecting children from the dangers of doom‑scrolling and mental‑health risks potentially posed by these platforms during their developmental years The platforms’ methods so far for verifying young people’s ages have shown mixed effectiveness. The Australian Christmas […]
Jobs, security and climate change dominated talks between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his British counterpart Sir Keir Starmer in London last week, as the two leaders sought to cement a modern agenda for the Australia–UK relationship. Meeting just days after Albanese’s appearance at the UN General Assembly in New […]
Victoria has become the first state in Australia to formally table treaty legislation in parliament, marking a historic step towards recognising and empowering the state’s First Peoples. The Statewide Treaty Bill was introduced in parliament on Tuesday afternoon. If passed, it will enshrine the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria as […]
The news of the largest-ever class action settlement in Australian history seems, in many ways, like the only fitting bookend to the awful ordeal of Robodebt. Some A$548 million (including legal and administrative costs) will be paid to more than 433,000 victims, once the settlement is approved by the Federal Court. It’s undoubtedly a win […]
Australia has watched on as authorities have searched for Dezi Freeman, a so-called “sovereign citizen” accused of killing two police officers in the regional Victorian town of Porepunkah. The case has put the spotlight on the sovereign citizen, or “sovcit”, movement and its extreme, often conspiratorial, anti-government ideology. It would be […]
