‘There is more than one way to help people who are on income support payments and pensions,’ treasurer saysGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government is poised to expand rebates and concessions available to jobseekers in next week’s federal budget, which is also expected to increase rent assistance.The...

Exclusive: Samuel Sandy, chair of Nurrdalinji Aboriginal Corporation, says the treatment of its submission was ‘wrong and upsetting’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAn Aboriginal corporation has accused the Albanese government of twisting and misrepresenting its clear position against developing more gas in its...

Federal treasurer Jim Chalmers will next week present his government’s third and possibly final budget of this term. He has said it won’t be one of ‘scorched-earth austerity’ and will take into account hardships caused by the cost-of-living crisis. But the 2024 Australian federal budget is not without its economic and social challenges and the government...

Number of deaths and a lack of preventive action prompts Penington Institute to release key findings a month earlier than usualGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia is seeing an “alarming and devastating” rise in the number of drug-induced deaths, with many of them preventable and being driven by opioids,...

Exclusive: CFMEU campaigns against super giant’s investments with Lockheed Martin and urges ALP to halt exporting parts for fighter jets to IsraelGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastOne of Australia’s largest super funds, Cbus, will review its investment policy after the construction union urged it to divest from...

Thomas Mayo and Kerry O’Brien’s The Voice to Parliament Handbook hailed ‘a poignant’ referendum reminder, winning alongside controversial sex education book Welcome to SexGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA guide to the Indigenous voice to parliament published before last year’s ill-fated referendum has won book...