TOPICS: Labor cabinet’s lack of small business experience, small business sentiment, party pre-selections, life experience, Victorian state election
TOPICS: government underspending on regional healthcare, National Rural Health Alliance, regional mortality rates, flight reliability, private health insurance rebate, tax treatment of premiums, aged care funding
TOPICS: government underspending on regional health, health workforce shortages, aged care telephone assessments
TOPICS: Allegations against Greens Senator, private health insurance rebates, Victorian IBAC findings on COVID-era grants
“Our regional private hospitals serve millions of older Australians, and this cut put some of them at real risk of closing. When a regional private hospital closes, those patients don’t disappear. They end up on the waiting list ...
“Regional Australians are beyond despair about the lack of government investment in their healthcare – they are angry, and rightly so. We should not be dying prematurely due to government neglect.
TOPICS: small business, ATO, credit cards, potholes, migration policy, mental health
The Australia-First Migration Plan will cut net overseas migration to 100,000 a year for two years, then about 160,000 by year four.
Resources Victoria has confirmed the mining licence for the proposed project north-east of Horsham. The licence covers up to 3,426 hectares over 38 years.