Funding initiatives show an emerging agenda for transformation, recognition of the specificity of temporary migrants’ experiences of family violence, and the need for system reforms.
Love him or hate him – and there are plenty in each camp – Daniel Andrews has become one of the most significant state premiers in modern history. This month, he may win yet another term.
Governments will rely on taxation to repair the fiscal damage wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, and that will likely mean a GST rise, even if there are better, but politically unpalatable, alternatives.
Expanding suicide prevention frameworks to include aged care residents, aligning nursing home life with community living, and improving residents' access to mental heath services is a good start.
Around 6000 Australians aged under 65 live in nursing homes, cut off from their families and peers, with inadequate support for their disabilities.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and PM Scott Morrison pack the 2019 Federal Budget full of goodies as they push towards an election.
With a budget surplus in sight, it makes no sense to cut funding from Australia's research capacity.
The Turnbull government's budget has failed to match its expressed desire to take violence against women seriously.
This time the pressure is particularly intense, given that the Turnbull government has trailed Labor in the past 31 Newspolls.
Scott Morrison's 2018 federal budget is aimed at winning back middle Australia, with 10 million workers set to receive tax refunds worth up to $530.
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