Federal budget 2024: Cost freeze on PBS prescriptions
The price of prescription medications listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme will be frozen for a year. In delivering the…
Parliament live: Federal government under pressure from LGBTI groups on religious laws
Jacqui Lambie has delivered a stern warning on national religious discrimination laws, suggesting the federal government should look to Tasmania’s…
Interest rates, inflation: Reserve Bank keeps interest rates on hold at 4.35 per cent
A pivot from the Reserve Bank to scrap an explicit warning about further interest rate rises has the peak union…
NSW Health Minister to announce new Pregnancy Connect initiative
Women and their babies in rural and regional NSW will soon have better and earlier access to pregnancy care as…
$3.3bn pay hike for aged care workers not inflationary, Annika Wells
Claims that a pay boost for some 350,000 aged care workers could fuel inflationary pressures have been rubbished by Aged…
MYEFO: One big cost that won’t be counted in mid-year budget update
New spending measures to help struggling households have been shunned in favour of fixing the budget bottom line as Treasurer…
Essential workers suffering serious rental stress nationwide
A new map has illustrated the depths of Australia’s rental crisis, with many essential workers no longer able to afford…
October Business Risk Index: Disturbing number of Australian businesses to collapse in 2024
Australian businesses have been urged to prepare for a tough year ahead, as a major industry report paints a dire…
Jim Chalmers: Cost of living measures to take effect this month as inflation moderates
Billions of dollars worth of “targeted” and “responsible” cost of living measures will this month begin flowing through for millions…