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Advertisement Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has delivered his third federal budget – in which the government has run up eye-watering amounts of debt while making serious investments in areas including aged care, childcare and mental health. Today on Please Explain, Tory Maguire is joined by chief political correspondent David Crowe and senior economics correspondent Shane Wright for their insight into the 2021 federal budget. Our supporters power our newsrooms and are critical for the sustaina...

Advertisement The Star Entertainment Group has proposed a $12 billion merger with James Packer’s Crown Resorts. Star thinks its track record of operating casinos in Sydney, Brisbane and The Gold Coast puts it in a great position to help Crown out of its regulatory woes. In February, Crown was found unfit to operate its new casino at Sydney’s Barangaroo after evidence of money laundering in its casinos and other probity failures emerged in the long-running Bergin inquiry. Today on Plea...

“It does require additional resources for some of this more intensive training. “There’s an economic and social dividend from taking people out of long term unemployment and into work, which has consequences for the individual’s quality of life but also for those around them.” Advertisement The centrepiece of the budget will be an aged care package costing about $18 billion, responding to the royal commission into the sector by offering Australians more in-home care pac...

Loading In the lead-up to the 2014 state election, then-opposition leader Daniel Andrews promised the Metro Tunnel would be built with one-third of funding provided by the state, one-third from the private sector and one-third from the Commonwealth. One federal government cabinet minister told The Age the Andrews government had pushed the Commonwealth for cash for the Metro Tunnel in the lead-up to Tuesday’s budget. Advertisement The rail tunnel, which will connect South Kensington to South ...

“It does require additional resources for some of this more intensive training. “There’s an economic and social dividend from taking people out of long term unemployment and into work, which has consequences for the individual’s quality of life but also for those around them.” Advertisement The centrepiece of the budget will be an aged care package costing about $18 billion, responding to the royal commission into the sector by offering Australians more in-home care pac...

Advertisement A leaked report on the failures of the Victorian hotel quarantine system has spelled out a raft of negligence, obfuscation and buck passing. Today on Our supporters power our newsrooms and are critical for the sustainability of news coverage. Becoming a subscriber also gets you exclusive behind-the-scenes content and invitations to special events. Click on the links to subscribe to

Advertisement NSW Police arrested four men on Wednesday over the alleged kidnap and assault of former international cricketer Stuart MacGill. It’s alleged Mr MacGill was confronted in Cremorne by the brother of his partner on April 14 before being forced into a vehicle and driven more than 60 kilometres to a property, where three men allegedly assaulted him and threatened him with a firearm. He was dumped by his alleged kidnappers later in Belmore. Six days later, the incident was reported...

Advertisement The COVID-19 situation in India is getting more grim as each day passes, and Australia’s response of cancelling all flights from there and threatening Australian citizens with jail if they try to come home, has certainly caused enormous distress to the Indian community here. About 9000 Australians have registered with DFAT that they want to return from India, which has now reached 20 million cases and more than 200,000 deaths - figures widely believed to be massively under repor...

Advertisement In a speech to special forces soldiers last year, Major-General Adam Findlay told his troops they must prepare for the high likelihood of conflict with China. Major-General Findlay, who was the commander of the special forces at the time but has since stepped down, said China was already engaged in grey zone conflict, or conflict that occurs in the area between war and peace. The leak of the speech he made comes as the Department of Home Affairs secretary warned the “drums of wa...

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