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Labor Party It is about time the Morrison Government has finally come around to the idea of a Royal Commission into veteran suicide. Veterans, their families and Labor have been calling for this since 2019. Since the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, we have lost more veterans to suicide than soldiers killed in combat, while more than 18 defence personnel and veterans have taken their own lives this year alone. While we are disappointed this has taken so long, Labor now stands ready to work ...

NT Government Free breast screening will be available for women aged 50-74 as Millie the mobile mammography unit visits Parliament House this week. The screening service will be outside Parliament House from 19-23 April 2021 and will be the last urban stop for Millie before starting a remote screening schedule this year. Millie is now better than ever following a major upgrade and installation of a new mammography unit last year. The mobile screening unit operates across 20 regional remote comm...

The Australian Greens MPs The Leader of the Greens, Adam Bandt, says the National Cabinet agenda should include the Greens’ call for investment in publicly-owned domestic mRNA vaccine production. The Greens have been calling for publicly-owned vaccine manufacturing for almost a year, and since February have been explicitly calling for Australia to be able to produce mRNA vaccines here. Top scientists and immunisation experts have also argued that Australia should have domestic mRNA production...

VIC Premier The Victorian Government will this week open the doors of its largest high-volume vaccination centres to anyone over the age of 70 for bookings, as well as walk-ins without an appointment. While the coronavirus vaccine rollout is a Commonwealth-led program, Victorian health experts have been working hard on ways to ensure that we can continue to deliver vaccines for Victorians as quickly and safely as possible, following the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation’s (A...

VIC Premier Birrarung, with stronger, permanent planning protections. The Minister for Planning Richard Wynne today announced permanent planning controls to protect the river and its surrounding lands from Richmond to Warrandyte. The controls will ensure the health and amenity of the Yarra River is safeguarded for future generations. The changes lock in permanent landscape and built form controls, including height restrictions to prevent overshadowing, and setbacks to protect the river from ina...

The Morrison Government is extending the construction commencement requirement for the successful HomeBuilder program from six months to 18 months for...

Department of the Chief Minister and Cabinet Six new positive COVID-19 cases have been recorded in the Northern Territory in the past 24 hours. Two females, aged 29 and 55, and four males, aged 31, 38, 40 and 42 who arrived on the repatriation flight from Chennai on 15 April 2021 have tested positive for COVID-19. Five of the cases remain asymptomatic while the 40-year-old male has mild symptoms. All are under the care of the AUSMAT team at the NT Centre for National Resilience. Since repatriat...

The Andrews Labor Government has reached its target of stocking 8 million fish in Victoria's iconic rivers and lakes over the past 12 months, bolstering...

VIC Premier As Victorian students head back to school, the Andrews Labor Government is making it safer and easier to get to class, with new innovative pedestrian crossing technology and electronic speed signs being rolled out across the suburbs. Rolling out across the west, east and south east of Melbourne, 75 new dynamic pedestrian crossings will use sensors and high definition cameras to detect how many people are waiting at a crossing and adjust the crossing time accordingly – keeping stud...

VIC Premier The Andrews Labor Government has delivered a new playspace in Hume and announced a major investment in a new community hub in Broadmeadows through its landmark Growing Suburbs Fund. Minister for Local Government Shaun Leane and Member for Broadmeadows Frank McGuire today officially opened the playground upgrade at Kirwan Park, near Greenvale Reservoir in the south of the fast-growing Hume community. The project received $117,500 from the 2020-21 round of the Growing Suburbs Fund, ...