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Dementia Australia Prominent Australians including Prof Graeme Samuel AC, Ita Buttrose AC OBE, Denis Walter, The Veronicas and Abbie Chatfield have banded together with more than 200 Dementia Advocates to write to the Prime Minister ahead of next month’s Federal Budget. The letter calls on the Government to fund the Roadmap for Quality Dementia Care developed by Dementia Australia with partners Dementia Training Australia and Dementia Support Australia. The letter is written on behalf of the half a million Australians living with dementia and the 1.6 million people involved in their care an...

Interim standards proposed by the government look nothing like those put forward in the final report of a once-a-decade review of national environmental laws. Photograph: Lukas Coch/EPA The Morrison government is preparing to reject a recommendation it introduce strong national environmental standards to improve protection of Australian wildlife, opting to instead mimic the failing existing laws. A document, seen by Guardian Australia, sets out the proposed standards the government will introduce to underpin its plan to transfer environmenta...