The Australian federal government announced that tens of thousands more citizens would be able to buy a house under its expanded Home Guarantee Scheme. The scheme’s property price caps have been increased across all states and territories and the number of available guarantees has also been increased to a total of 50,000 places a year…
Australian First Home Buyer Scheme Expanded With Bipartisan Support
April 19, 2022
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Labor Pledges to Bolster Staff Numbers at National Disability Service
April 18, 2022
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Australia’s centre-left Labor Party is promising to increase staff numbers at the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and review the operations of the burgeoning scheme which currently services around 500,000 Australians. Bill Shorten, the shadow minister for the NDIS, announced the party’s six-point-plan to change the program, which has faced issues of waste, delayed service…
Albanese Fails to Deliver Coup de Grâce for Australian Labor Party
April 18, 2022
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Commentary Australia’s 2022 federal election campaign has formally started. But if the truth be known, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) has been running its election campaign for many, many months. To understand the opening gambits of the formal election campaign between the two main parties, it is worth unpacking what the ALP’s spin-team has been…
Former Journalist Calls on Australians to Cast Off the ‘Marxist Paradigm’ at Next Election
April 18, 2022
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After 16 years in Hong Kong, Damian Coory saw the gradual “encroachment of big government” come to a head with the Umbrella protest movement in 2014, which saw hundreds of thousands of students occupy the busy streets of the financial hub in reaction to Beijing’s growing control. The public relations director and former TV news…
Free Dental for All: Australian Greens’ Latest Election Pitch
April 13, 2022
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If the Australian Greens hold the balance of power after the next federal election, the left-wing party will push to expand the government’s Medicare program to cover all dental care. In an address to the National Press Club, leader Adam Bandt revealed that the latest initiative would be funded through stricter—and higher—taxation on the country’s…
Labor Vows to Fund 50 Urgent Medical Centres to Alleviate Strain on Public Hospital System
April 13, 2022
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Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has vowed to fund 50 urgent medical care centres across the country if he wins government at the next election. The centre-left Labor Party leader said the AU$135 million plan was not a copy of a previous policy, saying it “wasn’t delivering the same service.” Albanese announced the four-year trial of…
‘This Election Is About You’: Australia’s Prime Minister Calls Election
April 10, 2022
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has declared that the federal election will take place on Saturday, May 21. In his first pitch to Australians, officially kicking off his reelection campaign, Morrison on Sunday asked voters to focus on his cabinet’s performance during the pandemic and its contribution to post-pandemic economic recovery. He stressed that the…
Former Northern Territory Senator Jumps Ship to Liberal Democrats
April 8, 2022
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Former Coalition Senator Sam McMahon will enter the upcoming Australian federal election race as a candidate for the libertarian-leaning Liberal Democrats. The former senator resigned in late January from the Country Liberal Party (CLP)—part of the governing centre-right Coalition—after losing a tough pre-selection contest to former Alice Springs councillor Jacinta Price. McMahon will now be…
Victoria Government Alleges Liberals Failing Victorians Amidst Political Campaign
April 7, 2022
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The Victorian Labor Government has criticised the conservative Opposition for failing Victorians after the Victorian Opposition Leader and his colleagues voted against a motion that the federal government did not deliver for the state in the 2022 federal budget. “Today’s vote shows where Liberal and National MPs stand–on the side of cutting funding to Victorians…
‘I’ve Got Nothing Left in the Tank’: Tasmanian Premier Resigns Politics
April 4, 2022
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The Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein has announced his sudden resignation from his position as premier and as a member for Bass on April 4. “I’ve got nothing left in the tank,” Gutwein said to the reporters at the press conference. “Unless you can give 110 percent to the role of premier, you shouldn’t be doing…
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