politics

Is reducing inequality and increasing social mobility one of Australia’s best paths to improving our lacklustre economic productivity performance? Source link

People living with disability in regional areas already face extra hurdles in accessing support and families fear changes to the NDIS could have irreversible consequences. Source link

Resources Minister Madeleine King has taken aim at those who say gas giants are obtaining the commodity for free, saying she’s “mystified as to how they get away with such tosh”. Source link

The Albanese government is reading the room when it comes to intergenerational equity ahead of the May 12 budget.  Source link

NDIS participants set up their lives around the scheme’s rules. But now the rules are changing and they fear what lies ahead. Source link

Labor’s plan to create a new “assessment tool” to determine future NDIS eligibility based on functional need could backfire without the right settings, say experts.  Source link

The government will not increase taxes on gas giants in next month’s budget, echoing the industry’s argument that exporters are already paying tens of billions of dollars in taxes each year. Source link

State leaders are reacting to the sweeping cuts coming for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, with one minister arguing the federal government will “walk away” from those in need. Source link

Australia’s fleet of world-leading surveillance aircraft is set to be replaced and analysts say the planes could be replaced by drones. Source link

The overhaul will see about 160,000 kicked off the scheme by the end of the decade, reducing its projected growth from 10 per cent a year to 2 per cent — a cut in real terms. Source link