![]() NSW had a record demand for emergency health services during, according to the Bureau of Health Information’s latest quarterly report.Ĭoalition critical of minister’s refusal to rule out aged care tax In a Senate inquiry into consultants that continued today, Greens Senator Barbara Pocock said all 72 names of PwC employees involved in the tax avoidance scandal should be made public after the list was provided to the Aenate.Ī firearms licence was reinstated to a man just months before he shot dead his teenage son and himself, in another horrific domestic violence incident that has left a small community in New South Wales reeling. The Queensland government has reinstated the name of the iconic island to K’gari (pronounced gurri), which translates to “paradise” in the local Butchulla language. The ACT veterans minister, Emma Davidson, has called for the commonwealth to intervene and end the prosecution of defence whistleblower David McBride, saying his looming trial is “not in the public interest”.Īged care minister Anika Wells says the federal government needs to work with the states to deal with issues around dementia, in light of the death of aged care resident Clare Nowland. Philip Lowe has said struggling Australians can cut back spending or pick up more work to reduce financial stress after the Reserve Bank of Australia raised interest rates for the 12th time in just over a year. Here is a wrap of the day’s biggest stories: That’s where we’ll leave the blog for today – thanks so much for joining us. But of course now we know because of the decisions, the government’s interest rates have gone up again,” he said.ġd ago 09.19 BST What we learned today, Wednesday 7 June “The treasurer promised that there wouldn’t be any more interest rate rises before his budget, and he thought it was all done and dusted. When I was health minister, we created the $20bn medical research future fund, which is plowing literally billions of dollars into medical research projects across the country, and will go into perpetuity for as long as Labor doesn’t attack that fund.ĭutton also used the press conference – which was held outside the RFS base in Townsville, for “Thank a First Responder Day” – to call on the government to do more to help struggling Australian families amid another rate hike by the RBA. We put more money into health every year, more money into worthy projects. I understand the same program is operated by the current government. Opposition leader Peter Dutton has downplayed the revelations made by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) report which found that at least 11 projects approved by the former government as part of their $2bn community health and hospital program had no lawful authority for the expenditure.
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