The average amount due to people is $250 but some are owed more than $10,000!
Bill Shorten
The pub test has been part of the Australian vernacular for… well, maybe since the Hope and Anchor opened in Hobart in 1807 and the first bloke to down a schooner regaled the room with his opinion.
It’s too important not to get right and fix it for the future. There are some crooks out there and I want them gone, and the Albanese Labor Government is doing everything we can to stop them.
Today’s kids had their lives turned upside down during the pandemic. Lockdowns turned them into involuntary pioneers of en masse online schooling.
Who hasn’t grabbed a broom to free a ball stuck up a tree? The broom was not made for that purpose, but we had a problem and needed a solution.
A few weeks ago, some new research was released that showed the National Disability Insurance Scheme is as fundamental to Australians as Medicare.
Living in Australia, we can feel removed from much of what is going on in the rest of the world. But there are some stories that demand our attention.
When one gender is devalued, we miss out on the full impact that both have to contribute.
The idiom ‘out of sight, out of mind’ has been in the vernacular for centuries and is as apt as ever today.
We need the NDIS to be more about people and less about bureaucracy. In short, to make the NDIS human. My dream is that people with disability can share the Aussie dream of a fair go.
Bill Shorten says governments would be betraying people with a disability if urgent action wasn’t taken to mend NDIS, as the imminent release of a landmark review threatens to ignite a new funding row.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
A road death is always a tragedy. We know that with every accident, there will be grieving that goes beyond the immediate family — it has a butterfly effect.
The stereotype of ‘dole bludger’ has been hard to shift — a wrongly held perception that Australians who took government support were gaming the system.
We need to make sure the staff and customers are safe when they visit a Commonwealth office.
I learnt something new about myself this week. I am, according to the Millennials in my life, into ‘mum bands’. I’m not going to name names, but . . . Padam Padam . . .
It is all our job in government to ensure the final report is not a history book of sad, brutal experiences; it must be a horizon — a horizon for what kind of Australia we want to reach.
Those who cry about the amount of money spent on Closing the Gap are right in one way. If we aren’t getting the outcomes then the money is being wasted. But do we just walk away and say it’s too hard?
One of the privileges of being a union rep was the great life lessons I learned from the hardworking men and women I met.
The impact of shutdowns is still fresh in our minds. It was surreal. The shuttered shops. The job losses. The fractured society that took a long time to find its way back to some sort of normality.
The efforts of the disability community, supported by the Government, have started the journey to a more sustainable NDIS, for participants and their families — and for generations to come.
“Sorry seems to be the hardest word.” So sang iconic British singer Elton John in his 1976 hit of the same name. But unlike the Brits, the former Liberal government in Australia is having trouble apologising.
Another week, another report of dubious behaviour at the big consulting firms working in Australia.
Batman and Robin, Carlton and Collingwood, Hawke and Keating, Kath and Kim, Kylie and Jason, a meat pie with sauce, Rocky and Apollo, and . . . Barbenheimer.
These are exciting times for Australian football, for players of all abilities. It is a reminder that sport is not just about fitness and skill, it is an avenue to forge equality and foster inclusion.
