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It’s starting to feel a lot like 2020, with both the key players from the last election returning for a rematch.
But just because Trump and Biden have put their hats in the ring, doesn’t mean they wi…
Australians seeking cosmetic surgery will soon need to pass a psychological assessment to qualify for treatment.
Patients will be assessed for underlying psychological conditions like body dysmorphic…
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is facing its biggest shake up in decades.
A government-endorsed review has made 51 recommendations to change the way the RBA operates, from who’s on its board, to…
Australia is lagging behind the rest of the world when it comes to sales of electric vehicles (EVs).
Now the Government is trying to catch up, with a strategy to boost EV use to help meet Australia’s…
A panel of experts established by the Government has found that the current rate of the JobSeeker payment and related payments are “seriously inadequate”.
Their report has recommended a “substantial …
Bill Shorten, the Federal Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), has announced an overhaul of the system.
It’s been described as failing to meet people’s needs and has reported…
There’s renewed controversy over a proposal to restrict religious schools from discriminating against LGBTQI+ staff and students.
Several religious groups have expressed concern about the proposal, w…
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) says there’s about a 50% chance of an El Niño ‘event’ occurring this year. After years of dealing with La Niña and floods, It’s only natural to wonder what El Niño wil…
48 Australian politicians are calling for the release of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.
If you haven’t been following the case, he’s currently in prison in the UK, but the U.S. want him tr…
The shadow minister for Indigenous Australians Julian Leeser has resigned over the Liberal party’s position on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
His resignation came a week after the party made the…
The Australian Federal Government is banning TikTok on all federal government devices.
Canada, the U.S, UK and New Zealand all have these kinds of restrictions in place and the U.S. is considering ba…
According to the World Health Organisation 10 to 20% of people infected with COVID-19 may go on to develop long COVID, and yet it’s a condition we still know very little about.
In today’s deep dive, …
Donald Trump has officially become the first current or former President to face criminal charges.
He faces 34 counts of falsifying business records, allegedly covering up a hush money payment as an …
A new review commissioned by the Federal Government has found $3 billion could be lost from the medicare system every year through either mismanagement or fraud.
In today’s deep dive we are going to …
If you’ve been feeling the burn of rising rent or watching property prices pick up, we’ve got some bad news. Things could get even worse.
Australia’s housing shortage is set to worsen by 106,000 dwel…
The Northern Territory Government is offering to buy back grocery store’s alcohol licences.
It’s the latest in a series of new measures aimed at targeting alcohol-related violence in the territory, a…
About one in 20 Australians are believed to have ADHD, but getting a diagnosis isn’t always easy.
We’ve heard from the TDA community about the difficulty and cost of navigating the health system, gen…
Three students and three staff were killed in a school shooting in Nashville this week, in the latest mass school shooting in the U.S.
U.S. President Joe Biden has called for Congress to pass legisla…
The Federal Government’s key climate policy is set to pass after Labor and the Greens reached a compromise in their negotiations this week.
The Government is claiming this reform will reduce 205 mill…
Victorian MP Moira Deeming has been suspended from the Liberal Party after she took part in an anti-trans rally.
The rally was attended by several neo-Nazis, who made Nazi salutes in the direction of…