The NDIS is on the brink of its biggest-ever restructure, and people in the disability community are concerned that the earliest reforms in a sweeping agenda may leave many who rely on the service unsupported.
Amid concerns Australia’s foreign aid programs have lost expertise and may face more cuts, a survey of politicians shows how little aid matters to the parliament.
Looking back over 2023, Albanese lost his sheen, two global conflicts raged, the Voice was defeated and a rabble-rousing punk-poet and an electrifying prose stylist quietly slipped away.
Labor risks losing its grip on the mainland with the next Queensland election, as Annastacia Palaszczuk’s successor faces pressing social justice issues and disastrous floods.
The overhaul that’s intended to rescue the ABC from demographic disaster is looking shaky as more senior staff leave, among them some of the stewards of its transformation.
In interviews with The Saturday Paper, Afghan women describe their fears of retribution and torture by the Taliban, while others in Pakistan hope to be granted asylum by the Australian government.
Two weeks of talks aimed at securing an international consensus on a phase-out of fossil fuels have ended with a statement that critics say does little to advance the urgent work of averting a climate catastrophe.
A pandemic-related visa class devised and extended by the previous government created an enormous pool of unskilled workers who were left open to exploitation and overwhelmed the immigration system.
