This government has run out of its own money to spend and therefore is coming for, in this instance, our older folk, our over-65s. It is raiding the private health fund to, apparently, pay for aged care a little bit later.

TOPICS: Federal Budget, housing policy, capital gains tax, negative gearing, Senator Price speech on Kumanjayi Little Baby, child protection, spending in indigenous organisations

TOPICS: Farrer by-election result, regional health, federal budget

 The most divisive PM in Australia’s history has divided the nation on the voice, city versus country and on recognising Palestine. Now, he is dividing Australians according to the year they were born.

Regional Australians live with gross inequities with weaker services, patchy connectivity, higher costs and fewer opportunities close to home. You don’t fix that divide with a slogan.

Robinvale has a high volume of workers who may not have arrived through a dedicated agricultural migration program. The Nationals are focussed on re-establishing the Coalition-era dedicated Agriculture Visa to get the focus right.

"... more regional Australians are being left out-of-pocket for essential healthcare. During a cost-of-living and fuel price crisis, Labor is shifting healthcare costs onto regional Australians who have reduced access to alternative services.”

TOPICS: Labor’s housing targets, regional aged care, Queensland Government and Twiggy Forrest, green hydrogen

“Australian farmers, our transport & manufacturing industries and motorists need fuel supplies to be supplemented by biodiesel and ethanol production, and the combined wine oversupply and fuel undersupply crisis justifies Commonwealth investment