“Harvest doesn’t wait for Tony Burke and Anthony Albanese to sort out their visa mess ... Farmers are preparing to operate multimillion-dollar machinery, harvesting crops worth hundreds of thousands of dollars every day. "

TOPICS: opinion polls, policy development, public interest in One Nation, regional opposition to Labor policies, Victorian Premier comments on Daniel Andrews statue & roads

TOPICS: Consent in schools, online depictions of strangulation or suffocation, social media algorithms and harmful content, Prime Minister comments on Coalition, One Nation win in WA by-election, voter sentiment in regional Victoria

TOPICS: Caller concerns about My Aged Care, Labor government assessment algorithm, waiting times, support services, Four Corners investigation, service centralisation, Ministers Butler and Rae responsibility

The services affected include psychology, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, exercise physiology, podiatry, dietetics and social work. These are not luxuries.

TOPICS: Housing tax settings, housing completions, visas for farm workers, harvest pressure, net overseas migration, public servant numbers, Labor's migration settings

TOPICS: Prime Minister jeered at Bush Summit, railroading of regional communities, social licence, pensioners affected by private health insurance rebate cuts, impact on public hospitals

TOPICS: Cuts to private health insurance rebates, Mildura public hospital impact, Government modelling on impact, public surgery wait times, Modified Monash Model reform, federal-state health responsibilities and funding

Social licence is the local permission from a community for government to proceed with a project because the community wants, or genuinely accepts, the project.