Packed-out and understaff emergency departments are the latest part of the nation’s healthcare system to be ringing alarm bells, according to a major new report. Performances have deteriorated in the overwhelming majority of categories over the last 12 years, such as wait times, and this trend can vary enormously dependingContinue Reading
There is no real end in sight for the housing crisis, according to a report into Australia’s dire housing situation. Many Australians know all too well just how bad the housing and rental crisis currently is, but being told the situation is unlikely to improve any time soon is aContinue Reading
A proposal to let mortgage holders raid their superannuation to help shoulder the burden of steep interest rate rises has been savaged by experts. Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg today pitched his idea of letting homeowners shift chunks of money from their super into offset accounts linked to their home loans.Continue Reading
Aussies are being dudded out of thousands per year and working on average seven weeks worth of unpaid overtime per year, according to fresh data. The research by the Australia Institute found the average worker was losing more than $11,000 per year, or $425 a fortnight, by doing work beyondContinue Reading
Aussie households are wasting almost $20bn a year throwing out food – the equivalent weight of 152 Sydney Harbour Bridges – with retailers raking in more than $1bn from the simple act. The shocking findings from progressive think tank The Australia Institute follow the country’s grocery giants posting massive profitsContinue Reading
The scope of the Indigenous Voice to parliament will be a two-way process, Linda Burney has reiterated. The Indigenous Australians Minister, on the back of her National Press Club address this week where she laid out the four major priorities of the Voice, said she had no doubt those electedContinue Reading
An Australian woman has gone viral after revealing the insane price of an everyday staple being sold at our biggest supermarkets. In her clip, which has attracted tens of thousands of likes and comments, TikTok user @beep___yen revealed that Woolworths and Coles were selling an eight-pack of Schick Hydro 5Continue Reading
Working Australians have lashed out at new modelling suggesting the country’s pension age should increase to 70 years by 2050. Low birth rates and an ageing population are to blame for the need to increase the age of retirement, according to research by Macquarie University’s Business school. Currently, senior AustraliansContinue Reading
An Australian researcher has detailed how the impact of climate change could have dire consequences for the country’s aging population. Senior Research Consultant in the CSIRO, Dr Claire Naughtin, made the comments at Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) in Melbourne on Wednesday. Dr NaughtinContinue Reading
The 116 new fossil fuel projects in the pipeline would pollute the atmosphere with 4.8 billion tonnes of carbon emissions by 2030 if they all came to fruition, according to a new report. Canberra think-tank the Australia Institute says the combined impact of the dozens of new coal, oil andContinue Reading