Sports minister Anika Wells and shadow minister Anne Ruston got the razzle-dazzle World Cup treatment from the Qatari government then failed to declare the largesse.
The Albanese government has joined 30 nations in issuing a joint statement pledging ongoing support for a ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes as long as the war in Ukraine continues.
More than 3800 Australians died with COVID-19 in aged-care facilities over the past 12 months,quadrupling the number of deaths during the first two years of the pandemic.
The new aged care star ratings reveal widespread shortfalls in the quality and amount of care. Use our searchable database to check out how homes ranked nationwide.
Wells said the government wanted a three-star rating to be “the floor for people,not the ceiling ... we want everybody to move to four or five in the years to come”.
Australia’s Sports Minister has questioned whether a licence for a new AFL team in Tasmania needs to be contingent on a new stadium being built. Meanwhile,Ross Lyon is seeking to emulate a key point of his blueprint which drove St Kilda into grand finals in successive years.
There was a sense of excitement in the room about the state opposition’s election chances. But not every former Labor leader made the guest list.
Aged care reform was one of Labor’s key election pledges,but its promised $2.5 billion in extra funding could be dwarfed by the cost of wage rises.
There is growing concern that the thousands of deaths in aged care this year have not been properly scrutinised.
A meeting of the aged care sector will feed into next month’s jobs and skills summit as the government considers how to fund an anticipated pay rise for the industry.
The federal government has told the Fair Work Commission pay rates in the sector should be “significantly higher” without nominating a figure.