The controversy over a cut to the number of Better Access psychology sessions is distracting us from a much bigger crisis.
Thirteen moderate Liberal MPs wrote to Scott Morrison with two demands. Seven of them no longer sit in parliament.
The multinational companies – which supply the nation’s hospitals with medical devices such as hip joints,screws,pacemakers and trauma plates – have been accused of shifting the profits they are making in Australia to other countries including Singapore and Switzerland.
Catholic Health Australia says operations will be cancelled and regional services shut down if insurers no longer foot the bill for common surgical items such as staples,sponges and glues.
A new book into Australia’s pandemic response details the at-times rocky relationship between the federal and state governments.
Many questions have been raised about former prime minister Scott Morrison’s move to secretly have himself appointed to several other ministries.
Scott Morrison says his actions were “unconventional” but a “safeguard”.
It is extraordinary,but not unknown,for prime ministers to inhabit multiple ministerial roles.
The prime minister has accused Scott Morrison of running a fake government that was “unbecoming,cynical and just weird”.
Now we know how far Morrison went to centralise power. Thinking he did not really need his ministers,he had himself sworn into their jobs.
Caroline Kennedy – the daughter of JFK and by far the highest profile American ambassador we’ve ever had – is a big enough deal that people come to her.