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Patients are being diverted to a telehealth service to keep them out of emergency rooms.
Healthcare

Governments outsourcing care to keep patients out of emergency rooms

A private company the operates a tele-health app that diverts patients from emergency rooms must be properly evaluated, experts warn.

  • by Dana McCauley
The architect of the HECS loans system has downplayed the impact of the government's university fee overhaul.
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University

Uni fee overhaul won't change demand or affordability: HECS architect

  • by Fergus Hunter
Prime Minister Scott Morrison would not say who was behind the attack, but said only a few countries had the capability to do it.
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Cyber warfare

NSW government was target of major cyber attack operation linked to China

  • by Anthony Galloway and David Crowe
The watchdog has found pay issues are rife in the construction labour hire industry.
Wage scandal

Almost 80pc of labour hire construction companies broke workplace rules: watchdog

  • by Nick Bonyhady
Members of the public in Sydney wearing face masks.
Coronavirus pandemic

'Need to keep our guard up': Spike in coronavirus cases has experts concerned

  • by David Crowe

Opinion & Perspectives

Branch-stacking scandals allow taxpayers a good look at the faceless men

Jacqueline Maley
Jacqueline Maley

It is a good way to get to know your more boutique politicians. That’s one of the lovely things about stories on the venal, corruption-adjacent inner workings of political parties and the power lust of their apparatchiks.

Don't dismiss cyber threat as an imaginary problem or political stunt

David Crowe
David Crowe

The Prime Minister faced questions over whether he was crying wolf when it emerged there was no single incident to trigger an alarm on cyber security.

The budget rebuild runs into the reality of a terrible jobs market

Shane Wright
Shane Wright

Unemployment figures have highlighted the tension facing the Morrison government with demands to repair the budget and the need to support the economy.

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Federal

Factional disputes: Former power broker Adem Somyurek.
Opinion
ALP

Branch-stacking scandals allow taxpayers a good look at the faceless men

It is a good way to get to know your more boutique politicians. That’s one of the lovely things about stories on the venal, corruption-adjacent inner workings of political parties and the power lust of their apparatchiks.

  • by Jacqueline Maley
Patients are being diverted to a telehealth service to keep them out of emergency rooms.
Healthcare

Governments outsourcing care to keep patients out of emergency rooms

A private company the operates a tele-health app that diverts patients from emergency rooms must be properly evaluated, experts warn.

  • by Dana McCauley
Former staff of Airservices Australia are launching a class action against the government entity.
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Workplace safety

Human Rights Commission to intervene in Airservices 'Mr Mintie' case

  • by Richard Baker
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Federal

Today's cartoons: The illustrated news

Gunai Kurnai woman Lidia Thorpe.
Greens

'Exactly what politics in Australia needs': Lidia Thorpe to be next Greens senator for Victoria

  • by Timna Jacks

Western Australia

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New South Wales

Welfare recipients can apply for discounts on parking fines, speeding tickets and infringements for offensive conduct.
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NSW budget

NSW welfare recipients to be eligible for 50 per cent discount on fines

  • by Lisa Visentin
Updated
Crime

Man, 20, charged with murder after woman, 18, found dead in Hunter Valley

  • by Lisa Visentin and Laura Chung
Labor in turmoil

NSW Labor MP Julia Finn quits shadow cabinet over branch stacking allegations

  • by Lisa Visentin

Victoria

Uber expects to offer commercial flying taxis in Melbourne by 2023.
Uber

Uber Air plan raises alarm on safety, noise, planning risks

  • by Clay Lucas
The Faceless Man

Power vacuum: Can the Labor Party really clean up its factional mess?

  • by Sumeyya Ilanbey
Labor in turmoil

Fallout: the Somyurek scandal

Queensland

Queensland Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath has ushered in the changes.
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QLD Votes 2020

Queensland will cap political donations but not until after the election

  • by Sonia Kohlbacher and Aaron Bunch
Mining

Darling Downs farmers v miners dispute heading to High Court

  • by Tony Moore
Jobs

COVID claims further 28,000 jobs as Qld hits 18-year unemployment high

  • by Lydia Lynch

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