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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Evelyn Manfield |Maani Truu
The government is under pressure to fund at least 20,000 new at-home care packages for older Australians who need additional support, after the implementation of sweeping sector-wide aged care reforms were postponed. A group of 10 crossbenchers have written to the government calling for the additional packages to be made available from next month, a push that has been backed by the aged care sector and advocates.
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Evelyn Manfield |Isobel Roe |Shalailah Medhora |Stephanie Boltje
The Greens have ditched their internal investigation into West Australian senator Dorinda Cox, saying they have no jurisdiction over her and cannot apply any sanctions now she has left the party. Senator Cox spectacularly quit the minor party on Monday to join Labor, announcing the move alongside Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Perth. Following her defection, state director of the WA Greens Dean Smith told ABC News the investigation had not been concluded on Tuesday.
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Evelyn Manfield |Isobel Roe
One of Dorinda Cox's former staff says workplace complaints against the senator remain unresolved and she is "deeply surprised" and "offended" the prime minister said they had been "dealt with appropriately" after welcoming her into Labor ranks. The WA senator, who last year faced bullying allegations from staff, quit the Greens to join the government in a shock move announced alongside Anthony Albanese in Perth on Monday.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Jane Norman |Evelyn Manfield
Australians are being promised they'll have access to free, round-the-clock health advice under a re-elected Labor government, as the prime minister urges supporters to "leave nothing in the tank" in the sprint to election day.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Alison Xiao |Evelyn Manfield
Independent MP Monique Ryan now says she believes social media content paid for by politicians should be disclosed, after earlier saying she didn’t have an opinion. On Sunday, when Ms Ryan was asked on ABC Insiders about revelations fellow “teal” Allegra Spender had paid for content creators to post on social media, she said didn’t have an opinion.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Evelyn Manfield |Samantha Dick
Students and union groups fear the Coalition's crackdown on "woke" ideology in schools and universities could threaten freedom of speech. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has offered little detail about his plan to fight "indoctrination" in schools, but signalled cuts to "wasteful government spending" within the federal education department if elected.
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Mar 30, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Evelyn Manfield |Courtney Gould
Voters have been warned to be wary of efforts by political parties to gather personal information under the pretence of signing people up for postal voting. Just hours after the election was called on Friday, political parties began sending out messages with links to apply for postal voting.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Evelyn Manfield |Matthew Doran
Sitting in a Sydney television studio, Greens senator David Shoebridge is calling for cannabis to be legalised — or at least that's what it looks like. It's something he's said many times before and the person talking looks exactly like the senator. But it's not him. It's a deepfake — made by a computer security company at the request of ABC News to investigate just how believable political deepfakes can be.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Evelyn Manfield |Andrew Greene
Australia's eSafety Commission has expressed "great sadness" at the link between a triple murder in the United Kingdom and a violent video of a stabbing in Wakeley, Sydney, it had tried to remove from the internet. A Liverpool Court has heard British teenager Axel Rudakubana searched online for video of Sydney Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel being stabbed, about 40 minutes before he left home and went onto murder three young girls who were enjoying a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Evelyn Manfield
"We're not trying to bring down house prices," Housing Minister Clare O'Neil declared on ABC's youth radio station triple j. "That may be the view of young people, [but] it's not the view of our government."Instead, she insisted the federal government wanted "sustainable price growth". "We don't want to see some of the growth we've seen in some parts of the country where you're getting double-digit increases in house prices year-on-year," she told Hack host Dave Marchese.
