Politics

With his speech to the National Press Club, Mark Butler has done the easy part on reforming the NDIS. Now, he has to deliver.

A call by the Greens and independent senator David Pocock to slap a 25 per cent tax on Australia’s third biggest export could end up hurting everyday consumers reeling from soaring electricity bills.

AARON PATRICK: Health Minister Mark Butler’s plan to bring the welfare scheme under control is a good start but avoids serious reform.

In 2006, then Treasurer Peter Costello celebrated Australia becoming debt-free. Now, 20 years on, he has issued a warning as the country’s national debt nears $1 trillion.

Health Minister Mark Butler has unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the NDIS, aiming to curb its rapid expansion and rein in long-term costs amid warnings its ‘social licence is slipping away.’

Australia has secured four extra shiploads of diesel via BP and Viva, further strengthening expected supplies through the end of May and early June.

LATIKA M BOURKE: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is a pitiful figure. Incurious and incompetent, his reputation as a decent but boring managerial technocrat is shot. 

A wild claim has emerged stating that US President Donald Trump was blocked from accessing the nuclear codes to use against Iran as his war rages on with no end in sight. Here’s what we know.

Israeli soldiers have been punished after an incident involving a Christian religious symbol in southern Lebanon sparked international condemnation.

Roger Cook has warned that the States will not bear all the costs of federal cuts to the NDIS as Health Minister Mark Butler eyes tighter regulation and a reset of eligibility to rein in the runaway program.

The NDIS was meant to be based on free market principles and the individual. But its ballooning costs are now requiring major Federal Government intervention.

Party faithful have been closely tracking the rise of the charismatic South Australian MP Mark Butler as they quietly contemplate Labor after Albo.

More uncounted ballots have been found weeks after South Australians went to the polls, prompting calls for an independent review of the election.

AMP chief economist Shane Oliver has urged Treasurer Jim Chalmers to cut $100 billion from the Federal Budget to help fight inflation.