Australia news live: urgent call to vaccinate as NSW flu cases surge; 19,000 hectares of koala habitat on ‘chopping block’
The Great Koala National Park has been identified as home to one in five of NSW’s koalas. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastChalmers asked about findings that jobseekers unable to afford ‘basics of life’The treasurer Jim Chalmers was up on ABC News Breakfast just earlier, asked about new Anglicare data showing Australians on income support are “structurally unable to afford the basics of life”.This is the primary motivation for the substantial cost of living relief that we’re providing in the budget. Whether it is the tax cuts for every Australian taxpayer, energy bill relief for every household, help with student debt and cheaper medicines, plus the increases to jobseeker – which were in the budget before last – all of these are important ways that we can not just understand and acknowledge the pressures that people are under, but actually respond to them. Continue reading...
The Great Koala National Park has been identified as home to one in five of NSW’s koalas. Follow the day’s news live
Chalmers asked about findings that jobseekers unable to afford ‘basics of life’
The treasurer Jim Chalmers was up on ABC News Breakfast just earlier, asked about new Anglicare data showing Australians on income support are “structurally unable to afford the basics of life”.
This is the primary motivation for the substantial cost of living relief that we’re providing in the budget. Whether it is the tax cuts for every Australian taxpayer, energy bill relief for every household, help with student debt and cheaper medicines, plus the increases to jobseeker – which were in the budget before last – all of these are important ways that we can not just understand and acknowledge the pressures that people are under, but actually respond to them. Continue reading...
