2026 • Jan 25
Outsourced call centre staff at NDIS have to pretend to work for government, workers say
Serco employees also say they are given email addresses identical to public servants, making them indistinguishable
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2025 • Dec 20
First wheelchair-using astronaut touches down after ride to edge of space
Michaela Benthaus from Germany soared 65 miles above the Earth’s surface in 10-minute Blue Origin flightA paraplegic engineer from Germany...
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2025 • Nov 17
Reform MP invites Mahmood to join his party, saying he ‘welcomes’ and ‘recognises’ her rhetoric – as it happened
Shabana Mahmood tells MPs asylum system is ‘out of control and unfair’ amid Labour backlash over proposalsMomentum, the leftwing Labour group, has also denounced the governm...
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2025 • Nov 15
Bus chaperone kept working at school during months-long police investigation into alleged child sexual abuse
Exclusive: Victorian education department apologises to mother who alleged her nonverbal child was sexually assaulted by the man. He denied the allegations and no charges were laid...
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2025 • Oct 03
‘Stranded’ aged care or disability patients occupy up to one in 10 hospital beds in Australia, report finds
State and territory treasurers who commissioned the report say it shows need for federal government to pay bigger share of public hospital fundingGet our
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2025 • Sep 25
New NDIS needs assessments will use technology to simplify process but advocacy groups cautious about change
Under the new model participants will be interviewed for up to three hours and will no longer need to provide supporting documents
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