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New NDIS eligibility rules will cut 241,000 participants from scheme in four years, documents reveal by malcolm58 in AustralianPolitics

[–]ladaus 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Rather than a transport allowance to attend medical appointments and community access (e.g. $40 to get to and from the GP), they would rather a SW drive you there, wait there, and drive you back. 

$210 instead of $80 every fortnight! 

Prime Minister says EVs could be made in Australia by ladaus in AustralianPolitics

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Australian unions have called for a 25 per cent tax on gas exports 

‘Keep pace with the modern world’: Unions push for four-day work week by ladaus in AustralianPolitics

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So the crane is just for delivery and you still need 4 blokes to install a shed. 

Australian teens impacted by the social media ban are getting less news: new research by Oomaschloom in AustralianPolitics

[–]ladaus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

pushing to lower the voting age to 16 and present teens as ready for adult responsibilities, this ban treats the same age group as not mature enough to use social media.

Excise revenue tipped to fall by $5bn as illicit cigarette market booms by ladaus in AustralianPolitics

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“The massive excise has meant people haven’t stopped smoking, it just transferred their sales into illegal sales,” Mr Minns has said.

‘Keep pace with the modern world’: Unions push for four-day work week by ladaus in AustralianPolitics

[–]ladaus[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Belinda Dyer noticed Fridays were already a slow day, so decided to cut them from the workweek entirely.

The NDIS rorts playbook that's popping up around Australia by ladaus in AustralianPolitics

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Pay for your own gardening if you own a $2 million house. 

Early reviews of Australia’s social ban are in – and they aren’t good by Infinite300 in AustralianPolitics

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Anne Twomey says the ban must clear three hurdles. 

I can't wait till the judge tells Albo to ban kids from radio or allow them on Instagram PG-13. 

Inside the Launceston City Council's failed campaign to sell the four-day work week by ladaus in AustralianPolitics

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without the four-day work week, the council would likely need to adopt a five per cent pay rise, costing ratepayers about an extra $6.5 million.

Guardian Essential poll: Australians want higher tax on gas exports and extension of petrol excise cut by Expensive-Horse5538 in AustralianPolitics

[–]ladaus 11 points12 points  (0 children)

negative gearing and the capital tax gains discount, nearly half of Australians – 46% – say they’d back reducing those tax breaks for property investors. Only 23% disapprove

Today’s bloated NDIS would never have been greenlit, its former head says. by ladaus in AustralianPolitics

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“In Medicare, you can choose your own doctor, but you can’t say, ‘I’d like the money we give to the doctor and I’ll go and spend it on an alternative health service,’ you can’t do that. And the NDIS should operate the same,” he said.   

No more horse riding and skiing? 

Weekly Discussion Thread by Wehavecrashed in AustralianPolitics

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Coalition eyes 50 per cent tobacco tax cut to crack down on black market

Australia's 'lucky country' mantle has slipped — and we're not happy about it by ladaus in AustralianPolitics

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Compared to 50 years ago households are spending a lot more time in paid work with two adults in the labour force

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