The number of Australians who are fully bulk billed by their GP has dropped significantly in just three years, with one electorate experiencing a decline of 18%, a Guardian Australia investigation reveals.
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At last. Limbo ends for thousands of refugees who now can apply for permanent residency. I think of the kids I used to work with, who studied so hard, but didn’t know if they could ever go to uni, create a life. More to do and took too long but a good day. amp.abc.net.au/article/101963…


NEW: Elon Musk directed Twitter engineers to design a secret system to boost his tweets over everyone else's after his post about the Super Bowl did poorly compared to President Biden's: platformer.news/p/yes-elon-mus…

We can do better than using mortgage interest rates to control the economy bit.ly/3DWGcYf #ausecon #ausbiz #auspol

“Stop publishing the private contents of my phone,’’ Brittany Higgins takes aim as persons unknown leak phone records provided to police and not tabled during aborted trial news.com.au/national/nsw-a…

Searing truth about the Liberal leader and ourselves as a nation. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/15490/25…

An Indigenous Australian man has been languishing for more than three years in immigration detention - stateless and facing indefinite detention. “I’m still here, still detained, after all these years,” Gus Kuster says. @HumanRights4A theguardian.com/australia-news…

Terry Strong, an amateur and semi-professional rugby league player, died aged 68 and was found to have had severe late-stage CTE. His family never spoke openly about what he went through before he died. Now, though, they have: theguardian.com/sport/2023/feb…



And in breaking news that will shock, well, nobody, Scott Morrison as head of Tourism Australia awarded a secret contract to Crosby Textor - unknown to the board of directors or the Tourism Minister.
Ultimately, it led to his sacking.
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michaelwest.com.au/documents-reve…

Violence against women will end when there is respect for women. When there is no leadership from the top, we have a very, very long way to go.
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NEW: A new, splinter campaign against the Voice to Parliament launched this week by right-wing group Advance.
@johnbuckley_ and I report on how some of Australia's richest are the biggest funders of the "grassroots" campaign through holding companies crikey.com.au/2023/02/16/voi…