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Australians aged over 50 can start getting their coronavirus vaccination from a GP from Monday.

Dozens of Australians won't be returning home on the first post-pause flight out of India after they tested positive to COVID-19.

The federation’s founders would be aghast at how the Senate has changed.

WA's attorney-general has been accused by a Labor colleague of intervening in a corruption investigation involving a laptop seized from a disgraced MP.

The race to replace Cilla De Lacy as mayor of Nedlands is on, with the city’s deputy mayor, a former state election candidate and a Dalkeith-based councillor in the running for the city’s top job.

Anthony Albanese has promised to build 30,000 social and affordable houses over five years if Labor wins the next election.

WA will welcome back capacity crowds and no longer require the wearing of face masks under a further easing of coronavirus restrictions.

Pressure continues to mount for Roger Cook with both the state opposition and the AMA today calling for him to resign as health minister.

The state government has announced four senior public service appointments but needs to recruit five new directors general, including at the Department of the Premier and Cabinet.

Job advertising as measured by the monthly SEEK employment report has grown by a record amount for a second consecutive month.

A fundamental redesign of aged care is in the works but the higher wages needed to attract thousands of new workers are not in the budget's five-year plan.

The federal government has secured a deal for 25 million doses of the Moderna vaccine, with the first shipment set to arrive in Australia later this year.

Scott Morrison has denied squirrelling away billions of dollars in the federal budget ahead of the next election.

The state government will block future construction of the Perth Freight Link despite $1.2 billion in federal funding remaining on the table.

Ross Taylor explores the potential consequences of axing a ministerial position dedicated to Asian engagement.

Some $500,000 has been included in the federal budget to increase Indigenous heritage protection through Australia's environmental protection laws.

Scott Morrison has argued the coronavirus pandemic is 30 times worse than the global financial crisis as he embarks on a sales pitch for the federal budget spending bonanza.

Scott Morrison is giving himself some wriggle room on getting all Australians COVID-19 vaccinations by the end of this year.

The federal government will invest $3.4 billion in improving women’s safety, economic security and health as part of its first Women’s Budget Statement in more than six years.

Personal income tax offsets and business expensing deductions will be extended; while the government has lifted spending promises for the year ahead by $25 billion.

More than $300 million is set to be pumped into the early childhood education sector in the next financial year.

Spending on the National Disability Insurance Scheme is expected to overtake the cost of Medicare within the next three years.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has casually shot down two Greens ideas for economic repair ahead of the federal budget.

Politicians are reluctant to relinquish power once they have it.

Australians in need of mental health support are set to benefit from a $2.3 billion package included in the federal budget.

Employment rose in mid-April, but the ABS says it remains inconclusive what impact the end of the JobKeeper wage subsidy has had on the labour market.

Finance Minister Simon Birmingham has flagged a "profound improvement" in the nation's budget bottom line.

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Australia's tourism sector is urging the government to set a time frame for the nation's reopening as question marks remain over when international travel will resume.

The federal budget will include at least $5 billion in funding for infrastructure projects aimed at making roads safer, reducing travel times and supporting thousands of jobs.

The federal budget will include record funding on aged care and a "full response" to the damning findings of the royal commission into the sector.

Tony Power, who led the recently completed high-profile inquiry into the City of Perth, has reportedly been appointed to undertake an independent review of the Kimberley Land Council.