Regulators must move faster to put innovative medicines into patients’ hands 2024 Innovative Medicines Special Report While the Therapeutic Goods Administration works quickly to review new medicines, the funding process post-review needs streamlining.
Increased coal royalties to give NSW Budget $2.9b boost September 7, 2023 By Anna Macdonald Economy & Industry The funds will go to ‘rebuilding the state’s essential services’, including reversing the previous government’s public sector wage cap.
Australian rescue team will deploy to earthquake-devastated Turkey February 10, 2023 By Melissa Coade Federal More than 70 Australian urban search and rescue workers will help with disaster assistance response missions in Turkey this week.
Staffing increases for PM&C Indigenous affairs agencies in Budget October 26, 2022 By Anna Macdonald Economy & Industry A new Aboriginal-controlled corporate commonwealth entity has been established, called the Northern Territory Aboriginal Investment Corporation.
Government contributes $266m to fund against AIDS, TB and malaria September 25, 2022 By Anna Macdonald Federal The government says the progress in fighting these diseases had gone backwards due to the focus on COVID-19 for the past couple of years.
TAFE granted $900 million as part of National Skills Week August 23, 2022 By Anna Macdonald Economy & Industry National Skills Week has launched ahead of next week’s government’s jobs and skills summit; 465,000 fee-free TAFE places granted by the government.
Grattan Institute warns pork-barrelling becoming the norm August 22, 2022 By Anna Macdonald Economy & Industry A new report describes the normalisation of pork-barrelling by both Coalition and Labor politicians a ‘grey area’ of corruption.
