ShutterstockMany Australians, especially those experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19, are asking whether they can afford to keep their private health insurance.
Others don’t know if they should drop or downgrade their cover, especially if they cannot or don’t want to access services they’ve paid for.
Now consumer group...
ShutterstockJobKeeper is by “no means perfect”. Treasury Secretary Stephen Kennedy used those exact words when he appeared before a Senate committee on COVID-19 on Tuesday, going on to observe that getting it right would “require continuous work”.
We have dug into the JobKeeper numbers to work out how it could be improved.
Roo...Labor’s Katy Gallagher is chair of the Senate committee that will assess the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis, both its economic and health challenges. It is set for the deep dive, having a final reporting date of mid-2022.
With parliament currently sitting only in fits and starts, Gallagher considers the committee a...
Damon Hall/Unsplash, CC BYAre you feeling anxious or irritated during the coronavirus lockdown? Do you constantly want to get up and move? Maybe you need a moment to engage with nature.
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