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Tax cuts, more funding for Medicare bulk billing, the PBS and education are all welcome – but a lack of ambition on housing is a sore point

A three-year pay deal has been approved by nurses and midwives at a network of private hospitals following a long battle for better wages and conditions.

ALMOST half of Gen Z Brits miss their lockdown lifestyle five years on from the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new study has found ...

His life is one of speeches, masses and visits from heads of state. His doctors have advised against him meeting groups of people, to limit the risk of infection, so mingling with crowds of faithful and kissing babies is out, as may be visits from heads of state and government.

A day with a care worker in Bury showed me the intolerable pressures of her life – and then I heard the news of a new squeeze on benefits, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The World Happiness Index is out now – you did realise that yesterday was World Happiness Day? – and as ever it turns out that the Nordic countries are ahead of the herd. Finland is top, followed by Denmark, then Iceland, Sweden, Netherlands and Norway, with Costa Rica somehow smuggling…

Trump may have dumped Farage, and Musk has lost $100bn off Tesla’s share price but can’t I even enjoy the schadenfreude

Latest overpayment figures bring total number falling foul of ‘cliff-edge’ rules on earnings to 144,000

Other lives: Social worker who identified a need for infertility counselling, leading to the creation of a service designed for that purpose