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Around-the-clock nurses will now be required in aged care homes across the country after the Albanese government's reforms passed in the Senate.

Coalition members with close connections to Indigenous communities fear a spike in alcohol-fuelled violence once the cashless welfare card is abolished.

The former Morrison government's planning for Australia's COVID-19 vaccine rollout was not "timely", it underestimated how difficult it would be to protect aged care and disability residents and failed to adequately engage with the states and territories before the rollout began, a damning review has found.

Being in government is always a seat of the pants enterprise no matter that our political leaders try to convince us otherwise.