Opposition Leader Sussan Ley on Friday allocated responsibilities formerly held by the Nationals to existing Liberal shadow ministers on a temporary basis. This will get the opposition through the next parliamentary week, starting Tuesday. It also gives the Nationals a chance to rethink their split of the Coalition, if they choose.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate leaders were scrambling on Friday to save a bipartisan spending deal and prevent a partial government shutdown this weekend as some Republicans pushed back on a rare deal between President Donald Trump and Democrats.
MILAN (AP) – Nestled in a lakeside town in northern Italy is Australia’s “home away from home” for the Milan Cortina Olympics – right down to the coffee and Vegemite. Nearly 15 years ago, the Australian Institute of Sport opened the European Training Centre in Gavirate, about an hour’s drive from Milan.
Federal and state governments have resolved their standoff on public hospital funding. The deal struck at National Cabinet on Friday includes a A$25 billion boost to hospital funding, and state government commitments on disability services for children. But while public hospitals will get more money, there's no clear plan to manage surging costs and rising demand.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Journalist Don Lemon and three other people were arrested Friday in connection with an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church and increased tensions between residents and federal officials.
Is governing harder in the 2020s than in earlier decades? The instinctive, and popular, answer would be "of course it is". While that's also a correct answer, we should insert some qualifications. Making the right or best decisions, especially in times of actual or looming crisis, has always been difficult.
On Wednesday, the federal government announced plans to reform how medications are dispensed and tracked, aiming to reduce unsafe use, stockpiling and "doctor shopping". This will include two stages. First, the government will require all online and telehealth prescribers to upload information about a patient's prescribed medications to their My Health Record.
NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks closed lower on Wall Street while gold and silver prices plunged as investors tried to gauge what President Donald Trump's new nominee to lead the Federal Reserve will mean for interest rates going forward. The S&P 500 dropped 0.4%. The Dow fell 0.4%, and the Nasdaq sank 0.9%. Gold's price dropped 11%, and silver sank more than 30%.
The Liberal manoeuvrings for an assault on Sussan Ley's leadership don't lack transparency. As members of the Liberal Party gathered in Melbourne on Thursday to attend the memorial service for former colleague Katie Allen, leadership aspirants Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor met to discuss their rival ambition.
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