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One year after Victoria released a landmark housing plan, rents are increasing higher than inflation and wages and the crisis has gotten worse in almost every key indicator. “At the moment, it’s unclear how much of the government’s 800,000-home target is actually social housing,” Council to Homeless Persons chief executive Deborah Di Natale said. “The […]

WARNING: GRAPHIC DETAILSAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this article contains mentions of deceased persons. A man neglected, flogged and abused his two-year-old stepdaughter because he disliked her – forcing her to eat her own faeces before he murdered her and dumped her remains near a weir. Tane Saul Desatge was found […]

Anthony Albanese is set to boost the maximum rate of rent assistance this week, with the first-ever back-to-back increase delivering a modest $23 a fortnight boost for nearly one million renters. Designed to help battlers that are “under the pump” as a result of rising cost of living pressures, the government’s modest changes will contribute an extra […]

More than five million Australians will receive a boost of up to $41.50 a fortnight to their social security payments from Friday, with people on Commonwealth Rent Assistance set to have their payments boosted by $23 a fortnight. The changes will affect people on the Jobseeker Payment who will have their payments increased by $15.30 […]

Cassandra Sainsbury, widely known as Cocaine Cassie, has revealed she will be releasing a book about her experience in prison. Sainsbury, who served three years in a Colombian jail after she was caught with 5.8 kgs of cocaine, announced the news on social media on Thursday night. “I’ve been keeping a secret from you all […]

Australia’s population has ticked over to 27.1 million people for the first time in history, according to the latest population data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). There were 615,300 more people living in Australia at March this year, which was largely driven by migration seeing more than half a million people move to […]

First-home buyers have long displayed wise self-restraint when it comes to buying off the plan (OTP) apartments because of the in-built price premium of buying new. Developers have periodically sought to lure them away from cheaper established apartments by offering low deposit opportunities. Now the Commonwealth Bank of Australia has breathtakingly signed on to a […]

Australia has added 47,500 new jobs since July, while the unemployment rate remains steady at 4.2 per cent, diminishing hopes of the Reserve Bank putting forward a rate cut on Tuesday. Seasonally adjusted figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) August labour force data revealed there were 3100 less people employed on a full-time […]

Women who adopt or give birth to babies after 1 July of next year will receive a weekly $113 boost to their superannuation, after Labor passed its Paid Parental Leave Bill on Thursday. The $1.1bn plan aimed at combating the “motherhood tax” is expected to help about 180,000 families each year. Currently women can access […]

The ex-boyfriend of slain teacher’s aide Hannah McGuire has elected to “fast-track” his case to trial and fight a murder charge.Lachlan Young, 21, appeared remotely in the Ballarat Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, formally pleading not guilty to the 23-year-old’s murder. Sporting a shaved head with a mullet and wearing a pink graphic jumper, Mr Young […]