PM to lead business delegation to Australia in first overseas trip since Covid
PM to lead business delegation to Australia in first overseas trip since Covid Thu, 13 May 2021, 1:11PM
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will lead a business delegation to Australia in July in a bid to further strengthen business ties with our trans-Tasman partners .
It will be her first overseas trip since the Covid-19 pandemic began early last year.
And she also teased trips to the US and China – but not until borders re-open. With a change of administration there, and a deepening relationship with President Joe Biden across a range of issues, I intend to actively pursue an enhanced trade relationship with the US over the coming term.
A line in this week’s federal budget allocating A$288.5 million to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) therapy might pass most people by.
This is a brain stimulation technique that’s been used to treat conditions such as depression for almost ten years in Australia, but which has not been funded through Medicare and so has had very limited availability.
Soon, it will be available on the Medicare Benefits Schedule for people with depression that hasn’t responded to other treatments, funding I’ve led applications for since 2012, and treatment I provide.
how it works. Here’s what the evidence says so far.
Mr Albanese said the Labor government had a plan to create a new energy apprenticeships program that would train 10,000 young people for the energy jobs of the future . The jobs would include $10,000 in cash payments over four years to support them throughout their apprenticeship - with $2000 paid upon their start date and a further $2000 a year. The plan totals $100 million. The 10,000 new apprenticeships would be available across renewable technologies including areas like solar panelling, manufacturing, energy efficiency upgrades and in emerging technologies - such as green hydrogen. The rest of the world has figured this out. Cutting pollution means creating jobs, Mr Albanese said.
By Justin Hendry on May 12, 2021 1:05AM
Budget 2021: Govt opens wallet ahead of election.
Government agencies have scored funding for a range technology projects, mostly aimed at improving service delivery, in this year’s pandemic recovery-fuelled and pre-election budget.
With most IT-related funding contained within the digital economy strategy announced ahead of time, distinctly fewer centrepiece initiatives were to be found on budget night than in previous years.
As revealed last week, the government will pour around half a billion dollars into myGov and the My Health Record system, as well as $54 million into a national AI centre, as part of a combined $1.2 billion package.