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Tomorrow’s budget will include a $17.7 billion aged care package to be delivered over four years, which
The Australian ($) reports will focus on a workforce initiative “as well as incentives to prop up private residential operators to ensure they remain profitable”.
Health and Aged Care Minister
Greg Hunt will tomorrow respond to recommendations from last year’s damning royal commission which the Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work last week estimated would require $10 billion a year to implement while the budget will also reportedly include record suicide prevention funding (although nothing yet on bringing JobSeeker above poverty rates).
Landholders on the look out as plague locusts descend on green pastures after years of drought
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Landholders are urged to report locusts and populations to get them under control.
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First mice and now plague locusts are rearing their heads in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales for the first time in years, thanks to recent rain.
Key points:
Locust populations have been growing in southern Queensland and northern NSW for the first time in years
Scientists say there is a moderate likelihood of more widespread high-density populations developing during summer and early autumn
Landholders have been urged to report and monitor populations and get them under control before they can cause widespread damage