Rick Morton

Before I became a support worker and coordinator in the National Disability Insurance Scheme, I helped my brother transition to the program. We successfully applied to get him more services to maximise his independence and quality of life goals.

Canberra is a small city. Forget six degrees of separation. If you're not actually living across the road from the prime minister, you could well be next door to his chief of staff, married to his press sec, playing golf with his departmental head, sitting next to his driver at the footy, passing him and his partner walking up and down Red Hill at the weekend.

The Albanese government has approved three coalmine expansions that are now set to unleash 1.3bn tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades.

An extraordinary legal move to reopen the robodebt class action, which was settled by agreement in 2021, will rely on pleading a case that the Commonwealth either deliberately or mistakenly withheld critical documents from lawyers who were attempting to sue them over the illegal debt scheme.

The head of the federal corruption watchdog, Paul Brereton, told a deputy commissioner “not to get too hung up on whether there is a corruption issue” as the agency rationalised why it would take no further action against six people referred to it by the robodebt royal commission.

The agency in charge of the National Disability Insurance Scheme is sending out more than 1000 eligibility “reassessment” letters each week, purporting to give participants with disability just 28 days to respond to a general request for evidence or lose their access to the multibillion-dollar support scheme.

The National Anti-Corruption Commission offered former solicitor-general Justin Gleeson the critical job of reconsidering an investigation into the Robodebt Six – but then abruptly rescinded the deal over concerns a former Coalition minister among the people referred for possible corruption findings would complain about the appointment.

In the first six months of the National Anti-Corruption Commission's operation, the body's key governance officer became so “alarmed” at the behaviour of executives that she decided to leave the fledgling agency rather than continue to fight over disclosures and other processes.

By insisting that Australia’s housing crisis is all about supply, governments are ignoring the decades-long trend of shrinking households, which is also contributing to social isolation.