Aged care providers have urged the Fair Work Commission not to grant significant increases in minimum and award wages in July, claiming the timing of the $17.7bn extra funding announced in last week’s federal budget limited their capacity to fund pay rises for two years.
Sky News host Andrew Bolt says to get to the point of opening the borders, slowly, carefully and after the venerable have been vaccinated in Australia, our leaders must start planning now.
Mr Bolt said our leaders must now start "preparing the public" for this change.
"Convince them that yes, there is a risk, but it is a small one, a worthwhile one, one that we can manage, and we should manage," Mr Bolt said.
"The prime minister today missed that chance to start talking of what he's going to be doing to be able to open our borders".
"But here's my worry. The next federal election is likely this year or early next.
"Does anyone really think this very poll-focused prime minister will dare to open the borders before then."
"Now the prime minister does want Australia to stay under the doona".
A member of the regulatory body responsible for overseeing Crown’s Perth casino says the watchdog lacked the range of skills needed to forensically scrutinise the business.
A Russian court on Monday postponed the first hearing in the "extremism" case against the political network of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, part of a campaign to outlaw the opposition to President Vladimir Putin.
A wildfire in Los Angeles, California, gained momentum on Sunday and about 1,000 residents were put under evacuation orders and two suspects were detained as arson investigators and police looked into the cause of the blaze. Jayson Albano reports.
Sky News host Peta Credlin says thousands of Victorian families are set to be slugged by increases to stamp duty and land tax.
"Jobs will be hit in industries under pressure," Ms Credlin said.
Ms Credlin spoke to the Victorian Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia, Danni Hunter.
"There is no doubt in our mind that this is a tax on Victorian families, a tax on Victorian jobs and a tax on Victorian investment," Ms Hunter told Sky News.
"In so many ways this tax will hit families, will hit workers, will hit investment and new projects through land tax hikes, the stamp duty increases and also the new tax on investment".
Microsoft has released the fourth iteration of Surface Laptop and it looks identical to the previous model. When we reviewed Surface Laptop 3 in October 2019, in pre-pandemic times, we lauded that there were now two sizes (13.5-inch and 15-inch). Microsoft’s decision to produce models with AMD Ryzen processors added new options.