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Veterans salute Labor retreat on health payment limits (opens the original)
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Labor has dumped controversial plans for a $5000 cap on veterans' allied health payments as part of its "solemn obligation" to ex-serving personnel. Following sustained criticism and campaigning from advocates, Veterans' Affairs Minister Matt Keogh announced on Thursday the government had backed down on the measure. In a bid to improve the budget's bottom line, the government introduced a $5000 annual limit on allied health services for veterans which was originally set to come into effect from
Veterans hail government backdown on health payment cap (opens the original)
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Labor has scrapped a controversial planned $5000 cap on veterans' allied health payments as crossbenchers push to prevent health entitlements from being limited in the future. Following sustained criticism and campaigning from advocates, Veterans' Affairs Minister Matt Keogh announced on Thursday the government had backed down on the measure. In a bid to improve the budget's bottom line, the government introduced a $5000 annual limit on allied health services for veterans which was originally se
Controversial health payment cap for veterans scrapped (opens the original)
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Labor has bowed to mounting pressure and has scrapped a planned $5000 cap on veterans' allied health payments. Following weeks of sustained criticism, Veterans' Affairs Minister Matt Keogh announced on Thursday the government had backed down on the measure. In a bid to improve the budget's bottom line, the government introduced a $5000 annual limit on allied health services for veterans, originally set to come into effect from July 2027. The proposal attracted widespread condemnation from across
Ex-spy chief warns Muslim community can't feel targeted (opens the original)
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Australian Muslims shouldn't be made to feel targeted as the nation discusses Islamic extremism in the wake of the deadly Bondi terror massacre, a former ASIO boss says. Speaking at a Lowy Institute event on Tuesday night, ex-spy chief Dennis Richardson, who quit his position as special advisor to the anti-Semitism royal commission, said the ball had been dropped on combating hatred, and a more forceful response would have drawn a clearer line. Originally brought on to run an independent investi
Hanson leaves wriggle room in her 'primitive' apology (opens the original)
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Pauline Hanson says she regrets calling Indigenous Australians "the most primitive race on Earth", adding it wasn't her intention to cause hurt with the widely derided remarks. But the One Nation leader still insisted in a News24 interview on Tuesday that Indigenous Australians were "primitive" compared with the first English settlers. Senator Hanson was pressed in the interview on whether she stood by recently resurfaced comments made on the Jamie J podcast in 2025, where she criticised the stu
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