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Submissions to inquiry into healthcare funding call for locums to be employed directly by NSW Health rather than external agencies to avoid ‘price gouging’

They can offer a lifeline and increase the supply of homes, but can granny flats really solve Australia’s housing crisis?

A public hearing of the NSW birth trauma inquiry in Wagga Wagga this week heard calls to overhaul pregnancy and maternal healthcare services

Government joins more than a dozen countries to say settlers are ‘terrorising’ Palestinians in ‘unacceptable’ violence

Demands for a database to stamp out overcharging after watchdog hotline is flooded with complaints

In this week’s Media Briefs, the patriarch of Schwartz Media resigns and Fox Sports finally decides to report on a controversy involving one of its own.

Investors have lost millions of dollars to ‘pyramid scheme’; homes at risk after ex-Cyclone Jasper dumps 500mm of rain but weakens as it moves inland

Exclusive: the New Zealand regulator has warned the schemes could be a ‘scam’ but they have escaped such scrutiny in Australia and thousands have lost money

Australians who were convinced to put money into the Hyper group investment schemes say no one has been held to account for their losses

Exclusive: Freedom of information documents reveal which cab companies have received most complaints, with one getting more than 300 in six months

Anthony Albanese, NZ PM Christopher Luxon and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau have jointly issued a strong statement calling for a ‘sustainable ceasefire’ in Gaza, and WA Premier Roger Cook says ‘green’ groups are working to divide Indigenous communities and use them to take big resources projects to court.