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Six hours to apply, six days to open a health clinic - how Labor raced to hold Boothby
Grant documents revealed through Freedom of Information reveal Labor's endometriosis clinic grants opened and closed on the same day, as the Albanese Government rushed a new clinic into the marginal seat of Boothby; the seat of the Liberal Party's leading endometriosis advocate, Nicolle Flint.


Overseas aged pension bill reaches $2.5 million a day for Australian taxpayers
The age pension was paid to more than 77,000 Australians living overseas last year, at a cost of $914 million, or $2.5 million a day. Compared to 2020, that's up from $862 million a year, or $2.36 million a day. The countries and people behind the bill are changing too, following the waves of Australian migration.


The $600 million Indonesian climate deal Albo didn't want you to notice
In 2022, Anthony Albanese cycled around Indonesia's presidential palace to launch a $200 million climate partnership. This August, Australia tripled it to $600 million, with no minister in the room, barely a word from Canberra, and a DFAT document flagging political and fraud risks.


Three days' notice: Department scrambled to warn Rae and Butler no algorithm override for Support at Home reform
Freedom of Information documents reveal the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing acknowledged its guidance contradicted earlier commentary that there would be an override capability for the controversial algorithm used in the Support at Home program, warning Rae and Butler to expect criticism.


Free English and childcare: Australia's $287 million-a-year migrant class where childcare is the biggest cost
Home Affairs has admitted the biggest cost per person in this program isn't the tutoring itself but the cost of free childcare, spawning AMEP-only childcare centres and multi-million dollar contracts.


$200M Community Battery initiative; 5% of funding to community groups, 95% to corporations
There's a reason Chris Bowen never talks about this initiative: an energy infrastructure subsidy masquerading as a community program that doesn't even bother measuring emissions.


1,000+ men register as female under NSW Labor’s new birth certificate laws
New GIPA data shows 1,689 changes of sex were registered in NSW in the first 11 months of Labor's new birth certificate laws. More than 1,000 of them were male to female and 80 applications involved children, with none rejected.


Only one in three finish: Fee-Free TAFE's $3 billion completion problem
Tightly-held FOI data indicate that Fee Free TAFE is failing, with its flagship Certificate IV in Building and Construction averaging a completion rate of just 21 per cent.
Investigations and analysis based on Freedom of Information documents, public government records and other primary sources.
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