🇦🇺 Australian Politics
Today's top 5 stories, curated by Daily Direct.
A shooting at a residential property in Canley Heights, Sydney, has left one man dead and four others hospitalised in serious condition. The victims arrived at two separate nearby hospitals, prompting NSW Police to establish a crime scene at the home. The incident marks a significant outbreak of gun violence in the city's south-west.
Read article →Australia's flagship disaster recovery program, established in the wake of the catastrophic 2022 northern New South Wales floods, has failed to construct a single home despite being the country's most expensive such initiative. A new report lays bare the program's staggering underperformance, raising serious questions about government competence and the management of public funds. For flood victims still waiting to rebuild their lives, the findings represent a damning indictment of bureaucratic failure.
Read article →NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey is set to warn that rising inflation and global oil market pressures will drag on the state's economic growth heading into the next financial year. The caution comes ahead of the June 23 state budget, where Mookhey has flagged "difficult choices" will need to be made. NSW is expected to narrowly avoid recession in 2026-27, but the outlook underscores the tightening fiscal environment facing Australia's largest state economy.
Read article →Nearly two decades after the Northern Territory intervention, governments continue to sideline community-controlled services in favor of non-Aboriginal bureaucratic administration — an approach the evidence consistently shows does not work. The death of Kumanjayi Little Baby in Alice Springs has prompted a government response that experts warn repeats the same failed patterns. Research is clear that Aboriginal-led family and children's services are trusted, accessed, and effective in ways that top-down interventions are not.
Read article →Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met with the family of Kumanjayi Little Baby in the Northern Territory, describing the family as trying to navigate their grief "with dignity and respect." Separately, a push is emerging to reform Australia's superannuation landscape away from dominant large funds. Meanwhile, NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey is set to flag weaker-than-expected economic growth in the state ahead of the June 23 budget, citing rising inflation and global oil market pressures as key headwinds.
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