Providers and peak bodies have welcomed a planned crackdown on fraud and other criminal activity inside the national disability insurance scheme, warning organized gangs and dodgy services have for too long undermined the system and disadvantaged vulnerable people. The new Labor government has also been urged to quickly engage with state governments on better-integrating disability support into mainstream education, health, ...

The US supreme court has overturned Roe v Wade and nearly 50 years of women’s abortion rights in America. The activism of the six ultraconservative justices – three appointed by former US president Donald Trump – shreds precedent in more ways than one. It is the first time in their history that Americans have woken up in the “land of ...