The government has allowed private health insurers to raise premiums by an average of 4.41% from April. How are these set? And why is it higher than inflation?

Younger siblings also spend less time per day on ‘enrichment activities’, such as music practise or reading.

The government has subsidised Australians’ private health insurance premiums since the 1990s. But is the policy delivering? Here’s what the evidence says.

A modest increase in health funding is all that’s needed to save lives. That’s a big impact for the price of a fancy coffee.

The mental health of trans, nonbinary and gender-diverse Australians is suffering and getting worse.

The current clamour is in essence a way to put pressure on the government through the PBS to stump up more money and pay higher prices for more new drugs, not to dismantle the scheme.

All this talk of a US-Australia trade war has left consumers wondering what this means for them. At least in the short term, it looks like good news.

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