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- Perth Now
Big step to kick off $25 medicines pledge
Labor will begin its first steps to legislate its election promise to cap the cost of scripts listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme to $25 from January 1 of next year. Once passed, eligible medicines will be lowered from $31.60 to $25. The government estimates the change will save Australians $200m a year, while costing the budget $690m over four years. This is in addition to previous reforms which allowed patients to acquire 60-day prescriptions, and freezing the cost of medicine for pension and concession card holders at $7.70 until the end of 2029. Labor will begin its first steps to bring down the cost of PBS-listed medicines to just $25. NewsWire/ Dan Peled Credit: News Corp Australia The election pledge was also matched by the Coalition, suggesting the Bill will likely have a swift passage through parliament. Anthony Albanese said it was a promise delivered. 'This is another example of cost of living relief that helps every Australian,' Mr Albanese said. 'The size of your bank balance shouldn't determine the quality of your healthcare. My government will continue to deliver cost of living relief for all Australians.' Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said 'the size of your bank balance shouldn't determine the quality of your healthcare'. NewsWire / Martin Ollman Credit: News Corp Australia Mr Albanese said the government would continue to deliver cost of living relief for Aussies. NewsWire/Philip Gostelow Credit: News Corp Australia Health Minister Mark Bulter also welcomed the incoming Bill. 'Cheaper medicines are good for the hip pocket and good for your health,' Mr Butler said. 'For general patients medicines haven't been this cheap since 2004. 'For pension and concession card holders we've frozen your medicine prices at a maximum price of $7.70 until the end of the decade.' The Bill comes as the United States lashed Australia's PBS as 'discriminatory' amid tariff negotiations to remove the general 10 per cent levy, as well as fees on Australian steel and aluminium US imports. The government estimates the change will save Aussies $200m a year. NewsWire/Joel Carrett Credit: News Corp Australia Concerningly, US President Donald Trump has also flagged a 200 per cent tariff on pharmaceutical imports, which could have a major impact on $2bn of Australian exports. However the Albanese government said it is unwilling to use the PBS as a bargaining chip. On Sunday, Mr Albanese also faced a grilling over when Labor would introduce its proposed plan to double the tax on superannuation accounts over $3m up to 30 per cent. He said the Bill 'will come in time' and that the priority in the first fortnight was policies 'that make a difference to people's money in their pocket'. Perth MP and assistant minister to the Prime Minister Patrick Gorman said the government had been 'clear about our priorities' for the Bill and said he was 'confident it will pass'. 'I think we have seen in this building, time and time again, that when it comes to getting things through parliament, you have got to also let the parliamentary processes do their piece,' he said.
Sky News AU
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- Sky News AU
‘Where does it end?' Albanese government considering YouTube age restrictions
Sky News contributor Evelyn Rae discusses the Albanese government considering YouTube age restrictions, describing it as a 'slippery slope'. 'I think things like YouTube, it's such a slippery slope. I know so many people use this as supplementary education for their children,' Ms Rae said. 'Where does it end? So I think always these sorts of things need to come from the home.'
Sky News AU
7 hours ago
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Israel announces daily pauses of military operations to allow aid corridors for starving Gazans amid global outcry to end war
Israel has announced daily pauses of its military operations to allow aid for starving Gazans as world leaders demand an end to the war, despite dozens of hostages remaining at the mercy of Hamas terrorists. On Sunday, Israel said it would halt operations for 10 hours a day to allow new air corridors into Gaza where images of hungry Palestinians led to global outcry. Military activity will stop from 10am to 8pm until further notice in Al-Mawasi, Deir al-Balah and Gaza City. Israel's Defence Force also announced designated secure routes for convoys delivering food and medicine will also be in place between 6am and 11pm starting from Sunday. A total of 127 people have died due to malnutrition, including 85 children, since the start of the war, the Gaza Health Ministry said. The Egyptian Red Crescent said it was sending more than 100 trucks carrying over 1,200 metric tons of food aid to southern Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing on Sunday. Hours earlier, Israel began aid airdrops in what it said was an effort to improve the humanitarian conditions in the enclave. Aid groups have been warning Gaza's 2.2 million people faced mass hunger and international alarm over the humanitarian situation in Gaza has increased, driving French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to recognise a Palestinian state from September. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed he would not back France's move, but accused Israel of breaching international law after withholding aid from civilians in Gaza. Mr Albanese suggested there needed to be 'structure' for a Palestinian state before Australia could recognise one. 'What we will do is we'll make a decision based upon the time. Is the time right now? Are we about to imminently do that? No, we are not,' he told the ABC on Sunday. The Prime Minister reinforced Australia supports a two-state solution, while asking the question 'how do you exclude Hamas from any involvement there?' 'How do you ensure that a Palestinian state operates in an appropriate way which does not threaten the existence of Israel? So we won't do any decision as a gesture. We will do it as a way forward if the circumstances are met,' he said. Mr Albanese also appeared open for Australia to make decisions on the statehood of Palestine without advice from the United States. 'Australia will always make our decisions as a sovereign state,' he said. Israel and the US appeared on Friday to abandon ceasefire negotiations with Hamas, saying it had become clear that the militants did not want a deal. With Reuters
