POLITICS & COMMUNITY
While NSW has released hundreds of thousands of pages detailing failures in the childcare system, the ACT has released nothing, not a single reassurance for parents. With critical documents now scheduled for release on Christmas Day, questions about transparency, accountability and child safety are impossible to ignore.
Thirty-three young women swapped classrooms for command posts, stepping into helmets, high-vis vests and virtual-reality fire grounds as part of Girls on Fire a program breaking gender barriers in emergency services while building confidence, capability and community resilience.
“I was ready for trolls and political attacks — I wasn’t ready for the woman who tried to take me down.”
As Australia recruits doctors through skilled migration to address workforce shortages, Australian-citizen international medical graduates are being blocked from returning to clinical practice. Many IMG mothers say the lack of supervised re-entry pathways is forcing them out of medicine entirely.