The Brief · Oct 01
Australian households face mounting pressures as crises pile up from mortgages to medicine to infrastructure.
- Mortgage stress help requests have doubled as cost pressures and rate rises mount for Australian families. - Tech companies could be required to fund local AI development through computing power or direct payments.
- The Antarctic Program is recruiting more than 200 people for next season, including trade positions. - The ACT will scrap its Domestic Violence Prevention Council before a replacement programme is established.
- A retired doctor has planted 45,000 trees to convert degraded farmland back to native bushland. - A three-year-old cannot access eye treatment that is available in Melbourne due to state differences.
- The NTFA will keep its current competition structure rather than force any club mergers.
Why it mattersFrom household budgets to state borders, Australia's struggles reflect repeated failures in access and coordination.
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