Good morning. Anthony Albanese will today give a speech at a special session of the council of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris, asking nations to raise ambitions for tackling the climate crisis.
Just 24 medical practitioners received direct assistance to come to Australia under a travel program announced by the Morrison government that promised to bring an extra 2,000 doctors and nurses into the system. Despite skills shortages across the health and aged care sectors, the scheme announced by the former health minister Greg Hunt in October last year was discontinued after just two months.