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Doctors say staff shortages and unsustainable funding arrangements are making it harder for patients to receive the care they need.

People who lost their homes during flooding in the NSW Northern Rivers will have to wait months to find out if they qualify for the government buyback scheme.

The former Morrison government's planning for Australia's COVID-19 vaccine rollout was not "timely", it underestimated how difficult it would be to protect aged care and disability residents and failed to adequately engage with the states and territories before the rollout began, a damning review has found.

National audit report on vaccine rollout found planning ‘was not timely’ and distribution to priority populations had not ‘met targets’