The Point

From NDIS reform and housing policy to fossil fuel subsidies and Angus Taylor’s budget reply, speakers at the Antipoverty Centre’s post-budget webinar criticised policies they say would worsen inequality for vulnerable Australians.

Can you be as bad as Joe Hockey, who said poor people don’t drive, and suggested that the solution to the housing crisis was for young people to get a good job that pays money? Well, alas, the NSW Premier Chris Minns has now reached the Joe Hockey level of economic ignorance.

Rebekha Sharkie is right: Australia Institute research has found that Medicare is failing regional and remote Australians, with rural people getting sicker and dying younger than their city counterparts.

It isn’t always easy to keep up with what’s happening in the US. “Shorter America” is a series where Dr Emma Shortis loops you in on what’s going on in America and shares news and analysis that you can trust.