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ANZ to pay $42m in insurance lawsuit

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2022
... ineligible or unlikely to make a claim because they were already unemployed or had pre-existing health conditions or disabilities when they took out the insurance. Slater and Gordon added some customers may have never provided their consent to purchase ...

Plans afoot to narrow gender pay gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
... held by women. To ensure the experiences of First Nations women, culturally diverse women, and women living with disabilities is accounted for, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency will begin collecting pay gap data specific to them from 2023. This was ...

AFA Foundation's community impact

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2022
... charity's intervention are often put in residential aged care. "We build purpose-built homes for young people with severe disabilities," Johnson said. That means, unlike living in a residential aged care facility or nursing home, where you're ...

FICAP raises over $120k for charity

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2022
... pandemic. "Livewire transforms the healthcare experience and well-being of teenagers living with chronic illness or disabilities through opportunities for social connection, creative expression, and personal development," he said. "At Starlight, we know ...

Tough news for those already doing it tough

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... security and welfare overall - which includes expenses for pensions, services to the aged, unemployment support, disabilities support, income support and compensation for veterans - are estimated to decrease by 5.9% overall in real terms from 2021-2022 ...

Backlash after 'unprecedented' ASIC action against Westpac

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2021
... was reprehensible," Paull said. "In terms of junk insurance many people who purchased these insurance products had disabilities, were unemployed, or were critically ill, and therefore not eligible to claim against the insurance products. Others were ...

Companies failing harassment victims: ACSI

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
... years," she said. "People are at higher risk include as young people, people of migrant backgrounds, people with disabilities, LGBTI communities." The real issue, Jenkins explained, is that currently the law requires victims to report their harassment ...

Granny flat tax exemption to become law

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2021
... termination of a formal written granny flat arrangement providing accommodation for older Australians or people with disabilities. Prior to the exemption, families faced a significant CGT liability in creating a formal or legally enforceable granny flat ...

RIR reveals bleak financial upside for disabled people

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
... Penelope Weller said that the day should cause pause to consider that Australia has not always treated those with disabilities well. "Australia ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2008, pledging to the international ...

Budget commitment to aged care not good enough

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... gains tax (CGT) exemption for formal granny flat arrangements. The new measure will also apply for people living with disabilities. Prior to the exemption, families faced a significant CGT liability in creating a formal or legally enforceable granny ...