About one-in-ten people across Australia provide unpaid care for a loved one with a disability or an older person and roughly 304,500 of them receive the government carer payment. The Albanese government has unveiled changes to the support payment to allow them greater flexibility in the hours...

NSW Deputy Premier Prue Car says the focus shouldn't just be on crisis responses, but long term solutions and cultural change. The NSW announcement follows a meeting of police ministers in Canberra to decide on how to best share information and respond to serial offenders.