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Aged care minister Anika Wells to outline setpiece budget measure; veteran Aboriginal campaigner warns that governments will ignore any advisory body. Follow live
Good morning and welcome to our rolling news coverage. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ve got details of the top breaking stories this morning before Natasha May comes along to take over.
The federal budget is not until next week but the Albanese government has revealed that one of the biggest measures will be billions of dollars to fund a 15% pay rise for aged care workers. It means about 250,000 workers such as nurses, personal care workers and cooks will be better off from July. Anika Wells, aged care minister, will be making the announcement today.
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