Sunday, 23 November 2025 09:00
MONEY WORRIES RATE BIG WITH YOUTH
MONASH University’s 2025 Australian Youth Barometer shows widespread financial insecurity among young Australians, with 85% affected in the past year and many feeling they’re missing out on a happy, healthy life. Affordable housing, youth employment and climate action top their concerns. Most struggle to save, face unemployment or underemployment, and doubt they’ll ever buy a home. Researchers say young people are losing confidence in government action and need immediate financial, mental health, housing support and structural reform.
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Sunday, 23 November 2025 08:59
RETURN AND EARN AND GUIDE DOGS
A SIX-month Return and Earn campaign has raised more than $175,000 for Guide Dogs NSW/ACT, funding the breeding, raising and training of three new guide dogs, each costing over $50,000. The donations—generated through 10c container refunds—will support people living with low vision or blindness, a growing group of more than 500,000 Australians. Return and Earn has become an important fundraising channel, raising over $82M for charities and community groups since 2017 through the NSW Government’s recycling initiative.
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Sunday, 23 November 2025 08:57
CLAIM FARMING WILL BE OUTLAWED
THE NSW Government has introduced new legislation to outlaw ‘claim farming’ in motor crashes, protecting injured people from coercive tactics used to pressure them into lodging compensation claims. The Motor Accident Injuries Amendment (Claim Farming Practices Prohibition) Bill 2025 strengthens earlier reforms by adding two new offences to the Motor Accident Injuries Act 2017, each carrying $55,000 penalties. The changes ban unsolicited contact, safeguard vulnerable crash victims, and protect the integrity of the CTP Scheme.
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