☕️ What's in the budget for young people?

If you’re just waking up, and wondering ‘what do I need to know about the budget?’, TDA has you sorted!

On this morning’s podcast, we break down exactly what is in the budget for young people.

“Sometimes people will open the door for you and leave it open. Sometimes they won’t. And then you need to kick that f**king door down.”
U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris, whose mother migrated to America from India, on opportunities for people of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage.

$US12.5 billion ($AU19b)
The amount Melinda Gates, former wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, will receive after she announced she is resigning from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates said she will use the money to “commit to her work on behalf of women and families”.

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Shrek 2 premiered at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in France.

Trained pharmacists across NSW will permanently be able to prescribe treatment for uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs) from 1 June.

This comes after the NSW Government completed a successful trial, which it said 16,000 women benefited from.

Prior to the trial, women needed a referral from a GP.

From 1 June, women aged between 18 and 65 with symptoms of an uncomplicated UTI, who haven’t had one recently, will be able to go directly to a pharmacist for treatment.

Pharmacists must undergo training before they can prescribe the medication.

Over a thousand pharmacies participated in the trial.

NSW Health Minister Ryan Park said the initiative would take “pressure off GPs”.

Pharmacy Guild NSW President David Heffernan supported the measure, saying women would “benefit from easy access to treatment”.

Shadow Health Minister Matt Kean told TDA the Government should expand the initiative to other common conditions like asthma and earaches.

Last night, the Federal Government delivered its annual budget.

When TDA polled its audience yesterday, more than 70% said cost of living was one of the two issues where they would like to see increased spending on.

Here’s what the budget included for cost of living measures.

Every Australian household will receive $300 off their energy bills, while eligible small businesses will receive a $325 discount on their power bills.

The relief package will be worth $3.5 billion.

Earlier this year, the Government announced planned changes to its Stage 3 tax cuts.

Under those changes, all taxpayers who earn more than $18,200 per year will pay less tax from July this year. For example, those who earn between $18,200 and $45,000 will pay 3% less tax on every dollar earned in a year.

The Budget includes an extra $1.9 billion to fund rent subsidies for welfare recipients over the next five years.

From September, Australians who receive government assistance to pay their rent (e.g. Centrelink recipients) will receive an additional 10% in rent assistance.

Last year, the Government boosted the rent assistance payment by 15%.

Anyone on income support payments who can work up to 14 hours a week will be eligible for a higher JobSeeker payment compared to their current eligible rate.

The budget forecasts unemployment will increase to 4.5% in the next two years. The unemployment rate measures the percentage of people who were looking for work but could not find any.

Current unemployment is at 3.8%.

The Government has announced a one-year freeze on the maximum amount that Australians with a Medicare card can pay for medicine on the national Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).

It means that Australians with a Medicare card won’t pay more than $31.60 for a PBS prescription.

The freeze will be extended to five years for pensioners and other concession holders. This will ensure concession holders – of whom 60% of PBS scripts go to – won’t pay more than $7.70 for a prescription.

The Government has announced Consumer advocacy group, CHOICE, will publish quarterly reports on grocery prices.

The data is aimed at monitoring and comparing the costs of essentials, such as vegetables, bread, and household products, across retailers likes Woolworths and Coles.

The first report is due by the end of June. Further reports will be published every three months.

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Scolyer was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer last June and has been undergoing experimental treatment led by co-Australian of the Year Prof Georgina Long.

Scolyer shared to social media, “I found out yesterday that there is still no sign of recurrence. I couldn’t be happier!”

TW: Sexual violence

Kendrick Lamar’s song ‘Not Like Us’ has topped the U.S. charts. It’s a diss track against Drake.

For some quick context, Drake and Kendrick Lamar have been fighting through their songs for months.

On 3 May, for example, Drake dropped the track ‘Family Matters’ where he accused Lamar of domestic violence. He rapped: “They hired a crisis management team to clean up that fact that you beat on your queen.”

About 20 minutes later, Lamar released ‘Meet the Grahams’, which alleges Drake is a “predator” and likened him to convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein.

Then, a day after that, Lamar released ‘Not Like Us’. On this song, he calls Drake a “certified paedophile”.

None of these allegations have been tested in court.

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The Federal Government released its annual budget yesterday.

The Government, led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, had two big decisions to make: what to spend money on, and where to get that money from.

In today’s podcast we are going to focus on what it announced for young people.