| | | | | The federal government announces an extra $2.3 billion will be put towards mental health treatment and suicide prevention in tonight's budget, with some of the funds going towards creating online counselling and support services. | | | | | Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will unveil the federal budget later today, with billions of dollars expected to be spent on getting people back to work more than a year into the pandemic. Follow live. | | | | | Victorian health authorities have revealed six potential COVID-19 exposure sites, after a man who completed his hotel quarantine in South Australia returned to the state and tested positive. | | | | | The potential exposure sites span three days and include a restaurant, supermarket and 7-11 store. | | | | | The gruesome discovery on the banks of the Ganges is the latest in the humanitarian crisis unfolding in India — the point of origin of a strain of coronavirus the WHO has labelled a global concern. | | | | | A declining birth rate and a rapidly ageing population loom as China's most pressing crises for the years to come. | | | | | Two boys have been left too "traumatised" to speak to police following the death of a 13-year-old boy, who was killed after the bin he was sleeping in was emptied by a garbage truck in Port Lincoln. | | | | | A bit of luck with iron ore prices and the competent handling of unemployment during the coronavirus pandemic has put the government in the unlikely position of having some money to spend in the federal budget, writes Ian Verrender. | | | | | Police say the people who detained a man with a knife showed "great courage" in stopping the attacker from hurting anyone else. | | | | | SA health authorities are investigating whether a man who was released from hotel quarantine — then tested positive for COVID-19 in Melbourne — acquired the virus while in isolation. The Victorian man was in a room alongside another traveller who tested positive to COVID-19. | | | | | | | | | Download the ABC News app | | Available on Android and Apple devices | | | The ABC NEWS app makes it easier for you to stay up to date with the latest news and information from Australia's most trusted news source. | | | | | The ABC sent this message to wwwhindimen.australia@blogger.com these details are included to help provide assurance that this is a genuine email from ABC.
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