We need to be honest with each other and with the Australian public. These payments remain unconscionably low.

Almost $18 million in funding has been awarded to projects in Indi to build resilience to natural disasters under the Disaster Ready Fund, Independent Federal Member for Indi Helen Haines has announced.

The Collaborative Education and Research Centre will be a purpose-built facility which brings together clinical practice, research, education and training.

The Indi Cultural Policy Roundtable will be held on Tuesday June 6 from 3pm to 4pm at the Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre.

Independent Federal Member for Indi Helen Haines has announced twenty-three volunteer groups in Indi have been awarded a share of $66,216 in funding.

Our aged-care workers are at the heart of the system, but across Indi aged-care facilities tell me how incredibly hard it is to attract the much-needed workforce to keep their doors open.

People must be at the centre of everything we do.

This bill’s proposal has a simple intention: to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to have a say in the policy and legislation that affects them.

Our rural health workforce is so thin that both our hospitals and aged-care services have no choice but to pay exorbitant agency and accommodation fees to employ and house doctors and nurses.

Too many older Australians are denied high-quality and safe care.