Natassia Chrysanthos
Natassia Chrysanthos is Federal Political Correspondent. She has previously reported on immigration, health, social issues and the NDIS from Parliament House in Canberra.
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‘The case against it is overwhelming’: Howard joins Coalition MPs demanding tougher gambling laws
In an open letter, opposition MPs including frontbencher Andrew Hastie and deputy Nationals leader Darren Chester said: “Your proposed reforms do not go far enough.”
- Natassia Chrysanthos
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Coalition and Greens put Labor’s major budget bills in limbo
The Senate could team up to derail Labor’s agenda, with the Coalition seeking a longer tax inquiry while the Greens want more time to investigate sweeping changes to the NDIS.
- Natassia Chrysanthos and Shane Wright
Human Rights Commission holds ‘serious concerns’ about Labor’s NDIS laws
Disability Discrimination Commissioner Rosemary Kayess sounded the alarm with several elements of Labor’s package to cut $37 billion from future NDIS spending.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
Adrian Portelli’s giveaway business to be outlawed
Billionaire Adrian Portelli’s lawyers have urged the government to not paint the whole industry with the same brush, as gambling reforms target giveaway businesses.
- Angus Delaney and Natassia Chrysanthos
Nine in 10 young Australians to be better off under tax changes: Treasury data
But the top 1 per cent of income earners would lose about $400,000 worth of tax concessions over their lifetime, Treasury secretary Jenny Wilkinson revealed on Thursday.
- Natassia Chrysanthos and Shane Wright
Jobseeker services to get first overhaul in 30 years
The one-size-fits-all scheme will be replaced by three streams as Labor grapples with the best way to assist the country’s growing cohort of long-term unemployed people.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
Labor’s plan to fast-track NDIS overhaul hits hurdles
Labor’s contentious NDIS overhaul has met pushback from the government’s own disability advisory group, while the Coalition has issued an ultimatum in exchange for its support.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
How a meme war with tech bros derailed Labor’s budget narrative
Instead of a battle with the Coalition over housing, Anthony Albanese is facing a mutiny by Millennial entrepreneurs weaponising social media.
- Natassia Chrysanthos and Paul Sakkal
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- Immigration
Price distances herself from podcaster remarks on migrants ‘flooding’ from Asia and Africa
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price said she hadn’t intended to endorse “every point raised across a lengthy monologue”, in which the podcaster also raised an extremist concept for deporting non-white migrants.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
Labor’s budget relies on NDIS cuts. Growth in the scheme just blew out, again
Fresh data shows Labor’s efforts to control the NDIS have gone backwards this year, raising the stakes for the government and participants fighting against sweeping cuts.
- Natassia Chrysanthos