Preventing gambling harm in Ballarat

City of Ballarat has committed to advocating for stronger measures regarding the systems and laws that control gambling in Victoria. Gambling Advertising The City of Ballarat has advocated directly to government to support the implementation of the recommendations of the 2023 Report ‘You win some, you lose more’, including the implementation of a comprehensive ban…

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised to ease HECS-HELP debt but what about this other $2.1 billion ‘debt trap’ from the 1990s?

The prime minister has promised to ease HECS-HELP debt but now former students caught in a separate 1990s ‘debt trap’ want their outstanding payments wiped. About 140,000 Australians still owe $2.1 billion from the Student Financial Supplement Scheme, which ran from 1993 to 2003. Under the Keating government scheme, students on welfare payments such as…