The Albanese Government has confirmed patients with chronic illnesses like diabetes will be able to buy 60 days’ worth of medicine for the price of a single prescription from September under a measure that will save Aussies more than $1.6 billion over the next 4 years. It’s the latest pre-Budget news drop – also percolating but not confirmed is a change to single parents’ welfare payment. The Gillard Government moved single parents with kids over the age of 8yo onto JobSeeker (aka the unemployment payment), which pays less. The Albanese Government’s Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce chair Sam Mostyn is one who reckons restoring the payment to those with kids up to 16yo would move the dial towards – you guessed it – women’s economic equality. There’s also increasing noise from the Labor backbench for an increase to the rate of JobSeeker… It’s less than 2 weeks until Budget day, so keep those issues on your radar.