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Election promise to see ADHD and autism testing in schools. 

Parents and teachers could benefit under a state election pitch for an Australian-first plan to identify autism and ADHD in schools. 

Occupational therapists and speech pathologists would spend 15 minutes assessing all prep students for neurodivergence under a coalition election policy in the run-up to the Victorian state election policy. 

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The coalition has promised to place specialists in prep classrooms across the state from term one in 2028, if it wins the November state election.

Under the proposal, billed as the first of its kind in Australia, the allied health professionals would observe students, identify potential learning and developmental needs and provide advice to parents.

Opposition education spokesperson Brad Rowswell said the policy has been costed at about $40 million a year and would come from the Department of Education budget.

More than 1.1 million Australian school students received an educational adjustment due to disability in 2025, representing 27 per cent of total enrolments.

Of those, 53 per cent had a cognitive disability and 36.3 per cent had a social-emotional disability.

Architect of NDIS concerned about incoming changes to scheme.

The original architect of the National Disability Insurance Scheme says plans to force all participants to have their impairment re-assessed before getting ongoing support are "unnecessary, disruptive and costly."

Under the proposed changes, the government plans to move around 160,000 people off the scheme and onto other yet-to-be-built supports to be run by the states.

All participants' eligibility will be reassessed based on how much their disability impacts their day-to-day life. 

Disability support provider Aruma said it broadly supported the changes but that re-assessment was unnecessary, particularly for those with lifelong disability, children in out-of-home care and people receiving supported independent living.

Aruma's chief executive is Martin Laverty, who helped design the NDIS and was an inaugural director of the National Disability Insurance Agency.

The company also raised concerns about sweeping powers that would allow the minister responsible for the scheme to set funding and staffing levels for specific supports under the NDIS, while reducing participants' rights to appeal.

The snap inquiry will commence its third and final proceedings today. 

Higher fuel prices to come as fuel tax cut ends. 

Motorists and businesses will soon be paying higher prices at the bowser as a reduction to the fuel tax comes to an end.

The federal government temporarily halved the fuel excise in April, slashing 26 cents off a litre, in response to soaring global oil prices caused by the war against Iran.

But the $2.5 billion measure is planned to run out at the end of June.

Australia's peak motoring body is warning that, based on current prices, the average for unleaded petrol in Sydney in July will be 40 cents higher than before the start of the war against Iran, at $1.99 per litre, while diesel will be 65 cents higher at 2.37 cents per litre.

Transport Minister Catherine King indicated it would not be extended further, even as conflict continues in the Middle East.

According to Treasury data, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane experienced reductions in fuel prices of at least 89 cents per litre for unleaded petrol from the end of March. 

In those three cities, petrol reached an average of at least 257 cents a month on from the US-led strikes on Iran.

First-home buyers net a win in the nation's capital. 

The ACT has abolished stamp duty for first home buyers, prompting calls for other states and territories to follow suit.

ACT Treasurer Chris Steel announced all first home buyers would be exempt from paying stamp duty on property purchases from July 1 as he unveiled the budget for the territory on Wednesday. 

The move is a significant milestone in ACT Labor's 20-year journey to abolish the tax in its entirety and replace it with higher property rates.

In New South Wales, the former Perrottet coalition state government attempted to begin a transition from stamp duty to land tax in 2022 — but the attempt at reform was extinguished by Labor after it won the 2023 election.

A 2025 report found stamp duty costs had grown between 2.7 and 3.4 times faster than incomes in the eastern states since 2000, raising the homeownership hurdle.

Taylor Swift treats audiences at Toy Story 5 premiere. 

Pop superstar Taylor Swift has made a surprise appearance ‌in Hollywood at the premiere of Pixar's Toy Story 5.

Swift sat at a piano on stage at the Dolby Theatre and sang 'I Knew It, I Knew You', the song she wrote for the ‌new Toy Story instalment. ⁠

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She then introduced ⁠another unexpected ‌guest, Randy Newman — the composer of the musical scores and many breakout songs from the Toy Story franchise.

The pair ​sang a duet of 'You've Got a Friend in Me', one of Newman's ​hits ​from the ​first Toy Story in 1995.

Earlier, Swift ‌posed on the red carpet with Tom Hanks, Joan Cusack and other members of the Toy Story voice cast.

— with AAP.

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