{"id":912753,"date":"2026-10-01T22:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/912753\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T22:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:52:11","slug":"australia-news-live-rogue-migration-lawyers-to-be-targeted-in-federal-crackdown-us-sends-thousands-of-additional-troops-to-middle-east-as-trump-weighs-new-strikes-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/912753\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: Rogue migration lawyers to be targeted in federal crackdown; US sends thousands of additional troops to Middle East as Trump weighs new strikes on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition spokesman for education Julian Leeser says he has sought clarity on how the government\u2019s Thriving Kids program will roll out in schools, but has received \u201cvery little\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Thriving Kids is the initiative that seeks to provide early intervention support outside the NDIS. It was announced in August by Health Minister Mark Butler. <\/p>\n<p>Asked whether he was satisfied with the information the government had provided about how the program, which launches today, would roll out to schools, Leeser told ABC Radio National:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Opposition education spokesman Julian Leeser.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/494105ae9672f132a99412368c95b92df6a8efc3.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Opposition education spokesman Julian Leeser.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEver since Thriving Kids was announced, I\u2019ve been asking state education teachers and administrators. I\u2019ve been asking people in the Catholic and independent sector, and people can tell me very little.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said there were more questions than answers about its implementation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe website doesn\u2019t tell you very much. I mean, how does it help a parent who is not sure whether their child needs moderate or high support? Where is the line to be drawn there? What is the role here for teachers and schools, and how does this actually create any additional services in terms of occupational therapists or speech therapists?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opposition spokesman for education Julian Leeser says he has sought clarity on how the government\u2019s Thriving Kids program&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-912753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}