Sarah Whyte
Health and Indigenous affairs correspondent
Sarah Whyte is a political reporter in the Canberra bureau, covering immigration, customs and the High Court. Previously, Sarah was the consumer affairs reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Humanitarian migrants are the most entrepreneurial but have the worst income
Migrants who have been granted permanent humanitarian visas are the most entrepreneurial when compared with all permanent migrants in Australia but have the lowest income, new statistics reveal.
- by Sarah Whyte
'Midnight ambush': NDIS board members discover they are being dumped via ad
Board members on the National Disability Insurance Scheme were given a "midnight ambush" when their jobs were advertised in a national paper before they were told, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says.
- by Sarah Whyte
Medicare claims hit million a day as patient services grow
Medicare claims have surged in NSW and Victoria over a decade, as patients demand more services, more often.
- by Sarah Whyte
States defend Northern Territory's paperless arrests regime
Solicitor-Generals for NSW and Queensland have defended the Northern Territory government's "paperless arrests" regime, arguing there was nothing wrong with officers being given the power to investigate, prosecute and then judge cases without a judicial process.
- by Sarah Whyte
Indigenous health: 32,000 could have eyesight saved with $23m in funding: report
A PWC report estimates that 32,000 Indigenous Australians could avoid blindness if the government invests another $23 million.
- by Sarah Whyte
Australian Hearing privatisation would be damaging to deaf children, say families
Australian Hearing Services has been targeted by the Department of Finance since last year for a possible sell-off.
- by Sarah Whyte
Healthy welfare card restricts spending on alcohol, gambling
A proposed "technologically advanced" cashless welfare card will link to recipients' mobile phones and restrict them from spending payments on gambling or alcohol.
- by Sarah Whyte
Medibank accused of using dud list to reduce hospital costs
Private insurance giant Medibank has been accused of using a dud list to reduce its hospital costs by Australia's peak quality and safety commission on health care
- by Sarah Whyte
Northern Territory paperless arrests law should be repealed: Coroner
The paperless arrests scheme in the Northern Territory should be repealed, a coroner has found, after an indigenous man died in a cold concrete cell in custody, despite asking to see a doctor.
- by Sarah Whyte
Generation Why Not opt for social change
Sisters commit to improving lives of Indigenous people.
- by Sarah Whyte