Amy Remeikis
Domestic data does not support the decision to raise interest rates. Being wrong in the right company (the market and conservative economists) might make for easier dinner parties and congratulatory op-eds in the financial pages, but it does nothing to look after the welfare – economic and otherwise – of the Australian people.
Fiona Katauskas
Australia’s criminalisation and detention of children as young as ten is a “crime scene and a human rights catastrophe,” disproportionately impacting First Nations kids, Senator Lidia Thorpe has said. In separate comments to the Senate inquiry into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system, which reported last month, Senator Thorpe explicitly named detention centres as “sites of systemic child abuse".
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Inflation in August rose from 3.5% to 4.0%, which might make you think the RBA had a point in raising interest rates yesterday. The problem is that all of the increase was due to petrol prices.
The Australia Institute’s Chief Economist Greg Jericho has slammed the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) decision to raise interest rates again, arguing there is no data to justify increasing them to the highest level seen in 15 years.
Sydney Water will seek expert advice on whether data centres could release “forever chemicals” into the wastewater system after the possibility was raised at a Senate inquiry. The scrutiny comes as Swedish nonprofit ChemSec reported earlier in September that most of the world’s top 10 PFAS producers are planning to expand production, with some framing their investments around the “AI revolution”.
Big corporations could continue to treat Australia’s oceans as a “dumping ground” for old equipment and leave taxpayers out of pocket unless the Albanese government closes a loophole, a Greens senator has warned.
Three Greens Senators have crossed the floor to support a disallowance motion which would stop a new method to increase the supply of carbon credits. It comes after Greens Leader Senator Larissa Waters said her party would vote with the government this afternoon to allow the method.
Could big spending explain the success of the independents at the ACT election? New data from the ACT Electoral Commission shows this isn't the case.
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has been urged to rethink plans that could shut or merge about one third of its divisional offices, with a union warning the loss of local expertise could disrupt future elections.
It isn’t always easy to keep up with what’s happening in the US. “Shorter America” is a series where Dr Emma Shortis loops you in on what’s going on in America and shares news and analysis that you can trust.
Triple R station manager Dave Houchin on 50 years of Triple R, the power of volunteers and why community radio remains vital in the age of social media and streaming platforms.
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Drawing on research from six Australian and UK universities, a team from the Australian National University (ANU) and UNSW has launched the Carbon Impacts Tracer, which translates carbon dioxide emissions into estimates of real-world climate damage.
At a Senate inquiry into AI and data centres, Senator Sarah Henderson challenged property giant Goodman Group over its proposed Lane Cove facility, which residents said would be around 16 metres from a neighbour’s property line.
On Tuesday, Bob Brown told ABC’s 730 that the NSW Government’s plan to make the creation of the Great Koala National Park dependent on being able to sell carbon credits “a scam”. And Bob Brown is right, these credits do not represent actual carbon abatement.
Seventeen thousand people voluntarily pay for a Melbourne radio station they could listen to for free. At a time when traditional media is shrinking and Big Tech algorithms increasingly decide what information audiences see, Melbourne radio station Triple R is showing there’s still strong demand for local, independent media.
