Opening the Climate Integrity Summit in Sydney, economist Richard Denniss accused the Albanese government of saying it accepted climate science while continuing to approve and subsidise new coal and gas projects.
After a year examining global inequality alongside leading economists and experts, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz describes the crisis as both vast in scale and dangerous in trajectory. He outlines a G20 proposal for an International Panel on Inequality, modelled on the IPCC, to rigorously track what is driving inequality and what can be done about it.
A YouGov poll of more than 1000 Australians shows that the conservative parties’ opposition to regulating Big Tech is deeply unpopular with the electorate. A staggering 93 per cent of Australians agree that online platforms should be required to provide a safe online environment that prevents illegal and harmful content.
Speaking at the fourth annual Climate Integrity Summit, Tuvalu’s climate change minister, Dr Maina Vakafua Talia, said Australia’s climate policies don’t match its claims of supporting and helping to protect its neighbours.
Independent MLA Thomas Emerson introduced the Electoral (Gambling Industry) Amendment Bill 2026 in June, which would ban donations from entities connected to the gambling industry. His proposal comes amid an ongoing ACT Government push to reduce gambling harm within the Territory.
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Australia is set to ban non-compete clauses for workers earning under $190,100, with the government eager to do away with what it describes as “massive productivity and wage killers”.
Santos boss Kevin Gallagher has claimed it’s a 'myth' that Australia gets less from its oil and gas resources than countries such as Norway and Qatar, despite figures showing the two nations reap substantially more public revenue from comparable LNG exports.
After a NSW Parliamentary Inquiry recently found that the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme is putting people at risk of modern slavery, their lost super might seem like a minor problem, but it’d be an easy one to fix.
Australia’s gas industry is harming communities across the Asia-Pacific, with new research warning its aggressive expansion is fuelling human rights violations, environmental destruction and health crises.
Australia Institute co-CEO Richard Denniss has accused the Albanese government of watering down its gas reservation plan, warning the scheme 'probably won’t' lower prices for Australian households and businesses.
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.
Australia’s most senior bureaucrats have been put on notice by the Senate over a push to restrict how footage of public servants appearing before parliamentary committees can be used.
It’s official: not even the World Cup can make Australians travel to the United States anywhere close to the degree they did before Trump came to power. As I have noted before, when a World Cup is held in a country, the number of Australians travelling there usually spikes. For the USA, the opposite occurred.
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.
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.
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The lower house in Tasmania has narrowly passed new firearm legislation, which falls well short of the agreement in National Cabinet at the start of this year. The vote for the Firearms Amendment (Strengthening Firearms Security) Bill passed 16 to 15, with Labor, the Greens and some independents opposing.
Barnaby might not understand the velocity of money, but neither does anyone else, and to be honest, the entire concept of it on inflation is pretty disputed, so trying to argue against him on that score is a mug’s game. The same goes for the One Nation and LNP’s policy of letting people raid their super.
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.
Half of Australians believe tech executives should face jail time if their companies facilitate the spread of illegal and dangerous content online, as the Albanese government moves to impose a new duty of care on digital platforms.
Musicians, performers and other artists may worry that being too political will alienate their audiences. But polling shows that audiences are far more likely to take action if their favourite Australian artists invite them to.
