Treasury has warned climate inaction will leave Australia’s future economy worse off, but young advocates say its 40-year economic forecast is 'pointless' while the country continues to back fossil fuel projects.
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party, led by Lia Finocchiaro, has made no secret that it intends on doing what it wants in the NT. It lowered the age of criminal responsibility to 10 and lifted the ban on spithoods. Senior leaders gleefully announce they want to “drill baby, drill” while giving a hand-picked public servant the power to override statutes if the government considers a project to have economic significance.
It’s perfectly legal to lie in a political ad in NSW – but that could be about to change. More than 31,500 NSW residents have said that they want truth in political advertising laws before the state election next March.
The Seventh Intergenerational Report (IGR) released today by the Treasurer Jim Chalmers looks all the way out to 2066 and yet is mostly focused on the present and the fad-like demand of AI and data centres. Each iteration of the IGR is less about the projections than its focus.
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In their appearance before the House Economics Committee on Friday, the executive of the Reserve Bank made it quite clear that we can expect more interest rate rises to come, but made little suggestion that real wages will be improving any time soon.
It’s a fact which can no longer be ignored -- Australia’s birthrate, like most of the world, is in decline and projected to fall even further. The 2026 Intergenerational Report released on Monday will show the trend of smaller families is all but baked into Australian society. The total fertility rate (TFR) is projected to reach 1.5 children per woman in 2030-31. Beyond that, it is projected to fall even further, dropping to 1.34 children per woman by 2065-66.
The Fremantle Dockers are facing a battle off the field ahead of this weekend’s preliminary final against Sydney. Their number-one ticket holder – Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker – has added fuel to the fire by covering the Woodside logo on his Freo guernsey with black tape while onstage in Denver this week.
Senator for Quebec Rosa Galvez and Tuvalu’s Climate Change Minister Dr Maina Vakafua Talia joined the Australia Institute and several federal crossbenchers on Wednesday to launch a new roadmap for Australia’s transition away from fossil fuels.
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.
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.
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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Justine Davis MLA plans to introduce a Gambling Reform Bill to the NT Parliament next month, arguing the NT has a “responsibility to act", given many of Australia’s largest online gambling companies are licensed in the Northern Territory.
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.
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.
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.
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.
