Matthew England & Mark Ogge
We used to talk about Australia punching above its weight on scientific research. Our scientists helped kick off the tech revolution with the invention of wi-fi. In health we invented the cochlear implant and helped develop the vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. That was then. Now according to the Australian Academy of Science we are going backwards.
For the first time in 20 years, doctors at some of the Victoria’s biggest and busiest public hospitals walked off the job, as a leading Australian economist warns the state risks losing its best doctors if the dispute over pay and conditions isn’t resolved soon.
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The last 5 years have seen the worst collapse in the value of people’s wages in living memory, and forecasts by the Reserve Bank suggest it will take till 2037 to get back to the levels they were before the collapse, which is why we need state and federal governments to take the lead to speed recovery.
Australia’s newly released National Environmental Standards have been torn apart by conservation and legal groups, which warn the Albanese government’s centrepiece reforms have failed to close the loopholes that allowed habitat destruction under the old law.
In late 2025, the long held promise to build the Great Koala National Park became “dependent” on the NSW Government being able to sell carbon offsets relating to the founding of it. But is this money necessary to create the park? No, it isn't.
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.
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There are lots of people worried that the housing changes in the federal budget are going to hurt renters by reducing the number of rental properties and pushing up prices. But there is no need to worry. These changes will not increase rents.
Crossbench MPs and environmental groups have warned Australian taxpayers could be left exposed to billions of dollars in offshore oil and gas decommissioning costs unless Australia’s petroleum laws are urgently reformed.
Environmental groups are launching a coordinated push to make native forest protection a national political issue, arguing communities can no longer be left to fight logging and clearing “one forest at a time”.
It’s been pretty clear for nearly a year now that Australians have taken a look at what Trump and his ICE goons are doing and have decided that the USA isn't the place for them.
