Amy Remeikis
With all the talk about Australia’s migration “issue”, there is one question that has remained noticeably absent. What problem are we solving? No one can answer it. Not really. There are plenty of declarative statements being thrown around blaming migration for Australia’s falling living standards and real wages, but no actual proof.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
