A Senate inquiry has called on the federal government to consider taking Triple Zero out of Telstra’s hands and placing it under government control in a damning report examining "catastrophic" emergency-call failures.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese opened Climate Week NYC on Monday by leaning on Australia's renewables progress: massive rooftop solar uptake, ten thousand home batteries a week, enough wind and solar for six million households. Numbers worth noting. But they're not the numbers that determine whether Australia is doing its job on climate and phasing out fossil fuels.
Both last year’s Productivity Commission’s figures and Treasury’s in the Intergenerational Report this week promise enough benefits from AI to roughly maintain the status quo, but not so profound an improvement that you might start to worry life will be completely different in 2046 than it is today.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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’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.
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.
