This morning, Dr Allen received a fulsome apology, not from Bishop, but from ANU. “The university accepts that it has failed Dr. Allen, and that these failings have caused her considerable harm. The university unreservedly apologizes to Dr. Allen for all of its failings and the harm it has caused her,” it reads.
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.
When we talk about generational inequality, the question should not be whether young Australians have as much as their parents or grandparents have today. The question is whether they have the same chance to build it. Anglicare Australia’s new research suggests they increasingly do not.
Quality research, analysis, explainers and factchecks from experts you can trust.
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.
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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One of the risks for higher inflation comes from the data centre boom we are now seeing. The RBA’s liaison with business has detected that data centres are hoovering up construction workers, adding to capacity constraints in the economy.
A bitter battle over fracking is brewing in South Australia, with a consortium of community groups and councils imploring Premier Peter Malinauskas to abandon plans to lift a decade-long ban in the state’s South East two years early.
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”.
Freedom of Information (FOI) requests from journalists and the public help hold governments to account. Let’s have a look at thirteen FOI stories from around Australia and what they tell us about the policies and operations of different governments.
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.
