New analysis has found Australia’s biggest industrial emitters received around $22 in Fuel Tax Credit rebates for every dollar they spent complying with the federal government’s emissions reduction policy last year.
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Queensland’s controversial laws banning two phrases used in pro-Palestine demonstrations will be tested in the High Court, with a group of activists arguing the legislation unlawfully restricts political communication.
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Oil and gas giant Woodside has reported $6 billion in revenue over the past three months, an increase of nearly 30 per cent. It has led some media outlets to label the fossil fuel company as “one of Australia’s biggest winners” from war in the Middle East.
The good news is that headline inflation went down to 3.8%, (from 4% last month) with the trimmed mean (the inflation rate with the most volatile bits removed) unchanged at 3.6%. Both of these were below what the market and the RBA were predicting.
Young Australians who experience homelessness are far more likely to face financial hardship, poor mental health and disruptions to their education, with new research revealing the compounding disadvantage that comes with housing instability.
The Albanese government is being urged to grant work and study rights to nearly 15,000 people seeking asylum to help address workforce shortages in industries such as healthcare, construction and early childhood education.
Australia’s much-criticised carbon credit scheme has been dealt yet another blow, after the New South Wales Government announced its decision to bar coal and gas companies from buying offsets generated by the Great Koala National Park.
What could the romantic poets of the Eighteenth Century possibly teach us about modern politics? For those struggling to convince people to question existing practices and consider new ways of doing things, the answer is: quite a lot.
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The City of Newcastle has become the latest council to call on the federal government to make fossil fuel companies contribute to the growing costs of climate disasters. It’s passed a motion urging Canberra to establish a National Climate Compensation Fund, arguing it needs help responding to worsening extreme weather “caused by the burning of fossil fuels”.
Australia’s biggest conservation organisations have united behind a call to end native forest logging, arguing governments should protect forests for their environmental value rather than use them to offset fossil fuel emissions.
Speaking at the fourth National Whistleblowing Symposium, Mr Boyle reflected on facing jail after exposing what he described as “absolutely appalling” debt collection practices at the ATO in 2017.
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.
