The Point Weekend Quiz
How well have you kept up with the week's stories? Take the quiz and find out.
How well have you kept up with the week's stories? Take the quiz and find out.
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.
Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog has been given new powers to investigate non-criminal misconduct and trace public money into private organisations, as part of the Labor Government’s broader reform push ahead of the November election.
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Blue Mountains City Council is the latest local government to call for big polluters to pay for the costs of global warming. The council unanimously passed a motion earlier this week urging the Albanese Government to introduce a levy on fossil fuel companies to help cover the costs of climate-fuelled natural disasters.
Australia’s criminalisation and detention of children as young as ten is a “crime scene and a human rights catastrophe,” disproportionately impacting First Nations kids, Senator Lidia Thorpe has said. In separate comments to the Senate inquiry into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system, which reported last month, Senator Thorpe explicitly named detention centres as “sites of systemic child abuse".
Drawing on research from six Australian and UK universities, a team from the Australian National University (ANU) and UNSW has launched the Carbon Impacts Tracer, which translates carbon dioxide emissions into estimates of real-world climate damage.
The Australia Institute’s Chief Economist Greg Jericho has slammed the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) decision to raise interest rates again, arguing there is no data to justify increasing them to the highest level seen in 15 years.
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has been urged to rethink plans that could shut or merge about one third of its divisional offices, with a union warning the loss of local expertise could disrupt future elections.
Big corporations could continue to treat Australia’s oceans as a “dumping ground” for old equipment and leave taxpayers out of pocket unless the Albanese government closes a loophole, a Greens senator has warned.
A member of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)’s Monetary Policy Board, which sets key interest rates, says that wages are not a major factor in price increases in Australia. In a speech to the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, Dr Iain Ross AO said there is “no evidence of the emergence of a wage-price spiral” in the Australian economy.
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