Remember the housing crisis dominating the 2022 election? Three years on, the conversation feels frustratingly familiar, but there is a path forward.
The Productivity Commission’s interim report highlights the potential of the circular economy to transform Australia’s economic landscape, offering strategic advantages and boosting business competitiveness while protecting the environment.
Plans to knock down and rebuild 44 Melbourne public housing towers are flawed. Retrofitting and upgrading is feasible, cheaper, and better for people and the planet.
The world faces the prospect of a reconfigured trading system, one where economic nationalism replaces multilateral cooperation as the driving force of international commerce.
While AI and robotics reshape our reality, experts explore how these emerging tools could be used to create a more equitable future – from healthcare breakthroughs to Indigenous-led innovation.
The field of RNA therapeutics has expanded incredibly in the past 30 years, and mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines were just the start.
Cost-of-living increases, inflation, and energy prices affect everyone. And that matters even more when we’re amid a significant generational shift in voting patterns.
The PALM scheme has some problematic elements, and there are mixed feelings about it within Pacific Island countries.
The debate about online shopping versus in-store misses the point by creating a false dichotomy – what matters more is how much you buy, from whom, where the product is made, and what it’s made from.
Vietnam is poised to play a significant role in the Indo-Pacific region’s decarbonisation. Now is the time for Australia to strengthen its strategic relationship with the country, and the broader Southeast Asia region.
Influenza vaccines are recommended annually, but there’s now an increasing number of different vaccine types. Here’s what to know about this year’s shots.
Beyond offering enhanced protection, “self-healing” rubber gloves could significantly contribute to the reduction of waste, resource consumption, and overall environmental impact.
Australia must utilise its comprehensive strategic partnership with ASEAN to share knowledge and advance areas for collaboration, to accelerate the energy transition and green economy.
Keeping the costs down on EVs is very challenging, but solutions include improving the supply chain and production networks, and outsourcing to contract manufacturers.
A new trial is looking for chemical markers in the breath of people with silicosis. A second project will test drugs that may help lung scarring.
The world’s most advanced artificial heart, including a pipeline of transformative, next-generation cardiac technologies, are set to be developed and commercialised by a Monash University-led consortium.
A new tool boosts the aim of providing a consistent accounting framework for measurement and tracking of the carbon emissions associated with hydrogen production.
School-leavers want flexibility and gig work offers it. But how will that affect the economy?
Antibiotics have been around for less than a century. But as resistant bacteria become increasingly difficult to treat, we risk a greater number of deaths from infections.
We hear a lot about the negative impact of rate rises on mortgage repayments, while little is made of the benefits of high interest rates.
It's been around for a decade now — but cultured meat still faces some huge hurdles.
Not since the infamous ‘Bodyline’ series of the 1930s has cricket been the source of so much tension between Australia and Britain.
If we put green hydrogen plants next to green iron and steelmaking, we can clean up steelmaking, and boost the hydrogen industry.
Muslim girls are one among many minority groups underrepresented in STEM in Australia. Diversity is important, not just ethically and socially, but also economically.
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