A new survey finds Australians care deeply about the environment, but many aren’t aware of the full extent of biodiversity loss.
The Andrews government has made a decent first step to reduce Victoria’s mountain of debt by $30 billion over the next decade.
The budget’s back in surplus after 15 years, briefly, and there are measures to ease cost-of-living pressures, but can it tame inflation?
If we’re to effectively tackle the critical challenge of climate change, we urgently need a better and more coordinated global transformation to environmentally-friendly economies.
Like Britain recently, Australia has had more than its share of leadership excesses and upheavals over the past 15 years, but could that phase be passing?
The October 2022 budget marks a departure from the “blokier” budgets of recent years, centring gender equality and the care economy rather than high-vis and hard hats.
The first Labor budget in nine years, delivered against a grim economic backdrop, contains few surprises as it charts Australia's way through uncertain times and high-cost hazards.
The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) has kept poverty and inequality on the policy agenda.
Liz Truss has defeated Rishi Sunak to become the next prime minister – but her victory makes the Conservatives much more likely to lose the next election.
Unlike many politicians, Anthony Albanese doesn’t appear to harbour a sense of entitlement to the top job – and his journey towards it has been a long one.
Single Australian women over 60 are the most likely to live in poverty, earning less than $30,000 a year, and it's taking a heavy emotional toll, with mental distress on the rise.
With an election imminent, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has splashed out billions in his “cost of living” budget, but is it enough to buy your vote?
The opposition leader isn’t as disliked as his predecessors, but voters also don’t have a clear sense of who he is and what he offers.
Unpacking where the money’s going, and what it means for you and the post-COVID recovery.
While all Australians have been affected by the pandemic, there’s clear evidence of an asymmetry along gender lines.
The popular vote counts for little as the US election draws nearer. All eyes are on the magic electoral college number of 270 – and there's plenty to yet play out. And there's the COVID factor...
The federal government has unveiled a budget filled with tax cuts and massive fiscal stimulus that will generate billions in deficits through to 2023.
The news that Foxtel received a speedy funding boost as the ABC faces another round of damaging cost cuts will raise eyebrows – and questions about how we spend taxpayers' money.
Governments will rely on taxation to repair the fiscal damage wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, and that will likely mean a GST rise, even if there are better, but politically unpalatable, alternatives.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and PM Scott Morrison pack the 2019 Federal Budget full of goodies as they push towards an election.
Brexit and the 'yellow vest' protests in Paris are symptoms of a growing discontent among people economically abandoned by globalisation.
Greece Prime Minister Alex Tsipras has declared that the country is back on its feet, but the numbers indicate its problems are far from over.
This time the pressure is particularly intense, given that the Turnbull government has trailed Labor in the past 31 Newspolls.
Scott Morrison's 2018 federal budget is aimed at winning back middle Australia, with 10 million workers set to receive tax refunds worth up to $530.
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