In less than two years, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has gone from clear choice to fighting for majority support in the polls. What happened?
A suite of tools is helping scientists “taste” the properties of Antarctica’s Southern Ocean to better-understand why more heat is seeping towards the icy continent.
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.
Although Michele Bullock has been with the bank for four decades, the past two have been in areas remote from interest rate setting, meaning she won’t feel compelled to defend the mistakes of the past.
Existing research evidence suggests the hegemony of neoliberal measures within Australian welfare policy has resulted in higher, not lower, levels of social and economic injustice.
Reports of a diabetes “tsunami” are hiding a key part of the picture. There’s a good reason the numbers are increasing.
Research shoes Australians are embracing their first lockdown-free festive season since 2019.
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.
On 1 November, Israelis will vote again, for the fifth time in less than four years. Recent polls predict either another hung parliament or a narrow victory for the Likud-led coalition.
The Antarctic ice sheet has advanced and retreated over the past 10,000 years. It holds stark warnings, and possibly some hope, for the future.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has delivered a “double-whammy” interest rate rise, and it’s likely there’ll be up to five more to come in 2022.
A new report on the continent emphasises the need for urgent action, and makes recommendations that aim to help set the climate change agenda for the region for years to come.
The high level of poverty in affluent Australia is a national disgrace, and its prevention should be a priority for all political parties. But it’s not.
Governor Philip Lowe says it’s “not unreasonable” to expect the cash rate to climb to 2.5%. That’s an extra $600 to service a $500,000 mortgage.
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?
Severe coastal flooding inundated islands in the Pacific last week, including the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. It’s a taste of things to come.
They cover more than 70% of our planet, so why aren’t oceans more central to climate talks?
At this stage it’s hard to know for sure why Melbourne’s COVID numbers are higher, but it’s likely that climate plays a role.
To supercharge the climate fight, we need to mitigate the environmental and financial impact of producing lithium-ion technology, and develop lower-carbon batteries.
Australia’s climate policy can learn much from our experience of COVID-19, as it’s a case study in the importance of swift collective action during a global crisis.
While data to the end of January 2021 shows suicide didn’t increase in COVID-stricken Victoria, there’s still deep concern about the longer-term effects of the pandemic on mental health.
If the federal government won’t take appropriate climate change action to save the planet, Australians will use their collective power to do so.
The rare blood-clotting issues associated with the Astra-Zeneca vaccine have recently made headlines, but it's too early to say whether it will increase overall vaccine hesitancy.
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