For Australia’s national climate plans to be meaningful, they need to include an orderly phase-out of its fossil fuel exports ...

New Zealand announced its greyhound racing ban in December 2024. Wales announced plans to end racing in February 2025. Tasmania has just announced it plans to phase out greyhound racing by 2029. This ...

Housework, child care, caring for elderly or disabled relatives, and work to keep the home running are still largely women’s work in Australia. This is despite the fact that, during the past 20 years, ...

Mis- and disinformation have once again been named the top global risk of the immediate term in the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks Report 2025. This comes just days after Meta ...

This work was funded by the Victorian Government Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, ...

In 1490, Leonardo da Vinci wrote, “If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from ...

The headlines scream: Victoria’s ‘big build’ is facing huge budget blowouts. The road system known as North East Link is running AU$10 billion over original estimates; the West Gate Tunnel, first ...

Australia’s young adults are putting their traditional steps towards adulthood on hold – spending more time living in the parental home. In fact, just over half of young men (54 per cent) and 47 per ...

Have you heard of ‘Flat-Earth education’? It’s a phrase I am using as a provocation to highlight a problem – the unquestioning acceptance of the everyday structures and practices of education, ...

In 2021, the Morrison Government introduced the Job-ready Graduates Package. If you haven’t heard of it or don’t remember the announcement, the policy aimed to steer university students away from “low ...

The Victorian government’s recent announcement that it’s aiming to build 800,000 new houses in a decade might seem very ambitious, but it aims to address a very serious problem. Housing supply in ...

Australia’s Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme has published its findings. And it’s a damning read. Various unnamed individuals are referred for potential civil or criminal investigation, but ...