Concerns for future of regional post offices laid out in Senate inquiry
Advocates say small-town post offices need to be kept alive as aging licensees and changing community needs threaten…
AI data centres probed by Senate inquiry as locals near NextDC facility demand compensation
Residents living just metres from a sprawling, hyper-scale data centre in Melbourne’s west have called for remediation and…
“We’ve got to fight back:” Energy industry urged to step up against fossil-funded disinformation
Outgoing Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson wants to see the renewable energy industry get more active in the halls…
Drastic warning delivered for would-be home buyers as Labor’s capital gains tax, negative gearing changes get grilled
Labor’s controversial tax changes will worsen housing supply and slash the number of new builds by 35,000, would-be…
Economists defend capital gains changes despite flaws as business groups line up in opposition
Labor’s proposal to overhaul negative gearing and capital gains tax has some design flaws but is better than…
NDIS cuts could create unsafe environments and domestic violence risks, inquiry warned
Planned cuts to National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) community participation budgets could leave participants in unsafe environments, including…
Gas vs beer: How David Pocock’s 57 second-video caused the government a weeks long tax headache
It’s something independent senator David Pocock has been “banging on about for years”. It was “hard to get…
Why the gas tax momentum is building as Australia looks to properly cash in on its abundant natural resources
Ken Henry has been through all this before. Many times. Appearing before a Senate inquiry this week into…
Federal government criticised for response into spread of sea urchins
Long-spined sea urchins are native to NSW, but warming ocean temperatures over recent decades have led to a…
“Scientific dead end:” The new push to get wind turbine syndrome back on the radar
Wind turbine syndrome, a condition that researchers thought dead and buried years ago, is rising from the grave…
Optus held 11 crisis meetings before telling government about triple-0 deaths
Optus waited almost a day before it told the public that its triple-0 outage caused three deaths, also…
Senate inquiry calls for cap to vice chancellor pay as chair lashes ‘rotten culture’ hurting university staff and students
Australia’s universities are blighted by a “culture of consequence-free, rotten failure”, according to the former chair of a…