“In less than three years, we’ve turned two big Liberal deficits into two Labor surpluses, shrunk this year’s deficit, and ...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers will tomorrow deliver the 2025/26 federal budget ahead of a May election ( The Guardian ); Finance ...

Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor has criticised Labor for not setting a target for tax as a percentage of GDP, with the ...

Beware the cryptic bug! Once you get a glimpse behind the seemingly baffling clues, an alluring realm of wordplay, wit and poetry is revealed. And, while beginners can sometimes feel that cryptics are ...

Just moments into a Zoom call with comedian and theatre maker Lou Wall, I’m plunged into second-hand anxiety. Apparently a clumsy type, they’ve spilt water on their laptop and it’s no longer working ...

In 2020, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel published a study showing that the combined weight of the things that humans have made now outweighs every living thing on Earth.

In a sense we don’t actually need to see the Climate Risk Assessment Report because we already have a fair idea what is in it (Karen Barlow, “Exclusive: Secret briefings on climate national security ...

In an early scene in Elegy, Southwest, the novel’s narrator, Eloise, watches a woman calling out for her lost dog, then being confronted by a “lump of fur in the gutter”. It is the moment just before ...

It’s business as usual in the university sector, where exorbitant executive pay, insecure jobs and exploitation of academic ...

Despite being warned it could breach the Racial Discrimination Act, the Coalition government went ahead with a welfare program that punished First Nations people in remote areas.

Relocated Solomon Islands village again under climate threat. South Sudan on verge of renewed civil war. Putin’s limited truce.