Tasmania has become Australia's new logging hotspot, wasting public money while destroying our native forests. Tom de Kadt reports. LAST WEEK, the Australian Conservation Foundation released research ...

A new OECD report warns that without coherent strategy and collaboration, Australia’s tech ambitions risk collapsing under bureaucracy and complacency, writes Paul Budde. THE OECD’s Science, ...

Trump’s reckless nuclear testing threats risk reigniting an arms race and repeating the horrors witnessed by those scarred by past detonations, writes Dr Jeff McMullen. I CANNOT UNSEE what I have seen ...

The monopolisation of media isn't just undemocratic — it enables criminal economies to flourish behind a façade of control, writes Nick Potter. WHEN A GOVERNMENT declares that it “solely controls” the ...

The numbers confirm Australia’s economy is responding to global conditions better than most, as Alan Austin reports. THIS WEEK’S number is 46. Australia has now had its jobless rate below 4.6% for 46 ...

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The LNP are back in QLD and so are many of the old policies that kept them out of power for ten years, including the Cableway that never goes away. Founder Dave Donovan investigates who stands to gain ...

Despite eyewitness accounts from Anzacs and repeated calls from MPs, successive governments have refused to recognise the Armenian genocide — a silence that speaks volumes, writes Simon Tatz.

Prominent American religious leaders are joining protests against the manifest evils of the Trump Administration, as Alan Austin reports. The church cannot stay silent before injustice. You stand with ...

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Trump’s unexpected diplomatic win has reignited debate over Australia’s defence spending and foreign policy priorities, writes Mark Beeson. GOOD FOR U.S. President Donald Trump! These are words I ...

As Trumpism spreads and the climate crisis worsens, the cost of denial, greed and inaction grows impossible to ignore, writes Dermot Daley. IT IS DIFFICULT for most Australians to comprehend how the ...