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South Australia has taken aim at one of the biggest culprits in our takeaway food habits as it clamps down on single-use plastics.

In a packed function room in Lagos, Nigeria, the jaunty sounds of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Sir Duke’ start to play. Then, as a giant sparkler and confetti cannon erupt, a curtain slowly parts to reveal a spin...

In April 2025, I posted a comment in The Age, sharing how, after 40 years in my Goldstein neighbourhood, I’d never felt unsafe until I was wrongly accused of antisemitism.

The Aircela acts like a mini direct air capture facility, sucking up carbon dioxide and then synthesizing it into real, usable gasoline for cars.

Americans support nuclear energy and offer mixed views on fracking and offshore drilling, while a diminished majority prefer renewable energy development over more fossil fuel production.

Yesterday’s statement by Defence Minister Richard Marles that Australia’s geography and continent would be crucial to any United States prosecution of a war against China will go down as a dark moment...

With a few exceptions (such as Andrew Leigh, Nicki Hutley and Angela Jackson), mainstream Australian economists — including me — haven’t thought, spoken or written as much about the causes and consequ...

The Liberal Party provided members of the secretive Christian religious sect access to the party’s tightly held and sensitive voter information software.

Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well

Across the pond, democracy is on its death bed following a decades-long battle with untreated corporate cancer. The escalating battle between the Trump administration and the United States Supreme Cou...

Outgoing WA Senator Linda Reynolds is suing the Commonwealth over a payment it made to Brittany Higgins, which she claims gave validity to false accusations her former staffer had made against her.

The rates of fatal crashes and crime are both lower on public transportation than on roadways

With Peter Dutton’s views on climate change in the spotlight, the focus has turned onto whether there will be any policies to reduce emissions in the next decade

In 1972 an Australian woman could not even open a bank account without the backing of a man. This is the inside story of how a group of feminists forced political change.

The upcoming “Hubris Maximus” book details Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s disregard for the public and his contempt for regulators charged with overseeing his companies.

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

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Only my third 5* rating out of 33 already carefully curated books reviewed in my newsletter. This reflects the importance of the conclusions which are supported by a well-referenced and compelling evi...