News Corp continues to make serious money in Australia while paying no tax. But even the Murdoch monolith isn't the nation's worst tax dodger.

Podcast Episode · Let Me Sum Up · 24 September · 1hr 13min

Why is Australia stuck in an inflation problem that has sent interest rates to 15-year highs?

In his Thea Astley Address at the Byron Writers Festival, the celebrated journalist used the occasion to reflect on the perfect storm that is destroying our politics

Mainstream media has normalised Donald Trump’s lies, allowing deceit to become a powerful political weapon with little accountability.

Chinese electric vehicles have become the focus of a new security scare, but connected cars from every country carry cybersecurity risks. Australia needs stronger protections without allowing fear of ...

Seven months into the US conflict with Iran, with no clear end in sight, the global oil market has now largely exhausted the safety measures that exist to keep a lid on petroleum prices.

Up and down the Pacific coast, dead gray whales are mysteriously washing ashore—and scientists think they know why

Vivek Chibber recommends five books that explain how empires work, how capitalism divides the world, and how Marxists have argued about imperialism.

YouTube video by Better Future with Michael Mezz

Like Macklemore and Ed Sheeran, and Ed Sheeran’s band and Ed Sheeran, relations between Penny Wong and myself are “complicated”....

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals exactly how a YouTube political commentator from overseas is using AI to pretend to be Australian and promote One Nation to thousands of people.

Heatwaves and bushfires burned across southern Australia this January thanks in part to climate change. An Australian government agency once insisted it might not happen.

New modelling shows Australia can still help limit climate overshoot, but only with much steeper emissions cuts, faster electrification and a genuine fossil fuel phase-out.

Trump administration moves forward with a $5 billion arms deal to Saudi Arabia, raising questions about regional stability and congressional oversight.

It’s been slow coming, but news coverage of climate change may at last be turning a corner. For years, reporting on climate-related disasters — the super-storm Hurricane Helene that blasted the southe...

Corporations benefit from wasted energy, while locals pay for grid upgrades and endure noise and water threats.

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...