Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ...

Australia’s wealthiest private schools continue receiving public funding despite mounting budget pressures, raising questions about whether government spending on education reflects need and the broad...

… the consulting firm’s decades-long history of advising the tobacco industry.

Wages are not growing out of control and the labour market is not ‘tight’

As Shemara Wikramanayake retires with shares worth hundreds of millions, the public is left counting the cost of high prices for utilities, roads and airports

ExamCreator: Erik Cabezas Year: 2013 Format: Digital still photo Rights: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Source: Flickr This post is probably more niche and falls into the category of “thinking out loud” than usua…

How do we communicate about -- or as journalists, cover -- 3.5 million scientific studies per year?

Labor’s budget changes are not to blame for the recent dip in property prices. But the changes will help move housing away from investors – and that should be celebrated House prices in Sydney and Melbourne are down by 3.1% and 3.5% respectively, from their most recent peaks, according to the latest data from Cotality. Across Australia as a whole, house prices didn’t rise last month, the first time that has happened since January 2023. And the annual rate of house price inflation dropped to 9.5% from a most recent peak of 10.9% over the year to February. If these reports were about any of the other 86 classes of goods and services into which Australia’s consumer price index is divided, they would be greeted with universal approbation, and the government would be claiming credit for “easing cost-of-living pressures”. Continue reading...

Calls to cut tobacco excise in order to undercut Australia’s booming black market sound superficially plausible, but the numbers and evidence don’t stack up. Legal cigarettes would still remain far…

The reaction to the budget has revealed Australia’s warped priorities, with the appalling inequality in dental care among the issues actively ignored

Given the scale of its contribution to global heating, the world’s biggest miner has a duty to invest heavily in solutions that could have a global impact