ANALYSIS: To boost Australian productivity, the government must look beyond the lower-tax and free-market solutions that have long reinforced its downward trend.

After an unusually cold early summer, Finland has seen two weeks of temperatures topping 30C.

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Includes the stand out stat that it can be cheaper to fly to London than to take the train to Glasgow … [19.54]

Acknowledging missteps, listening well, defending data, and avoiding jargon will help the profession engage

‘They offer sympathy and then just go and approve massive fossil fuel projects anyway,’ one advocate says

The fight over platform workers’ rights concerns us all, writes Ben Wray.

YouTube video by Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation

Yoorrook Justice Commissioner Travis Lovett’s walk from Portland to the Victorian Parliament is a call to action for all Australians.

Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined—or constrained—by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, activists, and residents.   Many local policymakers mak...

Read the new report from Co-operative Party and LCEF on building consensus for climate action through community energy.

This short paper introduces key ideas and real-world examples driving a shift toward a wellbeing economy in Australia.

Writer-at-large Katherine Trebeck reflects on how our economic systems often clash with the compassionate values people already hold.

A seismic shift in Portugal's 2025 elections reflects a broader Western trend: the erosion of centrist dominance and the rise of populist forces.

New indicators to measure wellbeing are necessary for economic systems change, says Katherine Trebeck - but faced with a host of challenges to the wellbeing economy, we ensure that measurements are me...

The Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation invited me to deliver the first Wheelton Family Oration, covering the economic elephants in the room and the need to go beyond tweaks.

Scientists warn of a rapid acceleration in the loss of land ice sheets, compounding climate change

Babies such as Siwar Ashour are suffering from malnutrition as crucial supplies run out amid Israel’s total blockade on aid Siwar Ashour was born into war and hunger and has known nothing else. She is now in real danger of dying without ever having known a moment of peace or contentment. The six-month-old Palestinian girl, whose painfully emaciated body symbolised the deliberate starvation of Gaza when she appeared on the BBC this week, was only 2.5kg when she was born on 20 November last year. Continue reading...

The late Sir Roger Scruton was always among the most admirable and dignified defenders of the tradition of conservatism. He was a British scholar of dignity, humility, intellect and grace. He embodied...

How sustainable and affordable is the home you're in right now? That's if you've been able to get into the market at all. But despite all the talk of fixing our housing and homelessness crisis, it doe...

This commentary examines a critical paradox in contemporary policymaking that hinders effective action for health equity. On one hand, certain policymakers fixate on economic growth measured by GDP as...

We are about to find out whether the Labor government has the bravery to govern without the approval of right-wingers.

If Albanese and Labor don’t do something with power to measurably improve people’s lives this time around, they risk losing it all.

Katherine Trebeck (WEAll Advocacy and Influencing lead) has been advocating alternative measures of progress to GDP for a long time - including her work on Oxfam's Humankind Index. One alternative met...

Readers say they are stressed about money, housing and healthcare – and feel a sense of dread about climate, social cohesion and rise of the far right

The political scientist on how the way national wealth is measured needs to be rethought.