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A party of community independents funded on the same basis as the other parties might be just what we need to deliver good government and a vibrant democracy.

ACREZ apologises to traditional owners "without reservation" as the NSW Environment Minister Penny Sharpe expresses her "fury" at the incident.

Two officers who restrained a young Aboriginal man in a supermarket aisle will not be prosecuted over his death, leaving his family heartbroken.

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

Every year on the 26th of May, Australia observes National Sorry Day. Flags are lowered. Speeches are made. Politicians stand at podiums and invoke the language of healing, reconciliation, and nationa...

Data centre promises to build new clean energy need closer scrutiny in the view of Greenpeace, which worries the AI boom is derailing the climate transition.

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Liddell’s demolished chimneys mark Australia’s shift from coal generation to renewable energy, battery storage and modernised electricity infrastructure.

You can’t punish people into employment in an economy designed to keep at least 4% of us unemployed and with the RBA aggressively pursuing higher unemployment.

Modelling predicts 241,000 people on the scheme before January 2028 won’t be receiving supports by mid-2031

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Our efforts to tackle climate change have made a tangible difference. But while we may have avoided the worst-case scenario, we have also missed the best-case future.

From Hildegard von Bingen to Hildur Guðnadóttir, here are some of the most influential women of the music world in history and today.

The shame of it is $693 million doesn’t even touch the sides of our wasted investment in submarines. Rex Patrick crunches the numbers.

Company founded by Yaron Finkelstein received contract to advise on antisemitism under a limited tender due to an ‘absence of competition for technical reasons’

Modelling predicts that the algal bloom that has plagued South Australia's coastlines since March 2025 will be moving further through the Spencer Gulf in the next few months.

A hormone-free pill, called YCT-529, that temporarily stops sperm production by blocking a vitamin A metabolite has just concluded its first safety trial in humans, getting a step closer to increasing...

Independent senator said Labor’s plan, which could require podcasts sponsored by betting companies to produce two versions of each program, is ‘totally unworkable’

The true toll of long COVID may be double that of current estimates and hidden from current surveillance systems that rely on capturing diagnostic

The solutions to ending gender-based violence aren’t a mystery. The problem is that governments refuse to act on them When a social crisis becomes too big to ignore, governments reach for their most powerful instrument: the royal commission. It compels decision-makers to testify, forces institutions into the open, and produces sweeping blueprints for reform. It suspends business-as-usual politics and focuses the nation’s attention on injustice and institutional failure, establishing what went wrong, who was responsible and what must change. Few other mechanisms so publicly expose injustice or centre the voices of people who’ve been harmed. Over the past 50 years Australia has held more than 130 royal commissions, placing a powerful microscope on some of the most intractable areas of social injustice: Aboriginal deaths in custody, institutional child sexual abuse, predatory banking practices, violence against people with disability. Governments called them because institutions routinely failed and caused significant harm. Continue reading...

The family of Kumanjayi White tell the ABC they are "heartbroken" that no charges will be laid over his death in custody, as Northern Territory Police confirm their criminal investigation has been con...

The government has announced what it has described as the biggest reform to employment services in over 30 years. The system has been set up to help unemployed Australians find work. But with the cont...

The shame of it is $693 million doesn’t even touch the sides of our wasted investment in submarines. Rex Patrick crunches the numbers.

Experts are predicting Parkinson's disease to double in the next 20 years, but little is known about what causes the condition and how to cure it. Tasmania has been chosen to contribute blood samples to a global study aimed at improving understanding of the genetics behind Parkinson's disease.

The latest overhaul of Labor’s project to stop violence against women and children broadens the scope of interventions, while leaving frontline services chronically underfunded.

While the Federal Budget purported to take pressure off ordinary Australians, the Government continues to ignore the well documented need for online gambling reform.

People who worked with Paul Brereton at the National Anti-Corruption Commission say he suffered from the baggage of being a judge. He could never step down from the remove of the bench.

With Australia now a top global destination for data centres, new reports show they are boosting demand for fossil fuel generated power, with one revealing they had absorbed half of rooftop solar growth in a year.

How can it be that a woman goes into a strange house and her body is later found dumped in a fridge and no one is prosecuted for her murder? Her name was Isla Bell. She was 19. This week, she was remembered by her family as a gem, an exquisitely beautiful soul. She walked everywhere with an open heart.

Trial suggests patients with a low test score could be treated with hormone therapy alone with near-identical outcomes * ‘Like Christmas’: woman’s relief after test finds she can skip chemotherapy Millions of women with breast cancer could be spared chemotherapy with a groundbreaking genomic test, according to the results of a trial that could transform healthcare guidelines worldwide. Treatment for breast cancer, the world’s most prevalent form of the disease, involves surgery to remove tumours. Chemotherapy is then usually recommended when doctors believe there is a risk the disease will return. Continue reading...

Organisation cites abuse by security forces, including rape of male detainees The UN has added Israel and Russia to a blacklist for sexual violence in conflict, citing abuse by security forces including rape of male detainees. . The UN verified sexual abuse of 31 Palestinian men, women and children from the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank between 2023 and 2025. Israeli attacks included repeated gang-rapes and the use of sexual violence as a form of torture, the report said. Continue reading...

Policy U-turn comes after rightwing nationalist government was swept from power in April after 16-year rule * Europe live – latest updates Police in Hungary have said they will allow next month’s Pride parade in Budapest to take place, signalling a reversal from last year when they sought to block the event on the orders of the government of the rightwing former prime minister Viktor Orbán. Last year’s march made headlines around the world after Orbán’s Fidesz party backed legislation – the first of its kind in the EU’s recent history – that created a legal basis for Pride events to be banned, citing a widely criticised need to protect children. Continue reading...

It’s inequality with a climate-crisis spin: some are more at risk, and they are rarely the people able to afford in-built AC, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Lives are being ruined as media scare campaigns and “tough-on-crime” election victories mean governments keep building more prisons, tightening bail laws and sentencing young people as adults