While the public debate on housing shortages is as ill-informed as ever, one solution is not just obvious, but been well and truly tested.

A Gold Coast school is using its greenhouse to grow food and teach maths and science, with research suggesting the hands-on approach can improve attendance and engagement.

Having created market expectations that it would raise rates, the Reserve Bank board delivered, demonstrating its incompetence.

Nobody wakes up to sudden authoritarianism. We relinquish ourselves to it by allowing our favoured government to get away with bending norms and rules. Over time, these bends become clean breaks.

Andrew Brown analyses how successive Australian governments turned shelter into a casino. Australia's Housing Casino.

A fish passageway allowing fish to travel upstream into the Menindee Lakes has reopened for the final season of its three-year trial, as low water levels and poor water quality raise concerns about another potential fish kill in the Darling-Baaka this summer.

The appointment of a senior Murdoch executive to a plum diplomatic posting in New York has raised questions about Anthony Albanese’s judgement and his relationship with the right-wing mogul.

Funding for the Sydney Hakoah Club far exceeded its building cost, including millions from state and federal governments.

Measles, diphtheria, and polio are reappearing in places where vaccination once kept them at bay, raising concerns about declining coverage and immunity gaps.

Right-wing astroturfers were given a platform at the Bondi Royal Commission, their history concealed and their testimony uncontested.

Four openers and live band for Sheeran’s tour depart after removal of Macklemore over ‘free Palestine’ comments

The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.

The ex US serviceman, who was working at the American Embassy in Nine Elms, south London, was allegedly taken from his flat in Putney on August 25.

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