Government mustn’t lose sight of need for critical thinkers who develop ‘philosophy about the world’ by studying the arts

Boronia Apartments have been purpose-built for people in need of discounted rent including low-income workers in care professions

Peter Dutton must have believed he could skate to victory. How else to explain his abject failure to prepare credible policies.

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Going nuclear will cost ‘real dollars for farmers, real dollars for country towns and real blue-collar jobs’, Clean Energy Council says

ArchitectureAu Asks the Sydney practitioner, “Pattern books have a long history in architecture – but what's it going to take to realise their potential today?”

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After criticism from Penny Wong, a Dutton spokesperson said: “It was a phrase that shouldn’t have been used, and no offence was intended from Mr Dutton.”

One in four schools around Australia have abandoned the annual swimming carnival, research shows, as Royal Life Saving Australia sounds the alarm over safety.

Donald Trump wants to destroy the system. In some fashion, so do the teals.

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The City of Sydney is considering it. The owner is happy. What is stopping the Goulburn Street car park from being turned into housing?

Famously parochial, West Australians have always hated the fact that they’re something of a political afterthought on federal election night; the race done and dusted by the time Perth’s polling booth...

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Our home building industry is clapped out, nobbled by poor planning, a lack of innovation and overzealous regulation. But the biggest problem is productivity.

The opposition razor gang of Dutton and his senior MPs is still working out how to slash 36,000 public servants hired by Labor, as it prepares for Anthony Albanese to call the election.

Climate Change Authority chair says his job is to provide ‘frank and fearless advice’ after he criticised opposition’s nuclear energy proposal

An slight leftward shift is happening in Australia, but that won't be enough on its own to sway voters when it comes to the major election issues.

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Ken Henry made comments at a tax summit in Melbourne, arguing fiscal drag is seeing taxes go up while real incomes fall

The remarks by President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine were some of his most pointed yet about President Trump’s views on the war.

Why pay to maintain buildings you’re going to demolish anyway? Clover Moore says the council should start work on a long-mooted civic square in Sydney’s CBD.

Albanese’s approval ratings have dived by five points, but Dutton’s score has also dipped by three points since January

Australia’s biggest power supplier says there is no way its coal plants can keep operating long enough for Peter Dutton to replace them with nuclear reactors.

In addition to the competition’s winners, twelve architectural practices and one landscape practice has been commissioned to deliver designs for the forthcoming NSW Pattern Book.

The problems of housing affordability are so serious that everyone agrees – something must be done.

Australian Energy Market Operator also reports coal-fired power plants’ contribution fell below 50% for the first time

Cutting the 36,000 new public servant roles created under Albanese could lead to delayed payments and affect disability services, Labor says

Giving aluminium smelters tax incentives to switch to clean energy is long overdue. The question now is how to accelerate the clean energy rollout

Dutton’s cabinet reshuffle added the shadow minister of government efficiency role to Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s position – but it sounds a bit familiar

Heritage advocates want to wait four more years to finalise plans. Tasked with fixing the housing crisis, the state government says that doesn’t make sense.

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The three wise men – Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg – have turned up at the birth of the new Trump presidency, bearing a gift more valuable than gold: the ability to sway reality.

If Sydney can ever tackle its housing crisis and become affordable for young people, addressing the development application system needs to be at the top of the list of reforms.

I’ve been writing about climate change for years. I know my graphs won’t change minds, but facts matter

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With a federal election just months away and Donald Trump set to be sworn in as US president next week, here’s what to watch out for in politics this year.

Sydney’s housing crisis is here and now – and the city’s young people don’t think they can wait much longer for large-scale solutions.

The problem has hit one group the hardest. So we asked six young experts to come up with some solutions.

Housing prices fell by 0.1% in December but dip likely to be ‘shallow and short-lived’, according to CoreLogic

On the eve of President-elect Donald Trump being inaugurated for a second term, his wingman is a worrying curtain-raiser.

Confidential modelling underscores the challenges facing the Albanese government if it presses ahead with building a high-speed line all the way to Newcastle.

One million ferry trips could be made each year to a new destination that rivals the harbour crossing past the heads.