Almost 30 per cent of large companies paid no tax in 2024–25, an Australian Taxation Office report reveals, resulting in the corporate tax amount payable dropping by $8.2 billion from the previous yea...

Almost 30 years ago now, when the hit movie Titanic launched in cinemas, my friend Matthew taught me and a few others to play Celine Dion's anthem My Heart Will Go On on the recorder, that musical ins...

Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives * Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast Stunning new data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) shows the abysmally low rate of jobseeker means at least 3,000 more unemployed Australians die each year than would be the case were they not purposefully kept in poverty. We often talk about how tough it is for those on jobseeker. But last week a report from the AIHW titled “Mortality outcomes among people receiving income support” shows talk is cheap when people are dying. Continue reading...

A new report from the Water Services Association of Australia has found that more than 6,500 First Nations people living in remote communities across the country were supplied with water that did not ...

This was the hottest summer on record in the U.S. and parts of western Europe, and the world’s oceans have never been hotter in August

‘Australians facing economic disadvantage are carrying a much higher burden of premature mortality than others.’