Inflation pressures set to expand despite fuel reprieve
Inflation pressures are heating up, despite an expected fall in the consumer price index. Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday is likely to show headline inflation…
Global capital eyes $50b water market, raising stakes
Australia’s $50 billion water market is booming, drawing global investors and offering farmers flexibility, but ongoing scarcity and record-high permanent plantings are raising the stakes of the next drought. Australia…
Inflation pressures set to expand despite fuel reprieve
Inflation pressures are heating up, despite an expected fall in the consumer price index. Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday is likely to show headline inflation…
Inflation pressures set to expand despite fuel reprieve
Inflation pressures are heating up, despite an expected fall in the consumer price index. Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday is likely to show headline inflation…
Corruption watchdog chief concedes he’s a distraction
The first head of Australia’s national corruption watchdog rejects suggestions he should have been more transparent about connections with the defence establishment that led to his resignation. But National Anti-Corruption…
Combat Antisemitism Movement keeps slaying social cohesion
As the Bondi Royal Commission continues, one major campaigner against antisemitism demonstrates its vehement opposition to social cohesion. Wendy Bacon with the story. Sheina Gutnick, whose father Reuben Morrison was…
Liberal, One Nation on attack over discrimination laws
Liberal and One Nation senators have used parliamentary hearings to grill human rights commissioners on their interpretation of discrimination law. The landmark Giggle v Tickle appeal judgment, handed down earlier…
Governments warned not to hold back AI, tech start-ups
Australia is well-positioned to take advantage of the global boom in artificial intelligence but governments and regulators need to get the policy settings right so they don’t stifle start-ups. That’s…
Concern for economic reality of Aboriginal camps
The economic conditions of run-down Indigenous camps where a little girl was abducted and later killed have come under fire in a parliamentary inquiry, more than a decade after changes…
Backward step. “Parties the problem, not the solution”
Current talk of independent MPs (‘the Teals’) forming a new party is fraught and potentially a huge backwards step for a functioning democracy, Tim Dunlop argues. The community independents’ movement…