Green groups warn climate courage missing from budget
Climate wins on bike lanes and batteries have been overshadowed by a failure to capture fossil fuel revenue and rein in off-road diesel credits, environment groups say. The lead up…
Funding to stem child-support system abuses welcomed
Australia is taking one of its most significant steps in recent history to stem abuses and weaponisation of the child-support system, advocates say. The 2026/27 federal budget handed down on…
A lot of panic for a sensible budget? | The West Report
Jim Chalmers’ 2026 Budget has landed and, despite the pearl clutching from the Rich Boomers Lobby and Murdoch press, the sky has not fallen in. Westy looks at the modest…
In Stella Prize first, a graphic novel draws the win
The $60,000 Stella Prize has gone to a graphic novel for the first time, with Lee Lai taking out the award for her book Cannon. “This feels like quite a…
Rinehart legal saga reignites, Hancock lodges appeal
Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, will fight elements of a complex court ruling that found two rival mining dynasties were entitled to a share of the spoils from some of…
Up in smoke: budget loses $8b more to illicit tobacco
Australia’s growing tobacco black market has slashed billions more dollars from the federal budget bottom line as the treasurer remains steadfast against calls to lower the excise fuelling the illicit…
‘These geniuses’: PM’s generational housing gamble
Anthony Albanese is playing “gutsy” politics with sweeping changes to tax concessions for landlords but risks offending established investors who may not have expected the overhaul, an expert in politics…
Sound baths are supposed to help relax and ‘soothe’ your nervous system. But do any of these claims ring true? | Antiviral
Social media is awash with clips of people paying to be ‘bathed’ in sound. But what’s the science behind the practice? Read more in the Antiviral series I, for one,…
Auschwitz survivor who returned to live in Germany dies aged 101
Albrecht Weinberg spent years teaching students about Nazi atrocities after being imprisoned at Auschwitz and Belsen Three Auschwitz survivors tell their stories Albrecht Weinberg, who survived a series of Nazi…
Tomorrow, When the War Began: a film made in a lab for 2010s Australian teens
It has heart-throbs and a classic soundtrack, but the true resonance of this John Marsden adaptation is its portrayal of growing up in a world rapidly destroyed before your eyes…