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Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg said he thought that Victorians have never felt more unsafe, and that burglaries, assaults and murders are rising year-on-year. Is he right?
The IMF has been expressing public concern about inequality since 2010, but this has not translated into concrete action within the IMF’s own policies and programs.
The recent decision to effectively ban e-cigarettes will hurt poor and disadvantaged smokers the most.
Strategies that exploit what our online data trails reveal about us can be used to fool us into thinking our desires will be met. Brexit and Trump show us how politics at the margins can be played.
From censorship, to mainstream, to Donald Trump: erotica has a long and varied history.
Fragmentation, inconsistency and a lack of accountability between alternative education providers means not all young people get access to a good education.
Some people swear by cold showers to cope with a long, hot summer. Here’s why they’d be better off taking a warm one.
Last week’s hearing into the Catholic Church’s response to child sex abuse made for grim listening, and showed there is still much reform work to be done.
An Australian Space Agency could capitalise on our history working with NASA and the ESA and boost our entry into the expanding commercial space industry.
Media reports tend to link violence to illicit drugs when alcohol is far more likely to be to blame.
New analysis of the behaviour of petrol retailers in Perth over a period of five years shows how tacit collusion caused prices to increase by up to 50%.
Few people are talking about how children in residential care and those in juvenile jail are essentially the same people.
Tanya Plibersek, shadow minister for education, told reporters recently that Australia is slightly below average when it comes to international funding for our schools. Is that right?
Public schools are spaces in which equality can either be supported or weakened.
Hunter S Thompson’s 1971 book is a torpedo ride through some of the strangest scenes in American fact, or fiction. It’s about greed, the souring of ‘60s idealism, the failings of journalism and much more.
LIfeguards could potentially have a new ally in the fight to reduce shark incidents: drones that can spot when a shark swims nearby, and automatically alert authorities.
Each year private health insurance funds lobby the government to increase private health insurance premiums. They claim increases are warranted because of increasing costs.
The discovery of a new black hole adds to our understanding of these celestial objects that fascinate in both fact and fiction.
It’s not just that Ahmed Fahour earns a lot of money. Australia Post had, until this week, been able to keep its CEO’s salary top secret.
South Australia’s government was angry about the blackouts enforced by electricity regulators. But with much of the state’s gas power offline, the regulators had little choice.
The announcement that Australia will implement a United Nations optional protocol adds an important safeguard for the proper treatment of prisoners and other detainees.
No state wants to see its revenue base decline – particularly when the jurisdiction benefiting doesn’t even tax (or regulate) its bookies as well as it might.
Shared ownership schemes can unlock access to suitable housing, although these are less common in Australia than overseas. And most are not specifically tailored for people with disability.
How is Vladimir Putin - for whom uprisings are anathema - treating this year’s centenary of the Russian revolution?