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About half of people involved in tobacco lobbying held positions in Australian governments before or after working for the tobacco industry.
When people are involved in planning for climate transition that takes account of their other daily concerns, such as housing and jobs, they become more positive about transformative change.
Local councils lack the means to tackle homelessness, but are often closest to the people at risk. A national plan should recognise and resource the role councils can play in preventing homelessness.
The budget increases funding for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade by over $450 million, in what’s a positive first step towards remedying our long-term reduction in diplomatic resources.
Safe Home attests to the ways violence is insidious and ingrained in systemic structures of power.
Educators have expressed concern about ChatGPT but it could be a tool to help stressed and time-poor students.
The RBA’s latest forecasts assume no further rate rises will be needed. There’s nothing in the budget that should change that.
The 2022 Australian Unity Wellbeing Index shows cost-of-living pressures are hurting, but declining satisfaction is a longer-term trend.
The 2023 budget includes $40 million to improve school attendance in Central Australia. It also includes more than $38 million for “culturally appropriate” education for Indigenous students.
Where there’s fire, there’s smoke – could plumes from the Black Summer of fire have cooled regions of the Pacific and triggered a La Niña? New research suggests it’s possible.
Fear and Wonder is a new climate podcast, brought to you by The Conversation, and sponsored by the Climate Council. In this episode, we discuss possible solutions to the climate crisis.
Social media algorithms can use millions of different parameters to decide what kind of content is shown to users.
The original Minecraft is generally regarded as one of the most successful computer games ever made – but its spinoffs never come close to achieving the same success.
Deborah Levy’s new novel, set in our pandemic-era present, contains the heat and desire of a European summer and the upward struggle of a soul. Jane Gleeson-White says she ‘read it like a thriller’.
In this podcast, @michellegrattan canvasses the budget with Treasurer @JEChalmers, Shadow Treasurer @AngusTaylorMP and The Conversation's politics + society editor @amandadunn10
The supporters of Pakistan’s populist former leader have been seething with anger since his arrest on corruption allegations.
It’s time we question our national priorities, and start funding the nature that sustains us.
Most of our 10.8 million existing homes are in need of a retrofit to improve their performance and cut household energy use and emissions. The $1.6 billion for energy upgrades covers 170,000 homes.
Commitments have been made to cybersecurity, defence and certain gaps in STEM education and workforce – but much remains to be seen this year once we review the national priorities.
Two billion to subsidise green hydrogen sounds like a lot. But the world is racing ahead and we’re still at the starting line.
The federal budget is a step in the right direction, particularly in improving pay rates for aged-care workers. But the medium- to long-term future remains bleak without further, significant reforms.
As always with Trump, there is much more at stake than his individual political fate.
Has greater awareness of mental health issues also caused more people to interpret milder forms of distress as something worse? Better understanding of mental health disorder in general might help.
The big news on budget night was a tripling of the bulk-billing incentive. It’s hoped to stem the decline in bulk billing – but it’s unclear if it will increase it.