What they said would happen is happening. The farming rep from Victoria’s Mallee on the radio on Tuesday morning was immensely stoic. We work around the heat, she said, we get up early, check the livestock, close up businesses and stay inside after 2:30 pm. But what happens if this goes on for several days? The interviewer asked. We cook, was the blunt ...
Sweltering Cities does its best to advise people how to stay cool in a heatwave, but some renters are finding landlords resisting implementing ways to cool houses and apartments, especially the “hot boxes” that face west or north.
When we talked to Emma Bacon, executive director of Sweltering Cities, on Tuesday afternoon, Melbourne had hit 45 degrees, ...
The Bill to Combat Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism risks undermining rights, due process and democratic accountability. These are the first stages of tyranny, says human rights lawyer Greg Barns. The Bill was rushed through federal parliament last week with minimal scrutiny and major rule-of-law flaws, including vague definitions, retrospective reach
ORIGIN STORIES: Many important developments in Australia’s energy history are being lost. Many important documents were dumped during Victoria’s energy privatisation and other institutional changes. A lot of the players moved on over time. This article summarises some of my own involvement in the development of Victoria’s home insulation regulations in ...
Australia is spending more than ever on housing support, but the outcomes tell a different story. In a keynote address to a major conference by the Australian Housing Studies Association in February Julie Lawson will show how social housing’s share continues to shrink, rental affordability is worsening, and supply consistently falls short of need. The ...
The Victorian government has announced plans to transfer the functions of the Architects Registration Board of Victoria (ARBV) to the renamed Business Licensing Authority. This raises concerns about the potential abolition of the ARBV and the threat to undermine decades of public protection and professional standards that most Victorians take for ...
With Pauline Hanson’s One Nation eclipsing the Coalition in the polls, former Coalition advisor John Adams explains why he joined One Nation. You don’t have to be a genius to know that Australia is in a state of crisis. From the economy, to domestic security, to education, mental health outcomes
It was not a happy Australia Day for Michael Pascoe. Two polls told him we’re getting meaner, less confident, less welcoming, less Australian. There was a lot of depressing news over the long weekend, so much that you might have missed the opinion poll indicating Australians are getting meaner. The
Israel’s reputation is treated as a strategic asset to be managed in Western media and political domains. The Israeli ‘machine’ spends lot of money and effort doing it. The passing of hate laws in the Parliament just switched some of the cost to us. Rex Patrick explains. Let’s start with
On Australia Day, we’re supposed to celebrate mateship, egalitarianism, freedom and prosperity. But what if these “pillars” of Australiana are myths? Andrew Gardiner reports. Each year at this time, academics, activists (and sometimes, by complete accident, supermarket chains) raise “inconvenient truths” about what they call the fallacies around ...
Canada’s redefinition of relations with Trump’s America serves as a stark reminder of Australia’s place in the world and our need to realign, too. Duncan Graham reports from our reluctant neighbour, Indonesia. At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, Canadian PM Mark Carney spoke of the end of
Australia does not suffer from a lack of empathy. It suffers from selective empathy. And nowhere is that clearer than in the way our political and media class decide who is allowed to mourn. Andrew Brown with the story. Thursday night at the Opera House was a masterclass in performative
What they said would happen is happening. The farming rep from Victoria’s Mallee on the radio on Tuesday morning was immensely stoic. We work around the heat, she said, we get up early, check the livestock, close up businesses and stay inside after 2:30 pm. But what happens if this goes on for several days? The interviewer asked. We cook, was the blunt ...
Sweltering Cities does its best to advise people how to stay cool in a heatwave, but some renters are finding landlords resisting implementing ways to cool houses and apartments, especially the “hot boxes” that face west or north.
When we talked to Emma Bacon, executive director of Sweltering Cities, on Tuesday afternoon, Melbourne had hit 45 degrees, ...
The Bill to Combat Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism risks undermining rights, due process and democratic accountability. These are the first stages of tyranny, says human rights lawyer Greg Barns. The Bill was rushed through federal parliament last week with minimal scrutiny and major rule-of-law flaws, including vague definitions, retrospective reach
ORIGIN STORIES: Many important developments in Australia’s energy history are being lost. Many important documents were dumped during Victoria’s energy privatisation and other institutional changes. A lot of the players moved on over time. This article summarises some of my own involvement in the development of Victoria’s home insulation regulations in ...
Australia is spending more than ever on housing support, but the outcomes tell a different story. In a keynote address to a major conference by the Australian Housing Studies Association in February Julie Lawson will show how social housing’s share continues to shrink, rental affordability is worsening, and supply consistently falls short of need. The ...
The Victorian government has announced plans to transfer the functions of the Architects Registration Board of Victoria (ARBV) to the renamed Business Licensing Authority. This raises concerns about the potential abolition of the ARBV and the threat to undermine decades of public protection and professional standards that most Victorians take for ...
With Pauline Hanson’s One Nation eclipsing the Coalition in the polls, former Coalition advisor John Adams explains why he joined One Nation. You don’t have to be a genius to know that Australia is in a state of crisis. From the economy, to domestic security, to education, mental health outcomes
It was not a happy Australia Day for Michael Pascoe. Two polls told him we’re getting meaner, less confident, less welcoming, less Australian. There was a lot of depressing news over the long weekend, so much that you might have missed the opinion poll indicating Australians are getting meaner. The
Israel’s reputation is treated as a strategic asset to be managed in Western media and political domains. The Israeli ‘machine’ spends lot of money and effort doing it. The passing of hate laws in the Parliament just switched some of the cost to us. Rex Patrick explains. Let’s start with
On Australia Day, we’re supposed to celebrate mateship, egalitarianism, freedom and prosperity. But what if these “pillars” of Australiana are myths? Andrew Gardiner reports. Each year at this time, academics, activists (and sometimes, by complete accident, supermarket chains) raise “inconvenient truths” about what they call the fallacies around ...
Canada’s redefinition of relations with Trump’s America serves as a stark reminder of Australia’s place in the world and our need to realign, too. Duncan Graham reports from our reluctant neighbour, Indonesia. At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, Canadian PM Mark Carney spoke of the end of
Australia does not suffer from a lack of empathy. It suffers from selective empathy. And nowhere is that clearer than in the way our political and media class decide who is allowed to mourn. Andrew Brown with the story. Thursday night at the Opera House was a masterclass in performative
