The RBA has managed to make a questionable interest rate decision worse by undermining its own credibility, as the dollar drops. Michael Pascoe writes. The Law of Unintended Consequences is always at work. It’s a fair bet those who crafted the RBA review and the cheer squad who campaigned for
Philip Thalis has achieved Australia’s highest architectural honour – the Gold Medal in Architecture in 2024. It keeps him immensely busy and partly that’s because his words have more clout now than ever.
At the briefing on Monday ahead of our newest Big Debate event, Codes Red on 31 March, Thalis showed no signs of pulling his punches.
Sign ...
State governments and major hospitals are deeply are embedded in Israel’s health ‘ecosystem’, while Israel refuses to help 20,000 injured in Gaza. Wendy Bacon and Cathy Peters report. NSW and Victorian governments’ support for Israel was on display during Israeli President Herzog’s visit. What has not been so public is
With a background in small business, Anthony Galimi is used to taking chances, but the biggest risk of his career is when he and his family backers at Novon Lighting took the plunge to invest in new state of the art Swiss robotic equipment and high spec sustainable operations in new premises at Arndell Park in Western Sydney.
The business had already ...
Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal backtracks on claims Sydney Harbour Bridge protests were antisemitic. Stephanie Tran reports on antisemitism meeting. Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Jillian Segal has faced criticism following a Victorian local government forum hosted alongside the US-based Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM), with ...
Developers and their contributing professionals and consultants are on notice. While the built environment has largely mastered the art of how to get to net zero – at least in theory and at least at the top end – the searchlights are now increasingly trained on how to protect and enhance nature.
Because it’s the built environment that is largely to ...
Climate investment agitators at Market Forces have again taken aim at oil and gas miner Woodside with a missive on Monday that challenges its narrative that gas can help swing to clean energy in Asia.
The organisation said that despite its proclamations in sustainability reports, Woodside had invested $40 billion in oil and gas exploration since 2020 ...
The time for frightening people, confusing them with jargon, and hedging our messages into incoherence is long over, argues John Pabon in this article. Now, it’s time for something radically different: clarity, trust, and transparency. Because at the end of the day, our audiences don’t expect perfection. They just want a bit of honesty.
In the wide ...
In less than 12 months since we last spoke to global engineering firm AESG, the company has gone from kick starting its Australian operations, headed by Devan Valenti in Sydney and Douglas Sum in Melbourne, to a staff of 11 in Australia and more than 15 across Australia and Southeast Asia.
It’s pushed out the space needed for its Melbourne office, ...
Across large parts of Australia, reactive clay soils are not a fringe condition. They are business as usual.
As droughts lengthen and heavy rainfall intensifies, ground movement becomes more volatile. CSIRO climate modelling points to increasing variability in drought–rainfall cycles across eastern Australia, amplifying shrink–swell behaviour in ...
Defence Major Projects repeatedly go off the rails wasting billions and harming national security. Rather than fix the problem, Labor has instructed the Auditor-General not to report on them. Former senator Rex Patrick reports. Australia’s Biggest Waster Defence currently has a budget of almost $60 billion a year but that
The ‘modern’ Labor Party does not lack power, but it lacks the will to use it. Andrew Brown on Labor’s retreat from reform and what it means for Australia. Part 2 of 6. Labor’s unwillingness to embark on major reform is not a failure of intelligence, competence, or goodwill. It
The RBA has managed to make a questionable interest rate decision worse by undermining its own credibility, as the dollar drops. Michael Pascoe writes. The Law of Unintended Consequences is always at work. It’s a fair bet those who crafted the RBA review and the cheer squad who campaigned for
Philip Thalis has achieved Australia’s highest architectural honour – the Gold Medal in Architecture in 2024. It keeps him immensely busy and partly that’s because his words have more clout now than ever.
At the briefing on Monday ahead of our newest Big Debate event, Codes Red on 31 March, Thalis showed no signs of pulling his punches.
Sign ...
State governments and major hospitals are deeply are embedded in Israel’s health ‘ecosystem’, while Israel refuses to help 20,000 injured in Gaza. Wendy Bacon and Cathy Peters report. NSW and Victorian governments’ support for Israel was on display during Israeli President Herzog’s visit. What has not been so public is
With a background in small business, Anthony Galimi is used to taking chances, but the biggest risk of his career is when he and his family backers at Novon Lighting took the plunge to invest in new state of the art Swiss robotic equipment and high spec sustainable operations in new premises at Arndell Park in Western Sydney.
The business had already ...
Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal backtracks on claims Sydney Harbour Bridge protests were antisemitic. Stephanie Tran reports on antisemitism meeting. Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Jillian Segal has faced criticism following a Victorian local government forum hosted alongside the US-based Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM), with ...
Developers and their contributing professionals and consultants are on notice. While the built environment has largely mastered the art of how to get to net zero – at least in theory and at least at the top end – the searchlights are now increasingly trained on how to protect and enhance nature.
Because it’s the built environment that is largely to ...
Climate investment agitators at Market Forces have again taken aim at oil and gas miner Woodside with a missive on Monday that challenges its narrative that gas can help swing to clean energy in Asia.
The organisation said that despite its proclamations in sustainability reports, Woodside had invested $40 billion in oil and gas exploration since 2020 ...
The time for frightening people, confusing them with jargon, and hedging our messages into incoherence is long over, argues John Pabon in this article. Now, it’s time for something radically different: clarity, trust, and transparency. Because at the end of the day, our audiences don’t expect perfection. They just want a bit of honesty.
In the wide ...
In less than 12 months since we last spoke to global engineering firm AESG, the company has gone from kick starting its Australian operations, headed by Devan Valenti in Sydney and Douglas Sum in Melbourne, to a staff of 11 in Australia and more than 15 across Australia and Southeast Asia.
It’s pushed out the space needed for its Melbourne office, ...
Across large parts of Australia, reactive clay soils are not a fringe condition. They are business as usual.
As droughts lengthen and heavy rainfall intensifies, ground movement becomes more volatile. CSIRO climate modelling points to increasing variability in drought–rainfall cycles across eastern Australia, amplifying shrink–swell behaviour in ...
Defence Major Projects repeatedly go off the rails wasting billions and harming national security. Rather than fix the problem, Labor has instructed the Auditor-General not to report on them. Former senator Rex Patrick reports. Australia’s Biggest Waster Defence currently has a budget of almost $60 billion a year but that
The ‘modern’ Labor Party does not lack power, but it lacks the will to use it. Andrew Brown on Labor’s retreat from reform and what it means for Australia. Part 2 of 6. Labor’s unwillingness to embark on major reform is not a failure of intelligence, competence, or goodwill. It
