By Peter Milne Santos’ flagship Barossa gas project north of Darwin has hit another serious snag after a regulator intervened to stop construction of an offshore pipeline until concerns there could be Indigenous heritage sites along the route are addressed. Traditional owner Therese Wokay Bourke welcomed the intervention of offshore environment regulator NOPSEMA just weeks […]
The Productivity Commission’s report into Australia’s education system confirms what most families already know: our school system is expensive and underperforming. The traditional levers of more funding and increasing regulation have not delivered the improvements students deserve. It is time for greater creativity and political courage in the approach to making schools work. Labor is […]
Inflation in Australia reached 7.8% in the year to December, in what economists and the federal government hope will be the peak for runaway prices. The consumer price index rose by 1.9% in the December quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed on Wednesday, driven by surging electricity prices and the cost of holiday travel […]
China’s Foreign Ministry said this week that China welcomes US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s upcoming visit and is in communication with the US side on specific arrangements. The China-US relationship, as one of the world’s most important bilateral relations, influences the welfare of both countries and the whole world. Across the globe, there is […]
Belinda has applied for more than 100 rental homes in the past year and been rejected every time. The 39-year-old Australian single mother of four now lives in a temporary shelter in Campbelltown, southwest of Sydney, and has six months to find a home that costs under 500 Australian dollars ($340) a week, or risk […]
New NAB data reveals Melbourne’s booming western and northern suburbs remain the top Australian locations for first home buyers heading into 2023, but a suburb in Sydney’s north-west is rapidly closing the gap. Despite the rising cost-of-living and an overall softening in the market, first home buyer activity remained steady in the second half of […]
NASA’s nearly 33-year-old observatory still has plenty of top science to do, and astronomers want to extend its lifetime. Once the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began operations last year, the comparisons began. Astronomers and others online posted side-by-side images of the same celestial objects captured by JWST and the Hubble Space Telescope, pointing out how […]
The Australian sharemarket is poised to move within touching distance of its record high ahead of the release of local inflation data mid-week that will guide the Reserve Bank of Australia on whether it needs to raise interest rates again next month. Futures indicate the S&P/ASX 200 will rise 0.5 per cent at the open […]
One of the first shots in Babylon is of an elephant’s anus, just as the beast lets loose a torrent of faeces – ordure that, in a confusing touch of simulated vérité, remains smeared on the lens even after the cut. Take heed: This shot is a portent of the spectacle to come. That it […]
When Patriarch Kirill sat down with Russian Justice Minister Alexander Konovalov he might not have realised the meeting would embroil him in controversy. His attire was typical of a man of the cloth. His white headscarf was embossed with religious symbols and a gold cross signified his senior status within the church. But an object adorning his left […]