Most retirees who rent live in poverty. Here’s how boosting rent assistance could help lift them out of it
New research shows how much we’d need to increase Commonwealth Rent Assistance to bring retirees who rent out of poverty.
Building Zambian homes with local materials delivers benefits that imports don’t: study
In Zambia, a project using local materials to build houses, instead of imported steel and concrete, resulted in benefits for ...
Migrant traders play a key role in South African tourism: it’s time policy makers protected them
Street traders play an important role in tourism in South Africa. They provide affordable goods to tourists while generating ...
View from The Hill: Labor faces risk of Victorians using federal poll as referendum on both Allan and Albanese governments
With an abundance of caution, the Albanese government would do best to assume it was being given a substantial kick after the ...
Sam Nujoma personified Namibia’s struggle for freedom
Like many African leaders of his era, he was shaped by the struggle for resistance against colonial oppression. This was no ...
Victorian byelections: Liberals gain Prahran from Greens and Labor ahead in Werribee
Byelections occurred on Saturday in the Victorian state seats of Prahran and Werribee. The Liberals gained Prahran from the Greens by a 51.6–48.4 margin, a 13.6% swing to the Liberals since the 2022 ...
US sovereign wealth fund: A feasible idea to invest strategically, or a giant opportunity for waste?
Mongolia, Norway and Kuwait all have one. So too do Texas, Alaska and New Mexico. But a US fund to invest in projects of ...
Misleading and false election ads are legal in Australia. We need national truth in political advertising laws
A loophole in the Electoral Act means it’s perfectly legal to lie to voters – as long as it doesn’t happen during official ...
Efficiency − or empire? How Elon Musk’s hostile takeover could end government as we know it
Granting tech leaders direct control over government functions fundamentally alters the relationship between private power ...
Record January heat suggests La Niña may be losing its ability to keep global warming in check
La Niña is a part of the El Niño southern oscillation, a climate fluctuation that slowly sloshes vast bodies of water and ...
Map wars in the Middle East: How cartographers charted and helped shape a regional conflict
This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway across the globe. Some of the more well-known examples ...
Choking during sex: many young people mistakenly believe it can be done safely, our study shows
Around half of young Australians have engaged in strangulation during sex. But it’s dangerous, even with consent.