The Australian public voted for a climate majority at the last election, and we want strong environment laws that can stop new coal and gas.

The international cinema expert was beloved for his film reviews, particularly on television with Margaret Pomeranz * David Stratton’s closing credits: ‘I’ve done the best I could’ David Stratton, the revered Australian film critic and beloved co-host of television programs The Movie Show and At The Movies with fellow critic Margaret Pomeranz, has died aged 85. Born in the English town of Trowbridge in 1939, Stratton was sent to live with his grandmother in Hampshire during the second world war. An avid filmgoer, she took Stratton to the cinema almost every day, which changed his life. In the 2017 documentary David Stratton: A Cinematic Life, Stratton said he watched “at least one” film he hadn’t seen every day, and had seen more than 25,000 films in his life. Continue reading...

Murray Watt didn’t need to consider climate change. The law didn’t ask him to, because for three years Labor has been stalling on laws that would. In a triumph of his own party’s inaction, his first d...

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Labor has a long held commitment to sustaining public services, even when the global political stage is dominated by those who revel in blowing them up. Nothing could be truer now.

A look at how the war in Ukraine began, the state of the peace talks and why the country isn’t holding elections.

If predictions come true it will be another year of deteriorating housing affordability, prices will rise at twice the rate of disposable income — something that that has been going on for 25 years an...

For many Australians, the footage of ferocious wildfires engulfing the suburbs of Los Angeles has been deeply triggering. With the devastation of the Black Summer of 2019–2020 not far behind us, image...

With the election not yet announced but expected to be in May, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has made a series of updates in recent days. Together they lay the basis for the inevitable economics debate that ...

The author has simultaneously written a love letter to Australia and hate mail to those who lay waste to the Earth. Read it and weep

Vale John Marsden, the author of the award-winning, best-selling YA 'Tomorrow' series, has died at 74.