Boat boy shame. Juvenile people smugglers wrongly imprisoned, finally compensatedBy Duncan Graham | December 23, 2023The Federal Court in Canberra today approved a settlement of $27.5 million to be paid to 220 Indonesian men who ...
Energy revolution on track: electricity bills to fall, transition to renewables acceleratesBy Michael West and Tim Buckley | December 21, 2023The good news is electricity prices are falling, decarbonisation is accelerating, and there should be little need ...
CaddyShack, CEO of the year antics and turkey sandwiches: Lakeba back in the revenue bunkerBy Michael West | December 19, 2023Lakeba Group managed a meteoric 25-fold rise in revenues, then went revenue negative. Michael West reports on the ...
Marles is wrong – Australia is taking US and UK nuclear waste!By Rex Patrick | December 17, 2023As Defence Minister, Richard Marles is uninspiring. He’s not across his brief. His recent statement saying ...
Fossil Cry. Give us hand-outs or you might get black-outs, says EnergyAustraliaBy Michael West | December 16, 2023Australia’s fossil fuel juggernauts are calling on the government to give them more subsidies to keep their old ...
Nuclear waste. Fifty years of searching, still nowhere to dump it.By Rex Patrick | December 15, 2023The Department of Defence has engaged a former Defence Deputy Secretary as a highly paid consultant to find a ...
Cop28 finished with a whimper, while 2023 will be the hottest year on record. What gives?By James Goldie and Chris Bartlett | December 15, 2023As politicians, activists and UN emissaries haggle with fossil fuel chiefs at the Cop28 climate conference in ...
The Palaszczuk ultimatum and the Miles ahead for Queensland, the “odd dichotomy” of Australian politicsBy Paul Syvret | December 13, 2023When Queensland voters go to the polls next October, Labor will have been in power for 30 of the past 35 years, ...
Nowhere to go. Refugees stranded in Indonesia while the world looks away.By Duncan Graham | December 12, 2023The Bali Process was supposed to sort out the tragedy of boat people. Since then, hundreds of asylum seekers have ...
Carbon Captured: Santos emails reveal gas giant orchestrated “Environment Protection” lawsBy Rex Patrick | December 9, 2023In the shadows of the COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai and mega-merger discussions between fossil fuel giants ...
Nothing to see here. Albo’s vows of transparency vanish in a veil of secrecyBy Rex Patrick | December 8, 2023The Senate has handed down its report into the operation of Commonwealth Freedom of Information laws, and Labor ...
Join our Team! AUKUS foreign expenditure sinkhole blows out to $12B … alreadyBy Rex Patrick | December 7, 2023The Albanese Government has just announced another $3B into the US submarine industrial base, in addition to the ...
Fast loan group Bizcap drains small business customer’s accounts fastBy Michael West | December 6, 2023Small businesses are struggling enough in the current economic climate without combatting aggressive lenders. ...
Future Fund invested in Israeli company Elbit Systems – whose bombs are raining on the PalestiniansBy Michael West and Kim Wingerei | December 6, 2023Documents obtained under FOI reveal Australia's Future Fund has shares in controversial Israeli defence contractor ...
Revenge of the jungle – Indonesia’s new capital unloved and unfundedBy Duncan Graham | December 4, 2023Indonesia’s biggest-ever civil engineering project deep in Borneo’s equatorial jungle is under threat. So is ...