The thing that’s changed most is the industrial scale of that abuse now. And there’s always been abuse, but I am shocked by ...

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Imagine a conference on stopping smoking, sponsored by tobacco companies, hosted by tobacco exporters and crowded with ...

For 46 years a little-known tax has drained capital set aside for Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory. Last year, it ...

The last full sitting week in October before budget estimates was a big one in Canberra for anyone who cares about who should ...

Welfare groups are urging the Albanese government to abandon plans to restart Centrelink payment cancellations, warning ...

First, patients were promised meaningful consultation on reforms to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency ...

There's a strange rule built into our social security system: young adults get $150 less money to live on each fortnight ...

Economist Rod Campbell, who found himself in the middle of South Australia's high-stakes nuclear waste battle, reflects on ...

Most Australians do not realise that carve-outs exist in the Sex Discrimination Act or that in the present day, women are ...

Angus Taylor and Matt Canavan recently claimed that 'our partners will simply look elsewhere' when supply of coal is reduced.

Political leaders across the spectrum have rallied around independent MP Helen Haines, expressing shock and condemning ...