Events in Science

A series of ads from Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots party provoked widespread public backlash when they were run in several newspapers a fortnight ago.

The Australian Electoral Commission has dismissed Victorian Senator Jane Hume’s complaint that a local news startup is a “highly sophisticated digital disinformation campaign” designed to influence the next federal election. 

As the dream of home ownership slips further out of reach, new research analysing two decades of housing trends in Melbourne reveals the nexus between increasing housing unaffordability and higher rents.

Done well, the renewable energy transition should improve the lives of First Nations Australians.