Environment

While a laboratory leak may never be ruled out as the origin of Covid-19, the sources of that theory remain highly questionable.

Dismayed by huge profits made on rezoned land, a Liberal MP is pushing for the federal government to tax windfall gains at 75 per cent.

The Group of Seven summit in Cornwall has restated America’s priorities with regards to China, but the shift is not necessarily in Australia’s interests.

Australia is undertaking an extraordinary military expansion, but there are questions about what is being bought and the skills of the people doing the buying. This is part one of a two-part series.

Water policy in the Murray–Darling basin has failed farmers and the environment. Will a new conciliatory conference and a promised reset force necessary change before it’s too late?

Leaked emails show Netflix was deliberately coy about the true nature of its first Australian reality show, Byron Baes – which will be a glossy, semi-scripted tabloid series.

For the students who launched legal action against the Environment minister over her duty to protect young people from an impending climate change catastrophe, the fight is far from over.

A week after the federal budget, the government has revealed it will spend more than $3 billion to bolster Australia’s oil refining capacity, and a further $600 million to build a gas plant in the Hunter Valley.

Sweeping new laws that could strip charities of their non-profit status for minor offences are intended to stifle protest, the sector warns.

As the government concedes Australia’s borders can’t reopen until mid-2022, concern is growing about damage to our reputation internationally.