Concussion studies by Australia’s top football codes have stalled amid scientific controversy over the causes of neurodegenerative diseases in players.
The latest Outlook report for the Great Barrier Reef records climate change as the reef’s principal threat but was finalised before it could record the latest mass-bleaching event.
A review of Australia’s strategy to prevent violence against women and children found that it has long downplayed drivers such as substance abuse and gambling.
As the new Administrative Review Tribunal prepares to begin operating on October 14, an analysis of 364 appointments shows Labor has been sincere in reforming the stacked body it replaces.
ABC chair Kim Williams describes the challenges facing the broadcaster as managing director David Anderson steps away, and the ‘generational schism’ it must address.
The offer of military bases to the US clashes with the government’s stated aim of distancing itself from a great power rivalry, says the former secretary of Home Affairs.
In an interview with The Saturday Paper, Tanya Plibersek has defended her decision to halt a goldmine outside Bathurst while at the same time pushing for legislative reform.