EXCLUSIVE: A system glitch has wrongly punished more than 1300 jobseekers by cutting off their income in an IT disaster that is a potent reminder of the dark days of robodebt.
The Productivity Commission has recommended private school building funds lose their tax exemptions – but Labor has ruled out the reform, even before the report was released.
A chief executive’s plan to take a personal stake in a multimillion-dollar mining project has drawn attention to the running of one of Australia’s most remote land councils.
Almost two decades after winning the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science, a University of Queensland professor’s pioneering research into honey bee navigation has been called into question.
As the government misses its deadline to introduce a new aged-care act, the industry and the opposition are fighting back over a proposal to impose criminal penalties for neglect.
For decades the regulator that is supposed to protect Australians from corporate misconduct has been accused of ignoring major breaches. Now the treasurer faces calls to break up the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
An outbreak of bird flu threatens to reach the little penguin population on Phillip Island, as thousands of short-tailed shearwaters begin their migration to lay eggs. A plan is being made to protect the penguins, although it is currently secret.
ANALYSIS: Australia is one of the most economically mobile countries in the world, but for younger Millennials and Gen Z that mobility is slowing down.
A parliamentary inquiry into how the financial system can be used against women has exposed a dramatic increase in reports of such abuse and a shortage of measures to prevent it.
