Category: The Mandarin

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia have had their say on a new national agreement on Closing the Gap. The Coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peak Organisations (Coalition of Peaks) has been working with the Council of Australian Governments to develop the 10-year agreement. Aboriginal and

While there’s widespread scientific consensus that the world is getting warmer, it seems some individuals still need convincing. In the US, 6% of people say climate change isn’t real, and 9% don’t attribute global warming to human action, according to a survey by YouGov. Image: YouGov On the

Swarms of microrobots will scuttle along beneath our roads and pavements, finding and fixing leaky pipes and faulty cables. Thanks to their efforts, we can avoid costly road work that costs billions of dollars each year — not to mention frustrating traffic delays. That is, if a new project sponsored by

We’ve been interviewing current and former politicians about the history of Australian politics, and particularly the history of Australian bipartisanship. Along the way, we’ve heard people argue that sport should be entirely non-partisan and apolitical. Yet we often find politics playing out in sport. Sometimes, it does so through controversy.

The New South Wales government’s 2020 plan to privatise the state’s plantation forests has been delayed by the bushfire crisis. Labor and the union representing forestry workers — many of whom have been fighting fires — have called for the $1 billion deal to be shelved. The government commissioned an

A company brought in to overhaul the South Australian health department’s finances was the most costly but least beneficial to the local economy, documents show. KordaMentha was one of eight companies which applied for the contract to overhaul the finances and improve the clinical outcomes of the Central Adelaide Local

The dramatic global rise of urbanisation (1950–2020) In the 21st century, few trends have matched the economic, environmental, and societal impact of rapid urbanisation. A steady stream of human migration out of the countryside, and into swelling metropolitan centres, has shaken up the world’s power

Electric vehicles could decarbonise one of the most polluting sectors of our economy, but they’re bedevilled by one major problem: range anxiety. A new battery design that can charge in just 10 minutes promises to tackle that problem head-on. In 2018, the median range for electric cars in the US

The New South Wales government has encouraged feedback on state disability legislation amid reports that more than 1000 people have died while waiting for their National Disability Insurance Scheme plan. Minister for Families, Communities and Disability Services Gareth Ward said the Disability Inclusion Act 2014 would be reviewed to ensure

The federal government used grants from a sports infrastructure program to target key electorates in the months leading up to the election, the Australian National Audit Office has found. The audit report released on Wednesday noted 684 grants totalling $100 million were awarded by then-sports minister — now agriculture minister

Since the US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, the immediate crisis appears to have dissipated. However, the wider ramifications pose a worrying precedent for international affairs. For many, the killing was unexpected. But this was no Trump administration miscalculation. It’s the latest in a wider decay of the liberal

Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt has announced who will make up the new group tasked with bringing an Indigenous voice to government. The body will be co-chaired by Larrakia woman and Aboriginal Broadcasting Australia head Dr Donna Odegaard, and an unnamed senior official from the National Indigenous Australians Agency.