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Australia is failing to meet its environment targets, argues ecologist

Australia is one of 17 “megadiverse” countries that account for 70% of Earth’s biodiversity. However, Australia is unique in having the highest mammalian extinction rate in the wor...

Australia has been a sanctuary from the populist right’s onslaught. Is it now living on borrowed time?

Australia has been averse to ideological extremes but, after two decades of growing inequality and public policy stasis, the country’s robust democratic formula is facing challenge...

Screen Producers Awards 2026: Diversity & Inclusion nominees

Six candidates are recognised by industry as elevating diversity and inclusion, both on and off camera.

Is Australia’s native foods industry missing an ingredient? ‘It’s not just about products, it’s about people, story and...

Interest in bush foods is booming but some say a lack of Indigenous leadership and ‘black cladding’ plague the businessGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOn...

Why are there so many lizards in Australia? The ancient climate holds a clue

If you travel around Australia, you will find an incredible diversity of lizards. The three-toed snake-tooth skink (Saiphos reticulatus), for example, is a peculiarly long and stum...

The Sunday read: Who gets to be Australian? – podcast

This week, in the wake of opposition leader Angus Taylor announcing the Coalition’s new hardline immigration policy, author Yumna Kassab questions how Australia views itself and it...

Indian-origin politician calls out racism against Indian-Australians: 'We can overcome this hate by…'

While rightwing Australia scapegoats immigrants, the country directly benefits from our skills and labour | Zoya Patel

The idea that Australia is being mobbed by selfish foreigners is both entirely untrue and impossibleI’m an immigrant. If you subscribe to the common rhetoric in mainstream news, an...

When I hear an Australian politician announce a tough new immigration policy, I think dystopia | Yumna Kassab

Sorting migrants into good and bad is a lot easier than affording people human rights, dignity and freedomWhen I was writing my second novel, Australiana, I deliberated over the ti...

Taylor’s Trumpian immigration pitch is aimed at fighting One Nation – but puts Australia’s identity at stake

The Coalition might be in opposition to Labor but it is hoping to stem its loss of voters to Pauline Hanson Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIt was not lo...

दक्ष आप्रवासी श्रमिकका लागि अष्ट्रेलियाको ठूलो लगानी

सन् २०२६-२७ को संघीय बजेट सार्वजनिक गर्दै सरकारले आप्रवासी श्रमिकहरूको सीप परीक्षण र इजाजतपत्र प्रक्रियालाई तीव्रता दिन ८ करोड ५२ लाख डलरभन्दा बढी बजेट विनियोजन गरेको हो। 

Australia’s Hidden Tribes: The Demographic Forces Quietly Shaping Your Future

What if the biggest mistake property investors are making today isn’t about timing the market… but misunderstanding the people in it? We tend to analyse Australia through broad len...

‘Vein of racism’: race discrimination commissioner accuses One Nation and Coalition of scapegoating immigrants

Exclusive: Australia faces a ‘pronounced political fault line’, Giridharan Sivaraman tells Brisbane seminar on human rights Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podc...

Suburban oasis: Biodiversity in the garden

Private gardens and street verges collectively make up more than 70 percent of Melbourne’s space for biodiversity improvement. Here’s how we can help make designing for wildlife in...

‘We don’t allow people like you in here’: The traumatised community working to rebuild their lives

Australia’s South Sudanese have been demonised and misunderstood – but strong family ties and successful public figures are helping to change the story.

White Australia political party ruled invalid by AEC amid High Court challenge

White Australia political party ruled invalid by AEC amid High Court challenge

How Indigenous Acknowledgments Became a Target in Australia

Recognition of Aboriginal Australians has become standard at most public events. Increasingly, the right is taking aim at the practice.

Before the marches: They were already here

Muslim men who stopped to pray five times a day in the red dust of the Australian interior, doing the work that made modern Australia possible, their names are largely lost to us,...

ABC withdraws from diversity groups

ABC steps back from direct partnerships with three diversity groups following questions about independence.

Tourists to Australia would have social media accounts vetted under Trumpian Coalition plan

In hardline rhetoric, leader Angus Taylor also says ‘many’ prospective migrants would be a ‘net drain’ on the countryGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA Co...

“Migrants must share our Aussies values” says party whose values Aussies keep voting against 

If enacted, the policy would require everyone to align with 'mainstream values', triggering the deportation of the Liberal Party. The post “Migrants must share our Aussies values”...

A world away, but united by music: How Eurovision has embraced Australia

ANALYSIS: For the past week, thousands of Eurovision fans have decorated the cobblestone streets of Austria's capital.Sequins, glitter and eccentric outfits have been on full displ...

Why are there so many lizards in Australia? The ancient climate holds a clue

A new study finds the incredible diversity of lizards in Australia relates to a major upheaval in the continent’s climate more than 20 million years ago.

Mind the gap

As Australia’s building codes begin to formally recognise all-gender amenities, designers need to work with communities to reimagine gendered spatial design beyond segregation.