Updated 30/05/2025 The outer-Melbourne electorate of Calwell was named “Australia’s most unpredictable seat” by The Age after the election and was – aside from those going to a recount – the last seat to be called. The AEC labelled the counting process for the seat “likely the most complex in Australia’s history”. The count is

At a time when floods, fires and storms are growing in severity and frequency, new research by The Australia Institute reveals millions of Australians would face financial ruin if their home was impacted by a natural disaster.

There’s nothing indulgent about public funding for Australian culture. More funds would fix many of the sector’s problems. 

Everyone agrees we need to do something about housing in Australia. But first we need to ask a very obvious, but often ignored question: what is housing is for?

It’s won and done.

Great countries have great institutions, but Australian universities are a mess.

There’s a simple reform the federal government could introduce to bring house prices down, according to new analysis by The Australia Institute. 

Today’s decision to cut interest rates by 25 basis points is long-overdue good news for struggling home buyers. 

The days of media moguls deciding Australian elections are over, according to new research by The Australia Institute.

For housing affordability to improve, wages must grow faster than house prices.

With the influence of the right-wing media waning, the Labor Government can use its massive majority to pursue big reforms.

To end the housing crisis, governments need to stop subsidising private investors and instead directly invest in social housing. 

Tomorrow marks the 29th anniversary of the day John Howard announced sweeping changes to Australia’s gun control laws in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre.

We are about to see who the Australian Labor Party really is, in 2025.

In the final days of the campaign, independent MP Monique Ryan and Labor’s housing minister Clare O’Neil faced questions about the support of the Hubei Association for their respective campaigns.

The PM and the education minister have made big noises about easing cost of living pressures for Australians with large HECS/HELP debts. But they’ve been very slow to do anything about the high cost of getting a degree in the first place.

Just 28 days after tomorrow’s federal election, the government faces a critical decision, which will send a message to the world about its priorities. 

With the election just days away, there has been a total lack of focus on the most vulnerable in our society.

Australia’s bloated universities are plagued with scandal and struggling under the weight of their own poor governance and financial mismanagement. 

35 years after the HECS/HELP system began, university students now pay much more for much less.

Australia’s universities spend hundreds of millions of dollars on travel, marketing and consultants, while cutting costs, staff and courses, according to new research by The Australia Institute. 

It’s widely predicted that Saturday’s federal election will be decided by voters feeling the cost-of-living squeeze in the outer suburbs of our capital cities.

The white men in the White House are trying to radically reshape modern America.

Football, meat pies, kangaroos and gambling – there’s nothing more Australian.