
The Suburban Rail Loop will play a major role in the 2026 Victorian election. Why is it so controversial?
It is an unenviable position for a government to have potentially misallocated tens of billions of dollars to poorly selected infrastructure.
Independent Analysis and Reportage

It is an unenviable position for a government to have potentially misallocated tens of billions of dollars to poorly selected infrastructure.

With just over two months until the election, polls have settled into a new normal, with no clear frontrunner evident.

Tinned tuna is affordable, high in protein and doesn’t need cooking, making it a convenient and nutritious lunchtime staple. Here’s how much you can eat.

Several Socceroos have earned huge new deals at European clubs. These moves can both boost, and harm, Australian soccer as a whole.

With inflation outpacing wage growth, NZ incomes are effectively going backwards. Australia’s collective bargaining rules could offer a remedy.

There’s no single giveaway. But there are patterns.

The first full-scale trial of its kind, this floating wetland cut greenhouse gases by nearly a third over two years.

Having larger in-person networks appeared to protect young people against developing severe depression symptoms. But large online networks had the opposite effect.

This is very bad news for human health but also for the health of other animals in the food web.

Even though he wasn’t a woman, Bal Gandharva’s vision of the ‘traditional wife’ was given supremacy over every other form of womanhood.

It turns out these little red dots might actually be evidence of supermassive black holes.

The current system allows powerful actors to attempt to influence government decision-making covertly. To improve transparency, here are four key reforms.