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For most of the past year the Coalition government has faced sustained criticism over its treatment of women.Now a former Liberal MP has added fuel to the fire, lashing a culture of sexism and bullying in the Liberal party, and accusing a cabinet mi...

For most of the past 18 months, Australia has been hailed as a world leader in terms of its handling of the pandemic.But now, some of our biggest cities have been plunged back into lockdowns, restrictions and border closures, while Europe and the Un...

A scathing new report has found that in the lead-up to the last election the federal government spent more than half a billion dollars on infrastructure projects heavily targeted to seats held by the Coalition, or seats they were trying to win.The f...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven natural wonders of the world, but now it’s on the cusp of being declared “in danger” by UNESCO.But scientists have been warning for decades that rising sea temperatures could kill off the Reef, thou...

In a recent landmark judgement, the federal court has found that the government owes children a duty of care in preventing harm from the impacts of climate change.The case, which centred around the proposed expansion of a NSW coal mine, could have f...

Today, Richard Flanagan, Booker prize winner and author of The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, reads his essay from the latest issue of The Monthly. It’s called ‘To be free’ and it explores why he writes, and, in his words “the need to write against the d...

Less than eight percent of Australians are fully vaccinated against Covid-19.This week, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that the Astra-Zeneca vaccine, previously only available for people over 60, could now be accessed by anyone, regardless ...

Australia’s meat processing industry is one of many that relies heavily on migrant workers, to do jobs that Australian residents often aren’t willing to do. Many of those migrant workers come from China, with the promise that hard work will...

In the past few days over 10 million Australians have been plunged back into lockdowns, as fresh outbreaks of Covid-19 spread across major cities.The emergence of these new clusters has highlighted how vulnerable Australia still is during this phase...

A case currently before the High Court, involving one academic’s controversial views on climate, could have significant ramifications for freedom of speech in Australia.Physicist Peter Ridd was fired after he publicly criticised his colleague’s rese...