Exclusive: Acoss report shows property investors received $12.3bn in tax concessions in 2025, while the share of social housing dropped to a record low * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia spends billions of dollars more on tax breaks for property investors than on social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined, according to research by the Australian Council of Social Service (Acoss). The analysis comes as new data from the Productivity Commission reveals the share of homes dedicated to social housing has dropped to a record low 3.6%, from 5.7% in the 1990s. Continue reading...

A flood victim is leading a campaign to force drivers who knowingly enter floodwater to pay for their rescue.

A science briefing about changes in Antarctic sea ice

As a devoted ocean swimmer, I've learned to accept the risk of exploring an ocean that is not my natural habitat.

Australia's domestic violence commissioner and local legal services have raised concerns about women's safety at Katherine Local Court, saying urgent upgrades are needed to protect victim-survivors.

From Trump hype to the new Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, revisit five of the best cartoons from Australian political cartoonist Fiona Katauskas * See more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading...

Environmental advocates welcome Net Zero Commission’s report which found the fossil fuel was ‘not consistent’ with emissions reductions commitments * Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The New South Wales government has been warned it can no longer approve coalmine developments after the state’s climate agency found new expansions would be inconsistent with its legislated emissions targets. In what climate advocates described as a significant turning point in campaigns against new fossil fuel programs, the NSW Net Zero Commission said coalmine expansions were “not consistent” with the state’s legal emissions reductions commitments of a 50% cut (compared with 2005 levels) by 2030, a 70% cut by 2035, and reaching net zero by 2050. Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...

For a decade, a disaster has unfolded. We've run short of gas through indecision and incompetence, and that's driving energy costs and inflation. We need a solution and an unlikely source may have one.

The parma wallaby was thought to be extinct until Peter Pigott followed up on a rumour that a 19th century governor took a bunch of the mammals to New Zealand proved to be true.

In this post-truth environment, the interests of coal and gas are somehow able to win the hearts and minds of voters * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast During the last parliament I negotiated an amendment to the Climate Change Act to lock in Australia’s carbon emissions target as a floor – not a ceiling. I did it to promote government ambition to exceed the target and, having covered the first Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Paris agreement, to provide a legislative buffer against backsliding by a future Australian government. Continue reading...

There are more than 2 million artworks on the rocks at Murujuga, with more stories under the waves.

Australians have an obvious interest in action against global warming. Focusing on gas instead of renewables for the energy transition risks sabotaging our future * Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here Sydney’s record October heat; high winds battering both Melbourne and New Zealand, causing death and destruction; the algal bloom caused by South Australia’s marine heatwave wreaking havoc on our marine environment; coral in both the Great Barrier and Ningaloo reefs suffering horrific bleaching. There’s barely an Australian who hasn’t been affected by one extreme weather event or another, some badly. Some have lost their lives, their homes or both. Continue reading...

Goats are low-maintenance weed clearers, meadow mowers and bush bashers – and they might just be the secret weapon to future bushfire season preparedness * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Craig Homan’s herd of hungry goats has a busy schedule. A wet winter and an early spell of warmth have turbocharged vegetation growth in Sydney, creating a pipeline of work for the creatures whose skills as unstoppable eating machines make them consummate low-maintenance weed clearers, meadow mowers and bush bashers. Continue reading...

With Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre expecting its most significant fill in decades, hundreds of thousands of migratory birds are flocking to the inland oasis, but how they know the rare event is happening is an "enduring mystery".

Boodjamulla National Park has been closed since record flooding in 2023, but after years of work and millions of dollars spent visitors will once again be welcomed to the beloved Queensland destination.

A group of Pilbara traditional owners has written to the federal government as pressure mounts to reveal the conditions of its North West Shelf extension.

As Monash's partnership with Woodside comes up for renewal, the university is facing pressure from students and staff to ditch the company for good.

The role of Monash University in greenwashing the activities of Woodside and other fossil fuel companies has been revealed by journalist Royce Kurmelovs in climate-focused publication Drilled and Crik...