Yes, Australia needs new homes – but they must be built to withstand disasters in a warmer world
Researchers examined how disaster risk informs decisions about new housing. They found crucial problems that leave ...
Passengers blasted for dangerous act during Delta Toronto plane crash
Images of scared passengers evacuating the upturned plane that crash-landed in Toronto with personal belongings like backpacks and neck pillows have been blasted.
More than half of Australia’s homes were built before fire standards came in. Here are 5 ways to retrofit them
1. Upgrade external vents. Traditional external vents are designed to ventilate rooms and roofs. But they also permit embers ...
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The school bag essential
AS children and parents get back into the swing of school, Asthma Australia is urging parents to update their child’s Asthma ...
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Myanmar Corner: a suburban gem worth the drive
Myanmar Corner is well worth a trip to Casey from wherever you are in Canberra. Myanmar Corner is located at Unit 38/68 ...
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New strategy needed for extreme wildfires
This article first appeared in Wildfire magazine. The author, Rick McRae, argues that the impacts of climate change must be ...
Musk charges on with new targets in sight and Trump’s blessing
The vast and opaque power of Elon Musk is only growing as he seeks new targets for his federal government shredding machine.
Why Trump and Elon Musk want to shut down the world's largest humanitarian aid donor
Amid Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s push to reshape the US government, the world’s largest development agency, USAID, has ...
‘Rich as hell’: The ancient tax central to Trump’s playbook
Today’s tariffs usually refer to international trade. But there’s a distinctly old-school, fire-and-brimstone flavour to ...
WA has Australia's worst wait times for urgent presentations to public hospital emergency departments, report finds
A Productivity Commission report shows just 32 per cent of patients in need of urgent care were seen on time when presenting ...
As it happened: WA news on Friday, February 7
A Newspoll published by The Australian newspaper on Friday had Labor ahead of the Liberals 56-44 on a two-party preferred basis – a swing of almost 14 per cent from the 2021 election. If replicated ...
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The plan to tackle WA’s ‘intensifying’ bushfire threat
Western Australia’s firefighters will coordinate their bushfire attacking efforts from the confines of fortified shipping containers, under a trial to roll out remote incident control centres. The ...