Yes, Australia needs new homes—but they must be built to withstand disasters in a warmer world
Australia's housing crisis has created a push for fast-tracked construction. Federal, state and territory governments have set a target of 1.2 million new homes over five years.
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More than half of Australia's homes were built before fire standards came in. Here are five ways to retrofit them
Houses and fire do not mix. The firestorm which hit Los Angeles in January destroyed nearly 2,000 buildings and forced ...
New update on calls to 'stop repeating’ PIP assessments for all disabled people
“People with genuine disabilities have to repeatedly provide Doctors notes, letters and prescription information (sometimes ...
Farmers ‘locked out’ of their own land by the NSW government
Up to 90 per cent of the land on their Tallimbalong property is now rendered unusable after the NSW government rolled out a ...
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Canberra's public transport system is missing something - and the race is on to fix it
The Public Transport Association of Canberra (PTCBR) has launched a competition to fix what they see as a glaring ...
The Lancashire town where more people are dying from alcohol than nearly anywhere else
This dropped to 24 deaths in 2023 and the borough is now ranked 17th in England and Wales, but still the second highest in ...
Nearly 95,000 hectares of wilderness in Tasmania's west lost to bushfires
The bushfires on Tasmania's west coast have now burned nearly 95,000 hectares in hard-to-access terrain. Here's how that ...
Map reveals locations hit hardest by pub closures as almost 300 lost last year – see how your area’s affected
A MAP has revealed the locations hit hardest by pub closures in 2024. Approximately six pubs shut their doors for good every ...
‘Utter failure’: Sydney council mergers cost ratepayers millions
Most Sydney councils are paying tens of millions more on staffing costs than the equivalent council areas were prior to 2016’s amalgamations, with the NSW government admitting there are no systems in ...