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The AFL has had some tough times during the covid pandemic and it looks like they have been hit by it once again before their opening party.

After its worst two years since the second world war, 2022 is looking brighter for the global airline industry. For passengers, though, the chance to travel at low cost again may prove short-lived.

No country has a higher diversity of sharks than Australia. That means we have a special responsibility to protect them from threats such as fishing and damage to their marine habitat.

The Sun hasn’t set in Antarctica since October. Earth’s southernmost continent is currently experiencing a long summer’s day, one that stretches from mid-October until early April.

Job vacancies in Australia are at a record level. The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ job vacancy rate, measuring the proportion of available jobs currently unfilled, is now more than 2.5% – the highest level since the series started in the late 1970s.

Drone delivery company Wing recently celebrated 100,000 deliveries with an unusual burst of media fanfare. Australia is at the forefront of Wing’s plans, with the company’s two biggest trial sites running in Canberra and Logan in Queensland.

Thousands of demonstrators rallied across the Serbian capital Belgrade this month, protesting the US$2.4 billion (A$3.3 billion) Jadar lithium mine proposed by global mining giant Rio Tinto.

Union claims dispute is over work-life balance, not money. Qube says workers at 25 other ports have agreed to the same deal.

The number of office workers in Sydney’s CBD is only 4% of the pre-Covid total, devastating the businesses that rely on their support.

The Resolve poll can be criticised for only giving primary votes and not a two party estimate. While two party figures can be calculated from the primary votes by analysts, the media will focus on the primary votes.

The University of Sydney’s Stefanie Schurer said an easy and effective measure would be to simply reduce “transaction costs”. Many vaccinations don’t take place simply because they are difficult to arrange.

The Murray-Darling Basin is Australia’s biggest agricultural region, producing almost 40% of the national food supply during the growing season from April to September.

Earth science is vital to Australia’s economic and environmental future but we are dramatically decreasing our earth science capability.

Extreme floods this month have been crippling cities worldwide.

Council on the NSW-Victoria border says its businesses are desperate due to lockdown decisions taken by State Governments.

With Sydney CBD businesses feeling the pinch, NSW residents are to be offered $100-worth of vouchers to spend on having a good time in the city.

Aussie and Kiwi metros dominate the latest ranking of the best cities to live and work. Pandemic pushes the Europeans down the list.

More than a year into the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) and US Centers for Disease Control finally changed their guidance to acknowledge SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can be transmitted through the air we breathe.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has highlighted workforce skills as the “single biggest challenge facing the Australian economy” in recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. Employer surveys also show it’s a top concern.

Andrew Sharp Peacock, for so long “the coming man” of Australian politics, has died in the United States aged 82.

Although lockdown in various states has restricted the spectators at most sporting events. With now 10 days of no local Covid-19 cases, there are hopes that measures will be eased and our sporting calendar can reconvene.

An independent expert panel today rejected a proposal to expand the operations of the Dendrobium coal mine under Sydney’s drinking water catchment.

Among the many hard truths exposed by COVID-19 is the huge disparity between the world’s rich and poor. As economies went into freefall, the world’s billionaires increased their already huge fortunes by 27.5%.

Australian death records underestimate the association between heat and mortality at least 50-fold and chronic heat stress is also under-reported.

Commissioner Kenneth Hayne delivered 76 recommendations to reform the industry in February 2019. Almost two years on, the government has yet to implement 44 of those and turned its back on five key reforms – including curbing irresponsible lending practices.

Heatwaves, floods, bushfires: disaster season is upon us again. We can’t prevent hazards or climate change-related extreme weather events but we can prepare for them — not just as individuals but as a community.

The Earth’s mean surface temperature in 2020 was 1.25°C above the global average between 1850 and 1900 – one data point maybe, but part of an unrelenting, upward trend that’s largely driven by greenhouse gases from human activities.

In cities around the world, temperatures could rise by more than 4℃ by 2100 under a high-emissions climate change scenario, suggests research published this week in Nature Climate Change.

Australian Cabinet papers from 2000, released today, reflect a relatively quiescent Australia where Islamic militancy and offshore detention were barely glimpses on the horizon, and climate science denialism was not a factor in cabinet considerations at all.

Snow in summer (Melaleuca linariifolia) is an Australian paperbark, and is endemic to parts of Queensland and New South Wales. It has spikes of creamy white flowers that grow in dense clusters at the ends of branches and twigs. When in profusion, they look very much like snow-capped foliage.

Most of us can’t wait to see the back of 2020, a year that has been memorable for all the wrong reasons. While 2020 provided the ultimate stress test for countries to discover their vulnerabilities, we can confidently predict the New Year will bring its own challenges.

There’s no universal definition of elimination. As applied to other infectious diseases such as polio and measles, it means a prolonged period of zero local transmission in a country or region. For measles, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is very exacting and demands no community transmission for 36 months.

Australian governments have always wanted thriving regional cities, but policy innovations with this goal in mind have a bad history. Planned well, regional cities have huge potential to generate national economic growth while improving livability and sustainable development.

Seymour had endured many years of neglect before his new owner and a team of university medics and engineers got his life back on track.

Experts are estimating Victoria’s already struggling economy will lose between $50-$100-million as AFL moves the season finale to Brisbane.

The disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed financial and governance tensions and mistrust involving its players’ and state associations.

Increasing the inbound travel caps would enable more hotels to participate in the quarantine programs and boost occupancies.

Australia-wide, home ownership levels have fallen from 70% to 65% in the last 20 years and home equity levels have fallen from 80% to 75%. Younger workers have been completely priced out of the major cities.

Existing lockdown measures were not proving successful so Premier moves to up the ante with yet tougher regulations.

HomeBuilder grants of A$25,000 are being offered to build or renovate a home as part of the Australian government’s emergency economic response to the coronavirus pandemic.

39% of all jobs in Australia – 41% full-time and and almost 35% of part-time – can be done from home.

Damage to rivers and wetlands, including fish kills and algal blooms, has featured prominently in the news.

The New South Wales Parliament passed two important bills last week

Bullet trains are back on the political agenda

Australian zoos are turning to new and creative ways to keep animals occupied as they have been closed to the public for weeks.

A move like this can be very overwhelming with everything that you need to take into consideration. Which is why we've put together this three part series, so that you can stay focused on what is important.

Several Australian universities (Australian National University, Swinburne and the University of Western Australia) have announced they will accept students based on their year 11 results

So let’s look at why this is happening, and what to do about it

SPECIAL FEATURE: COVID-19 has already had a dramatic effect on employment – that much is evident from news images of queues at Centrelink.

In most countries you must spend several years living and working there before you can qualify for permanent residency. Australia is different...