Deputy Liberal Leader Julie Bishop claims the Abbott Government inherited the worst set of financial accounts in Australia's history.

Dr Marilyn Waring, scholar, environmentalist, social justice activist and author no longer believes that we should put monetary values on unpaid work and the environment. She discusses this in the 2015 Pamela Denoon Lecture.

Cruise liners berthed near homes on Sydney harbour are burning a carcinogenic fuel banned in US and European ports. Residents say they’re getting sick but the cruise companies have refused to burn cleaner fuel and the government says it won’t act to stop the dirty ships for at least another year. Anne Connolly investigates.

The Abbott Government says its proposed metadata retention laws are critical to fighting crime and terrorism. But similar schemes in Europe have been wound back following legal challenges. This week the District Court of The Hague scrapped the Netherlands’ data retention law, finding that it violated fundamental European Union privacy rights. The country’s government-funded privacy...

The release of the inter-generational report has given rise to much talk about inequality and the need for another look at our tax system. It's been five years since the release of the Henry Tax Review, a comprehensive study of our tax and transfer system, released at the time that the GFC hit. So how...