New research shows an increasing level of discontent among western democracies, with a diminishing number of people in Australia who believe voting makes a difference. Matt O'Neil and Tim Roxburgh investigate what this growing disenchantment will mean for world politics in 2015. • Despite huge differences between countries, surveys of political attitudes around the western...

A new study into the health and safety of Australia's school principals has found that they are seven times more likely to experience violence on the job compared to the rest of the working population. The Australian Principal Occupational Health, Safety, & Wellbeing Survey, has also found that principals lack proper support to deal with...

By 2050, the world will see the most explosive era of road expansion in human history, with a 60 per cent increase in the world's network of paved roads - enough to circle the globe more than 600 times. And according to the authors of a new study published today in the journal Nature, it's...

$500 million in compensation will be payed to the ten thousand people took part in a class action against the power company and State Government over the 2009 Black Saturday fires in Victoria. Today a report calling for money and effort to be invested in preventing natural disasters will be released by the Australian Roundtable...

Tony Abbott says he doesn't want the agenda cluttered by subjects that would detract from economic growth when the leaders of the world's richest 20 countries meet in Brisbane for the G20 in November. But Oxfam International argues that wealth inequality must be on the agenda and has commissioned a poll that suggests Australians agree.