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Advertisement Millions of dollars of mining royalty payments are feared to have been squandered and special administrators are scrambling to unravel a maze of entities associated with one of the country’s most prominent native title organisations. The Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands Association (ATLA), was set up in 2001 to look after the interests of some 3000 Adnyamathanha people over 41,000 square kilometres in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. Today on Please Explain, Tory Maguir...

Advertisement A wide-ranging review of the Australian school curriculum has recommended broad revisions to what is taught to the nation’s primary and secondary students, including giving greater emphasis to First Nations culture. The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority has proposed removing references to Australia’s “Christian heritage”, and teaching that many people consider British settlement an invasion. There could also be changes to the way technol...

Advertisement Ahead of the next federal budget, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has used a speech in Canberra to outline the government’s intentions to drive the unemployment rate below five per cent, after previously setting the target at six per cent, a level not seen since the mining boom in the mid-2000s. The government had previously been focussed on returning the budget to surplus but the 2019 bushfire crisis followed by the coronavirus pandemic has seen government debt at a record high of mo...

Advertisement A recording of Prime Minister Scott Morrison discussing his deeply held Christian faith at a conference in Brisbane last week burst onto social media with quite a bang on Monday. Mr Morrison discussed the role of what he called “the evil one” in social media, and how he practices “laying on of hands” when meeting with the public. Our supporters power our newsrooms and are critical for the sustainability of news coverage. Becoming a subscriber also gets you excl...

Advertisement Two men from the NSW mid-north coast have been charged after allegedly sending NRL star Latrell Mitchell abusive and racist messages on social media earlier this month. After receiving the messages, the 23-year-old Rabbitoh’s star alerted his management and asked them to involve authorities, leading to detectives from the fixated persons unit charging a 22-year-old from Mitchell’s hometown of Taree and a 25-year-old Lake Munmorah man with using a carriage service to menace, ha...

Advertisement The second wave of COVID-19 has hit India hard. With daily new infection rates of more than 300,000, hospitals are completely overrun, the country’s oxygen supply is in peril and there are fears the real death toll is much greater than reported. Today on Please Explain, Tory Maguire speaks to world editor Michelle Griffin about the devastating impact of this second wave for India, and the far-reaching consequences for the reopening of the Asia-Pacific region and the rest of ...

Advertisement On Sunday evening in the US, Monday morning Australian time, the 93rd Academy Awards will get under way. This year’s Oscars come as America’s film industry wrestles with the continuing effects of the pandemic which delayed movie releases and shut cinemas. Many of the best picture nominees aren’t as high-profile as previous years with some released onto streaming services. Today on Please Explain, David King speaks with LA-based culture editor-at-large Michael Idato ...

Advertisement This week Prime Minister Scott Morrison gave a speech to the Business Council of Australia, in which he seemed to edge closer to committing Australia to net-zero emissions by 2050. The government has committed $500 million to developing renewable energy, including controversial carbon capture and storage technology. But it still faces international pressure for more action, pressure which is expected to ramp up this week at the virtual greenhouse summit headed by US President Joe ...

The Resolve Political Monitor: a new poll that aims to get behind the issues We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size The Sydney Morning Herald launched the Resolve Political Monitor. RPM is a broad and deep set of survey research about how our political leaders and parties are travelling with voters. The results have been published in a new data centre where readers can explore many different metrics broken down by segments ...

Advertisement For the first time in five decades there are now no Australian news outlets with a correspondent in the People’s Republic of China – a very sorry state of affairs. Journalist Mike Smith, from ABC reporter Bill Birtles experienced an unacceptable level of pressure from Chinese authorities. Today on Please Explain, Tory Maguire is joined by Smith to speak about his dramatic exit from China which he’s written about in his new book, The Last Correspondent. Our suppor...