Rodd Point News Today

Governments sometimes have difficulty in balancing immediate cash benefits against the effect on consumers and long-term results.

One imagined that the national cabinet on family violence would have wanted to demonstrate it meant business. Nothing could be further from those ambitions.

The CSIRO/AEMO GenCost report has said for years, including during the time of Coalition governments, that wind and solar are the cheapest form of new energy for Australia, even when considering additional integration costs such as energy storage and transmission. Nothing has changed.

Yet another miserable mark for mismanagement by former multi-minister Scott Morrison, approving the upgrade of the Australian War Memorial before an expensive business case was available

Regrettably, conflict and expressions of discontent and anger have become fashionable, prompting discussions to become polarised and a zero-sum game.

Will Labor really lose any sleep over the Resolve Political Monitor’s latest results?

Two-way tolling on the Sydney Harbour Bridge may help spread the burden but the pylons have shifted.

Whether it is Scottish castle libraries, plunge pools, executive trips to Henley regattas or the latest comparison between the obscene amount of money spent by a few private schools on capital works and entire state school funding, it is clear that the current funding model is failing students.

Not every suburb should be defined exclusively by “nightlife” and “age”, just like not every old or young person should be defined by stereotypes.

Thousands of people in one of the country’s major cities were left without power all morning.