Once again the essential development of the renewable energy sector has been stymied by short-term, opportunistic politics.

Included in the Turnbull government’s “omnibus” savings bill is a A$1.3 billion cut in the funding of ARENA, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, a cut, coming on the heels of a couple of previous cuts,...

In post-Olympic Brazil last week, Dilma Rousseff’s presidency came to a forced end. It was also the end of 13 years of radical and progressive politics from the left-wing Workers’ Party. There’s a lot to be learnt from the parliamentary coup, which...

“Never put anything smaller than your elbow into your ear” is something we’ve been wisely cautioned against at some stage or another. But more of us are ignoring this advice.

We use in-the-ear-headphones to listen to music, car keys and hair pins to scratch that particularly unpleasant itch, and hearing aids to enable better...