Australia should not be complacent about maintaining its top credit rating, which depends on achieving budget repair and a more diverse economy, Treasury secretary John Fraser has said.

Fraser highlighted Australia’s debt challenge and the importance of tackling spending in a speech about the budget context, delivered to the Sydney Institute...

In relation to this FactCheck, Universities Australia Chief Executive Belinda Robinson told The Conversation that:

There is no contradiction at all in these statements. They are two, of numerous, issues that emerge from the statistics released yesterday. One is an observation about growth rates for commencing Commonwealth-supported students and...

Historically called the disease of kings, gout was common among wealthy gents who could afford to eat and drink to excess. These days it doesn’t just affect the rich: rates of gout have been increasing globally since the 1960s. It now affects around 70,000 Australians a year and is more...