Craig Salmon rattles off the benefits of electric cars with the swagger of a veteran car mechanic and the zeal of someone who is watching a profound historic change play out on his workshop floor.
“You ever look under the
In the staggering dislocation of 2020, I think of the many gifts my parents gave me | Christos Tsiolkas | Australia news
As soon as my partner and I completed two weeks’ quarantine after returning from Europe in late March, I went around to visit my mother. We had talked on the phone every day throughout the lockdown, and twice during
Gomeroi custodians lose bid to protect sacred sites from NSW Shenhua coalmine | Australia news
The Gomeroi people have lost their bid to protect significant areas of Aboriginal cultural heritage within the footprint of the Shenhua Watermark open-cut coalmine on the Liverpool Plains in north-west New South Wales.
Gomeroi custodian Dolly Talbott was suing
NSW Central Coast houses partially collapse after beach erosion caused by swells | Australia news
Two houses in the New South Wales Central Coast suburb of Wamberal have partially collapsed after powerful surf caused massive erosion near beachfront homes.
Structural engineers were assessing the area on Saturday morning after the partial collapses overnight. A NSW
How Australia’s state energy ministers are turning the tables on Angus Taylor | Simon Holmes à Court | Environment
Sometimes it just takes a bit of leadership.
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull likes to say that we must choose “engineering and economics“ over “idiocy and ideology”. The New South Wales energy minister, Matt Kean, has been making the right
‘A national disgrace’: 37,000 Aboriginal land claims left languishing by NSW | Australia news
There are 37,000 unresolved Aboriginal land claims in New South Wales awaiting determination by the government, including the first claim lodged under the land rights act in 1984. The backlog has been described as “a national disgrace” and a form
Ocean swimming has been my greatest discovery of the coronavirus pandemic | Alison Rourke | Opinion
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little freaked out the first time I saw a shark on my swim out of Sydney’s Manly Beach. Time almost stood still as the sleek figure weaved below me. Disbelieving,