Chris Bowen

Recent data from the Australian Treasury, real estate professionals, property portal Juwai IQI, and PropTrack all show that overseas demand for Australian housing is surging.NAB’s latest Residential Property Survey of real estate…

Once upon a time, there was a land of sweeping plains, ragged mountain ranges and boundless cheap energy.That place no longer exists.In its place is a land of droughts and flooding rains that get worse every year with the most expensive…

For a Government that has promised to take action on climate change and environmental protection after a “decade of neglect” by the Coalition, Labor’s second budget has left experts and advocates bitterly disappointed.Although this budget…

Peter Dutton’s unwillingness to compromise on the government’s key election promise has been slammed by one of the country’s chief gas producers.Woodside energy boss Meg O’Neill said the Coalition has risked “sustainable” climate change…

Greens leader Adam Bandt says the opening of any new coal or gas projects will be “squarely on Labor” as his party celebrated stopping more than 50 deals from progressing. After securing a last minute deal with the government on Monday to…

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faces an uphill battle inside Parliament House this week, as he fights to turn key policies into law. In the final four sitting days before the May budget, the government still needs to secure support to pass…

Clive Palmer may have spent roughly $100m to install his man in the Senate but that doesn’t mean he’s always going to show up. Ralph Babet, who also goes by the name Deej Babet, traded his real estate business in Melbourne’s southeast for a…

Leading scientists have warned that we are almost half way through the “last chance decade” to pull the brakes on climate change. Almost 300 scientists across 67 countries contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s…

The 116 new fossil fuel projects in the pipeline would pollute the atmosphere with 4.8 billion tonnes of carbon emissions by 2030 if they all came to fruition, according to a new report. Canberra think-tank the Australia Institute says the…

Households will be slugged with higher electricity prices in the coming months as costs jump as much as 30 per cent in some states. The Australian Energy Regulator released its draft default offer – the cap on the maximum price retailers…