A recent heat wave in eastern Australia reminded us that we are in the Australian summer. In another record hot year globally, as heat waves become more frequent and intense, our cities make us hotter. This is a city’s heat island, where urban temperatures can be significantly higher than the surrounding rural areas. So the…
With interest rate cuts and supply shortages pushing up prices, Melbourne’s housing market has driven the biggest monthly rise in house prices in 16 years. CoreLogic’s monthly house price index shows that house prices in the nation’s capital cities increased by 1.7% in November, the largest monthly increase since 2003. Melbourne is not far behind,…
The Australian intelligence agency will lead a new task force to strengthen its response to the threat of foreign intervention. The federal government plans to spend 88 million yuan to form a new anti-foreign intervention task force. The task force will expand the resources of the National Anti-Foreign Intervention Coordinator, currently under the Ministry of…