Australia’s natural disasters bill hits $A5 billion in 2022, billions more to come
Sydney, Australia Reuters Floods and natural disasters that hit all but one Australian state and territory in 2022 cost the economy $A5 billion and stoked inflation according to Treasury estimates which forecast billions more spending in 2023. Australia suffered four major bouts of flooding last year, with global reinsurer Munich Re estimating that February and […]
Essay: The ‘Biloela family’ are going home – but what will Labor do with thousands of other asylum seekers in limbo in Australia?
In an article first published on The Conversation, MARY ANNE KENNY, an associate professor in the School of Law at Murdoch University in Australia, looks at the new Australian Government’s policies concerning asylum seekers and refugees…