The bipartisan push for Australia to back bitcoin
Labor and Coalition senators have crossed the political divide to call on the Reserve Bank to embrace bitcoins.
Eryk Bagshaw is an economics reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based in Parliament House
Labor and Coalition senators have crossed the political divide to call on the Reserve Bank to embrace bitcoins.
Australia will be forced to choose between the military security of the US and the economic opportunity of China, experts warn.
Australian universities have been hammered by the results of the world's largest survey into sexual assault on campus after the Human Rights Commission labelled its findings "unacceptable".
University students are experiencing an "alarming" rate of sexual assault on campus, a survey of 31,000 Australian students has found.
"My degree, my chance to graduate. My career. My education. My health and happiness. Friends, trust. confidence, curiosity and hope."
The impending release has sent universities scrambling to provide enough frontline services for students and to radically alter the culture of their campuses.
A senate inquiry has been warned of potentially tragic consequences from Australia's lax building laws.
The shock resignation of Greens senator Larissa Waters on Tuesday has triggered a wave of overseas born federal MPs scrambling to declare their Australian allegiance.
Australia has 200,000 more homes sitting empty than it had a decade ago, new figures show, despite the country grappling with a housing supply shortage.
"Every now and then I just wonder whether this was a gathering of the Ancien regime and that we are all eating cake at Marie Antoinette's party," says Varghese. "One day we might wake up and find the peasants are revolting."
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