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At least a quarter of the Commonwealth's yearly spend on taxpayer-funded advertising is highly political and biased towards the government of the day, according to new research.

Government urged to stop the abuse of taxpayer funded advertising, which has led to $50 million a year in public money being spent.

If you watch TV or read the paper, you’ve probably seen ads spruiking the achievements of the federal or state government – from the next big transport project to how they’re reducing the cost of living. While some government ads are needed, many are little more than thinly-disguised political ads…

Runaway energy bills a sign of the cost of government inaction as prices soar, although they could be reined in with simple regulation.

Sister Aileen Crowe’s decades of experience with ‘dehumanising’ process is backed up by new research which reveals massive inconsistencies in decision-making

The federal government’s decision to lift Australia’s permanent migrant intake from 160,000 to 195,000 this financial year, which it announced at the jobs summit, has been applauded by business leaders and premiers.

This is an edited extract from Danielle Wood’s keynote address to the jobs summit. Read other articles in The Conversation’s series about the summit here.

Women's participation in the workforce is a key theme of the summit.

This article is part of The Conversation’s series looking at Labor’s jobs summit. Read the other articles in the series here.

Research that shows exhaust pollutants kill more than 400 Australians a year is driving a call to ban older vehicles from two capital cities. But farmers say they can't justify the replacement costs.

From sports rorts to regional slush funds and commuter carparks, it’s been one scandal after another in Australian politics in recent years. But what can we actually do to stop politicians pork-barrelling?