You might be buying the wrong home battery. Here’s how to tell.
Australia is installing home batteries at extraordinary speed. Around 600,000 homes now have one, and more than 400,000 batteries were installed in the 12 months to June 2026. This growth has largely been driven by the federal Cheaper Home Batteries Program, which...
Personal threats, lower property values, rising insurance costs and a housing crisis: can council flood maps stand the pressure?
EXPLAINER: In Australia, close to 1.4 million properties are at risk of flooding, according to the Insurance Council Australia. The CSIRO says floods are the costliest natural disasters in Australia, averaging an $8.8 billion damage bill per year and the Australian...
The biblical lesson of The Fall is proving true for AI: an ethicist’s view
Human intelligence requires control from human ethics. What to do about artificial intelligence? I’m not religious but have always appreciated the central morality tale drawn from the biblical story of Adam and Eve. To realise their full humanity, they had to fall...
