• Curtis Murayama: Prop betting on college athletes is problem that needs fixing

    There’s something brewing that’s more insidious to college athletics than NIL or the transfer portal.

  • Robert desperately wants to buy an electric car but because of where he lives there's one big problem

    An apartment dweller desperately wants to buy an electric vehicle but faces an apparently insurmountable obstacle common to many in his living situation.

  • Dear next government, this is what the real estate sector needs to solve the housing crisis

    Short-term fixes won't get us out of the housing crisis, Daniel Austin writes a letter to the government to explain what will.

  • Robert is desperate to buy an electric car, but there’s a big problem because of where he lives – one that millions of Australians face

    An apartment dweller really wants to buy an electric vehicle, but faces a seemingly insurmountable hurdle that many in his living situation are familiar with.Robert Till, who lives in a strata-managed unit in Brisbane, has no means of charging an electric vehicle in the building and even after offering to pay for a charger to be installed in the underground car park, he was rebuffed by the body corporate.The 70-year-old pensioner said he needed a 10 amp 240 volt socket to be installed in his car...

  • 10 reasons not to buy an electric car

    Align: Vroom editors Paul Brian and Lauren Fix may be seasoned car industry experts, but that doesn't mean they're completely immune to the electric vehicle hype. "As far as looks spectacular," says Lauren. "Technology, amazing. And all of this entices you because the car manufacturers are doing something completely different than they did before." But those compliments come with some pretty big misgivings. Should you hop on board the EV bandwagon? Paul and Lauren recently sat down with me to...

  • Cheaper renewable energy driving electricity costs down

    Rising demand for electricity has been met by more solar and wind generation, which is keeping a lid on prices and carbon emissions, the market operator says. Renewable energy generation drove down wholesale prices in the first three months of 2024 despite higher temperatures pushing up electricity demand, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator’s […]

  • Liberia's Justice System in Need of Urgent Overhaul

    THE RECENT RULING by Judge Nelson Chinneh in the case of Jessica Lloyd versus Lucas Richards has once again thrown the spotlight on Liberia’s justice system. The accusations made by Jessica Lloyd’s family, alleging that Judge Chinneh received a bribe to render Lucas Richards not guilty of attempted murder, are deeply troubling and demand urgent []

  • Notes from a future where Britain has solved the housing crisis

    In ten years’ time, high house prices and low supply could be a thing of the past. Kristian Niemietz offers a despatch from that brave new world… The year is 2035 and according to provisional figures released today by the Office for National Statistics it is the tenth year in a row during which house []

  • Biden's $60BN Can't Fix Ukraine's Manpower & Recruitment Crisis

    Biden's $60BN Can't Fix Ukraine's Manpower & Recruitment Crisis With Biden's $60 billion in funding for Ukraine now fully authorized and implemented, the question is now what? The US President on Wednesday announced just after signing the bill that the Pentagon will start sending equipment to Ukraine "in the next few hours" straight from the US stockpile. The Kremlin in response is vowing to push back the front lines deeper into Ukraine, and says that newly infused American weapons...

  • All an outsider needs to know about the strange Aussie two-up ritual

    It's a mystery. As a newcomer, all I knew was that I'd go to a pub on Anzac Day (as some Australians do) and there were men - usually men - shouting at each other. Some would put ten dollar bills on their heads and shout, "Heads!" It would clearly need the most skilled anthropologist to decipher this. Forget ancient rituals deep in the jungles of Borneo but this, it seemed, was truly strange. "Ah, that's two-up", Aussies explained as though any British fool would know. "Two-up, mate. Anzac...

  • Ithaca Energy to buy Eni's UK assets for about £754m

    North Sea oil and gas producer Ithaca Energy said on Tuesday it would buy Eni's UK upstream oil and gas assets for about £754m in an all-stock deal.

  • Letter: Transparency needed to fix glass recycling issue

    I have been totally unsuccessful in finding a recycling facility that will take bottle and jar glass not covered by Hawaii’s Glass Advance Disposal Fee Program (ADF) and Deposit Beverage Container Program (HI-5). Why is that? One recycler took the time to explain the reason and it is both understandable and unacceptable.