In Tennant Creek, a town shaped by housing shortages and extreme heat, a new kind of home has arrived — one designed by Aboriginal innovators not just for shelter, but for culture, climate and community. Delivered in late 2025, the first of a series of modular, “culture-led” houses designed by members of the First Nations organisation Wilya Janta, signalling a shift from low-quality, standardised government housing toward locally informed design. With shaded outdoor areas for

Mining giant BHP shelved billions of dollars of green projects despite promising shareholders it was committed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and telling its board climate action was "urgent," raising serious governance questions for the company. In the summer of 2019, as heat records were broken across Europe and climate risks grew, BHP’s CEO stood before an audience in London describing global warming as an “existential” threat, urging a mobilisation on the scale of wo

Teenage pregnancy rates and child mortality have fallen around the world in the last few decades, which experts believe is likely due to greater access to education, contraceptives and health care. Birth rates have also fallen among adolescents aged 10 to 14 years old, where serious health concerns for pregnancy in such young girls are even greater. The World Health Organization (WHO) uses preventing teen pregnancy as one of the Sustainable Development Goal indicators, as it

Protestors at Victoria Park Protesters have been arrested at Brisbane's Victoria Park after police and Brisbane City Council officers entered a camp standing in opposition to a planned $3.6 billion Olympic stadium development on Aboriginal sacred land. The long-running confrontation over the city’s plans for a $3.6 billion stadium for the 2032 Games centres on one of the city’s last green spaces, which Aboriginal leaders say is sacred ground. They warn that development would

Britain’s Maidstone Borough Council recently voted to embed a “Rights of Nature” framework into its governing processes, becoming the first local authority there to formally recognise that ecosystems possess an intrinsic right to exist and thrive. The council insists the framework is more than symbolic. Rather than drafting a standalone declaration, it has woven nature’s rights into existing climate and biodiversity plans, linking the concept to measurable actions such as hab