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4 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Andy Ball |Josh Nicholas |Nick Evershed
NotesIn the election there will be a total of 150 electorates. This is one fewer than at the 2022 election, as two electorates were abolished due to redistributions by the AEC, and one new one – Bullwinkel in Western Australia – was created. The list of candidates includes only those announced by the major parties and prominent minor parties to date. It will be updated with the full list of confirmed candidates when that becomes available.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Kate Lyons |Petra Stock |Donna Lu |Graham Readfearn |Sarah Collard |Marni Cordell | +1 more
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Ri Liu |Melissa Davey |Andy Ball |Nick Evershed
To better understand where women in New South Wales are most struggling to access abortion, researchers led by the University of Sydney and the data visualisation specialist Ri Liu have mapped access to surgical abortion (a procedure undertaken in a clinical setting) and medication abortion (taking prescribed abortion pills) across the state.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Josh Nicholas |Andy Ball
How much does an Australian CEO really earn and what should they get? Take our quiz to find out – and have your sayTop Australian executives can earn hundreds of times what the average worker brings home. But how much does a teacher, salesperson or an electrician earn? And how does that compare to a federal politician or the CEO of an ASX300 company, one of the 300 largest public companies in Australia?
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Josh Nicholas |Andy Ball
Top Australian executives can earn hundreds of times what the average worker brings home. But how much does a teacher, salesperson or an electrician earn? And how does that compare to a federal politician or the CEO of an ASX300 company, one of the 300 largest public companies in Australia? We have created this quiz so you can test yourself on how much people in each of these jobs earn on average – as well as how much they should earn.
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May 22, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Andy Ball |Callum Jones |Will Craft
The United States is less than six months away from sending either Joe Biden or Donald Trump back to the White House. For many voters mulling this decision, the economy is front of mind. But how it’s doing, and how it’s feeling, are not one and the same. A majority of Americans believe the US is in recession, according to a Harris poll conducted for the Guardian. It isn’t. Do you know how the US economy has been performing? The Guardian created this quiz to find out.
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May 14, 2024 | 
thestar.com.my | Andy Ball |Marta Kasztelan
Cambodian environmental activist Ly Chandaravuth spent five months in pre-trial detention on charges of “plotting” before he was released on bail pending trial. Since then, he has spent many more months looking over his shoulder. In recent years, authorities have jailed at least 11 Mother Nature activists and arrested dozens more. The group’s founder has also been deported. Facing a possible prison sentence, will Ly Chandaravuth be forced to abandon his activism?
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May 13, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Andy Ball |Marta Kasztelan
Video | Cambodian environmental activist Ly Chandaravuth fights for nature and his freedomCambodian environmental activist Ly Chandaravuth spent five months in pre-trial detention on charges of “plotting” before he was released on bail pending trial. Since then, he has spent many more months looking over his shoulder. In recent years, authorities have jailed at least 11 Mother Nature activists and arrested dozens more. The group’s founder has also been deported.
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May 12, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nick Evershed |Andy Ball |Josh Nicholas
Questions like: “Is someone who earns over $150,000 a year rich?”, or “how much does the average Australian earn?” seem like they should be easy to answer. However, in practice both questions are tricky. For the latter you need to figure out whether you mean the “typical” Australian or the mean; whether or not to include only people who are employed, and so on. For the former question, people disagree on the definition of “rich”.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nick Evershed |Jonathan Barrett |Andy Ball
Big food manufacturers are downsizing products without downsizing prices in a practice known as “shrinkflation” that irritates shoppers and makes pricing comparisons in a cost-of-living crisis all the more difficult. After the chief executive of Kellogg’s suggested that financially-strained families could cope by eating “cereal for dinner”, researchers at Deakin University investigated whether the US food giant had also been shrinking its products in Australia, reducing value for money.
