Bianca Hall

2 weeks ago | frenchforpineapple.com | Bianca Hall

Clerkenwell Design Week is upon us again, and whether you’re an industry professional, student, lecturer, or a design-hungry member of the public, everyone is welcome! Here’s a very brief highlights package from this mornings press preview / walking tour, starting at the Church of Design at St Bartholomew the Great (my kind of church!) following a quick cup of tea and a welcome chat by the amazing, and no doubt completely knackered CDW organisers, the games commenced… Roche Bobois continue...

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Bianca Hall

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Natural disasters and the changing climate are driving up the cost of insurance across Melbourne, with home owners in some suburbs paying three times that of other regions due to bushfire and other risks.

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Bianca Hall

By Bianca Hall May 19, 2025 — 12.01am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australia’s third-largest domestic polluter has apologised to customers who bought into its “Go Neutral” carbon offsets program, acknowledging the product would do nothing to address the impact of fossil fuels on climate change. “Burning fossil fuels creates greenhouse gas emissions that are not prevented or undone by carbon offsets.

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Bianca Hall

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Energy giant Woodside has acknowledged accidentally releasing almost 200 kilograms of hard plastic waste into the ocean off Port Campbell, and reporting the matter to the national regulator weeks later. Woodside has been dismantling its Minerva gas well and pipeline, about 11 kilometres south-south-west of Port Campbell, in recent months.

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Ben Cubby |Bianca Hall |Max Maddison |Paul Sakkal

The making of Sussan Ley as a federal cabinet minister came a decade ago when she was given a classic hospital pass, writes David Crowe. Ley was made the minister for health just seven months after Tony Abbott and his government unveiled a deeply unpopular federal budget in May 2014, with $80 billion in cuts to hospitals and schools. The health minister, Peter Dutton, was shifted out of the portfolio in record time and Ley was brought in to change policy and limit the political damage.