Josh Nicholas

At least 26 full days have been washed out at the SCG as the new year Test is played during one of the city’s rainiest months

Cash use has declined drastically across all age groups and for all products, but small pockets of resistance to digital-only payments remain

Guardian Australia launches it's new poll-tracking page. Plus: the gap between climate action and pledges

We chart fentanyl deaths across the US. Plus: the sounds of war in Gaza

The cost of dental care is a significant barrier to treatment, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare reports

The 1.3bn tonnes of carbon that may be generated by the three projects is more than triple Australia’s entire annual emissions

Many OECD countries have experienced similar patterns of declining homeowner numbers – and ageing populations are projected to drive the rate even lower

How do you test chef knives? With a robotic arm, of course. Plus: where Australians can’t find childcare

Data collected from a variety of sources shows Indigenous women and children are killed and disappear at disproportionately high rates

From the golds-first medal count to the most ‘medals per capita’ argument, how we rank nations can be a contest in itself. Now there’s a new method – the Goldilocks table – and its creators say it’s fairest of all

How well can you pick the trend for 10 measures ranging from youth crime to daily commute times?

Chances are the reason you’re cold right now isn’t just because of a polar air mass – it’s because millions of Australian houses are poorly insulated

We look at some of the best charts from the past fortnight, including the cost of building nuclear reactors in Australia

Noah, Henry and Leo are among the runners-up for boys’ names for 2023 with Amelia and Charlotte popular among girls

Cutting permanent migration and capping student numbers won’t help much – but experts say it could hurt a whole lot

Peter Dutton has suggested Australia should build large-scale nuclear reactors, but CSIRO’s GenCost report shows the price compared to solar and wind

There will be no change to unemployment payments despite a government committee and several social services groups calling for an increase

Figure is up from 175,000 in June 2022, after Labor pledged to build 20,000 social housing dwellings on taking government in 2021

Plus: EVs are booming but electric bikes are really cutting emissions

Ebikes and mopeds, known as electric micromobility, were responsible for two-thirds of the 1.5m barrels of oil displaced a day by EVs in 2022