Matt Bevan

David Cameron took a colossal gamble on Brexit and lost. What followed was years of political chaos and division. With a general election approaching next month, did Brexit break Britain?

When the Conservatives took power in Britain 14 years ago, they took a butcher's knife to budget spending. It was designed to save the country, but did it break it instead?

Australia’s housing market is, like many places in the Western world, in the midst of a crisis that feels like it will never be solved. Owning a property in an Australian city has only drifted further out of reach for most Australians in the last decade, and there are very few practical solutions on offer. Is it possible to actually unpick this situation? Japan offers a useful example. Thirty years ago, property in Tokyo was the most expensive in the world. Today, home ownership in that same ci…

How did a country, once among the wealthiest in the world and uncomfortably similar to Australia, totally lose control of its economy?

Trying to make something that works as both a podcast and a TV show has been tried before — and failed. But the ABC’s If You’re Listening podcast team is testing that theory.

Today’s climate experts were in awe when the ABC played them quotes from one man in the early 1970s on the climate crisis and how it could be averted.

Chaos is bad for superannuation funds and climate change could mean a lot of chaos. Mary Delahunty, who analyses these scenarios for one of the country’s biggest super funds, takes us inside the attempt to reduce uncertainty.

The Awabakal people, from the land we now call Newcastle, are the only known people to include coal in their Dreaming stories. They warned that, if it was ever let out of the earth, there would be a great fire and darkness would spread over the land.

Just a few years ago he argued for more coal-fired power stations to be built on the east coast, but former Coalition cabinet minister Ian Macfarlane now says there could be none left within 10 years.

Malcolm Turnbull and Xi Jinping once discussed ancient Greece and whether war between the US and China was inevitable. The former prime minister believes the dialogue revealed the Chinese leader’s advantage over his Western counterparts, writes Matt Bevan.