Heat stress is already weighing on health and productivity despite being largely preventable, informing a push to reform housing and work safety policy.
Sustainable homes allow for greater efficiency in the carbon footprint across all levels of construction.
Angus Taylor has put housing front and centre of his priorities as the newest leader of the federal Liberal Party.
The popularity of urban living is expected to flourish in Australia in the coming decades, with growth concentrated in the country's two largest capital cities.
Government backing for home batteries will be dialled back for larger systems in a move intended to make the scheme sustainable and open to more households.
Modern houses are being built to better withstand fires, but an urban planner warns missteps are still being made in street and city design.
One type of natural disaster has depressed the value of more than two-thirds of Australian homes that sit in the firing line, new analysis finds.
Hundreds of billions of dollars could disappear from property values due to climate change but it's taking time for the worsening threat to influence buyers.
The prime minister describes a climate risk report as a wake-up call, as one coalition frontbencher threatens to quit or be dumped over greenhouse gas targets.
Australia must cut unnecessary red tape and boost business investment if young people are to be better off than their parents, the productivity tsar says.
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