Whether it’s floods or bushfires, climate-related disaster is something Australia will have to contend with more and more.

But so far, Australia isn’t recovering from disaster. It’s one year since the Lismore floods, but the scheme to get people back into homes, and to move those homes away from the floodplain, is taking far too long.

And in the absence of real recovery, what’s happening in Lismore is being described as “disaster capitalism” – houses on the floodplain are being sold to investors looking for a bargain.

Today, contributor to The Saturday Paper Royce Kurmelovs on what happens when the government doesn’t step up, and the market steps in.

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Our intelligence community used to believe terrorism was the greatest threat to Australians.

But today, Australia’s domestic intelligence agency, ASIO, says the biggest threat we’re facing is actually from foreign spies.

According to the agency, it’s not just politicians and military officers who are being targeted – it’s everyday people, who might not know they’re giving away information that could cost lives or threaten national security.

Today, chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper Karen Middleton, on why ASIO is worried about Australians getting caught up in dangerous spy games.

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A week ago, superannuation reform was just an idea, a national conversation — the prime minister certainly wasn’t proposing anything.

But the conversation was brief, and a decision was swift.

Australia’s wealthiest people will not get tax breaks on wealth being stored in their super accounts.

So what convinced Anthony Albanese that his government had to act? And why was it worth the risk of being accused of breaking a promise?

Today, columnist for The Saturday Paper Paul Bongiorno on how Albanese made his decision, and why we could be talking about it for years to come.

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It's being called the most important case for reproductive rights in the United States since Roe vs Wade was overturned.

A judgement in a court case in Texas that could ban access to a non-surgical abortion medication is due any day now.

Closer to home, the exact same medication could become more widely available. The Therapeutic Goods Administration is currently considering appeals to widen its accessibility, with a decision expected in the next few weeks.

Today, contributor to The Saturday Paper Esther Linder, on the barriers to early non-surgical abortions in Australia, and whether it's time for a change.  

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Australia has seen a series of record corporate profits posted in the last few weeks.

They come as millions of average Australians are being squeezed. Mortgage repayments, rent, and the cost of almost everything is going up – but wages aren’t keeping up.

So, how are corporations posting record profits right now? What’s the impact of profits on the prices we’re paying? And why is it that the only answer to inflation is interest rate hikes?

Today, national correspondent for The Saturday Paper Mike Seccombe, on how corporate profits are driving the cost-of-living crisis.

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Rhys Cauzzo was one of hundreds of thousands of Australians who received unlawful and false debt notices under robodebt.

The 28 year old died by suicide in January of 2017, as debt collectors pursued him for $17,000 dollars.

After his death, his mother Jenny began to unravel just how many debt notices Rhys had received, and she decided to go public – speaking to The Saturday Paper about what happened to her son.

Now, she’s given evidence to the royal commission into robo-debt – and the hearings have exposed more details about how senior government figures reacted to reports of her son’s death.

Today, Jenny Miller, on her son Rhys and her search for the truth. 

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Zaki Haidari is one of 19,000 people who Australia has kept in limbo, but will now get the certainty of a permanent place in Australia.

Temporary protection visas allowed people who arrived by boat to come to Australia, but denied them the rights of other visa holders, and hanging over them was the threat that they could be sent back to where they came from.

The Labor party promised to put an end to the visas, and now, nine months after the election they’ve finally delivered. For many, it’s a life changing relief – but the change is uneven and over a thousand remain trapped in temporary status.

Today, former refugee and advocate Zaki Haidari, on his journey to Australia, life as a temporarily protected person and why the fight continues for refugees in Australia.

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As housing becomes less affordable and the search for adequate accommodation more desperate, Erin O’Dwyer investigates how we can escape from the urban sprawl.

Erin looks at how the best intentions can go awry, as we try to build better homes.

She makes the case that designing our homes doesn’t have to be a luxury and that as we build more and more of them to address the housing shortage, happiness for the people living in them shouldn’t be an afterthought.

Listen to Erin read her piece, ‘Tree Change’, from The Saturday Paper.

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For the last 30 years, Australian retirements have been tied to superannuation. It’s the nest egg that most of us spend decades building up.

While it might not be a perfect system, any changes to it have usually become stuck in controversy; whether that’s increasing compulsory contributions, or allowing people to raid their super to buy property.

This week, the treasurer said he wants to start a national conversation about super – but will it lead to reform, or will this conversation end up in the political graveyard?

Today, columnist for The Saturday Paper Paul Bongiorno on the future of super.

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Once the United States military started looking for them, they couldn’t stop finding them. Unidentified balloons were everywhere.

The military and President Joe Biden decided the best course of action was simple: to shoot these unknown objects out of the sky.

But weeks later, we’re finally learning that only the first of these balloons to be shot down has anything to do with China – the others, likely belong to scientists and hobby clubs. 

Today, former director of war studies at the Australian Army Research Centre and adjunct professor at UNSW Canberra Albert Palazzo, on how balloons became a threat.

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