Almost half of young Australians would use their super to buy a home given the chance, according to a new survey Jack Derwin Australians are split down the middle on whether they would use their super to buy a home. (Ashley Cooper, Construction Photography, Avalon, Getty Images)
A new survey of young Australians has shown opinion is almost perfectly divided down the middle on using super to get into the property market.
Almost equal numbers of people said they would or wouldn t use their retirement savings to get onto the property ladder.
Those who said they would had two different strategies for doing so, either using super as a deposit, or putting it in an offset account to make borrowing cheaper.
Why UK climate activists are locked in a dangerous self-dug tunnel under a London station
In a bid to halt a high-speed rail project, protesters are camped out in a precarious and cramped tunnel underneath Euston Station. But the UK government says the HS2 train line is vital to reach climate goals.
An anti-HS2 sign is seen at an Extinction Rebellion camp in January 2020. Members of the climate change activist group Extinction Rebellion joined efforts by HS2 campaigners to prevent woodland from being demolished
Beneath London s Euston Station, climate protester Blue Sandford is chained by the ankle in an illegally dug tunnel. The tunnel, 12-feet (3.6 meters) deep and 100ft long, is wet and muddy. It is propped up by wooden frames: in places wide enough only for them to lie flat on their stomachs.
UNDP s Achim Steiner: If we cannot decouple economic growth from emissions, we are doomed
We need to address the cost of economic development to the environment, societies and our health when measuring human progress, says Achim Steiner of the UN Development Program.
Oil spills: Good for growth, terrible for the environment
DW:
Is development inherently connected with economic growth?
Achim Steiner: That certainly has been the paradigm of the 20th century. Economic growth, gross domestic product, per capita income: those were the major variables with which we have tried to measure development, progress and success in our societies.
But it has also blocked out for far too long some very irrational elements of this measurement.