What do your earliest childhood memories say about you?
Aug 21, 2018 16:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
We experience thousands of events across childhood, and yet as adults we recall only a handful. Some might be firsts (our first ice cream, our first day at school), or significant life events (the birth of a sibling,...
How to move energy policy models beyond bias and vested interests
Aug 21, 2018 16:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Politics
The Turnbull governments flagship energy plan, the National Energy Guarantee, was intended to end a decade-long stalemate on energy and climate policy in Australia. Ironically, since its unveiling in October 2017, the...
Your time starts now: how leadership instability and revenge became woven into our political fabric
Aug 21, 2018 16:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Back in 2012, a major study on the selection and removal of party leaders in Anglo parliamentary democracies was published. The book contained a section with the inviting title of Machiavellian tactics. Most of the authors...
Saudi showown spotlights Canada's energy insecurity
Aug 21, 2018 16:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views
In mid-August, Khalid al-Falih, Saudi Arabias energy minister, announced that the diplomatic rift with Canada wouldnt affect the flow of Saudi crude oil to the Irving refinery in Saint John, N.B. There are at least two...
Why more investment in the NDIS may not boost employment
Aug 21, 2018 16:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy Law
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was created to boost the economic and social participation of Australians living with a disability. To this end, the scheme puts choice and control in the hands of people...
One sky: a unified approach to the national airspace must be developed with drones in mind
Aug 21, 2018 16:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Drones were used in an alleged assassination attempt on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro earlier this month. This event reminds us of the dangers posed by remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS). Its an extreme...
Aug 21, 2018 16:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
So, Malcolm Turnbull survives. In part, the trigger for the stand-off between Turnbull and Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton was Turnbulls poor handling of energy policy and the flips flops over the NEG. But much of...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects