U.S. support of formula over breastfeeding is a race issue
Jul 24, 2018 15:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
When the United States threatened Ecuador with trade and aid restrictions if it did not withdraw a World Health Assembly breastfeeding promotion resolution that most people considered benign, if not banal, reactions ranged...
Debunking the myths about a Canadian pharmacare program
Jul 24, 2018 15:47 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Recently in Canada, there has been increasing public discussion of universal public drug insurance, or pharmacare. The federal governments Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare is consulting with...
Melancholia artfully brings the end of the world to the stage
Jul 24, 2018 15:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Rewiew: Melancholia at the Malthouse, Melbourne. Melancholia is based on Lars von Triers 2011 film of the same title but has been adapted for the stage by writer Declan Greene and director Matthew Lutton. The languid...
Ondaatje's win of the Golden Man Booker Prize is complicated
Jul 24, 2018 15:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views
American movies, English books remember how they all end?…The American or the Englishman gets on a plane and leaves. Thats it. The camera leaves with him. He looks out of the window at Mombasa or Vietnam or...
UN delivers strong rebuke to Australian government on women's rights
Jul 24, 2018 15:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views
This week, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women handed down its recommendations from its review of Australias compliance with the womens rights treaty, the Convention on the...
Gardening improves the health of social housing residents and provides a sense of purpose
Jul 24, 2018 15:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Studies indicate spending time in nature brings physical, mental and social benefits. These include stress reduction, improved mood, accelerated healing, attention restoration, productivity and heightened imagination and...
The shaky case for prosecuting Witness K and his lawyer in the Timor-Leste spying scandal
Jul 24, 2018 15:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Much of the media commentary on the government prosecution of Witness K and his lawyer Bernard Collaery has focused on government duplicity in suppressing the trial until it had its oil and gas treaty signed with...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects