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...
Jul 24, 2018 13:53 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Of-late, the smoldering trade war is and remains the dominant subject for the financial markets, and has caused considerable movement in the CNY and USD exchange rates over the past few weeks. Yesterday Chinas State...
FxWirePro: Spot on FX options analytics - Divergence in EM - G10 FX vols
Jul 24, 2018 13:00 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The valuation of FX derivative securities significantly depends on the market participants expectation of future volatility. Thus implied volatility often garners as much attention as the option price in option listings,...
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