'The worst kind of pain you can imagine' – what it's like to be stung by a stinging tree

Sep 30, 2018 21:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Stinging trees grow in rainforests throughout Queensland and northern NSW. The most commonly known (and most painful) species is Dendrocnide moroides (Family Urticaceae), first named gympie bush by gold miners near the...

Banking Royal Commission's damning report: 'Things are so bad that new laws might not help'

Sep 30, 2018 21:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

Royal Commissioner Kenneth Hayne has identified greed as the key reason banks and other financial institutions repeatedly broke the law, along with an inability to manage and repeated decisions by the Securities and...

Speaking out about sexual violence on social media may not challenge gendered power relations

Sep 30, 2018 21:47 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

Feminists are celebrating a new generation of women who fearlessly share their stories of sexual violence on social media and other digital platforms, confronting established limits on talking about rape. But as past...

Lessons learned from the Essendon air crash: the importance of pilot checklists

Sep 30, 2018 21:47 pm UTC| Insights & Views

One of the issues raised in the investigation of a Melbourne air crash that killed five people was the importance of pilots sticking to any pre-flight checklists. Pilot Max Quartermain and four American tourists died...

Logic puzzle: can you solve this baffling Brexit conundrum?

Sep 30, 2018 21:47 pm UTC| Insights & Views

At a party, the host arranges the guests in a circle and sticks a post-it note onto each of their foreheads. Each guest can see whats written on everyone elses post-it, but not their own. You are all Brexit negotiators,...

Want to be happy? Then live like a Stoic for a week

Sep 30, 2018 21:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

What have the Romans ever done for us? Well, obviously the roads the roads go without saying. How about guidance for how to live in the 21st century? That seems less likely, but in fact the last few years have seen a...

Royal Commission shows banks have behaved appallingly, but we've helped them do it

Sep 30, 2018 21:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

The term deposit has matured. Initial scepticism over the timing, scope, and overall need for a royal commission into financial services has transformed into deep concern about the culture and practices in one of our most...