Bottom of the canal: Pfizer's billion-dollar tax ploy
Aug 07, 2017 16:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has engaged in a series of paper transactions to create a A$936 million loss in Australia. It is, for all intents and purposes, a billion-dollar exercise in tax avoidance. Pfizer and its...
The economic black hole at the heart of the shift to electric vehicles
Aug 07, 2017 16:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The ban on the sale of new diesel and petrol cars and vans from 2040 is perhaps the most significant policy announcement made by the UK government in the past decade (with the possible exception of Brexit). It feels like a...
Can Emmanuel Macron’s big gamble to save the EU really pay off?
Aug 07, 2017 15:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views
French president Emmanuel Macron has promised to launch a series of democratic conventions to allow citizens across Europe a say on the EUs future. His idea is an important element of plans to revive the EUs fortunes at a...
Technology drives the need to rethink sex work industry regulations
Aug 07, 2017 15:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology Law
The emergence of online markets in the sex work industry requires us to rethink how the industry is regulated. There is abundant evidence that decriminalising sex work safeguards the human rights of sex workers, while...
How affordable housing can chip away at residential segregation
Aug 07, 2017 15:50 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
With the health care debate stalling, Republicans are beginning to make more noise about tax reform. President Donald Trump has promised to make his bid to alter the code his next big battle, as has House Speaker Paul...
Reengineering elevators could transform 21st-century cities
Aug 07, 2017 15:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
In the 160 or so years since the first skyscrapers were built, technological innovations of many kinds have allowed us to build them to reach astonishing heights. Today there is a 1,000-meter (167-story) building under...
Cartel case shows not all corporate misbehaviour goes unpunished
Aug 07, 2017 15:44 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
A first of its kind Australian conviction of a Japanese company for cartel conduct shows reforms in this area of the law are starting to work and these cases can be prosecuted successfully. Japanese shipping company,...
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
The Mattei Plan: why Giorgia Meloni is looking to Africa
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight