Is lead in the US food supply decreasing our IQ?
Jun 16, 2017 04:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
The environmental advocacy group Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) on June 15 released a study about dietary lead exposure, with a focus on food intended for babies and young children. Using a Federal Drug Administration...
Can tiny Qatar keep defying its powerful neighbors? It may be up to Washington
Jun 16, 2017 04:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The recent decision by half the nations in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and a few other countries to isolate fellow member Qatar came as a surprise to many though perhaps it shouldnt have. Essentially, Saudi...
Vital Signs: Australia is facing an interest rates dilemma
Jun 16, 2017 04:43 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks Economy
Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting...
The new data retention law seriously invades our privacy – and it's time we took action
Jun 15, 2017 23:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Technology
Over the past few months, Australians civil rights have come under attack. In April, the governments data retention law came into effect. The law requires telecommunications companies to store customer metadata for at...
Philanthropy is funding serious journalism in the US, it could work for Australia too
Jun 15, 2017 22:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business
Non-profit investigative journalism centres have invigorated watchdog reporting in the United States over the past decade, a period commonly associated with despair over the state of serious journalism. My research...
CPA in crisis: why more associations will have to disclose CEO pay
Jun 15, 2017 22:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The wave of public discontent thats changed how corporate Australia reports and discloses executive pay, is now moving to other types of organisations. The most recent example is professional accounting body Certified...
FxWirePro: What drives the Antipodeans’ richness against G10 petro-currencies?
Jun 15, 2017 13:09 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
AUDUSD remains in the middle of the USD 0.72 - 0.78 range that has held since mid-2016. The upside for the currency is indeed capped by the prospect of further narrowing in short rate spreads and a sense that the...
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
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
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