The Cashless Debit Card Trial is working and it is vital – here's why
May 05, 2017 06:13 am UTC| Insights & Views
The federal governments Cashless Debit Card Trial, which began in selected communities in South Australia and Western Australia from March 2016, is a significant innovation in tackling the health and socioeconomic...
May 05, 2017 02:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Who counts as a hero in the 21st century? How is heroism adapting to an age of nonstop news, hyper-partisanship and intense political scrutiny? Research I recently conducted with my colleague Krista Jenkins focuses...
New drugs on the PBS: what they do and why we need them
May 05, 2017 02:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
This week, the government announced the latest additions, amendments, and deletions from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS): the program through which essential medicines are subsidised for Australian patients. The...
Helping student activists move past 'us vs. them'
May 05, 2017 02:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Protest turned violent on the Berkeley and Middlebury campuses; students shouted down speakers at MacMaster University and UCLA and blocked entry to a talk at Claremont McKenna: These are among the many recent incidents...
China’s Eurasian gambit needs to be taken seriously
May 05, 2017 02:01 am UTC| Insights & Views
Later this month, 28 heads of government, plus many hundreds of others will gather in Beijing for the Belt and Road Summit. Leaders from Europe, Africa, and Asia will gather in the Chinese capital as part of an elaborate...
Highlighting 'good and bad' debt will make it harder to fund social programs
May 05, 2017 02:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
In the forthcoming budget, the net operating balance will be reported alongside the underlying cash balance. This change has important policy implications because it creates a strong bias towards public spending on...
You can tell more about a person from their Facebook page than by actually meeting them
May 05, 2017 01:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
We judge people all the time. Research shows that when we first meet someone, we instantly use features such as their attractiveness and facial expressions to form an opinion about how approachable and trustworthy they...
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