Backpacker tax to be 19% but departure tax will rise $5 in compromise package
Sep 27, 2016 17:33 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The government will impose a A$5 increase in the departure tax, to A$60, and claw back more superannuation from holiday makers departing Australia to pay for a A$350 million compromise on the controversial backpacker...
The robots are polarising how we consume news – and that's how we like it
Sep 27, 2016 17:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
An article recently published in the American Journal of Political Science claims to have found proof that the internet is fuelling polarisation. The article uses data from 2004 to 2008 to show those with better internet...
What's holding Russia back from ratifying the Paris climate agreement?
Sep 27, 2016 17:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that his country will ratify the Paris climate agreement in October, a significant boost in the campaign to have the agreement become legally binding by the end of the...
The wrong questions are being asked in the free higher education debate
Sep 27, 2016 17:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The main brief of the Commission of Inquiry into Higher Education and Training (The Fees Commission) demands that it enquires and makes findings on the feasibility of fee-free higher education in South Africa. The problem...
Can quotas make gender equality happen in politics? Lessons from business
Sep 27, 2016 17:15 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business
The number of women MPs in the British parliament is the highest its ever been. There are 191 women among the 650 MPs, up a third from the 2010 election. This has to be good news, especially for the many critics of...
Social workers give voice to people at the margins – Scotland plans to take it away
Sep 27, 2016 17:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Who is best placed to help with a childs welfare? Thats the question at the heart of one of the Scottish governments most controversial plans, to give every child a named person to support them from birth to the age of...
When world leaders thought you shouldn’t need passports or visas
Sep 27, 2016 15:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
In the age of heavily restricted migration, passport control seems a natural prerogative of the state. The idea of abolishing passports is almost unthinkable. But in the 20th century, governments considered their total...
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
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects