Individuals not the priority in the Cyber Security Strategy
Apr 21, 2016 06:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
The Cyber Security Strategy announced today by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull clearly places a high priority on protecting Australian government systems from foreign powers. But when it comes to protecting citizens...
Gove’s vision for the UK out of the EU: welcome to Vote Leave's parallel universe
Apr 21, 2016 06:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Vote Leave has finally set out their plan for the UKs future trading relationship with the EU, in the event of a vote to leave the Union in the forthcoming referendum. Justice secretary Michael Gove claims that Britain can...
Smart homes need to start treating their inhabitants better
Apr 21, 2016 06:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
We might still be some way from coming home to robots doing the cooking and cleaning for us, but the age of widespread home automation has arrived. More and more people now have intelligent versions of devices like...
Signing the Paris Climate Agreement is easy – what comes next for Australia will be hard
Apr 21, 2016 06:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Tomorrow, world leaders and diplomats will converge on the United Nations New York headquarters to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change. It will be the largest UN signing event in history, with representatives from...
The state of the union(s): how a perfect storm weakened the workers' voices
Apr 21, 2016 06:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
With the Senate again rejecting the governments bill to restore the Australian Building and Construction Commission, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has the triggers he needs for a double-dissolution election on July 2....
Real journalists report the news, they don’t make it.
Apr 21, 2016 06:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
At QUTs Digital Media Research Centre we are about to complete ARC-funded research on the state of the Australian political news media. A key finding of the work has been the nearly complete withdrawal of commercial...
The real cost of Telstra's backflip on marriage equality
Apr 21, 2016 06:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Many major companies supporting marriage equality recently have been under pressure as the Catholic Church requested them to retreat from this campaign. Last week, Telstra appeared to fold to this pressure by retreating...
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