Masters – A failure of corporate governance?
Jan 24, 2016 23:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views
This week, Masters has on offer a white and gold rococo style mirror. If Woolworths Chairman, Gordon Cairns, were to nip down to his local Masters warehouse (no need to rush, plenty of parking available) he could, with his...
Making A Murderer & the Cult of Factuality
Jan 23, 2016 10:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment Business
As Netflix approaches two million subscribers in Australia, free-to-air TV execs have called on government to ensure a level playing field for Australian media businesses. The US-based streaming service is alleged to be at...
Why new regulator could be a game-changing moment for journalism
Jan 23, 2016 10:25 am UTC| Insights & Views
You are unlikely to read about it about in the mainstream press, but this week saw a major step forward for genuinely independent press regulation in the UK. The new press regulator IMPRESS (Independent Monitor for the...
How basic income can solve one of the digital economy's biggest problems
Jan 23, 2016 10:04 am UTC| Insights & Views
At a time of global economic insecurity, an insightful commentator identified the existential threat that technology poses to work: We are being afflicted with a new disease of which some readers may not yet have...
Building climate resilience in cities: lessons from New York
Jan 23, 2016 09:56 am UTC| Insights & Views
We live in an urbanizing world. Up to two-thirds of the worlds population some six billion people may live in cities by 2050. Cities have emerged as first responders to climate change because they experience the...
Surprisingly, the online advertising industry's future may lie in offering more privacy, not less
Jan 23, 2016 09:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
The online advertising industry has faced a considerable backlash recently as a greater understanding of how the practices of data scraping, aggregation, mining and user profiling are carried out behind the scenes. From...
Weird weather? Blame the North Atlantic
Jan 23, 2016 08:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Whether dubbed climate extremes or global weirding, we have been witnessing some surprising and concerning weather events. In Europe, seasons seem to be changing, but not consistently. Since the turn of the millennium, the...
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