Worker organisations can survive the digital age. Here's how

Nov 15, 2022 16:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business

There is a widespread view that labour has become irrelevant as a force for change. The argument goes that the proliferation of digital labour platforms and the rise in job insecurity this brings means that worker...

G20: tensions likely to emerge as world leaders gather for Bali summit

Nov 15, 2022 16:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views

The leaders of the worlds biggest economies assemble in Bali this week for the annual G20 summit. They do so facing multiple interconnected global crises. Russias war in Ukraine, economic slowdown in China, heightened...

Just Stop Oil: journalist arrests show how the demonisation of protest threatens us all

Nov 15, 2022 16:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views

At least eight journalists have been detained while covering Just Stop Oil protests in recent weeks. Their press credentials ignored, the journalists (including an LBC reporter, a documentary filmmaker and a photographer)...

Unregulated 'innovation': India’s medicine problem

Nov 15, 2022 16:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

If India is the pharmacy of the world, its not doing a good job of providing safe products. A large number of children in the Gambia and Indonesia have recently died after ingesting cough syrup made in India. And in 2019,...

I visited nuclear shelters in Prague to see how cities could prepare for nuclear war

Nov 15, 2022 16:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views

With the ongoing Ukraine war, tensions in Europe are on the rise. This is both due to an influx of war related-refugees to Central European cities, and discontent over the related rising cost of energy. As bombs fall on...

Chokepoint Capitalism: why we'll all lose unless we stop Amazon, Spotify and other platforms squeezing cash from creators

Nov 15, 2022 16:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

In 2020, the independent authors and small publishers whose audiobooks reach their readers via Audibles ACX platform smelled a rat. Audiobooks were booming, but sales of their own books produced at great expense and...

Journalists must be protected in police investigations. Here's our five point plan for reform

Oct 31, 2022 08:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

Australia is now 39th in Reporters Sans Frontiers World Press Freedom Index, a staggering decline of 20 places since 2018. This reflects a fact acknowledged by both the Morrison and Albanese governments: Australia has a...