Another approach to online platforms is possible: cooperation

Nov 04, 2019 11:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

So-called collaborative platforms have been popular since their appearance in the late 2000s, but there is growing societal concern. On the technological end, their are questions concerning their use of personal data as...

How we feel about our cars means the road to a driverless future may not be smooth

Nov 04, 2019 11:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

There is a reasonable expectation that autonomous vehicles will dominate the future of transport. Utopian visions suggest these driverless vehicles will lead to dramatic changes to our cities and their...

Caught red-handed: automatic cameras will spot mobile-using motorists, but at what cost?

Nov 04, 2019 11:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

Over the years, advances in technology and transport policy have greatly impacted drivers. In the 1980s this came in the form of random breath testing, and more recently, mobile drug testing. A new policing tool under...

Strippers on film: battlers, showgirls and hustlers

Nov 04, 2019 11:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment

In her landmark 1975 essay, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Laura Mulvey argues classical Hollywood style is built upon the fetishisation of the female body. Female characters are frequently photographed in wide,...

Opioid dependence treatment saves lives. So why don't more people use it?

Nov 04, 2019 11:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

In Australia last year, 1,123 people died from opioids illicit drugs such as heroin, and pain relievers such as codeine, oxycodone and morphine. If used regularly, physical and psychological dependence can develop. In...

Is the Morrison government 'authoritarian populist' with a punitive bent?

Nov 04, 2019 11:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

In a recent interview Malcolm Turnbull raised the possibility that these days many so-called conservatives in the Liberal Party might be better described as authoritarian populists. It would be easy to dismiss his...

We asked 13 economists how to fix things. All back the RBA governor over the treasurer

Nov 04, 2019 11:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks Economy

Thirteen leading economists have declared their hands in the stand off between the government and the Governor of the Reserve Bank over the best way to boost the economy. All 13 back Reserve Bank Governor Philip...