This year at the Supreme Court: Gay rights, gun rights and Native rights
Oct 04, 2019 14:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The Supreme Court begins its annual session on Oct. 7 and will take up a series of cases likely to have political reverberations in the 2020 elections. Major cases this year address the immigration program for young...
Sugary drinks tax is working – now it's time to target cakes, biscuits and snacks
Oct 02, 2019 03:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Health
A sugar tax on soft drinks has now been in operation in the UK for more than a year and results so far seem to indicate its working. But campaigners say more still needs to be done and that the next target should be...
Australia's quest for national security is undermining the courts and could lead to secretive trials
Oct 02, 2019 02:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
This is part of a new series looking at the national security challenges facing Australia, how our leaders are responding to them through legislation and how these measures are impacting society. In August, the...
Home grown cannabis to be legal in the ACT. Now what?
Sep 28, 2019 13:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health Law
The Australian Capital Territory took the next step towards regulation of the illicit drug market yesterday with new legislation passing through parliament. The legislation, which wont come into effect until January 31,...
The UK Supreme Court ruling on suspending parliament is a warning for Australian politicians
Sep 28, 2019 13:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The UK Supreme Courts finding that Boris Johnsons suspension of parliament (or prorogation) was unlawful has raised the question of whether similar judicial action could be taken to challenge a controversial prorogation in...
Brexit in the Supreme Court: when populists attack the rule of law, we all lose
Sep 28, 2019 13:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
When members of the UK parliament returned to the House of Commons following the Supreme Courts ruling that the governments prorogation was unlawful, the attorney general, Geoffrey Cox, questioned their moral authority....
Court tobacco decision may set precedent for cases against fossil fuel companies
Sep 28, 2019 13:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Extreme weather events, made more likely by the climate crisis, are costing Canadas insurance companies heavily. Severe weather cost insurers $1.9 billion in 2018. But thats not the only reason insurers should worry about...
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’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects