Labor's crackdown on temporary visa requirements won't much help Australian workers
Apr 27, 2019 06:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Bill Shorten is holding out the prospect of protecting Australian workers from foreign ones. He has pledged to tighten the visa system for short-term skilled migrants, ensuring they have to be paid more so that it isnt...
Apr 21, 2019 11:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Law
A recent survey I conducted of employers in Coventry in the West Midlands found that while 80% of the businesses we interviewed had hard-to-fill job vacancies, less than 5% had employed a refugee and nearly one-third had...
A taxing problem: Canadian cities desperately need new sources of revenue
Apr 21, 2019 11:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Law
Canadas municipalities are at the forefront of delivering a growing array of vital services to citizens, ranging from affordable housing, transit and child care to managing more than a trillion dollars of...
Smokeless tobacco products flying under the radar of regulation in many countries
Apr 08, 2019 05:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Smokeless tobacco products are addictive and cause cancer, yet only a few countries have adequate policies to regulate them. As a result, the global efforts to control smokeless tobacco use are lagging behind the progress...
In Québec, Christian liberalism becomes the religious authority
Apr 08, 2019 05:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The Québec government is proposing a secularism law to prohibit any new public servants in a position of authority including teachers, lawyers and police officers from wearing religious symbols while at...
Forensic science is in crisis – and this could have critical effects on UK legal system
Apr 05, 2019 10:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
British scientists played a major role in developing key technologies and techniques for global legal systems. These tools such as fingerprint and DNA analysis reveal relationships between individuals, objects and...
Why agricultural groups fiercely oppose the carbon tax
Apr 05, 2019 10:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
When the Pan-Canadian Approach to Pricing Carbon Pollution was announced in October 2016, it was met with passionate responses, from supporters and those in opposition. Agricultural groups were quick to dismiss the...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight