What the Coincheck hack tells us about how Australian regulators will handle a cryptocurrency hack
Jan 30, 2018 12:06 pm UTC| Digital Currency Law
New risk rules for cryptocurrency exchanges will be put to the test with the latest hack on Japanese exchange Coincheck. Hackers stole US$660 million worth of NEM (its native cryptocurrency). In the past eight years,...
Politicians are inflating the evidence used to justify tax increases
Jan 11, 2018 01:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law
Chris Doucouliagos, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Deakin Business School and Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University Many government policies are flawed because...
Like it or loathe it, here's why Apple doesn't need a planning permit for its Fed Square store
Dec 28, 2017 13:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Real Estate
Despite the prominent public role played by Melbournes Federation Square, Apples new flagship store to be built within it wont even require a planning permit. This is thanks to an obscure planning process that planning...
Meat Eaters Should Be Taxed Like Smokers, Experts Say
Dec 27, 2017 11:33 am UTC| Health Law
A lot of people like to eat meat and do so on a regular basis. The same can be said about smokers. The big difference between these two is that those who consume tobacco are taxed while those who consume burgers are not,...
By casting teachers as informants, British counter-extremism policy is promoting violence
Dec 20, 2017 17:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The Muslim children in my classroom withdrew from political debate when the Prevent counter-terrorism strategy cast me as an informant. Prevent infers a duty on all teachers and doctors in England, Scotland and Wales to...
How the law itself can be a corrupting, criminal force – and what can be done about it
Dec 20, 2017 17:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
There are two sorts of corruptions one when the people do not observe the laws; the other when they are corrupted by the laws: an incurable evil, because it is in the very remedy itself. With these words more than...
U.S. Attorneys General To Sue FCC Over Net Neutrality Vote
Dec 15, 2017 07:49 am UTC| Technology Law
It didnt take long after the Federal Communications Commission to cast its vote to repeal Net Neutrality for the lawsuits to come flying in. Attorneys General of New York Eric Schneiderman and of Washington Bob Ferguson...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
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