When it comes to books and copyright, the government should leave things as they are
Nov 20, 2016 20:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The Australian book industry is in a state of considerable agitation as it waits to see if the federal government will scrap the parallel import restrictions of the Copyright Act. Lifting the restrictions has been...
How 'right to be forgotten' puts privacy and free speech on a collision course
Nov 19, 2016 07:00 am UTC| Technology Law
The age of digital technology, in which we can search and retrieve more information than we could in any previous era, has triggered a debate over whether we have too much information. Is the cure to unpublish things we...
President Trump signals a return to the Wild West days of finance
Nov 18, 2016 17:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
A stream of commentary has set out to explain the electoral success of Donald Trump as a reaction to globalisation and neoliberalism. It points to a thread of populist anti-capitalism running from the President-elect to...
A second Brexit vote is a real possibility now – here's why it should happen
Nov 18, 2016 15:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Thanks to a ruling in Londons high court, the UK appears to be moving towards making a decision about what Brexit means in a more democratic way. The flaws of the first EU referendum are well known. Despite being only...
With legal pot comes a problem: How do we weed out impaired drivers?
Nov 18, 2016 15:12 pm UTC| Law
On Nov. 8 voters in California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada approved ballot measures to legalize recreational cannabis. It is now legal in a total of eight states. And this creates potential problems for road safety....
How common are sexual harassment and rape in the United States?
Nov 16, 2016 12:13 pm UTC| Law Life
I have moved in the world as a woman and a man. I never realized the absence of fear, and the feeling of invulnerability until I lived as a man. These were activist Max Becks parting words to my Psychology of Women...
Gun control: California, Nevada and Washington tighten firearms regulations
Nov 16, 2016 12:09 pm UTC| Law
About 1.5 million people have been shot by a gun, 468,758 fatally, in the United States over the past 15 years. The majority, nearly two-thirds of gun deaths, are suicides; more than a third are gunshots due to...
Gabon: post-coup dialogue has mapped out path to democracy – now military leaders must act
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects