Food security looks very different depending on where you are sitting

Jan 23, 2017 00:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

In 1974, the World Food Conference declared that: Every man, woman and child has the inalienable right to be free from hunger and malnutrition in order to develop their physical and mental faculties. The conference set as...

Five of the most violent moments of the Reformation

Jan 20, 2017 15:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

It has been 500 years since what is seen as the start of the Reformation, when the German monk Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg, challenging practices in the late medieval Catholic...

To what extent are you truly free?

Jan 19, 2017 13:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

In the early 21st century, Western-style freedoms are often presented as an ideal template for the rest of the world. Yet supposedly free democracies are also marked by substantial and growing disparities of wealth, power...

Famine doesn't just 'happen' – and those who cause it must be held to account

Jan 19, 2017 13:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

The relationship between food insecurity and conflict is almost so logical that it appears to state the obvious: conditions of food insecurity contribute to the outbreak of social, political and military conflict, which in...

Society actually does want policies that benefit future generations

Jan 19, 2017 13:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life Health Nature

Rich societies like the UK are changing the planet for the worse. Human life is taking a heavy toll on the Earth, its climate and its various ecosystems. This generation is consuming the planet, but it is future...

Why time seems to fly – or trickle – by

Jan 19, 2017 12:44 pm UTC| Life

No one is born with an innate understanding of time, and babies must learn to synchronize and coordinate their behavior with the rest of the world. Until then, they demand attention at all hours of the day and night,...

Physical health ignored in people with mental illness

Jan 19, 2017 12:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Australians with serious mental illness are living on average for 10-32 years less than the rest of the population, mainly due to preventable and treatable diseases like diabetes. No wonder, these early, preventable deaths...