Commonwealth Bank's $700 million fine will end up punishing its customers
Jun 09, 2018 01:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) this week agreed to pay a record penalty to settle its violations of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws. The A$700 million fine plus legal costs will become...
Revisiting metadata retention in light of the government’s push for new powers
Jun 09, 2018 01:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
The Minister for Law Enforcement and Cybersecurity, Angus Taylor, foreshadowed this week that the Turnbull government will continue to pursue new law-enforcement powers that would allow authorities access to encrypted...
Most people don't benefit from vaccination, but we still need it to prevent infections
Jun 09, 2018 01:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
A recent article in The Conversation questioned whether we should all get flu vaccinations, given 99 people would have to go through vaccination for one case of flu to be prevented. But this position ignores the purpose...
Is Australia's current drought caused by climate change? It's complicated
Jun 09, 2018 01:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Much of southern Australia is experiencing severe drought after a very dry and warm autumn across the southern half of the continent. Australia is no stranger to drought, but this recent dry spell, and Prime Minister...
Male dolphins use their individual 'names' to build a complex social network
Jun 09, 2018 01:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
In life it often pays to keep a close eye on competitors and rivals. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwins book, Team of Rivals, tells how US president Abraham Lincoln persuaded each of his political rivals to join his cabinet,...
Jun 09, 2018 01:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
What will Heaven be like? Perhaps not surprisingly, competing images abound. Until around the end of the 17th century, Heaven was primarily about the Beatific Vision. The perfect happiness of eternity in Heaven consisted...
Bees join an elite group of species that understands the concept of zero as a number
Jun 09, 2018 01:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
When it comes to bees, it seems that nothing really does matter. As shown in a paper published today, our research demonstrates that the honeybee can understand the quantitative value of nothing, and place zero in the...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects