'Ideological masculinity' that drives violence against women is a form of violent extremism

Jul 12, 2018 06:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

Verbal and physical violence shapes the daily experiences of girls and women in cities. A recent analysis showed that women in Melbourne face habitual sexual harassment in public space and feel unsafe, particularly in the...

Dreams in an Empty City: a strikingly prescient morality tale about banking

Jul 12, 2018 06:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

In our Great Australian Plays series, we nominate the best of Australian drama. There is no single event foreshadowing the darker mood of the 1980s, as the election of the Whitlam Labor government presaged the expansive...

Audit found Vikki Campion was owed travel money

Jul 12, 2018 06:15 am UTC| Insights & Views

An audit of the travel and travel-related expenses of Vikki Campion, former staffer and now partner of Barnaby Joyce, has found the government owed her money. The audit, by the Independent Parliamentary Expenses...

Rethinking _Homo sapiens_? The story of our origins gets dizzyingly complicated

Jul 12, 2018 06:11 am UTC| Insights & Views

You might say its the ultimate prize of science, to discover when, where and why humans evolved. For a long time, the evidence has been overwhelming that Homo sapiens evolved in Africa and later spilled out of the...

Blockchain Revolution Series

IVY League Universities Keen on FinTech Courses, London School of Economics to Launch Online Cryptocurrency Course

Jul 11, 2018 14:13 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Fintech Insights & Views

Amid the lingering prospects among the crypto-asset space, the keen interest continues to mount everywhere, reputed institutions from Big 4 auditing firms to the central banks of advanced economies have been investing into...

UK May GDP data points to a pick-up in growth in Q2; Will it convince BoE for rate hike in August?

Jul 11, 2018 12:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks

UK GDP grew by 0.2 percent in the three months to May, the same pace as the first three months of the year. The monthly GDP estimate, a more volatile measure, showed growth of 0.3 percent during the month, up from 0.2...

Digital Currency Revolution

Litecoin shrugs-off strategic collaboration, rallies restrain below 21-DMA – Stay short as shooting stars coupled with bearish momentum signal weakness

Jul 11, 2018 09:13 am UTC| Research & Analysis Technicals Fintech Insights & Views

The minor trend of LTCUSD (at BITFINEX) slides through sloping channel, while back-to-back shooting stars and hanging man pattern candlesticks have popped up at channel resistance to nudge price below DMAs, To substantiate...