Disruption ahead: personal mobility is breaking down old transport divides
Dec 21, 2016 06:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Strong divisions between various transport modes roads, rail, buses, ferries and so on have dominated their planning and management for decades, in Australia and overseas. Budgets are often devised and allocated with...
Should writers be paid for their e-books lent by libraries?
Dec 21, 2016 06:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
When libraries lend books to the public, authors and publishers receive remuneration from the Government under the Lending Rights schemes, but this is not the case when libraries lend e-books. Is this fair? This year,...
Productivity Commission re-ignites copyright wars by recommending 'fair use'
Dec 21, 2016 06:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The Australian Government has just released the Productivity Commissions report into Australias Intellectual Property Arrangements. Its a move that appears to have been designed to avoid some of the controversy of the...
Should Paraguay allow its presidents to be reelected?
Dec 21, 2016 06:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Like the United States and Europe, most Latin American countries permit their presidents or prime ministers to be reelected, either consecutively (as in Brazil and Argentina) or after alternating out of office (as in...
Dec 21, 2016 05:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Business
Japan is known for its negative attitude to immigration. While the door has been slowly opened to professionals, the Japanese government doesnt accept low-skilled migrant workers except on temporary work visas and has...
What's behind the numbers? MYEFO in seven charts
Dec 21, 2016 05:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
With all the data in the governments Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) for 2016-17 were breaking it down for you in seven charts. The A$0.6 billion drop in the 2016-17 deficit in MYEFO compared with the...
Brick-and-mortar retailers should nix deep discounts to make most of jittery shopping season
Dec 21, 2016 05:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Brick-and-mortar retailers have been on a bit of a roller coaster ride this holiday season as early expectations of strong consumer spending were weighed down by the uncertainty prompted by the election. Thats on top of...
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