How Eastern Europe is best placed to hit the ground running after a hard Brexit
Dec 17, 2016 12:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
One of the biggest unknowns when it comes to Brexit is how it will effect the rights of EU citizens and businesses based in the UK. Many fear that a hard Brexit will result in a legal cliff-edge, leaving many without the...
Pope Francis, the superstars of radical nonviolence, and a bold move to change the politics of peace
Dec 17, 2016 11:00 am UTC| Insights & Views
Pope Francis will embrace active nonviolence when he delivers his World Day for Peace address on January 1 2017. Invoking the ideology of Martin Luther King and Mohandas Gandhi, the pope will urge people of all faiths to...
Can looking at art make for better doctors?
Dec 17, 2016 06:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
In 1984, artist Jon Cattapans sister Adriana died in a car accident. His painting, titled Sister, and some accompanying drawings, were a response to this tragedy. Sister depicts a grey-shrouded body lying on a bright red...
Indonesia should make land acquisitions more transparent and participative
Dec 17, 2016 05:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Economy
To improve Indonesias economy, President Joko Widodo has made infrastructure development the building of roads, ports, power plants and other public utility services his main agenda item since being elected two years...
Treasurer Morrison is about to face a reality check
Dec 17, 2016 02:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting...
'Slacktivism' that works: 'Small changes' matter
Dec 17, 2016 01:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
In 2013, an online petition persuaded a national organization representing high school coaches to develop materials to educate coaches about sexual assault and how they could help reduce assaults by their athletes. Online...
With proliferation of small arms, absence of war does not equal peace
Dec 17, 2016 01:49 am UTC| Insights & Views
There would appear to be little in common between recent news reports of armed raids in rural Nigeria and Kenya. The first involved the raiding of farming communities in Nigeria by armed Fulani livestock herders. 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