Construction slump points to cooling economy
Nov 26, 2016 05:00 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 impacting...
Why journalistic 'balance' is failing the public
Nov 26, 2016 04:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Life Politics
Renowned reporter Christiane Amanpour recently told a conference of the Committee to Protect Journalists that they should aim for truth over neutrality. Watching the recent US presidential campaign unfold, she said she was...
Can Colombia's new peace agreement hold all parties to account?
Nov 26, 2016 03:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
After a first peace agreement was rejected in a plebiscite, the Colombian government has signed a revised agreement with the FARC, a radical left-wing guerrilla group that has fought against the state for five decades. It...
Could an end to corporate tax help Britain's Brexit-burdened finances?
Nov 26, 2016 02:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
For many of us small government liberals who thought that, however flawed the European project is, the UK was better off staying inside it, there was one Brexit argument that resonated. This was the promise that once it...
Jo Cox murder reminds us that terrorism comes in many forms
Nov 26, 2016 02:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The conviction of Thomas Mair for the murder of the British MP Jo Cox serves as a reminder that terrorism comes in many guises. Mair was tried for murder, rather than terrorism, but the judge in his case made it clear when...
Africa has an air pollution problem but lacks the data to tackle it
Nov 26, 2016 00:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently launched BreatheLife, a campaign to make people more aware about the fact that air pollution which it calls the invisible killer is a major health and climate...
It's Iceland vs Iceland as trademark row erupts between country and frozen supermarket chain
Nov 26, 2016 00:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Law
Under European trademark law it is possible to obtain wide-ranging protection for a single word such as Apple, Google or Gucci which gives the owner the exclusive right to use the mark in commercial contexts in the EU....
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects