The Nobel Prizes’ controversial push for popularity
Oct 04, 2016 07:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
Nobel Prize season, which kicks off today, involves more than just presenting prestigious prizes. Over the next three months, itll bring us a variety of events culminating in the massive, youth-oriented Peace Prize Concert...
R&D tax incentives need to be simple and underpin investor confidence
Oct 04, 2016 07:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Economy
Few examples of Australian tax policy are subject to as frequent change as the Research Development tax subsidy, again under review by the federal government. Substantive changes to the rules have occurred every five of...
Consumers don't understand smartphone contracts
Oct 04, 2016 07:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Consumers are confident they understand the contract they sign when buying a smartphone, but our research shows they dont comprehend these documents very much at all. In fact the more information they are provided with the...
Stop sending climate consultants to poor countries – invest in universities instead
Oct 04, 2016 07:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
As we edge closer to global consensus on climate change and the need to reduce emissions, the focus has moved from debating the science or the need for global action to the responsibility of individual countries to provide...
Religion and the US election: does faith matter anymore?
Oct 04, 2016 07:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
It is often remarked that Americans will elect almost anyone except an atheist. Only one of the 535 members of the current Congress professes to be religiously unaffiliated. Polls consistently show Americans want their...
Cities in the sky: how do we decide where this urban journey is taking us?
Oct 04, 2016 07:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Australian cities are inherently diverse places, but that diversity can lead to conflict between different values about what cities should and can be. Our series, Conflict in the City, brings together urban researchers to...
Trump, the media & the populist politics of the pogrom
Oct 04, 2016 07:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The coming of the Internet, and the global spread of social media, has triggered a period of intensifying cultural chaos. The global consequences are profound. Short term, the digital communications revolution has...
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