Election explainer: what are the opinion polls and how accurate are they?
May 12, 2016 00:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Business
Many opinion polls will be published during the election campaign. Most use either live phone polling (calls made by a human), robopolling (computer calls) or an online panel (poll sample selected from a large database of...
Should older people and those with dementia have their licences revoked?
May 12, 2016 00:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Health
One in ten people over the age of 65 and three in ten people over the age of 85 have dementia. As a degenerative and debilitating disease, people with dementia find they are unable to perform some of the everyday tasks...
Perth Green Growth Plan puts strategic environmental assessments to the city test
May 12, 2016 00:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
City planning has many approaches that have been used to enable better economic, social and environmental outcomes. The planning profession has been doing strategic assessments of urban land development opportunities and...
May 11, 2016 10:38 am UTC| Insights & Views
In just last nine and half months, GBPCAD has declined from the highs of 2.0972 to the current 1.8650 levels, (i.e. almost 11.07%), we think this itself is suffice to be convinced of major downtrend. The only key...
FxWirePro: Hedge USD/MXN via diagonal call spreads amid inflationary uncertainties
May 11, 2016 05:56 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Mexican CPI data for April printed on Monday at 2.54% y/y, with the m/m measure printing at -0.32%. Whilst the data were slightly below expectations, whats clear is that inflation trends in Mexico are hardly robust,...
Sheffield is on a quest to be the fairest city of them all – here's how it's doing
May 11, 2016 02:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Fairness has become one of the most important ideas in contemporary politics. Its a concept leveraged by both sides of the political spectrum, to attack or support decisions about who gets what, and how particularly when...
Rushed reform benefits no one in the end
May 11, 2016 02:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law
For students and universities, the 2016-17 budget held few surprises. Full deregulation is dead and the budget provided a one year deferral on the cuts to teaching which have not yet passed parliament. The government...
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