Gove’s vision for the UK out of the EU: welcome to Vote Leave's parallel universe
Apr 21, 2016 06:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Vote Leave has finally set out their plan for the UKs future trading relationship with the EU, in the event of a vote to leave the Union in the forthcoming referendum. Justice secretary Michael Gove claims that Britain can...
Smart homes need to start treating their inhabitants better
Apr 21, 2016 06:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
We might still be some way from coming home to robots doing the cooking and cleaning for us, but the age of widespread home automation has arrived. More and more people now have intelligent versions of devices like...
Signing the Paris Climate Agreement is easy – what comes next for Australia will be hard
Apr 21, 2016 06:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Tomorrow, world leaders and diplomats will converge on the United Nations New York headquarters to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change. It will be the largest UN signing event in history, with representatives from...
The state of the union(s): how a perfect storm weakened the workers' voices
Apr 21, 2016 06:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
With the Senate again rejecting the governments bill to restore the Australian Building and Construction Commission, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has the triggers he needs for a double-dissolution election on July 2....
Real journalists report the news, they don’t make it.
Apr 21, 2016 06:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
At QUTs Digital Media Research Centre we are about to complete ARC-funded research on the state of the Australian political news media. A key finding of the work has been the nearly complete withdrawal of commercial...
The real cost of Telstra's backflip on marriage equality
Apr 21, 2016 06:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Many major companies supporting marriage equality recently have been under pressure as the Catholic Church requested them to retreat from this campaign. Last week, Telstra appeared to fold to this pressure by retreating...
Government backflip on ASIC could be too little too late
Apr 21, 2016 06:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
In announcing new money for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the Treasurer and the Minister responsible Kelly ODwyer executed a synchronised back flip with tuck, declaring that The broad reform...
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
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight