Positive inflation numbers take pressure off the RBNZ to act at April 28th meeting
Apr 18, 2016 12:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is scheduled to review its OCR on 28th April. Falling commodity prices and a recently stronger NZD have meant continued or increasing downward risks for New Zealand inflation. In the final...
Government pro-Europe leaflet didn't swing voters in 1975 – and probably won't in 2016
Apr 18, 2016 11:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Back in 1975, when Harold Wilsons Labour government wanted to persuade voters of the merits of staying in the European Economic Community (EEC), they sent out a pamphlet Britains New Deal in Europe to every household in...
The damning case against private providers of housing for asylum seekers
Apr 18, 2016 11:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
For four years, the Home Office has held a series of contracts with three private providers G4S, Serco and Clearel to procure and operate housing for asylum seekers in the UK. These contracts, known collectively as...
Why the Internet isn't making us smarter – and how to fight back
Apr 18, 2016 08:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
In the hours since I first sat down to write this piece, my laptop tells me the National Basketball Association has had to deny that it threatened to cancel its 2017 All-Star Game over a new anti-LGBT law in North Carolina...
Mind the gap in local and international aid workers' salaries
Apr 18, 2016 06:47 am UTC| Insights & Views
An audio documentary by co-author Anna Strempel explores the effects of a gap in wages between local and expatriate workers in the development and aid sector. Anna Strempel is a graduate of Monash University Master of...
A decent woman? The breastfeeding and visibility debate is nothing new
Apr 18, 2016 06:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Its a predictable tale of controversy in modern public space: a woman or group of women are welcomed to or excluded from a place because they are breastfeeding. The event makes the midday news and ushers in debate about...
Who can vote in the EU referendum?
Apr 18, 2016 06:30 am UTC| Insights & Views
With turnout expected to be high, who gets to vote in the EU referendum is an important matter. But who exactly gets to take part? The simple answer is: if you are eligible to vote in Westminster elections, you are...
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