Currency markets likely to see increased volatility on Fed hike expectations
Mar 29, 2016 10:22 am UTC| Insights & Views
The dollar staged a nice bounce-back from post FOMC lows supported by both safe-haven flows as a result of the Brussels terror attacks, as well as surprisingly hawkish comments from Fed officials in recent days. After US...
Four reasons payday lending will still flourish despite Nimble's $1.5m penalty
Mar 29, 2016 05:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The payday lending sector is under scrutiny again after the Australian Securities and Investment Commissions investigation into Nimble. After failing to meet responsible lending obligations, Nimble must refund more than...
Is lowering the student loan repayment threshold fair for students?
Mar 29, 2016 05:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
A new report by Andrew Norton from the Grattan Institute has called on the government to lower the threshold at which university graduates repay their debt to the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) from the current...
How can a city keep its character if its landmark views aren't protected?
Mar 29, 2016 05:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Landmarks identify and define cities. Town-planning instruments usually protect these landmarks from development that does not respect the setting. But inappropriate development is placing one of Brisbanes most important...
Ban new wind turbines? Not if the bar for declaring them safe is impossibly high
Mar 29, 2016 05:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
The debate about wind farms is clearly not over yet. Last week Australias National Heath and Medical Research Council awarded A$3.3 million to fund two new health studies: one to measure the effect of infrasound on sleep...
Insecure jobs and incomes carry risk of radicalisation for young Indonesian workers
Mar 29, 2016 05:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Indonesia should address job and income insecurities that plague its large young workforce to prevent them being lured into joining violent extremist groups. The worlds most-populous Muslim country is facing a revival...
How unions are changing in a bid for relevance – and survival
Mar 29, 2016 05:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Business
It is often said that necessity is the mother of invention. As Australian unions face increasingly urgent challenges to their legitimacy and influence, it comes as no surprise they are busy rethinking how best to represent...
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