Explainer: what's at stake in Iran's parliamentary elections
Feb 26, 2016 04:50 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Iranians will vote on February 26 to elect both the 290-seat parliament and the 88 clerics of the Assembly of Experts, the body that chooses the supreme leader. This is the most important political moment for the Islamic...
Consultancy model shows how micro and small firms can be grown in Africa
Feb 26, 2016 04:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
I was recently in Malawi, a landlocked and poor but beautiful African country, where I visited Grow, an NGO focused on growing micro and small businesses. Grow movement was founded in 2009 to assist micro and small...
Is the ‘R’ in RIA soon to be ‘Robo’?
Feb 26, 2016 02:47 am UTC| Insights & Views
If only the spreadsheets, graphs and strategic analysis that look so great on paper could identify and create great investment portfolios. Wed all be advisors, or rich. And wed be seeing RIA businesses morphing into...
Fossil fuel growth centre harks back to old ideas about climate costs
Feb 26, 2016 02:44 am UTC| Insights & Views
On Wednesday, the minister for industry, innovation and science, Christopher Pyne, launched a new growth centre for Australias fossil fuel industry (and uranium), to be known as National Energy Resources Australia. The...
What California can learn from Australia’s 15-year millennium drought
Feb 26, 2016 00:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
California has experienced, over the past few years, its most severe drought on record. In response to worsening conditions, Governor Jerry Brown announced the first ever statewide mandatory reduction in urban water use in...
The end of 2%: Australia gets serious about its defence budget
Feb 26, 2016 00:12 am UTC| Insights & Views
Compared to Tony Abbott, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his defence minister, Marise Payne, see themselves as having a different emphasis in the way they view security challenges, how Australia should fund its...
End of an era in regional publishing as APN puts papers up for sale
Feb 26, 2016 00:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
This week APN News Media announced it planned to sell off its regional newspaper business. It signals the end of an era. Regional publishing has been at the heart of APN since Tony OReilly bought the Queensland...
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