ABC Managing Director Mark Scott's address to the National Press Club
Feb 24, 2016 08:10 am UTC| Insights & Views
Below is the text of the todays address to the National Press Club by ABC Managing Director Mark Scott. One Sure Bet: The Future of Public Broadcasting At the ABC, we are in the midst of something thats very rare in...
Why is the UK ramping up costs for potential Australian migrants?
Feb 24, 2016 08:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The UK government has become increasingly desperate to find any means it can to reduce its number of new migrants. Reuters/Neil Hall Australian citizens make up one of the largest groups entering the UK each year. More...
African gamebirds are the key to understanding global avian evolution
Feb 24, 2016 08:03 am UTC| Insights & Views
Africa is an evolutionary cradle of bird-kind for at least of one of its major evolutionary branches, the gamebirds. Around 290 gamebird species form the Galliformes - chicken-like birds. These include drab, small and...
How South Africa’s media deny the country’s youth a voice
Feb 24, 2016 08:01 am UTC| Insights & Views
During the transition to democracy in the early 1990s, the media in South Africa underwent a shift in their operations and understanding of what their role in society was to become. The result was a strong move towards...
Energy markets: the planet's unlikely new ally in the emissions effort
Feb 24, 2016 07:53 am UTC| Insights & Views
In the aftermath of Paris climate talks, analysts lined up to point out why the celebrated agreement was simply not good enough. Certainly, the scale of the climate crisis requires urgent emissions reductions, which...
Branded for life? Sending the wrong message to young perpetrators of family violence
Feb 24, 2016 07:42 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Life
As part of a strategy to eliminate violence against women, an advertising campaign on digital channels, in cinemas and in high foot-traffic areas for young people uses a series of photographs depicting young men who have...
Here's what David Cameron could learn from a history of social housing
Feb 23, 2016 14:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Theres a housing crisis engulfing the UK, and London is at its epicentre. In his recent vow to regenerate over 100 so-called sink estates, David Cameron would have us understand that public housing has failed: that the...
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