Seeing eurozone events through the lens of the global financial crisis
Jan 11, 2016 00:41 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Some 75 years in the making, the eurozone as it currently exists has generally succeeded in its aims of establishing shared institutions, political constraints and economic benefits: a single currency, open borders, free...
Teachers are leaving the profession – here's how to make them stay
Jan 11, 2016 00:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Australia as a nation is failing to retain the best people in the teaching profession. Attrition rates are worryingly high with researchers estimating around 30% to 50% of teachers leaving in the first five years. It is...
Why don’t we bomb North Korea?
Jan 11, 2016 00:30 am UTC| Insights & Views
The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea is a bit of a pain. Its leader, the remarkably youthful Kim Jong-un, is a caricature of tin-pot despotism. While we may be fortunate enough to find some of his antics amusing, its...
Jan 10, 2016 03:36 am UTC| Insights & Views
In recent weeks weve been treated to some high profile cases of inappropriate workplace conduct: the Dutton and Briggs cases which I wrote about last week and more recently the highly misguided cricketer, Chris Gayle,...
Big boys DO cry: why Obama was right to shed tears over dead children
Jan 09, 2016 05:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Politicians crying in public always make the headlines and the tears shed recently by US president Barack Obama have triggered a new round of debate about whether it is acceptable for public figures particularly male...
US–Saudi relations and the search for leverage
Jan 09, 2016 05:04 am UTC| Insights & Views
The alliance between Saudi Arabia and the United States provides one of the foundations of American foreign policy in the Middle East. This week, tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia have been magnified by the Saudi...
GM foods: big biotech is quietly winning the war
Jan 08, 2016 14:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views
It must have been 1996 or 1997 when I first met someone from Monsanto. The anti-GM movement in the UK had by then already acquired some momentum and Monsanto was cast as the prime villain for seeking to import GM soya into...
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