Australia's housing standards are failing its ageing population
Jan 08, 2016 05:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Many Australians want to grow old at home with family and friends. Yet most have homes that are inaccessible. Without intervention now, taxpayers will be asked to deal with the unintended consequences for the health, aged...
Netflix is everywhere (almost), so what does this mean for local media?
Jan 08, 2016 05:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
In his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO, announced that Netflix will now be available in 130 new countries. This sees Netflix more than triple its global...
Jan 08, 2016 00:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) as a potential threat or benign force is a topic of lively debate. Respected mainstream voices, like Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Elon Musk, are pointing to the dangers of...
Corporate-style regulation of unions won't defeat corruption
Jan 08, 2016 00:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Commissioner Dyson Heydons 79 recommendations from the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance represent a steamroller approach to industrial democracy and basic human rights, such as the right to collectively bargain...
Jan 07, 2016 13:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views
We think this is nothing but demand supply equation seems heading a rampant, as per the US department of energy, demand during end of 2015 was weaker than at any time in more than ten years, and was 9.3% down on the YoY...
Driving forces of crude inventory - WTI slips below $33/brl to hit multi-year lows
Jan 07, 2016 12:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views
We think this is nothing but demand supply equation seems heading a rampant, as per the US department of energy, demand during end of 2015 was weaker than at any time in more than ten years, and was 9.3% down on the YoY...
Instability rocks China; will it create ripple effects across markets?
Jan 07, 2016 11:26 am UTC| Insights & Views
The health of the Chinese economy has resurfaced as a key concern as we head into 2016, extending a major blow to the markets already rattled by geopolitical tensions stemming from Saudi-Iran tensions and North Koreas...
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