Say what you like about BHP, it didn't squander the boom

Feb 24, 2016 08:24 am UTC| Insights & Views

During the commodity price boom from 2004-2011 BHP Billitons board raised the firms dividend to an unsustainable level. Now, in the commodity bust, the board has been forced to cut it by 75%. The board has been heavily...

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...

Migrant Crisis Series

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...

Climate Change Series

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...