Cardano – Internet of Blockchains

Dec 21, 2021 12:21 pm UTC| Digital Currency Insights & Views

Cardano is a fully open-source decentralized third-generation public blockchain crypto project for ADA cryptocurrency. It has been created by Charles Hoskinson who is co-founder of Ethereum and Michale Parsons was an early...

Farmers shouldn't have to compete with solar companies for land

Dec 20, 2021 03:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

When it comes to solar energy, Australia has a huge natural advantage with an abundance of sun and vast, flat expanses of land. This makes it relatively easy to build solar farms across the continent. Some proposed...

Lost touch with friends during lockdown? Here's how to reconnect (and let go of 'toxic' ones)

Dec 20, 2021 03:16 am UTC| Insights & Views

As we resume our social lives after strict COVID restrictions have lifted, many of us are finding its time to take stock of our friendships. Recent research Ive been involved in found friendship networks were shrinking...

Explainer: how do police undertake major crime investigations?

Dec 04, 2021 01:53 am UTC| Insights & Views

Recent high-profile criminal cases, such as the suspected death of William Tyrrell and the abduction of Chloe Smith, have captured the attention of the media and the public. As a former detective inspector, I...

Climate Change Series

We can't afford to just build greener. We must build less

Nov 13, 2021 07:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

As the built environment takes centre stage at COP26, the scale and urgency of the climate crisis and of the industrys responsibility to address it comes into focus. A recent report from the UNs Global Alliance for...

FW de Klerk: the last apartheid president was driven by pragmatism, not idealism

Nov 13, 2021 07:40 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

Few recent historical figures in South Africa provoke more divergent views than Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk. He was president of the country from 1989 to 1994. Some will remember him as the last white South African...

Here's how to convince CEOs to support government climate action at the expense of their own profits

Nov 13, 2021 07:38 am UTC| Insights & Views

There is now widespread consensus that limiting the global temperature increase to 1.5℃ requires fundamental changes in sectors like energy, food, transport, construction and finance towards more environmentally friendly...