Explainer: what is the 'palace letters' case and what will the High Court consider?
Feb 04, 2020 12:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975 remains as controversial as ever. Its last chapter is to be decided by the High Court, with proceedings about public access to the letters between the governor-general, Sir...
Supreme Court allows public charge clause that kept Nazi-era refugees from the US
Feb 03, 2020 12:33 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
During the Nazi era, roughly 300,000 additional Jewish refugees could have gained entry to the U.S. without exceeding the nations existing quotas. The primary mechanism that kept them out: the immigration laws likely to...
A secret reason Rx drugs cost so much: A global web of patent laws protects Big Pharma
Jan 29, 2020 07:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Law
The high price of insulin, which has reached as much as US$450 per month, has raised outrage across the country. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has called it a national embarrassment, wondering why U.S. residents should have...
UN ruling could be a game-changer for climate refugees and climate action
Jan 29, 2020 06:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The recent ruling by the United Nations that governments cannot return people to countries where their lives might be threatened by climate change is a potential game-changer not just for climate refugees, but also for...
Does impeachment need a crime? Not according to framers of the Constitution
Jan 28, 2020 08:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Politics
Donald Trumps legal and political defenders are all singing the same refrain: The president cant be impeached; he hasnt committed a crime. Alan Dershowitz, the constitutional lawyer now representing Trump, said it...
Gay rights dispute is pulling apart the United Methodist Church, after decades of argument
Jan 28, 2020 08:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The Methodist Church, the largest mainline Protestant denomination in the United States, is headed toward a divorce. In early January, mediators from across the United Methodist Church proposed a separation plan to...
Australia's National Digital ID is here, but the government's not talking about it
Jan 28, 2020 08:20 am UTC| Law
The Australian governments Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has spent more than A$200 million over the past five years developing a National Digital ID platform. If successful, the project could streamline commerce,...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US student Gaza protests: five things that have been missed
Will Solomon Islands’ new leader stay close to China?
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects