Robodebt failed its day in court, what now?
Dec 01, 2019 03:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Three years after legal experts laid out their reasons why robodebt was wrong in law and wrong in maths, the government has folded its tent, conceding all points just before trial of the test case conducted in the name of...
Dec 01, 2019 03:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
A few weeks ago, the Federal Court of Australia ordered a farmer in New South Wales to pay A$290,000 to a blueberry-producing company because he had grown and sold a proprietary variety of the fruit without...
A handsome soldier with a 'medical bill': how romance scammers make you fall in love with them
Dec 01, 2019 03:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Maria Exposto, a Sydney grandmother who fell victim to a romance scam and became an unwitting drug mule, couldnt have known what was before her when she left Australia to sign documents for her fiancé so he could...
Here is what policymakers can do for Europe's news media
Nov 28, 2019 01:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Europe is home to some of the most impressive and innovative news media in the world, from digital media such as Dennik N in Slovakia and MediaPart in France to legacy media such as the BBC in the UK and Dagens Nyheter in...
Westpac's panicked response to its money-laundering scandal looks ill-considered
Nov 27, 2019 12:44 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business Law
Westpacs board has jettisoned its chief executive, Brian Hartzer, just hours after he reportedly told his team mainstream Australia was not overly concerned about the banks 23 million alleged breaches of...
Crime and punishment: Rural people are more punitive than city-dwellers
Nov 24, 2019 14:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Public attitudes towards punishment have been a key area of research in criminology. Criminologists are interested in the attitudes of the general public towards the punishment of those who have committed crime. This is...
Mandatory vaccination is not the solution for measles in Europe
Nov 19, 2019 03:43 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Global measles cases reached their highest levels since 2006 in the first six months of 2019. With countries around the world struggling to contain outbreaks, government policy on vaccination has come under fire. Germany...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects