Developing trust after disasters -- and every day
Oct 09, 2018 12:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires have tested our resolve as individuals, communities and societies. Along with social crises such as political- and war-induced migration, these events provide stark illustrations of our...
Labor's pay policy merely hints at helping low paid workers rather than actually doing it
Oct 09, 2018 12:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
There is little dispute the pay packages for leading chief executives have reached gross and excessive proportions while the wages of poorly paid Australians have stagnated. Pay ratios - a measure of disparity between...
As the High Court challenge to abortion clinic 'safe access zones' begins, there is much at stake
Oct 09, 2018 12:52 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
From October 9-11, the High Court of Australia will hear a challenge to the constitutional validity of Victorian and Tasmanian legalisation that provides for safe access zones around abortion clinics. Safe access zones...
Why we're training the next generation of lawyers in big data
Oct 04, 2018 16:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Technology
Artificial intelligence is transforming the traditional delivery of legal services. In general terms, the set of tools broadly called legal analytics promises to do two things: increase the efficiency of tasks that once...
Victim surveys show that crime in South Africa may be dropping, yet fear is rising
Oct 04, 2018 15:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
South Africans consistently rank crime among their top concerns, second only to unemployment. Between 2003 and 2015, 79% of people surveyed annually by the countrys Human Sciences Research Council were dissatisfied with...
How the special migration rules in free trade deals work
Oct 04, 2018 15:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
EU migrants will be treated the same for immigration purposes after Brexit as migrants from elsewhere in the world, according to a new UK immigration strategy outlined by the prime minister, Theresa May. But she has...
Kavanaugh sexual assault hearing evokes early Soviet mock trials
Oct 04, 2018 15:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Before last weeks Senate judiciary hearing into sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was scheduled, Republican Senator John Cornyn complained that the proceedings would amount to a show...
There’s an extra $1 billion on the table for NT schools. This could change lives if spent well
Political donations rules are finally in the spotlight – here’s what the government should do