CSI trees: how forensic science is helping combat illegal logging
Nov 22, 2016 01:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Forensic science has achieved infamy, thanks to television dramas like CSI. But it isnt just about solving human crimes. Scientists are also using evidence from wood to help solve murders, but in this case the victims are...
New device to help police catch cocaine-using drivers
Nov 22, 2016 00:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Over 8,000 people were arrested in England and Wales for driving under the influence of drugs in the year to April 2016. In fact, 60% of all those stopped by police under suspicion of drug-driving test positive for illegal...
Deal on whistleblowers wins first double dissolution bill
Nov 21, 2016 17:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Malcolm Turnbull has secured the first leg of the governments industrial relations legislation, with the Senate voting by 33-30 in the early hours of Tuesday to toughen the governance of trade unions. The win came after...
When it comes to books and copyright, the government should leave things as they are
Nov 20, 2016 20:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The Australian book industry is in a state of considerable agitation as it waits to see if the federal government will scrap the parallel import restrictions of the Copyright Act. Lifting the restrictions has been...
How 'right to be forgotten' puts privacy and free speech on a collision course
Nov 19, 2016 07:00 am UTC| Technology Law
The age of digital technology, in which we can search and retrieve more information than we could in any previous era, has triggered a debate over whether we have too much information. Is the cure to unpublish things we...
President Trump signals a return to the Wild West days of finance
Nov 18, 2016 17:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
A stream of commentary has set out to explain the electoral success of Donald Trump as a reaction to globalisation and neoliberalism. It points to a thread of populist anti-capitalism running from the President-elect to...
A second Brexit vote is a real possibility now – here's why it should happen
Nov 18, 2016 15:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Thanks to a ruling in Londons high court, the UK appears to be moving towards making a decision about what Brexit means in a more democratic way. The flaws of the first EU referendum are well known. Despite being only...
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
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight