ACCC takes VW to court -- but will it help consumers?
Sep 02, 2016 06:10 am UTC| Law Business
Yesterday the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced that it has instituted proceedings against Volkswagen (VW). The ACCC is pursuing VW for allegedly misleading consumers (in contravention of...
How American policing fails neighborhoods -- and cops
Sep 02, 2016 06:02 am UTC| Law Life
How should we understand the violence, counterviolence and civil unrest that mark the current era in American policing? And, based on this understanding, what can we do to stop it? Rather than focus on the...
Retraction: why we removed an article about Chinese donations
Sep 02, 2016 05:38 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
We removed this article called A Chinese company gave $3.6 million to Labor while bidding for government work and its totally legal after becoming aware of a significant factual error that undermined some of the articles...
Three problems with the EU's €13 billion ruling on Apple's Irish taxes
Aug 31, 2016 10:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The EUs ruling that Apple must pay the Irish tax authorities 13 billion in back taxes appears to be a victory for fair tax campaigners. The amount is equal to about 30% of the total tax take in Ireland, or almost 7,000 for...
Why the case against the Human Rights Act is so weak
Aug 31, 2016 10:48 am UTC| Law
The Human Rights Act was enacted in 1998 and made the rights set down in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) part of UK law for the first time. The ECHR was drafted after World War II and places obligations on...
European Commission warns multinationals as Apple ordered to pay €13 billion in tax
Aug 31, 2016 10:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Business
The European Commission is putting multinationals on notice with its order to tech giant Apple to pay 13 billion in tax to Ireland. Its signalling that it wont bow to pressure from the US. Now other countries may follow...
On the marriage equality plebiscite, let's not confuse free speech with a free-for-all
Aug 31, 2016 10:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
In recent days some of the proponents of a plebiscite on marriage equality have argued it is important because it will allow people to air their views. The government has suggested that it would be democracy at work....
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
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects