South Africa's spaza shops: how regulatory avoidance harms informal workers
Feb 25, 2020 12:52 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Small informal retailers are ubiquitous feature of any developing country urban landscape. Known as spaza shops in South Africa, they are an important, even vital, component in the townships. Numbering over 100,000 across...
Coronavirus: The latest disease to spur mistrust, fear and racism
Feb 13, 2020 00:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Life Health
With the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Wuhan, China, stories of courage and strength have captured our collective attention as the disease spreads. We have also seen large-scale efforts in China to...
Why we aren't closing the gap: a failure to account for 'cultural counterfactuals'
Feb 13, 2020 00:07 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Australias 12th Closing the Gap report, published yesterday, shows by most socio-economic measures Indigenous Australians continue to lag behind the rest of the population. Only two of seven targets early education and...
Bias starts early – most books in childcare centres have white, middle-class heroes
Feb 10, 2020 23:52 pm UTC| Life
Only 18% of books available in four Australian childcare centres include non-white characters. Animal characters make up around half the books available, with the animals largely leading lives, and adhering to values, of...
'Death by a thousand cuts': women of colour in science face a subtly hostile work environment
Feb 10, 2020 23:49 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Its hard for women to succeed in science. Our research shows its even harder for women of colour. We interviewed women of colour working in scientific and technical organisations across Australia about their...
Why should my child take swimming lessons? And what do they need to know?
Feb 09, 2020 23:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Drowning is the third leading cause of unintentional death from injury worldwide. From July 2018 to June 2019, 276 people drowned across Australia a 10% increase on the previous year. Among those were 19 children under...
Nigeria's tradition of matching outfits at events has a downside
Feb 09, 2020 23:44 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Matching outfits made from identical fabric. Theyre a regular feature at parties, weddings and funerals in Nigeria, spotted across social media and fashion pages. Theyre called aso ebi, a Yoruba phrase meaning family...
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’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects