Mar 07, 2019 08:08 am UTC| Politics
Donald Trump made a call to Jay Barrett on Tuesday night and it was not an ordinary call because it was a case of a wish being granted. Plus, the recipient of the call is just an ordinary man who does not have a connection...
What the next government needs to do to tackle unfairness in school funding
Mar 06, 2019 13:52 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
School funding debates in Australia are complex and messy. Stakeholders routinely complain about being hard done by. But the real unfairness is that state schools get less government funding than governments themselves say...
Mar 05, 2019 10:05 am UTC| Politics
Melania Trump started her three-day Be Best campaign tour against bullying on Monday, March 4. The tour is part of her program on childrens welfare which is her main work in the White House. While on tour, one member of...
Brexit and migration: our new research highlights fact-free news coverage
Mar 04, 2019 13:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Immigration anxieties played a significant role in British peoples decision in June 2016 to vote to leave the EU. This has fuelled a debate over the quality of media reporting on migration issues. In order to get a...
Why banning controversial voices from universities is bad practice
Mar 04, 2019 13:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Two years ago the University of Cape Town (UCT) disinvited Flemming Rose from giving its annual T.B. Davie Academic Freedom Lecture. Rose is the cultural editor of the Danish publication, Jyllands-Posten that depicted the...
National security is too important to be abandoned to the politics of fear
Mar 04, 2019 12:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
This is part of a major series called Advancing Australia, in which leading academics examine the key issues facing Australia in the lead-up to the 2019 federal election and beyond. Read the other pieces in the series...
Mar 04, 2019 12:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics Business
After months of debate, the Australian Securities Exchange last week dumped a proposal to include reference to a social licence to operate in its updated Corporate Governance Guidelines. It was wrong to do so. The...
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