Recycling: poorer countries can now refuse plastic waste imports – this could make the system fairer

May 27, 2019 09:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

The world generated 242 million tonnes of plastic waste in 2016 a figure thats expected to grow by 70% in the next 30 years. But this same plastic is also a commodity thats sold and traded in a global industry that...

Assange’s new indictment: Espionage and the First Amendment

May 27, 2019 09:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

Julian Assange, the co-founder of WikiLeaks, has been charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with a slew of Espionage Act violations that could keep him in prison for the rest of his life. The new indictment expands...

The Constitution dictates that impeachment must not be partisan

May 25, 2019 06:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

Barely two decades since the impeachment of Bill Clinton, the people of the United States again are confronting the possibility that their president, now Donald Trump, could be impeached, meaning charged by the House of...

From gun control to HIV: six ingredients of successful public policy

May 25, 2019 06:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

In the lead up to the recent federal election, there was plenty of negative rhetoric about current policy settings. Piecing together the various messages, it seems we have entered an armageddon of poor fiscal management,...

Cutting penalty rates was supposed to create jobs. It hasn't, and here's why not

May 16, 2019 03:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

After three years of submissions, hearings and deliberations, Australias workplace relations umpire, the Fair Work Commission, decided in 2017 to decrease the penalty rates paid to retail and hospitality workers on the...

Threats to press freedom are taking on different forms across Africa

May 03, 2019 17:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

Africa buried two of its journalists in 2018. One was killed in Somalia and the other in the Central African Republic. According to a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists, 54 journalists were killed around the...

A guide to ensure everyone plays by the same military rules in space: the Woomera Manual

May 03, 2019 17:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science Law

The anti-satellite missile test carried out by India last month was a display of military capability. It told the world that India like China, the United States and Russia before it was now capable of high precision...