Why there's no legal barrier to a Melbourne drug injecting room, despite political setbacks
Feb 28, 2017 07:17 am UTC| Health Politics Law
Drug injecting rooms have made news this week following a coroners recommendation to set up a trial of a supervised injecting facility in the Melbourne suburb of North Richmond. Despite opposition from Victorian Premier...
Life imprisonment raises questions about proportionality, equity and human dignity
Feb 25, 2017 13:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
A New South Wales man, Robert Xie, was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole last week for the horrific murders of five members of the Lin family. Due to the shocking nature of the crime, Xies sentence has not...
Kenyan court forces the country to review its options on Dadaab refugee camp
Feb 25, 2017 13:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The hundreds of thousands of people living in Kenyas sprawling Dadaab refugee camp have been spared eviction for now. Early in February the High Court in Nairobi overturned a government directive to close the camp and...
Uber Gets Sued By Waymo Over Stolen Self-Driving Car Secrets
Feb 24, 2017 10:03 am UTC| Technology Law
With so many tech companies vying for supremacy in the race for self-driving cars, some of them were bound to clash at some point. This is exactly what is happening between Googles driverless car division Waymo and the...
How undocumented immigrants negotiate a place for themselves in America
Feb 23, 2017 07:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Once undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers arrive on American soil, they run the risk of being stopped by law enforcement officials who are charged with investigating their status. A Feb. 17 memo released by the...
How Australia decides who is a genuine refugee
Feb 23, 2017 07:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Every year, Australia provides protection to thousands of refugees under its humanitarian program. In 2015-16, the government issued 15,552 visas to people in need of humanitarian assistance overseas. These included people...
Nurses should not participate in executions by lethal injection
Feb 23, 2017 00:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
In some US states, prisoners condemned to die are killed using lethal injections. This takes place in two steps which make the prisoner unconscious and then stop breathing. Nurses are often present, but do they really need...
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
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
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