Climate Change Series

Direct Action not as motivating as carbon tax say some of Australia's biggest emitters

Sep 02, 2016 06:57 am UTC| Nature Law

Australias largest listed, carbon intensive companies say management lost focus on carbon matters, abandoned energy projects and didnt have the commercial imperative to produce long-term strategic action on reducing...

Global Geopolitics Series

Does TPP's slow death mean the world is now unsafe for trade deals?

Sep 02, 2016 06:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

It seems that the world has become unsafe for trade agreements. In particular, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a major new trade deal among the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations, has become a political...

How civic intelligence can teach what it means to be a citizen

Sep 02, 2016 06:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

This political season, citizens will be determining who will represent them in the government. This, of course, includes deciding who will be the next president, but also who will serve in thousands of less prominent...

ACCC unlikely to secure compensation for Volkswagen customers

Sep 02, 2016 06:12 am UTC| Law Business

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commissions (ACCC) is unlikely to secure compensation for customers from German car maker Volkswagen and its Australian subsidiary for breaching emission standards. This is because...

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...