Dropping the plan to ban junk food ads in prime time was a bad move – we'll regret it

Aug 27, 2016 13:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Business

The governments Childhood Obesity Plan has been met with widespread anger from numerous health organisations. This was not least because it delivered absolutely nothing to regulate food advertising, something Jamie Oliver...

Rio 2016 was just the latest round in the long-running doping arms race

Aug 27, 2016 12:36 pm UTC| Sports Law

Doping was already generating international headlines in the run-up to the Rio 2016 Games, when the Russian athletics team was banned for systemic, state-sanctioned drug-taking. And it became something of a theme for the...

Why is sexual harassment in the AFP systemic? And can the culture be changed?

Aug 26, 2016 08:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

A report released this week revealed widespread and entrenched sexual harassment and bullying in the ranks of the Australian Federal Police (AFP). Like similar reviews before it, the extent and severity of sexual...

How to get a better bang for the taxpayers' buck in all sectors, not only Indigenous programs

Aug 23, 2016 06:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Business

A report released today by the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) has drawn attention to the lack of quality evaluations being conducted on Indigenous programs. The report identified 1082 Indigenous-specific programs...

The victims' verdict: what happens when they try to report online fraud

Aug 23, 2016 04:32 am UTC| Law

Reporting a crime should not be as traumatic as the experience of the crime itself. But unfortunately this is the sad reality for many victims of online fraud. Australians reported more than A$229 million lost to fraud...

Global Geopolitics Series

Aleppo's dying children and shattered health system: is there light at the end of the tunnel?

Aug 23, 2016 04:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

Being a doctor can be risky business, some times more than others. During my dozen medical missions to Syria, I had to crawl under a border fence, jump over walls, walk in the mountains at night for hours without any...

Why the guns-on-campus debate matters for American higher education

Aug 17, 2016 02:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

As of Aug. 1, 2016, a new law allows concealed handguns in college and university buildings in Texas. Its already had an impact on me as professor of religious studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Thanks to...