Has New Zealand lost its way in tobacco control?

Jul 10, 2016 20:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Health

The New Zealand government has decided to reorient its priorities in tobacco control. It has announced it will be pulling 73% of its previous funding support for tobacco control advocacy. The only money allocated for...

Freaks, geeks, norms and mores: why people use the status quo as a moral compass

Jul 08, 2016 23:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Life

The Binewskis are no ordinary family. Arty has flippers instead of limbs; Iphy and Elly are Siamese twins; Chick has telekinetic powers. These traveling circus performers see their differences as talents, but others...

The drugs made me do it: can prescription side-effects be an excuse for crime?

Jul 08, 2016 23:52 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health Law

This week, a man who murdered his wife while she slept and blamed his actions in part on the effects of a sleeping pill he was taking, was given an extra two years jail time taking his sentence to 21 years. The killer,...

Briferendum Aftermath Series

Could a corporation tax rate of 15% work for the UK?

Jul 08, 2016 23:44 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Business

Britains chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, has proposed a significant cut in the main rate of corporation tax. The move has largely been seen as an attempt to soothe the concerns of UK businesses struggling to...

What other industries can learn from the failures of greyhound racing

Jul 08, 2016 23:40 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports Law

Those in the greyhound racing industry were surprised by the Premier of NSWs has announcement on the banning of the industry in NSW from 1 July 2017, closely followed in the ACT. But the writing has been on the wall...

Why is it so hard to improve American policing?

Jul 08, 2016 23:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

The use of lethal force by police officers in Minnesota and Baton Rouge has once again sparked protests over the violent dynamic between citizens and the police. The ideal today is democratic policing, a concept...

Lionel's messy tax affairs are part of a bigger problem in football

Jul 07, 2016 17:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports Law

One things for sure, it has not been a good summer for Lionel Messi. Following a fourth international cup final defeat, the diminutive Argentine announced his retirement from international football on June 26, aged just...