Australia's coal politics are undermining democratic and Indigenous rights
Oct 26, 2016 09:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Can Australia achieve fair and open decision-making when big coal players are involved? The case of Adanis proposed Carmichael coal mine suggests the answer is no, and Indigenous land owners are bearing the brunt. The...
Press regulation in Britain: a step forward – and a step back
Oct 26, 2016 09:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law
Anyone reading recent editorials in the British press will know that the industry is worried. Following the discovery in 2011 that journalists on a number of newspapers had been hacking peoples phones to get stories, the...
US Presidential Election Series: President Obama dragged into Clinton email scandal
Oct 26, 2016 08:25 am UTC| Commentary Politics
President Barrack Obama got dragged into the scandal of Hillary Clintons use of private email server. Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump said at a rally that the President knew all about her email server...

Why British aid for trade deals after Brexit will not be so simple
Oct 25, 2016 19:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
For Priti Patel, aid money is clearly a tool that can be used to win favours in the new post-Brexit landscape. Speaking to the BBC on a trip to Kenya in her first visit to Africa as secretary of state for international...
How is the American President elected?
Oct 25, 2016 18:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Just how democratic is the election for an American president? You might think that the person who receives the most votes wins, right? Wrong. Just ask Al Gore, who in 2000 won more than half-a-million votes more...

The election of Hillary Clinton promises a more dangerous world
Oct 25, 2016 17:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
In a long and often exasperating presidential campaign, Americans and the world have been subjected to Donald Trumps odious and often incoherent rhetoric, and from both sides much vitriol and endless accusations of deceit,...
Theresa May has a very special technique for avoiding questions
Oct 25, 2016 11:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
British prime minister Theresa May notoriously kept quiet about her position on membership of the EU ahead of the June referendum, avoiding coming down on either side of the debate. Arguably, her sphinx-like stance was a...