Government's oil & gas tax response will leave regional communities at a loss

Apr 28, 2017 07:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Falling revenues from petroleum mining, that spurred a review of the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT), have hit regional communities hard and these same communities arent likely to get any relief from the government...

Trigger Warnings, Evidence-Based Policy and Media Literacy

Apr 28, 2017 07:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

With complete disregard for irony, Conservatives are sometimes triggered laughably easily. When the brown folks forget their station, for example. When we ladies get too ballsy. And God forbid if anyone dares fuck with...

Is death penalty anti-Christian?

Apr 28, 2017 07:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

On Monday, April 25, two people convicted for murder were executed by lethal injections in Lincoln County, Arkansas. A few days prior to their execution another Arkansan convict was put to death. One more convict remains...

Vital Signs Series

Vital Signs: what will end up in Scott Morrison's 'good' books?

Apr 28, 2017 00:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting...

Every picture tells a story, but visualisation can tell the right one

Apr 28, 2017 00:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But how much data can a picture capture? Or, more interestingly, how can a picture tell a story thats hiding in data? Our eyes can process vast amounts of information...

Teenagers who are both bully and victim are more likely to have suicidal thoughts

Apr 28, 2017 00:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

Most research into teen bullying tends to focus only on the victim. This means we know little about how the bully is affected. A new Australian study shows that teenagers who have been both a victim and a bully are at...

We must plan the driverless city to avoid being hostage to the technology revolution

Apr 28, 2017 00:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

Trials of autonomous cars and buses have begun on the streets of Australian cities. Communications companies are moving to deploy the lasers, cameras and centimetre-perfect GPS that will enable a vehicle to navigate the...