Chokepoint Capitalism: why we'll all lose unless we stop Amazon, Spotify and other platforms squeezing cash from creators

Nov 15, 2022 16:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

In 2020, the independent authors and small publishers whose audiobooks reach their readers via Audibles ACX platform smelled a rat. Audiobooks were booming, but sales of their own books produced at great expense and...

Journalists must be protected in police investigations. Here's our five point plan for reform

Oct 31, 2022 08:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

Australia is now 39th in Reporters Sans Frontiers World Press Freedom Index, a staggering decline of 20 places since 2018. This reflects a fact acknowledged by both the Morrison and Albanese governments: Australia has a...

What is the difference between a populist and a dictator? The ancient Greeks have answers

Oct 31, 2022 08:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

Giorgia Meloni is Italys new prime minister. Her party, Fratelli dItalia, received 26% of the vote and, as part of a far-right coalition, now controls a majority in both chambers of the legislature. According to Stern...

Multiparty democracy is in trouble in South Africa – collapsing coalitions are a sure sign

Oct 31, 2022 08:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

South Africas 28-year-old, continuously transforming multiparty democracy was reminded of its own fragility when, in September, a coalition running its biggest city, Johannesburg, collapsed. The speaker and the mayor lost...

Americans who aren't sure about God are a fast-growing force in politics – and they're typically even more politically active than white evangelicals

Oct 31, 2022 08:53 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

Its hard to remember now, given the attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, but the day after votes were cast, one theme stood out: voter turnout. Every state in the nation saw higher turnout in 2020 than...

The Ukraine conflict is a war of narratives – and Putin's is crumbling

Oct 31, 2022 08:53 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

People understand the world that is, where we came from, how we got here and where we are likely to go through the stories we tell about ourselves and others. Indeed, the political and social environments in which we are...

Andrew Tate: how the 'manosphere' influencer is selling extreme masculinity to young men

Oct 31, 2022 08:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

An online search of how to be a man leads to nearly 130 million hits and over 12 million videos. Many of these promise hacks or some big secret to attain the pinnacle of masculinity. Spend enough time looking through this...