Who owns your tattoo? Maybe not you
Aug 08, 2016 05:53 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
More than 20 percent of all Americans have at least one tattoo, and for millennials that number jumps to almost 40 percent. What could be more intimately a part of you than a work of body art permanently inked into your...
If cash is king, how can stores refuse to take your dollars?
Aug 05, 2016 00:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Law
Weve been talking about societys transition to a cashless society for a long time, but it begs an important question: Can stores and other retail establishments refuse to take your dollars and cents? As odd as it...
Bank executives forced before parliamentary committee for 'regular health check'
Aug 04, 2016 10:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Malcolm Turnbull has announced that the heads of Australias big four banks will be grilled annually by the House of Representatives economics committee, as the government hits back at the banks refusal this week to pass on...
Many wealthy countries face a mental health crisis – here's what governments can do
Aug 04, 2016 10:07 am UTC| Health Law
The evidence suggests that the UK, among other high-income countries, is in the midst of a mental health crisis. A recent report by the Mental Health Network, found that 19% of adults had been diagnosed with depression at...
Why executions in Indonesia must stop
Aug 03, 2016 06:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Indonesia executed four prisoners on death row for drug offences early on Friday. Last weeks killings were the third round of executions under Joko Widodos government, and were carried out despite ongoing legal appeals and...
Should we be locking people up in prisons at all?
Aug 01, 2016 07:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Footage aired last week of children being abused in a Northern Territory prison sent shockwaves around the nation. These images forced us to grapple with the problem as if it were breaking news, despite the fact that so...
As Indonesia conducts more executions, Australia's anti-death-penalty advocacy is still lacking
Jul 29, 2016 07:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Indonesia has carried out a third round of executions under President Joko Widodo. Attorney-General H. Muhammad Prasetyo had announced that 14 people would face the firing squad, but only four were killed on Thursday night...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight