CommInsure – You pays your money and you takes your chance
Mar 11, 2016 05:22 am UTC| Law
In the scandal over possible misconduct by CommInsure, the insurance arm of CommBank, for its treatment of sick and dying customers, much has been made about how serious illnesses are diagnosed. In one example in a...
Lost in the world: the young people shunted around a global asylum system
Mar 10, 2016 15:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Immigration control is a global phenomenon. Young people seeking safety and security are subjected to the vagaries of all kinds of solutions at various national borders. Sometimes they are taken in and sometimes they are...
As lobbying rules sweep the world, Scotland's plans look half-baked
Mar 10, 2016 14:56 pm UTC| Law Politics
There is a transparency trend developing across many countries in Europe and beyond. Dozens of countries have introduced legislation around freedom of information and access to documents, and in some cases open-government...
Are looser gun laws changing the social fabric of Missouri?
Mar 10, 2016 14:08 pm UTC| Law
Missouri is poised to become the latest state to allow guns into college classrooms. The Republican-led state senate is currently finalizing deliberations on a bill that, if passed, would remove restrictions on carrying...
It will take education, not just legislation, to tackle cybercrime
Mar 10, 2016 14:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The bill is a crucial and welcome step in the fight against phishers, hackers and online identity thieves. It defines various offences that relate to data, messages, computers and networks. It makes it criminal for anyone...
CommInsure scandal reminds us commercial forces are at play in medicine
Mar 10, 2016 04:30 am UTC| Law
A scandal has emerged involving the insurance giant CommInsure, following claims by the companys (now ex) chief health officer that they purposefully sought to avoid paying health-related claims by using outdated disease...
Is access to our phones a step toward the police wanting access to our minds?
Mar 09, 2016 22:34 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
We use our smartphones so much these days, it almost feels like they have become extensions of ourselves, boosting our capacity to calculate and remember. What might come of this closer union of human and technological...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects