Our electricity network regulation is in trouble
Mar 08, 2016 04:36 am UTC| Law
Want to check if Australias utility regulation is working? To highlight the problems, you need look no further than the recent decisions by the Australian Competition Tribunal on four electricity network...
ASIC v ANZ rate rigging case will be one of epic proportions
Mar 08, 2016 01:28 am UTC| Law
Regardless of your view of the track record of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the regulator has the timing right in launching a civil legal action against ANZ Bank. ASIC would not have...
Women in the porn industry need rights and proper pay, not token gestures
Mar 08, 2016 01:14 am UTC| Law Entertainment
Over the last two decades independent producers have made important contributions to the pornosphere. Enabled by increasingly affordable and accessible technology, alternative, indie, feminist, queer, ethical, amateur,...
CommInsure case shows it's time to target reckless misconduct in banking
Mar 07, 2016 22:50 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Behind this weeks expose by Fairfax Media journalist Adele Ferguson and the ABCs Four Corners program of the insurance claims refused by Commonwealth Bank insurance arm, CommInsure, lies a bigger problem in the way the...
How our bias toward the future can cloud our moral judgment
Mar 07, 2016 22:35 pm UTC| Life Law
People are often forgiven for actions that they would never get permission for in the first place a phenomenon described as Stuarts Law of Retroaction. Children who watch TV for longer than they are allowed to, teenagers...
Why the world needs a UN treaty to combat violence against women
Mar 07, 2016 22:34 pm UTC| Law
Violence against women is one of the most prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is estimated that 35% of women have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lives either by their partner or a...
Why Brexit would be bad for employment rights
Mar 07, 2016 22:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Imagine a country in which there is no statutory right to paid holiday, no legal limit on the number of hours employees can be required to work, no right to a daily rest period, no laws to prevent employers discriminating...
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