The forgotten 660,000 locked out of home ownership
Apr 02, 2017 01:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Life Real Estate
Imagine two people in their 30s, Lee and Sarah. Both want to acquire their first home. Theyve saved a deposit of A$70,000 each and want to buy the same type of apartment in the same block. Lee is able to buy off the...
How did celibacy become mandatory for priests?
Mar 28, 2017 11:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Priestly celibacy, or rather the lack of it, is in the news. There have been allegations of sex orgies, prostitution and pornography against Catholic clerics in Italy. On March 8, Pope Francis suggested, in an interview...
Are converts to Islam more likely to become extremists?
Mar 28, 2017 10:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The process of conversion to any religion is best thought of as a journey, and this is how it is often described to others by those who undergo it. While conversion happens in many faiths, conversion to Islam has been...
Terror in London: Western cities will always be vulnerable to these attacks
Mar 23, 2017 06:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Just when the Western world had absorbed the shock of a truck bombing in Berlin in December that claimed 12 lives, it is reminded again of the dangers of lone-wolf attacks inspired by Islamic State (IS) that are almost...
What's the point of an ethics course?
Mar 23, 2017 02:26 am UTC| Life
Earlier in March, news broke that the White House had declined to award a contract for an ethics course aimed at senior staffers, Cabinet nominees and others holding political appointments in the Trump...
Immigrants deported under Obama share stories of terror and rights violations
Mar 23, 2017 01:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Although it is difficult to get exact numbers, some estimates show Immigration and Customs Enforcement home raids have never resulted in more than 30,000 apprehensions in any given year. At that rate, it could take 366...
EU court allows companies to ban headscarves. What will be the impact on Muslim women?
Mar 18, 2017 07:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Life
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that interprets EU law issued a landmark judgment on March 14 that upheld the right of private companies in EU member countries to enact policies barring employees from...
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