Panama Papers Series

Panama Papers: the nuts and bolts of a massive international investigation

Apr 04, 2016 16:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Politics

The reporting of the Panama Papers which has been based on a massive global analysis of documents leaked from law firm Mossack Fonseca outlining how the worlds elite use tax havens is a remarkable feat of collaboration...

ANC's failure to do the right thing has left South Africa at an impasse

Apr 04, 2016 15:48 pm UTC| Politics

What would it take for President Jacob Zuma and the African National Congress (ANC) to understand that South Africa is a constitutional democracy, and provide desperately needed leadership to protect this fundamental...

Newspoll: Labor moves ahead of Turnbull government for the first time

Apr 04, 2016 15:28 pm UTC| Politics

The Federal government has fallen behind Labor in Newspoll for the first time under Malcolm Turnbull, with the ALP now leading 51-49% on a two-party basis. The poll, which also shows another slide in the ratings of the...

Panama Papers Series

All you need to know to start with Panama leak

Apr 04, 2016 11:46 am UTC| Commentary Politics Law

Panama Leak is being considered as the biggest leak of secretive documents ever, which saw prominent people from politics, sports, and businessmen set up companies offshore basically to hide their wealth and possibly evade...

US Election Series

There's a good reason we're so interested in the US election: it matters

Apr 04, 2016 00:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

Kim Beazley was Australian ambassador to the United States from 2010 until January 2016, and a former leader of the federal Labor Party. He is now a senior fellow at the Perth USAsia Centre. This is the first of an...

Difference in a federal system should be cherished not feared

Apr 03, 2016 23:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

The knee-jerk response to the Turnbull Governments proposed federalism reform is to complain that if the states controlled funding to their own schools, this could result in differences between the states, which is bad and...

Dramatic night in South Africa leaves president hanging on by a thread

Apr 02, 2016 12:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

South African President Jacob Zuma apologized to his nation on national television at 8 in the evening after a dramatic 36 hours that ended with him hanging onto power by a thread. The day before his televised apology...