by Dahlia Lithwick | Sep 29, 2019 | News
Way back in 2017, John Oliver started calling the early Trump-era scandals ‘Stupid Watergates.’ This blossomed over the years into a series of segments on episodes in the Donald Trump presidency that could be characterised as ‘a scandal with all the potential...
by United Nations | Sep 23, 2019 | Issue 1, Journal, News, Volume 18
Top climate scientists issued a report on 22 September showing that over the last several years, sea-level rise, planetary warming, shrinking ice sheets and carbon pollution have accelerated; a sobering call to action for political leaders headed to New York for...
by ACSI | Sep 19, 2019 | Issue 1, Journal, News, Volume 18
Royal Commission proceedings and declining public trust failed to dampen executive bonuses last year, with more than half of ASX100 CEOs receiving at least 70 per cent of their maximum entitlement, according to the latest analysis of CEO pay by the Australian Council...
by Andrew Leigh | Sep 17, 2019 | News
Australia has entered a second ‘convict age’, with the highest share of the population incarcerated than at any time since 1899. That is the most general finding of a new paper by Andrew Leigh titled ‘The Second Convict Age: Explaining the Return of Mass...
by Evatt Foundation | Sep 13, 2019 | Issue 2, Journal, News, Volume 18
Thomas Piketty’a new book, Capital and Ideology, has been published in French and is scheduled to be published in English on 10 March 2020. The publisher, Harvard University Press/Belknap Press, describes the book as follows: ‘The epic successor to one of...
by Terry Hughes | Sep 12, 2019 | Issue 1, News, Volume 18
It’s official. The outlook for the Great Barrier Reef has been downgraded from ‘poor’ to ‘very poor’ by the Australian government’s own experts. That’s the conclusion of the latest five-yearly report from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park...
