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Nexit, Frexit or Italeave? British vote fires up EU’s ‘Outers’

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Britain's vote to leave the European Union fired up populist eurosceptic parties across the continent on Friday, giving fresh voice to their calls to...

The need for speed: there’s still time to fix Australia’s NBN

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Mike Quigley, University of Technology Sydney A National Broadband Network (NBN) based on Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) was, and still is, the right answer...

Is there any hope for gambling reform in a new parliament?

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Charles Livingstone, Monash University Since then-prime minister Julia Gillard appointed Peter Slipper to the speaker’s chair in 2011, the gambling lobby has appeared triumphant in...

Election 2016: Who’s Medicare’s friend? Examine bulk-billing

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The key to examining whether one side or the other wants to destroy Medicare is the baked-in feature that makes it work: bulk-billing. The Coalition...

Mirrorless Medium Format: Hasselblad Unveils the X1D

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After several tantalizing teasers and one very serious leak yesterday, the Hasselblad X1D, the world’s first compact mirrorless medium format camera, has officially arrived....

Is Medicare under threat? Making sense of the privatisation debate

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Stephen Duckett, Grattan Institute Many Australians will go to the polls on July 2 believing the future of Medicare is at stake. In a sense...

The Lonely Aftermath of China’s One Child Policy

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Single-person households could reach 132 million by 2050 Erosion of traditional family units would increase consumption In her chic Beijing studio, 26-year-old Summer Liu relaxes on...

Former NBN boss slams Coalition’s ‘colossal mistake’

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FTTP 'was and still is the right answer'. Switching from a full-fibre NBN to the Coalition's multi-technology network has been "a colossal mistake", according to NBN...

Electricity prices, the election agenda and the case for bipartisanship

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Mike Sandiford, University of Melbourne In case you had forgotten, electricity prices were a really big deal in the last federal election campaign in 2013,...

Selling the family jewels. Privatisation a clear picture

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The following is an excerpt from a report on privatisation commissioned by The Unitarian Church of East Melbourne prepared and written by Henrike Brussaard...