Pauline Hanson’s attention-grabbing policy to give mortgage holders and renters greater access to their super is high populism while being – according to its many critics – low economics and bad for people’s retirement. That said, one “teal” independent, Kate Chaney, says it’s worth examining. And Liberal maverick frontbencher Andrew […]
Feminist activist Gloria Steinem has died aged 92. Known almost as much for her trademark mid-parted hair and large aviator sunglasses as for her acute intelligence, courage and wit, she will long be known for setting feminist torches alight globally over her six-decade career as a journalist, activist and feminist icon. Growing […]
Should the federal government be constitutionally able to ban a group, resulting in stiff criminal penalties for its continuing members, even though the group has not committed any crime? This is the dilemma the High Court is facing with the constitutional challenge by the White Australia Party to the validity of the […]
Class has always mattered, and now social democratic parties that sprung from a working class — including the Australian Labor Party – are finding out why. Over many years, and in many countries, a growing view among political actors and within political science was that class was losing its punch. […]
Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, runs the most subscribed-to YouTube channel in the world (with 484 million subscribers) and has an estimated net worth of US$2.6 billion. He is also a prominent philanthropist. Beyond his involvement in fundraising initiatives such as #TeamTrees, which claims to have planted more than 24 million trees worldwide, […]
Back in 2005, US economist Fred Bergsten coined the term “Group of 2” or “G2”, proposing a stronger partnership between what are now the world’s two largest economies – the United States and China. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis a few years later, economic cooperation between these two countries briefly […]
Coles has been found to have misled its supermarket customers over discounts – and could now face hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties. In a landmark case, Federal Court Justice Michael O’Bryan found 13 out of 14 sample sale tickets examined in the case had not offered genuine discounts, because Coles […]
After a years-long legal battle, the Federal Court of Australia has handed down a judgment in a landmark case about gender discrimination law. It found a transgender woman was directly discriminated against on the basis of gender by being refused access to a women-only social media app. The case, Giggle for Girls […]
The consumer watchdog’s Federal Court case against Woolworths over its “prices dropped” promotions is underway and will run into next week. This – and a separate court action against Coles – are crucial legal cases, with the potential for hundreds of millions of dollars in fines. Around two-thirds of all Australian supermarket sales are made at […]
