Items filtered by date: March 2015
Monday, 16 March 2015 19:03

Overhaul At The CIA

The CIA has announced sweeping changed and will focus more on the cyber world. Should we really believe they were so far behind the times. Richard Kazimer explains.

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Monday, 16 March 2015 18:59

Hillary Clintons Email Controversy

Hillary Clinton has been accused of using a personal email account to conduct official government business. So what's the big deal?

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A few weeks back CPA Australia published their case for why GST should rise. This week The Australia Institute's Matt Grudnoff explains why that would be a bad idea.

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Monday, 16 March 2015 18:47

Five German words we don't have

The Germans have words for everything. We look at Weltschmerz, Kummerspeck, Torschlusspanik and a couple of others. How can we manage without them?

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Monday, 16 March 2015 18:42

Nick Clegg ready to stand down

Word on the street is that Nick Clegg will bow out of UK politics in just a few weeks, after the (unwinable) next election. JOhn Dobbie explains what went wrong for him.

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The UKIP leader says he wants to abandon much of the UK's race discrimination law because, he says, it isn't needed any more. Does that mean racism is dead?

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Monday, 16 March 2015 18:31

Moronic tax laws

If the government really wanted to help small business it would take a look at the complexity of tax law, particularly in relation to personal services income.

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Monday, 16 March 2015 18:26

Can You Shoot A Drone?

Richard Kazimer reports on rules around drone use in the United States. You can't shoot one down over your property. So do you have any recourse if someone starts filming your back yard?

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Monday, 16 March 2015 18:16

The GOP and the Iran Nuclear Deal

Whether you agree with Obama or not on supporting Iran's nuclear program, surely the GOP senators who wrote a letter to the Ayatollah were way out of line.

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Monday, 16 March 2015 18:08

Swedes to meet Julian Assange

Swedish prosecutors have done a u-turn and agreed to come to Julian Assange's place at the Ecuadorean embassy in London. So, could he face assault charges? 

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