Domestic violence is arguably the hidden violence in Australia. This article suggests three factors which the Bryce Inquiry could well look at, and which have wider ramifications Australia-wide.

It is five years since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and its knock-on effects are still playing out in ways that are likely to have longer-term implications than those purely financial in nature; namely, its impact on the green agendas of governments and industries and the brake it has placed on an emerging green economy.

The spectre of an ageing population has led to the government’s exhortation to repair the national economy to avert ‘intergenerational inequity’, writes Associate Professor Elizabeth Brooke, from Swinburne University's Centre for Social Impact.

The time is right for Australia to step up its economic diplomacy with the EU. Australia gains little in continuing to cruise along on its current track, losing out on new trade and investment opportunities with the EU without an FTA.

The Victorian government’s announcement that it is ceasing publication of its yearly Statistical Profile of Prisoners at a time of unprecedented growth in prisoners in Victoria is deeply disturbing and entirely unjustifiable.