It's coming fast, the digital hub where i-pads talk to mobile phones, computers talk to TVs, TVs have hundreds of apps, and you can choose and change with your magical remote wand. But, big but, who is in charge of customer service for all these devices when something goes phut?

Dame Silvia Cartwright is currently one of two international judges in the five member 'Trial Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia' which is trying former senior members of the Khmer Rouge for war crimes committed between 1975 and 1989. An estimated 1.7 million people died either by execution, overwork, disease or...

Traditionally Australia's political allegiances have been with the United States. More recently our economic fortunes have been tied to China, which is asserting itself as a global power and in the process perhaps challenging American hegemony. So do we have to choose where our primary allegiance lies? Guests Hugh WhiteProfessor of Strategic Studies at the...

With one in ten living in poverty and 70 per cent of poor children in Australia living in families with unemployed parents, whose job is it to get stories of inequality and poverty into the mainstream media? The journalists or the welfare sector... or both? And why is there such a large disconnect between the...

The recent spate of floods, earthquakes, tsunamis and the nuclear accident in Japan are a reminder of how interconnected our energy, transport, water and communications systems have become. Which is why future infrastructure investment needs to take climate change into account. Guest Professor Brian Collins,Chief Scientific Advisor, UK Department of Transport and Dept of Business...