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By sacking staff and closing stores, big businesses like The Warehouse could hurt their own long-term interests

  • Written by Jonathan Baker, Lecturer in Business Strategy, Auckland University of Technology
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To paraphrase Winston Churchill, it is curious to see The Warehouse Group (TWG) not letting a good crisis go to waste.

Despite recently receiving NZ$68 million in government wage subsidies as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown, TWG has now proposed store closures and more than 1000 staff layoffs across its Warehouse, Noel...

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does your driving speed make any difference to your car's emissions?

  • Written by Ralph Sims, Professor, School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University
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Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change.

If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz

Does reducing speed reduce emissions from the average car?

Ev...

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If Australia really wants to tackle mental health after coronavirus, we must take action on homelessness

  • Written by Vaughan J Carr, Professor of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales; Adjunct Professor, Monash University, UNSW
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The COVID-19 pandemic has opened fault lines in social, economic and health-care policy in Australia. One area in which all three converge is homelessness.

It’s almost impossible to practise self-isolation and good hygiene if you’re living on the streets or moving from place to place. This puts homeless people at higher risk...

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Attending the G7 in the US carries great diplomatic risks for Australia

  • Written by Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University

“What’s in it for us?”

This is the first question Prime Minister Scott Morrison should have asked himself when US President Donald Trump invited him to join an expanded G7 gathering at Camp David in September.

The invitation came directly to Morrison in a phone call from Trump on June 2.

This was a week after the death of George...

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  6. how to protect your kids from online sexual abuse
  7. how would they bring the International Space Station back down to Earth?
  8. racism, COVID-19, and the inequality that fuels these parallel pandemics
  9. Black Lives Matter outrage must drive police reform in Aotearoa-New Zealand too
  10. How Marriage Therapy Help Your Relationships
  11. How far away can dogs smell and hear?
  12. Student teachers must pass a literacy and numeracy test before graduating – it's unfair and costly
  13. Local news sources are closing across Australia. We are tracking the devastation (and some reasons for hope)
  14. 20% of pregnant Australian women don't receive the recommended mental health screening
  15. The housing boom propelled inequality, but a coronavirus housing bust will skyrocket it
  16. Desire Lines is a small love story inside an epic tale
  17. Businesses get extension for instant asset write-off
  18. Economists back wage freeze 21-19 in new Economic Society-Conversation survey
  19. Free childcare ends July 12, with sector losing JobKeeper but receiving temporary payment
  20. Labor trails federally and in Queensland; Biden increases lead over Trump
  21. New Zealand hits zero active coronavirus cases. Here are 5 measures to keep it that way
  22. why my battle for access to the 'Palace letters' should matter to all Australians
  23. Grindr is deleting its 'ethnicity filter'. But racism is still rife in online dating
  24. do we choose neighbourhoods to live, work and play in?
  25. Spare change? Cashless transactions could end the cultural legacy of the coin
  26. We modelled the future of Leadbeater’s possum habitat and found bushfires, not logging, pose the greatest threat
  27. why do we have boogers?
  28. the promise and peril of a Pacific tourism bubble
  29. Number of Australia's vulnerable children is set to double as COVID-19 takes its toll
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  31. what can go wrong when governments let algorithms make the decisions
  32. Michelle Grattan on recession, the HomeBuilder program and Morrison's phone call with Trump
  33. Why do protests turn violent? It's not just because people are desperate
  34. Let's fix Australia's environment with any pandemic recovery aid – the Kiwis are doing it
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  36. the pandemic has put pressure on many relationships, but here's how to tell if yours will survive
  37. HomeBuilder might be the most-complex least-equitable construction jobs program ever devised
  38. There is no easy path out of coronavirus for live classical music
  39. HomeBuilder misses a chance to make our homes perform better for us and the planet
  40. There may not be enough skilled workers in Australia's pipeline for a post-COVID-19 recovery
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