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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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