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Target's decline is part of a deeper trend

  • Written by: Jason Pallant, Lecturer of Marketing, Swinburne University of Technology

Wesfarmers’ decision to close or rebrand up to 167 of its 284 Target and Target Country stores should not come as too much of a surprise.

The once popular store has been ailing for years, outmanoeuvred by its successful and popular sister business, Kmart.

Up to 75 Target and Target Country stores will be closed, with the balance being...

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The WHO's coronavirus inquiry will be more diplomatic than decisive. But Australia should step up in the meantime

  • Written by: Anthony Zwi, Professor of Global Health and Development, UNSW
The WHO's coronavirus inquiry will be more diplomatic than decisive. But Australia should step up in the meantimeUS Mission Geneva/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

This week the World Health Assembly, the governing structure of the World Health Organization, endorsed a resolution that comprehensively addressed the global COVID-19 response.

Buried almost at the end, in the penultimate clause of the seven-page document, was the outcome several nations (including...

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Is it time to reopen our borders? For states still recording new cases, it's too soon

  • Written by: Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics, University of South Australia

This week, we’ve seen state governments in heated debate over the question of reopening borders between Australian states and territories.

New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian is arguing for the reopening of interstate travel, which will be important for Australia’s economic recovery from the pandemic.

Others, including Western...

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How universities came to rely on international students

  • Written by: Julia Horne, University Historian and Principal Research Fellow, History, University of Sydney
How universities came to rely on international studentsShutterstock

This essay is based on an episode of the University of Technology Sydney podcast series “The New Social Contract”. The audio series examines how the relationship between universities, the state and the public might be reshaped as we live through this global pandemic.


It’s sad times for public universities as they fight...

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  2. Michelle Grattan on the China-Australia trade war and state border policy
  3. New shows tell our isolation stories on screen – making the most of what's at hand
  4. What defines casual work? Federal Court ruling highlights a fundamental flaw in Australian labour law
  5. 3 experts rate Australia's emissions technology plan
  6. From spit to scrums. How can sports players minimise their coronavirus risk?
  7. Lockdowns, second waves and burn outs. Spanish flu's clues about how coronavirus might play out in Australia
  8. 'wolf warriors' ready to fight back
  9. Low staff levels must be part of any reviews into the coronavirus outbreaks in NZ rest homes
  10. Australian barley growers are the victims of weaponised trade rules
  11. Rich and poor don't recover equally from epidemics. Rebuilding fairly will be a global challenge
  12. Australia, it's time to talk about our water emergency
  13. the Melbourne bookshop that ignited Australian modernism
  14. Australian quantum technology could become a $4 billion industry and create 16,000 jobs
  15. Border wars split political leaders and embroil health experts
  16. Tonight we riot? What Nintendo's 'revolutionary' video game misses about worker liberation
  17. Donald Trump is taking hydroxychloroquine to ward off COVID-19. Is that wise?
  18. Childcare is critical for COVID-19 recovery. We can't just snap back to 'normal' funding arrangements
  19. NSW has approved Snowy 2.0. Here are six reasons why that's a bad move
  20. Immunity passports could help end lockdown, but risk class divides and intentional infections
  21. Architecture was built on copies – China wants it built on nationalism
  22. 15 ways to keep your indoor cat happy
  23. Does vitamin D protect against coronavirus?
  24. The Senate inquiry into family violence has closed, missing an important opportunity
  25. Why it is "reasonable and necessary" for the NDIS to support people's sex lives
  26. Coronavirus has turned retail therapy into retail anxiety – keeping customers calm will be key to carrying on
  27. When the Coronavirus Supplement stops, JobSeeker needs to increase by $185 a week
  28. Recessions scar young people their entire lives, even into retirement
  29. Home of the Arts – inside an arts centre keeping body and soul together
  30. How Mumbai's poorest neighbourhood is battling to keep coronavirus at bay
  31. After the bushfires, we helped choose the animals and plants in most need. Here's how we did it
  32. Plane cabins are havens for germs. Here's how they can clean up their act
  33. New Zealand's COVID-19 Tracer app won't help open a 'travel bubble' with Australia anytime soon
  34. Jim Chalmers on JobKeeper's flaws and the Eden-Monaro byelection
  35. 7 ways to manage your #coronaphobia
  36. Morrison government dangles new carrots for industry but fails to fix bigger climate policy problem
  37. The world agreed to a coronavirus inquiry. Just when and how, though, are still in dispute
  38. Coronavirus is a 'sliding doors' moment. What we do now could change Earth's trajectory
  39. Denied intimacy in 'iso', Aussies go online for adult content – so what's hot in each major city?
  40. why saliva tests could offer a better alternative to nasal COVID-19 swabs
  41. A thousand yarns and snapshots – why poetry matters during a pandemic
  42. The pieces of Australia post-coronavirus are falling into place
  43. how to count like a bee
  44. Don't want to send the kids back to school? Why not try unschooling at home
  45. Thanks to The Conversation's authors, for going above and beyond
  46. Recession hits Māori and Pasifika harder. They must be part of planning New Zealand's COVID-19 recovery
  47. Australia doesn't need more anti-terror laws that aren't necessary – or even used
  48. why we need to focus on increased consumption as much as population growth
  49. China used anti-dumping rules against us because what goes around comes around
  50. Australia must outperform to come out even from COVID-19

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