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Anzac Day public holiday: Push to change opening hours in NSW

The NSW government is reviewing trading laws for retail businesses on Anzac Day, with more stores facing stricter closure rules for the public holiday. Currently, businesses including supermarkets and clothing stores are required to stay closed until 1pm at the earliest on Anzac Day, while traders including pharmacies, petrol stations and cafes are exempt from

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PH total factor productivity in agri and climate change

OF the many challenges the global agriculture sector is facing, climate change is perhaps the most magnified. And this is for good reason, as extreme weather conditions can wreak havoc on food systems, affecting both producers and consumers. A study paper by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) posted on its website clearly

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The Comprehensive Revisions: Little Change in Trajectory

Despite some views that GDP growth would be revised downward substantially (see discussion here), the recent trajectory of GDP and GDO was largely unchanged (even if the level over the period 2019 onward was). A lot of the revisions are summarized in this figure from Paweł Skrzypczyński: Source: Paweł Skrzypczyński. Since the data are indexed

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Climate change pushes SE Asia to share power

HANOI: The urgency for Southeast Asian nations to switch to clean energy to combat climate change is reinvigorating a 20-year-old plan for the region to share power. Malaysia and Indonesia inked a deal in Bali, Indonesia, last month to study 18 potential locations where cross-border transmission lines can be set up. Those links could eventually

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Biden ‘hears’ Pacific islands on climate change

U.S. President Joe Biden vowed Monday to help Pacific island nations deal with climate change, at a summit aimed at boosting Washington’s influence in the region against an increasingly assertive China. “I want you to know I hear you” on climate issues, Biden told leaders of the 18-member Pacific Islands Forum on a showy visit

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TB talks: Will #UNGA78 change these three lives?

In the past five years, none of the targets political leaders adopted after the previous round of high-level discussions on the fight against tuberculosis (TB) at the United Nations General Assembly have been met. (David Harrison) In 2018, at the last high-level meeting on the fight against tuberculosis (TB) world leaders adopted aspirational goals to

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Is there anything climate change can’t do? Now scientists say global warming is causing rising drug and alcohol abuse – because ‘sunnier days encourage day drinking’

Scientists are blaming climate change for the rise in alcohol and drug use. A team from Columbia University analyzed hospital rates in New York State from 1995 to 2014, finding an increase amid warmer temperatures. Researchers suggested that alcohol-related visits may be driven by people’s tendency to consume more substances in pleasant outdoor weather and more

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