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As AI becomes more pervasive, New Zealand’s economic strength may lie in work where the value is measured in what is grown, built, repaired and cared for.
Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest is a contemporary American take on Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 classic crime drama High and Low.
Director, HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne The Australian government has “an appetite to be bold and ambitious” in its economic ...
The cautious, conditional endorsements from Canada and the U.K. reflect the workings of a dated international system that governs the birth of states.
This can add to frustrations parents may already feel around feeding kids.
Newly revealed fossils of four new ancient penguin species highlight how their early evolution optimised wings and feet for powerful underwater propulsion.
A stroke happens when the blood supply to part of the brain is cut off, either because of a blockage (called an ischaemic stroke) or bleeding (a haemorrhagic stroke). Around 83% of strokes are ...
The term “productivity” can intimidate the outsider, but its basic meaning is simple: the effectiveness of productive effort – the extent to which inputs lead to outputs. Greater productivity means we ...
Nicolas Rothwell and Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson’s new book suggests only Aboriginal people, and the misfits who cleave to them, can know the desert’s grim majesty.
Have you ever been part of a large group project? You might assume that with more people involved, the work gets done better and faster. However, as more team members join the group, the effectiveness ...
UN-mandated independent investigators have uncovered “systematic torture” in Myanmar’s military-run detention facilities – including beatings, electric shocks, strangulations and gang rape – a pattern ...