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Time’s running out to book Virgin flight credits before June 30. What are your refund rights?
Two experts explain what the new Virgin rules mean, the options for chasing a refund – and how to make it simpler for consumers in future.
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AVFA Podcast – Understanding Systemic Change
A View from Afar podcast: Change is impacting on all of us, whether we are navigating a pathway ahead with our careers, balancing the pressures and increases in our cost of living, or considering the consequences of global systemic change. Let's take the conversation to a deeper level of understanding and analyse Systemic Change, Geopolitical Change, Normative Change, and Structural Change.
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The new price gouging law starts on July 1. Can it rein in Coles and Woolworths?
The new law targeting supermarket prices will be tough to apply. But it does put the big supermarkets on notice that their pricing practices are being watched.
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Why the whole country will be watching Victoria’s November state election
This election is likely to be watched closely across the country because of what it reveals about the changing party system in Australia.
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Victoria wants daily ‘device-free’ time in high schools. What works best for learning?
The research tells us there is no ‘magic screen time number’ to guarantee quality learning. It depends how the technology is used and for what.
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Today’s space race could turn fatal if we don’t agree on new rules
Only by fostering a deeper sense of ‘space citizenship’ will everyone benefit from our journeys to the Moon – and beyond.
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Plant-based products need to be easier to find and consistently affordable for shoppers
Pricing policies and retail strategies can help shift diets, but they must account for socioeconomic inequalities in how consumers respond to food prices.
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Canada’s AI strategy must reckon with the environmental implications of data centres
AI is often described as if it lives in the cloud. The persistent controversies regarding the Wonder Valley project in Alberta illustrate how false that is.
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With Iran and the US signing a peace deal, where does that leave Benjamin Netanyahu?
The Israeli prime minister faces an invidious choice in an election year: kowtow to a powerful ally, or risk displeasure at home by ending the war with Hezbollah.
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The new Middle East: How the Old Order died and what is rising in its place
ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean An Israeli cabinet minister has named the new Middle East on live radio — and he named it in alarm. What Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli called the “Türkiye-Qatar-Pakistan axis” is not a threat. It is the architecture of a new regional order. And once you see its logic, you cannot
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Greater Nouméa bus service to be maintained on election day
By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific The Greater Nouméa bus network service will be maintained on New Caledonia’s provincial election day, Sunday June 28, bus operator Tanéo/Mixed Syndicate of Urban Transports (SMTU) has confirmed. The announcement follows complaints by several political parties in the French Pacific territory, with less than two weeks to go before
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Can Africa survive the global aid squeeze? Yes, but it will take financial discipline
Africa does not need another grand vision. It needs to treat the vision it already has as a discipline.