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“It sounded too good to be true”: Spotlight on cryptocurrency scams in the Pacific

“The fake advertisements state that individuals in Fiji can purchase bitcoin, foreign exchange and binary trading using their mobile money wallets or bank transfers.”

Cooking and heating without gas: what are the impacts of shifting to all-electric homes?

Gas connections for all new housing and sub-divisions will be banned in Victoria from January 1 next year.

Do you drink each day or just on the weekends?

One in four Australians exceed the recommendation of no more than four drinks in one session with men more likely to do so than women.

Australia should offer our ‘Pacific family’ access rather than simply reacting to China

July has already seen Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare visit China, French President Emmanuel Macron visit Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia, and United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken visit Tonga (Australia and New Zealand).

Does a woman’s menstrual cycle affect her athletic performance?

Muscle activation and body composition, which can influence athletic performance.

Distorting, misrepresenting and manipulating history through narratives

The readers should know the historical background and ideology of the historian before looking into their writings to understand the motives, dislikes, ambitions or passion of their historical writings.

We need more than a definition change to fix Australia’s culture of permanent ‘casual’ work

Almost 60% of “casuals” had been in the job for more than a year. About 80% expected to still be there in a year’s time.

Let’s take a Free Walking Tour of Melbourne

We'd walked in Tallinn, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Rotterdam with Free Walking Tour groups, but never in Melbourne!

myTax is fast and free – so why do 2 in 3 Australians still pay to lodge a tax return?

There was an “e-Tax” filing option before the 2015-16 tax year, but this was quite complicated and barely better than filling out a form online.

Australians are living and working longer – but not necessarily healthier

To achieve longer working lives, workplaces will need to become more supportive of mature-age workers, including accommodating long-term health conditions.

Must-read

Auckland mayor apologises after calling Indian-origin staffer ‘Muslim terrorist’, community says it is ‘very unfortunate’

However, the apology drew further scrutiny after the mayor referenced respect for the Sikh community, despite the staff member not being Sikh.

Pretend play is a magical part of childhood. New research suggests it can also help mental health

Children have huge imaginations and use these to turn rocks into spaceships, tables into forts or pens into fairies
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