Category Archives: Property
Scotland: inside Nicola Sturgeon’s operation to win European support for independence from the UK
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. A second referendum on independence for Scotland is off the cards for now, following a decision by the UK supreme court that the Scottish government could not call a vote without the cooperation of the UK government. First…
Amazon’s resuscitation of Neighbours: can Aussie TV become good friends with streaming?
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Many were shocked by the announcement last Friday that Australian soap opera Neighbours would return to screens in 2023, courtesy of a new deal between production house Fremantle Australia and multinational digital streamer Amazon. Significantly, this announcement overturns…
Coalitions, kingmakers and a Rugby World Cup: the calculations already influencing next year’s NZ election
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Sometimes it feels as if election year has begun already. Winston Peters has declared New Zealand First won’t join a governing coalition with Labour after the 2023 election. He wants to win back those who abandoned him in…
Why the UK needs to stop exporting plastic waste
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The world produces a vast amount of plastic. Global plastic production increased from 2 million metric tons in 1950 to 348 million metric tons in 2017. Yet much of this plastic is wasted: 86% of the world’s plastic…
What Awaab Ishak’s death says about the state of social housing in the UK – expert Q&A
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The inquest into the death of a two-year-old-boy, Awaab Ishak, in Rochdale, has found that black mould and the landlord’s repeated failure to fix the problem, was to blame. Delivering her verdict, senior coroner Joanne Kearsley said: “I’m…
Georgia’s runoff election: why the result is so important to Biden and Trump
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The outcome of the November 2022 US midterms is now clear. Republicans will narrowly take control of the House of Representatives. The Democrats managed to hold the Senate with a razor-thin majority of 50 to 49. There is…
Final Victorian Newspoll gives Labor a large lead
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The Victorian state election is today. There are 88 single-member lower house seats with members elected by preferential voting, and 40 upper house seats in eight five-member electorates. The election in the lower house seat of Narracan has…
Monkeys’ brains are wired to read body language – just like ours
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic drove a surge in remote work and learning, videoconferencing apps such as Zoom saw their user numbers boom. Plenty of other options were available, but the exponential growth in videoconferencing underlines an…
How Dan Andrews pulled off one of the most remarkable victories in modern politics
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. As the 2022 Victorian election campaign moved into its final days late last week, the consensus within the major parties, various community independent candidates, new little parties furious about lockdowns, and the mainstream media was that the election…
Labor easily wins Victorian election; Greens on track to win four lower house seats
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. This article has been updated. With 53% counted in the lower house for the Victorian election, the ABC is calling 51 of the 88 seats for Labor, a clear majority. The Coalition has 23, the Greens five and…