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The rise of big pub companies has led to focus on profits and share prices.
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Distancing rules will make life very difficult for smaller bars, cafes and restaurants. Our streets can be modified quickly to help save an important part of the life of cities and their economies.
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As restaurants and cafes re-open, here’s what you can do to limit the chance of coronavirus transmission.
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What if lingering in a shop or restaurant is the last thing on your mind? COVID-19 is rewriting the rules of retail.
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The MyGov website ground to a halt this week as thousands of people tried to access welfare support. As a result, long queues popped up at Centrelink offices across the country.
Heston Blumenthal at a media event at Dinner by Heston in 2016. The restaurant bears his name but he does not own it.
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High-end restaurant Dinner by Heston Blumenthal has allegedly underpaid staff by $4 million. Our research finds wage theft is accepted as the industry norm.
Without a trace.
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Airbnb now has 7m listings in more than 100,000 cities, making it larger than the eight biggest hotel groups combined.
Airbnb is a growing threat to the major hotel chains.
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The number of Airbnb properties has exploded since its founding in 2008. A hospitality management expert looked at how this has hurt hotels.
Much of the debate around low-skilled migration is built around misunderstandings.
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Much immigration policy is based around three misunderstandings – on what employers, the public and migrants themselves want.
A sorry sight.
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Boarded up pubs are becoming a common sight, and it’s having a real impact on rural village life.
Travel is up around the world – but not to the US.
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In 2016, the number of international tourists to the US dropped by more than 2 percent, while tourism trended upward worldwide. There are several explanations for the dip.
Gamblers feel connected to the machine as hospitality keeps them playing for longer.
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Pokies companies want to keep their customers “in the zone”, that’s why they spend so much to keep tabs on them.
Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus: how not to treat strangers.
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Why right-wing populism gets the tradition of legality and justice exactly the wrong way round.
The view of Cartagena, Colombia from Tierra Bomba. Despite being one of the most visited cities in South America, Tierra Bomba remains highly impoverished. Why doesn’t large-scale tourism benefit such a community?
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At many popular destinations, residents are protesting against crowding, rowdy visitors and low wages. With some research, travelers can use their visits to enrich host areas instead of harming them.
Wages are low among hospitality workers, who are disproportionately female.
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Women in minimum wage jobs earn 10% less than their male peers. Wages are systematically lower in jobs more commonly held by women.
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High streets are being taken over in a battle between specialty cafés and the
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Even emergency department staff can have trouble telling if someone’s intoxicated as clinical clues can mislead.
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We all know what a drunk person looks like, right? Wrong. Even health care workers can be confused.
Labor’s figure of 700,000 is based largely on a McKell Institute report.
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In a recorded phone call to voters, Labor leader Bill Shorten said that “cuts to penalty rates will rip off 700,000 workers”. Is that true?
Hospitality workers, along with fast food and retail workers, will have Sunday and public holiday rates cut under the decision.
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The Fair Work Commission’s latest decision to cut certain Sunday and public holiday penalty rates continues a tradition of undervaluing young workers.
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Where we choose to go on trips abroad is easily skewed by the nature of news reports, and that can have huge impacts on destinations.