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Once or twice a year David Stemmer gets to go to the beach for work.
Unfortunately it doesn’t involve much swimming or lying around on the sand – he’s generally there because a whale carcass has washed up on the beach and his job as Collections Manager (Mammals) at the South Australian Museum is to ‘break it down’ and...

Forget toilet paper. Now a sizeable chunk of the Australian population only wants to buy kitchen appliances (and one in particular – see below). It’s a type of watered down doomsday prepping, but ultimately eminently sensible if it looks like some COVID...

Back in December, along with a number of much better qualified pundits, we offered our two cents on which food trends would, er, trend in 2020. Then along came COVID-19 and all bets were off.
You could just switch on the news and see exactly which foods were trending – meat, pasta, flour ran out, not just the toilet paper. These first major runs on various stockpiling staples have been followed by other runs – in some cases predictable but...

Anyone over the age of 40 knows that up until perhaps 25 years ago, every suburb had its own hardware store where you could go for all of those bits and pieces you needed around the house.
Now, for the vast majority, these needs are provided by one main retailer, or perhaps more accurately by one or more of a coterie of big box retailers (with names beginning with B, C, K and W), and the local hardware store has largely disappeared from...