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League Cup history against Plymouth Argyle for Exeter City encounter
Plymouth Argyle will have to go against the tide of history if they are to beat Exeter City in the first round of the Carabao Cup at Home Park on Monday night. This will be the fifth time that the two Devon rivals have met in the competition and on each of the four previous occasions it has been the Grecians who have come out on top. The first time that the clubs met in the Football League Cup was in the first round on Wednesday, August 14 ,1968.
Plymouth Argyle statistical highlights and records from 2025/26 season
John Eales Plymouth Argyle came agonisingly close to making the League One play-offs on Saturday at Northampton - a remarkable achievement for a club that were bottom of the table at noon on November 22nd. Any inquest into why the club failed to make the top six will look at the poor start to the season, with the opening four games being lost, and depressingly poor form in October and November.
BILL’S BITES: House price boom has further to run
Australia’s housing markets are again outperforming expectations. Despite recent extended lockdowns, prices have continued to post strong gains with even the most affected markets of Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra sustaining a strong double-digit annual pace of growth.
Big investors eye clean energy investments
For Australia, a cleaner energy future as we head towards 2050 is imperative. It presents an enormous opportunity on multiple levels, but the challenge is ensuring we have the right structures in place to support it. What will underpin Australia’s efforts is an effective transition to the reliable generation and distribution of that energy. To get there, our current generation and distribution networks need to have the capability to handle the energy transition.
The cattle and cheese innovators smashing stereotypes
If you do a quick Google image search for “Australian farmer”, it may be no surprise that only 16 per cent of people in the first 100 are women. It’s by no means a scientific test, but reflects a fairly common perception that Australian farming is synonymous with men, despite women’s critical contribution.
APRA's move a modest headwind for a hot housing market - for now
After months of ‘will they or won’t they’ chatter, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has stepped in to counter rising risks in the housing market. So, what does it mean for prices? Well, in short, not much – in the short-term at least.
Locked down but not out: SMEs raring for reopening
It’s been a difficult period for millions of Australians and today’s easing of COVID restrictions in New South Wales marks a significant moment in the nation’s path through the pandemic. We have seen an incredible response across Australia to accelerate vaccinations, and this much anticipated milestone for NSW will bring greater freedoms for both households and businesses.
When will she be right?
At this year's UN Women Australia #IWD2021 lunch in March, I stood in front of 1200 people, which in itself feels surreal, and reminded them that according to the World Economic Forum the first generation of women that would experience equality would do so in 2120. My 16-year-old daughter was in the room. On the WEF’s forecast, that’s not her daughter, nor her daughter’s daughter. For those in the room, I know it seemed unfathomable.
The dog school with a mental health difference
Kelly Barnes had always thought of Dugald, her 14-year-old farm working Kelpie, as a mate. But she never guessed the old dog would end up sparking an idea to tackle the mental health struggles prevalent in farming communities across Australia. “He’s just been everywhere with me, my constant companion and workmate,” says Barnes, who worked on farms as a livestock contractor across Australia after migrating from England in 2007.
Tech needs to be built to change
Two years ago, not long after arriving in Sydney, I was out getting a haircut. As I chatted to my barber, who was probably around 25 years old and happened to be a Westpac customer, our chat turned to banking apps. After bracing myself, I asked him what he liked about the bank, why he banked with Westpac. His answer flawed me. “I like what Westpac does for the community, you know, like flying the rescue helicopters,” he replied.
Home schooling, WFH: Handling an ‘imperfect system’ a bit longer
The maths worksheet is late, and you can’t remember how to do long division, much less teach it. The year two’s homework remains stubbornly unread, while your work email inbox dings at you accusingly. Meanwhile, the meeting you’re supposed to be in started five minutes ago, and your youngest is trying to put lipstick on the cat. Sound familiar?
Delta divergence: How consumers have been spending around Australia
There’s a stark graph in Westpac’s latest “Coast to Coast” update on the state economies highlighting the divergent damage the Delta outbreaks have had around the country. Output across “rest of Australia” is expected to steadily rise in the second half of calendar 2021, while the more heavily lockdown-impacted New South Wales and Victoria experience a sharp dip before a recovery.
‘A great ride’: Bill Evans on 30 years as Westpac’s top economics forecaster
Bill Evans has done countless presentations over his 40-odd years in financial markets. But a few stand out during some of the biggest events the nation has seen, from the early 1990s recession to the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic.
‘It’s all people’: What 50 years in business taught Hungry Jack's founder Jack Cowin
After half a century in business, Jack Cowin doesn’t blink when asked what it takes to get an idea off the ground and enjoy success. “I don’t think – in my case or for other entrepreneurs that I know – that you ever feel you’ve been successful because you carry this paranoia about what could go wrong,” the 79-year old tells Westpac Wire as his Hungry Jack’s burger chain celebrates its 50 year anniversary.
‘If I can’t see you working, are you?’ The WFH trust adjustment
As the operator of hybrid work website OfficeForTomorrow.com, Geoff Quattromani is unsurprisingly a big fan of the massive changes to working and workplaces in the past 18 months. But even he has some concerns about one quirk to emerge with a hint of a big brother vibe: the use of time tracking software to keep tabs on staff working from home.
Former Australia Rugby Captain John Eales on Leadership
Sport sells itself on 50:50 moments. The turning points, often late in a contest, that decide an outcome. The bounce of a ball, a referee’s call, a clutch hit. But how often are these moments truly 50:50? My thesis is that they are rarely 50:50. That they rarely come down to the toss of a coin. Because otherwise, how do you explain why some teams tend to win 80-90% of the 50:50s and other teams tend to lose 80-90% of them?
The EU referendum - one week to go: extracting insights from Facebook using R
In this article we describe some of the data available from the official Facebook pages of these two campaign groups. We aim (i) to illustrate the use of freely available R5 tools for extracting information from these pages and for summarizing the resulting text data, (ii) to display graphically the contents of posts on these pages using word clouds, and (iii) to look for trends in the volume and content of posts.
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