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Hemp can now be sold as a food in Australia (and it's super good for you)

  • Written by: Rachel Burton, Node leader of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls and Professor of Plant Science, University of Adelaide
imageYou can eat and cook with whole hemp seeds (right), hearts (centre) and ground seed (left). marekuliasz/shutterstock

Most of you know hemp, or marijuana, as a drug to be smoked. Laws restrict its use and sale in Australia and other countries.

From November 12 2017, changes to the Food Standards Code to permit the sale of low-psychoactive hemp seed...

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The gender pay gap is wider in the arts than in other industries

  • Written by: David Throsby, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Macquarie University
imageThe income gap between men and women is wider in the arts than the average gap across all industries in Australia. This is especially so for female writers, visual artists and musicians.Dmytro Zinkevych/shutterstock

Australian artists now spend more time on their creative practice than in previous years but earn less from it. The situation is...

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Why big projects like the Adani coal mine won't transform regional Queensland

  • Written by: John Cole, Executive Director, Institute for Resilient Regions, University of Southern Queensland

Queensland election campaigns often focus on bigprojects for the regions, such as for roads, power plants and mines. But research suggests that mega projects, such as in gas and coal, have not transformed skills or improved employment prospects in regional Queensland.

Take away the temporary booms from construction and other short-term jobs, and...

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Small potent doses of illegal drugs are evading authorities but having a huge impact

  • Written by: Roderic Broadhurst, Chair professor, Australian National University

Small quantities of synthetic opioids such as fentanyl are being smuggled past customs barriers and used to create recreational drugs, which are spreading at an alarming rate with the help of cryptocurrencies.

Fentanyl, for example, has a massive multiplier effect – a mere 10 grams could produce as much as three kilograms of 33% pure...

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  2. What causes breast cancer in women? What we know, don't know and suspect
  3. 'Successful failures' – the problem with food banks
  4. Support for standardised tests boils down to beliefs about who benefits from it
  5. Three ways robots can save lives in war
  6. Labor increases Newspoll lead to 55-45% as Shorten moves within striking distance as better PM
  7. Undecided Queensland voters disillusioned with Palaszczuk, suspicious of Nicholls
  8. Coalition loses majority after Alexander resigns. Qld polling and preferences
  9. From Public Confessions to Public Trials: The Complexities of the Weinstein Effect
  10. Extreme right Alabama Senate candidate accused of sexual encounter with 14-y/o girl
  11. Liberal John Alexander likely to quit imminently
  12. Explainer: what exactly is a living wage?
  13. Why has BHP distanced itself from legal threat to environment groups?
  14. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the never-ending citizenship crisis
  15. Why are rates of domestic violence in Australia still so high?
  16. Flowers, remembrance and the art of war
  17. Brian Cox is a world record holding 'rockstar scientist'. Here's why
  18. UN slams Australia’s human rights record
  19. How the 'Warwick egg incident' of 1917 exemplified an Australian nation divided
  20. Some remote Australian communities have drinking water for only nine hours a day
  21. Why children need to be taught to think critically about Remembrance Day
  22. Friday essay: Mapplethorpe and me
  23. Vital Signs: business conditions are peachy, so why aren't businesses investing?
  24. Sharing economy sounds caring, but let's put it to the ethical city test
  25. Those noisy crested pigeons use their unique feathers to sound an alarm
  26. Can 'brown fat' really help with weight loss?
  27. Sharkie told by Turnbull she may have to go to High Court
  28. Grattan on Friday: Voters just want citizenship crisis fixed – but it isn't that easy
  29. Politics podcast: swinging into the Sunshine State's election
  30. Time for costly medicine monopolies to go from TPP trade talks
  31. We made great strides with childhood leukaemia – we can do the same for brain cancer
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  36. Princes, power and purges: the Saudi royal family consolidates its rule
  37. Australian companies should cultivate local tech workers not play the 457 visa game
  38. Islands lost to the waves: how rising seas washed away part of Micronesia's 19th-century history
  39. If Queenslanders vote on economic issues the Labor government is looking good
  40. Stars that vary in brightness shine in the oral traditions of Aboriginal Australians
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  42. As Socceroos face moment of truth, let's remember our football triumph of 1967
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