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Health Check: can vitamins supplement a poor diet?

  • Written by: Tim Crowe, Associate Professor in Nutrition, Deakin University
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Vitamins and minerals are essential for keeping us in good health. While eating a varied diet should give us all the nutrients we need, recent diet and health surveys show the typical Australian diet is far from varied – or even close to what is...

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The off-topic Conversation #107

  • Written by: Cory Zanoni, Community Manager, The Conversation

Welcome to The Conversation’s off-topic space. We’ve set this up as the place where you can discuss anything that isn’t related to a specific article. Please feel free to use this space to get to know each other and talk about news elsewhere and whatever else strikes your fancy.

This is also an opportunity to discuss broader...

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Blame game as government forced to filibuster to fill Senate work gap

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

After its embarrassment of losing divisions in the first week of the new parliament, the Turnbull government was caught out at the start of the second week by not having any legislation for the Senate to consider.

But the government blamed Labor, saying the opposition was responsible because it had not passed through the House of Representatives...

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Why moving out public housing tenants is a tragedy for Millers Point and for Sydney

  • Written by: Alan Morris, Chair Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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In March 2014, New South Wales government minister Pru Goward announced that all of the 293 public housing dwellings in Millers Point, Dawes Point and the Rocks, as well as the 79 apartments in the Sirius Building built for public housing in the 1970s, were to be sold. Their tenants would be moved. At first, residents felt they could fight the...

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  4. Soft power and the institutionalisation of influence
  5. Road user charging belongs on the political agenda as the best answer for congestion management
  6. Free speech and the media are too often in a marriage of convenience
  7. Explainer: what is free speech?
  8. A history of failed reform: why Australia needs a banking royal commission
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  12. Ancient life in Greenland and the search for life on Mars
  13. Do arts teachers have to be artists?
  14. The fossil fuel divestment game is getting bigger, thanks to the smaller players
  15. What we have in common with corals and their unexplored microbial world
  16. Boyer Lectures: Episode 2 – Give every child the best start
  17. Why Australia needs a Chief Artist
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  21. What are the attributes needed to be a successful sporting leader?
  22. Countering the claims about Australia's Aboriginal number systems
  23. Company results wrap: weighing up the risks behind the profits of Australia's big four banks
  24. Dastyari dilemma – the attraction of strangers bearing gifts
  25. A US$24b summit about a staircase: lessons for Germany and the 2017 G20 leaders
  26. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Malcolm Turnbull's first year in office
  27. He may have insulted Obama, but Duterte held up a long-hidden looking glass to the US
  28. Could Islamic State's new threats against Australia show its bark is now worse than its bite?
  29. Viewpoints: do foreigners have more freedom to invest in Australia than in almost any other country?
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  31. Friday essay: Svetlana Alexeviech didn't make it to the Royal Commission
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  33. Let's measure the value of Australia's medal success. No, not at the Olympics
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  36. Grattan on Friday: A year in, we don't yet know what Turnbull wants to do with the job
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  38. The US has banned antibacterial handwashes – here's why Australia should too
  39. Apple is losing the innovation game, it can't trap users anymore
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