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Australian communities are fighting food waste with circular economies

  • Written by: Bernadette McCabe, Associate Professor and Principal Scientist, University of Southern Queensland
imageMillions of tonnes of food go into landfill each year. Food waste image from www.shutterstock.com

Around 4 million tonnes of food reaches landfill in Australia each year. This forms part of Australia’s organic waste, the country’s largest unrecovered stream of waste that goes into landfill.

There’s a missed opportunity here to...

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Health Check: what can you eat to help ease 'morning' sickness in pregnancy?

  • Written by: Rebecca Charlotte Reynolds, Lecturer in Nutrition, UNSW Australia

Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy is mistakenly known as “morning” sickness. Mistakenly, because it doesn’t occur only in the morning. One Canadian study reported 80% of its sample of pregnant women experienced nausea that lasted all day, compared to only 1.8% who reported it occurring just in the morning. However, half of...

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The plug and play city: how shipping containers are changing infrastructure

  • Written by: Morgan Saletta, History and Philosophy of Science and Department of Management and Marketing, University of Melbourne
imageGerman developer Jörg Duske has built student accommodation out of recycled shipping containers.Holzer Kobler Architekturen

We often take for granted our access to vast quantities of inexpensive goods manufactured overseas. And we often overlook the unassuming innovation that has made this global industrial revolution possible: the shipping...

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  8. Why are professional development standards for new and returning federal MPs so inadequate?
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  11. Albanese warns Labor over clean energy supplement in omnibus bill
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  29. America is moving to end its use of private prisons – should Australia follow suit?
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