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Supermarkets put junk food on special twice as often as healthy food, and that's a problem

  • Written by: Adrian Cameron, Associate professor, and Associate Director of the Global Obesity Centre, Deakin University
Supermarkets put junk food on special twice as often as healthy food, and that's a problemSupermarkets may discount junk foods to capitalise on the 'impulse buy'.From shutterstock.com

Half-price chips, “two for one” chocolates, “buy one get one free” soft drinks: Australian supermarkets make it very easy for us to fill our trolleys with junk food.

Add in the bonus of an Ooshie or a Little Shop collectable and...

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Should school uniforms be compulsory? We asked five experts

  • Written by: Sasha Petrova, Section Editor: Education
Should school uniforms be compulsory? We asked five expertsPeople have different views when it comes to school uniforms.from shutterstock.com

Whether schools should mandate a uniform is a controversial issue. Some believe wearing the same clothes smooths out inequality. Others see uniforms as authoritarian; believing them a symbol of repression, stifling freedom of thought and individuality.

We asked five...

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my brush with Susan Sontag and other tales from the gay 'golden age'

  • Written by: Dennis Altman, Professorial Fellow in Human Security, La Trobe University
my brush with Susan Sontag and other tales from the gay 'golden age'Dennis Altman in Santa Cruz California in 1984,Author provided

The years between the gay liberation movement at the beginning of the 1970s and the onset of AIDS a decade later are viewed in a certain strand of gay nostalgia as “the golden age”.

It’s hardly surprising that those who lived through the period might see it this way; in...

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farmers in Far North Queensland are being left behind by the digital economy

  • Written by: Amber Marshall, Research fellow, Queensland University of Technology
farmers in Far North Queensland are being left behind by the digital economyConnecting with the digital economy is a trickier prospect out here.NGRMG, Author provided

Farming families and communities in Queensland’s remote north are being left behind by the digital economy, putting them at significant social and economic disadvantage.

Our report, launched in Cairns today, details the impacts of low levels of...

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  3. Beijing is moving to stamp out the Hong Kong protests – but it may have already lost the city for good
  4. Amid talk of recessions, our progress on wages and unemployment is almost non-existent
  5. How do we identify human remains?
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  7. Explainer: from bloodthirsty beast to saccharine symbol
  8. The Melbourne archbishop said he'd rather go to jail than break confession confidentiality. A new bill could send him there
  9. How ancient seafarers and their dogs helped a humble louse conquer the world
  10. Women aren't better multitaskers than men – they're just doing more work
  11. Can Scott Morrison deliver on climate change in Tuvalu – or is his Pacific 'step up' doomed?
  12. First home buyer schemes aren't enough to meet young adults' housing aspirations
  13. New research shows that Antarctica's largest floating ice shelf is highly sensitive to warming of the ocean
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  18. Australia's tax office can use global data leaks to pursue multinationals, High Court rules
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  27. Australia Institute analysis adds to Pacific pile-on over Morrison's climate policy
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  30. Hong Kong fears losing its rule of law; the rest of the world should worry too
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