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Choosing healthy food: your surroundings can help or hinder your dining choices

  • Written by: Breanna Wright, Research fellow, Monash University
imageWe can encourage people to make healthy adjustments to their diets with simple behaviour techniques. Anas Maarawi/Flickr, CC BY

Most of us know what sort of food we should eat to optimise our health and help avoid lifestyle diseases like obesity and heart disease. But we don’t stick to our ideal diets.

Part of the reason is that food producers...

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Conservatives suffer shock loss of majority at UK general election

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne

At the UK general election held Thursday, the Conservatives lost their majority. With all 650 seats declared, the Conservatives won 318 seats (down 13 since the 2015 election), Labour 262 (up 30), the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) 35 (down 21), the Liberal Democrats 12 (up 4). Northern Ireland (NI) parties hold 18 seats and five went to the...

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Rise of 'anti-politics' produces surprise result in the UK election – and it's playing a role in Australia, too

  • Written by: Brenton Prosser, Senior Fellow, Australian National University
imageTheresa May's gamble on calling an early election has not paid off.Reuters/Toby Melville

A little over a week before the 2017 UK general election, the improbable occurred. A poll indicated that Prime Minister Theresa May could lose the Conservative majority. The shadow of a hung parliament was cast over the UK parliament again. It was a claim...

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COAG agrees to new push on security after Melbourne attack

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageFederal and state leaders will convene as soon as practicable for a special COAG meeting on counter-terrorism.AAP/Rob Blakers

Federal and state leaders have ramped up anti-terrorism provisions and plan to meet again soon for a broad review of the nation’s legal and practical security preparedness.

Malcolm Turnbull won support from the Council...

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  2. Weekly Quiz: what is the most consumed meat in Australia?
  3. The Finkel Review: finally, a sensible and solid footing for the electricity sector
  4. We know too much sugar is bad for us, but do different sugars have different health effects?
  5. The Finkel Review at a glance
  6. Arts in the West of Sydney: the Great Divide?
  7. Busting the myth that roll-your-own tobacco has fewer additives
  8. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on national security
  9. Our study found after-hours GPs actually do reduce visits to emergency rooms
  10. The Mummy struggles with the chemistry but gets the physics right with a crash
  11. Three charts on: Australia's declining taste for beef and growing appetite for chicken
  12. Australia has stalled on car efficiency
  13. Australian authorities are doing all they can to combat terrorism
  14. Vital Signs: what does Treasurer Morrison mean when he says we're 'growing into the growth'?
  15. There’s a city in my mind ...
  16. Friday essay: the 90s - why you had to be there
  17. To lift literacy levels among Indigenous children, their parents' literacy skills must be improved first
  18. Research in autism-friendly technology needs to improve to make a real difference for people
  19. Why we don't know what causes most birth defects
  20. Grattan on Friday: Terrorism's footprint on our politics
  21. What's holding up the blockchain?
  22. Where are the epic women's coming of age screen stories?
  23. Five ways older Australians can embrace technology to redefine later life
  24. How Indigenous tourism can help bring about reconciliation in Australia
  25. You should care about your doctor's health, because it matters to yours
  26. Explainer: what is a 'low emissions target' and how would it work?
  27. Schapelle Corby fails to draw a Twitter audience
  28. New Moroccan fossils suggest humans lived and evolved across Africa 100,000 years earlier than we thought
  29. Conservatives no longer a shoo-in as UK voters head to the polls
  30. From man-eaters to Pokémon: the weird world of cactus culture
  31. Is policy on Indigenous education deliberately being stalled?
  32. Six things every consumer should know about the 'Internet of Things'
  33. Melbourne's love-hate relationship with being Australia's 'street art capital'
  34. When do we stop vaccinating against an infectious disease?
  35. What is a pre-industrial climate and why does it matter?
  36. Tougher national parole laws won't end the violence
  37. Bob Dylan's Nobel speech: a splendidly eccentric performance
  38. While nations play politics, cities and states are taking up the climate challenge
  39. Four ways social media companies and security agencies can tackle terrorism
  40. Deliberative democracy must rise to the threat of populist rhetoric
  41. As a peace loving warrior, might Wonder Woman unite feminists?
  42. Explainer: what causes alopecia areata and can you treat this type of hair loss?
  43. Three charts on: Australia's growing rates of weight loss surgery
  44. Looking at terror attacks 'per capita' should make us rethink beliefs about levels of risk and Muslims
  45. Curious Kids: Do sharks sneeze?
  46. Adani gives itself the green light, but that doesn't change the economics of coal
  47. Winter warmth is in the forecast (but don't celebrate yet)
  48. Infographic: Are we making progress on Indigenous education?
  49. To smiley face or not: the complexity of email etiquette
  50. The dark side of mondegreens: how a simple mishearing can lead to wrongful conviction

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