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Sustainable shopping: here's how to find coffee that doesn't cost the Earth

  • Written by: Aaron Gove, Adjunct Lecturer, Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University
imageWith so many choices for coffee, it's hard to know which is the environmentally healthy option.Shutterstock

Shopping can be confusing at the best of times, and trying to find environmentally friendly options makes it even more difficult. Welcome to the first instalment of our Sustainable Shopping series, in which we ask experts to provide easy,...

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Le Pen vs Macron: after an acrimonious debate, the French will now choose their next president

  • Written by: Colleen Murrell, Undergraduate Coordinator for Journalism, Monash University
imageIn a heated presidential debate, Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron argued over each other like a pair of bickering teenagers as their parents watched on, confused.Reuters

As the much-anticipated, key policy square-off ahead of Sunday’s French election, the presidential debate was a riveting two-and-a-half hours of cantankerous insult trading,...

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Vital Signs: why the government still thinks it can 'grow away' the deficit

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
imageIs the Australian economy 'the little engine that could'?Roadsidepictures/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

This week: The Reserve...

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Friday essay: caring for country and telling its stories

  • Written by: Billy Griffiths, PhD Candidate in History, University of Sydney
imagePart of Mandy Martin's painting Cool Burn (2016): in her painting workshops at Djinkarr, Indigenous rangers brought the threats to their land to life on canvas.

This piece is republished with permission from Millennials Strike Back, the 56th edition of Griffith Review.

Small fires streak the savanna beneath me, as the land is worked and cleaned. The...

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  1. Food as medicine: how what you eat shapes the health of your lungs
  2. The rise of the pro-player as Australia hosts its richest computer gaming event
  3. Higher-density cities need greening to stay healthy and liveable
  4. Teachers shouldn't have to manage behaviour issues by themselves - schools need to support them
  5. Politics podcast: Simon Birmingham on the government's education reforms
  6. Grattan on Friday: Catholic backlash over schools policy lights another Abbott-Turnbull spark
  7. Facebook turns to real people to fix its violent video problem
  8. 'A government without newspapers': why everyone should care about the cuts at Fairfax
  9. An act of faith: watching The Young Pope
  10. How urban bushland improves our health and why planners need to listen
  11. Highlighting 'good and bad' debt will make it harder to fund social programs
  12. New drugs on the PBS: what they do and why we need them
  13. China’s Eurasian gambit needs to be taken seriously
  14. Why biased budget forecasts make poor politics
  15. Explainer: how will the changes to HELP student loans affect you?
  16. The Cashless Debit Card Trial is working and it is vital – here's why
  17. When a suburb's turn for gentrification comes ...
  18. Food as medicine: your brain really does want you to eat more veggies
  19. Space bling: 'jewelled' LAGEOS satellites help us to measure the Earth
  20. Can art put us in touch with our feelings about climate change?
  21. Mythbusting Ancient Rome - Caligula's Horse
  22. Three Little Words and Best Self Nonsense
  23. Abbott questions Turnbull's schools plan
  24. NATSEM models the impact of HELP changes
  25. Politics podcast: John Hewson on the budget climate
  26. Disappearing act: take two for the Moon and Regulus
  27. UNESCO report: surveillance and data collection are putting journalists and sources at risk
  28. The great Australian plays: sex, poetry and The Chapel Perilous
  29. With gas and hydro plans, the government is looking at the whole picture
  30. Weekly Dose: Kalydeco, the drug that treats the cause of cystic fibrosis, not just symptoms
  31. The government is swimming against the tide on Westpac's Adani decision
  32. History can provide many lessons for Turnbull as he prepares for Trump meeting
  33. Victorian budget splash raises questions about privatisation
  34. The future of Australian coal: an unbankable deposit
  35. Gonski 2.0: Is this the school funding plan we have been looking for? Finally, yes
  36. Found with cocaine in Colombia, we should presume Cassandra Sainsbury's innocence
  37. Our uniquely lopsided brain
  38. Australian Twitter is more diverse than you think
  39. Feeling worn out? You could have iron overload
  40. All care and no responsibility: why Airtasker can't guarantee a minimum wage
  41. Full response from Airtasker CEO Tim Fung
  42. Police officer suicide: it's not just about workplace stress, but culture too
  43. Food as medicine: why do we need to eat so many vegetables and what does a serve actually look like?
  44. New to Australia? Good luck! Migrants can no longer afford 'gateway' suburbs
  45. Curious Kids: Why don’t cats wear shoes?
  46. Bob Brown takes to the High Court to put hardline anti-protest laws to the test
  47. A new literary portrait of Helen Garner leaves you wanting to know more
  48. Protecting young people's privacy as Facebook claims it can identify their anxieties
  49. Turnbull announces schools funding and a new Gonski review
  50. Chasing the audience: is it over and out for cricket on free to air TV?

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