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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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