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Social media platforms need to do more to stop junk food marketers targeting children

  • Written by Gary Sacks, Associate Professor, Deakin University
Social media platforms need to do more to stop junk food marketers targeting childrenShutterstock

In Australia and around the world, junk food companies are targeting children on social media.

In our new study, we found most major social media platforms have restrictions on the advertising of tobacco, alcohol and gambling to children.

But there are hardly any such restrictions in place around junk food.

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Foreign Minister Payne pledges continued fight against Chinese 'disinformation'

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Foreign Minister Payne pledges continued fight against Chinese 'disinformation'Joel Carrett/AAP

Foreign Minister Marise Payne has attacked China’s “disinformation” about racism in this country and committed Australia to a more activist role in pressing for reform of multilateral institutions, including the World Health Organisation.

In a Tuesday night speech titled “Australia and the world in the time...

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Steve Bracks and Jenny Macklin installed to run crisis-ridden Victorian ALP

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The ALP national executive has decided on sweeping federal intervention into the crisis-ridden Victorian ALP, in the wake of revelations of the alleged “industrial scale” branch stacking and threats by now former state minister and power broker Adem Somyurek.

Former state premier Steve Bracks and former federal cabinet minister Jenny...

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2 new COVID-19 cases in New Zealand, but elimination of community transmission still stands

  • Written by Shaun Hendy, Professor of Physics, University of Auckland
2 new COVID-19 cases in New Zealand, but elimination of community transmission still standsAsiandelight/Shutterstock

New Zealand is one of a handful of countries where community transmission of COVID-19 has been eliminated.

But with two new cases announced today (June 16), we have learned that elimination is not the end – rather, it’s the start of the next phase.

2 new COVID-19 cases in New Zealand, but elimination of community transmission still standsProbability of elimination of COVID-19 community transmission.

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  2. should bosses be able to spy on workers, even when they work from home?
  3. Cats wreak havoc on native wildlife, but we’ve found one adorable species outsmarting them
  4. Trust, democracy and COVID-19: A British perspective
  5. Planning a snow holiday? How to reduce your coronavirus risk at Thredbo, Perisher or Mount Buller
  6. what does the law say about secret recordings and the public interest?
  7. How Paul Keating transformed the economy and the nation
  8. The number of climate deniers in Australia is more than double the global average, new survey finds
  9. how Australia's wine industry can adapt to climate change
  10. Karm Gilespie's case cannot be separated completely from strained Sino-Australian relations
  11. Almost 90% of astronauts have been men. But the future of space may be female
  12. Australia's decisive win on plain packaging paves way for other countries to follow suit
  13. 'Can do' Scott Morrison needs to take care in deregulating
  14. Planting non-native trees accelerates the release of carbon back into the atmosphere
  15. Removing monuments to an imperial past is not the same for former colonies as it is for former empires
  16. is time travel possible for humans?
  17. what is branch stacking, and why has neither major party been able to stamp it out?
  18. We don't know if breastfeeding is rising or falling in Australia. That's bad for everyone
  19. what we can learn from the successes of post-war reconstruction
  20. Getting vaccinated at the pharmacy? Make sure it's recorded properly
  21. international students make up more than 30% of population in some Australian suburbs
  22. We may live to regret open-slather construction stimulus
  23. Universities and government need to rethink their relationship with each other before it's too late
  24. Using cannabis during pregnancy could be bad news for your baby: new research
  25. experts react to plans to release 2 million fish into the Murray Darling
  26. Disadvantaged students may have lost 1 month of learning during COVID-19 shutdown. But the government can fix it
  27. The next once-a-century pandemic is coming sooner than you think – but COVID-19 can help us get ready
  28. the self-surveillance strategy to keep supermarket shoppers honest
  29. what seniors want instead of retirement villages and how to achieve it
  30. Psycho turns 60 – Hitchcock's famous fright film broke all the rules
  31. Morrison commits another $1.5 billion for infrastructure
  32. 48,000-year-old arrowheads reveal early human innovation in the Sri Lankan rainforest
  33. Senate committees are one of the few bright spots in the battle to hold government to account
  34. The coastal banksia has its roots in ancient Gondwana
  35. Non-Indigenous Australians need to educate themselves. One way to do this is to take an Indigenous tour.
  36. Michelle Grattan on protests, social-distancing, and domestic borders
  37. Bob Santamaria, 'the most significant' figure in Australian politics never to have been in parliament
  38. Tear gas and pepper spray are chemical weapons. So, why can police use them?
  39. taking a wrecking ball to monuments – contemporary art can ask what really needs tearing down
  40. What makes pepper spray so intense? And is it a tear gas? A chemical engineer explains
  41. why 'the marketplace for ideas' can fail – from an economist's perspective
  42. New NSW building law could be a game changer for apartment safety
  43. Should I wear a mask on public transport?
  44. The state removal of Māori children from their families is a wound that won't heal – but there is a way forward
  45. 3 things international students want Australians to know
  46. 120 million years ago, giant crocodiles walked on two legs in what is now South Korea
  47. An El Niño hit this banana prawn fishery hard. Here’s what we can learn from their experience
  48. 4 ways a smart government can create jobs and cut emissions
  49. Protests add new element of uncertainty to COVID exit
  50. Was there slavery in Australia? Yes. It shouldn't even be up for debate
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