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What's the most value for money way to tackle obesity? Increase taxes on alcohol

  • Written by: Jaithri Ananthapavan, Senior Research Fellow, Health Economics, Deakin University
What's the most value for money way to tackle obesity? Increase taxes on alcoholAustralians drink more than nine litres of pure alcohol a year.

We don’t often equate the kilojoules we drink in our glass of wine or pint of beer with the weight that accumulates around our middle. But our new study shows increasing the price of alcohol is the most value for money policy option to prevent obesity in Australia.

The study,...

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Law and order is no get-out-of-jail card for floundering politicians

  • Written by: Luke McNamara, Professor of Law, UNSW
Law and order is no get-out-of-jail card for floundering politiciansOutgoing Victorian opposition leader Matthew Guy and wife Renae as Guy acknowledges defeat in the recent Victorian state election in which he had tried to appeal to voters' fears over street crime, race and terrorism.David Crosling/AAP

With confidence in politicians at an all-time low, it would be easy to assume criminal law-making is only ever...

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Morrison government promises $1.25 billion for health care

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

With health perennially a challenging election issue for the Coalition, Scott Morrison has announced $1.25 billion extra funding he says will provide more doctors, nurses and services.

Under a new Community Health and Hospitals Program, the federal government will partner with communities, states and territories, health and hospital services and...

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'Designer' babies won't be common anytime soon – despite recent CRISPR twins

  • Written by: Merlin Crossley, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic and Professor of Molecular Biology, UNSW
'Designer' babies won't be common anytime soon – despite recent CRISPR twinsEditing just one gene in an embryo could create many unanticipated side-effects once the baby is born. from www.shutterstock.com

This article is part of our occasional long read series Zoom Out, where authors explore key ideas in science and technology in the broader context of society and humanity.

Despite reports that two genetically modified...

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  2. why is Australia adopting the global refugee compact but not the migration compact?
  3. ACCC wants to curb digital platform power – but enforcement is tricky
  4. Will the new Mary Poppins film acknowledge the suffragettes' success?
  5. How much physical activity should teenagers do, and how can they get enough?
  6. The off-topic Conversation #171
  7. ADHD prescriptions are going up, but that doesn't mean we're over-medicating
  8. Huawei executive's arrest will further test an already shaky US-China relationship
  9. Digital platforms. Why the ACCC's proposals for Google and Facebook matter big time
  10. How physical activity in Australian schools can help prevent depression in young people
  11. Cities can grow without wrecking reefs and oceans. Here's how
  12. Recovered Aboriginal songs offer clues to 19th century mystery of the shipwrecked 'white woman'
  13. As Indigenous incarceration rates keep rising, justice reinvestment offers a solution
  14. Australia is still listening to Voyager 2 as NASA confirms the probe is now in interstellar space
  15. did more people buy their seventh home than bought their first home last year?
  16. How low will Bitcoin now go? The history of price bubbles provides some clues
  17. Going travelling? Don't forget insurance (and to read the fine print)
  18. Where do dreams come from?
  19. should I lie to my children about Santa?
  20. Grey nomad lifestyle provides a model for living remotely
  21. Human rights in 2018 – ten issues that made headlines
  22. How researchers assess whether medications work
  23. the power of a symbol
  24. The government can restrain electricity prices without threatening to break up power companies. Its adviser says so
  25. forest giants house thousands of animals (so why do we keep cutting them down?)
  26. The government's encryption laws finally passed despite concerns over security
  27. Michelle Grattan on a chaotic final week of parliament for 2018
  28. The problems with small satellites – and what Australia's Space Agency can do to help
  29. Five ways to reduce the risk of stillbirth
  30. The best thing about the new Oz horror film The School is its poster
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  32. Sexual subcultures are collateral damage in Tumblr’s ban on adult content
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  34. love hurts – on a life of sports fandom
  35. Men get postnatal depression too, and as the mother's main support, they need help
  36. Darwin port's sale is a blueprint for China's future economic expansion
  37. 35 extraordinary years. What the float of Australian dollar bought us
  38. Are the tech giants taking over as your city leaders?
  39. Remembering Pearl Harbor and America's entry into the theatre of war
  40. Perth's brief abalone season is a time of delicacies and danger
  41. Hokey-pokey politics as the government is shaken all about
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  43. George Bush Sr could have got in on the ground floor of climate action – history would have thanked him
  44. Covering Trump, funding news and the rise of impunity. The Guardian's Kath Viner on the big media stories of 2018
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  46. Thanks for the $2 billion for small-business expansion; now all we need are plans to expand
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