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How better tests and legal deterrence could clean up the sticky mess left behind by fake honey row

  • Written by: Samuel Becher, Associate Professor of Business Law, Victoria University of Wellington
How better tests and legal deterrence could clean up the sticky mess left behind by fake honey rowThe industry selling honey and bee products is booming. from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND

Last week’s fake honey scandal, involving Australia’s largest honey producer Capilano, prompted calls for better purity tests and regulation of the industry.

Tests by Germany’s Quality Services International allegedly showed that some of...

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Morrison faces the challenge of community-based candidate in Wentworth

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

Now that Kerryn Phelps has confirmed she’s running as an independent in Wentworth, the battle is set up as a fascinating test between the campaigning skills of a tyro prime minister and the attraction of a community-based candidate.

The backdrop is a disillusioned, sour electorate – in the seat itself and in the wider Australian...

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Outrage over schoolgirl refusing to stand for anthem shows rise of aggressive nationalism

  • Written by: Gwenda Tavan, Associate Professor, Politics and International Relations, La Trobe University
Outrage over schoolgirl refusing to stand for anthem shows rise of aggressive nationalismThe brouhaha over a nine-year-old girl refusing to stand for the national anthem appears to confirm that tolerance is on the wane and nationalist sentiment on the rise in Australia.Shutterstock

This week, nine-year-old Queensland school girl, Harper Nielsen, was threatened with suspension by her school for refusing to sing the Australian national...

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It's hard to spread the idiot fruit

  • Written by: Stuart Worboys, Laboratory and Technical Support Officer, Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University
It's hard to spread the idiot fruitIdiospermum is otherwise known as "idiot fruit" or ribbonwood.via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Sometimes, in rainforest research, the only way to go is up. Twenty years ago I chose the rare rainforest tree Idiospermum australiense as a research subject for my Master’s degree, and some months into the project I discovered it only produces...

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  2. Michelle Grattan on the Liberal pick for Wentworth and Morrison's bad week
  3. New law won't safeguard medicine supply – it'll only ensure we know there's a shortage
  4. Vital for life, heat and power – what you never knew about salt water
  5. How Indigenous women have become targets in a domestic violence system intended to protect them
  6. Wentworth preselectors' rebuff to Morrison caps week of mayhem
  7. Once upon a time ... 'sleeping beauties' and the importance of storytelling in science
  8. who owns a family's story? Why it's time to lift the Berndt field notes embargo
  9. Vital signs. When cutting interest rates might not help
  10. Gender diversity is more accepted in society, but using the pronoun 'they' still divides
  11. We mapped cancer rates across Australia – search for your postcode here
  12. We need more flexible housing for 21st-century lives
  13. Year 11 and 12 students in NSW will no longer learn about women's contributions to physics
  14. How much plastic does it take to kill a turtle? Typically just 14 pieces
  15. Cathy McGowan and Rebekha Sharkie on the role of community candidates
  16. you're gonna need a bigger rope to tie down this alien hunter
  17. As Witness K trial opens, questions over how much of Timor-Leste spying case to keep secret from public
  18. knee arthroscopy is one of the most common but least effective surgeries
  19. Independent isn't necessarily better. Why appointing independent directors can achieve little
  20. Sharing your meter data might help cut your power bill, but it needs secure regulation
  21. the poetry of Rosemary Dobson
  22. World politics explainer: The Holocaust
  23. New body for complaints against police in Victoria is a good move, with some caveats
  24. double standards a double fault
  25. where do clouds come from and why do they have different shapes?
  26. The paradox of choice. Why made-to-order might not solve the fashion industry's problems
  27. In defence of conspiracy theories (and why the term is a misnomer)
  28. Yes, AI may take some jobs – but it could also mean more men doing care work
  29. Where Australian states are up to in decriminalising abortion
  30. Why anti-American sentiment is weaker under Trump than it was under George W. Bush
  31. what is energy security, and how has it changed?
  32. Why driverless vehicles should not be given unchecked access to our cities
  33. how Australia scrambles to regulate Chinese technology
  34. Communist aristocrat, Soviet spy and activist filmmaker
  35. Why education about gender and sexuality does belong in the classroom
  36. Wentworth goes to the polls on October 20
  37. Three billion per year. How the financial system rips us off
  38. Artemisia Gentileschi, a Baroque heroine for the #MeToo era
  39. Why it's so hard to reach an international agreement on killer robots
  40. Happiness hinges on personality, so initiatives to improve well-being need to be tailor-made
  41. How our art museums finally opened their eyes to Australian women artists
  42. What should buyers of a house be told about it?
  43. why conservative voters fail to see gender as an obstacle to political success
  44. Digital government isn't working in the developing world. Here's why
  45. R U OK day is coming up, but what do you do if someone says 'no'?
  46. Google searches reveal where people are most concerned about climate change
  47. Don't lose hope, quality media still exists in Australia
  48. The Herald Sun's Serena Williams cartoon draws on a long and damaging history of racist caricature
  49. Mark Knight is our best tabloid cartoonist. Is his Serena Williams drawing racist?
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