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The myth of a vegetarian India

  • Written by: Tani Khara, PhD student in Sustainability, University of Technology Sydney
The myth of a vegetarian IndiaIndian has a booming poultry market.Pau Casals/Unsplash

India has a reputation as a vegetarian nation, and Indians certainly consume far less meat than the global average. But the view of India as a predominantly vegetarian nation may not be quite accurate.

India, whose population is predicted to overtake China’s, is rapidly changing from an...

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asset or overvalued drip painting?

  • Written by: Sue Rabbitt Roff, Researcher, Social History/Tutor in Medical Education, University of Dundee
asset or overvalued drip painting?Visitors look at Blue poles (1952) during its trip to London for an abstract expressionism exhibition in 2016.Andy Rains/EPA

Blue poles infinitely winding, as I write, as I write.

Patti Smith

Forty-five years ago, the National Gallery of Australia was still a gleam in the eye of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and the yet-to-be-built...

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World politics explainer: Pinochet's Chile

  • Written by: Peter Read, Professor of History, Australian National University
World politics explainer: Pinochet's ChilePinochet in the car, 1982 celebrating the 8th anniversary of the coup. His dictatorship in Chile was both a step forwards for neoliberalism and a step back for democracy and human rights.Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

This article is part of our series of explainers on key moments in the past 100 years of world political history. In it, our authors...

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Who is our health regulator, AHPRA, and does it operate effectively?

  • Written by: Bill Madden, Adjunct Fellow, School of Law & School of Medicine, Western Sydney University
Who is our health regulator, AHPRA, and does it operate effectively?All Australian health-care practitioners must register with the national regulator. from www.shutterstock.com

In Australia, we sometimes hear of problems in the health industry regarding anaesthetics, cosmetic surgeons or chiropractors acting in ways that could be, and sometimes are, harmful to patients.

This leads many to wonder whether our health...

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