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Editor's note
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A "stamp of approval" from Australia's drug regulator could give you a better idea if your complementary medicines do what they say on the packet. If implemented, writes Ken Harvey, this would be a world first in how vitamins, minerals and other health supplements are regulated.
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How do you really know if vitamin and mineral supplements really “help your heart” or “boost your mood”?
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Ken Harvey, Monash University
If the Therapeutic Goods Administration implements new proposals to regulate complementary medicines, you can be more confident they actually do what they say on the packet.
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Environment + Energy
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Tony Wood, Grattan Institute
Labor has been criticised for vacillating about about its 50% renewable energy ambition. But its proposed emissions intensity scheme could boost green energy without any hard target at all.
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Politics + Society
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Bianca Fileborn, UNSW
Preventing sexual violence is everyone's responsibility, but we need to be careful about how we do it.
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Peter Stanley, UNSW
Decades of expansion for Whyalla were followed by decades of contraction. Whyalla has seen optimism and idealism but also, if not despair, then its close neighbours, alienation and apathy.
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Arie Freiberg, Monash University; Paul McGorrery, Deakin University
Following Victoria's Royal Commission into Family Violence, should the state change the way it sentences offenders?
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Arts + Culture
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Steven Roberts, Monash University; Marcus Maloney, Monash University
The world's most famous YouTube vlogger has been at the centre of a media storm over perceived anti-Semitism. But amid the demonisation, some nuance is needed.
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Lyndall Grant, University of Melbourne
China's demographic experiment come to life in Little Emperors, but not always successfully.
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Business + Economy
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Marion Terrill, Grattan Institute; Lucille Danks, Grattan Institute
Reckless government investment decisions are sadly the norm when it comes to transport infrastructure. Three key checks on the decision-making process can help ensure taxpayers get value for money.
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Gigi Foster, UNSW
The basic idea of trickle-down economics is that giving economic help to companies or people at the top of society should generate benefits for those in layers further down.
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FactCheck
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Nerilie Abram, Australian National University
During a Q&A discussion about climate change, Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie said it was four degrees hotter 110,000 years ago. Is that right?
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Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation
Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie responded to The Conversation's request for sources and comment regarding our FactCheck on her climate change comments.
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Health + Medicine
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Gemma Paech, Washington State University
Companies such as Google, Nike and Ben & Jerry’s encourage or allow napping at work, providing employees with napping facilities such as napping pods and quiet rooms where they can nap if desired.
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Alison Poulton, University of Sydney
This week, the prestigious journal The Lancet published a large study identifying objective differences in the brains of people diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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