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Editor's note
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An alarming number of women were killed in domestic violence incidents in October. Australia has launched countless domestic violence campaigns over the years, but Silke Meyer asks, why haven’t they shifted public attitudes on the issue?
And the latest episode of our podcast Trust Me, I’m An Expert, is all about food fraud. We’ve seen recent headlines about honey and other food adulteration scandals, but in fact this isn’t a new debate. 19th century dairy farmers used to add sheep’s brains to skim milk to make it look frothier, and mix in chalk for whiteness. Coffee, oil and wine have also been the top targets of food fraudsters in the past.
While such scandals persist today, consumers also increasingly expect food standards to help them navigate claims on packaging and industry innovation. For instance, is yoghurt made with coconut milk still considered yoghurt? What to do about foods that claim to be “all natural?” Join us on Trust Me, I’m An Expert, as we talk to Dr Andrew Ventimiglia about the weird history of food adulteration and certification.
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Justin Bergman
Deputy Editor: Politics + Society
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Top story
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Australia has launched countless domestic violence campaigns over the years. So, why haven’t they shifted public attitudes on the problem?
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Silke Meyer, CQUniversity Australia
In order to change public opinion, campaigns need to move beyond awareness raising and start addressing the perpetrators and causes of domestic violence.
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What is in these products? And if additives don’t affect your health, would you care?
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Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation; Jordan Fermanis, The Conversation; Justin Bergman, The Conversation; Dilpreet Kaur, The Conversation
Dairy farmers used to put sheep brains and chalk in skim milk to make it look frothier and whiter. Coffee, honey and wine have also been past targets of food fraudsters. Can the law ever keep up?
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Arts + Culture
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Michael Webb, University of Sydney; Camellia Webb-Gannon, University of Wollongong
Indigenous New Caledonians, who will vote in an independence referendum next week, have been struggling since French colonisation in 1853. Through songs, they have chronicled past traumas and resistance heroes.
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William Peterson, Flinders University
A group of diasporic Syrian actors in Marseilles came together with a few remaining in their home country to create this touching, hard-hitting play.
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Sabine Cotte, University of Melbourne
A new book sheds light on the dramatic artistic and culinary life of artist Mirka Mora and her husband Georges.
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Health + Medicine
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Vincent Ho, Western Sydney University
Around 75% of our faeces is made up of water. The other 25% is the good stuff, including bacteria, viruses and undigested food.
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Environment + Energy
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Tony Wood, Grattan Institute; Guy Dundas, Grattan Institute
The federal government is primarily to blame for the mess that is Australia's energy policy. It's time for the states to step up, to reduce both prices and emissions.
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Bill Laurance, James Cook University; David Salt, Australian National University
National parks and nature reserves are vital for conservation, but are also great places for recreation. Balancing the two is tricky, but it can be done if we realise parks are not just playgrounds.
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Cities
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Bronwyn Bate, Western Sydney University
Renting a house shouldn't mean it's not home. Until we change our meaning of home by separating it from ownership, we will never be able to "fix" Australia’s housing crisis.
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John Daley, Grattan Institute; Brendan Coates, Grattan Institute; Tony Chen, Grattan Institute
Governments should stop offering false hopes and pandering to NIMBY pressures. As well as increased public and private housing supply, growing cities need well-designed higher-density development.
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Business + Economy
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David R. Gallagher, The University of Queensland
Cricket Australia promised to throw open the windows. But it is still keeping secrets behind closed doors.
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Robert Breunig, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; Boyd Hunter, Australian National University
We decided to dig into the statistics and compare the experience of financial stress in Indigenous and non-Indigenous households.
Our findings surprised us.
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Science + Technology
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Tanya M. Smith, Griffith University
The teeth from two Neanderthal children and a relatively modern human child reveal their exposure to seasonal changes during their early life.
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Lyndsey Collins-Praino, University of Adelaide; Anna Leonard, University of Adelaide
Research published today shows that walking again is possible for individuals with spinal cord injury. After electrical stimulation, three people with lower leg paralysis could walk to some extent.
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Merja Myllylahti, Auckland University of Technology
New research suggests media organisations that rely on Facebook to build audience are trapped in an attention economy that delivers traffic but no money.
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Julia Jabour, University of Tasmania
There are some limits on what countries can do in the Antarctic, but not when it comes to science.
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Samuel Hinton, The University of Queensland
Are there stars other than the Sun that might explode soon close to us? Yes, there are! As long as by 'soon' we mean within a million years.
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Michael Lund, The Conversation; Dilpreet Kaur, The Conversation
In this episode of Speaking with, author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz explains why humans lie to each other, but often tell the internet the truth.
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Politics + Society
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John Gibbons, Monash University
Because judges have a secondary audience when issuing jury directions - appeal court judges - the language used has become too wordy and confusing. It needs to change.
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Education
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Claire Brown, Victoria University
If all you want to do is retain the information until tomorrow, cramming might help. But you will have forgotten it in a week.
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Gavin Moodie, RMIT University
A few days have now passed since we learnt that in 2017 the former Minister for Education and Training, Simon Birmingham, secretly rejected 11 grants recommended by the Australian Research Council. Naturally…
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