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Cyclone Debbie delivers a price bite to fresh veg
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Tropical Cyclone Debbie has battered vegetable crops in the region around Bowen - leaving grocery shoppers in Sydney, Melbourne and elsewhere facing higher prices from next month. As Ian Sinclair writes, it’s time for our highly concentrated network of market gardens to grow more resilient.
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Michael Hopkin
Environment + Energy Editor
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Top story
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Bowen’s market gardens supply some 13% of Australia’s perishable vegetables.
Ian Sinclair, University of Sydney; Brent Jacobs, University of Technology Sydney; Laura Wynne, University of Technology Sydney; Rachel Carey, University of Melbourne
Sydney, Melbourne and many other areas can expect to pay more for veg from next month, after widespread crop losses in Bowen, a major source of winter vegetables such as tomatoes, beans and capsicum.
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Politics + Society
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Francis Markham, Australian National University; Barbara Kinder, Southern Cross University; Martin Young, Southern Cross University
In Tasmania, a changing cast of actors has colluded to grant extreme riches to a single family, extracted in large part from the state’s most disadvantaged citizens.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is believed to have deferred the appointment of a new High Commissioner to London until at least the end of this year.
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Tezcan Gumus, Deakin University
If the 'yes' vote prevails in this month's constitutional referendum, the Turkish people may be in the rare position of democratically approving the death of their own democracy.
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Cities
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Crystal Legacy, RMIT University; Carey Curtis, Curtin University; Jan Scheurer, Curtin University
Politicised transport projects that flout proper process lead to hostility between residents and governments, and give planners a bad name.
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Science + Technology
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Stephen Woodcock, University of Technology Sydney
Sometimes statistics and probability can produce unexpected or counter-intuitive results. If we're hoping to use numbers to make good decisions, we should be wary of the traps.
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Brad E. Tucker, Australian National University
To help find Planet 9, you just need a computer and a little astronomy knowledge. Already, 120,000 images have been processed by citizen scientists in just 3 days.
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Health + Medicine
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Nigel Stepto, Victoria University
Whole body vibration therapy is undertaken by standing, sitting, lying or doing exercises on specifically designed equipment that oscillates at relatively high frequencies.
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John Mathews, University of Melbourne
In a recent study of almost 11 million young Australians, we showed those exposed to a CT scan before the age of 20 had a small increase in cancer risk in the years after exposure.
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Arts + Culture
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Greg Dickson, The University of Queensland; Evan Kidd, Australian National University; Josh Clothier, University of Melbourne
Cult TV show Gogglebox is more than light entertainment: it shows the diverse reality of Australian English, going beyond stereotypes about what Australians sound like.
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Sally Breen, Griffith University
Brisbane's Rock and Roll Writers Festival rubbed musicians and writers up against each other in just the right way.
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Business + Economy
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Adrian R. Camilleri, RMIT University
Online ratings and reviews may seem like a good way to see what other consumers think of a product but they can be to simplistic and misleading, research shows.
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Rachel Ong, Curtin University
Housing has become integral to our welfare system, so even governments can't afford for prices to decline.
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