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How healthy are plant-based foods? The Conversation tests 700
Our nutritional audit of more than 700 plant-based foods for sale in Australian supermarkets has just been published.
Feb 23, 2024
The future of main streets: Aussies share their essential retailers
A lot of dedication and effort goes into making main streets attractive. Local governments, planners, place makers, econ...
Nov 3, 2023
Here’s how to make supermarket supply chains more resilient
Our new research found that shortening supply chains will be vital to make regions more resilient to these shocks – as w...
Jun 23, 2023
What was behind Australia’s potato shortage?
Food industries which rely on potatoes are compensating for these expected losses by contracting a greater number of gro...
Jun 13, 2023
Should Australia add stronger health warning labels to alcohol?
Research shows mandatory health labelling is an important way to increase awareness and should form part of a comprehens...
Jun 12, 2023
How Australia is in unique place to eliminate the bee-killing varroa mite
Australia is different from other Varroa infected regions of the world. Our incursion was smaller, it was identified ear...
Jun 7, 2023
Analysis: where employers are wrong about Labor’s industrial relations bill
Multi-employer bargaining won’t solve all of Australia’s workplace relations problems, but it’s unlikely to make many of...
Nov 1, 2022
Global Arabica coffee supplies are at serious risk – here’s why
Millions of farmers, mostly in the developing world, depend on productive Arabica for their livelihood.
Oct 14, 2022
‘Best by’ or ‘Use by’: why food labelling needs reviewing
About 70 per cent of the food Australians throw out is still edible. Why aren’t we following the UK’s example?
Sep 19, 2022
Meat and masculinity: why some men just can’t stomach plant-based food
Forcing people to abandon animal meat is a non-starter, given how strongly we react to perceived loss of freedoms.
Jan 28, 2022
How Australia’s biggest wine-growing region came to pioneer alcohol control
The Chaffeys wanted a reliable, industrious and, above all, sober workforce.
Jan 7, 2022
The case for forcing the tobacco industry to pay for cigarette butts
In Australia, an estimated 8.9 billion butts are littered each year. This could be cut by 4.45 billion under a proposed ...
Dec 6, 2021
How customer hostility is impacting grocery workers’ mental health
Our research shows that rates of mental health distress among grocery workers are very high.
Nov 25, 2021
Why Australia’s ‘great resignation’ is a myth: The Conversation
Possibly more important will be how employers manage workers who became accustomed to working from home during the pande...
Nov 9, 2021
Australian companies face more climate-focused resolutions than ever before
In 2020, for the first time in Australia, more than half the shareholders of a public company voted in support of a clim...
Nov 9, 2021
Consumers are wise to ‘woke washing’ – so where does that leave you?
With brands increasingly engaging in social change campaigns, the time has come to ask a couple of big questions: is thi...
Oct 27, 2021
Should police be responsible for enforcing Covid vaccine certificates?
The National Retail Association has said the “onus cannot be on the retailer” to enforce vaccine certificate compliance ...
Oct 12, 2021
Coles, Woolworths move to automation, gig workers as home deliveries soar
Australia’s supermarket duopoly, Coles and Woolworths, have raced to implement new technology and transform labour arran...
Sep 6, 2021
Appetite for convenience: how online food delivery is impacting health
The smartphone has brought convenient online food delivery straight to your door – but how is this growing trend impacti...
Aug 19, 2021
Why the alcohol industry is getting sober curious
But recent years have seen a rise of the “sober-curious”, or the “mindful drinking” movement.
Jul 1, 2021