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Tablets: Weapons of mass distraction in the classroom
They cost a fortune and cause havoc at home and yet more and more Australian schools are insisting that younger and younger children be equipped with personal computing devices at school. And even...
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It’s probably not a good idea to smear endocrine disrupting chemicals all...
There has been a bit of fuss lately about people getting seriously burnt even though they used sunscreen. For a while now, I’ve been a little concerned about the long list of unpronounceable names on...
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How Big Food is using our health system as a marketing tool.
Nestle, Danone and others like them, use our health system as a tool for flogging cheap and addictive powdered milk products. Regulators have clamped down on them doing it with baby formula, now it is...
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Drug Companies are throwing billions at a disease that can be cured with 3 words
Liver Disease is the next big gold mine for the pharmaceutical industry. Billions are being spent on an elusive drug cure. But not one cent is being spent on the one thing we know will cure it –...
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Why vegetable oils are much more deadly than cigarettes.
Smoking and vegetable oils cause disease via exactly the same mechanism. We don’t force our children to smoke, so why are we forcing them to consume vegetable oils? People who smoke are up to six times...
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How fathers avoiding Vegetable Oil can prevent Childhood Cancer
We know a smoking father damages sperm and seriously increases childhood cancer risk. But the vegetable oil in that tub of margarine or that splodge of mayo works the same way only many times worse....
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Students will suffer as private schools chase top of the table
AUSTRALIAN private schools are gaming results league tables to get an edge over their competition. Valuable taxpayer funds are at stake for the school, but often it is the students who are paying the...
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Why buy Viagra when you can roll your own?
Viagra is a drug which helps us get more out of the nitric oxide we naturally produce. Besides its highly successful commercial use, a recent trial has shown it could make a significant difference to...
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Excerpt from Taming Toxic People
Order Now Imagine for a minute that you are carving your way, machete in hand, through impenetrable jungle in some terribly exotic place. You happen upon a clearing when suddenly you notice you are...
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We can’t afford to means test schools
Last week the Centre for Independent Studies, a right-wing think-tank, reheated one of Tony Abbott’s most memorable policy blunders and again called for means testing public education. The only problem...
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North Korea: Why dealing with Kim Jong-un is like managing a psychopathic boss
It is possible to avoid war in Korea but only by doing the one thing Donald Trump will find near impossible: building trust. According to classic deterrence theory, the only way to convince a...
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The Media Must Be Our Watchdog Against The Weinsteins Of This World
Powerful Hollywood producer, Harvey Weinstein has been accused of long-term, persistent sexual harassment. But this is not a story about gender or the evils of Hollywood. Sexual harassment isn’t about...
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How the Healthy Eating Guidelines have destroyed our health
The first Australian healthy eating guidelines were published in 1982. Its now been 35 years since our government became worried enough about our health to start telling us what to eat. There is now...
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Forget bakers, why can private schools be bigots?
BEFORE we get in a tizz about whether bakers are allowed to refuse service to same-sex couples, we should ask why taxpayer-funded schools can refuse to employ them or educate their kids. The Bill...
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Why the experts are wrong when they tell us cancer is our fault
The statistics tell us that every year more and more of us suffer from cancer. The experts continue to tell us it is our fault for failing to listen to their sage advice. But with smoking and drinking...
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Surviving the Family Psychopath at Christmas
Christmas is a time for good will to all, for giving and receiving and, for getting uncomfortably close to people we’ve spent the rest of the year avoiding like the plague. Toxic people. You might call...
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Don’t hand Sugar Tax money to the people who got us in this mess
It’s already been quite a year for the Australian Sugar Industry. Just 6 sleeps into the New Year they were taking sustained incoming fire from the AMA (Australian Medical Association). Suddenly the...
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Creating The Perfect World for Psychopaths
We didn’t mean to do it, but we have created a perfect world for psychopaths. If I were to sit down with the express aim of designing a society where psychopaths could flourish, it would be almost...
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Schools taking taxpayer funds must not be used for political campaigning
On the eve of the by-election, the three Catholic schools in the Longman electorate wrote to 5,000 parents urging them to vote for the Labor Party. Between them, these three schools received $31.6...
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Why are we throwing money at people who choose not to use Public Education?
The Government has just decided to throw another 4.6 billion taxpayer dollars at a sector which already sucks up $12 billion a year of Australia’s education funding. On equity grounds alone, the...
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