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Ringwood Secondary College food studies teacher Natalie Murray, with students who received 50s in her class, Natalie Barr and Sophie Aravindhan.

Students are flocking to this VCE subject. Use our interactive to find schools teaching the best life skills

A state school in Melbourne’s outer east has the most perfect scores in food studies, as the VCE subject becomes increasingly popular statewide. Search our interactive to make the best school choice.

  • Jackson Graham and Craig Butt

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Food manufacturers are innovating packaging.

Square juice bottles, canned wine: Why your food packaging is getting smarter

Fully recyclable materials, smart labels and better use of space are examples of more sustainable retail that can also influence shopping behaviour.

  • Jessica Yun
Unprocessed long-spined sea urchins.

Can we eat our way out of this thorny problem? This team thinks so

A rapid spread of millions of sea urchins is threatening vital kelp forests, which remove pollutants from water.

  • Bianca Hall
Feather and Bone co-owner Grant Hilliard at this Marrickville production facility.

They say happy pigs are tasty pigs. Good Food’s No.1-ranked ham proves that

An independent butcher beat out the supermarkets for this year’s best Christmas ham. Judges found it to be silky and with a delicate balance of smoke and seasoning.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Excelsa coffee beans at a farm in Nzara, South Sudan during this year’s harvest..

Bizarre beans and flavours that ‘jump out’: climate change hits coffee

A volatile few years in which extreme weather has wreaked havoc on global supplies and sent prices skyrocketing has farmers desiring more resilient crops.

  • Elias Visontay
Brandon Armstrong is a third-generation oyster farmer on the Camden Haven River on the NSW Mid North Coast who has been impacted by multiple floods.

Climate disasters mean oysters could be in short supply this Christmas

Oysters will be scarcer, smaller and more expensive on Christmas tables this year after twin climate disasters in two states.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Jody Brown is observing more days of extreme heat on her Queensland property.

Jody fought drought for 20 years and now, her worst fears are confirmed

Australia’s comprehensive outline of the climate threat is overdue, but the outlook is already diabolical.

  • Nick O'Malley
Brisbane food and lifestyle content creator Shoggy at a strawberry farm.

‘The sweetest strawberry I ever had’: Best places to pick near Brisbane

With strawberry season upon us, Brisbanites can get an authentic paddock-to-punnet experience within cooee of the city.

  • Neesha Sinnya
The UK’s foot and mouth outbreak in 2001 cost about $19 billion.

Australia helps develop world-first vaccine against devastating virus

An outbreak of the highly infectious livestock disease would devastate exports and wipe $80 billion from the economy.

  • Angus Dalton
A new research partnership aims at making medicine you can eat.

French fries that work like Ozempic: The push to make medicine you can eat

Peanuts instead of Panadol and a salad that can kill your appetite could be the results of a new Sydney research project.

  • Angus Dalton