Stomach surgery to cut food intake can help overweight diabetics drive their disease into remission better than conventional weight loss methods, Australian research shows.

Food products made from Australian 'superfruits' - Kakadu plums, Illawarra plums and bush tomatoes - which are five times higher in antioxidants than blueberries, are being marketed in the US.

ONE in three Australians say they can't quit fast food, an international survey reveals. Despite the obesity epidemic, they love the flavour of chips, pizzas and hamburgers too much to give up.

Another great review on an Australian travel destination. This article talks about an Australian farm that was developed to find out if food could be grown in Australia for the colonists that were arriving. Great and interesting stuff!

Harry Cordaiy, an 11-year-old Australian boy, was tired of thieves stealing his and other students' lunch money and bus tickets from classrooms... so he rigged up a mousetrap coated with green food coloring, attached a $5 bill to it, stashed it in his backpack, and waited.

Historically, Australian cuisine was based on traditional British cooking brought to the country by the first settlers. This generally consisted of pies, roasted cuts of meat, grilled steak and chops, and other forms of meat generally accompanied by vegetables (the combination known colloquially as "meat and three veg").These origins have been mostly overtaken by the growing multicultural emphasis of Australian culture over the last forty to fifty years, with Australian cuisine now influenced by a variety of Mediterranean and Asian foods originally introduced by immigrants. Indeed, restaurants whose cuisine tends to demonstrate contemporary adaptations, interpretations or fusions of these multicultural culinary influences are frequently labeled with the umbrella term "Modern Australian". British traditions still persist to varying degrees including in the takeaway food sector, with pies and fish and chips remaining popular.A native Australian cuisine movement has also emerged, evolving out of the Australian themed restaurants of the mid-1980s. The discovery of the spice-like qualities of many native Australian plant ingredients formed the basis of a gourmet cuisine. This contrasted with the Bush tucker or foraged food unfamiliar to gourmets.