The Sydney doctor turned MP says she will support the party that avoids “sugar-hit” policies, even as she faces a battle with the Liberals to retain her seat.

A decades-long study of Danish conscripts finds that despite the rise in obesity, the inverse relationship between intelligence and BMI has remained unchanged.

So what’s behind the region’s unlikely rise — and how sustainable is it? One major concern is water or, more specifically, the lack of it. Another is that it remains one of the poorest regions in the ...