Last updated: February 01, 2011

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Dads don't get fair share of time

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CHILDREN in separated families continue to spend more time with their mothers despite law reforms aimed at promoting shared parenting.

Are you an iPhone or an Android?

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MOBILE phones say quite a lot about their owners, research has found, with a social analyst saying they reveal much about how we work, rest and play.

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New year resolutions run out of puff

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ALMOST half of all Australians who make a "get fit" New Year's resolution fail at the first hurdle, a new report says.

Young paid to have STD test

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YOUNGER Australians will be paid to get tested for chlamydia, as health experts look for new ways to combat rising rates of the sexually transmitted infection.

Generation Y losing 'female' skills

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BASIC "female" skills are becoming endangered with fewer young women able to iron a shirt, cook a roast chicken or hem a skirt.

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Red light for fast food labels

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FAST food chains may have to declare the kilojoules in food and include traffic light labelling on menus in an overhaul of labelling laws.

Food & Wine

Red light for fast food labels

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FAST food chains may have to declare the kilojoules in food and include traffic light labelling on menus in an overhaul of labelling laws.

Health

When it comes to skin, we're dim

Australians know too little about their skin, the body's largest organ

SKIN is often our first line of defence against illness and disease, yet  many Australians know little about their flesh covering, a survey has found.

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Surprising reasons you're tired

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THE reason you’re always tired might actually be something you’d never suspect and could easily fix, for example, by eating more fruit or corn on the cob.

Laura Stead fashion blog "Behind the Seams"

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