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We have previously demonstrated that between the years 1980 and 2000, the mean body mass index (BMI) of the urban Australian population increased, with greater increases observed with increasing BMI.

This is an edited extract from The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia by Frank Bongiorno, published by Black Inc. In April 1986 Prime Minister Bob Hawke told a television interviewer: The ...

American Australian performer Joe Dolce’s 1980 one-hit wonder Shaddap You Face was recently inducted into the National Film and Sound Archive’s Sounds of Australia collection, which also named it ...