Ben Spraggon is the designer for ABC News' Interactive Digital Storytelling team, based in Brisbane. You can follow Ben on twitter: @BSpraggon
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| UpdatedTake our quiz to understand what the future of fake news might mean for all of us.
Topics: information-and-communication, internet-culture, social-media, broadcasting, ethics, science-and-technology, internet-technology, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedWhat's so damn important that people crossing one of Australia's busiest intersections can't put down their mobile phones? Take a look.
Topics: mobile-phones, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedWe studied the top 100 bestselling kids' books and decided to write our own to explain what we found. Meet Bear.
Topics: books-literature, children---preschoolers, children, children---toddlers, women, australia
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| UpdatedAlmost a third of products now display a Health Star Rating, but food manufacturers are applying ratings inconsistently and appear to be using the system primarily as a marketing tool.
Topics: food-and-cooking, diet-and-nutrition, human-interest, health, australia
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| UpdatedThe latest update of a threatened species list has the number of extinct animal species in Australia at 40, with 106 also listed as critically endangered.
Topics: environment, animals, ecology, animal-science, australia, united-states, french-polynesia, mauritius, saint-helena, new-zealand, mexico, seychelles, sri-lanka, reunion
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| UpdatedCave diving is perilous at the best of times but finding and freeing the 12 Thai boys and their football coach from Tham Luang posed extreme challenges.
Topics: accidents, emergency-incidents, thailand
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Everything you need to know to understand Australia's private health insurance system, personalised for you.
Topics: health, health-insurance, health-policy, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedResearchers have tested 40,664 packaged food products to help answer that question — and the results aren't pretty.
Topics: food-and-cooking, diet-and-nutrition, human-interest, health, australia
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| UpdatedCyclists are more likely to be injured in crashes with motor vehicles at intersections with stop or give way signs than at intersections without signage or with traffic signals.
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| UpdatedIn every capital city, more of us still choose to drive to work than use public transport, walk or cycle, according to the latest Census data.
Topics: pollution, work, population-and-demographics, australia
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| UpdatedJoin astronomer Fred Watson for a spectacular tour of 15 things you shouldn't miss in our May night sky.
Topics: science-and-technology, astronomy-space
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Explore an interactive breakdown of where the Government gets its money, how it's being spent, and what's changed since last year.
Topics: budget, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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| UpdatedAssuming you have the means to pay for private schooling, or to move to an area with a good public school, how do you decide?
Topics: education, primary-schools, public-schools, secondary-schools, australia
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| UpdatedOn many days, Donald Trump dominates half of some TV channels' airtime in the United States. But you might be surprised which network mentions him the least.
Topics: donald-trump, world-politics, television-broadcasting, united-states
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| UpdatedCompared to average Australians, CEOs earn an astronomical amount, watch the pay gap tick over in real time.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, australia
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| UpdatedLacey loves Farooq, and doesn't think race will have any real impact on their relationship — but Farooq, well, he says that's just not how the world works.
Topics: race-relations, relationships, australia
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| UpdatedExplore the full results of the same-sex marriage postal survey, including breakdowns by state and seat-by-seat.
Topics: federal-government, gays-and-lesbians, federal-parliament, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedNot long after Yong first moved to Australia, he saw a 14-year-old boy on the side of the road. What he did next reveals a lot about the migrant experience.
Topics: multiculturalism, community-and-society, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedAt one time, former soldiers Jason and Grus might have seen eye-to-eye on political correctness. Not any more.
Topics: government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedDonald Trump said the US would talk about gun laws "as time goes on". But Google search data shows that public attention moves on quickly.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, internet-culture, united-states
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| UpdatedRoss says he can't afford a house — but his mate Cam has bought several properties and reckons it's easier than people make out. We sat them down to talk.
Topics: housing, business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, melton-3337
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| UpdatedKerrie and Mobinah have very different views on Islam in Australia. What happens when they sit down to talk?
Topics: islam, community-and-society, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedCan you make the impossible choice that Australian social workers make every day — whether a child should be taken away from her parents for safety reasons.
Topics: child-abuse, family-and-children, family, australia
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| UpdatedDo mums and dads have equal rights? How should assets be divided when a marriage ends? Single parents Erin and Leon duke it out over the big issues of relationship breakdown.
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| UpdatedNorth Korea has threatened Australia with "disaster" — but could its missiles reach our shores? And just how much of the world is in potential danger?
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, nuclear-issues, korea-democratic-peoples-republic-of