Afternoon Update: Australia’s ultra-processed food problem; Glenn McGrath dropped by ABC; and a Klimt painting’s record price

UPFs, which make up nearly half the average Australian diet, are driving an ‘escalating’ burden of many chronic diseases. Photograph: beats/Alamy

Good afternoon.

Ultra-processed foods now make up nearly half of the average Australian’s diet because the country has “fallen behind international best practice” on nutrition, a co-author of a major new global report says.