The Great Food Con | Online Webinar
Description
Join us for The Great Food Con Online Webinar featuring an exclusive screening of segments from the ABC docu-series The Great Food Con, followed by a solutions-based panel discussion.
In the series, Presenter Craig Reucassel reveals how the ultra-processed foods that make up nearly half the average Australian diet are linked to a range of harmful health effects and asks: do we really know what we’re eating anymore?
Following selected segments from the series, ABC Radio National's Science Editor Jonathan Webb will moderate a live panel discussion featuring Craig Reucassel, Distinguished Professor Felice Jacka OAM, Associate Professor Phillip Baker and Dheepa Jeyapalan. The conversation will explore marketing claims and broader systemic issues, empowering audiences to make informed choices and engage in a solution-focused discussion.
This event will be hosted online via Zoom. Registered attendees will receive the access link via email the day before the event.
The Great Food Con premieres on Tuesday, 24 November at 8pm on ABC TV, with all episodes available to stream on ABC iview.
Lineup
Host, Jonathan Webb
Jonathan is a lapsed neuroscientist and a former BBC science reporter, currently working as the Science Editor at ABC Radio National. He manages a team of specialist journalists working across radio, podcasts, social media and the web — including all of Radio National's weekly science and health programs.
Panellist, Craig Reucassel
Craig Reucassel is an Australian writer and comedian, best known as a founder of The Chaser and presenter of the multi-award-winning ABC series ‘War on Waste’. He is the 702 Sydney Breakfast presenter on ABC Radio, and his TV credits include ‘The Chaser’s War on Everything’, ‘The Checkout’, ‘Fight for Planet A’ and 'The Great Food Con'.
Panellist, Distinguished Professor Felice Jacka OAM
Deakin Distinguished Professor Felice Jacka OAM is internationally recognised as the founder and a global leader of the impactful field of Nutritional Psychiatry research. She is the founder and immediate past president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR), and founder and director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University. She was a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2020-24incl), ranking in the top 0.1% of scientists worldwide. In 2021, she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for her contributions to Nutritional Psychiatry. In 2026, she received one of the world's most prestigious scientific honours: the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Laureate Award for Asia and the Pacific. The programme has a remarkable track record - seven of its previous laureates have gone on to win Nobel Prizes, including Elizabeth Blackburn, Australia's only female Nobel laureate. She is the author of Brain Changer, published by Pan Macmillan in Australia and Yellow Kite Books in the UK (2019), and There's a Zoo in my Poo, published by Pan Macmillan in July 2020.
Panellist, Associate Professor Phillip Baker
Phil’s research at the School of Public Health, University of Sydney, examines how ultra-processed foods impact on our health and the health of our planet. He recently co-led the Lancet Series on Ultra-processed Foods and Human Health.
Dheepa Jeyapalan
Dheepa Jeyapalan is a dietitian and public health practitioner who co-leads Good Food Purchasing Australia, working to transform how our public institutions buy food. Based in Melbourne, she brings community, academic, and government experience to building food systems that nourish people, place, and planet.
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