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Curious Kids: Where did the first person come from?

  • Written by Darren Curnoe, Associate Professor and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of New South Wales, UNSW
imageHere's a modern human skull on the left, and Neanderthal skull on the right. Darren Curnoe, Author provided

This is an article from Curious Kids, a new series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird or wacky!

Where did the first person...

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Sex versus death: why marriage equality provokes more heated debate than assisted dying

  • Written by Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, Melbourne University, University of Oxford
imageWhile fear suppresses talk about dying, marriage equality involves sex.AAP/Danny Casey

The Greek philosopher Epicurus wrote:

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

We are in the midst of two great ethical debates: marriage equality and assisted dying. The results of the...

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Some suburbs are being short-changed on services and liveability – which ones and what's the solution?

  • Written by Melanie Davern, Senior Research Fellow, Healthy Liveable Cities Group, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
imageFor suburbs like fast-growing Tarneit in the Wyndham area, 'hard' infrastructure gets priority, leaving 'soft' social infrastructure to catch up later. Chris Brown/flickr, CC BY-SA

This article is one in a series, Healthy Liveable Cities, in the lead-up to the Designing Healthy Liveable Cities Conference in Melbourne on October 19 and 20.

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Here's what's actually driving up health insurance premiums (hint: it's not young people dropping off)

  • Written by Peter Sivey, Associate Professor, School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, RMIT University
image'HOW MUCH has my health insurance gone up?!' There's a simple reason premiums are increasing.from www.shutterstock.com

Last week the government announced a raft of changes aimed at slowing the rise in health insurance premiums, as well as initiatives to improve access to mental health care.

Commentators have already expressed scepticism on the...

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  1. Share houses and women's liberation: a forgotten history
  2. Why craft beer is going corporate
  3. Newspoll 54-46 to Labor as Turnbull's ratings slump. Qld Newspoll 52-48 to Labor
  4. Household savings figures in Turnbull's energy policy look rubbery
  5. Let’s get this straight, habitat loss is the number-one threat to Australia's species
  6. Infographic: the National Energy Guarantee at a glance
  7. Strengthened Xi and Abe could help moves toward peace in our troubled region
  8. How the National Energy Guarantee could work better than a clean energy target
  9. Keeping mature-age workers on the job
  10. Come hide with us – bean counters raid big law firms
  11. Do computers make better bank managers than humans?
  12. Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images is an unmissable show
  13. How childhood trauma changes our hormones, and thus our mental health, into adulthood
  14. Wi-Fi can be KRACK-ed. Here's what to do next
  15. Australia's Human Rights Council election comes with a challenge to improve its domestic record
  16. Tropical thunderstorms are set to grow stronger as the world warms
  17. Why the end of auto manufacturing won't be as apocalyptic as previous mass layoffs
  18. In Trump we trust: why continual disasters fail to shake the president's loyalists
  19. We all have to die of something, so why bother being healthy?
  20. Three strategies to help students navigate dodgy online content
  21. City-by-city analysis shows our capitals aren’t liveable for many residents
  22. Decoding the music masterpieces: Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances
  23. At last, we've found gravitational waves from a collapsing pair of neutron stars
  24. After the alert: radio 'eyes' hunt the source of the gravitational waves
  25. We beat a cyber attack to see the 'kilonova' glow from a collapsing pair of neutron stars
  26. Subsidies for renewables will go under Malcolm Turnbull's power plan
  27. Middle-income earners probably won't be paying as much tax as the government expects
  28. Good data/bad data: ethically designed databases can help police without reducing privacy
  29. Is it too cheap to visit the 'priceless' Great Barrier Reef?
  30. We just Black matter: Australia's indifference to Aboriginal lives and land
  31. Taking the pulse of a city: Melbourne's Vital Signs
  32. Health Check: why are some people afraid of heights?
  33. Here’s how Australia can act to target racist behaviour online
  34. Filters: a cigarette engineering hoax that harms both smokers and the environment
  35. How marketers use algorithms to (try to) read your mind
  36. Expect a shakeup of China’s military elite at the 19th Party Congress
  37. How Melbourne's west was greened
  38. Noble horses and 'black monsters': the politics of colonial compassion
  39. More sightings of an endangered species don't always mean it's recovering
  40. Translation technology is useful, but should not replace learning languages
  41. Turnbull's ratings fall in another bad Newspoll
  42. Power bills can fall – but the main attention must be on affordability: ACCC
  43. Why Trump's decertification of the Iran nuclear deal may prove a costly mistake
  44. NSW ReachTEL: Coalition leads 52-48 as One Nation slumps. Xenophon tied or ahead in SA's Hartley
  45. Shorten promises $1 billion fund to finance manufacturing enterprises
  46. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government reneging on a clean energy target
  47. #LstTxt Tstmnt: an unsent text message can count as a will, in the right circumstances
  48. Research suggests Tony Abbott's climate views are welcome in the Hunter Valley
  49. As the Clean Energy Target fizzles, what might replace it?
  50. Changes to lure young people into private health insurance won't slow increase in premiums

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