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Who owns the bones? Human fossils shouldn't just belong to whoever digs them up

  • Written by Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Senior research fellow, Southern Cross University

All humans alive today can claim a common ancestral link to some hominin. Hominins include modern humans, extinct human species, and all our immediate ancestors.

Recent discoveries of hominin remains, including the skull of a Homo erectus in South Africa, have generated high levels of interest from the public and scientific community alike.

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Voices, hearts and hands – how the powerful sounds of protest have changed over time

  • Written by Lawrence English, Adjunct Lecturer, The University of Queensland
Voices, hearts and hands – how the powerful sounds of protest have changed over timeoriginal

Protest has, by default, always been aligned with sound.

It is an action concerned with the amplification of a message – wanting to make sure it is heard.

Over the past 50 years, protesters’ voices have found power in unison. But activists and onlookers have increasingly been exposed to new sounds – many of which...

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It's 12 months since the last bushfire season began, but don't expect the same this year

  • Written by Kevin Tolhurst, Hon. Assoc. Prof., Fire Ecology and Management, University of Melbourne

Last season’s bushfires directly killed 34 people and devastated more than 8 million hectares of land along the south-eastern fringe of Australia.

A further 445 people are estimated to have died from smoke-induced respiratory problems.

The burned landscape may take decades to recover, if it recovers at all.

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By sacking staff and closing stores, big businesses like The Warehouse could hurt their own long-term interests

  • Written by Jonathan Baker, Lecturer in Business Strategy, Auckland University of Technology
By sacking staff and closing stores, big businesses like The Warehouse could hurt their own long-term interestswww.shutterstock.com

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, it is curious to see The Warehouse Group (TWG) not letting a good crisis go to waste.

Despite recently receiving NZ$68 million in government wage subsidies as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown, TWG has now proposed store closures and more than 1000 staff layoffs across its Warehouse, Noel...

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  1. does your driving speed make any difference to your car's emissions?
  2. If Australia really wants to tackle mental health after coronavirus, we must take action on homelessness
  3. Attending the G7 in the US carries great diplomatic risks for Australia
  4. 'Forced' evictions eat away at a Manila community as developer spares the golf course next door
  5. where you can wear slippers, crack peanuts, and knit 'to your heart's content'
  6. You better hope your work cleaner is one of the few who has time to do a thorough job
  7. bushfires destroyed the writing retreat of an Aussie literary icon
  8. how to protect your kids from in-person sexual abuse
  9. how to protect your kids from online sexual abuse
  10. how would they bring the International Space Station back down to Earth?
  11. racism, COVID-19, and the inequality that fuels these parallel pandemics
  12. Black Lives Matter outrage must drive police reform in Aotearoa-New Zealand too
  13. How Marriage Therapy Help Your Relationships
  14. How far away can dogs smell and hear?
  15. Student teachers must pass a literacy and numeracy test before graduating – it's unfair and costly
  16. Local news sources are closing across Australia. We are tracking the devastation (and some reasons for hope)
  17. 20% of pregnant Australian women don't receive the recommended mental health screening
  18. The housing boom propelled inequality, but a coronavirus housing bust will skyrocket it
  19. Desire Lines is a small love story inside an epic tale
  20. Businesses get extension for instant asset write-off
  21. Economists back wage freeze 21-19 in new Economic Society-Conversation survey
  22. Free childcare ends July 12, with sector losing JobKeeper but receiving temporary payment
  23. Labor trails federally and in Queensland; Biden increases lead over Trump
  24. New Zealand hits zero active coronavirus cases. Here are 5 measures to keep it that way
  25. why my battle for access to the 'Palace letters' should matter to all Australians
  26. Grindr is deleting its 'ethnicity filter'. But racism is still rife in online dating
  27. do we choose neighbourhoods to live, work and play in?
  28. Spare change? Cashless transactions could end the cultural legacy of the coin
  29. We modelled the future of Leadbeater’s possum habitat and found bushfires, not logging, pose the greatest threat
  30. why do we have boogers?
  31. the promise and peril of a Pacific tourism bubble
  32. Number of Australia's vulnerable children is set to double as COVID-19 takes its toll
  33. We've discovered how these deadly bacteria use a common sugar to spread through the body. It could help us stop them
  34. what can go wrong when governments let algorithms make the decisions
  35. Michelle Grattan on recession, the HomeBuilder program and Morrison's phone call with Trump
  36. Why do protests turn violent? It's not just because people are desperate
  37. Let's fix Australia's environment with any pandemic recovery aid – the Kiwis are doing it
  38. Fast moves in India-Australia relations risk pushing millions more into modern slavery
  39. the pandemic has put pressure on many relationships, but here's how to tell if yours will survive
  40. HomeBuilder might be the most-complex least-equitable construction jobs program ever devised
  41. There is no easy path out of coronavirus for live classical music
  42. HomeBuilder misses a chance to make our homes perform better for us and the planet
  43. There may not be enough skilled workers in Australia's pipeline for a post-COVID-19 recovery
  44. Curious Kids: why do we burp?
  45. After Robodebt, it's time to address ParentsNext
  46. High Court decision today on the long legal battle over New Acland Coal mine expansion
  47. Trump's photo op with church and Bible was offensive, but not new
  48. Vital signs. Remembering Alberto Alesina, the father of political economy
  49. here's how green roofs and walls can flourish in Australia
  50. the politics of dancing and thinking about cultural values beyond dollars
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