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Meet the endangered Bunyip bird living in Australia's rice paddies

  • Written by: Matt Herring, PhD Candidate, Charles Darwin University
Meet the endangered Bunyip bird living in Australia's rice paddiesEndangered species are living happily in rice fields. Bitterns in Rice/Matt Herring, Author provided

The debate around the Murray-Darling Basin is often sharply polarised: irrigation is destroying the environment, or water reforms are ruining farming communities.

But there is another story. In the Riverina region of southern New South Wales, a...

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Southeast Asia was crowded with archaic human groups long before we turned up

  • Written by: João Teixeira, Research associate, University of Adelaide
Southeast Asia was crowded with archaic human groups long before we turned upThe ancestral population of modern humans appears to have split as it moved across Asia.Shutterstock

Around 55,000-50,000 years ago, a population of modern humans left Africa and started on the long trek that would lead them around the world. After rapidly crossing Eurasia and Southeast Asia, they travelled through the islands of Indonesia, and...

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did the velociraptors have feathers?

  • Written by: Caitlin Syme, PhD in Vertebrate Palaeontology, The University of Queensland
did the velociraptors have feathers?Was velociraptor a feathered friend? Here's one artist's impression. Shutterstock

Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and The Conversation, based on...

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can a criminal suspect be identified just by the sound of his voice?

  • Written by: Ahmar Mahboob, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Sydney
can a criminal suspect be identified just by the sound of his voice?Prosecutors should be required to consult forensic linguistic experts on cases involving voice evidence, rather than solely relying on 'ad hoc' experts.Shutterstock

A few months ago, I received a call from a barrister who asked me if I could evaluate whether voice identification testimony submitted in a criminal case against an Indigenous man was...

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  1. 1 in 10 patients are infected in hospital, and it's not always with what you think
  2. The long history of gender violence in Australia, and why it matters today
  3. It's a bad year for flu, but it's too early to call it the worst ever – 5 charts on the 2019 season so far
  4. The edges of home ownership are becoming porous. It's no longer a one-way street
  5. Simple fixes could help save Australian consumers from up to $3.6 billion in 'loyalty taxes'
  6. China can learn from Australian urban design, but it's not all one-way traffic
  7. Making deer fair game for unlicensed hunting is the right step for New South Wales
  8. what Western civilisation owes to Islamic cultures
  9. It's not easy to give a robot a sense of touch
  10. Report finds every $1 Australia spends on preschool will return $2, but this won't just magically happen
  11. Inequality is growing, but it is also changing as Australia's super rich evolve
  12. They've cut deeming rates, but what are they?
  13. Michelle Grattan on the government's plans for Indigenous recognition
  14. The river red gum is an icon of the driest continent
  15. The TGA's proposed breast implant ban exposes a litany of failures, and fails to protect women
  16. human trafficking is the world’s fastest growing crime
  17. Group punishment doesn't fix behaviour
  18. the Australians who pioneered self-sufficiency, generations before Nimbin
  19. Design and repair must work together to undo our legacy of waste
  20. Looking after loved ones with mental illness puts carers at risk themselves. They need more support
  21. we need those tax cuts now, all of them. The surplus can wait
  22. How Muslim women break stereotypes by mixing faith and modesty with fashion
  23. Arctic ice loss is worrying, but the giant stirring in the South could be even worse
  24. We create 20m tons of construction industry waste each year. Here's how to stop it going to landfill
  25. When does getting help on an assignment turn into cheating?
  26. When it comes to Indigenous recognition, Ken Wyatt will have to close multiple gaps
  27. welcome to the bizarro world of negative interest rates
  28. Ken Wyatt's big promises on Indigenous affairs
  29. Understanding dog personalities can help prevent attacks
  30. In the remote Cambodian jungles, we made sure rare Siamese crocodiles would have enough food
  31. why is the Sun orange when white stars are the hottest?
  32. Women, rural and disadvantaged Australians may be missing out on care in the NDIS
  33. writing the powerful female world of Wentworth
  34. How to improve health outcomes for Indigenous peoples by making space for self-determination
  35. Ken Wyatt on constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians
  36. Deeming rates explained. What is deeming, how does it cut pensions, and why do we have it?
  37. the 'novelty song' that became a cultural touchstone
  38. Indonesia has sent Australia's recycling home – it's time to clean up our act
  39. Victoria’s mental health system fails the most vulnerable
  40. Most people think playing chess makes you 'smarter', but the evidence isn't clear on that
  41. Most adults have never heard of TikTok. That's by design
  42. The new Mabo? $190 million stolen wages settlement is unprecedented, but still limited
  43. The world has a hard time trusting China. But does it care?
  44. The 2019 flu shot isn't perfect – but it's still our best defence against influenza
  45. how the move to digital medical records is leaving us drowning in old paper files
  46. We organised a conference for 570 people without using plastic. Here's how it went
  47. 10 of the best examples of digital literature
  48. Earth's core has been leaking for billions of years
  49. The Morrison government proposes an Indigenous recognition referendum this term
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