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Rethinking _Homo sapiens_? The story of our origins gets dizzyingly complicated

  • Written by: Darren Curnoe, Associate Professor and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of New South Wales, UNSW
Rethinking _Homo sapiens_? The story of our origins gets dizzyingly complicated_Homo sapiens_ evolved in the East African rift valley...but then what happened? 26781577@N07/flickr , CC BY-SA

You might say it’s the ultimate prize of science, to discover when, where and why humans evolved.

For a long time, the evidence has been overwhelming that Homo sapiens evolved in Africa and later spilled out of the continent to...

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Audit found Vikki Campion was owed travel money

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

An audit of the travel and travel-related expenses of Vikki Campion, former staffer and now partner of Barnaby Joyce, has found the government owed her money.

The audit, by the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (IPEA) examined her whole term of employment from May 2016 to early 2018, during which she was a staffer to Joyce, who was...

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a strikingly prescient morality tale about banking

  • Written by: Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University
a strikingly prescient morality tale about banking Jacqy Phillps as Karen and Russell Kiefel as Chris in the State Theatre Company of South Australia's 1986 production of Dreams in an Empty City.David Wilson

In our Great Australian Plays series, we nominate the best of Australian drama.

There is no single event foreshadowing the darker mood of the 1980s, as the election of the Whitlam Labor...

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'Ideological masculinity' that drives violence against women is a form of violent extremism

  • Written by: Joshua Roose, Director, Institute for Religion, Politics and Society, Australian Catholic University

Verbal and physical violence shapes the daily experiences of girls and women in cities. A recent analysis showed that women in Melbourne face habitual sexual harassment in public space and feel unsafe, particularly in the evenings.

Many commentators have framed the problem of violence against women perpetrated by men as being the result of toxic...

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  2. Why New Zealanders are feeling the hard edge of Australia's deportation policy
  3. Médiation scientifique : le rêve américain ?
  4. Five women to watch (and listen to) in Australian hip hop
  5. Humankind's odyssey from Africa began more than two million years ago
  6. Why Australia does not need a Religious Discrimination Act
  7. Restructuring alone won't clean up the banks' act
  8. Why do you blink when there is a sudden loud noise close by?
  9. What we can learn from China’s fight against environmental ruin
  10. ‘Where are you from?’ is a complicated question. This is how young Australians answer
  11. More of us are opting for 'digital detox' holidays
  12. it could be your best shot for a goal in a penalty shootout
  13. 'Network contagion' is key to getting healthier numbers of women on company boards
  14. Australia falls further in rankings on progress towards UN Sustainable Development Goals
  15. The rise and rise of Hillsong, and what other Australian churches should learn from them
  16. Warming oceans are changing Australia's fishing industry
  17. ABC chairman Milne attacks 'self-serving' commercial critics
  18. Why Australia might be at risk of 'overtourism'
  19. Fixing the shortage of specialist science and maths teachers will be hard, not impossible
  20. Is UNESCO World Heritage status for cultural sites killing the things it loves?
  21. when Australian water goes bad
  22. Happiness helps football players do better, and it could help economies too
  23. Who is US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and where does he stand on abortion?
  24. Informed consent, individual care vital to ensure reproductive rights of transgender Australians
  25. Why does my snot turn green when I have a cold?
  26. Co-working spaces are part of the new economy, so town planners better get with the times
  27. Consumers let down badly by electricity market: ACCC report
  28. Murder investigation to find the source of a second Novichok poisoning
  29. how to reduce the risk of failure for environmental projects
  30. Should white Australian fans rap along to the n-word at a Kendrick Lamar concert?
  31. Why the Human Rights Commission was right to rule employment discrimination in child pornography conviction case
  32. How video assistant referees could undermine on-field referees at the FIFA World Cup
  33. 51-49 to Labor, and time running out for upper house reform
  34. A growing mistrust in democracy is causing extremism and strongman politics to flourish
  35. How Australian universities can get better at cyber security
  36. the Aboriginal names for ten Melbourne suburbs
  37. Protecting your kids from failure isn't helpful. Here's how to build their resilience
  38. Thinking you're 'on a diet' is half the problem – here's how to be a mindful eater
  39. Missing evidence base for big calls on infrastructure costs us all
  40. Drawing inspiration from imaginative planners past
  41. Over 20% of Australian horses race with their tongues tied to their lower jaw
  42. did the Coalition 'deliver more than a million jobs in the last year'?
  43. Mark Latham helps Hanson in robocall attacking Shorten
  44. New research shows NSW teachers working long hours to cope with administrative load
  45. How imagery and media coverage influence our empathy for strangers
  46. Israel moves closer to phasing out Australian live sheep and cattle imports
  47. what causes chilblains and how can I prevent them?
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