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Can chimpanzees turn into people?

  • Written by: Mark Elgar, Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Melbourne
Can chimpanzees turn into people?Some people thought Charles Darwin was suggesting that, over a very long period of time, apes turned into people. He was not.Flickr/Ronald Woan, CC BY-SA

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

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NDIS needs the market to help make up at least 60% shortfall in specialist disability housing

  • Written by: George Taleporos, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Living with Disability Research Centre, La Trobe University
NDIS needs the market to help make up at least 60% shortfall in specialist disability housingSpecialist Disability Accommodation has enabled Ben Parkinson, pictured with his carer, to live in a home of his own.Summer Foundation, CC BY

Funding for Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is expected to support 28,000 people, 6% of all NDIS participants. However, the NDIS has provided...

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There's still a long way to go for the Don Dale royal commission to achieve justice

  • Written by: Thalia Anthony, Associate Professor in Law, University of Technology Sydney
There's still a long way to go for the Don Dale royal commission to achieve justiceThe detail of the government’s reforms remains elusive four months after commissioners Margaret White and Mick Gooda handed down their final report.AAP

The worth of the royal commission into the Northern Territory’s child detention system will be known only when the territory government goes about the task of implementing its...

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Your ATAR isn't the only thing universities are looking at

  • Written by: Sarah Pilcher, Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
Your ATAR isn't the only thing universities are looking atMany mainstream schools seem to reinforce the message that the ATAR is everything.from shutterstock.com

Only a quarter of undergraduate university admissions for domestic students are made on the basis of an ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank), according to a new discussion paper from Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute.

The paper hi...

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  4. The Execution of Savonarola and Two Companions at Piazza della Signoria
  5. Consumers need critical thinking to fend off banks' bad behaviour
  6. Sarah Hanson-Young on the Greens Batman setback
  7. Legal lessons for Australia from Uber’s self-driving car fatality
  8. Who’s to blame when driverless cars have an accident?
  9. New Zealand, US and UK outrank Australia in scores on budget transparency
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  11. We won't stop lone-actor attacks until we understand violence against women
  12. We need to rethink our moral obligations to create a better world
  13. Why union members earn higher wages than their non-union colleagues
  14. Cycling and walking are short-changed when it comes to transport funding in Australia
  15. New coral bleaching outbreak in NT a worrying sign of our warming oceans
  16. Therapy dogs can help reduce student stress, anxiety and improve school attendance
  17. What does a 'Leb' look like?
  18. #MeToo exposes legal failures, but ‘trial by Twitter' isn’t one of them
  19. Before you write that scathing online review, beware of defamation
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  21. China's new central bank governor will have to deal with massive debt and an ambitious economic agenda
  22. What happens in the body when we sweat?
  23. How tree bonds can help preserve the urban forest
  24. Peter Dutton’s ‘fast track’ for white South African farmers is a throwback to a long, racist history
  25. MRKH syndrome, when a woman's uterus never develops
  26. towards a digital, proactive emergency response
  27. We must develop 'techno-wisdom' to prevent technology from consuming us
  28. Floods don't occur randomly, so why do we still plan as if they do?
  29. Educational researchers, show us your evidence but don’t expect us to fund it
  30. Why the RBA needs to talk about future interest-rate policy
  31. Sidelining citizens when deciding on transport projects is asking for trouble
  32. The politics of black hair: an Australian perspective
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  37. After 16 years, electoral dynamics finally caught up with Labor in South Australia
  38. Liberals win South Australian election as Xenophon crushed, while Labor stuns the Greens in Batman
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  40. Full response from a spokesperson for Jay Weatherill for a FactCheck on young people in South Australia
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  43. Gig platforms' claims over worker chat groups: fraught territory indeed
  44. Both Australia and the region would benefit from a single market in Asia
  45. The technology that gave Stephen Hawking a voice should be accessible to all who need it
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