The excavation of Makpan Cave on the southwest coast of Alor in mid-2016 successfully discovered new evidence that humans settled on Alor Island, East Nusa Tenggara, around 43,000 years ago.
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Komitmen pemerintah dalam menjunjung prinsip negara hukum tengah dipertanyakan. Saatnya kembali memastikan penerapan ‘rule of law’ dalam pemerintahan.
The thing to look for is the “fiscal strategy”. For the past quarter-century, it’s provided a surprisingly accurate insight into what each budget is doing.
Structuring the NDIS around principles of choice and control recognised that not having those things puts people with disability in more vulnerable situations. That’s true for support workers, too.
Dans les années 1960-1970, le gouvernement australien a cherché de diverses façons à réduire la fécondité des femmes aborigènes.
A few simple changes to Australia’s system of student loans would smooth increases in the amounts owing and make it easier to get home loans.
28 of the 38 top economists surveyed by the Economic Survey of Australia want the GST top-up for one of Australia’s richest states scrapped.
The Institute of Public Affairs says 425,000 more Australians are on welfare than in 2018, but it has double-counted some Australians and left out others.
Indigenous people have long spoken about coercive practices of officials and experts around birth control, as late as the 1960s. Now historians are finding evidence in the government’s own records.
Given the damage to the Liberal “brand” in recent years, the opposition leader faces an arduous task in clawing back seats or winning new ones.
The government’s proposed merger reforms put the experts in charge. They will allow the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to be the decision-maker, not the courts.
Vice Admiral David Johnston comes into the leadership role with a lot of experience and a good reputation, but many challenges await him.
Former treasury boss Ken Henry has fessed up to helping dumb down debates about tax and budgets to lists of winners and losers. He says what matters is what wins rather than who.
AUKUS is still a very new partnership, so expansion isn’t viewed as a priority until the envisioned technology sharing is proven to work.
Australia’s latest population projection figures have just come out. This is what they show about our demographics and where the country is heading in the future.
Donor conception, surrogacy, artificial womb technologies … a new book delves into how families are changing.
US President Joe Biden’s recent warning to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has limited Israel’s options in Gaza. And neither of Israel’s war objectives appear to have been met.
The indexation of student debt is arguably the federal government’s biggest political problem when it comes to universities.
A secret, years-long project to implant a backdoor in a widely used free software tool was only foiled by luck.
The government’s rhetoric in response to the death of the Australian aid worker is stronger than we’d previously seen, but in a conflict with no clear solutions, little will change.
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PhD candidate, English Literature, Australian National University
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Honorary Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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PhD Student, Australian National University
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PhD Student & Research Assistant, Australian National University
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Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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Lecturer, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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ARC DECRA Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Peter Whiteford is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor in the practice of public policy and antitrust, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Distinguished Professor, School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University
