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Five crossbench members of the House of Representatives will take their seats in the 45th parliament, including Bob Katter, Andrew Wilkie, and the Nick Xenophon Team’s Rebekha Sharkie. Lucas Coch/AAP

Explainer: who are the independents and minor parties in the lower house?

After a slim victory, how the Coalition works with the crossbench MPs will prove important to the success and stability of the Turnbull government.
How well did our experts’ predictions match the results at the ballot box? AAP/Richard Wainwright

State of the states: what were the issues and seats that mattered in Australia’s state and territories?

We reconvened our State of the states experts to respond to the results of the 2016 federal election.
A plague, or just an artefact? Jacob Gruythuysen

How time-poor scientists inadvertently made it seem like the world was overrun with jellyfish

How flawed citation practices can perpetuate scientific ideas even before they’ve been fully established as true.
A gauche, image d'un fragment de mâchoire inférieure en surimpressions sur le crâne d’ Homo floresiensis, comparé avec un crâne d'homme moderne, à droite. Y. Kaifu

La découverte d’un fossile vieux de 700 000 ans montre que les ancêtres du Hobbit étaient encore plus petits

La découverte dans une île indonésienne d’une espèce du genre Homo, Homo florensiensis, dit le Hobbit, rebondit aujourd’hui avec la mise au jour de fossiles qui nous éclairent sur leurs ancêtres.
Bruce Beresford’s expansive art collection grew from flea-markets. Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956). Exodus (Study for a mural). Photo: Jenni Carter

From the Queen of Sheba to Jeffrey Smart: how art shaped Bruce Beresford

Bruce Beresford can’t draw, but he has wept in an art gallery. A lifelong delight in a wide range of art – from paintings to opera – has influenced his craft from a young age.
Many voters feel the major parties aren’t listening, which can be part of the appeal of populist candidates such as One Nation’s Pauline Hanson. Dan Peled/AAP

Vote 1 ‘Other’: what’s driving more voters to back a minor party this election

Watch Anne Tiernan and Duncan McDonnell discuss the popularity of minor parties and independents in this election – including what the Nick Xenophon Team learnt from the Palmer United Party.
Image (left) of the Mata Menge lower jaw fragment (SOA-MM4) superimposed on the Homo floresiensis skull (LB1) from Liang Bua, and compared with a modern human skull from the Jomon Period of Japan. Y. Kaifu

A 700,000-year-old fossil find shows the Hobbits’ ancestors were even smaller

Fossil finds on another dig on an Indonesian Island show the Hobbits may have been around for much longer than first thought.
The original excavation of Mungo Man, found near Lake Mungo in southwestern New South Wales, Australia. Wilfred Shawcross.

New DNA study confirms ancient Aborigines were the First Australians

Research first published in 2001 has been used to question of whether Aboriginal People were the First Australians. So why not re-test those results with improved techniques and equipment?

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