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Editor's note
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It was a discovery that changed the way we think of human habitation in Australia. But 50 years on, the man who made the find believes the story has still to reach a conclusion. We were lucky to have one of Australia’s most distinguished geologists, Dr James Bowler, write this long read on his discovery of Mungo Man, the oldest Indigenous human remains on the Australian continent.
Read his reflection and a collection of our other top long reads from the past month below. Also, in case you missed it, we’ve launched our new special newsletter Thrive. If you sign up here before 9.55am AEST today, you should just receive the first edition. And if you happen to miss it, don’t worry, our Health + Medicine editor Fron will send another next week.
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Molly Glassey
Newsletter Editor
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A very modern human from many years ago
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It’s been 50 years since the find of burnt bones in ancient soil, eroded from deep in shoreline dune in NSW.
Jim Bowler
Jim Bowler, University of Melbourne
It's been half a century since Jim Bowler discovered Mungo Lady which changed the course of Australian history. But now he says the find has fallen off the national radar, leaving a legacy of shame.
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Australia’s rich tradition of crime fiction
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Guy Pearce as the Chandleresque private investigator Jack Irish: in the early years of Australian crime fiction, convicts and bushrangers featured prominently.
Lachlan Moore
Stephen Knight, University of Melbourne
Australia's rich tradition of crime fiction is little known – early tales told of bushrangers and convicts, one hero was a mining engineer turned amateur detective – but it reveals a range of national myths and fantasies.
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More Friday Essays
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Saskia Beudel, University of Canberra
Climate change can seem far removed from our everyday lives, which is why a citizen science program measuring how frogs are dealing with a warming world is so important.
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Mridula Nath Chakraborty, Monash University
Whether being called 'curry munchers' or pigeonholed as authorities on a dish largely invented by the British, diasporic South Asians are emulsified in a deep pool of curry.
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Time to pay attention to demand
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Aggregate demand is being hit by the concentration of income growth among the top earners and is now a drag on economic growth.
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Stephen Bell, The University of Queensland
News that Australian CEO pay has soared to a 17-year high at a time when ordinary workers' wages are flatlining is ultimately bad news for economic growth and prosperity.
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Girl monsters on the rise
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Zoey Deutch in the film Vampire Academy (2014).
Angry Films, Kintop Pictures, Preger Entertainment
Michelle Smith, Monash University
Gothic fiction has become the ideal genre for exploring the grotesque, frightening aspects of coming of age. And disruptive girls with supernatural powers have replaced the passive heroines of old.
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Guide to the classics
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Sarah Gleeson-White, University of Sydney
William Faulkner began writing As I Lay Dying the day after the 1929 Wall Street crash. It documents, through the voices of 15 characters, the emergence of a poor white family into the modern world.
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Ana Puchau de Lecea, University of Melbourne; Vicente Pérez de León, University of Melbourne
Completed by Cervantes when he was in prison, Don Quixote is the tale of a man so passionate about reading he leaves home to live the life of his fictional heroes.
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Featured jobs
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Deakin University — Burwood, Victoria
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RMIT University — Melbourne, Victoria
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La Trobe University — Bundoora, Victoria
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University of Melbourne — Parkville, Victoria
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Featured events
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Carson Conference Centre, ANMF, 535 Elizabeth St, Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia — CSIRO
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221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria, 3125, Australia — Deakin University
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Veterinary Science Conference Centre (Lecture Theatre 208, Webster), The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, 2006, Australia — University of Sydney
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Tyree Room, John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, New South Wales, 2052, Australia — UNSW
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