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Editor's note
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As the same-sex marriage postal vote draws closer, much is being written about what each side needs to do to sway public opinion. There has been little hard evidence presented on the traits of those people likely to support or oppose marriage equality. Francisco Perales and Alice Campbell have crunched the data on trends in public attitudes on this issue over a decade, and found that while support for marriage equality has overwhelmingly grown, certain groups in Australian society remain unconvinced.
And also today, congratulations to the winners of the 2017 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes.
Several Conversation authors were among those recognised for their work. University of Adelaide’s Alan Cooper won for the Aboriginal Heritage Project, which uses DNA from hair samples to construct a map of Indigenous Australia prior to colonisation. Andrew Steer of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute took home a prize for his clinical research on scabies.
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Top story
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Increasing numbers of Australians agree with the notion of same-sex couples having the same rights as different-sex couples.
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Francisco Perales, The University of Queensland; Alice Campbell, The University of Queensland
HILDA data reveal an overwhelming tide of support toward the rights of same-sex couples within Australian society.
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Science + Technology
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Ariel Bogle, The Conversation
The 2017 Australian Museum Eureka Prize winners include autism advocate and researcher Andrew Whitehouse, and The Aboriginal Heritage Project ancient DNA expert Alan Cooper.
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David Hocking, Monash University; Felix Georg Marx, Monash University
Ancient whales were neither gentle, nor giants: they were smaller than those of today and judging from their teeth, a lot meaner.
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Business + Economy
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Andreas Hellmann, Macquarie University
Research shows investors could have been misled just by the order of information in financial reports.
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Arts + Culture
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Garrick Hitchcock, Australian National University
The French La Pérouse expedition left Botany Bay in 1788, and then vanished, rumoured to be wrecked in the Solomon Islands. But an Indian newspaper article might reveal the fate of its survivors.
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Mark Masterson, Victoria University of Wellington
The medieval Byzantine Empire might hold some lessons about tolerance and same-sex marriage.
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Health + Medicine
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Karen Dwyer, Deakin University; Ashani Lecamwasam, Deakin University
The number of Australians with chronic kidney disease is set to rise, but there's no cure for most people. Here's what you need to know about this silent killer.
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Alexandra Barratt, University of Sydney
Calls to routinely offer breast cancer screening to more women might sound like a good idea, but can harm. Here are three questions to ask when figuring out whether more screening really is better.
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Politics + Society
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Between August 8 and 24 the AEC dealt with 933,592 enrolment transactions, 87% of which were changes or updates.
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Troy Whitford, Charles Sturt University
The anti-fascist movement, or 'antifa', has undergone more of an evolution of progressive militancy than a birth.
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Cities
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Lyrian Daniel, University of Adelaide; Emma Baker, University of Adelaide
The idea of a hot and sunny land is so baked into our thinking about Australia that we've failed to design and build houses that protect us from the cold.
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Environment + Energy
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Andrew Dodd, Swinburne University of Technology
In this episode of Change Agents, Andrew Dodd speaks with Darren Kindleysides and Don Rothwell on how Australia won a case against Japan's whaling activities at the International Court of Justice.
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