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This smart seating enhances the inclusivity of public space

The Benchmark smart seating project focuses on better understanding of how people, and in particular women, use and experience public space

Wallpaper · Aug 1, 2024

Dick Smith enters nuclear debate but CSIRO analysis shows his argument in meltdown

The entrepreneur claims agency exaggerated the costs of the Coalition plan despite it using best-case scenario South Korea as the benchmark

The Guardian - AU · Jul 3, 2024

Women lumped with exes' debts after escaping abuse

Australian women are increasingly seeking help for financial abuse as partners lump them with crippling company tax debts.

AAP · Jun 19, 2024

National centre to tackle gender inequity in medicine

A new national research centre will challenge Australia's predominantly male-centric approach to medical care to deliver better health outcomes for all.

AAP · Mar 27, 2024

An ‘exciting advance’ or ‘poor public policy’? Australian universities divided over new $10bn fund

The Higher Education Future Fund aims to fund expanded study hubs in areas outside the major capital cities

The Guardian - AU · Feb 27, 2024

Properly recycling aeroplanes could help make cars lighter, save fuel

UNSW Canberra researcher finds a better way to recycle carbon fibre.

The Canberra Times · Jan 27, 2024

January university offers are going out across Australia – here’s what you need to know

How are tertiary education offers staggered, what’s popular this year and what happens if you don’t get your first preference? Guardian Australia spells it out

The Guardian - AU · Jan 10, 2024

How worried should we be about the pneumonia outbreak in China?

Reports of a surge in pneumonia-like illness primarily affecting children in northern China have captured our attention. The last time we heard about a mysterious respiratory outbreak leading to overcrowding in hospitals was the beginning of the COVID pandemic, so it’s not entirely surprising this has caused some alarm.

The Conversation · Nov 27, 2023

Our unsung farm dams provide vital habitat to threatened species of frogs

Frogs are in trouble. While many of the world’s animal species are now at risk from habitat loss, climate change and other human pressures, frogs are particularly at risk.

The Conversation · Sep 13, 2023

University of Sydney one of 15 higher education institutions not to have a position on the voice

Indigenous faculty members say the leadership of Australia’s oldest university could have been ‘much braver’

The Guardian - AU · Sep 2, 2023