Under-resourced and undermined: as floods hit south-west Sydney, our research shows councils aren’t prepared
09 Mar 2022
Councils are trying to balance competing priorities in urban development, with limited resources and stretched budgets.
News and other stories about real people, places, and events in Kensington and nearby suburbs.
Under-resourced and undermined: as floods hit south-west Sydney, our research shows councils aren’t prepared
09 Mar 2022
Councils are trying to balance competing priorities in urban development, with limited resources and stretched budgets.
Private obstetric care increases the chance of caesarean birth, regardless of health needs and wishes
09 Mar 2022
We looked at almost 300,000 births and found those mothers in the private system were more likely to have a caesarean – even if they didn’t really want or need one.
Are we seeing the Great Resignation – or the Great Exhaustion?
09 Mar 2022
While the jury is still out on whether Australia will experience a ‘great resignation’, another trend is already sweeping through the ranks of women, says a UNSW Business School academic.
Revisiting Shane Warne: The Musical – this brilliant show is an Aussie classic
09 Mar 2022
First staged in 2008, Shane Warne: The Musical is an overwhelmingly faithful rendering of Warne’s life, staging both his triumphs and his downfalls.
Grace and hope: advocates and optimism for child sexual abuse survivors
08 Mar 2022
Grace Tame joins UNSW academics Kyllie Cripps, Michael Salter and Emma A. Jane for a UNSW Centre for Ideas panel discussion.
Eight surprising things data science has revealed about us over the past decade
08 Mar 2022
Big data analysis has unveiled startling links between seemingly unrelated things, such as how a person’s physical elevation above sea level might influence their personality.
Is the #MeToo era a reckoning, a revolution, or something else?
08 Mar 2022
Laurie Penny’s new book Sexual Revolution offers a muddled perspective on this moment of profound cultural change, in contrast to Australian journalist Amy Remeikis’ powerful new work.
Bringing an end to gendered violence
08 Mar 2022
The Gendered Violence Research Network at UNSW Sydney help respond to, prevent, and eliminate gendered violence in Australia and beyond.
We asked our scientists about the influential women in their lives
08 Mar 2022
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2022, we asked seven of our scientists from across UNSW Science to tell us about the influential women who’ve guided them throughout their careers. Here they are.
Roadmap to achieving parity in Parliament
08 Mar 2022
Women should be given incentives to work in Parliament, rather than being forced to leave, says new report.