News and other stories about real people, places, and events in Kensington and nearby suburbs.
Another stolen generation looms unless Indigenous women fleeing violence can find safe housing
20 Sep 2019
Indigenous children are admitted to out-of-home care at 11 times the rate for non-Indigenous children. The lack of safe housing for mothers fleeing family violence is a key factor.
How to manage your side hustle and internships while studying full-time
20 Sep 2019
Translating a great start-up idea into a viable business requires hard work, effective time management, resourcefulness and resilience, according to graduand Michael Liang.
Vital Signs: NBN’s new price plans are too little, too late
20 Sep 2019
The mess made of National Broadband Network was entirely predictable. Politicians forgot three basic lessons from economics.
Why do men have nipples?
20 Sep 2019
How embryos develop, evolution and sexual pleasure all help explain why men have nipples. But ‘man boobs’ are a different story.
The power of podcasts to communicate research
20 Sep 2019
A PhD student, a Masters student and an academic from the School of Humanities & Languages are making their research more accessible and relevant.
Misused and overprescribed: issues with anxiety drug persist despite 2017 policy
19 Sep 2019
Alprazolam – known as Xanax – is still being overprescribed and misused, a big data study has found.
UNSW Emerging Thought Leader Prize finalists announced
19 Sep 2019
Next generation of UNSW leaders named as finalists for inaugural prize.
Why Manus leaves Australia compromised in the Middle East coalition
19 Sep 2019
States can’t pick and choose when to invoke international law for protection on a particular issue and then ignore, contravene or decry it on other matters.
Why attending a climate strike can change minds (most importantly your own)
19 Sep 2019
Mass strikes help target the psychological factors most important for acting on climate change, by emphasising social norms and reinforcing the effectiveness of collective action.
3 key affordable housing policy lessons from Sydney, Hong Kong and Singapore
19 Sep 2019
A coordinated mix of policies does more to keep housing affordable for a significant proportion of a city’s residents than the unbalanced approach we see in Sydney.