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Budding filmmakers needn’t let isolation stand in the way of their cinematic dreams. Here are five and a half ways you can make movie magic at home.
The heatwave highlights the connectedness of our climate systems: from the monsoon tropics to the southernmost continent.
With shelves empty, wartime pages of the Australian Women’s Weekly show us how Australians have dealt with food shortages in the past: with creativity, ingenuity and good humour.
Government schools remain open but many parents are already voluntarily keeping their children home in an effort to ‘flatten the curve’.
Sleep might be a key factor in the link between greener neighbourhoods and better health. A new study shows living in an area with more tree canopy improves people’s odds of getting enough sleep.
Miss Fisher is one of Australia’s highest-earning small-screen exports. But it’s biggest success has come from how it built a community of fans.
The fear of others panic buying toilet paper drives panic buying. This is not people acting irrationally. It is a case of ‘coordination failure’.
The continued upward trend in our second-biggest source of emissions is a result of government inaction on a transport mix dominated by trucks and cars and a lack of fuel-efficiency standards.
Achieving justice in response to sexual violence is complex, and we should treat the Weinstein conviction with some caution.
We can answer this question by looking at the differences between the first, second and third layers of our skin.
Alternative therapies have a lot to offer consumers. The Goop Lab only serves to set back the wellness cause.
Neanderthals living in a cave in southern Siberia made distinctive stone tools that can be traced to their ancestral homeland in eastern Europe — an intercontinental journey of more than 3,000 km.
Indigenous kinship networks link each plant to the next and connect us to Country. Honouring this way of being and engaging in fair collaboration might give power to our heartbreak.
Buyers pay more for a home they know has a good energy rating. That’s worth an extra 2.4-9.4% in the only part of Australia where energy ratings must be disclosed at the time of sale.
There is a real risk a national inquiry could get bogged down in politics, or not lead to real change. But we need more federal action on bushfires. Our old approaches are broken.
There is heavy social media use among both the most lonely and least lonely people. So what exactly is the relationship between social media use and loneliness?
L’expérience à laquelle sont confrontés les peuples aborigènes face aux incendies hors normes en Australie est bien différente de celle des peuples non-indigènes.
Participants of both virtual reality-based and Skype-based therapy sessions voted greatly in favour of using VR, reporting high levels of engagement and realism.
I saw the performance the first day the smoke was clearing. We need connection to find a way forward; I found it in the theatre.
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Senior Lecturer, Science and Technology Studies, University of Wollongong
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Senior lecturer, University of Wollongong
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Principal Research Scientist, University of Wollongong
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Professor, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong
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Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor in Earth Sciences, Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Wollongong
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Associate Research Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wollongong
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Emeritus professor, University of Wollongong
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Principal Researcher and Electromagnetic Energy Program Manager, ARPANSA, and Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Wollongong
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Honorary Associate Professor, Journalism, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Education, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer Medical Sciences, University of Wollongong
