The University of Wollongong has become a benchmark for Australia’s new generation of universities. It is ranked among the best 20 modern universities in the world* and has built a reputation as an enterprising institution, with a multi-disciplinary approach to research and a personalised approach to teaching. Over 32,000 students are studying UOW degrees across nine campuses throughout Australia and internationally in Dubai and Hong Kong.
Ben Marwick, University of Washington; Bo Li, University of Wollongong, and Hu Yue, University of Wollongong
A fresh look at museum artifacts fills in a gap in the Asian archaeological record and refutes the idea that an advanced technique was imported from the West by early modern humans.
Migrants travel in groups through Mexico for safety reasons. But Mexico is still one of the world’s most dangerous countries.
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Two trucks carrying migrants have gone missing in Veracruz, Mexico. A witness says that '65 children and seven women were sold' to a band of armed men. Other caravan members have reached the border.
Salads are a lot less healthy once you make additions like croutons and a creamy dressing.
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Les autochtones néo-calédoniens luttent pour leur indépendance depuis la colonisation française, en 1853. A travers des chants de révolte, ils célèbrent les héros de la résistance et racontent les traumatismes passés.
Possum Magic again, are you for real kid?!
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The Victorian opposition has pledged funding for "decodable readers" which focus only on sounds. But kids prefer to read rich texts.
A raised fist carving on a highway at Touho, Grand Terre. Kanaks, New Caledonia’s Indigenous people, have struggled for independence for over 150 years.
Michael Webb
Indigenous New Caledonians, who will vote in an independence referendum next week, have been struggling since French colonisation in 1853. Through songs, they have chronicled past traumas and resistance heroes.
Australian literature has a long history of appropriating and misrepresenting Aboriginal culture.
Tom Williams
Non-Indigenous writers, if they wish to engage ethically with Indigenous culture, must learn to respect it as a form of property grounded in kinship and country.
Nauru’s people are struggling in the face of environmental change.
Anja Kanngieser
Nauru is best known as a site of Australian offshore asylum detention. But everyone on the island - not just refugees - is struggling with the issue of environmental change that threatens their lives and homes.
El 2 de octubre de 1968, en un evento que se conoce como la masacre de Tlatelolco, miembros de las fuerzas armadas mexicanas mataron cerca de 300 manifestantes y arrestaron aproximadamente 1.000 más.
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Hace 50 años, militares mexicanos dispararon contra cientos de estudiantes que se manifestaban en la Ciudad de México. No fue la última vez que las fuerzas armadas de México matarían a ciudadanos.
Mexican soldiers killed up to 300 student protesters and arrested 1,000 more on Oct. 3, 1968, in an event that’s come to be known as the Tlatelolco massacre.
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Fifty years ago, soldiers gunned down hundreds of student protesters in a Mexico City plaza. It was neither the first nor the last time Mexico's army would be deployed against its own citizens.
If cyclist-friendly cities like Copenhagen can offer abundant and conveniently sited parking space for bikes, why not Australian cities?
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If cities had backed their active transport goals with investment in adequate cycling infrastructure we might not be having the arguments about dockless bikes 'littering' public space.
Lush moss beds in East Antarctica’s Windmill Islands.
Sharon Robinson
Mosses are the only plants that can withstand life in East Antarctica's frozen landscape. But a new study shows that life is getting even harder, as ozone loss and climate change make conditions even drier.
Acosada en salidas y trabajos de campo. Excluida de proyectos. Sin modelos femeninos que seguir. Receptora de microagresiones. Estas son solo algunas de las experiencias vividas por nuestro colectivo…
Coastal geoscience and engineering is a broad discipline focused on physical processes at the interface of land and sea.
Marco Ferraz
For twenty years people had been telling me how lucky I was to be in our field of research because “things” were changing for young women. Twenty years later “things” had not changed.
Kids should be eating fruits and vegetables from all colours of the rainbow.
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It's not just about getting kids to eat their greens; they should be eating fruits and vegetables of all different colours. Here are some strategies to make it easier.
It is often forgotten that the Liberals cannot govern without the support of the Nationals, and this has been the case for almost 100 years.
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We sometimes see memory as a video camera, recording our lives accurately and without bias – but this is a myth. Instead, our childhood memories are intricately shaped by our family and culture.