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Solomons, Fiji suffer poor air quality: UNSW study

A first-of-its-kind study into air qualify has shown Solomon Islands and Fiji have air quality issues in their capital cities.

AAP

Economists less confident of RBA rate cut than market

An AAP survey of 32 leading Australian economists has tipped the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates this week, but more than one in five remain unconvinced.

AAP

Chatbot therapy: can generative AI treat loneliness?

Researchers are creating artificially intelligent companions to help people get through challenges but that does not necessarily cut humans out of the picture.

AAP

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‘Increasingly worried’: more than a quarter of a million waterbirds disappear from eastern Australia

One of the world’s longest continuous bird counts has dashed the ‘wistful optimism’ of scientists hoping for a La Niña-driven recovery

The Guardian - AU

Extra 10,000 Australians becoming homeless each month, up 22% in three years, report says

Almost half were couch surfing or living in short-term accommodation, UNSW and Homelessness Australia say

The Guardian - AU

Fresh treatment hope for frontline workers with PTSD

Emergency service workers dealing with post traumatic stress disorder could have their treatment transformed with the assistance of new guidelines.

AAP

Offshore detention makes it 20 times more likely asylum seekers will suffer PTSD, Australian study finds

Exclusive: Researchers examine how regime impacts someone’s risk of experiencing long-term serious mental illness once living in the community

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NSW regulator chose to reveal content of Sydney’s mystery beach balls on day of US election

After debris balls were widely reported to be tar, testing coordinated with EPA revealed they were consistent with human-generated waste, or ‘likely lumps of fatberg’

The Guardian - AU

Tar ball theory debunked as Sydney’s mystery beach globules found to be ‘fatbergs’ containing human faeces

Balls that washed ashore and closed string of famous beaches contained scores of different materials ‘consistent with contamination from sewage’

The Guardian - AU

Black balls on Sydney beaches are likely ‘fatbergs’ showing traces of human faeces, methamphetamine and PFAS: new analysis

The mysterious black balls that washed up on Sydney’s beaches in mid-October were likely lumps of “fatberg” containing traces of human faeces, methamphetamine and PFAS, according to a new detailed analysis of their composition.

The Conversation

The Voice defeat set us all back. And since then, our leaders have given up

It’s one year since the failed referendum to enshrine a First Nations Voice to Parliament in the Australian Constitution.

The Conversation

Aussie researchers turn wine into green battery tech

Australian university researchers have won a patent for using food acids to create a major component of battery technology.

AAP

Frozen continent vulnerable to invasive hitchhikers

Antarctica could be under threat from the arrival of non-native species and marine pollution from Southern Hemisphere landmasses, say Australian researchers.

AAP

Long COVID cost economy $9.6b in lost work hours

Research shows long COVID meant about 100 million work hours were missed in 2022, costing the Australian economy billions.

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Major research breakthrough in the removal of PFAS from water systems

A new method of degrading PFAS is showing promising results.

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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

The Guardian - AU

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

AAP

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.

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The Guardian - AU

New South Wales universities receive 40% of student fees from just three overseas countries

Warnings of ‘concentration risk’ for sector as cap on international students anticipated

The Guardian - AU

Tough assignment: Australian universities are desperate for more student housing, but not everyone’s on board

Institutions need more accommodation in light of Labor’s proposed cap on international students. But some councils and residents are pushing back

The Guardian - AU

Students choose arts degrees in droves despite huge rise in fees under Morrison government

The scheme to incentivise students into other disciplines has failed to stem the ‘massive swell’ of demand for humanities

Newcastle Herald

'If we can make it, we should also aim to recycle it': minister

PM promises to grow circular economy at same time as manufacturing

AAP

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.

The Guardian - AU

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 Canberra Times

Properly recycling aeroplanes could help make cars lighter, save fuel

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

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