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Wednesday 3 December 2025
UOW’s Early Years Accelerated program strengthened with $1.9 million in funding
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Discovery Days inspire more than 900 South Coast Year 6 students
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Environment and Energy
Island-hopping study shows the most likely route the first people took to Australia
New research using computer analyses of visibility between islands shows the most likely route the First Australians took to reach the continent.
Science and Technology
Sodium-ion battery packs a punch
New battery materials provide pathway to mass-production of batteries based on cheap, abundant sodium.
Law, Politics and Society
Why prosecutions for welfare fraud have declined in Australia
The Department of Human Services approach to social security fraud prosecutions has become less punitive in recent years
Health and Medicine
‘Hide and seek’ a barrier to GPs visiting residential aged care facilities
Doctors enjoy providing care for aged-care facility patients but frustrated by system deficiencies
Health and Medicine
Nursing researcher to be inducted into Hall of Fame
Professor Liz Halcomb to be honoured for primary care nursing and mixed methods research
Education
Online students need personal touch
Universities should tailor online courses to needs and strengths of older and first-in-family students, study finds.