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Wednesday 17 June 2026
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Law, Politics and Society
New program helps parents and carers prepare for NDIS
Pilot program prepares parents to advocate for their children under National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
Health and Medicine
Antipsychotic use in childhood could have significant long-term effects
Study reveals potential life-long impacts of early antipsychotic use on depression, anxiety and hyperactivity.
Science and Technology
Animal attraction: how fish scales and magnetism could help mop up oil spills
Discovering what makes oil bond to some surfaces and not others could be the key to environmental clean ups.
Science and Technology
A 700,000-year-old fossil find shows the Hobbits’ ancestors were even smaller
New evidence shows hobbits were in Indonesia at least 700,000 years ago, writes Dr Gerrit (Gert) van den Bergh.
Science and Technology
Remarkable new finds are clues to ‘hobbit’ ancestry
International team of researchers find 700,000-year-old hobbit remains.
Law, Politics and Society
Unclear about fairness, Australia’s major parties focus on expediency
Scott Morrison said the government’s changes to superannuation were done in the name of fairness, writes UOW's Associate Professor Gregory Melleuish.