Arts, Culture and Society
by Effie Karageorgos
Recent sustained anti-coal action by Blockade Australia in the Hunter Valley has brought public protest back into the news cycle. Activists have occupied trains, railway lines and machinery in an attempt to obstruct coal production and broadcast their message about the climate crisis.
Health and Wellbeing
by Gemma Wolk
How cultural insight and the neuroscience of trauma is changing the conversation around youth violence.
Busines, Law and Politics
by Carmen Swadling
The fight to free Kathleen Folbigg – the woman once dubbed Australia’s worst female serial killer – started in 2013 with the University’s Legal Centre and its law students helping to drive the movement.
Our Communities
by Penny Harnett
Drought is like a creeping cancer. It insidiously infects communities. It spreads profound and multifaceted challenges that demand multidisciplinary treatment.
by Shahni Wellington
During his research to unlock the archives, Dr Hodgetts found that the keys had been long-kept from cultural knowledge-holders.
The game changing program revolutionising female participation in sport
by Madelaine Love
Hear from six young entrepreneurs making waves across tourism, pharmaceuticals, food science, and mental health.
by Tim Connell
Peter Bedford says he owes his life to a moment in his kitchen. Mr Bedford had been on his way out to work on his Central Coast property in June 2022 when a segment on local ABC radio caught his ear. It prompted him to book an appointment at the University of Newcastle Podiatry Teaching Clinic at Wyong Hospital. Some months and a quadruple bypass later, he remains breathing.
by John Maynard
The most startling point on the referendum for a Voice to parliament is the fact the majority of people in this country have no idea of history. And I mean both Black and white people.
by Iftekhar Ahmed
Australia and New Zealand have both faced a series of devastating floods triggered by climate change and the return of the La Niña weather pattern. So it makes sense that Australia has now sent disaster crews to help with the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle.
How one conversation became a community movement
by Gemma Dawkins & Shahni Wellington
A return to Indigenous-led solutions may be our only hope to address the global waste issue, according to researchers.
