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Reimagining NSW: Five ways to future-proof NSW’s innovation ecosystem

  • Written by: Bronwyn Hemsley, ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow, Associate Professor, University of Newcastle
imageAustralia has had enough reports on innovation. It's time for NSW to "do innovation".Lenny K Photography/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/lennykphotography/, CC BY-SA

This is part of our Reimagining New South Wales (NSW) series. For this series, vice-chancellors in NSW asked a select group of early and mid-career researchers to envisage new ways to...

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Does not compute: Australia is still miles behind in recycling electronic products

  • Written by: Graciela Metternicht, Professor, School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Australia

Australia is lagging far behind other rich countries in dealing with the growing mountain of “e-waste” from discarded electrical and electronic products.

My research, carried out with my student Ashleigh Morris, shows that in comparison with leading nations like Japan and Switzerland, Australia’s management of e-waste is...

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Reimagining NSW: going beyond 'wilderness' and finding fresh ways to relate to our environment

  • Written by: Pascal Scherrer, Senior Lecturer, Southern Cross University
imageSince the 1960s, environmentalism in Australia has largely focused on defending "wilderness".yophotography/flickr, CC BY-SA

This is part of our Reimagining New South Wales (NSW) series. For this series, vice-chancellors in NSW asked a select group of early and mid-career researchers to envisage new ways to tackle old problems and identify emerging...

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The hidden curriculum in surgery says it's not for women

  • Written by: Renae Ryan, Associate Professor in Pharmacology, Sydney Medical School and Chair, Sydney Medical School Gender Equity Committee, University of Sydney
imageWhile medical schools have equal numbers of men and women, few female doctors go on to become surgeons. from www.shutterstock.com.au

Despite more than 15 years of gender parity in Australian medical education, women remain underrepresented in surgery. The proportion of female surgical trainees is rising, but more slowly than in other specialties.

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  2. The Aboriginal football ethic: where the rules get flexible
  3. In praise of the Sirius building, a ruined remnant of idealistic times
  4. Let forensic science help prevent a crime or a disaster
  5. Dhaka café attack: don't blame private education for radicalisation in Bangladesh
  6. Politics podcast: Tom Calma says Nigel Scullion should go
  7. Economists react: RBA cuts rates to 1.5%
  8. The great movie scenes: Hitchcock's Vertigo
  9. Family First's Bob Day wins last SA Senate seat in shock result
  10. One in five police officers are at risk of PTSD – here's how we need to respond
  11. 'A wiseman's art': Twelfth Night and cross-mobility casting
  12. Are you ready for the jobs of the future?
  13. If Australia is going to have a plebiscite on marriage equality, how should it work?
  14. The electricity market's not doing a great job – here's how to improve it
  15. High speed rail plan still needs to prove economic benefits will outweigh costs
  16. Census 2016: should you be concerned about your privacy?
  17. China will be the winner if US backs out of the TPP
  18. Big retailers are realising the risk of moving into convenience stores
  19. Water in northern Australia: a history of Aboriginal exclusion
  20. Explainer: what is behavioural activation for depression?
  21. Mapping the brain: scientists define 180 distinct regions, but what now?
  22. Reimagining NSW: how good governance strengthens democracy
  23. Can we predict who will turn to crime?
  24. Nostalgia, VHS and Stranger Things' homage to 80s horror
  25. Sports coaches need to be educated about concussion to keep players safe on the field
  26. Russian doping scandal: should other countries pull out of the Olympics?
  27. WA Senate result: 5 Liberals, 4 Labor, 2 Greens, 1 One Nation
  28. The return of the breeze block
  29. The off-topic Conversation #104
  30. Windows 10 one year on: it's evolving but privacy still a concern
  31. Lichens may be a symbiosis of three organisms; a new Order of fungus named
  32. Janis Joplin and Sharon Jones add a feminist beat to the Melbourne Film Festival
  33. Juvenile detention royal commissioners must reach out to rebuild public trust
  34. Health Check: should we be using alcohol-based hand sanitisers?
  35. Gooda and White announced as heads of royal commission into NT youth detention
  36. Reimagining NSW: four ways to boost community well-being and why it matters
  37. Indonesia's new cabinet built on political transactions
  38. A complacent, secretive IMF failed to deal with EU crisis; what's changed?
  39. Commuters help regions tap into city-driven growth
  40. The casual stigmatisation of opioid use is lazy journalism
  41. Reimagining NSW: how the care economy could help unclog our cities
  42. Australia can learn from the limitations of New Zealand's welfare reforms
  43. Why it's so hard to 'eat local' when it comes to fish
  44. Childhood cancer deaths have fallen in Australia, but some types remain more of a challenge
  45. Please rewind: a final farewell to the VCR
  46. Should we be locking people up in prisons at all?
  47. Why arts schools matter, not just for art's sake but for urban renewal in Sydney and other cities
  48. Labor's Herbert win means Turnbull has a majority of only one
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