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Members of the University community have been recognised for their outstanding achievements across a broad range of fields in 2023.

Gentrification of a neighbourhood

A new machine learning prototype developed by UNSW researchers can help mitigate the harms of gentrification.  

a female student hugs another student while read a book

Half-wild Lyra from Northern Lights was the first female character who felt real to Jane Gleeson-White. Then she met Elena Ferrante’s ‘ferocious, filthy, quicksilver’ Lila, a more complex version.

ripened fruit displayed outside a fruit and vegetable store

Nearly two-thirds of suburbs in one major part of Sydney have no food stores at all. And in those that do, unhealthy food outlets outnumber healthy ones by more than six to one.

jean rhys looks intently at camera

A new biography of Jean Rhys, the Dominican-born author of Wide Sargasso Sea, pays close attention to her origins – but stops short of examining the colonial relations central to her story.

red colour burst leased sign on a front retaining wall

Rent assistance is only $10-14 per day, well below rent levels.

brazil protesters on the streets asking for federal intervention after lula election

Rather than weaken or oust Lula, the riots seem to have paradoxically strengthened the president politically.

Indigenous man canoeing in Ecuador

Almost 200 countries are reckoning with the world’s extraordinary loss of the variety of life at the COP15 nature summit in Canada. Here’s why Indigenous involvement is crucial.

womans tattoos

Nona Willis Aronowitz, daughter of a second-wave feminist, ranges across the contemporary sexual landscape – and looks back at the history of feminism – in a ‘zig zag pursuit of sexual liberation’.

Homeless man sleeping on a park bench

The main driver of homelessness in Australia is housing costs – post-COVID rents, house prices and interest rates are all much higher. To house everyone, the housing system needs a major overhaul.

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