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Friday 21 August 2026

Hack the Gong challenge puts Illawarra’s innovators to the test at iAccelerate

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Wednesday 19 August 2026

Ben Quilty, Guan Wei works among treasures available at UOW Art Auction

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Articles

Papuans and Jokowi are hostage to Indonesian politics

Indonesian President Joko Widodo recently announced the end of the decades-long restriction on foreign journalists in the provinces of Papua and West Papua, Indonesia’s territories in the island of New Guinea. While the president, popularly called Jokowi, says he is committed to human rights in the Papua provinces, the military and police continue to murder Papuans with virtual impunity.

Journey to the edge of the great white desert

PhD student Jess Holan is on a mission to protect the sub-Antarctic marine life of Macquarie Island.

Lecture and book launch focus on growing economic inequality

Federal politician delivers 2015 Economic and Social Policy Public Lecture.

Learning through play - Australia’s only children’s museum launches in

Australia’s only dedicated ‘children’s museum’, and the first-of-its-kind in the world based on a university campus, has been launched at UOW.

Six star sustainability success for world leading research centre

UOW’s Sustainable Buildings Research Centre is the first certified 6 Star Green Star building in the Illawarra.

Why the world is wary of China's 'great wall of sand' in the sea

The leaders of Southeast Asian nations recently took the extraordinary step of warning China that its island-building activities in the contested South China Sea “may undermine peace, security and stability” in the region.

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