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Monday 26 October 2026
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UOW expert commentary available this week (18 – 22 February)
UOW academics provide expert comment, opinion and analysis on a range of ongoing and breaking news stories.
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Arts and Culture
Marketing, not medicine: Gwyneth Paltrow’s The Goop Lab whitewashes traditional health therapies for profit
Netflix’s new show fails to critically explore the alternative therapies it promotes.
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Science and Technology
Stone tools reveal epic trek of nomadic Neanderthals
Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis) fossils were first discovered in western Europe in the mid nineteenth century. That was just the first in a long line of surprises thrown up by our closest evolutionary cousins.
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Arts and Culture
Friday essay: this grandmother tree connects me to Country. I cried when I saw her burned
Indigenous kinship networks link each plant to the next and connect us to Country. Honouring this way of being and engaging in fair collaboration might give power to our heartbreak.
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Environment and Energy
Homes with higher energy ratings sell for more. Here's how Australian owners could cash in
It's not just location and size that homebuyers are looking for.
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Environment and Energy
Australia needs a national fire inquiry – these are the 3 key areas it should deliver in
Australia’s bushfire crisis has been unprecedented, so it demands an unprecedented national response.