University Of New South Wales

There were 1842 drug-induced deaths among Australians in 2020, according to preliminary estimates in a new report by the Drug Trends Program at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at UNSW Sydney. This is equivalent to…

Low-income earners can face a wait of more than 10 years for a tenancy, as social rental queuing times explode due to growing public and community housing scarcity, nationwide. A new report released today from UNSW City Futures Research…

UNSW Sydney will join the Department of Regional NSW and the University of Sydney in a new partnership to help regional councils become ‘smart spaces’, through custom-designed training, digital tools and strategy development support. The…

Two UNSW academics have been honoured with election as 2022 Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science for their outstanding contribution to mathematics and childhood cancer research.Professor Catherine Greenhill and Professor Michelle…

As the world came to grips with the news of the pandemic unfolding in early 2020, online chatter among patients who were experiencing lingering symptoms after contracting COVID-19 began to spring up on social media. The term ‘long COVID’…

Earlier this year, New South Wales and Queensland experienced once-in-a-century floods across both states, as extensive rainfall caused damage to property, infrastructure and even claimed human life.The northern NSW town of Lismore saw…

A new toolkit that provides data on alcohol-related harm and licenced premises helps new liquor licence applications be considered within their local health context, a UNSW alcohol policy researcher says. NSW Health commissioned Dr Claire…

The project to save the critically endangered mountain pygmy-possum from climate change took a few tiny paw-steps forward early this month as 14 of their number were introduced to their new home near Lithgow.There, in a newly-built…

UNSW researchers have made a major breakthrough in renewable energy technology by producing electricity from so-called ‘night-time’ solar power.The team from the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering generated…

A new report, co-authored by Scientia Professor Jane McAdam AO, Director of UNSW’s Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, recommends steps to safeguard nationality rights and to future-proof the legal connection between Pacific…