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The latest Drug Trends report from UNSW’s National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre shows more than 1800 drug-induced deaths in Australia in 2020.

UNSW Sydney professors from UNSW Science and UNSW Medicine & Health have been recognised among the nation’s most distinguished scientists.

International sport was an impossibility at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and, for Tokyo Olympian Henry Hutchison, brought the importance of study back into focus.

Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard speaks of how addressing inequitable access to advances in healthcare can help prevent the cracks of inequality in society.

Driving into floodwater is the leading cause of flood-related death. So why do people do it?

A recycling and clean energy initiative, led by UNSW Sydney in partnership with the University of Newcastle, has been endorsed to assist the country’s economic recovery under the Trailblazer Universities Program.

A discussion on gender representation in politics has heard Australia risks going backwards if more is not done to help female politicians.

Jean Hinchliffe from School Strikes 4 Climate and Midnight Oil’s Peter Garrett explore citizen action from their generational perspectives.

The University will play a vital role in helping the state government achieve its goal of reaching net zero emissions by 2050 . 

The two former Sydney Swans swapped footy guernseys for mortarboard hats this week as they celebrated their graduation from UNSW.

We don’t have to passively sit back and watch Australia’s species and ecosystems die. Here are five concrete steps the next government should take.

Engineering student Dylan George’s scholarship is helping him with the simplest of necessities to climb Australian cycling’s ranks.

The Paul Ramsay Foundation donation supports the Culturally Nourishing Schooling project and is the largest ever received by UNSW Sydney’s School of Education.   

UNSW's ranking continues its rise in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, which measure an institution's research, outreach and stewardship against UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Our experts rated the Coalition’s model as either very unsatisfactory or a fail. Most agreed Labor’s proposed model is much better, but said a lot more detail is needed.

Sylvia Gustin’s research will facilitate spinal cord injury cure and improve therapies for chronic pain.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned nations to prepare for the possibility that Russia will use tactical nuclear weapons.

Since the advent of the two-party preferred system, there have been two examples of parties governing effectively in minority, and with the support of independents.