Nicky Morrison, Gregory Paine, Ryan van den Nouwelant and Susan Thompson
Image: Ryan van den Nouwelant, Author provided
You’d be forgiven for asking if living in some parts of New South Wales is actually good for your health. In the past 18 months Australia’s most populous state has been challenged like never before.
Research has shown where you live shapes how easy it is to make social connections, keep physically active, enjoy green spaces and buy healthy food. The evidence is clear. But how do we create places that help promote good health and well-being for all?
In line with recent reforms, the NSW government has put delivering healthy and thriving communities at the heart of a new consolidated Design and Place State and Environmental Planning Policy.
The delayed debutantes: inside the literary class of COVID-19
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Who needs a book launch when you could have a ball? The pandemic might have derailed plans for their booksâ releases last year, but Australiaâs newest authors will now have a chance to put the âdebâ in debutante.
The COVID-19 class of 2020 will be introduced to literary society at a Sydney Writersâ Festival event on Sunday evening. We discover the stories behind the stories of six very different new authors who will don a sash and sashay into the world of letters.
Astronomers Detect Another Mysterious Ghostly Circle in Extragalactic Space
29 APRIL 2021
The discovery of a giant, ghostly circle in extragalactic space is bringing us closer to understanding what these mysterious structures actually are.
The so-called odd radio circle, named ORC J0102-2450, joins just a handful of previously discovered space blobs. Given the low sample size, the new discovery adds important statistical data that suggest these objects could somehow be related to galaxies. The paper has been accepted into
MNRAS Letters, and is available on preprint server arXiv.
Humanity has been staring up and wondering about the sky for tens of thousands of years, but even so, space retains many secrets. Odd radio circles - ORCs - were only discovered last year, in 2019 observations collected by the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), one of the world s most sensitive radio telescopes.
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Wendy Robertson, a marketing exec who has worked at National Australia Bank, MLC and JBWere, is not alone in shaking her career up after the pandemic – a quarter of workers are actively seeking other employment.
A new report shows that record numbers are thinking of changing their job, career or location and approach to work after COVID-19 for a range of reasons, including necessity, burnout or a lifestyle rethink after last year’s pause in the “rat race” – with stories of families moving to other cities and the regions too many to mention.
Patrick Low is another example. He was an adviser to former prime minister Julia Gillard and former foreign minister Bob Carr, and a corporate adviser to Cochlear and Coca-Cola Amatil. He threw in the political and corporate career last year to become a doctor.