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How Wollongong's iAccelerate stopped 'paying lip service' to women ...

The University of Wollongong's iAccelerate program has achieved a significant milestone in gender equity - nearly half its current start-ups have at least one female co-founder. iAccelerate chief executive Elizabeth Eastland says she always had gender ... >> view original

Wollongong Hawks, Townsville Crocodiles confirmed for ANBL season

The Wollongong Hawks, in administration since March, have been confirmed as the eighth side for the ANBL season. The Australian NBL has confirmed the Wollongong Hawks will have a team in the upcoming 2015/16 season. The Hawks, like the Townsville ... >> view original

Wollongong councillors to vote for pay rise

The Local Government Remuneration Tribunal has allowed an increase of 2.5 per cent to Wollongong councillors. If councillors vote to give themselves the full increase, their pay will rise from $26,880 to $27,550 and the lord mayoral salary will go from ... >> view original

Wollongong University forced to introduce donations policy

Prominent businessman Tony Shepherd and a senior Liberal Party official were guests of the University of Wollongong at one of many ticketed political events attended by university employees in the past five years. Mr Shepherd, who is a former Business ... >> view original

Teenager to face court over Wollongong stabbing

Police allege the unprovoked stabbing of a 31-year-old man in the stomach occurred at a Youth Centre in Cordeaux Heights around 6pm on Monday night. The victim was airlifted in a stable condition to St George Hospital in Sydney. Inspector Andrew ... >> view original

Employers should make staff stand for 2 hours a day: experts

If you're sitting down while you're reading this, you might want to stand up. In fact, if you're an office worker you definitely should. The risk caused by prolonged periods spent sitting down at work has led an international team of experts to call for all ... >> view original

Dump homeopathy products, pharmacists told

The Pharmacy Guild of Australia says it's up to individual pharmacists to decide if they'll stop selling homeopathic remedies branded useless by doctors. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has formally recommended GPs stop prescribing ... >> view original

iSonea takes product to market

iSonea FPO (ASX:ISN)takes its Acoustic Respiratory Measurement technology to the big drug companies. 03/06/15. Novogen Limited (ASX:NRT) expands board to 6 members with the addition of. Up next... Novogen expands board members. Play now. >> view original

The everyday aesthetics of tattooing

According to the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, 22% of Australian men and 29% of women aged 20 to 29 have at least one tattoo. In a 2013 survey conducted by Sydney-based McCrindle Research, a third of people with tattoos ... >> view original

Tampons: Everything you need to know about this little 'luxury'

It's a taxable "luxury" item or "a wad of dry f---ing cotton", depending on who you ask. But, the humble tampon is oh so much more too. "The commercial tampon as we know it has been shaped and re-shaped by myriad invisible forces," writes The Atlantic, "like ... >> view original