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AFP raids Wollongong MP Noreen Hay's office over electoral fraud allegations

Australian Federal Police have raided the electoral office of Wollongong MP Noreen Hay over allegations of electoral fraud. On December 8, 2014, the AFP received a referral from the Australian Electoral Commission relating to the allegations. This was ... >> view original

Wollongong Uni team's new test for depression diagnosis

With one in seven Australians suffering the condition at least once in their lifetime, Dr Camfield, working with fellow Wollongong University researcher Rodney Croft and the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, hopes that such a test will ... >> view original

McDonald's launches all-day breakfast in Wollongong, lobster rolls in US

Ever found yourself craving a McDonald's hash brown late at night? If you live in Wollongong in New South Wales or its surrounds then you're in luck, as on July 1 Illawarra became the first region in Australia for Macca's to start serving all-day ... >> view original

Coal Services and University of Wollongong to test virtual reality for ...

Coal Services has teamed-up with the University of Wollongong (UOW) in Australia to measure the effectiveness of using virtual reality to train miners. The Australian company has developed a 4m high cinema-like virtual reality room with a 360° screen ... >> view original

Newcastle, Wollongong soaking up Sydney market stragglers: BIS Shrapnel 2018

Wollongong is beating Newcastle in attracting potential property buyers priced out of the Sydney market, with Wollongong's vacancy rates falling and the median house price rising by 14% in 2014/2015, according to a new study. The BIS Shrapnel ... >> view original

Dragon lizard embryos change sex when temperature rises

Hotter temperatures are messing with the gender of bearded dragon lizards, a new study finds. Dragons that are genetically male hatch as females and give birth to other lizards. And the way the lizards' gender is determined is getting changed so much ... >> view original

Scientists convinced European heat waves boosted by climate change

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As Germany and Spain sweated and London sweltered through its hottest July day on record this week, scientists said it is "virtually certain" that climate change is increasing the likelihood of such heat waves in ... >> view original

View from a shell: GoPro camera captures a sea turtle's journey through the ...

This image, provided by the World Wildlife Fund, show's the view from a sea turtle's shell as it swims through the Great Barrier Reef. Buy this photo. Posted: Friday, July 3, 2015 5:01 pm | Updated: 7:43 pm, Fri Jul 3, 2015. View from a shell: GoPro ... >> view original

South Georgia received record number of visitors during 2014/15 cruise season

The island of South Georgia attracted the highest ever number of cruise ship passengers in the 2014/15 season, in contrast to falling numbers of tourists visiting the Antarctic, according to the May edition of the South Georgia Newsletter. Print; Share ... >> view original

'Invisible' protein structure explains the power of enzymes

A research group at Umeå University in Sweden has managed to capture and describe a protein structure that, until now, has been impossible to study. The discovery lays the base for developing designed enzymes as catalysts to new chemical reactions for ... >> view original