Author: Shawn Burns

UOW Update – Temperatures across the Illawarra are up to 15 degrees higher than usual, as an El Niño weather event begins, the university has presented its formal statement on the upcoming referendum on the Voice, and student poems from across Australia will help plant a forest in Wollongong. Report team: Elizabeth Falconer, Melissa Burns, Dhriti Baid, Khushi Sagar, Trent Allchin, Skyla Yorke https://youtu.be/5AMuAEnl2Gg

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Students have again been urged to donate blood as pubic holidays appear on the horizon. Here’s your weekly UOW Update. It’s got some dancing, some donating, and some diversity. Report team: Eleanor Bailey, Brianna Movrin, Dylan Penrose, Kyle Turner, Pablo Cuesta, Sienna Wallace. https://youtu.be/JlYcGaxtIIM?si=Ck–Pt7a_KKUPVJ_

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A University of Wollongong PhD candidate is the star of a new film created for social media consumption and, potentially, accolades. Hop Dao, 25, who graduated with a Bachelor of Media and Communications in 2018 and who is now exploring the changing mindset of international students on the environment for her doctoral thesis, stars in ‘The Bystander’, a short film created for the TikTok Short Film Festival in partnership with the Cannes Film Festival. The film depicts a young woman confronted with a situation where police officers are assaulting a young Indigenous man and what she does in response. @byronwylder…

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Premier calls for Ward to resign immediately Former NSW Liberal Minister, now Independent Member for Kiama, Gareth Ward has been charged by police with the alleged historical sexual abuse of a man and a teenage boy. Mr Ward, 40, resigned from the NSW ministry and moved to the crossbench in May last year when he identified himself as the subject of media reports about a police investigation into an unnamed member of parliament. Mr Ward attended Oaks Flats Police Station today and has been charged with three counts of assault with act of indecency, and one count each of sexual…

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The final days of the federal election campaign have seen candidates for the ultra-marginal seat of Gilmore sharpen their pitches to the electorate. All seven candidates for the NSW south coast seat took part in a fiery ABC Illawarra-hosted candidates forum at the Bomaderry Bowling Club last night. A crowd of about 150 grilled the candidates on a spectrum of issues, from unemployment and nuclear energy through to franking credits and the NDIS.

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