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The Royal Society of New South Wales warmly welcomes 28 new members to the Society’s ranks, effective from 17 September 2025. FellowsProfessor Lachlan BlackhallProfessor Maria ByrneProfessor David CarmentProfessor Elizelle CilliersProfessor

The appointment of Dr James Renwick AM CSC SC FRSN as a Judge of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2) was announced by the Chief Justice

The stories of South Asian and Chinese ayahs and amahs — nursemaids and domestic servants — reveal crucial details about women’s domestic labour, race and class in Australia’s settler colonial

The Royal Society of New South Wales is delighted to learn that four of its Fellows and previous RSNSW award winners have been awarded Australian Museum Eureka Prizes for 2025

The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) has just announced that its next president will be Dr Cathy Foley AO PSM DistFRSN FAA FTSE, Australia’s Chief Scientist from

Professor Chuan Zhao FRSN FRACI FRSC, of the UNSW School of Chemistry, has been awarded a prestigious ARC Laureate Fellowship, announced by the Australian Research Council in late June. He

The June 2025 issue of the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of NSW was published online on 1 July and is packed with interesting reading for the winter

The Australian Government’s Net Zero Economy Authority has announced that Society Fellow, Emeritus Professor Roy Green AM FRSN, will lead the statutory review of its Energy Industry Jobs Assessment Plan.

Professor Richard Payne FRSN FAA FRACI FRSC, the Professor of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the University of Sydney, has been awarded an ARC Laureate Fellowship, in an announcement