Hecs

Students would save $3bn over a decade if Labor changed Hecs indexation date by five months

Exclusive: Costings commissioned by independent MP Monique Ryan show possible savings for university graduates, as Hecs debts increase by $1bn on Monday Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastUniversity graduates would save more than $3bn over a decade if the government changed the date of indexation on Hecs debts, dubbed a “broken system” in its current form by independent MP Monique Ryan. About 3 million students and graduates will see their Hecs debts increase by $1bn...

Learned Response-Field Inertia Operator for HEC-RAS 2D Water-Surface Elevation Prediction

arXiv:2606.06385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article presents a cross-dataset evaluation of learned native-cell surrogate models for solver-consistent water-surface elevation (WSE) prediction in HEC-RAS 2D. To avoid raster remapping error and information-access confounding, surrogates are evaluated directly on the original nonuniform computational cells under an explicit policy that separates static project inputs, current hydraulic state, project-input forcing, calibration-derived...

‘My parents didn’t talk about the past’: how director Caroline Huppert recovered her family’s wartime secrets

Electrically Tunable Heliconical Smectic Superstructure in Polar Fluids

arXiv:2512.05517v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The ferroelectric nematic (NF) phase and related polar liquid-crystalline phases form a new class of strongly polarized yet fluid soft matter. Well-recognized heliconical ferroelectric phases such as NTBF and SmC_P^H exist, but their electro-optic functionality in smectic systems has been largely unexplored. Here, we report a newly designed single-component achiral molecule exhibiting a hierarchical polar phase sequence:...