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the UNC error persists.

That's has more to do with that with cmd support for UNC paths,and not VS Code.
Also UNC path are network paths,so that's a path you point to.

\\ad.monash.edu\home\User094\symonds\Documents\Python-Exercises\Exercise Files

A local path has a drive letter is the more normal way to store Exercise Files python files.
Example:

C:\Python-Exercises\Exercise Files

UNC path may work or not deepening on setup network ect...
It work for me on my local setup at home,now do i use cmder but also work in cmd for me.

C:\code
λ python "\\Tom-pc1\e\div_code\humansize.py"
1.0 TB
931.3 GiB

Or in VS Code with "python": "$pythonPath $fullFileName",

Output:
[Running] C:\python37\python.exe "\\Tom-pc1\e\div_code\humansize.py"
1.0 TB
931.3 GiB

[Done] exited with code=0 in 0.366 seconds

With "code-runner.showExecutionMessage": false,

Output:
1.0 TB
931.3 GiB