22nd September 2025: On Monday, the 15th of September 2025, Western’s student elections opened for the positions on the Board of Trustees (BoT), Student Representative Council (SRC) and the National Union of Students (NUS).
Each enrolled Western student received an individual voting link to their student email. Students can abstain from voting, can vote for all positions, or elect to only vote specific positions. Voting closes the 29th of September 2025.
Here is the document for the positions available within the Western Sydney University Student Union (WSUSU) as well as the candidates running for these positions.
To read the statements of each candidate, please click here.
To read more on Western Sydney University Student Union (WSUSU), set to go live go as of the 1st of January 2026, please click here.
30th September 2025: The elections closed yesterday, 29th September 2025. Preliminary results are said to be released on the 1st of October as seen on the @wsustudentlife Instagram. Stay tuned and see who has been elected for the positions!
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Israa Merhi is a Muslim writer, poet, student, and editor. She is currently writing and editing for the student-run and funded magazine, W’SUP News. She has briefly worked with an independent publication, Wolfbound Books, in Parramatta. In her early career, she’d performed in multiple poetry slams across the country like Enough Said Poetry Slam and Saltwater Poetry Slam. Also, in the 2025 Grand Slam hosted and facilitated by Bankstown Poetry Slam, Israa, along with her team, won the People’s Choice award. Now, she is hoping to expand her career and include other forms of creative writing. She is also aiming to write and publish reflective articles, analyses and essays, on neocolonialism inherent to Western cultures from the perspective of a Muslim.
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