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    Tamara Tuchin has honed her writing skills during intense bouts of procrastination. Oddly enough, her writing has improved dramatically since she started university. After two years of journalism, she suffered a slight quarter-life crisis, and is now heading into her third year of animal science and zoology. You'll find her - you guessed it - procrastinating. Tamara joined the W'SUP editorial team in March 2025. She has a published short story, Dance Baby Dance, and won W'SUP's Editor's Choice Award in 2024.

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Finding Nemo (Another) Therapist

Finding Nemo (Another) Therapist

What could possibly be worse than a father eating his son because he’s deformed? Well, you’re about to find out. This is part two of finding Nemo a therapist (yes, Disney’s Finding Nemo). Why? Because clownfish are slightly traumatising. Click here for part one if you...

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Generation Science

Generation Science

“Re-Gen Z Science” is headed by Western Sydney University’s Dr. Mark Jones and School of Science Engagement Officer Loise Graham. With a focus on making science relevant to younger generations in the Hawkesbury, the program covers how science can address some of the...

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Finding Nemo a Therapist

Finding Nemo a Therapist

Disney’s Finding Nemo. A 2003 childhood classic, full of laughs, tears and family bonding. Haven’t seen it? Here’s the whole plot.   And here’s an out of context, no spoiler version:  A serial killer brutally murders a mother (Coral) and almost all of her children...

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Highlight of The Hawkesbury

Highlight of The Hawkesbury

For Western Sydney University students, the 9th-11th May 2025 was filled with cows, science, and more cows at the Hawkesbury Agricultural Show. Known as the place where the country meets the city, it’s the second biggest agricultural show after the Sydney Royal Easter...

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Nothing Much

Nothing Much

“How are you?”   I hate this question. Because, well, what do I say?   I’m running off the sugar in my coffee, and the fear of not paying the rent this week? I was okay an hour ago, but something shifted and now I’m not? I want to lay in bed with my cat...

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Bachelor of Sacrifice: Navigating Work Life Balance

Bachelor of Sacrifice: Navigating Work Life Balance

There are 168 hours in a week.   According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australians spend an average of 10 hours and 35 minutes a day on necessary things like sleeping, eating, personal care, health, and hygiene. That’s 74 hours a week.   An average of 3...

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P’s Get Degrees

P’s Get Degrees

Yes, we all want distinctions and make the Dean’s Merit List. We all want to be top of the class. But sometimes, cruising in the middle is the best you can do. And just because you’re not top of the class, it doesn't mean you’ve failed. Besides, I know significantly...

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Imagining Extinction

Imagining Extinction

Imagine.   You and your family are, for some reason, one of a kind. Maybe you can fly, maybe you have 8 arms, maybe you’re made of a precious material.   You’re special. Unique.  Your purpose is to exist, to continue your species.   There’s 3 members of your entire...

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Western’s Annual Lifeblood Challenge, Now Open to More Donors!

The Lifeblood Challenge is a yearly competition organised by the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood where each team attempts to collect as many blood donations as possible in a set amount of time. From August 1st to October 31st, Western Sydney University (WSU) is working...

Queer Social Club Celebrates 2 Years

  Josh Bouman (he/him) is the Queer Social Club (QSC) co-founder. The QSC runs events such as, picnics, hiking, queer trivia, beach days, game afternoons, brunches, trips to a café, craft-days, karaoke and craft-days.  ‘[The Queer community] is very important...

Penguin Fantasy Fest Comes to Sydney

  July 2025 saw Penguin’s ‘Fantasy Fest’ arrive in Australian cities, readers enjoying exclusive previews of upcoming fantasy novel releases and extensive author panel discussions.  In 2023, Penguin Random House Australia, one of Australia’s ‘big five’ publishing...

Diversity Fest in Jeopardy: An Absent Crowd, but a Present Message

  Diversity Fest was once the booming heart of Western Sydney University’s social life. This year, the campus was silent, with attendees few and far between. This begs the question: Has Diversity Fest lost its spark or has a shift occurred with how students...