If you're a Western Sydney Uni student, the Sydney Film Festival want you to watch more movies! Use the code WUSC25SFF to redeem free tickets to selected sessions at this year's film festival, including daytime, weekday tickets to some of the most popular screenings...
Author Bruce Wolpe on Trump’s Australia
The U.S. presidency has been a social media spectacle for nearly a decade. This coming election is like a story out of the sitcom Veep and featuring a villain from Scooby Doo. At the Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival on November 3rd, 2024, Bruce Wolpe, author of the...
Student Unions are Coming to Western Sydney University
The Student Representative Council (SRC) is working to bring a student union to Western Sydney University (Western). Mid 2024, the SRC engaged the CPR Consulting firm to effectively handle this transition and the talks with the university. SRC President Laine Fox...
Blak, Loud and Proud at Parramatta South Campus
The theme for NAIDOC Week 2024 was Blak, Loud and Proud: Keep the Fire Burning. At Western Sydney University’s (WSU) Parramatta South Campus the Yarramundi Lectures explored the importance of the Indigenous community at Western Sydney University (WSU). The Yarramundi...
No Silly Questions: The Daily Aus
The Daily Aus is an online news platform that primarily broadcasts through Instagram. Started by Zara Seidler and Sam Koslowski, the news is aimed to be short, sharp, and concise to avoid the news fatigue that many young people are facing, as reported by...
WSUP at Sydney Writer’s Festival 2024
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The Year I Met My Brain: ADHD as an Adult
The book The Year I Met My Brain by Matilda Boseley ventures into the lives of adults with Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), given her own experience of being diagnosed later in life with ADHD herself. She works as a social media reporter for the...
WSUP’s Book Picks
Tash - The Mask Falling by Samantha Shannon This fictional story is the fourth in the Bone season which is a dystopian and paranormal thriller. Being in the centre of a planned seven book series means that this is the integral part of the storyline. Compelling,...
WSU is sleeping on its stars
The observatory contains a 30 year old telescope that was designed at the university, using concave mirrors to reflect the light and show students the celestial bodies they study. The software used to operate the telescope and view the images was designed by a...
Maths is getting harder, and families are struggling.
Secondary school students are suffering from math homework and family time, and their mental health is paying the price. "Mathematics homework and the potential compounding of educational disadvantage," a study from the University of South Australia, shows how...
Build communication skills with the help of the WSU Library
Self-education has been a trend in books, podcasts, reality television, and social media for a long time, and is only growing - for university students, navigating the transition between high school and adult life can be overwhelming, to say the least, with no clear...
Vaping in young people – Where should we stand?
Western Sydney University has had a smoke-free campus since 2014, but vaping has still been an issue of misconduct. This confusion is primarily related to the different environments that vaping creates compared to smoking. We can smell smoke and tobacco with...
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My Experience at Edcon 2026 – And Why People Should Attend
My name is Kirk Gomes. I’m one of the interim disability officers at Western Sydney University (‘WSU’). I was recently invited to attend the National Union of Students (‘NUS’) Education Conference. This was a four-day conference hosted by the NUS, and it was held at...
Homegrown Mystery: Tamara Moss
Tamara Moss majored in Asian Studies at the University of Western Australia before going on to work as a primary school teacher. In 2017, she published her debut book in the Lintang series. The series was shortlisted for the Readings Children’s Book Prize in 2018,...
The Heart Behind the Hands
Before the sun begins to rise, a nurse is already by someone’s side. Not just asking what hurts today; But wondering what words cannot say. They carry no spotlight, applause, nor fame; Just quiet commitment to every name. With tired eyes and steady hands, ...
Touch
They talked about coffee for five minutes. “Espresso” and “mocha” rolled off their lips – dry and pale the way the winter grounds are – in harmony, disappearing into the wind – the relentlessly cold wind. After a while, the discussion shifted into something sweeter,...
Homegrown Fantasy: Bronte-Marie Wesson
Previously self-published Bronte-Marie Wesson has just made her traditional debut with the start of a high fantasy series. The Ascension of Souls was released on the 3rd of March 2025 to kick off the Broken Cycle trilogy. The novel is perfect for fans of Game of...













