By Lauren Stanley: “Gender equality isn’t a women’s issue. It’s a social and economic problem affecting us all”states the NSW Council of Social Services’ (NCOSS) in their ‘A New Year for Women’ discussion paper. NCOSS has designed a campaign called A New Year for...
By Lauren Stanley: Just take a moment to look down and have a think about what you’re wearing. At this moment I am wearing a pair of Cotton On track pants, and a Kmart tee-shirt. Yet after my research this week, I am wishing I had bought my tee-shirt elsewhere. Never...
By Lauren Stanley: The vitriol and hypocrisy spewed by those that I know to be essentially good people never ceases to amaze me. Let’s be honest, this is not a new trend; you give people a platform to speak their mind and they will. Whether you want to hear it or they...
(A group photo with the Mardi Gras float, captured before the march. Photo by Liana Keo, 2025.) As someone born, raised, and now studying in Western Sydney, I never expected us to be the longest-running tertiary institution to be marching in Mardi Gras. The...
HOPELESS My problems are too many to count, Solutions nowhere to be found How and where do I even look If there's nothing to be found? Pain fills my lungs as I drown As waves of despair crash into my shore I try to swim and gasp for air But an anchor...
I once stumbled upon a photograph called Lower Paradise Valley taken in 1925 by American landscape photographer Ansel Adams when reading one of my favorite books called ‘On Photography’ by Susan Sontag. The innocence of the landscape, the purity of the light...
(Dean Shahin reporting on the student protest against cuts on staff on the 22nd of May, Image taken from Video filmed by Lamisah Raihan) On the 22nd of May 2025, student activists gathered in protest outside building EA on Western Sydney University's Parramatta South...
For most people around the world, 2025 is a normal year. For all Australians, it’s something else: it’s a federal election year. This year will decide Australia's direction for the education system over the next three years. ABC News journalist, Jacob Greber,...