On June 21st to 22nd, eight Western Sydney University students attended the Australian Women's Leadership Symposium at the Sydney Shangri-La Hotel. After listening to powerhouse female trailblazers such as Australian media icon Ita Buttrose, former New Zealand Prime...
Update on Parramatta Student Campus Council
The Parramatta Student Campus Council (SCC) is a diverse group of actively engaged students who study at Parramatta South or City campus. We are all about making your experience here the best it can be. We want to hear what you love, like or loathe about Parramatta...
Skateboarding in Tokyo: My year abroad
From March 2016 up until February of this year, I had the amazing opportunity of going on a two-semester exchange program at Meiji University, Tokyo, to study Japanese language and culture. The university lifestyle was relaxed and I was able to make good use of my...
Totem Skateboarding’s Great Australia Tour
Bu Naomi Hastings: This month the folk from Totem Skateboarding are embarking on a massive tour around Australia, bringing the positive influence of skateboarding to regional and remote communities, and they are looking for your help to make this possible. Totem...
Ten days of skating in Tokyo
By Naomi Hastings: As I write this, it’s been ten days since I moved into my apartment in central Tokyo, where I will be living for the rest of this year, as part of a two semester exchange program at Meiji University. It’s also been ten days since I unpacked the four...
Keeping it Raw: Q & A with skuws skater Luke Donnelley
By Naomi Hastings: When did you start skating? Around the age of 10 What’s your favourite thing about skating? The freedom. Having the ability to express creativity and share a passion that extends along so many different interpretations. Where do you like to...
Skateboarders Western Sydney U: Summer Skate Series
By Naomi Hastings: In November 2015, the skateboarders’ club at Western Sydney U kicked off its Summer Skate Series with the Parramatta Skateboarding Competition – a free, open for anyone to enter competition, spanning two weekends, attracting a massive amount of...
Skating in Cape Town
By Naomi Hastings: Skateboarding is alive and thriving in Cape Town, South Africa. I have had the awesome chance to go skating in this city on two occasions – in September 2015 and December 2014 – and get to know the incredible people that make the skate scene there...
It hurts less than you think: Q and A with skuws skater MARS
Q and A with skuws skater, Mars, by Naomi Hastings: When did you start skating? I started skating at 12, when I got a board for my birthday What’s your favourite thing to skate? Probably ramps and rails. Where do you like to skate? My local...
Stay in school unless you can feeb and back smith the rail
Q and A with Skuws skater Elijah by Naomi Hastings: When did you start skating? I started skating (again) when I was 18 ! What’s your favourite thing about skating? It has to be just the stoke level it gives me and it’s always magnified by ten thousand when...
Ask Quai why skate
Q&A with Skuws skater Quai by Naomi Hastings: When did you start skating? I started skating when I was in year 5, about 11 – 12 years old. What’s your favourite thing about skating? My favourite thing about skateboarding is the feeling you get when you accomplish...
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Meet THEFT, WSU’s newest club for film and theatre lovers
Students of the newly commenced Performing Arts subject, ‘Fundamentals of Acting and Theatre’ have launched one of Western Sydney University’s (‘WSU’) newest clubs. The Hybridised Ensemble for Film & Theatre, or otherwise called ‘THEFT’, gives students across WSU...
Sydney’s warmest winter yet
Sydney just finished its warmest winter to date in its 167 years of record, according to University of Technology Professor and meteorologist expert, Milton Speer. This comes following research from Weather Zone which said that Sydney’s overnight minimums and...
Students raise concerns over rising parking fees at WSU campuses
As students face cost-of-living pressures, an increase in parking fee increase at Western Sydney University's Parramatta South campus has become a concern for some students who rely on driving to campus. The cost of a one day ‘pay and display’ parking ticket at...
Students Step Off the Sidelines and Marched to Town Hall
August 13 saw Western Sydney University (WSU) students joining a nationwide protest against Pauline Hanson and the One Nation collective. The rally was organised by High School Anti-Capitalists and the National Union of Students. For many involved, it was about more...
Alphabet Lane review – Even couples get lonely
If cinema is a two-way conversation, what happens when you add imaginary friends to the chat? Married couple Anna and Jack are feeling lonely and isolated out in the country, where they struggle to communicate with each other. Words are hard to come by when you’re...











