Western Sydney University is working to promote awareness of the important, yet still mildly taboo, subjects of sexual harassment and assault. Posters on the walls of the University’s Sydney City campus attract the attention of students as they walk by, with callouts...
Dear all WSU’s dog lovers: if you missed the previous Dog Café sessions held last month- fear not, they are coming back this September! The Dog Café program was founded and organised by researchers from the School of Health Science at Western Sydney University. They...
Having studied, lived and worked within the Indo-Pacific region on seven different occasions as part of my bachelor’s degree, I was eager to share with others my deeply engrained passion for international engagement upon my return home. Being the 2018-19 New...
The new African-Australian Youth Collective at Western aims to connect those who love and live African culture. When Adjoa Assan was in her first year at WSU and studying a Bachelor of International Studies/Laws, she was offered the opportunity to travel to South...
Seriously, what are the chances of hitting the jackpot? Most people think that mathematics is hard and that you need to go to university to understand some of the stranger concepts. Actually, higher order maths is quite simple once you break down the principals...
Becoming a university student can be an incredibly stressful transition in a young person’s life, most will even have an experience with a mental illness during their studies. “When you look at the range of mental health distress in university aged students, its...
Free scoops of ice cream have been handed out to university students all across Australia this month, as Ben & Jerry’s teamed up with the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC) to speak to young Australians about climate action. Together they visited select...
24-year-old Ayah Wehbe is a Lebanese-Australian Muslim woman, born and raised in Sydney, with an aspiring career in social research, and an honours thesis under her belt. She has also lived her whole life with hearing loss. Ayah has a steeply severe to profound...
A new opportunity for young performing artists in Western Sydney has once again risen from the roots of Bankstown, with the aim to have their “disenfranchised” voices heard. Flip the Script is the latest project of the Bankstown Poetry Slam (BPS) that opens up a stage...
(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,...