By Student Legal Service: It’s everyone’s worst nightmare – you are driving to uni, running a little late to your lecture and there is traffic everywhere. You finally make it to the intersection just before uni and you go to turn the corner and out of nowhere you hear...
By Mariam Tengbeh: Emotions ran high as an emergency rally was called at Sydney Town Hall demanding justice for the children tortured in Don Dale Correctional Centre. This came after the shocking footage shown on the ABC Four Corners program, of Aboriginal children...
Join the Bankstown Writers’ Group on Mondays and receive feedback from award-winning writers Fiona Wright and Luke Carman. All students are welcome to bring their writing – creative writing, essays, articles – to room 1.1.112 on Mondays in August, September and...
August 24 is the deadline for the big Diversity Fest edition of W’SUP. We need your stories on what Diversity means to you. We need your articles, artworks, rants and poems, investigative journalism and everything else. Send to wsup@westernsydney.edu.au
By Melissa Swann: For 24 hours over June 2nd and 3rd, the Western Sydney U Nerdfighters hosted a charity gaming marathon at The Cottage on Werrington South campus. We dubbed this ambitious adventure ‘Game Hard or Go Home.’ You may have heard about the event in the...
By Lauren Nicholls: The Western Sydney Community Forum launched its Q&A breakfast series at Penrith Council Chambers on Thursday, June 2nd. The panel was collated to discuss the impending federal election, and consisted of representatives from a wide variety of...
By Marija Yelavich: An Ally is a volunteer (staff or student) from the Western Sydney University community who is committed to cultural change and who provides support to LGBTIQ community members at the University. University Allies: can be identified by the display...
On Friday 27 May, the Parramatta Campus Council hosted a free student movie screening of the short film, The Hunting Ground. The film is a controversial documentary that explores the culture of sexual assault on American university campuses. The movie was used to...
By Nicole Gismondo: You probably don’t know that Western Sydney Uni has women’s rooms, so you probably also don’t know that it has two rooms in multi-faith centres. These rooms are autonomous safe spaces for female-identifying students to use. I recently visited the...
Winning poet Sharnay at Poetry Slam Bankstown campus May 24
100 graduates from Western Sydney University’s Doctor of Medicine program attended their graduation ceremony on the 17th of December 2024. The University invited Joel Edgerton to the graduation in the Sir Ian & Nancy Turbott Auditorium at the Parramatta...
Misty McPhail is an executive producer at Made in the West CREATIVE and the general manager of Made in the West Film Festival (MITW), a grassroots festival that celebrates and showcases Western Sydney filmmakers on screen. W’SUP chats to her about the 2024 Made in the...
In my experience at Western Sydney University, I always knew that I wanted to be a journalist. I’ve always had a passion for learning about the ways that society functions, the foundations and core beliefs that make us the people and places we are today. However, I...
Having any dietary requirement can be a challenge, but for those with coeliac disease, finding gluten free food that is coeliac friendly can be incredibly difficult. Lucky for us here in Sydney, we are spoiled for choice with gluten free finds that are coeliac safe,...
Ever find yourself sitting in a lecture, trying to take in all the information, but still feeling like something isn’t clicking? Or maybe you’ve had those moments where you really wish you could just talk things through with someone who actually gets it? Trust me,...