Photo credit: Joshua Morris Julia Readett reviews a play for the Sydney Festival that sets a collision of cultures and struggles against the backdrop of a Western Sydney car-park. It’s 6.30pm on a weeknight in Blacktown and the station is crammed with commuters coming...
By Ishan Karanjit: “Mom, Dad I got my Visa!!” This was the first slice of happiness that I shared with my parents on my journey to Australia. It definitely wasn’t easy to leave my family, friends, relatives and those beloved memories that I had in my 21 years of...
By: A. Hussain: The recent US election has become a topic of global interest. With the campaigns of the candidates starting more than a year ago, the whole world watched, mostly in amusement, as Clinton and Trump spouted political rhetoric, trying their very best to...
By Kevin Tran: The voices of numerous other humanitarian delegates from across the globe, filled, and poured out of the Vietnamese restaurant. We sat together and listened some more to each other’s stories. What seemed normal in each speaker’s lives was uncannily...
Anyone, regardless of their gender, religion, culture or sexual identity can experience a relationship based on an imbalance of power and control. Abusive relationships can take many forms, including but not limited to: physical, sexual, psychological and emotional...
By Nicole Gismondo: Transport for NSW is in the planning stages of looking into the future of transport and technological development. As part of that process they held the Future Transport Youth Summit in September to tap into the bright minds of 100...
By Ashley Robinson: On the 24th and 25th, I had the privilege of going to the ASLA S4S National Leadership Conference at the University of Wollongong. What an amazing experience it was! For those that are not quite sure what the S4S conference is in basic terms, it is...
Julia Readett reviews Major! at the Queer Screen Festival: Black lesbian feminist Audre Lorde said, “Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.” Her vision for Black feminism was defined by radical love that is enduring, healing and accommodating of...
By Nicole Gismondo: It was mid-June and we’d just got an email from the staff at student representation that the university was not renewing our publications officer’s contract. No prior warning given, we didn’t even know it was up for review. What do you do in that...
Ian Escandor: ‘‘I look to a day when people will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character’’: Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963). A beautiful quote but often misconstrued as advocating for ‘colour-blindness’. Those who purport this...
Annie McCann is a published author and a Western Sydney University alum. As an Indonesian-Australian Muslim emcee and writer, she is deeply passionate about diverse voices. ‘My Harimau King’ McCann’s debut Middle-Grade novel, published by Melby Rose...
On the 31st of August 2025 NITV’s Bronte Charles and Yasmine Alwakal reported a ‘brutal, terrifying and traumatising’ Neo Nazi attack at Melbourne’s Camp Sovereignty. The peaceful protest with a smoking ceremony on sacred land turned into a violent, hate...
The proxy war being waged in Sudan has reached a new level of urgency that demands the world’s attention. Reports by Al Jazeera indicate mass-civilian killings have taken place, leaving 1,500 dead, with bodies spotted on satellite images. In 2023, clashes between...
University placements can feel like a marathon you never signed up for. Between managing coursework, part-time jobs, and personal responsibilities, adding hundreds of unpaid hours to your schedule can feel almost impossible. I just finished my 600-hour social work...
This year has been big for Western, not all for the right reasons. From cyberattacks and job cuts, to conversations about international students, the University community is growing increasingly concerned. Personal Information in jeopardy: On the 23rd of October...