Humans

My grandmother and her village

My grandmother and her village

In 1939, my grandmother-to-be was taken to Hang Gee, a not-so-mountainous Hakka settlement of southern Guangdong. It was a world away from the bustle of Hong Kong although it was merely 50 km apart. In Hang Gee, rice was life. People were in tune with seasons –...

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Saving lives for the 100th time

Saving lives for the 100th time

In Australia, 1 in 3 people will need blood or blood products in their lifetime. It is something that many people don’t think about, but when you need it, you are thanking those who rolled up their sleeves for you. The staff at Lifeblood Parramatta know Janet...

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Humans of WSU – Meet Bayan Sohailee

Humans of WSU – Meet Bayan Sohailee

Name: Bayan Sohailee  Age: 23  Studying: Bachelor of International Studies / Bachelor of Social Science/ BALCT Background: Bayan is a refugee, he fled from Iran with his family when he was six years old. He is ethnically Kurdish and follows the religion of Bahai. As...

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Election: Nursing students call for more support

Election: Nursing students call for more support

Nursing students are hoping that the upcoming Federal Election will see major changes implemented within their industry. Many student nurses are in the workforce completing practical components of their degree, but the pressures influenced by the Covid-19 pandemic are...

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My day as a student parent

My day as a student parent

Unlike other accounts of this type, I won’t start with waking. That would not depict the bone aching exhaustion I ‘start’ my day with. Instead, I’ll begin my story at 8 pm the previous night. 8 pm in my home is the moment I count down to all day: bedtime for the kids....

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My Experience in Journalism: Speech for Media Day

Hello and welcome everyone to Western's Sydney Universities Media Day, thank you so much to the WSUP team for inviting me here and letting me be part of this special occasion. First off, I would like to introduce myself, my name is Eugenia Kourkoutas, and I was an...

A Word On WestWords: Advice To Writers

Ally Burnham is the Creative Producer at Westwords, Western Sydney’s centre for Creative Writing. She completed a Master’s in Writing for Performance at the National Institute of Dramatic Art and won an AWGIE in 2020 for her short film screenplay ‘Metropius’. She is a...

Creative Cloud Crisis: Is Western Really the Adobe Creative Campus?

Vice President and Adobe Managing Director Katrina Troughton, described Western Sydney University as “the first Adobe Creative Campus University in New South Wales”. However, students can only access Adobe programs at certain times of the year.  Western students have...