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A Word with Israa Merhi: Bankstown Poetry Slam

A Word with Israa Merhi: Bankstown Poetry Slam

  Bankstown Poetry Slam (BPS) held their annual Grand Slam at the Sydney Opera House on the 27th of February 2025, marking Australia’s largest 2025 poetry event.  BPS monthly slam winners gain a position in the annual Grand Slam, should they choose to accept....

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Happiness in a Shot: The Power of a Photo

Happiness in a Shot: The Power of a Photo

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...

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The De-extinction of Dire Wolves

The De-extinction of Dire Wolves

A breakthrough that looked more fiction than science stunned the world on October 1st 2024, when Colossal Biosciences created and birthed three Dire Wolf pups named Romulus, Remus and Kahleesi. In a world first, scientists used gene editing to alter the genome of a...

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The Red-Carpet Experience at Made in the West

The Red-Carpet Experience at Made in the West

(Cinema screen at Made in the West before the films began. Photo by Garish (Luci) Kugathasan, 2024)  On November 30th, 2024, Made in the West Film Festival invited W’SUP to an exclusive red-carpet event celebrating the outstanding work of filmmakers from Western...

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Scam Email Outbreak Panics Western Sydney University Community

  Expulsion Claims  Mass amounts of Western Sydney University students, alumni and staff have received emails informing them of expulsion, program revocation and a request to return any prizes or scholarship money. The University has claimed these are fraudulent...

Western’s Annual Lifeblood Challenge, Now Open to More Donors!

The Lifeblood Challenge is a yearly competition organised by the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood where each team attempts to collect as many blood donations as possible in a set amount of time. From August 1st to October 31st, Western Sydney University (WSU) is working...

Queer Social Club Celebrates 2 Years

  Josh Bouman (he/him) is the Queer Social Club (QSC) co-founder. The QSC runs events such as, picnics, hiking, queer trivia, beach days, game afternoons, brunches, trips to a café, craft-days, karaoke and craft-days.  ‘[The Queer community] is very important...

Penguin Fantasy Fest Comes to Sydney

  July 2025 saw Penguin’s ‘Fantasy Fest’ arrive in Australian cities, readers enjoying exclusive previews of upcoming fantasy novel releases and extensive author panel discussions.  In 2023, Penguin Random House Australia, one of Australia’s ‘big five’ publishing...