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Rape culture: a conversation we need to have

Rape culture: a conversation we need to have

Trigger Warning: This article contains themes regarding self-harm, sexual abuse, rape and suicide. Please note there are resources for support listed below.   It was an ordinary day and I opened Facebook. Former NRL star Jarryd Hayne had been accused of sexual...

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Exploring Dreamtime: art and stories

Exploring Dreamtime: art and stories

Many international students desire to learn more about Australian Indigenous culture. Here, Ishmamul Haque provides a brief guide to Dreamtime beliefs for our international students. Aboriginal people are part of the oldest continuing culture in the world. A vital...

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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...

CreatURe: A Space for Sci-Fi Fanatics & The Launch of ‘RELIC’

(RELIC’s front-page cover, designed by Matt Wildig, CreatURe member, 2024) Author: Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan  A little over a year ago, CreatURe was a gleam in the eye of a few speculative fiction fanatics, a half-mad scheme to provide students with a place to be...

A degree apart: The realities of studying psychology

Author: Jordan Canciani Editor: Abbie Simmons   The Australian Psychological Society (APS) reported there are simply too many undergraduate students, vastly exceeding the number of available postgraduate psychology programs.   In my experience as a 3rd year Bachelor...