When The Matildas began their AFC Women’s Asian Cup campaign by hammering 18 goals past Indonesia on the first day, one Western Sydney University PhD student had a keener – and closer – interest than most. Tim Massard, a Bachelor of Health Science (Sport...
By TILEAH DOBSON With Australia being a multicultural country, it was only a matter of time for Taiwan’s boba tea to make its way Down Under. With the rise of franchise chains like Chatime, Gong Cha and Sharetea, bubble tea has become a popular beverage. Prompting...
Rameshwar Roy completed his Masters in Public Health last year after completing his undergraduate degree in Biotechnology and Molecular Biology - sticking to what he’s always wanted to do. After finishing his course, he started working in the lab sector, but his heart...
Pharmacy assistants are used to seeing it all. Ingrown toenails, fungal infections, burns, open wounds … you name it. Although no two days in pharmacy are the same, nothing could have prepared us for the Coronavirus. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had a major...
With the Covid-19 quarantine situation that we are currently facing, there is an increase in demand for working online. For students, this means our entire studying has been transferred online, which means more time spent in front of a computer and more time using...
Your friend gets the flu Lauren* looks like a university student you know.She wears her long hair in a ponytail and carries a backpack to class. But she’s not like everyone else. One wrong move could put her in hospital. Her eyes survey the lecture theatre carefully....
(Nobuhiro Shimura's "Afternote: In the Shade of Cinema" exhibition at The Japan Foundation Gallery. Photo by: Khanh Linh Pham, 2024) “Afternote: In the shade of cinema”, is a new exhibition by Japanese artist Nobuhiro Shimura, running from September 13, 2023, to...
Writers are the architects of imagination, the sculptors of words, and the custodians of stories. But what sparks this relentless urge to write? At Book Fair Australia, I was honoured to speak with 12 remarkable authors who shared their deeply personal...
‘I don’t fuck with Jack and Jill/ if I pop that pill that’s a magic bean/ I’m on my last life I don’t give two fucks/ I’m still gonna sip that lean’ raps an animated, masked Puss in Boots into a microphone. The ‘Puss in Zoots’ video has garnered 470k views since it...
On the 24th of September 2024, the University of Wollongong’s (UOW) non-hierarchical grassroots collective organisation, Palestinian Liberation Zone (UPLZ), held an encampment protest on campus. This encampment was called by UPLZ to end UOW’s alleged relations with...
Satya Patel is a Western Sydney University student and creative designer, who is the recent cover artist for W’SUP’S newest print edition, ‘New Perspectives’ (NP). In this interview, Satya describes his interest in drawing and design, what manga and anime inspire him,...