DIVERSITY FEST IS BACK FOR 2024! The highly anticipated Diversity Festival is back once again for 2024! Div Fest will be held on the 24th of September from 2-5pm at Western Sydney University’s Parramatta South Campus. This long awaited SRC event is free for...
The Student Representative Council (SRC) is working to bring a student union to Western Sydney University (Western). Mid 2024, the SRC engaged the CPR Consulting firm to effectively handle this transition and the talks with the university. SRC President Laine Fox...
March For Our Lives protest (2018) || Photo by Alex Radelich on Unsplash The plague of gun violence afflicts the United States daily, with the most recent example claiming four lives. On August 26th, a man from Jacksonville, Florida, shot and killed three people and...
DISCLAIMER: The motion proposed by the Student Representative mentioned below is true. However, the following content is entirely fictional and exaggerated for comedic effect. Enjoy the humorous nature of the article and understand that any resemblance to real...
SRC's $10,000 Secret Santa event takes students (and Christmas) by storm With over 200 registrations for the cross-campus event, the SRC showed their Christmas spirit again by bringing back the old tradition of Secret Santa. However, while Parramatta made a solid...
Since the start of July, I have been in the role of president of the WSU Student Representative Council. It goes without saying that this year will hold innumerable unprecedented challenges, not just within our university community but also globally and in our...
For the second time in a year, discussions over disaffiliation from NUS has resurfaced, causing frustration amongst the SRC. In March this year, during the fourth meeting of the Student Representative Council (SRC), a major point of interest was regarding whether...
A wave of surveillance in the wake of coronavirus is forcing students to decide between privacy or their grades with online exams to be monitored with a software called ProctorU. In a time where people want to protect their online privacy and security more than ever –...
The WSU student representative council will discuss disaffiliating from the student representative peak body, the National Union of Students (NUS), at a special meeting tonight. The meeting comes following the surprise resignation of SRC President Naomi Hastings last...
Are you an international student adjusting to life away from home? Feeling overwhelmed by university pressures or missing the comfort of familiar faces? You’re not alone, and at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Melbourne, a very special...
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...
Poetry is an art form long used to tell stories and express emotions. But how can we share our beliefs and values through poetry? Rachel Huckel is a published Christian poet who has shared how she uses poetry to express her religious values. ‘I often struggle to...
Ever since the 20th of January 2025 when Trump reclaimed power as the 47th President of the United States, the world has been on the edge of their seat. It is easy to see why, due to the multitude of controversial actions and implementations that have occurred since...
On the 26th of March 2025, at approximately 1:00 PM, the WSU 4 Palestine Collective protested Western Sydney University’s ties with Sqye Medical after an announcement was made about its agreement with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, in the Australian...