News Centre archive - 2017
Collated on this page is an archive of the University's News Centre stories in 2017.
Browse the archive below, or select an alternate year from the left column navigation.
The new ticketing technology that may make scalping a thing of the past
As new anti-scalping laws are introduced in Victoria, our research suggests that frustrations with current ticketing systems may be a contributing factor to the continued success of scalpers. But new technologies are on the horizon that will help.
How Filipino artists are responding to President Duterte and the ‘War on Drugs’
Along one long wall on the side of Manila’s Baclaran church, visual artist Emil Yap has been working for two years on a mural that depicts the cosmology and history of the Philippines.
Student secures prestigious New Colombo Plan Scholarship
A Western Sydney University student has been successful in securing a prestigious Australian Government New Colombo Plan Scholarship for 2018.
Premier's western Sydney address
The transcript of the speech delivered by Vice-Chancellor Professor Barney Glover at the Premier's Western Sydney Address on Monday 27 November 2017.
A message from the west: Dear Sydney, we're heading for a messy break-up
We're tired. Two hundred thousand western Sydney residents are compelled to journey eastward into Sydney every weekday for work; decent paying, globally connected and fulfilling work. We're over it.
High school students get a taste for law at the Kirby Cup Moot Court Competition
The third annual Kirby Cup Moot Court Competition saw the culmination of an intensive two-week period during which 24 High Schools participated, debating about the nuances of Australian Immigration Law.
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