The new city bears a colonial name and there are questions about locating it in the hottest part of Sydney, but we are also seeing all 3 tiers of government work together in an innovative way.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Western Sydney
Displaying 1 - 20 of 53 articles
Very hot days in Western Sydney are typically 5 degrees hotter than parts of the city close to the coast and are becoming more common, but only in the west. Four climate drivers explain the difference.
Voters in the region have long been seen as caring more about their finances than green issues. But living through extreme heat, rain and floods has them focused on living with climate change.
Tracey Lien’s debut novel investigates a murder of a model student in a Cabramatta restaurant. Anh Nguyen Austen says it brilliantly conveys the complexities of the Vietnamese refugee experience.
Growing fresh produce on the outskirts of a city reduces food miles and increases food security. But the foodbowls next to our our big cities are fast losing their land to urban growth.
These two new romances starring bold, culturally connected heroines from Redfern and Western Sydney break the genre mould – but remain faithful to what readers love about romance.
Western Sydney can be up to 10℃ hotter than the coast. Poorly constructed housing can’t handle the heat.
Councils are trying to balance competing priorities in urban development, with limited resources and stretched budgets.
The rain isn’t letting up for Australia’s east. Remarkably, the low-pressure band that drenched Brisbane is now spawning not one but two east coast lows for Sydney – more typically seen in winter.
The lives of queer Arab-Australian boys and men are vividly inhabited in award-winning poet Omar Sakr’s darkly comic debut novel, set in Western Sydney.
Such a dramatic rise in extreme heat days is not inevitable. If global warming is limited to 1.5℃ this century, Western Sydney will have fewer than 17 days of 35℃ per year.
Here Out West aims to shift the perception about what it means to tell contemporary Australian tales to a broad audience while staying true to the suburbs and communities of Western Sydney.
In order to support people effectively, craft appropriate messages and predict virus spread, it is crucial to use the languages and local networks that bind multicultural communities together.
Public health information for migrant communities needs to cover off the basics but it also needs to provide nuanced messaging to counter myths and misinformation about COVID-19.
The experience of upward social mobility through education can have unexpected emotional costs – particularly for graduates from the working class.
It was once thought the Aboriginal names for the Hawkesbury had been lost forever. But after a remarkable find in the Mitchell Library, almost 100 place names will be restored to Dyarubbin Country.
With COVID-19 spreading in Sydney’s southwest, can New South Wales avoid a return to lockdown and a similar scenario to Victoria’s second wave? The answer depends on whether there is community spread.
A new airport, aerotropolis and development of two of the ‘three cities’ in the metropolitan strategy all aim to create jobs in Western Sydney. But right now the only certainty is a huge jobs deficit.
Western Sydney’s growth-driven boom had ended before COVID-19 hit. Some neighbourhood unemployment rates were 2-3 times the metropolitan average, with female workforce participation as low as 43%.
Education fuelled extraordinary growth in Western Sydney’s professional services workforce, but their jobs aren’t local. More than 300,000 commute to work outside the region.
Top contributors
-
Director, Centre for Western Sydney, Western Sydney University
-
Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
-
Professor in Cultural and Social Analysis, Western Sydney University
-
Associate Professor in Urbanism and Infrastructure, ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney
-
Associate Professor, Design Studies, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney
-
Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW Sydney
-
Associate Professor, Human Geography and Urban Studies School of Social Sciences/ Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
-
Professor, School of Mathematical And Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
-
Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
-
Professor of Planning and Director of Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University
-
Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Social Policy, University of New England
-
Program director, Cities, Grattan Institute
-
Senior Lecturer, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
-
Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary (Senior Fellow) School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne
-
Associate Professor, Computing & Information Systems; Director, Melbourne Data Analytics Platform, The University of Melbourne
