Universal early childhood education and care could have profound benefits for areas like Western Sydney, where despite rising education levels, women still face higher unpaid care burdens and other barriers.
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Cumberland City Council’s ban of books depicting same-sex parents from its libraries implies such relationships are unnatural or strange. What’s happening?
Western Sydney residents whose homes often get hotter inside than outside during heatwaves have learnt to be resourceful in adapting to the increasing heat.
Apartment residents need more sustainable, climate-adapted designs. They shouldn’t have to depend on costly, high-emissions air conditioning to remain comfortable and healthy.
Paradise Estate is a good-humoured depiction of the travails of share-house living, with a political edge.
God Forgets About the Poor is one part family saga, one part autofiction, one part Proustian journey through memory.
Shankari Chandran’s Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, which explores Australian racism and the Sri Lankan civil war, is ‘extraordinary’.
Ghassan Hage has made a singularly powerful contribution to our understanding of Australian and global racism, and the politics of domination and resistance.
Inner-city resistance to higher-density housing has diverted most of Sydney’s population growth, driven largely by non-white migrants, to the outer suburbs. The result is a racially divided city.
In this podcast, Le canvasses the challenges her constituents are facing with the cost of living crisis and the aftermath of the curfew placed on her electorate during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
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.
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°C 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.
Top contributors
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Director, Centre for Western Sydney, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, Design Studies, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor in Cultural and Social Analysis, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, Human Geography and Urban Studies School of Social Sciences/ Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor in Urbanism and Infrastructure, ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, School of Mathematical And Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, Director Academic Programs, Geography Tourism and Urban Planning, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Planning and Director of Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Sydney
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Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication. Editor in chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
