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Date Time Second City: Essays from Western Sydney The diverse literary talents of Western Sydney writers are showcased in Second City, a new collection of non-fiction essays published by the Sydney Review of Books. The collection takes resistance against conformity and uncritical consensus as one of its central themes and affirms that Western Sydney writing can be represented by no single form, opinion, style, poetics, or state of mind. Contributors to Second City include Zohra Aly, Frances An, Rawah Arja, Luke Carman, Felicity Castagna, Eda Gunaydin, George Haddad, Raaza Jamshed, Yumna Kassa...

Western Sydney University scholarship helped Afghan refugee Parastoo Bahrami fulfill her education dream By Mridula Amin © Provided by ABC NEWS Parastoo and her brother Omar at her home in Merrylands in Western Sydney. (ABC News: Mridula Amin) It was the hope of educating his children that made Parastoo Bahrami's father pile his family of eight into a rickety fishing boat and sputter across the Timor Sea. Having lived in an Indonesian refugee camp for 11 years as Afghan refugees, they made their final attempt to reach Australia in 2012. Parastoo said her father decided to f...