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Sep 14, 2026
Ben FordhamHOST
And just on animals, a plan to build 1,500 new homes has led to some tension.
Ben FordhamHOST
Western Sydney University wants to transform two of its campuses near Penrith into a new town centre.
Ben FordhamHOST
The plan would make way for 1,500 homes plus shops, a potential school and some buildings up to seven storeys.
Ben FordhamHOST
But there's one major concern.
Lauren MackayHOST
Jenny is a linguist and art historian with a cross-disciplinary PhD in Renaissance art history, tourism and museum management.
Lauren MackayHOST
A former senior lecturer in Italian language, history and culture at Western Sydney University, she has been leading tours to Italy, Spain, France and Portugal for more than 15 years.
Lauren MackayHOST
In this episode, Jenny traces the Via Francigena's origins, its decline and revival, and the hill towns that still mark its course.
Lauren MackayHOST
Jenny, welcome to the show.
Althea Passamai-AinesityGUEST
For those who don't know me, my name is Althea Passamai-Ainesity.
Althea Passamai-AinesityGUEST
I'm the Pro-Vice Chancellor of Student Success at Western Sydney University, as well as a professor of sociology.
Althea Passamai-AinesityGUEST
I have dedicated my career to opening up life chances of our students, of all students in higher education, something I'm really committed to.
Althea Passamai-AinesityGUEST
I promise I will try not to use sociological jargon throughout this presentation.
David WoodHOST
His books include Debunking Economics, Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis? and The New Economics Manifesto.
David WoodHOST
He has held professorships at Kingston University London, the University of Western Sydney and UCL, University College London.
David WoodHOST
Steve, welcome to the London Futurist podcast.
Steve KeenGUEST
Thank you.
Terry FlewHOST
So there was money around for something.
Martin BettsGUEST
Yeah, well, I think there's a lot of things in that, aren't there? One of the leaders that I most admire in our system at the moment, because of the way coming out of a pedigree in the group of eight, he's gone to an institution that suits his purpose and made a relentless focus on prioritizing students and meeting them where they are, is George Williams of Western Sydney University.
Martin BettsGUEST
I think the extent to which he's seeking to make a name for himself not by building towers for the future of the institution, but building a purpose around serving its students, I think is exactly, you know, if a sector more broadly embraced that viewpoint and that way of thinking, I think our social, our trust and our social purpose sentiments would be elevated.
Martin BettsGUEST
And I think governments would find it easier to support us and loosen the regulation.
Megan SaundersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
to try and break down silos and barriers between people or disciplines or geographies or habitats and to try and just help people work together more efficiently so that we can ultimately do restoration at big scales and help nature and the people who benefit from all the services that our coastal ecosystems have to offer.
Robyn WilliamsHOST
Dr Megan Saunders of CSIRO, and also at the Beaker Street Festival in Hobart was Sinead Nicholson, a postdoc researcher from the University of Western Sydney and the University of New South Wales, also restoring.
Geraldine DugasADVERTISER
Now when you're doing the
Robyn WilliamsHOST
restoration and you're finding places where you can plant, where do you look first?
Sinead NicholsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And they ask questions and they get interested.
Sinead NicholsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They always get interested.
Robyn WilliamsHOST
No, it just so happens the University of Western Sydney has at the Whitlam Institute a project which has been going for 20 years where young people writing 600 words on what matters to me, so many of them had been feeling depressed about, you know, climate change and various other aspects.
Robyn WilliamsHOST
And that writing, that expressing of concern and saying what matters to them has really turned it round for them, many of them.
Tim WebsterHOST
Not a sense between them to rub together, as they say.
Tim WebsterHOST
So there's about to be a campus at Western Sydney University to open up next year.
Tim WebsterHOST
Tell us more about all of that.
Tim WebsterHOST
Having had a look at what the Premier's been up to in India, is the Vice-Chancellor of the university.
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Tim WebsterHOST
And you know what it is.
Tim WebsterHOST
They come here to study one thing, then jump to another course, jump to another course, keep studying and stay here for years.
Tim WebsterHOST
And even Professor George Williams, who I had on this morning from Australia, Western Sydney University agrees.
Tim WebsterHOST
I mean, you've just got to crack down on these sorts of things because they're too clever by halves.
Oliver GordonCORRESPONDENT
As part of the settlement, the tech giant agreed to give teens the choice to ditch the algorithm designed to keep them scrolling longer and switch instead to a chronological feed.
Oliver GordonCORRESPONDENT
Digital wellbeing researcher Dr Joanne Orlando is from the University of Western Sydney.
Joanne OrlandoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I think if social media companies can do that for young people over in the States, they can probably do it for all of us.
Joanne OrlandoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So it is a doable thing.
Jan FranHOST
And she said to me, oh, she sort of ran into her in the hallway and she said, oh, you were in my class.
Jan FranHOST
Where did you come from? And I said, oh, I transferred here from the University of Western Sydney.
Jan FranHOST
And she's like, oh, oh, that's good.
Jan FranHOST
That's very good.
DianeHOST
very cool
Mike SwinbourneGUEST
yeah no one no one has ever so I did the first species wide survey of the southern area population I went from the length and breadth and sort of counted them but no one has ever really done that at the species wide level on common wombats there's a woman she's a professor of well she was a wildlife professor but she's anyway University of Western Sydney called Julie Old and she runs a website called WOMSAT Okay,
DianeHOST
yeah, I've heard of WAMSAT, yep.
Mike SwinbourneGUEST
It's a citizen science program where you can log wombat sightings, and she sort of decided to do some work updating all our knowledge on common wombats, and so she started to do the species-wide survey, and I just sort of decided I would help her out by doing the South Australian end.
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AdrianHOST
He's a fantastic storyteller, very knowledgeable, wild wombats, and all the other things you'd see too.
AdrianHOST
You'd be seeing 20 frogmouths and different owls and all the things.
Mike SwinbourneGUEST
Well, that woman I talked about, Julie Olds from the University of Western Sydney, I took her out there after the wombat conference, and I think we counted something like 15 wombats.
Mike SwinbourneGUEST
Oh, wow.
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