{"id":30779,"date":"2026-03-26T09:18:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/?post_type=media-release&#038;p=30779"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:18:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:18:05","slug":"curtins-open-day-postponed-due-to-approaching-cyclone","status":"publish","type":"media-release","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/curtins-open-day-postponed-due-to-approaching-cyclone\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtin\u2019s Open Day postponed due to approaching cyclone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Curtin University has made the difficult decision to postpone its Open Day scheduled for this Sunday due to the approaching cyclone and forecast severe weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With more than 25,000 people expected to attend, the safety of future students, families, staff and visitors is the priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the expected conditions, the University is not able to safely set up, prepare for or deliver the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curtin University Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer Dr Marco Schultheis said the decision was not taken lightly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCurtin\u2019s Open Day is the largest in Western Australia and we know it\u2019s something thousands of families plan around,\u201d Dr Schultheis said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a real chance to walk the campus, meet the people who\u2019ll teach and support you and get a genuine feel for what the Curtin community is like. That\u2019s why we\u2019re so disappointed we can\u2019t go ahead this weekend, but safety always comes first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re working on an alternative date so we can welcome people back, answer their questions and give them that full Curtin experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, future students and their families can find more information about our courses at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/\">Curtin website<\/a> or by contacting Curtin Connect on 1300 222 888 between 8:30am and 4:30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curtin University has made the difficult decision to postpone its Open Day scheduled for this Sunday due to the approaching cyclone and forecast severe weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4273,"featured_media":24228,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":3,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1475,228],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-30779","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community","tag-openday","tag-students"],"acf":{"experts":false,"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":[{"title":"","qualification":"","link":"","description":"","faculty":""}],"credits":{"author":{"title":"Yasmine Phillips","url":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/experts\/yasmine-phillips-2\/","target":""},"photographer":"","media":[24388,30634]},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/SP-20070611-7304-1-1000x500.jpg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Yasmine","last_name":"Phillips","display_name":"Yasmine Phillips"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/30779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/30779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30779"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=30779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}