Several University of Wollongong (UOW) students have been expelled from their accommodation after hosting parties in their dorm rooms during lockdown.
Five students have been removed from Campus East while 11 infringement notices have been handed out by police.
The university says they are putting the community at risk.
"We take the breach of a public health order very, very seriously," said UOW director of student and accommodation services Theresa Hoynes.
"There are consequences for the decisions that they take and they are adults, so these are their decisions that they are taking.
Ms Hoynes said she was concerned about an outbreak occurring due to breaches.
"This variant is prevalent, 70 per cent of transmission is household, so the seriousness of breaches will be communicated to students," she said.
"We will call the police if there are infringements.
"They put the broader community at risk so I am disappointed."
This month accommodation facilities at the Australian National University and the University of Queensland were forced into strict lockdown restrictions due to dozens of close contacts to confirmed COVID cases being identified.
'If one gets it, we all get it'
A student at the accommodation facility, who wished to remain anonymous, said parties were common at the beginning of lockdown.
"They weren't cracking down as much."
The student said there was an apathetic mentality among students living on campus because campus management, in their opinion, was not doing anything about parties or student gatherings.
"It was like, 'Oh if one person gets it, we all get it', so we weren't really told the repercussions of it if one of us got COVID," they said.
The student said two incidents at Campus East sparked harsher action by the university.
"After a while, they started cracking down on a few parties with noise complaints and how many people were in the room," the student said.
"There were police the next day cracking down and another party got shut down, so, in a matter of two days, there were police at Campus East doing rounds with the night clerks."
