We drop into the Phyllis Palmer Gallery this week to witness the final commitment for our third-year creative arts students, but for Bethany Mansfield, it’s far from the last hurrah. On Friday the bachelor and honours students will launch their graduate exhibition and publicly present themselves to the […]
Around one in 200 Australian students are home schooled. In the Central Goldfields that statistic would be even slimmer, which makes Nathan Jordon’s story even more unique. As the middle child of seven Nathan spent the first ten years of his schooling learning from the family farm at […]
You think you wouldn’t read about it, but you can, World heritage listing considered for Bendigo Telstra phone booth, Man wears green bag as hat and La Trobe uni student’s study habits border on the insane. Just jump onto satirical news site The Bendigo Standard and it’s all […]
How does a person go from pottering with paint at home to landing some of the city’s biggest art commissions? We’ve met Julie Andrews in Chancery Lane to find out. El Gordo Café serves proper pot tea for the occasion, but that’s not the only draw card in […]
Darcy Ryan and Liam Groves are two third-year Civil Engineering students at La Trobe University in Bendigo with a lot in common. They both grew up in small towns – Kyabram (Darcy) and Tatura (Liam) – as part of farming families. They both have a self-admitted love of […]
Jacob Manning is a third-year Bachelor of Education student at La Trobe University in Bendigo. Last year, when Jacob was assigned a placement at a small primary school in Talbot, over an hour’s drive south-west of Bendigo, he knew he would face some challenges in terms of attending […]
The line was out the door the day Joshua Maggs opened Addicted to Christmas. 800 Christmas lovers came through the shop, excitedly snapping up decorations and unique gifts almost two months before the holiday, something the Bachelor of Business (Accounting) graduate never thought would happen. “I was overwhelmed […]
Helen Irving is our new Professor of Biomedical Science. She began her career with a degree in agricultural science, but soon discovered she was “more interested in biochemistry than in telling farmers how to grow their crops.” Her fascination with cell communication has sustained her ever since. The […]
Do not be fooled by the slow, quiet vegetable patch – Jasim Al-Rawi’s life has been anything but. “It’s a life of adventure and I haven’t told you any of the details,” he says, after two hours of talking about the past. We asked senior Pharmacy and […]
There’s a strong waft of paint fumes coming from creative arts. But it’s not what you may think. There’s not a pot to be found in the top-floor studios, the raw materials packed away as the year closes on classes. No, the chemical scent is straight from a […]
