The canoe slips gently from the ramp into Serpentine Creek ripples. Outdoor education graduate Kerrie Jennings is on rudder duty at the back. She’s also tasked with calling instructions to a paddler who’s not been in a canoe since Wet Wet Wet was in the charts. High school […]
A La Trobe University research project will determine the educational benefits of the Castlemaine State Festival. Researcher Dr Dona Martin was working to capture the impact the festival had on many of the 1200 local children to pass through the festival this week. “We want to know if the […]
Kathryn Tovey is painting fluid lines of lilac at the Art Club stall. She’s got her back to sun, and the beautiful comings and goings of the market day crowd. Kathryn’s halfway through this mural, and halfway through a 12-month exchange from her home country of England. […]
You’d think the last two weeks of primary school would be spent in a weary tangle of paperchains while waiting for that final bell. But not so at Golden Square. Thanks to a group of volunteer La Trobe education students, the teachers here are seeing out the […]
Design and technology lecturer Simon O’Mallon says this weekend’s Maryborough RACV Energy Breakthrough will once again inspire tomorrow’s teachers. Simon and fellow education lecturer Peter Cox will take ten of their students to Maryborough to help judge some of the 6000-plus competitors set to take to Princes Park in […]
For accounting student Emma Ashworth, choosing a charity to fundraise for as part of her course was one of this year’s easiest uni tasks. It had to be Righteous Pups. The Bendigo-based not-for-profit group trains assistance dogs for at-risk teens and children with autism. “I have a sibling […]
We’ve followed the paper trail up View Street. Relax! It’s not another tax evasion expose. Just a hunt for a lone man with ruler and scalpel. We’re told he’s holed up at the Visual Arts Centre. And sure enough, just outside the studio door, tiny triangles of the […]
She spoke a different language. She was from a different world. But there was no interpretation needed at this moment for photographer Julie Hough and her 83-year-old subject. Julie had been travelling around Myanmar, Burma, with the help of a guide who spoke the local language. “He had […]
If you could peel back the layers of Karen Annett-Thomas’ paintings you might just find gold. Like the fortune seekers that came and turned our landscape upside down, Karen has likewise mined it. Figuratively speaking. “I see the layers of history, time and place, and my paintings are like […]
By La Trobe Writers in Action student JOSH NEWHAM Owen Campbell says for better or worse, he’s always been a nomad. Although he now calls Sydney home, he travels extensively for his music. Like, really extensively. The last time I saw Owen was around the time he appeared on […]
