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Forget relaxing in the uni holidays – the last time Bendigo student Leah Rinaldi put her feet up was two weeks ago. “I can tell you exactly where I was,” she says. “I had my feet up, sitting in the armchair at home.” And then she hit ‘create’ on her Facebook page Shop 2 Support... Continue Reading →
Consider Tom Connellan’s first day in an ambulance. The Paramedicine student was stationed in Bendigo when called to a road trauma in Serpentine; a single car rollover and a driver with spinal injuries. “Obviously when you first go to something like that it’s a big thing, and that was my first clinical placement, as a... Continue Reading →
The Arnold Street Milk Bar may have stopped dispensing Choo Choo Bars and Polly Waffles many moons ago, but the place is still sweet as. Three years ago a For Rent sign in the heritage window stopped Bendigo Visual Arts alumna Dr Susan McMinn in her tracks. Susan had spent the previous 12 months looking... Continue Reading →
Sara Al-Rawi does a double take in the coffee queue at Sweeney’s. Jules has just taken her order, joyfully addressing her as “doctor”. Sara says just weeks after officially completing her PhD, she still can’t quite believe it. “I feel like, did I do this?” she says, alluding to a touch of imposter syndrome. But... Continue Reading →
Sophie Cox is a fair way from the family farm in Hay, but she carries with her the hard-working, enterprising, down-to-earth spirit that saw her family establish one of the Riverina’s biggest, most diverse farming enterprises. She’s sitting in the Student Union, with ‘Cox’s Agriculture’ printed on her T-shirt. It’s an everyday reminder she is... Continue Reading →
Do not let the black clothing fool you. Fiona Smith is all colour. That mural she’s standing in front of? That’s her inner world, broken free. That’s the King of Babylon, riding a giraffe. It’s Bendigo’s latest Instagram-worthy work of art, on an historic brick wall of the city's newest bar. “It was all I’d... Continue Reading →
Jamaal Cross is part of the 3.7 per cent of Australian Indigenous people to finish university. And he says if he can do it, anyone can. We’ve met Jamaal at the Bendigo and District Aboriginal Corporation in Prouses Road, where he has worked as a Family Safety Project Officer since finishing his Bachelor of Human... Continue Reading →
Lost Boy. Child Soldier. Refugee. These are the bare facts of Galou Mabior’s life. He needn’t say any more to convey the horrors and challenges of his younger years, but he does. For Galou, it’s important for others to know something of a refugee’s life, to help build on the understanding essential for the peaceful... Continue Reading →
La Trobe alumnus Alex Ellinghausen went from political photographer to paparazzi on the campaign trail this week, jostling with students in a Bill-mania moment. “Bill Shorten was scheduled to visit a girls school on the NSW central coast and was set to address a group of students at the library,” Alex says. “The minute he... Continue Reading →
