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Shania Charvat was in a tutoring session on campus when she received a call from someone sending her a well-timed lifeline for uni. And the first thing she did was hang up on them. She laughs she saw the unknown interstate number and assumed “they were trying to sell me a vacuum cleaner or something”.... Continue Reading →
By Dr Giselle Roberts Paramedic and senior lecturer, Dr Susan Furness, calls them “her people”: the businessman who got hit by a car while crossing the road, the guy in the red shirt who fell off the roof, and the elderly woman who died in her sleep. The golfer who did not finish the last... 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 →
Dr Brett Gordon with PhD researchers Kylie Carra and Stephen Barrett. What can you do in three minutes? Boil a kettle, endure an ad break, sing a pop song. How about explain years of research in an engaging, award-winning summary? That’s what Bendigo’s Stephen Barrett and Kylie Carra have done at the La Trobe Rural... 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 →
If Riley Upton had no idea where a Bachelor of Arts would take him three years ago, he certainly doesn’t now. Even though the 21-year-old stepped into a full-time job the week after submitting his final assignment last year, his immediate future is still up in the air, in the most wonderful of ways. “Honestly,... Continue Reading →
Ella Sprunt has an enviable study spot to retreat to this week. She’s headed back to the family dairy farm at Numurkah for the peace, quiet and glorious space. The Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Medical) student says she couldn’t imagine life any other way, and as such, she’s on a path to return home once... 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 →
