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This is Badraa Al-Darkazly. She bears a name from another culture. She knows many countries. Has made a bed in many places. In safety and in fear. In warmth and comfort and on stone cold concrete feeling fearful in the dark. She speaks two languages. And her story lies in both. This week she... Continue Reading →
Ian Tulloch has just raised his own bar. Last week the political commentator and La Trobe honorary associate in politics had an opinion article make The Canberra Times. “That was the first time,” he says. “That’s the paper all the politicians read.” The former Bendigo lecturer is a regular opinion piece contributor to Fairfax newspapers,... Continue Reading →
It’s hard to believe Louis Mott has time for uni. The first-year Bendigo Exercise Science student rattles off a gruelling schedule for 2019, which includes travels to Lithuania, Spain, Marrakesh and closer to home, the Gold Coast. And it’s all in the name of Judo. The martial arts champ is on a roll, pitting his... Continue Reading →
Academics often wonder if their thesis will make it into the hands of those who can learn from their research. Education and Trauma lecturer Anne Southall has perhaps found the most assured way to achieve this. Ten years ago, when she laid out the raw materials of her research into the effects of early childhood... Continue Reading →
It’s always an adventure to find La Trobe's alumni. Rhyll Plant was discovered on paper in this year’s Castlemaine State Festival open studios program, then in person down a dusty, corrugated back road, up and down and around the hills and valleys of old gold ground. She waves us down out the front of Speargrass... Continue Reading →
In the hours prior to this photograph being taken, Sam Croft had walked 15 kilometres through the Mundaring hills beyond Perth. It was around 30 degrees. He was hot, sweaty and had battled grass tree spines, ticks and March flies, and yet, check out that grin. “The smile says it all,” Sam says. He... Continue Reading →
There’s plenty Outdoor Education alumna Maddie Ovens will miss about Antarctica once she leaves today; waking to the sunrise over iceberg alley, hot thermos cuppas by the ocean, the fresh whiff of penguin poo when the wind blows westerly... not to mention the southern lights. “Honestly, everyday has been a highlight,” she says. For the... Continue Reading →
Steve Abbott says he never intended to be a “passenger of the planning system”. Suffice to say he's in the saddle. Riding the bike. Peddling free, going places. Excuse the puns, but we have met at the Handle Bar. It’s the space Steve envisaged with fellow planning alumnus Chris Kelly almost four years ago. Today... Continue Reading →
Danu Ransarani is on her lunch break in Rosalind Park. It’s a place she retreats to most days for the peace and quiet and sense of community; a little microcosm of everything she’s come to love about Bendigo. The graduate accountant from Sri Lanka was studying and living in Melbourne, having quit her job in... Continue Reading →
