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Outdoor Education students Joel Hodge and Oscar Reeve-Palmer are planning to fulfill another extreme adventure dream thanks to both being awarded The Mob bursary – a scholarship for members of the student club. “Learning we were successful in our application was incredibly exciting,” Oscar says. “It meant the Tassie trip we had been dreaming about... Continue Reading →
This year’s NAIDOC week theme of ‘heal country, heal our nation’ is close to Lachlan Saunders’ heart. The final-year Outdoor Education student is already working to care for country as a Parks and Wildlife Ranger in the Northern Territory, but his studies will pave the way for a career in education, and in turn, real... Continue Reading →
When the Bendigo Campus blog checks in with Leigh Redding, he’s at a turning point. He’s sitting on the high side of the riverbank above the Goulburn, north of Shepparton. He’s surrounded by River Red Gum forest and frog-filled billabongs, contemplating. “At first it felt like good timing in a way,” says the Outdoor Education... 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 →
Five La Trobe University Bendigo students are set to change the lives of 50 women living in a remote Indian village. The students have just returned from a study tour with La Trobe and CERES Global, looking at social, educational, environmental and gender issues in rural tribal villages. Social work students Lauren Drechsler and Jaryd... Continue Reading →
They were paddling on the Murray River one day, world famous the next. We caught up with the co-stars of the koala video-gone-viral to see how they were coping with all the attention. If you haven’t seen the footage of our outdoor education students helping a koala stranded in high water, where have you been?... Continue Reading →
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 camp, 1994. I’m assured this is an... Continue Reading →
Outdoor education graduate Nick Covelli focuses on life’s silver linings; on the break of a wave, the edge of a sunset, in the moments others may deem a downer. Once, when the nature photographer and filmmaker was shooting a commercial for Queensland Tourism, one of his kayaking talents had to be taken to hospital. He... Continue Reading →
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