Even in her first career as a woolclasser, Master of Teaching (Secondary) graduate Rebecca Iliffe was drawn to education. After her start in shearing sheds, she was soon providing wool education to international processors, and helping farmers and producers grow...
Growing up, Calliden Hunter wanted to be a national park. Unsurprisingly, that hasn’t come to pass, but the University Medal winner has spent his successful UNE Theatre and Performance Honours year exploring what it means to be part of the environment. Calliden –...
“I think I’m like a long-distance runner who finishes their race after dark, after the marquees are packed up and everyone else has gone home.” When Sue Smith started her university studies in her early forties, not only did she feel that she had long missed the...
In 2016 and 2018, three refugees detained in offshore detention centres by Australia successfully argued Australia had failed in its duty of care when they were refused access to the mainland for essential medical care. The Medevac law was introduced in...
What happens when those tasked with protecting international human rights are those who abuse them? When UNE PhD student Simona Lisa Strungaru delves into her PhD research, she’ll be uncovering harrowing incidents of abuses of power on UN peacekeeping...
Meet Graham McBride, well-travelled artist and judge on the Rural Crime and Law Photo Competition. Graham is lending his expertise and keen understanding of life in rural Australia to the competition, and he was nice enough to tell us his story. The traveller and...
A UNE School of Education team has received top marks for a toolkit to support Victoria’s teachers of high-ability students. So much so, that they’re now providing professional learning to the teachers as well. The team of Professor Sue Gregory, Associate Professor...
Image: UNE PhD student Francesca Brady with Ocean Park, Cox Plate winner, in 2014. Francesca will share her experiences in the horseracing industry over a 35-year career in a memoir for her PhD research project. The picture of horseracing has undergone...
To stay the same or to change things up? COVID-19 has sometimes left early childhood services little choice but to change rapidly, in order to stay open throughout the pandemic as an ‘essential service’. With the ever-evolving situation of the COVID-19...
The smallest specks can harbour the biggest secrets. After three years of toil in the soil, Dr Richard Tuffin, UNE Archaeology postdoctoral research fellow, is teasing the long-held secrets from the metal deposits of 90 soil samples from Port Arthur, to...
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