A photographic series by Charles Sturt University (CSU) graduate Ms Kate Lewis will feature in a new multi media exhibition in Wagga Wagga on the aftermath of natural disasters in regional Australia. Curated by ABC Riverina Open producer, Ms Sonya Gee, the exhibition is a record of the rebuilding process as a result of the devastation from the Black Saturday bushfires, Cyclone Yasi and floods in Queensland and the Riverina, as told by the people who lived through them. The photos by Ms Lewis, a Master of Arts Practice (Photomedia) graduate, feature portraits of State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers in Wagga Wagga. Aftermath: Disaster, Resilience & Recovery will be launched from 2pm on Saturday 25 August in the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Civic Centre, Baylis Street, Wagga Wagga. A five-member panel, including Ms Lewis, will discuss the exhibition and answer questions from the floor from 2.30pm. The exhibition runs until Sunday 14 October 2012.

Ms Kate Lewis works in a Sydney photographic studio, Sun Studios Australia.

Following the recent 75^th anniversary celebrations to mark the formation of the Dubbo chapter of the Aborigines Progressive Association (APA) in 1937, a photographic display of prominent Aboriginal men and women is on show at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Dubbo until 17 December. Mr John Nolan, community relations officer with the CSU Centre for Indigenous Studies in Dubbo, said the exhibition is made available to the University by Dubbo City Council and its Aboriginal liaison officer, Mrs Grace Toomey. “The APA was originally formed in Sydney in 1924, and a Dubbo branch was established at a public meeting on 27 June 1937 in a small cottage in Myall Street, Dubbo North, opposite the school,” Mr Nolan said. “Among those present were William Ferguson, Pearl Gibbs and Jack Patten. At that time, Aboriginal people were under stringent controls by the state government, and many were living on Aboriginal Reserves across NSW, including the Talbragar Reserve just outside Dubbo. Ferguson and Gibbs led a group in the western part of the state, while Patten assembled an alliance of activists in the north-east. Both wings of the APA were involved in political organisation, rallies and protests in Aboriginal communities, reserves and major cities like Sydney, to draw attention to the treatment of Aboriginal people and to the conditions in which they lived.”

Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews with Mr John Nolan. The photographic display of Aboriginal men and women involved with the APA is on show around the internal walkway of the main building at the University, and is open to the public during business hours Monday to Friday.

Building robots and computer games and working on an IT service desk are among the activities high school students will experience at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Wagga Wagga this week. Hosted by the School of Computing and Mathematics at CSU in Wagga Wagga, the students from Years 11 and 12 will attend workshops presented by lecturers, staff of the Division of Information Technology and PhD students from Tuesday 21 August to Thursday 23 August. During IT Work Experience 2012, the students will write computer games, build robots, learn about networking and scripting, undertake roles on the CSU IT service desk and have simulated job interviews. They will also hear about pathway programs into CSU and careers in IT and computing. Lecturer Dr Lihong Zheng from the School of Computing and Mathematics at CSU said, “This program provides local high school students with real life experience as an employee in the IT and computing industry. The students were selected in conjunction with COMPACT, with priority given to HSC students.” The School of Computing and Mathematics at CSU offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in information and communication technology, mathematics and statistics. Read more here.

The workshop, Team Work: Building a robot with sensors, will be held from 9.10am to 12noon on Thursday 23 August in the Jack Cross Centre Network Laboratory, building 15, near car park 3, Darnell Smith Drive, CSU in Wagga Wagga. For further information, contact CSU Media.

 

IT Work Experience 2012 is supported by the School of Computing and Mathematics at CSU in Wagga Wagga and COMPACT, a regional organisation building partnerships between schools, tertiary education and business to encourage young people to reach their full potential.

Public health advocate Mr Tony Kolbe from Charles Sturt University (CSU) has welcomed the High Court’s rejection of a challenge to plain packaging laws in Australia. The High Court today ruled in favour of federal government legislation to put cigarettes in olive green packets without trademarks. The ruling could see the plain packs in retail outlets by December. As Director of the University’s Centre for Inland Health (CIH), Mr Kolbe said, “Not only is this a win for the health of Australians, it sets a welcome precedent for other countries contemplating plain packaging laws. Tobacco companies can no longer use their packaging as a branding tool to sell cigarettes in Australia.” Read more about Mr Kolbe’s views on the High Court challenge by major tobacco companies on CSU News here. The CIH is a research centre at CSU, focussed on improving the health of inland communities. Read more here.

Mr Tony Kolbe is Director of the Centre for Inland Health at CSU in Albury-Wodonga. He is available for interview. Contact CSU Media.

The expansion of courses available at Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) newest campus in Port Macquarie in 2013 will be detailed at a special Information Day on Thursday 23 August.  Four information sessions will be held throughout the day at 27 Grant Street, Port Macquarie from 10am to 8pm. Open to the community, the event will highlight the four new CSU undergraduate degrees available for full-time study, on campus on the Mid North Coast. These include Bachelor degrees in business, paramedics, policing and medical imaging. Read more on course expansion at Port Macquarie on CSU News here. Campus Director in Port Macquarie Dr Muyesser Durur said,” These undergraduate degrees available from 2013 are in addition to the four courses now available in Port Macquarie in conjunction with North Coast TAFE including accounting, creative industries, social work, and health and rehabilitation science. Our lecturers will be on hand throughout the day to talk about our range of courses and where they can lead in terms of employment. Information about the academic and non-academic support available from Charles Sturt University for new students will also be available during the event.” You can register online for one of the four Information Day sessions here or telephone 1800 334 733. Information Day sessions on Thursday 23 August will be held from 10am to 11am; 11am to 12noon; 1pm to 2pm; and 6pm to 8pm.

Campus Director in Port Macquarie Dr Muyesser Durur is available for interview on 02 6582 9333.

 

The first intake of students at CSU in Port Macquarie was in March 2012 with the official opening of the campus in May 2012. Read more about CSU in Port Macquarie on CSU News here.

Further information about the award recipients is available from CSU Media.

You might know him from television but Mr Andrew Daddo will share his experience as a children’s author with literature students at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Wagga Wagga this week.  Mr Daddo has written 18 best-selling books for children and teenagers. As writer-in-residence at the Booranga Writers’ Centre Mr Daddo will read some of his work and answer questions at a public event at the Wagga Wagga City Library on Tuesday 14 August at 5pm. On Thursday 16 August he will also speak to CSU students studying his collection of short stories for teenagers called DACKED!  Senior Lecturer in English from CSU’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences Dr Mark MacLeod said being able to talk with an author directly about their work is a fantastic learning opportunity.  “Regardless of the discipline, we are communicating all day long and while emailing and texting are convenient, they are notoriously bad at conveying the subtleties of language,” he said. “Having a fiction writer on campus is an opportunity for us to learn more about the ways we can use language to communicate our intentions more precisely and to target specific audiences.”

Mr Andrew Daddo will speak to CSU literature students on Thursday 16 August from 1pm to 2pm in lecture theatre 104 in Building 11, near car park 4, off Tooma Way at CSU in Wagga Wagga. Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews.

Emeritus Professor John Dwyer, AO, will deliver a public lecture at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst on Wednesday 5 September in support of the University’s bid to establish a new rural medical school to boost the supply of ‘doctors for the bush’. Professor Dwyer is the founder of the Australian Health Care Reform, and has been working with CSU to establish a medical school in regional areas. He has championed the resurgence of clinician governance in Australia, is involved in efforts to create structural reform within the Australian health care delivery system, and is adamant that health outcomes for rural Australians are just not acceptable in such a wealthy nation. The Head of Campus at CSU in Bathurst, Mr Col Sharp, will host the free public lecture and says, “Bathurst Campus is delighted to host this presentation by Professor Dwyer – a national leader in health care provision, who speaks with authority on health care outcomes for rural Australians. This is a chance for the Bathurst community to hear first hand about the state of rural health care and what needs to be done - from someone who really knows. I urge everyone with an interest in this issue to attend to hear Professor Dwyer and to have their questions answered.” The public lecture will be at 6pm on Wednesday 5 September at the James Hardie Room, Centre for Professional Development at CSU in Bathurst. Refreshments will be served. RSVP by Friday 31 August to Ms Julie Brabham on (02) 6338 4645 or send an email. 

Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews.

 

After completing his higher degree, Professor Dwyer was awarded a scholarship to work in the Department of Immunology at Yale University, USA. During his 15 years at Yale, Professor Dwyer was promoted to Professor of Medicine and Paediatrics and for seven years was Head of the Department of Clinical Immunology at that university. He returned to Australia in 1985 as Professor of Medicine and Head of the School of Medicine at the University of NSW and Director of Medicine for the University’s major teaching hospital, the Prince of Wales in Randwick. At this time, his clinical and research work was dominated by realities associated with the HIV epidemic. He was awarded an Order of Australia in 1991 for his services to medicine.

 

Slip-sliding slapstick action will be centre stage at the Ponton Theatre at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst when the physical theatre production Too Bloody Right hits the boards from Thursday 9 to Saturday 11 August. The production by second-year theatre/media students is directed by Mr Daniel Aubin, lecturer in theatre/media at the CSU School of Communication and Creative Industries in Bathurst. “Too Bloody Right is the outcome of a five-week process, exploring the role of human rights in our modern society through a mixture of acrobatics, table-sliding, ‘mockumentary’, and food puppetry,” Mr Aubin said. “It uses comedy to look at a serious topic. The show is a lot of fun, and features a spectacular table-sliding circus act.” Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for non-students at the door for a 7.30pm start.

Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews with Mr Dan Aubin.