Usually we like to highlight our students, university partners and all things related to travel and Australia. But, just for today, we’re going a little off the board.
Last week, the OzTREKK staff watched this video, and it stuck with us. We realized the video verbalizes our philosophy that every day counts and you only live once, which is exactly why you should experience every opportunity presented your way.
With that, here’s the video that grabbed our attention last week. We hope you enjoy it!
Christmas in Australia hasn’t changed in 50 years.
How do we know that? We’d like to say we got our hands on a time-travel machine, but we wouldn’t want to get into the logistics of our Back to the Future undertakings. Except having a pair of those sweet Marty McFly shoes would roll well at the OzTREKK office.
Film Australia recently released more than 150 videos that were produced between the 1950s and 2008. We came across a video portraying Christmas traditions in Australia. Filmed in 1958, the video captures family gatherings in the bushland and on the beach.
Our favourite part is when the elderly lady is fast asleep in the afternoon sun when visitors arrive (about 6:55). Watch the video for yourself:
Check out their remaining videos, as they outline life in the different cities across the country, including Sydney!
A University of Queensland journalism grad has become a helicopter reporter -now how cool is that?!
Sarah Greenhalgh spent four months working as the traffic reporter for Channel 9’s Today Show, and has recently secured a job at WIN TV Mackay and Whitsundays.
Her 4 a.m. wake-up call as a traffic reporter was tough at times, but she said it was all worth it once she was cruising the skies above Brisbane.
Sarah started work at The Australian Traffic Network at the start of the year while completing the final semester of herUniversity of Queensland journalism degree. On top of reporting for the Today Show and 97.3FM each morning, she was also the traffic reporter for Nova, 4KQ and Hot 91 on the Sunshine Coast in the afternoons.
The busiest times for a traffic reporter are peak morning and peak afternoon, which meant she drove from her Paddington home to the aerodrome at Redcliffe twice a day.
“It was an incredible way to start the day,” she said. “But it was a job that had its highs and lows. In my first two weeks I had to report on a fatal accident and it was difficult to keep the emotion out of my voice.”
But she had her funny moments, too.
“Then there were times when I reported on incidents that were quite funny, like when there was a cow strolling down the East-West Arterial Road the night of the Katy Perry concert – we thought she might have been a big fan who had got a little lost.”
Sarah said she had developed a particular interest in television reporting.
“It wasn’t until 2010 that I decided I wanted to do something in television, and when the chance arose to do a 10-day internship with Channel Nine at the Ekka, I jumped at the opportunity and applied,” she said.
A University of Queensland Canadian student has won a trip to Australia after submitting an entry to a video contest!
The Study in Australia initiative called out to North American students to outline why they would want to go on a trip to Australia, and how studying in Australia has made a life-lasting impression on their educational experience.
Entries were reviewed and the winner was announced last week. Steven Oishi is a Canadian from British Columbia, currently studying at the University of Queensland. Steven’s lyrics about studying in Australia is hilarious and he has a Jack Johnson approach to music – it’s catchy and fun! His video entry ultimately earned him the winning honours.
The University of Sydney‘s top rowers divided the spoils with the University of Melbourne in the latest chapter of the Australian Boat Race on Sunday – one of Australia’s oldest sporting rivalries.
The University of Melbourne‘s women’s eight retained their crown on Melbourne’s Yarra River, comprehensively defeating their University of Sydney counterparts. However, in the men’s race the University of Sydney beat the University of Melbourne by centimetres in a thrilling finale witnessed by hundreds of onlookers at the finish line close to Federation Square.
Under grey skies, the men’s crews swapped the lead several times as they fought the blustery conditions over a 4.2km course through central Melbourne, with Sydney having won the coin toss and chosen to start on the north bank.
Check out the video documenting the finish line (you can see it at 3:15). We got chills!
“It was an absolute dog race the whole way down,” said University of Sydney‘s men’s captain and London Olympics hopeful Nicholas Hudson.
“We didn’t row that well in the first half of the race and they got a bit of a lead on us, but then we hit a great rhythm in the middle and crept back up on them,” added Hudson, an environmental science graduate planning to study for a master’s in project management.
In the women’s race, a strong University of Melbourne outfit featuring several Olympians retained the title they won convincingly in 2010. The young University of Sydney crew drew on the experience in their midst of back-to-back world champion gold-medallist Bronwen Watson in the stroke seat but were out powered by the University of Melbourne eight, captained by Kim Crow, a two-time silver medallist at the world championships.
The University of Melbourne Medical School will celebrate its 150th anniversary with medical memories – having alumni share their experiences when studying at the University of Melbourne Medical School.
The university will bring its 150 years of history together for the 2012 celebrations, and to launch this milestone, the University of Melbourne Medical School has already got the ball rolling.
Guest, who came to Melbourne University in the mid 1930s originally to study science, was persuaded to move into medicine by the renowned anatomist, Frederic Wood Jones, who was Professor of Anatomy at the University of Melbourne Medical School(1930-37).
James Guest talks about his teachers and mentors, the university campus, student activities and much more offering a unique glimpse into the life of the University of Melbourne Medical School in the late 1930s.
Macquarie University hosted a poetry slam, bringing together the best and brightest in the spoken, poetic word.
The 2011 Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor’s Poetry Slam was a lot of rhymes and raps. Hosted by slam expert Miles Merrill, the show featured U.S. Slam stars plus Macquarie University’s own performers.
The $1,000 first prize, sponsored by Macquarie University Village, was won by Adrian Cullen.
Check out the video below to get a glimpse of the event’s success!
(Notice how we didn’t incorporate any rhyming in this blog post? We are proud of ourselves for holding off; and to that, we’ll toast).
She shares the following video which gives interested, and potentially future, students a glimpse into the University of Newcastle Physiotherapy School program! What’s great about Stephanie’s video is you’ll get a first-person perspective on the program and learn about her experiences in the classroom and clinical placements, and where she would like to work once she’s graduated from the University of Newcastle.
Ever since Glee arrived on our television sets, people across the globe have taken the initiative to present to the public with their own rendition of a flash mob – Bond University students included!
A large group of Bond University students arrived at a movie theatre on the Gold Coast last month, surprising moviergoers with their own performance before the big screen lit up.
The University of Newcastle welcomed Canadian Titanic Expert, Dr. Roy Cullimore, to its campus earlier this month.
No, he wasn’t talking about the cultural influences of Jack and Rose (can you believe that movie was released 14 years ago?!).
Dr. Cullimore, originally from OxFord, England, is a corrosion specialist involved in the study of the Titanic wreck and he spoke about biological deterioration at the University of Newcastle. He discussed microbiological influences including the latest testing technology and the durability of carbon, water and iron on structures.
Dr. Cullimore is the founder and president of the Canadian company, Droycon Bioconcepts, and former lecturer at the University of Surry, UK and University of Regina here in Canada.
Since 1991, Dr. Cullimore has dived the Titanic wreck many times to determine the rates at which its iron frame is broken down through biological activity.
Dr. Cullimore’s ongoing research centres on the deterioration of various deep sea wrecks and the effects of micro-organisms on creating rusticles (rusty masses of growing concrete), water wells and other forms of corrosion.
He was visiting Australia at the invitation of the Australasian Corrosion Association, the Centre for Infrastructure, Performance and Reliability and the University of Newcastle.
Check out this video of Dr. Cullimore talking about the Titanic Rusticles:
University of Newcastle Welcomed Canadian Titanic Expert
The University of Newcastle welcomed Canadian Titanic Expert, Dr. Roy Cullimore, to its campus earlier this month.
No, he wasn’t talking about the cultural influences of Jack and Rose (can you believe that movie was released 14 years ago?!).
Dr. Cullimore, originally from OxFord, England, is a corrosion specialist involved in the study of the Titanic wreck and he spoke about biological deterioration at the University of Newcastle. He discussed microbiological influences including the latest testing technology and the durability of carbon, water and iron on structures.
Dr Cullimore is the founder and president of Canadian company Droycon Bioconcepts and former lecturer at the University of Surry, UK and University of Regina here in Canada.
Since 1991, Dr. Cullimore has dived the Titanic wreck many times to determine the rates at which its iron frame is broken down through biological activity.
Dr Cullimore’s ongoing research centres on the deterioration of various deep sea wrecks and the effects of micro-organisms on creating rusticles (rusty masses of growing concrete), water wells and other forms of corrosion.
He was visiting Australia at the invitation of the Australasian Corrosion Association, the Centre for Infrastructure, Performance and Reliability and the University of Newcastle.
