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Santa
comes
early
to
Bond
Story page 3
December, 2004

A fee-free deal
you can bank on
THE ANZ Bank has put together an exciting new account
package, designed exclusively for Bond staff, students and
alumni.
The Bond Elite package includes a bank account with no monthly
account service fees as well as unlimited fee-free transactions via
ANZ branches, ANZ ATMs, internet banking, phone banking and
EFTPOS transactions.
It will also offer competitive interest rates on account balances,
interest rate discounts of up to 0.6 per cent on home loans, and
special deals on credit card balance transfer rates.
The package comes complete with a debit card, which features an
impressive image of the Bond Arch.
The ANZ recently presented Vice-Chancellor Professor Robert
Stable with a cheque for $15,000 and the University will receive
further sponsorship fees on an annual basis, based on the number of
accounts and average funds held in each account.
The sponsorship money will be used to finance new scholarships
and other activities to reward the Bond community.
International students will have the option of opening their Bond
Elite bank account before leaving their home countries, making
their transition to Australia easier.
The Bond Elite package will only be available to Bond staff,
students and alumni and will not be available through ANZ
branches. All applications must be made through the dedicated
Bond Elite website.
The package will not be available until January 2005, but
interested customers can register now by emailing
bondelite@anz.com to ensure they are notified of any special offers
or to ask any questions about the new package.
Once the Bond Elite Package is up and running, there will be a
dedicated website detailing the products and services available.
* Government taxes may apply. Australia and New Zealand Banking
Group Limited ABN 11 005 357 522. A Product Disclosure Statement will
be available when the product is released or otherwise becomes available in
January 2005 through the dedicated Bond Elite website. ANZ recommends
you read the Product Disclosure Statement before deciding to acquire or hold
the product.
ANZ Bank officials Brandon Stannett and Ray Carter present
Vice-Chancellor Professor Robert Stable with the first
sponsorship cheque for $15,000
COVER PHOTO
Deputy Dean of Health Sciences and Medicine Professor
Debra Henly, the Dean, Professor Chris Del Mar and
Executive Officer Naomi Dwyer celebrate the AMC’s
official approval of Bond’s new Medical Program.
See story, page 3
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The
VC’s
view
.
A Christmas Message
As an international university, Bond has students, staff
and alumni with cultural backgrounds and religions
from all over the world.
Just as you would therefore expect, Christmas has
different meanings within the Bond community.
For me, Christmas is a time for, amongst other things,
reflection on the year that was, for planning for the year
ahead, for thanking colleagues for all their efforts and
commitment in the year gone, and for relaxing with family
and friends.
2004, my first year at Bond, has been a year of many
challenges but even more opportunities. The announcement
that our new medical school has achieved Australian
Medical Council accreditation is a great note on which to
finish the year.
The Australian Universities Quality Audit team report on
its review of our university is due shortly and, whilst we are
expecting some very positive statements, I am confident it
will also provide some opportunities for us to consider.
I offer my best wishes to all members of the Bond
community and my personal thanks to all those who have in
some way supported their university during the year.
There are many staff and volunteers whose commitment
and dedication is inspiring.
My sincere thanks also to the Chancellor and to my fellow
Directors on the University Council for their great and very
willing contribution to the success of the university.
It should be noted that as Vice-Chancellor and President, I
am the only member of the Council to receive any
remuneration.
For those students who have completed their studies in
2004, I hope your association with Bond continues and that
you will always be proud to be a Bondy.
Finally, Vicki and I wish you all a very safe, relaxing and
peaceful Christmas and a very successful 2005.
Professor Robert Stable
Vice-Chancellor and President
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Ready, medi, go!
S ANTA
delivered Bond an early
Christmas present when the
Australian Medical Council
officially approved the University's
application to start a Medical School.
The formal go-ahead was granted in
November after many years of planning and
fine tuning.
The first cohort of 65 Med students will
begin their five-year studies in May and are
expected to graduate in 2010.
Dean of Health Sciences and Medicine,
Professor Chris Del Mar, an international
expert on Evidence Based Medicine, said he
was delighted the AMC had finally approved
the program
"This is absolutely wonderful," he said
when told the good news.
"For the past ten years, a Bond Medical
Faculty has been just a dream.
"Now that dream has become a reality.
"This is the best Christmas present we could
wish for."
Professor Del Mar said the Bond University
Medical Program was designed to produce the
medical leaders of the future.
It would have a strong focus on clinical
exposure for the students, he said.
"We already have in place agreements with
the local hospitals including the Gold Coast,
John Flynn, Allamanda, Robina, Pindara and
Tweed Hospitals whereby our students will
work with practicing doctors dealing with
real-life patients in real-life situations.
"We have also arranged for our students to
THE new Bond University
Medical Program will
concentrate its teaching
on Evidence Based Medicine, a
relatively new concept which
looks certain to change the way
many GPs do business.
Dean of Health Sciences and
Medicine, Professor Chris Del
Mar said the essential difference
between EBM and traditional
methods was that where doctors
strived to understand the
mechanism of an illness to
design its management, EBM
researched which treatment
worked the best empirically.
“For example, we know the
pain and misery of middle ear
infection is caused by a build-up
of bacteria, so doctors normally
treated it with antibiotics aimed
at the bacteria,” he said.
“But EBM looked at what
difference the antibiotics make
An artist’s impression of what the finished Medical School building will look like
get valuable hands-on experience with a
number of local GPs and specialists.
"Our program will have an emphasis on
developing independent doctors who will
also be capable of working as part of a team,"
he said.
"It will include a business and
administration component as well as an IT
subject to ensure our students graduate as
well-rounded professionals with all the skills
they will need to practise medicine in the
modern world."
Professor Del Mar said students who
complete the program would graduate with a
combined Bachelor of Surgery and Medicine
degree after less than five years study.
EBM could change the face of medicine
and found the infection gets
better anyway, with or without
the antibiotics.
“The antibiotics make hardly
any difference.”
The treatment of limb injuries
is another example.
“For generations, doctors
have been immobilising injured
Professor Chris Del Mar
limbs and ordering patients to
rest them,” said Professor Del
Mar.
“But the latest research shows
that keeping the limb active is
literally the best medicine.
“We found that, in every trial
to test this, keeping the limb
active decreased pain, swelling
and stiffness, preserved a greater
range of joint motion and, most
importantly, the patients
recovered faster and returned to
work sooner than patients whose
limbs were immobilised.”
Professor Del Mar said it was
important to find a happy
medium between this new style
of using information and
traditional medical knowledge.
He said the secret to providing
empirical evidence was making
it available to doctors on the
web.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Robert Stable,
who is a qualified medical practitioner and a
former Flying Doctor, said the five-year
course compared favourably with most other
universities where it could take as long as
seven years to graduate with the same
qualifications.
"This means our students can be out in the
workforce earning an income that much
earlier," he said.
"With the major shortage of doctors
throughout Australia, and the rest of the
world, this is of vital importance," he said.
Professor Stable said the ground-breaking,
undergraduate medical program was based on
the world's best teaching techniques.
“Doctors can simply look up a
medical problem on the internet,
and the relevant research will be
available to help them determine
the best treatment.”
Professor Del Mar is a
member of the Cochrane
Collaboration, an international
group of volunteers who have
invested a great deal of time and
effort into synthesising the latest
medical research into an
accessible format for clinicians.
This is compiled into the
Cochrane Library, which can be
freely accessed by all
Australians.
Professor Del Mar said most
clinicians appreciated these
efforts to keep them up to date.
“Evidence Based Medicine
won't replace traditional
knowledge, but it will certainly
enhance it,” he said.
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Study Abroad student Mallory Panuska, 21, is a senior student at Waynesburg College
in Washington. She spent the first semester of 2004 studying at Bond. This edited
account of her experiences ‘down-under’ was published in the Washington Observer on
October 23, 2004.
A semester in Paradise
By Mallory Panuska
THE rewards of the journey
far outweigh the risk of
leaving the harbour.
These words, written by a
fellow study-abroad student I met
during my semester at Bond,
perfectly describe one of the
many significant lessons I learned
from the most amazing
experience I have ever had.
Last January, while my fellow
students prepared for a record
cold winter in Waynesburg, I was
travelling to the other side of the
world to spend three and a half
months in Paradise.
Called ’Oz’ by the other
Americans, probably because of
its uncanny resemblance to the
magical land, the Gold Coast is a
place unlike any other I have ever
been, and the decision to study
there was one of the best I have
ever made.
My study-abroad experience
began when I visited Waynesburg's
international study
department where I borrowed a
thick book which contained a
long list of places to study and a
range of coordinating programs to
apply through.
I discovered Bond, a privately
funded, independent university on
the Gold Coast of Australia.
According to the website
(www.bond.edu.au), Bond graduates
‘are not only able to find
work upon graduation but are
actively sought after by a number
of prestigious national and
international employers and
recruitment agencies’.
I also found out from the
website that study-abroad
students make up roughly half of
the more-than 2000 student
population during the January
and September trimesters, and
that courses in my major were
offered among the wide variety
of study paths.
To me, Bond sounded like the
perfect place to spend the winter.
I sent off for an application,
filled it out, and within a few
days, I was officially accepted to
study-abroad at Bond.
My first major concern was
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where the necessary funds would
come from.
Fortunately, I have a very
generous family which fully
supported my desire to travel, so
what wasn't covered by my
personal savings and student
loans, my parents funded.
Had they not been so generous,
there are a number of studyabroad
scholarships and grants I
could have applied for to cover
the tuition and travel expenses.
experiencing things I never
thought possible, and although I
didn't love every aspect of every
one, I loved that I got the chance
to endure them all.
As well as experiencing life on
a campus completely the opposite
of Waynesburg, which was a
benefit in itself, I got the chance
to travel all over eastern Australia,
meet a variety of interesting,
friendly people from all parts of
the world, broaden my academic
Mallory Panuska found a friend at Crocodile Hunter, Steve
Irwin's Australia Zoo on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast
Upon arrival at Bond, without a horizons, and find out just how
phone, car, immediate Internet much I really loved living in a
access, television, or Australian
currency, I was definitely out of
my element.
Although there were other
Americans in the same situation,
which helped, I was still forced to
become more independent than I
ever thought possible.
Australia forced me to use
public transportation, ask random
questions of strangers, live
without easy access to a
television, eat different types of
food, become accustomed to a
whole new academic situation,
use a different currency, and
tropical climate.
In February, I spent three days
and two nights camping on Fraser
Island, the world's largest sand
island, where I went swimming in
gorgeous fresh water lakes.
In March, I took a trip to the
Whitsunday's where I lived on a
boat for three days, leisurely
sailing around and exploring the
beautiful Great Barrier Reef.
I took weekend road trips
to Byron Bay and Noosa,
two pretty towns only a couple of
hours from Bond which had
accept the cultural and societal beautiful mountains and beaches
differences of a wide variety of unlike anything I have ever seen
people I never even knew existed. in America.
I very quickly found myself Back at Bond, when I wasn't
attending classes, I would lay by
the on-campus pool or go shopping
at one of the nearby outdoor malls.
Nightlife on the Gold Coast is wild,
and many nights were spent with other
Bond students at the bars and clubs of
Surfers Paradise.
And, of course, a trip to Australia
would not be complete without at least
attempting to surf in the massive
waves of the Pacific Ocean, which I
tried once with the help of a friendly
Australian.
I could go on forever describing
everything I saw, did, and learned
from this semester-long voyage.
The point I want to make is simply
that studying abroad was well worth it.
But the only way to truly
understand how advantageous it really
is, is to actually do it.
I could not even begin to describe
how many people told me they were
jealous of what I got to do, but what
they probably don’t realise is that they
could go and do the exact same thing.
It doesn't take a special type of
person to study abroad, and my advice
to anyone who has ever considered it,
is to look into it and do all you can to
make it happen.
The way I saw it, I will have
my whole life after I graduate to work
and establish my professional career.
So why not travel and have fun now
before I take on these much more
stone-set responsibilities?
There are countless places to go
and plenty of programs to apply
through, and as I discovered that one
uneventful winter day during my
sophomore year, it is quite easy to
find them.
It only lasted three and a half
months, but I know I will always
remember my magical trip ‘Down
Under’, to Australia.
I would definitely do it all over
again if given the opportunity.
My Aussie experience taught me
that the rewards of the journey truly
do outweigh the risks of leaving
the harbour.
This valuable lesson is one I
will carry with me for the rest of
my life.

Face that stopped a nation
H ELEN
of Troy had the
face that launched a
thousand ships, but Bond
student Jasmine Lindsay has the
face that stops a nation.
Jasmine, 19, was crowned L’Oreal
of Paris’ official Face That Stops a
Nation during the Melbourne Cup
Spring Racing Carnival at Royal
Flemington in November.
The Commerce student was flown
to Melbourne after winning the
Queensland division of the contest
and spent two weeks of the Cup
Carnival living the high life.
Jasmine and other state finalists
stayed in five-star hotels and were
taken by limousine to the hottest
A-list Cup parties where they were
treated as celebrities.
Each girl had her own L’Oreal
Paris make up artist and a personal
fashion stylist to attend to their
every need.
On Oaks Day, traditionally Ladies
Day, Jasmine was crowned the
winner during Channel Seven’s live
raceday coverage after a poll of
Channel Seven viewers and readers
of New Idea and the News Limited
chain of newspapers voted either by
SMS or by calling a special
telephone vote-line.
VC was shaken, not stirred
V ICE-Chancellor
Professor Robert
Stable and the Dean of the Faculty
of Business, Professor Garry
Marchant, got more than they bargained
for when they flew to Tokyo for the
Business BreakThrough (BBT) MBA
graduation ceremony in October.
“After the ceremony we went out to dinner
with Kenichi Ohmae, the CEO of BBT, and
while we were eating, an earthquake hit
Tokyo and the whole restaurant started
shaking,” said Professor Marchant.
“It was quite scary, but Kenichi, who is
apparently used to such things, simply kept
on eating while Professor Stable and myself
sat there, wide eyed and worried.”
A few hours earlier at the BBT graduation
ceremony, Professor Stable presented
testamurs to a total of 33 MBA graduates,
many of them already senior executives.
The BBT MBA course is specifically
designed for busy Japanese executives who
want to study for their degree but simply can't
take time away from the office.
Many of the students are sponsored by their
employer companies which include Toshiba,
Konika, IBM, telephone giant NTT Docomo,
Sony, Toyota and Mitsubishi.
A spokeswoman for L’Oreal Paris
said Jasmine ‘epitomised every thing
that is the Melbourne Cup’.
“She has style, glamour, class,
energy and excitement.”
As part of her prize, Jasmine won
an all-expenses paid trip for two to
Paris, including spending money, and
a 12-month modelling contract with
L’Oreal Paris.
Her official role for the next 12
months will be to promote the 2005
Spring Carnival as an official
ambassador for the Victorian Racing
Club and Channel Seven.
“I was gobsmacked when I won. I
was up against so many beautiful
women,” said Jasmine
“This is the first contest I have
ever entered, so to win it is amazing.
“It was a weird feeling to be the
centre of all this media attention, but
I think I liked it,” she said.
Jasmine has only one semester to
go before she graduates and is
hoping for a career in television after
she leaves Bond.
“I have already had a couple of
offers,” she said.
As for the trip for two to Paris,
Jasmine is taking her mum. Jasmine Lindsay, the face that stopped a nation
Lectures are filmed at the Bond campus on
the Gold Coast and screened on Japanese
satellite TV and on the internet.
The executive students can then watch
them when they can.
Each week, there are also about two hours
of on-line 'classes' where the students can log
into a virtual classroom and interact with their
lecturers and with the other students.
The students are required to spend two,
two-week periods on Bond's Gold Coast
Campus.
The next BBT graduation ceremony will be
in October 2005.
Kenichi Ohmae, Professor Garry Marchant and Vice-Chancellor Professor Robert
Stable with BBT MBA graduate Yoshiko Chiba
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All the news from BNN
ATEAM of Journalism and Film &
TV students have joined forces to
resurrect and revitalise the on-line
Bond Network News.
News items about Bond, the neighbouring
Varsity Lakes and Gold Coast events which
may interest Bond students, will be streamed
(broadcast) weekly through the Cerum
internet network.
The revitalisation project is the brainchild
of Journalism Masters student Gemma
Hockey who has made it her Special Subject.
“It will benefit both the Bond and the
Varsity Lakes communities, but most
importantly it will give Journalism and Film
and TV students a chance to showcase their
talents,” she said.
“Every student who works on BNN will go
away with a show-reel they can show to
potential employers.”
The weekly program is anchored by Bond Network News anchors, Belinda Kelly and Michael Scanlan on set
students Belinda Kelly and Michael Scanlan interviews, the framing of the shots and the “The reporters’ names and those of the crew
and features a number of reporters including conduct of the interviews.
will also feature in the closing credits.
Journalism students Zoe Sinclair and Tong
“Interviewees aren’t allowed to hold a “We will also contact local clubs and
Tong Li.
microphone. He or she must wear a clip-on organisations to ask them to keep us informed
Gemma oversees the whole project, acting microphone, or the reporter should hold it of any events they feel we should cover.
as both Director and Producer.
for them.”
“And of course there was a wide range of
“We want this to be as professional as we Gemma said Belinda and Michael would vox pops where we interviewed people from
can make it, and we have some very strict remain as anchors indefinitely so the audience all sections of the community.”
rules,” said Gemma.
could become familiar with them.
The initial project calls for only a five week
“For example, there will be a ban on “We also want the audience to recognise the season, but plans are already under way to
swearing and any racial or other prejudices. reporters and a graphic showing the reporter’s make it a permanent and ongoing production.
“Every week we will go over everything name will be used during every interview,” To check out BNN for yourself, log into;
and work on improving the quality of the she said.
http://media.Cerum.com.au/bondnn.htm
Celebrities ‘marooned’ on campus
ASEEMINGLY endless best studios in southern Eric Black and together they
stream of famous Queensland,” he said.
worked out a production plan
stars and celebrities Colin, who heads up the which would benefit both Colin
have been flooding onto the Black Tie Production company, and the Bond Film and
Bond campus during the past came up with the concept of a Television Students.
few months to star in the show featuring celebrities “It is a win win situation all
Brisbane-based TV talk talking about movies last year. round,” said Colin.
show Movie Marooned.
“We get well known stars and Singer Julie Anthony, the first
The program, which is shown famous people to sit in a lounge- choice of major event organisers
on the Briz-31 community room style setting and get them to sing the National Anthem,
channel, is put together in the to talk a bit about themselves was suitably impressed by her
Bond studios, using a number of and about their favourite first visit to the Bond campus.
students in the production team. movies,” he said.
“I love the layout and the
In October, actress Diane “We have already featured fantastic view of the campus as
Cilento, singer Julie Anthony Oscar-winning make-up artist you drive down University
and entertainer Max Bygraves Peter Frampton, opera diva Lisa Drive,” she said.
all turned up on the same day to Gasteen and the president of the
record their respective Australian Medical Association
“I live at Burleigh and I often
segments.
Dr Bill Glasson.
drive past on my way to tennis.
Producer Colin Fitzgerald “And we have lined up singer
“I keep promising myself that
said making the program at Normie Rowe, comedian Lucky
one day I will drop in for a
Bond worked out well for Grills and Premier Peter Beattie much closer look.
everyone involved.
for future shows.”
“Now I’ve actually done it, I Diane Cilento and Julie Anthony
“The students get some real- Once he settled on the must say I love everything I see. chat with producer Colin
Fitzgerald in the Bond studio
world experience and I get to concept, Colin approached the “The sandstone buildings are during the taping of Movie
make my show in one of the head of Bond Media Production especially impressive.”
Marooned
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Meet the new Student Council
The new Student Council; Back row, Ed Brockhoff (Vice President), Por Na Pombejra, Joe Taylor, Chad Burnell, Hermann
Vorster, Morgan Shipp, Adam Fitzgibbons.
Front row; Katja Ullrich, Steph Campi, Michael Bachas (President), Jess Leach, and Michael Scanlan
THE new Bond Student
Council for 2004-5 was
elected and duly sworn
in during October.
The Council includes an
extra member this year, a
Director who will represent
the growing number of
International students.
A 13th director will also be
elected each semester to
represent the interests of
Study Abroad students.
This year’s election
attracted a record 46
candidates and more than 600
students turned out to vote.
The results were announced
in style at the Student Ball
at the Palazzo Versace. (See
pictures, pages 14-15).
The new Vice-President, Ed
Brockhoff, who was also a
member of last year’s council,
said the new Council had a
number of progressive plans
in mind.
“We will try to maintain a
strong relationship with
management to promote the
needs and concerns of all
students,” he said.
“We have a fresh and
enthusiastic team bringing
with them a range of different
ideas and experiences.
“This Student Council will
look to continue our positive
relationship with Senior
Management and to foster
greater communication with
the whole student body.”
New President, Michael
Bachas said the new Council
planned to serve the interests
of Bond students better than
ever before.
“We hope to make Council
more approachable for students
by making the student
portal more inter-active and
by holding regular student
forums and focus groups.”
The new line-up includes:
President; Michael Bachas
Vice-President; Ed Brockhoff
Secretary; Steph Campi
Treasurer; Joe Taylor
Directors: Michael Scanlan
(Academic Affairs), Morgan
Shipp (Campus Life), Adam
Fitzgibbons (Clubs and
Societies), Katja Ullrich
(International Students), Chad
Burnell (Student Support),
Por Na Pombejra (Social),
Hermann Vorster (Promotions),
and Jess Leach
(Publications).
Hackett win was no surprise
I T
surprised no-one when Olympic
gold-medallist and Bond student
Grant Hackett was named Bond
University Sports Association’s
‘Sporting Star of the Year’ at the Bond
University Sports Dinner in October.
Other students to win the prestigious
BUSA awards included; Dave White who
won a Sporting Silk, University Colors went
to Jess McCauley and Samuel Chester, and
Adrian Gepp was awarded a University
Blue. The Golf Club was named Champion
Club and Patrick Barron was recognised for
his Outstanding Service.
The new BUSA management team was
also announced at the dinner.
The new President is Jonas Beard, Stuart
MacDonald is the new Vice-President,
Molly McGhee is Secretary and Sarah
Vuniloaloa is the new Treasurer.
John Curtin was elected Clubs and
Societies Director, Chloe Delaney will look
after Special Interests, Anna Balmer will be
in charge of Special Events, and Samuel
Chester will take care of Promotions.
To contact BUSA, simply drop in to the
Student Council offices on the second floor
of the University Centre between 10am and
2pm Monday to Thursday.
Bond University FOCUS Magazine 7

Alumni News
Alumni News
December 2004
Champagne with Kate Moss and Jude Law
Carla's loving London life
By Phil Teese
COMMUNICATIONS graduate
Carla Tompkins has landed a top
PR job in London, rubbing
shoulders with the likes of Elton John and
sipping champagne with the glitterati
including Jude Law and Kate Moss.
And she is having the time of her life.
Carla, who graduated in February 2004, set
sail for Europe where she took a whirlwind
three week bus tour of the continent before
heading for London and the reality of earning
a living.
“I found some temp work in my second
week in London,” she said.
“I worked as a receptionist for Viscount
Linley's furniture shop, serving people like
Elton John and the Queen's PA.
“It definitely made filing more exciting."
But Carla didn't travel all the way to London
to merely do temp work, and she set about
finding a full time job in PR, the job she
always dreamed of.
“I only had a two-year working visa and a
lot of companies wouldn't even interview me,"
she said.
“They said they were scared of Aussies who
take a job and then go walkabout."
Carla got the break she needed after
emailing all of the Bond alumni in London.
She caught up with fellow Bondie Stephan
Van Rooyan, who is now a rising star with
Rupert Murdoch's News International.
“Stephan's wife works in PR and she
recommended me to Camron PR, a company
she used to work for,” said Carla.
“Camron specialises in interior and fashion
design and they needed a receptionist, so I
took the job, hoping to move up the ladder and
into a PR position.
“Everything somehow went to plan and I
was promoted to press officer within a month."
Carla currently works on some of Camron's
major home interior accounts, including
Christofle, The Conran Shop, Waterford
Crystal, interior designer Tara Bernard's Target
Living and the prestigious Graham & Brown
wallpaper company.
“I have a lot of responsibility, and I liaise
with some of London's top journos from the
Financial Times, The Guardian and The
Times, organizing press loans, interviews,
photo-shoots, media briefings and product
launches," said Carla.
“I work with a great team and an amazing
Marketing Director who is obsessed with
new ideas and design."
Carla said the world of PR comes complete
with some great perks.
“A friend who works on a fashion designer
account had some spare tickets to the recent
London Fashion week - all first and second
row seats of course!" she said.
“We crammed in as many shows as time
allowed and sipped champagne alongside
Kate Moss and Jude Law.
“I tried to be cool, but I couldn't help
breaking my neck to see who was going to
walk through the door next.
“We also had tickets to the Gharani Strok
(fashion designer) after-party where we
drank cocktails and danced all night with
people like Lady Isabella Harvey and the
editors of Vogue and Marie Claire.
“It's a real laugh to have everyone assume
you are someone important."
But the parties didn't end for Carla when
Fashion Week finished.
December, 2004
Carla at the launch of Soho’s newest upmarket restaurant, Yauatcha
Since then she has been invited to a
seemingly endless number of A-list parties
staged by some of the company's more
exciting clients, such as Selfridges, B&B
Italia, Bill Amberg, Marks & Spencer and
Kelly Hoppen.
“You learn more at the parties than you
ever do at the office," said Carla.
“Right now, I can't wait for London's
round of industry Christmas parties to
begin."
But life in London does have one
drawback for Carla.
“When it comes to the weather London
lives up to its cold and miserable reputation,”
she said.
“This coming winter is set to be the coldest
winter ever so I have forbidden all my Bond
friends back home to use the words ‘sun’ and
‘surf’ in all their emails."
Anybody wanting to get in touch with
Carla can email her via Geoff Marsh in the
Career Development Centre at
geoff_marsh@bond.edu.au.
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Monopoly with real money
By Lucy Condimine
“The structure at Bond ensures
AC H I L D H O O D
obsession with
controlling the bank
while playing Monopoly has
not worn off for Chris
Colahan.
you are never doing just one thing
at a time,” he said.
“Having been taught more than
one set of skills made it easy to
pick up the many tasks Westpac
threw at me,” he said.
He is still playing Monopoly,
but these days he is playing with
real money.
Now 23, Chris has cast his net
wider and has accepted a job in
London with Natwest, a
Chris grew up on the Gold
Coast and after spending his high
school years at Marymount
College, he was awarded a halfscholarship
in 1998 to study
Business at Bond.
“The scholarship really got the
ball rolling for me,” he said.
“I got to go to a world class uni
while still staying close to my
family and friends, who have
provided a great support network,”
he said.
After completing his
Commerce/Law degree majoring
in Marketing in 2002, Chris was
accepted into the Westpac
graduates program, a dream start
for any 21 year old with a passion
for banking.
“I couldn’t believe my luck, I
went straight out of university
and into my dream job,” he said.
Chris said Westpac was
Chris has landed a job with the Royal Bank of Scotland
impressed by his ability to During the next two years,
combine theory with real-life Chris worked his way through
workplace skills.
Westpac, moving from sales into
“Uni provided me with all the marketing and then into strategy
text book theory I needed, and and planning.
helped me to use that theory in He firmly believes his ability
the working world through to learn and move quickly
projects and case studies,” through a number of fields is
he said.
down to his time at Bond.
subsidiary of the Royal Bank of
Scotland.
“Natwest is the fifth largest
bank in the world and it will
provide me with a new and
tougher challenge and really test
my skills,” he said.
Chris was also offered a job
with Emirates Airlines in Dubai
as a planning and strategy consultant,
but turned it down
because he wanted to remain in
the banking sector.
“Banking is my true passion
but it was nice to be considered,”
he said.
Chris left for London in
November and began work with
Natwest in December.
“It should be another exciting
journey in my life,” he said.
“The last few years have been
fantastic.”
Law + ice cream = a cool career
By Bree Davies
shuffling and administration work, and I “Long before I was studying law, I had a lot
WHEN Marc Fritzsche graduated didn’t enjoy it very much,” he said.
with his Law degree in 1994, he “I am more of a people person, and I was
never expected to carve out a missing being out there, interacting.”
career selling ice cream.
Marc then joined human resources group,
to do with the food and beverage industry and
the retail food side of things has always
interested me.
“And I like ice cream.
After leaving Bond and working first as a
lawyer and then as a business development
manager, Marc eventually joined ice cream
retailer, Baskin and Robbins and for the
past three years has been the company’s
General Manager.
“I am responsible for importing the ice
cream, looking after the franchises, training
and operational issues.” he said.
Marc began studying at Bond in 1992 and
finished in 1994.
Axil Training as a business development
manager.
“We recognised there were opportunities in
the training field and set out to do something
about it,” he said.
“Training at TAFE was being privatised
and the Government was offering contracts to
private organisations to deliver traineeships
and apprenticeships.”
Axil Training grew quickly during the three
years Marc was with them.
“Baskins had grand plans to expand in
Australia and my background in law, food,
retail and training was ideally suited for the
job they offered me.”
Marc is now responsible for 70 stores
nationwide, and liaising with Baskin Robbins
in the US.
“I make sure the franchises are maintaining
the standards of Baskin Robbins, only selling
approved products and that the employees are
wearing the correct uniforms.
“I really enjoyed studying law,” he said.
“I loved it, especially the debating sessions
in the Moot Court.”
Marc managed to combine his degree with
a clerkship and was able to start practicing
law straight after graduating.
But after nine months, Marc decided being
a lawyer wasn’t for him.
“Working as a solicitor was a lot of paper
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“We expanded the business from three
people to 65, with 2500 trainees and
apprentices,” he said.
But Marc heard other opportunities calling,
and it was time for yet another change.
“I live on the Gold Coast and I was sick of
driving to Brisbane every day,” he said.
“Then I met some people from Baskin and
Robbins, the ice cream company.
“I also fly all over Australia looking at
possible new sites,” he said.
Marc has found his knowledge of the law
complimentary to his work at Baskin
Robbins.
“I can handle some of the legal work
myself, such as the leasing agreements and
contracts, and I also handle some of the
negotiations,” he said.

Alida’s world of fashion
By Kimberley Rice
WORKING in the fashion
industry certainly has its perks,
according to Commerce
graduate and now fashion festival
producer Alida Milani.
Alida travels to all of the world’s fashion
hotspots, including Milan, Paris, London and
Los Angeles to produce fashion shows and
regularly rubs shoulders with celebrities like
fashion designer Helmut Lang and
supermodels Claudia Schiffer and Helena
Christensen.
“I go to a lot of events which is great
fun, and I get to meet lots of different and
interesting people,” she said.
“And sometimes I even get discounts on
designer clothing - but not often.”
Alida admits to having quite a collection
of couture in her wardrobe.
“I do have a lot of designer clothing, but
not as much as I would like,” she said.
“There is always room for more.
“Collette Dinnigan makes a gorgeous
little frock and Nicola Finetti does some
really amazing work, but Scanlan &
Theodore are my all-time favourites and I
have a lot of their stuff at home in my
wardrobe.”
Alida is currently producing the L'Oreal
Melbourne Fashion Festival which will
unveil Australia's Autumn/Winter
collections in March.
“I look after the key stakeholders across
the entire event and I oversee production of
the runway shows,” she said.
Alida also worked as a Show Producer
on Melbourne's Spring Fashion Week
where she brought together all of the
technical and creative aspects.
She chose which designers would get to
showcase their collections, she checked out
the models who would be wearing the
garments, and she worked on the staging.
“I put the overall creative concept
LAW graduate Leah
Campbell has landed
an internship with the
International Criminal Tribunal
in The Hague where she
is helping with the trial of
former Yugoslavia president,
Slobodan Milosevic.
Milosevic was arrested in
2001 and charged with war
crimes and with crimes against
humanity committed in
Kosovo, Croatia and Bosnia
Hersegovina.
Leah is attached to Trial
Chamber III and is working
with Presiding Judge Richard
May, from the UK, Judge
Patrick Robinson, from
Jamaica, and Judge O-Gon
Kwon, from South Korea.
“The case is moving rather
slowly but people here are optimistic
about getting a verdict
very soon,” she said.
“As an intern, I am basically
working for the judges as a type
Alida Milani is enjoying all the lurks and perks of the fashion business
together for the event - in collaboration
with the stylists, of course,” she said.
Alida realised she wanted to pursue a
career in fashion while working in
marketing for a mining company.
“One day I felt a need to change what I was
doing,” she said.
“I suddenly realised there is not enough
colour and movement in the mining industry.
“I had always dreamed of working in
Milan in the fashion industry, so I went to
Milan and started working in a little
showroom there.”
Leah’s helping put a tyrant on trial
of associate, doing research and
preparing documents.”
After graduating from Bond
in February last year, Leah
completed an associateship
with Supreme Court Judge,
Justice Philippides in
Brisbane.
During her time at Bond, she
was a member of the 2000-
2001 Jessup Mooting Team
which won the title, Australian
Champions, and was invited to
Despite her worldly success, the
Commerce graduate still fondly remembers
her time at Bond.
“I was in the very first intake of students,”
she said.
“Everything was all still under
construction when I was there and there was
mud and slush everywhere.
“The fountain outside the Brasserie wasn't
finished and the lake between the residences
wasn’t finished, but I still loved it.”
compete in the international
finals in Washington DC.
Leah was ranked the sixth
best speaker in Australia.
She was also a member of the
2002 Constitutional Law Moot
Team which was named
Australian Champions.
Leah was awarded the prize
for Best Speaker in the Grand
Final.
leahkcampbell@yahoo.com
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alumni
Professor Robert Stable and International Programs Manager Lisa Miller (centre)
caught up with Virgina Aquino, Anders Englund, and Folkie Engholm in Beijing
Laura and Tim Brown at the Sydney function
Tim Brown and Ben Kirkman had to brave a Sydney
rain storm to attend the function
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after hours
Cheers from China and
some smiles from Sydney
VICE-Chancellor, Professor Robert
Stable has just returned from a fact
finding trip to China where he
caught up with a whole bunch of Bond
alumni in Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei and
Hong Kong.
In Sydney, the NSW Alumni Chapter held a
function at the Elevation Bar in the CBD in
October.
More than 100 alumni braved Sydney’s
torrential rains to turn out for a night of
catching up and networking.
The roll-up included students who were in
Bond’s very first intake to the most recent
graduates.
Further functions are being planned, so if
you are an alumni based in NSW, leave your
contact details with either Lara Taylor or Laura
Brown at NSWBondAlumni@hotmail.com
and they will pass on all the relevant details.
Marcus Hill and Duane Cadman were all smiles
Yvonne Hoy, Daniel Jurosich, Duncan Stevens and Larapundi
Dreaming did some serious ‘catching up’

Students hit the town for
Por Na Pombejra and Heather Zabusky
Sarah Bourne and Stuart Floyd
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Larissa Soo, David Radszuweit and Jessica Meyering
Natalah Gorrono, Heather Zabusky and Stuart Macdonald
Annaliese Diedrichs, Matt Ambrose and Tiffany Gregor

a night of thrills and frills
By Jess Leach
TWO hundred and fifty well dressed Bondies
stormed into the Palazzo Versace in October
for the Annual Student Handover Ball.
The Versace's La Medusa Ballroom was equally as well
dressed as the students for the occasion as a jazz band
played just the right sort of music to keep most up on their
feet and dancing.
There was an abundance of food and wine and even the
VC, Professor Robert Stable, his wife, Vicki, and
Registrar Alan Finch were there to keep the party rocking
“It has been such a beautiful evening, full of great
friends, fantastic food and groovy music,” said Law/IR
student Emma Reiss.
The annual ball is the traditional venue for students to
farewell the outgoing Student Council and to welcome in
the new one.
For the outgoing council, Eleanor Donovan (President)
Michael Hoy, Tom McGregor, Diwaka Prakash, Ed
Brockhoff, Lisa Davidson, George Raptis, Rodrigo
Urbano, Mark Dinneen, Jillian Francis and James Perry, it
was a chance to celebrate the success of their term and
reflect on some very happy memories.
Meet the new Student Council, page 7.
Photo by Tory Hirst
Claire Connolly and Emily Pearson
Troy Ferguson and Claire Leabman
Cristie Gillespie and Jasmine Lindsay
Ed Brockhoff, Vice-Chancellor Professor Robert Stable and Sarah Scopel
Michael Bachas, Simone Donoghue and Anna Lyons
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An Eiffel view from the office
IN T E R N A T I O N A L
Relations student James
Perry sits at his desk and
gazes through his office
window at the majestic Eiffel
Tower, only 100 metres away,
trying to hide the smile which
is on his face 24/7.
“To live, work and study in
Paris at the age of 21 is a fantastic
experience and one I will cherish
for the rest of my life.” he says.
“I even live in a traditional
Parisian studio in the centre of
town, life does not get much
better than this.”
With a little help from Bond's
Internship Co-ordinator Nathaly
Etcheto, James landed a three
month internship with the
Australian Embassy in Paris and
spent the last semester of 2004 in
the French capital.
Nathaly had a contact at the
embassy who organised an
introduction to the Senior Trade
Commissioner to France,
Morocco, Belgium, Algeria and
Luxembourg, Ulrich Hartig.
“Ulrich rang me at Bond and
interviewed me for an hour over
the phone,” said James.
“After that epic interview they
offered me the position.”
James was assigned to update
and improve the Embassy's
website, which he did without
supervision.
He impressed his masters so
much they even paid him a salary
James Perry and the view of the Eiffel Tower from his desk at the Australian Embassy in Paris
of 350 euros a month, equal to
about $A700.
“I have been observing closely
the way in which the diplomats
“I have worked at a fashion
show, represented the embassy in
regularly attracts a crowd of
respected international lawyers
“Paris is truly one of the most go about their business.
a tennis tournament against the and diplomats,” he said.
beautiful cities in the world and it
offers an abundance of culture to
all who are lucky enough to earn
the title of 'Parisian' for even a
short time,” said James.
“Each day is a new learning
experience, and I have formed
some great contacts which will
prove invaluable when I
eventually graduate from Bond. ”
James has been mainly
working with Austrade, helping
Australian businesses to secure
export deals, but he has also
gained an insight into the policy
section of the embassy.
“I have experienced the 'art of
diplomacy' at first hand by
liaising and working alongside
senior diplomats.
“It has been fascinating to
watch the ambassador give
speeches to different audiences.
“The language he uses and the
way he charms the audience is
quite amazing.”
Although he is studying French
at the Sorbonne, James initially
had a few problems coming to
terms with the local language.
“Presenting in French at our
weekly staff meetings has
probably been my greatest
challenge,” he said.
“I am acquiring skills I could
never have learned from a
textbook.
“The embassy experience has
included so much more than
Spanish embassy (I lost in
straight sets) and I met the
Wallabies during their Rugby
tour to France.”
The life of an intern also
involves taking part in a wide
variety of weekly social activities
and James is a regular at the
weekly touch rugby matches, he
is learning yoga and on Friday
nights he can be found in the bar
of the embassy pub.
Away from the office, he
spends his time either terrorising
the back streets of Marais on his
rollerblades, or sampling the
many French delicacies served by
the plethora of cafes and
restaurants.
“Not surprisingly, a great deal
“I have also met a lot of
students from all around the
world while studying French at
the Sorbonne.
“More importantly, my French
is slowly progressing to a
respectable level and I get a great
deal of satisfaction talking to
clients in their own language.”
James said his Paris experience
had given him a chance to
evaluate his goals in life.
“I now know that when I
graduate from Bond, I want to go
into foreign affairs,” he said.
“I can say with confidence that
the experience has met all
expectations and I will return to
Bond with a refreshed mind
ready to immerse myself in my
“It is a fascinating aspect of merely helping to promote of my networking has taken place books now that I know what
international relations,” he said. Australia's interests in France. on the touch rugby pitch, which awaits me.”
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Director books into Bond
By Kimberley Rice
WHEN Associate Professor Ingo
Petzke wrote a book about
film director Phillip Noyce, he
repaid the favour by presenting a guest
lecture on the film industry for staff
and students.
Noyce, one of Australia's most
successful filmmakers, provided a
fascinating insight into his star-studded
career and described how Hollywood
came knocking after he directed
the 1989 box office hit Dead Calm,
which starred the then 18-year old
Nicole Kidman.
Noyce said he cast Kidman in Dead
Calm after her performance in the miniseries
Vietnam (1987) made him cry.
"Nicole played Megan Goddard, an
anti-war protester whose brother had
been sent to fight in Vietnam," he said.
"She is shown at a radio station
speaking out against the war and taking
talk-back calls, including one from the
brother she hasn't seen in years.
"I remember bursting into tears at the
way she told the story of her character's
life before that moment."
After moving to Hollywood, Noyce
worked with a number of big-name
stars during his long filmmaking career.
In Patriot Games, the second in a
series of films featuring CIA analyst
Jack Ryan, his leading man was
Harrison Ford.
Noyce said Harrison wasn't the
studio's first choice.
"They originally wanted Alex
Baldwin who had played the role
Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red
October,” he said.
"But Baldwin began making
unreasonable demands on his contract
and the studio heard rumours about his
demanding and uncooperative behaviour
on the set of The Marrying Man
and decided to draw the line.
"So I flew to Wyoming and signed up
Harrison Ford."
While working on the Sum of All
Fears, another install-ment in the Jack
Ryan series, Noyce realised he had had
enough of Hollywood.
He flew back to Australia and began
work on Rabbit-Proof Fence, a screenplay
by Christine Olsen he had read a
few months earlier.
Two weeks later he was deep in
outback Western Australia with a
handy-cam filming the ending to
Rabbit-Proof Fence.
Film and TV student Matt Clayfield interviews Film director, Phillip Noyce
Adam’s winning bit of Krumpet
By David Hudleston
ADAM Elliot, the
Oscar winning
creator of Harvie
Krumpet, is possibly
Australia's most highly
awarded and successful
short filmmaker.
With the prestigious Oscar,
five Australian Film Institute
(AFI) and more than 50 other
awards under his belt, Adam
delighted his audience at
Bond's Cerum Theatre in
October with a philosophical
and humorous presentation.
Mr Elliot said the three
most important elements of
filmmaking were 'script,
script and script'.
He said he wrote 17 drafts
of the Krumpet script before
he was satisfied.
"I write scripts like I am
baking a cake," he said.
"I start with the details and
work backwards."
Mr Elliot said he always
carries a notebook and
records his observations of
life's poignant details.
Those notes provided the
triggers to draw from for
Harvie Krumpet.
"The result was a balance
of comedy, tragedy, humour
and pathos, all written on gut
instinct," he said.
Mr Elliot admitted the
concept of 'playing God' as he
modelled clay figures in this
era of computer animation
seemed a bit incongruous.
"At the end of the day it all
comes down to a wellpolished
script … a good
story well told," he said.
His hard work paid off and
in February he rolled
Hollywood giants Pixar and
Disney to take out the Oscar
Adam Elliot
for the Best Short Animation
with a film based on
social taboos and
underdogs.
The win opened a great
many doors for him and he
was subsequently offered so
much work, he has had only
three days off since his win.
Mr Elliott said if he
This page has been designed and edited by Andrea Stratis
hadn't stumbled into an
animation course at the
Victorian College of the
Arts (VCA) open day back
in 1996, the world may
never have seen Harvie
Krumpet and he would have
been condemned to life as a
suburban picture framer.
After five years selling
hand painted T-shirts at the
St Kilda markets in
Melbourne (of which
Murray the tap dancing dim
sim was the biggest seller),
he decided it was time to do
something different.
He enrolled in a postgraduate
animation course
without a degree, before
settling for a $150, threeweek
adult education course
in picture framing.
His luck changed when
the VCA rang to say there
was a vacancy after one of
the eight animation students
had not accepted.
Like the characters in
his films who rise above
life's misfortunes, Elliot
sums up his philosophy of
life in Harvie Krumpet's
final 'fakt'.
"Life is a bit like a
cigarette,” he said.
“Smoke it to the butt."
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A new view of the arch by night
This impressive photograph of the Bond Arch at night was taken by Image and Photography student Jeton Partini using a
four second exposure. We thought it was so good, we just had to run it.
Theatre group taught about life
By Andrea Stratis
FEDERAL MP Margaret May, who
represents the Gold Coast seat of
McPherson, treated the Bond
University Women’s Network to an
insight into her life as an international aid
worker in the Asia Pacific region.
Mrs May told a packed meeting of the
Network some amazing tales of her four years
in Indonesia and Vanuatu.
Born at Baa, Fiji, Mrs May migrated to
Australia with her family during her school
years but has lived on the Gold Coast with her
husband and three children since 1983.
Although she has a Diploma of Business
Administration, accounting was never an
option for this go-getter whose hands-on
approach to problem solving extended way
beyond balance sheets.
In the late 1970s, she and her young family
moved to North Sumatra.
“Indonesia was very much a developing
country and there was so much poverty and
disease,” she said.
The May family set up home in a
traditional village, or kampong, where Mrs
May quickly immersed herself in essential aid
projects, helping people with a range of
medical problems, ranging from elephantisis
to cholera.
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She soon realised that a country with no
social security or adequate healthcare system
had a somewhat bleak future.
“I have seen children whose limbs were
deliberately broken so they could work as
beggars for their family. It was an incredible
sight,” she said.
“I had to do something, I was wealthy, I
was young and I could work,” she said.
And work she did, throwing herself into
family planning and health projects.
In a country where high birth rates
invariably lead to high mortality rates, she
Gold Coast MP, Margaret May
said family planning was a major concern.
“A group of us put together a theatre group
and produced a play for young people.
“We moved from kampong to kampong,
acting out life's dramas, such as falling in
love, first relationships and first sexual
encounters to explain the fundamentals of
safe sex and family planning to teenage
audiences,” she said.
Mrs May later went to Vanuatu, another
country with high levels of illiteracy where,
as part of a Aussie delegation working on
population and family planning issues, she
continued her human aid and welfare work.
When the family returned to Australia in
1978, Mrs May stepped onto a larger stage to
deliver her message and became a politician.
She won the seat of McPherson for the
Liberal Party in October 1998 and has held it
ever since.
Considering Australia's proximity to the
Asia Pacific region Mrs May said there was a
real need to increase Australia's international
aid budget, which is currently only 0.2% of its
gross domestic product.
“It is our responsibility to ensure
Australia's aid budget continues to grow and
that we continue our commitment in the Asia
Pacific region,” she said.
“We don't realise just how lucky we are.”

Romi’s adventures in Gothenburg
I NTERNATIONAL
Relations and
Communications (Commerce)
student Romi Moore has returned
from an international conference on
environmentalism in Sweden all fired up
and set to start her own International
Networking Club for Bond students.
The go-getter said the club, to be called
Bond INC, was already planning its first
International Conference.
“The event is planned for the second
semester of 2005 and we are now looking for
local businesses and organisations to sponsor
us,” she said.
“We already have a couple of local
businesses who are keen to help with
accommodation and food for the visiting
students, but we need a lot more.”
Romi said the conference would be great
for the Gold Coast and for the local
businesses involved.
The international conferences are held
annually, and students who attend from
around the world are sponsored by local
businesses.
Last year’s conference in Gothenburg
attracted students from Turkey, Japan,
Austria, Italy, Germany, Finland, Norway,
Greece and Australia.
“There was a series of business forums and
visits to local businesses with an emphasis on
promoting international relationships and
business and investment opportunities in the
region,” said Romi.
Romi first heard about the conference
through the Bond Student Council.
The conference was organised by a
network of international clubs based in
universities throughout Europe.
Gothenburg University's School of
Economics and Commercial Law hosted last
By Romi Moore
PO S T G R A D U AT E
Teaching Fellow
Molly Blair has been
awarded the inaugural Early
Career Academics award
allowing her to attend the
annual Journalism Education
Association Conference
in Fiji in December.
The award will cover the
cost of Molly's conference
registration fees, airfares and
accommodation.
“It is a real honour and I am
very excited about going to
Fiji,” said Molly.
The win is Molly's second
official accolade.
In 2002, while still a student,
she won first prize of $2000 in
Romi Moore on board the replica Viking ship, Gotheborg III in Oslo
year’s event, which was called International
Checkpoint Gothenburg.
But Romi said attending the conference
wasn't all hard work.
There was also plenty of time reserved for
fun and games.
“We did a lot of sightseeing, we had an
overnight stay in a health spa, and we
inspected a replica of a Viking sailing ship
which was being built,” she said.
“We also played Swedish drinking games,
we went to a traditional Swedish feast and
there was a fancy dress night where everyone
turned up dressed in Viking helmets,”
she said.
“The feast was a fantastic night and the
entertainment was provided by the
university's clubs.”
If you would like to find out more about the
Gold Coast conference, contact Romi at
romoore@student.bond.edu.au.
Molly wins her second accolade
an Australian Press Council
contest with an essay about the
gratuitous use of race and
ethnicity in the media.
Molly has been teaching
Journalism since she graduated
with her Master of Journalism
in 2003, and currently teaches
Freelance Journalism, Editing
and Publishing, Writing for the
News Media, and Feature
Writing. She also supervises
production of the weekly Bond
Briefs Newsletter.
This year's JEA conference
will be hosted by the
University of the South Pacific
and will be themed 'Media
Literacy in the Pacific and
Asia'.
Molly will present her PhD
paper on Creative Non-Fiction
in the Journalism Curriculum.
Head of Journalism and PhD
supervisor Dr Mark Pearson
will accompany Molly to Fiji
and will present a paper titled
'The Parliament and the Press'
which examines politicians'
attitudes to press freedom.
Since leaving high school,
Molly has worked as an
international flight attendant, a
television writer and editor, a
chef and as a researcher.
“But teaching is by far the
most rewarding and the most
enjoyable,” she said.
“Helping students to
improve their writing skills
is a fantastic way to spend
your life.”
Teaching Fellow Molly Blair
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