La Trobe University
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Students offer free health checks
A group of first year La Trobe University Bendigo nursing students are currently visiting Castlemaine and surrounds as part of the university’s ‘Healthy Towns’ project. Project coordinator Brad Hodge said Healthy Towns was a community-driven rural health initiative designed to support under-served rural communities while giving university students the chance to develop real-world skills. “Through…
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Work ethic pays off
Bill West Catapulted into the limelight by being selected as the female electrical apprentice of the year for Victoria and Tasmania, Bonnie Saunders is keen to motivate other girls to consider tackling a trade. “From my experience the school education system is still too sexist-orientated at times, though it is improving. I’ve always been willing…
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Mysterious marsupials
La Trobe University researchers have caught on camera one of Victoria’s most elusive and threatened marsupials – revealing there’s more brush-tailed phascogales living in central Victoria than previously thought. The study, recently published in Austral Ecology, used nesting boxes combined with heat-sensing cameras to determine how prevalent the extremely shy, fast-moving creature is in the box-ironbark…