Month: August 2007

If you’re a Year 11 or 12 student who dreams of one day making it as a journalist, Griffith University, The Courier-Mail and Nova 106.9 have teamed up to give you a chance to show us what you can do. It’s your opportunity to get your first byline on couriermail.com.au, do work experience with the […]

The streets of South Bank will come alive to the sounds of high-tech opera when students and staff from the Queensland Conservatorium perform ”iOrpheus: Art Among Us ” on August 31. iOrpheus is the world’s first public opera combining live performance with iPods, mobile phones and laptops played by opera participants and the audience. Based […]

Australia is lagging behind international best practice when it comes to dignity in workplaces, according to two Griffith University industrial relations professors. Griffith Business School professors Greg Bamber and Bob Russell are publishing their research as part of an important book being launched this week. Professor Bamber said he endorsed international calls for an emphasis […]

The first animal law workshop in the southern hemisphere will be held in Brisbane this week. Workshop co-organiser and Griffith law lecturer Steven White said animal law was an area that affected all of us, and was growing in importance. “Animal law looks at how we govern our relationship with animals, including companion and farm […]

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music student won First Prize ($15,000), the Concerto Prize ($5000), the People’s Choice Prize ($5000) and Best Performance of an Australian Work ($1000). She also received a number of performance prizes in Australia and overseas. Second place went to Gold Coast student Roger Cui, also 18- years-old ($5000), third place […]

Leaders from academic, political, community and business organisations will debate the issue that Canberra is taking too much power from the states at a free forum tomorrow, August 29 at Parliament House, Brisbane. Chaired by Griffith Law School Dean Professor Paula Baron, the forum aims to encourage cross-partisan debate of issues important to the Australian […]

Among the global thinkers converging on Brisbane this week will be Griffith University Master of International Business (MIB) student Maxime Kerault. Hundreds of delegates from around the Asia Pacific will come to Brisbane to attend the 2007 Asia Pacific Cities Summit from August 31 — September 3. Maxime was selected as ‘one of the 100 […]