Month: September 2012

PhD Candidate Receives Prime Minister’s Award

Griffith Asia Institute
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PhD student receives prestigious Prime Minister’s Award GAI PhD student Neelesh Gounder has been chosen to receive a Prime Minister’s Pacific Australia Award (PMPA). The PMPA program aims to assist nation building and strengthen institutional capacity and leadership in the Pacific, including Papua New Guinea and East Timor. Additionally the program builds abiding people to […]

State Government Budget Comments

Griffith Asia Institute
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Tony Makin criticizes the Newman Governments focus on spending in the 2012 budget. He states that the deep job cuts were not necessary in order to achieve the desired results. Read the whole article from Quest Brisbane East here. You can also listen to a podcast of an interview with 612 ABC tony-makin-12th-sept-2012

Mayer Journal Article Prize 2012

Centre for Governance and Public Policy
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The Mayer Journal Article Prize is awarded to the author(s) of the paper judged to be the best published in the Australian Journal of Political Science in the previous year. The prize is determined by a sub-committee established by the Executive Committee of APSA. For 2012 this prize has been awarded to Professor Andrew O’Neil, […]

Young criminals cost Queensland $130 million

School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Published AuthorNicole Butler
More than 2000 hard-core young criminals have cost Queenslanders more than $130 million in the past decade reports The Courier Mail. The cost of youth crime is exposed in a report by Dr Troy Allard, Ms April Chrzanowski and Professor Anna Stewart. Lecturer Dr Troy Allard oversaw the project which found that there was a […]

Student midwives pushing reform

Griffith Health
Published AuthorHamish Townsend
Hundreds of student midwives from around Australia have descended on Sea World at the Gold Coast where Griffith University is sponsoring Australia’s first student midwifery conference. Featuring keynote speakers from Australia, New Zealand and the UK, the Australian College of Midwives Queensland State Conference will be pushing for reform in the birthing sector and hearing […]

Screening call for genetic heart disease

Features
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“A national Medicare-funded screening program for genetic high cholesterol isurgently required to provide a powerful weapon in the fight against heart disease.” This is the call from Professor Ian Hamilton-Craig, Professor of PreventiveCardiology at Griffith Health Institute, who is working to increase Australianawareness of genetic high cholesterol – otherwise known as familialhypercholesterolemia – and reduce […]