Two Griffith film students have secured a rare opportunity to intern with Australia’s largest and most experienced television production and broadcast services provider, NEP Australia, during the world’s biggest sports and cultural event — the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Chelsea Lahra and Rachel Shapiro are Bachelor of Film and Screen Media Production students with Griffith Film School, and will work side by side with some of the best professionals the television industry has to offer during a two-week placement in Sydney, assisting with the Seven Network’s coverage of the Games.
The internship marks the start of an opportunity which will only build as the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games – set tobe broadcast to a global audience of more than 1.5 billion people – draws closer.
Announced today at the new NEP offices in Bundall by Commonwealth Games Minister StirlingHinchliffe, the internships will offer a “tremendous opportunity for Queensland and for the local students to be part of this broadcast experience and to build their skills”.
Chelsea, a media assistant, said she is hoping to “absorb and learn as much about the industry as possible to fulfil my dream of owning my own production company”.
“I will be supporting the production and broadcast operational team to deliver first class content across multiple platforms for Channel Seven’s coverage of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games,” she said.
Rachel said it was an amazing opportunity, and she could not wait to take up the internship, which starts in August.
“I am excited that this internship will enable me to make contacts and gain experience so that one day I can achieve my ultimate goal of working in the sound department of a television network.”
Gerry O’Leary, Rachel Shapiro, Professor Paul Mazerolle and Chelsea Lahra at the announcement.
A lifetime passion for the industry
Both students have a long standing passion for film and television, with Rachel experimenting with sound in film since she was in high school and Chelsea receiving her first camera at just five years old.
“My parents noticed that I had an eye for taking photos so they encouraged me to develop my understanding and passion for photography from a young age, which then evolved into moving image,” Chelsea said.
“I had originally planned to study in Melbourne but something told me I had made the wrong decision and I changed to enrol at Griffith Film School. It’s the best decision I have ever made.”
NEP approached Griffith Film School to help source qualified applicants for this unique internship earlier in 2016. As Host Broadcaster of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, NEP Australia — supported by the Seven Network and Sunset+Vine — will provide television broadcast training for over 200 students from Queensland in the lead up to the 2018 Games.
Stand-out candidates
Griffith Film School senior lecturer Richard Fabb said Chelsea and Rachel were very impressive students who would gain invaluable experience through this internship.
“This is a very rare opportunity to work with NEP, a global player in broadcasting, on the biggest sports and cultural event in the world,” he said.
“We are delighted that Chelsea and Rachel will be representing Griffith Film School.”
Gerry O’Leary, head of NEP Australia’s Host Broadcast Training Program, said Chelsea and Rachel were stand-out candidates.
“They displayed passion for the opportunity and a love of sport,” she said.
“Both are smart, creative and will be great assets to the team working on both Seven’s Rio coverage and the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.”
Saul Shtein, Head of Sport for Seven, agrees.
“We are delighted to welcome Chelsea and Rachel to our team. We are sure they’ll make a strong contribution and are pleased to be able to play a role in helping them build their careers in media,” he said.
Regional approaches are often presented as a promising approach to the protection of refugees and the search for durable solutions. The international organisation mandated to support refugees, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has often advocated for and been closely involved in regional arrangements for protection of refugees. Penelope Mathew and Tristan Harley take a closer look at the issue.
Significantly, regional arrangements may offer the prospect that responsibility for refugee protection and solutions will be equitably shared among participants in the arrangement, whether by hosting refugees, financing refugee protection or sharing other resources such as expertise. Importantly, sharing responsibility for refugees equitably among states will benefit states as well as refugees. Although refugees are often perceived as a burden, studies have shown that refugees contribute to their host societies and this is true in developing as well as developed countries. Refugees may complement rather than displace citizen workers, for example.
Firm standards for responsibility-sharing have not been agreed at the universal level. The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees has laid down an important precept concerning responsibility for refugees — that we do not return refugees to a place of persecution for, as the framers recognized, to return a refugee would be tantamount to delivering him or her into the hands of the persecutors. This has gradually evolved to a recognition in other treaties that people should not be returned to irreparable harm. However, an attempt to secure a binding provision in the 1951 Convention concerning refugee admission according to quotas failed. The Convention merely refers in its preamble to the need to share responsibility.
Will regionalism necessarily lead to more responsibility-sharing, and is it effective as a model for refugee protection?
Drawing on Louise Fawcett1, regionalism should be understood as the promotion of common goals among a group of states that are more than mere neighbours and constitute an imagined community, or share certain patterns of behavior or a geographical relationship and a degree of mutual independence. Regional approaches to refugee protection are thought to be appropriate because refugee movements are frequently regional in location and impact. As regional actors are more directly affected by the challenges surrounding refugee movements, they are more interested and, perhaps, more capable of understanding and therefore responding to refugees’ needs.
Regional groups may be more likely to reach agreement given their smaller size and the potential for shared history and culture as compared with universal organisations, which may be subject to polarization and gridlock.
In the period immediately following the Second World War, universal institutions and approaches to the world’s problems were often favoured. Although regional institutions such as the Council of Europe were established, regionalism was often seen as either a stepping-stone or an obstacle to the grand goal of universal action. In some ways, however, refugee protection has always had a regional element. The 1951 Refugee Convention was originally temporally restricted to those refugees fleeing events prior to January 1, 1951 (the Second World War and its aftermath, particularly the division of Europe into East and West), and states parties had the option to limit their obligations to refugees fleeing Europe. This limited regional focus reflected the assumption that a legal response to refugee flows would not be required on an ongoing basis. With the adoption of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it was hoped that conflicts and human rights abuses would not continue in the second half of the twentieth century or beyond. It was only in 1967, that the temporal and geographical limitations to the Refugee Convention were removed via the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees.
It is clear today that the international refugee law system has not been able to adequately protect all those seeking and in need of asylum, with two major regions — Asia and the Middle East — largely remaining outside the universal instruments and offering important, but limited and tenuous protection to refugees. Examples of this are so obvious that they barely require further explanation, with the crisis in Syria being the example par excellence. It is staggering to think that there are currently almost 20 million refugees globally, and that most of the responsibility of hosting refugees is borne by developing countries least able to provide the protection required.
If we truly value the preservation of human dignity, then something more needs to be done.
It is in this environment that regional approaches are being promoted as a way forward. The optimism about regional approaches is arguably based on positive experience. Since the development of the Refugee Convention in 1951, regional refugee law has largely augmented the protection provided to refugees, rather than diminished it. This can be seen in the regional definitions of a refugee in Africa and Latin America, which supplement the international definition by incorporating refugees fleeing generalised violence. It can also be seen in so-called regional arrangements such as the Comprehensive Plan of Action for Indochinese Refugees, which, despite flaws in refugee status determination and restrictions on the liberty and freedom of movement for refugees and asylum seekers in Southeast Asian countries, provided protection to hundreds of thousands of refugees. Under this arrangement, countries in the region such as Hong Kong, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia agreed to provide temporary protection to refugees in return for long-term resettlement places being offered in developed countries such as the USA, Canada and Australia. Critically, this agreement involved countries within the immediately impacted region, and those beyond it.
When one probes a little deeper, it is clear that regional approaches are not always beneficial to refugees, and not always beneficial to the states involved. Australia’s pursuit of a regional deterrence framework, where refugees are effectively shut out of seeking asylum and shunted offshore to other states in the region, is particularly disturbing, not only for its clear violations of international law and appalling impact on the refugees themselves, but also for the ways in which these regressive approaches may spread to and impact on other parts of the globe.
Europe’s great regionalist project has done little to support the mass numbers of Syrian refugees on the other side of the Mediterranean. As European states tussle as to whether they should work together to collectively support refugees, unilaterally shut them out or collectively seek to contain them in countries of first asylum, millions of refugees continue to live in precarious positions and many risk the perilous journeys by boat and other means to Europe. Countries such as Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt have unfairly been required to take the lion’s share of responsibility, for no other reason than geographical proximity.
A comparative analysis of the historical and current regional approaches to refugee protection reveals that there are some merits in pursuing regional courses of action. Regional arrangements have often been great testing grounds for the development of protection initiatives, such as the linkage between refugee aid and development and the implementation of alternative, safer migration paths such as labour mobility programs or the unlocking of resettlement places. They have also been successful at times in generating greater protection outcomes for refugees than perhaps would have been possible otherwise. However, regional approaches are not the only solution and they need to be treated cautiously. Regional approaches are susceptible to gridlock and manipulation from governments perceiving sovereignty, citizens’ interests or their own re-election prospects as incompatible with receiving and protecting refugees. Regional approaches are sometimes used by states to shift rather than share responsibility for refugees.
In the context of climate change negotiations, Robyn Eckersley2 has argued that perhaps a workable approach brings to the table the most capable, the most responsible and the most vulnerable states to address the particular situation. When dealing with refugee protection, this would likely involve those countries receiving large numbers of refugees at their borders as the most vulnerable, and states with greater economic strength and institutional and technical knowledge as the most capable. States that are most responsible for the situation may include the refugees’ countries of origin, whose cooperation may be essential to finding a solution for the root cause of refugee movements, but which cannot participate in protection or solutions other than refugee repatriation. They also include states responsible due to acts of foreign aggression, colonial enterprise, or other factors contributing to the displacement, which on occasion may agree to accept greater responsibility for refugee protection.
If we are truly willing to find solutions that equitably share the responsibility for financing and hosting refugees, then it may be that this form of cooperation, which suggests a degree of inter-regional cooperation between the Global North and the Global South, is a better approach than a purely regional approach. The critical question is how to shift developed states’ preference for deterrence and containment — what Matthew Gibney3 has called ‘engineered regionalism’ whereby the North simply keeps the South out.
1 Louise Fawcett is Professor of International Relations at Oxford University 2 Robyn Eckersley is Head of Political Science at University of Melbourne 3 Matthew Gibney is Elizabeth Colson Professor of Politics and Forced Migration at Oxford University
Penelope Mathew is Professor and Dean of Law at Griffith Law School and Tristan Harley is Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia. Their new book published by Edward ElgarRefugees, Regionalism and Responsibility is out in July.
The Yugambeh Museum Youth Choir, established by Griffith Arts Research candidate Candace Kruger, has been named the winner of the Queensland Reconciliation Awards — Communities Division.
The Queensland Reconciliation Awards recognise the businesses, partnerships and community organisations fostering reconciliation across the state.
After a successful teaching career, Ms Kruger resigned from classroom music teaching to focus on the development of choral pieces for the Yugambeh Museum while undertaking a Master of Arts Research, In the Bora Ring: Yugambeh Language and Song Project.
Ms Kruger formed the choir on the Gold Coast in 2014 – the first youth Indigenous choir of it’s kind.
“The choir have performed at community and corporate events including Commonwealth Day 2016, the launch of National Reconciliation Week 2015 and the 2015 NRL Indigenous All Stars Match,” she said.
“I have witnessed choir participants discover extended family and how they fit within cultural family groups, understand and learn language through song and begin to connect to an identity that they hadn’t previously understood, particularly the youth who are in foster care.” Ms Kruger said.
A passionate musician and teacher, Ms Kruger’s community work is integrated in to her proposed research through Griffith’s School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, exploring how participation in a community choir supports the development of Aboriginal language skills and cultural identity in urban Aboriginal youth.
For more information about the choir or to book a performance at your next event, contact the Museum on 3807 6155 or email [email protected].
L-R: Curtis Pitt MP – Queensland Treasurer, Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships and Minister for Sport, Candace Kruger – Creative Consultant Yugambeh Museum/Choirmaster Yugambeh Museum Youth Choir, Christopher Levinge – Kombumerri Corporation for Culture President and Philip Noble – Chief Executive Queensland Treasury Corporation.
Griffith University academics have contributed to media analysis throughout the 2016 Federal Election campaign, since Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called a double dissolution election in May.
Our experts have unpacked policy announcements and funding commitments, ranging from tax reform to water management, from youth employment to the impact of pledges to build a new sports stadium in northern Queensland.
Political scientists at Griffith Business School and the School of Humanities have monitored key marginal seats in Queensland, the progress of minority parties and the leadership traits of Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten.
Researchers from the Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith Climate Change Response Program, Menzies Health Institute, School of Environment, Cities Research Centre, Griffith Institute for Tourism, School of Education and Professional Services and Griffith Law School have considered likely impacts if election promises come to fruition.
Griffith in the Media
Professor Anne Tiernan, Director, Policy Innovation Hub
“With two-and-a-half weeks of campaigning to go, there doesn’t appear to be the kind of mood for change that usually accompanies big swings in Queensland.”
Dr Paul Williams, School of Humanities
The Australian
“The PUP supporters from the 2013 election came from both the major parties; they were angry, it was a pox on both houses, and they are unlikely to go back at this election with the current leadership.”
Dr Katherine Hunt, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics
“Young people are looking for some kind of concrete recognition of their value to society and something that could bring them into the political process. But there is nothing in the leadership of any of the major political parties that is giving them something to engage with the process.
Professor Patrick Weller, School of Government and International Relations
“Whether you reduce corporate tax by one percentage point isn’t the definition of class war. This stuff about a supposed class war always comes out when anyone talks about taxes on business.”
Professor Christine Smith, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics
“These pledges (to fund a new stadium in Townsville) will have an ‘announcement effect’ that will be felt in a community where there has been a recent mood of doom and gloom.”
Professor Stuart Bunn, Australian Rivers Institute
“Tackling issues like sediment delivery to the Great Barrier Reef requires a much more focused and targeted investment.”
Dr Tracey Arklay, School of Government and International Relations
612 ABC (Weekends)
“Drawing Tony Abbott into the marginal seats campaign to energise the party faithful and secure crucial primary votes is a really high risk strategy for Malcolm Turnbull and the Coalition.”
Dr Duncan McDonnell, School of Government and International Relations
“I’d be surprised if they (Australian Liberty Alliance) got somebody over the line.”
Professor Fabrizio Carmignani, Head of Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics
ABC Gold Coast (Breakfast)
“I believe that the budget will be the core issue that will be discussed during the campaign and to answer the question what must be done to transform the Australian economy after mining boom.”
Jenny Menzies, Centre for Governance and Public Policy
“A looming decision on weekend penalty rates presents problems for both major parties in the lead-up to Australia’s federal election.”
Professor Noel Scott, Deputy Director, Griffith Institute for Tourism
ABC Gold Coast (Mornings)
“A change of approach is needed for the Chinese touristmarket and other Asian markets. It requires a rethink about what the customer wants.”
Griffith University experts in climate change and information managementare helping Pacific island countries and territories to discover and managethe information they need to plan for climate change.
While a number of projects are under way in the region to mitigate the effects of rising sea levels, finding the information to decide which of them will deliver the best value and ensure that they can stand up to future climates has just become easier thanks to the Pacific iCLIM project.
The project, which is supported by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Government Partnerships for Development program, is being implemented by Griffith University in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).
The Pacific iCLIM project is working in a number of areas to increase the availability of climate change information to Pacific decision makers.
The project involves upskilling local agencies in information-management practices and creating web-based systems to share and find climate change resources across the region.
The launch of the upgraded Pacific Climate Change Portal in Apia, Samoa, on June 17, 2016, will be an important step forward for climate change planning in the region.
The portal already contains more than 1000 data sets and documents relevant to climate change in the Pacific and this number will grow as more material is added and shared throughout the region.
“Climate change is a regional problem,” said Dr Netatua Pelesikoti, Director of Climate Change at SPREP.
“By working together Pacific island countries and territories will be better able to respond to climate change.
“This upgraded portal puts climate change information at people’s fingertips, which will support better decision making.”
Small island developing states throughout the Pacific are already feeling the brunt of climate change, even though the region only produces 0.03% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Adaptation projects, such as moving or upgrading critical infrastructure and developing more resilient crops, are essential to enabling Pacific island countries and territories to reach their development goals while coping with a rapidly changing climate.
“At a global level, Australia is a leader in data management, so utilizing this knowledge to help address critical issues such as climate change has been welcomed throughout the Pacific region,” said Professor Brendan Mackey, Director of Griffith Climate Change Response Program at Griffith University.
“An important part of this project has been tailoring our knowledge and expertise to develop solutions that suit the needs of Pacific Island countries and territories.
“Working closely with the SPREP and governments in Vanuatu, Tonga and Fiji has been really important to ensure that the Pacific Climate Change Portal can support adaptation and resilience planning at both the national and regional level.”
Scott Morrison’s first budget followed swiftly by Malcolm Turnbull’s double-dissolution election have sharpened public interest in issues like superannuation, negative gearing and tax thresholds like never before.
The sustained focus on matters of money during the election campaign has also brought to the fore the challenges Australians face in gaining and maintaining an understanding of the complexities of personal finance.
Perhaps at no time before have the skills and services of financial planning been more called upon.
“Personal finances are increasingly complex. There is a myriad of financial products on offer, differing tax treatment and increasing responsibility for one’s own retirement income.”
“Financial planning is a complex area, and requires planners to have a broad range of skills to successfully navigate their clients to a successful outcome.”
However, as those clients look to the future, they do so with an eye on the recent past and a decade where concerns about educational levels of financial planners, conflicts of interest and substantial losses due to the GFC have hindered the sector’s progress.
This client-planner relationship is the focus of new research at Griffith Business School.
“Financial planners are seen as a critical element in ensuring the financial security and success of many Australians,” Dr Hunt says. “However, what attributes contribute to an effective working relationship between financial planners and their clients, and is there a connection with successful planning?”
“We know little about what factors lead to good working relationships between financial planners and their clients.”
The research, which is supported by the Financial Planning Association, will also investigate if these factors have altered since 2009, with the financial planning sector affected by government reforms and continuing uncertainty with the global financial markets during this time.
“This research is important as it will bring to light whether such things as trust, education and empowerment are important to financial planning relationship — or whether it is just about the dollars achieved.”
If you would like to participate in this research, Griffith University is inviting both financial planners and their clients to undertake a short 15 minute online survey, which is anonymous. To undertake this confidential survey, click here.
For any queries about this research project contact Dr Katherine Hunt at [email protected] or on (07) 555 27789.
The Banking University of Ho Chi Minh City (BUH) visited Griffith Nathan campus on Tuesday 14 June 2016. The visit saw discussions centre on collaborations with Griffith Business School (GBS). As one of the top three banking and finance universities in Vietnam, BUH is an important partner for GBS.
BUH delegation leader, Mr Tan Phat Le, President, Student Services, was keen to point out that BUH lecturers and students are very interested in international cooperation with Griffith University.
During the meeting Professor Peter Best, Discipline Head of Accounting, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, spoke about Griffith’s Bachelor Commerce Accounting major. Professor Best gave a detailed explanation regarding articulation opportunities for BUH students within the Bachelor of Commerce. These include an embedded pathway to CPA Australia Associate Membership, and exemptions from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Fundamental Level exams. Professor Best mentioned that both these qualifications are recognised throughout the world.
“Graduates can then return to Vietnam to complete their CPA or ACCA Professional Level exams”, Professor Best said.
With 129 countries currently being represented at Griffith, Vietnamese students rank eighth, demonstrating the importance of this region and in particular, this partnership in Griffith’s overall commitment to Asian engagement. Griffith now has a wide range of rich and diverse connections with Asia across many of its academic disciplines, engaging students and staff on all of its campuses.
A study targeting older men with low bone mass expects to see big improvements in bone and muscle strength without the need for drugs, say Griffith University researchers.
The Gold Coast study is examining whether high-load resistance training is a safe and effective strategy for improving bone and muscle strength in men over 50, aiding in the fight against osteoporosis.It follows a similar resistance training study in post-menopausal women.
Twenty-fiveper cent of people sustaining an osteoporotic hip fracture will die within a year and increased mortality risk persists for 10 years.
The study follows a story in the New York Times which claims that millions of Americans suffering from osteoporosis are riskingdebilitating fractures from weakened bones, because they’re terrified of exceedingly rare side effects from drugs that can help them.
“Although there are drugs available to improve bone strength, we have already shown with our women’s group that improvements can be made without the use of drugs by undertaking high-load resistance exercise training,” says lead researcher Professor Belinda Beck from Griffith’s Menzies Health Institute Queensland.
“We had some fantastic results with our women’s group who showed significant increases in bone strength as a result of the prescribed exercises and we are confident of replicating this now in our men.”
Lifting intervention
Called LIFTMOR-M (Lifting Intervention for Training Muscle and Osteoporosis Rehabilitation-for Men), the study is recruiting around 100 healthy men aged over 50 with low bone mass.
The men are being randomly assigned to either a high-load resistance training program or a high-load isometric training program on a novel device specifically designed to enhance bone health.
The LIFTMOR-M program takes 30 minutes twice a week for eight months, with participants undertaking a small number of exercises of gradually increasing intensity under full supervision.
All study participants receive free scans at the beginning and end of the study to assess changes in bone mass and muscle strength.
“People wrongly think that osteoporosis only affects women but the reality is that one in five men will also suffer an osteoporotic fracture over the age of 60. Unfortunately men are diagnosed much less frequently than women and are treated even more rarely,” says Professor Beck.
“The irony is that men suffer a greater loss of independence and are at higher risk of death following an osteoporotic fracture. Our goal is to provide the evidence for an effective therapy for men.”
Within 10years it is estimated that 6.2 million Australians over the age of 50 will suffer from osteoporosis or osteopenia and one fracture will occur every 2.9 minutes. The estimated cost of caring for those fractures will be $33.6 billion.
ï‚· For more information on the LIFTMOR for men study, please contact Amy Harding on 0410 616 596
Griffith Business School (GBS) students will take to the high seas next year aboard a luxury cruise liner for a 12-day South Pacific experience to study first-hand key aspects of the booming cruise industry.
According to Professor Weaver, the course will be among the first of its kind for an Australian university by delivering most of the lectures and seminars on board a cruise ship during a 12-day South Pacific cruise.
“This is really exciting because the students get to experience the cruise industry directly as a consumer, and at the same time they also get vital exposure to the production of the contemporary cruise experience,” said Professor Weaver.
He is expecting 24 students to sign up for the Cruise Industry Experience course, which will provide real-time exposure and insight into industry structure and trends, as well as supply chains, ship operations, revenue generation strategies, market segmentation, marketing, the passenger experience and risk management.
“The economic, environmental and sociocultural sustainability of the industry will also be assessed from diverse stakeholder perspectives,” said Professor Weaver.
Course open to all Griffith students
“For our HSL majors it’s an optional core course, but can be taken as an elective by other Griffith Business School and Griffith students.”
Students will have twin-share accommodation aboard Royal Caribbean’s MS Voyager of the Seas, which will depart Sydney on January 31 for a 12-day cruise that will stop at Noumea and Lifou in New Caledonia, Lautoka and Suva in Fiji and Mystery Island in Vanuatu.
“We chose Royal Caribbean because it is the second-biggest cruise operator in the world and has a reputation for producing the most innovative and largest ships,” said Professor Weaver.
Lectures at sea
Morning and afternoon lectures will be held during the six days at sea, while students will be encouraged to undertake on-shore excursions at each port of call to examine first-hand the impact on local communities of cruise ship tourism.
“Some students will take the history route while some will take an island tour to explore what each island has to offer,” said Professor Weaver.
“This is real-time learning. We want the students to explore as many aspects of the industry as possible, including the effects on local communities as passengers are encouraged to stay in the cruise bubble as they go onshore.
“We’d like our students to examine for themselves how this is played out at the local level. In the evenings, we will catch up with the students for a one-hour seminar to discuss their findings.”
Recent figures released by the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) indicate that 24 million passengers are expected to take a leisure cruise globally in 2016, up from 15 million 10 years ago. Since a typical cruise includes five stops, this results in over 100 million visits by passengers to ports-of-call.
World’s most enthusiastic cruisers
The latest statistics from the CLIA reveal that a record 1.058 million Australians took an ocean cruise (PDF 1.3mb) in 2015, up 15 per cent compared to the previous year. On a per capita basis, Australians are the world’s most enthusiastic cruisers, and South-East Queensland is a focus of interest given plans to expand Brisbane’s home port facilities and aspirations to make the Gold Coast a port-of-call.
Professor Weaver said the growth in the cruise industry provided a solid foundation for the Cruise Industry Experience course to become a popular subject for Griffith’s tourism degrees, the Bachelor of International Tourism and Hotel Management and the Bachelor of Tourism (Tourism Management).
The course is open to all Griffith students as a free-choice elective course and to exchange and study abroad students as a Griffith Global Mobility short-term course.
The cruise component of the subject will cost $1864 and financial aid through the OS Help loan and Griffith University Incentive Scheme Travel Grant is available to eligible students.
Registrations for the course are required before August 23, 2016.
