Is our rock art older than Europe’s?

The oldest scientifically dated hand stencil and rock painting of an animal
School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science
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PERAHU (Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit) has announced its discovery of the earliest minimum age for a hand stencil, found in the Maros region of Southern Sulawesi, Indonesia. On October 9 2014, PERAHU’s Maxime Aubert and his Australian-Indonesian team published an earth-shattering paper in the prestigious journal Nature, which revealed that the world’s […]

Christine rides world championship career wave

Arts Education Law
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Bachelor of Arts student Christine Turnbull is riding her way into a new career following an internship with the Quicksilver Pro surfing World Championship Tour (WCT). In conjunction with the School of Humanities Internship program,Christine recently completed an internship with the Broadcast Team at this year’s surfing WCT. Christine says, throughout the internship she received […]

Students pitch in for 1-minute journalist competition

Arts Education Law
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Southport State High students were journalists for a day recently when they helped film a 60-second video clip for the Griffith University 1-minute journalist competition. The budding journalists helped Humanities lecturer Dr Peter McAllister film a story about New Zealand students’ welfare on the Gold Coast as a pilot for the competition]. Held by the […]

The Schoolbag expands to East Timor

Arts Education Law
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Spurred on by overwhelming success in Haiti last year — where over 14,000 kits of school supplies were delivered to local children – The Schoolbag last night launched its expansion into East Timor. The not-for-profit organisation was co-founded by 21-year-old Griffith University law student Chris Eigeland, who will now lead the youth-run initiative as it […]

Fast track to a successful career

Arts Education Law
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Second and third year Griffith students, across all disciplines, now have the opportunity to fast track their career with a new course of applied study being offered in partnership with Deloitte Australia. Innovation Practicum (5920GIH) is a 12 week program, in which multi-disciplinary teams of students develop a business concept as part of Deloitte’s globally […]