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Welcome to the July edition of the Griffith Oceania Alumni Update.
Last month we asked you to send in your feedback to let us know how we can make alumni services better for you.
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It is never too late to change
Boutique Money Management
Ms Jody Fenton
Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting & Finance, Economics)
When Bachelor of Commerce graduate and Chartered Practising Accountant (CPA), Jody Fenton, returned from a working holiday in Toronto, the finance capital of Canada, she saw an opportunity to provide Australians with a service that no one else was offering. Jody took the plunge and started her own business, Boutique Money Management, providing clients with independent information on money management and investing. Boutique Money Management is now becoming a leader in financial and investment education.
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Papua New Guinea student
follows climate change clues to Brisbane
Mr Darren Bito
PhD in Forest Ecology
Griffith PhD student Darren Bito left his home in Kimbe on the volcanic Papua New Guinea island of New Britain to join a team of Griffith-based scientists seeking answers to the climate change threat.
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Honour role
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Archibald winner honoured for
distinguished contributions to the arts
Davida Allen
Honourary Doctor of the University
27 August 2004
On 27 August 2004 Griffith University honoured distinguished artist and film-maker, Davida Allen with an Honourary Doctorate of the University.
Davida Allen was born in 1951 and grew up in Charleville and Toowoomba. She was educated at Stuartholme Convent in Brisbane where she received encouragement from her high school art teacher Betty Churcher. From an early age Davida Allen had no doubt that she would be an artist. "As a Catholic, the nuns would say to you that faith was a gift" she once said. "It has taken me years to realise that the pleasure of being a painter is a gift."
From 1970-1972, Allen studied art under Roy Churcher at the then College of Art (now the Queensland College of Art Griffith University). In 1973 she began showing paintings with the Ray Hughes Gallery in Brisbane. She achieved national attention in the 1980s when her work was selected for the major contemporary art exhibitions, the Biennale of Sydney and the Australian Perspecta. During this period she became well known for her powerful images of female sexuality such as “The Rude Painting” (1984) in the Museum of Contemporary Art and feminine fantasy “The Sam Neill Series: 1986”. In 1986, Davida Allen became one of the few women – and the first Queensland woman – to win Australia's most prestigious art award, the Archibald Prize, for a recklessly expressionistic portrait of her father-in-law in shorts watering his garden.
In a career spanning thirty years, Davida Allen has held numerous solo exhibitions in Australia and her work has been shown in Europe, the United States and Japan. She is represented in the Australian National Gallery, the major Australian state galleries and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Davida Allen has always worked from her own observations. Her subjects are generally of her immediate environment including her family and herself. Through her art, Allen has provided an exceptionally well realised body of work on the importance of women's experience. She offers an insistently independent, sometimes confronting and consciously female perspective on families, sexual desire, motherhood and the search for identity.
Allen explored her fascination with relationships in her strikingly original short film "Feeling Sexy". The film was accepted for the Venice Film Festival in 1999, and was subsequently shown at numerous festivals including Amsterdam, London and Toronto. "Feeling Sexy" was nominated for four awards by the Film Critics' Circle of Australia, including one for Davida Allen as best director.
In addition to her art and film work, Davida Allen has published two books, a novel, "The Autobiography of Vicki Myers: Close to the Bone" and an illustrated companion volume "Images of Vicki Myers: What is a Portrait?"
It is fitting that Griffith University should honour Davida Allen in recognition of her distinguished contributions to the arts.
Meet the artist
Archibald winner Davida Allen
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Saturday 26 July 2008
For your opportunity to meet Davida Allen come along to Davida's exhibition at the Philip Bacon Galleries on Saturday 26 July 2008. For more information and to register for the event, see the 'Network news' section of this newsletter.
  
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Fundraising
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Caribbean Cruise Leads to
$5,000 Donation for Griffith University Researchers
National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research
A chance meeting on board a cruise to the West Indies resulted in a generous donation for researchers at the National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research (NCASCR) at Griffith University.
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Network news
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Meet the artist
Archibald winner Davida Allen
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Saturday 26 July 2008
Join us as former Archibald winner, Davida Allen, presents her autobiographical landscapes and self-portraits in her recognisable expressionistic style. Allen’s impasted paintings celebrate the artist’s beloved bushland of South East Queensland.
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Griffith Law School Annual
Meet the Profession Cocktail Parties
Gold Coast - Wednesday 30 July 2008
Brisbane - 5 August 2008
Griffith Law School Dean, Professor Paula Baron, is pleased to invite Griffith Law School Alumni and legal professionals to attend the annual Meet the Profession cocktail parties.
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Criminology and Criminal Justice
Meet the Professionals Evening
Mt Gravatt, Brisbane - Wednesday 6 August 2008
The Criminology and Criminal Justice 'Meet the Professionals Evening' will give upcoming graduates and alumni members an exciting opportunity to meet and mingle in a relaxed and friendly environment.
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Art gallery tours
Picasso and his collection, Gallery of Modern Art
Sidney Nolan: A New Retrospective, Queensland Art Gallery
Join our alumni group tours of the 'Picasso and his collection' exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art and the 'Sydney Nolan: A New Retrospective' exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery.
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Graduate exhibitions
Many Griffith graduates are successfully exhibiting artworks in some of Australia's most significant art events. Support you alumni by visiting their exhibitions.
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Alumni cocktail functions
Melbourne - Tuesday 12 August 2008
Sydney - Thursday 14 August 2008
Griffith University Development and Alumni takes great pleasure in inviting alumni and graduates, to our Griffith University alumni cocktail functions in Melbourne and Sydney.
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New Zealand volunteers needed
Alumni network coordinators
Development and Alumni are looking for volunteers who can help reconnect regional and common interest networks around the world.
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Recent events
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Queensland's best young brains showcased
Industrial Affiliates Program
Could you teach a robot to play Texas hold ‘em poker; design software to predict the Impact of an oil spill on Australia’s coast; a sensor to tell athletes when they’re dehydrated or a system using grass to clean chemicals from water?
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Gold Coast Media Awards
Jason Oxenbridge
Katrina Jones
Sophie Hickson
Sharlene King
Fellow Alumni, Jason Oxenbridge, Katrina Jones, Sophie Hickson and Sharlene King honoured at the Gold Coast Media Awards.
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Professional development opportunities
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'Let’s Talk About Money
– Tips, Tricks & a Great Debate!'
Free Griffith University Alumni Seminar
Melbourne - 12 August 2008
Sydney - 14 August 2008
Manging your money effectively isn't hard... you just need to know how to do it.
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QCA Creative Short Courses
The Queensland College of Art (QCA) Creative Short Courses program welcomes all alumni to learn and practice art in the same friendly and dedicated environment that our undergraduate and postgraduate students enjoy.
Courses include fine art, photography, design, film/television and indigenous art practices.
New courses have been scheduled for the Winter period.
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Specialist business short courses
Commences Semester 2, 28 July 2008
If you're looking to further your career the Griffith Business School offers a range of specialist courses to take you further. So if you have an undergraduate degree or relevant work experience, apply before July 5 to commence study in Semester 2.
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NEW - Graduate Certificate in Franchising
South Bank (Graduate Centre)
Commences from Semester 2/2008
Australia is one of the most franchised nations in the world. Franchising contributes more than $130 billion to the Australian economy and is growing rapidly. This program will focus on the Australian franchising sector which Business Review Weekly (BRW) described as 'booming'.
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Positions vacant
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Advertise your positions vacant
Does your organisation have a position vacant? Why not employ a fellow Griffith graduate?
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Accountants all levels
Various locations
AU$40 000 - $90 000
This is undoubtedly the Gold Coast's most prestigious firm with fresh ideas on how to run their practice!
A BRW top growing accounting firm means they need more dynamic people to join their team!
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PI Solicitor 2-3+ years PAE
Gold Coast
Established in 1983, this Solicitors firm is one of the Gold Coast's and the State's leading law firms practicing in the areas of Personal Injury (including workplace injury claims, motor vehicle accident claims and claims for injuries in public places), as well as Family Law, Estates, and Commercial and Property matters.
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Quantity Surveyor
Gold Coast
This award winning practice has been established on the Gold Coast for nearly 50 years. Recently relocated to modern and central offices, our client principally specialise in all aspects of construction consultancy and Quantity Surveying.
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Senior Accountant - Business Services
Gold Coast
AU$65 000 - $75 000
Located a stones throw away from the beach, this CA firm has been a success story way back from its humble beginnings more than 50 years ago.
Want access to a variety of work? Not only will you excel with a variety of clients and industries for business services work, you will have access to a wide spectrum of accounting activities, such as business valuations, due diligence and strategic planning!
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