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Press Release
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
New manager, new campaign, fresh youth address age-old problem.
 New campaign manager Lorena Ocrospoma will hit the ground running as she places over 100 university students in an innovative strategy designed to help redress the age-old issue of rural drift.
While the Brolga Project is a 19-month old initiative looking to build regional capital by offering university students the chance to do work experience with regional businesses, non-government agencies or local councils; ‘Campaign 100’, is a short-term, high-energy program within the project, designed to place at least 100 students for the June/July semester break...more
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Press Release
Monday, 29 March 2010
‘Never been west of anywhere' student moves into regional career 
A new initiative placing urban-based university students into regional positions for work experience is gaining momentum, with the first of its students moving on into a regional career.
The Brolga Project strives to offer university students the chance to try life and work in a regional community via work experience, to encourage students to take up a career with a regional business when they've completed their studies.
Law student Ms Tia Mitsis (pictured) from the University of New South Wales went through the project in 2009, and is now on a longer placement in Emerald with the Queensland Department of Communities. ...more
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Press Release
Friday, 12 March 2010
Brolga Project wins Business Category in Australian Telecommunications Users Awards
The fledgling Brolga Project is proud to be the winner of the 2010 Business Awards for the effective use of Broadband. 
The award was presented at a Gala Celebration in Sydney on Thursday, March 11, and founder of the project Mr Richard Cowley was astounded at the win.
Congratulating others in the awards, he said that he was proud to be among a very creditable competition.
"There were some very big names in the mix, and some extraordinary innovative small companies, all nominating for a range of awards," he said. ...more
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Press Release
Wednesday, 24 Feb 2010
From Melbourne to Mt Isa - student's country placement a huge success 
La Trobe university student Ms Katherine Sanchez (right) says getting a country work experience placement through the new Brolga Project provided a phenomenal opportunity.
Katherine is studying Speech Pathology and was astounded at the scope of clinical exposure she received while on placement.
"Definitely, it was an extraordinarily positive experience," Katherine said.
"I had opportunities I simply couldn't have received in a metropolitan position, being able to work with volumes of indigenous children and also, because of the lack of specialised services in country areas, there's a greater range of health issues needing to be addressed."...more
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Press Release
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Brolga Project ‘walks the talk' with National and International Perspectives 
The Australian Outback is taking on a new appeal because it suffers from a shortage of skilled workers.
Through the Brolga Project, some university students are being given the opportunity to try life and work experience with a regional or rural community, in the hope the student will settle into a regional career when they graduate.
Ms Yumiko Murakami is an international student doing her Masters in Marketing and she saw the project as offering an alternative to city-based employment opportunities. ...more
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Press Release
Monday, 21 December 2009
500 young professionals looking to Bush for work and country life experience 
A new project aiming to reverse the regional skills shortage in Australia is working hard to find a rural career for more than 500 young professionals next year.
‘The Brolga Project' has more than 500 mostly urban-based, final-year tertiary students registered and looking to get a taste of life in rural and regional Australia via a work experience program.
Many of the project's students want to trial life in the bush with a view to moving into a rural or regional career permanently in the future. ...more
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Press Release
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
10 out of 10 for country work experience
University of New South Wales law student Ms Tia Mitsis is giving full marks to her country life work experience placement. 
Tia is an early participant in 'The Brolga Project', an initiative placing university students into work experience with rural host agencies, and she has never been so far out in the country.
"I go to the University of New South Wales in Sydney, my parents live in Brisbane, I have never even travelled in the country," Tia said.
Placed with the Department of Communities (Child Safety Services) in Kingaroy, Tia said she suffered culture shock for the first couple of days. ...more
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Press Release
Tuesday, 9 June, 2009
Fresh Initiative sees Marketing, IT, Accounting, Psychology, Law and Engineering students heading into regional roles
A program designed to bridge the city/country divide is gaining momentum, with a broad spectrum of early participants figuratively crossing the great divide. 
Among the placements, an engineering student from Queensland's Sunshine Coast is going to a Western NSW council later in the year; law students from the University of New South Wales and the University of New England are travelling to the South Burnett area in Queensland to do work experience with a Child Safety Service, while marketing students Katie Adams and Jade Sciberras (pictured) are heading to Byron Bay. ...more
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Press Release
Tuesday, 2 June , 2009
Fresh Initiative Bridges City/Country Divide
An initiative offering urban-based university students the opportunity to do work experience with businesses in rural and regional areas is bridging the city/country divide. 
The Brolga Project is an initiative which stares down rural drift by placing final year university students into work experience positions so that urban students can get a taste of life in rural and regional areas, simultaneously lining themselves up with a job after they leave university.
Roma accounting firm Condon Treasure is the first regional business to offer a student a full-time position through ‘The Brolga Project'.
Condon Treasure Partner Kevin Harker said the biggest problem with being a regional business was to attract qualified people, and the Brolga Project attracted his attention because of its direct focus on addressing that problem. ...more
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