6 September. 10 min read.

Ben Young (BA Screen Arts, 2003) is many things: a Perth-born local, a film student who started out making music videos for his mates, and now a rising star who became a success story overnight after years struggling in the industry.

2 September. 10 min read.

We spoke to Curtin graduates living and working around the globe – London, Singapore, Perth, Kuala Lumpur, New York and Houston – about experiencing the pandemic where they are, the challenges they’ve faced and how they are managing to get through it.

2 September. 10 min read.

Passed around by Student Guild members, shared among student protestors walking down the streets of Perth’s CBD, and more recently transformed into an online blog, the student newspaper known as ‘Grok’ has a long history in Perth.

2 September. 10 min read.

One in four young people experience a mental illness each year in Australia. If we take those numbers and apply them to young people studying at universities, that’s upwards of 210,000 Australian university students aged 18-25 battling mental illness every year.

2 September. 15 min read.

Australian photographer and filmmaker Marcus Wong strongly believes you can’t care about something you’ve never seen, and has made it his mission to share the voices of the voiceless with the world.

23 September. 15 min read.

Businessperson, philanthropist, mentor and educator, Dr Sandy Chong has been a champion for change ever since she began her higher education journey. We chatted to Sandy about her belief that being a ‘disruptor’ isn’t necessarily a bad thing; and who are the best disruptors? According to Sandy, the answer is women.

3 September. 5 min read.

Valerie Ah Chee was the only Aboriginal woman in her cohort. Now, she has returned to Curtin to foster a sense of belonging for other Aboriginal women by designing the artwork for the University’s Moorditj Yorga (‘strong woman’) Scholarship.

2 September. 5 min read.

Dr June Oscar is a remarkable woman, or ‘moorditj yorga.’ So too is Professor Sandra Eades. And now, Curtin student Janelle Brown, a Bundjalung woman with big dreams, is on her way to becoming a qualified community leader and role model. These First Nations women are all examples of the transformative power of educated moorditj yorgas.

2 September. 5 min read.

‘Moorditj yorga’ means ‘strong woman’ in the Nyungar language and is an apt description of Jill; a Ballardong woman, a grandmother, a domestic violence survivor, and now a student on her way to successfully completing a degree. She hopes her university studies will give her a second chance at life.

2 September. 5 min read.

As an Aboriginal woman, Melanie Robinson has had to overcome many hurdles on her journey to achieving her dream of improving the health of Aboriginal people. We chatted with Mel about why she attributes her career success to studying hard, pushing herself out of her comfort zone, and being driven to help others.

2 September. 5 min read.

Influential leader in the mining sector, Vanessa Guthrie AO, believes the reason she has been able to achieve so much in her career is her university education. Vanessa founded the Moorditj Yorga Scholarship in the hopes that First Nations women will receive the same opportunities to thrive through the transformative power of education as she did.