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My Placement Experience with StreetKind

Alyssa reflects on her incredible and unpredictable placement with StreetKind - a community support organization. An opportunity that pushed her far beyond the comfort of classroom simulations. Through tough nights, confronting situations, and...

Online SRC’s 2025 Highlights- and Giveaway!

The Online SRC smashed it in 2025 - supporting students with scholarships, vouchers and plenty of fun ways to connect online. Now they’re wrapping up the year with a huge LinkedIn Learning giveaway, where one student will win a $2,000 laptop voucher!

Chasing the American Dream (for 90 Days)

Charlie contributor Heidi shares how a childhood dream inspired by The Parent Trap became real when she travelled to the U.S. to work as a summer camp counsellor. Through unexpected opportunities, global friendships, and the joy of camp life, she...

Surviving Clinical Placement

Rural placement has a way of humbling you fast, especially when you run into a patient at the supermarket after examining them that morning. But medical student Harvey tells you how in rural places , the kindness, honesty and community spirit make...

Resetting at Mount Tamborine After Placement

After 14 weeks of placement in busy Sydney, Remi escaped to the calm of Mount Tamborine for five days of hikes, waterfalls, markets and sunsets that were exactly what she needed. Remi gives you all the advice you need to plan your trip.

Breaking Stereotypes: From Disability to Doctorate

This International Day of Persons with Disabilities, meet Dr Chrissy Antonopoulos: a Charles Sturt graduate whose journey from exclusion to PhD is breaking stereotypes, challenging unconscious bias, and showing the impact of true accessibility and...

Why I Chose Paramedicine

Want a career that’s unpredictable, purposeful, and anything but a 9-to-5? Keely tells you why she chose Paramedicine over other healthcare jobs for the (spoiler alert) real impact, real people, and moments that stay with you.

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