Ballina Information Blog

Southern Cross K-12 teacher Steve Watts, pictured, has been surfing for almost 40 years and has been instrumental in surfing becoming established as a legitimate school sport. He will be a key organiser of the Australian national schools championships to be held at Ballina later this month. Here he tells of his surfing life …
In the [...]

Visual artist Jennifer Boyle has combined her love of horses and of early history to create a unique photographic exhibit for Southern Cross University’s Exit 06 Visual Arts exhibition, opening at 5.30pm this Friday, November 3.
Jennifer, from Bangalow, is one of the 53 graduating students whose work will be on display at the University’s Visual [...]

Professor Paul Clark, pictured, suspects that like himself, most men think they are bullet proof.
But Southern Cross University’s Vice-Chancellor realised what a very tenuous grasp on life we all have when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year. He has since had treatment and the cancer has not spread to other parts of his body.
“It [...]

Southern Cross University’s Centre for Children and Young People is celebrating National Children’s Week with a Kids’ Art Exhibition, featuring the work of local children, at the Lismore campus.
The Member for Page, Mr Ian Causley, will be visiting the Centre on Thursday (October 26) to view the exhibition and hear more about the work being [...]

Southern Cross University’s postgraduate research training has been rated number one in the country for overall student satisfaction, in a national survey administered by Graduate Careers Australia, the university said.
SCU said the 2005 survey, which measures the quality of key aspects of research masters, Doctor of Business Administration and Doctor of Philosophy degrees, was completed [...]

A university professor who is investigating climate change also has been looking at ways of improving the water supply of Ballina and Lennox Head.
He is Southern Cross University Associate Professor Graham Jones, pictured, who says: “”The North Coast of NSW and south-east Queensland are rapidly developing areas with a burgeoning population. This development is placing [...]

The secrets of the coral reefs lying along the coast of Kenya in Africa have been uncovered following years of painstaking research by Sangeeta Mangubhai.
Sangeeta, pictured, a PhD student with Southern Cross University, is back in Australia to complete the final part of her study, which she hopes will lead to better understanding and management [...]

Research into acid sulphate soils – a problem plaguing the Richmond River – a project designed to increase the sale of Australian milk in the Asian market and another promoting innovation in the film music industry are among four Southern Cross University projects to receive national funding through the Australian Research Council.
The other projects which received funding, [...]

When Jan Barling lost her teenage son to cancer, she came face to face with the glaring inadequacies of the health system in dealing with the special social and emotional needs of teenagers.
The Southern Cross University researcher discovered that her son, Anthony, like all teenage cancer patients, was caught between two worlds.
Anthony was too old [...]

‘Should Australia introduce a formal citizenship test?’ is a question Northern Rivers residents are being asked to consider at an upcoming public seminar at Southern Cross University.
The free seminar is being held in response to the Federal Government’s recently released discussion paper ‘Australian Citizenship: much more than a ceremony’.
‘Testing Citizenship: a public point of view [...]