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2022 Bannockburn Community Awards Dinner

The Bannockburn Community Awards encourage, acknowledge and reward the valuable contributions that individuals make within our community. We are delighted to recognise our award winners who have sought to serve one another and the community with a spirit of service, and thank them for their great examples of service and their determined effort in giving...
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Tackling healthy sexual development in university students living on campus

It’s been a few years in the waiting, but Louise Hallo, Director of Wellbeing at Emmanuel College who received a Churchill Fellowship back in 2019, has finally been able to complete her three week study tour, learning from programs in the USA about sexual development and preventative health measures for young people in a University...
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Wellness Week

Written by third year student, Heidi Willis During the first week of August, Emmanuel college took part in a ‘Wellness Week’. The philosophy behind Wellness Week is to put the spotlight on the different aspects of living that contribute to overall ‘wellness’ – equipping students with tools to measure their own wellbeing, as well as...
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Inaugural Reconciliation Action Plan

Emmanuel College has ‘made change’ in Reconciliation Week by officially launching our inaugural Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) on Friday 27 May. Endorsed by Reconciliation Australia, our Reflect RAP recognises and acknowledges Australia’s First Peoples and demonstrates our journey to continue to build inclusive and sustainable relationships which are mutually beneficial. We are very proud as...
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Emmanuel Students Show Up in Force for Flood Relief

Written by Heidi Willis, third year student and Wing Leader Coordinator  Despite many Emmanuel College students being directly impacted themselves by the flooding of the Brisbane River in the recent South-East Queensland and northern New South Wales floods, the student population came out in force to help the local St Lucia community. As the banks...
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2022 Academic Awards Dinner

We recently celebrated our annual Academic Awards Dinner which showcased the students academic excellence. Congratulations to all our scholars who received an academic award!
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Celebrating International Women’s Day

Written by Sophie Young, second year student and Gender & Sexuality Education Advocate  Our college community had the pleasure of celebrating the vibrant and diverse cohort of female-identifying students that reside at Emmanuel College over an afternoon of sharing stories, honouring achievements and learning from our guest speakers. Aligning with this year’s International Women’s Day...
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The Hon. Dame Quentin Bryce imparts words of wisdom to female students

Written by second year student, Georgia Welch For as long as women have been a fixture of the workforce, there has been a tension between our aspirations and our “duties”. As we are taught to view our desire to pursue a career or to commit to raising a family as competing interests, a uniquely female...
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VALE – Wylie D. Gibbons

M. St J. Surgeon (Retired) M.B.B.S (U.Qld.), M.S. (U.Qld.), F.R.C.S (Edin), F.R.A.C.S., M.C.I.C.D. (Rome). (EMC 1947 – 51) 22.02.28 – 02.08.21 We farewell former Emmanuel College alumnus and surgeon, Wylie D. Gibbons who passed away peacefully on 2 August 2021. Wylie was born in Townsville on 22 February 1928, a passionate and tenacious man who...
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