Celebrating success

An exercise student shows his strength with a weightlifting award, law lecturer with a penchant for Canadian prose flexes his literary muscle and FUSA punches above its weight with a triple national win.

Weightlifter wins bronze

Jackson Howie

Elite Athlete and third year Bachelor of Exercise student Jackson Howie has taken out a medal at the Arafura Games, representing Australia in Olympic weightlifting in the M81kg bodyweight category.

At 20 years old, Mr Howie is younger than most of his competitors with considerably less experience and was ecstatic about his bronze win.

“I was definitely not expecting to finish on the podium”, he says. “However, I played my cards right and lifted well enough to finish in 3rd place, something I am very proud of.”

Mr Howie’s Arafura experience included arriving in Darwin a few days early to settle in, train and organise competition accreditation ahead of his competition on the Sunday.

Financial support was provided by Flinders University’s Elite Athlete program, which he is grateful for. The donation assisted him to compete in the games “representing Australia in the sport I love.”

An international sporting event known for its inclusion of able-bodied athletes and those living with disability, the Darwin event brought together 40 countries and more than 1500 of the world’s best athletes. This year marks the return of the games following an eight-year hiatus.

Mr Howie is now setting his sights on upcoming competitions including the Australian U23 nationals and the senior nationals.

Law lecturer wins acclaimed Canadian award

Dr Benjamin Authers will head to Ottawa in June to collect his Pierre Savard Award, which is awarded by the International Council of Canadian Studies for outstanding scholarly monograph in French or English on a Canadian topic.

‘A Culture of Rights: Law, Literature, and Canada’ (2016, University of Toronto Press) explores the need for a more complex, interdisciplinary understanding of the sources of rights in Canada through an analysis of novels by authors including Joy Kogawa, Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley and Jeanette Armstrong alongside legal texts and constitutional rights cases. He suggests that despite the limited scope of Canadian rights, its citizens remain keen to promote themselves as members of an entirely just society.

Dr Authers’ most recent book, Inhabiting Memory in Canadian Literature, examines the cultural work of space and memory in Canada and Canadian literature.

Triple win for FUSA

The Flinders University Student Association has taken out three national awards, as fitting recognition for its clever campaign to promote respectful behaviour and eliminate harassment and assault.

In 2018, FUSA launched a student-led campaign on sexual assault and respectful relationships called ‘Be A Better Human’ as a response to the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Change the Course Report on sexual harassment and assault at Australian universities.

As part of the Tertiary Access Group Campuslink Conference held earlier this May, FUSA representatives were delighted to be honoured with several awards for the innovative campaign, including:

  • Best Marketing Campaign
  • Most Successful Digital Initiative
  • Most Successful Visual Design

This year, FUSA will be re-launching the campaign to reflect campus culture and what they believe everyone needs to appreciate – consent, respect and empathy.

For more information visit fusa.edu.au/babh or join the discussion online with #BeABetterHuman.

 

 

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