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25.01.2022 Here are two members of our new Queensland organising team: Angela Heise (l) and Caroline Smith (r), taken last week in Brisbane.

23.01.2022 Fulbright alumna, Danae Killian, is performing at the Melbourne Fringe Festival. You're invited! https://mailchi.mp//youre-invited-to-black-water-for-melbo

21.01.2022 Here are some impressions of last night’s event at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre, Sydney. We were enriched and inspired, made new connections with others as ...well as within ourselves, and fully engaged head and heart. Thank you, everyone, for sharing your passion, compassion, and wisdom. See more

19.01.2022 Yesterday we celebrated the final night of a week of Fulbright events at the stunning home of the amazing Iona Novak. With beautiful company, food and views, it was an evening that was simply perfect.

19.01.2022 AFAA's Victorian chapter held a fantastic social gathering last night. Fifteen people attended, including four current US scholars. Our vibrant discussion continued over dinner well into late evening, and included: improving health service outcomes to older people with autism; healthy ageing; art curation; learning from patient experiences in hospitals; cross-cultural adult education, healthy cities and liveability indicators, health service improvements for older people with... autism and people experiencing mental illness; diseases that cross between humans and other animals; collecting blood samples from llamas; climate change impacts on refugee policy; and the mating habits of cuttlefish. In other words - just another average Fulbright get-together! Because there was so much that we wanted to learn from each other, we are going to organise a peer educational seminar for October. Stay tuned.

18.01.2022 https://fulbright.org//remembering-milton-glaser-fulbrigh/

17.01.2022 Come and join us at "'Frayed Lives, Threads of Hope: Australia's response to the global refugee crisis" https://www.facebook.com/frayedlives/

15.01.2022 We are thrilled that Kokomini Writer, Graham Akhurst is the recipient of the 2019 Fulbright WG Walker Scholarship, part-funded through AFAA. This award is presented annually to the highest-ranked Fulbright applicant. Congratulations, Graham! http://caama.com.au//kokomini-writer-graham-akhurst-receiv

15.01.2022 The global refugee crisis has reached epic proportions. To create more awareness about how Australians can respond, the Australian Fulbright Alumni Association is hosting a series of public events in November. Full details for our events in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane are available at our dedicated Facebook page. Please visit, like and share! Thank you. https://www.facebook.com/Frayed-Lives-Threads-of-Hope-111649443578697/

14.01.2022 Last week, Brisbane Fulbright Alumni met for some tasty Turkish fare and stimulating discussion with Faysel Ahmed, who is a guest speaker at our next Brisbane event Frayed Lives, Threads of Hope. Find out more about the Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne events and join us!

10.01.2022 If you haven't registered yet, please join us this Thursday in Sydney for an informative and inspiring event with Fulbright scholars, experts and refugees and discuss what we can do about the worldwide refugee crisis. And if you are in Melbourne or Brisbane, please join us there on the 14th and 21st. Find more information and how to register here:

09.01.2022 The first QLD AFFA face-to-face get-together since lockdown. And even though there were some hick-ups with the mailout and the booking system, we got a lovely group of people together for delicious taco Tuesday. It was so good to reconnect. So much so that we promptly forgot to take photos. Here are the only two. - You may like to know that we decided to have another dinner in mid-November. Stay tuned.

09.01.2022 We were delighted to welcome local 2019 scholars at our recent event at Melbourne University. Sixteen folks joined us, including newly-arrived US Scholar to the University of Melbourne, Allison Cheung. Welcome!

08.01.2022 Our refreshed Queensland chapter got off to a flying start on 4th July, with a celebratory dinner for 17 people in Brisbane! Congrats to our new QLD conveners, Angela Heise and Caroline Smith.

06.01.2022 Fulbright’s Executive Director of the Commission Tom Dougherty, Alumni Relation Manager Pablo Jimenez and Alumni Coordinator at the Consulate General Sydney Kathryn Lagua hosted a fabulous reception at Brisbane’s Old Government House on Thursday night. Great conversations, familiar and new faces and fabulous food inside, beautiful views and twinkling lights outside. A simply glorious evening. Thank you, everyone!

06.01.2022 Attention, QLD alumni! Our Brisbane alumni team are organising a special social event on 4th July. Caroline Smith, Angela Heise and Charles Sampford are keen to meet you! To register, visit: https://fulbrightalumni.org.au/event-3353106

03.01.2022 Melbourne AFAA members and friends were delighted to welcome current Fulbright Distinguished Chair Prof Rob DeSalle, to Melbourne last Friday. Our evening began on the rooftop bar at Curtin House and proceeded downstairs to Cookie (lit in fluro red) for dinner. Great to meet you, Rob!

03.01.2022 Between a fabulous event for community workers and psychologists at QUT and preparing for tonight’s Frayed Lives, Threads of Hope here in Brisbane, salon curator and Fulbright alumni Mara Adelman and AFAA President Iain Butterworth gathered some local impressions.

02.01.2022 Fulbright alum Farrukh Mateen gave a fabulous presentation for AFAA Queensland last week with practical information about the production and application of nanotechnology. Farrukh provided hands-on demonstrations and explanations that engaged everyone, artfully making the complex simple while sharing his own person journey. We all came away with great appreciation for a complex field of study and a brilliant scientific mind!