The Brolga Project

The Brolga Project (Building Regional Opportunities, Leveraging from Graduates in Australia) is a work experience program for final year university students needing with businesses, non-government organisations and government departments in rural and regional Australia. It was launched on the 6 October 2008.

Students and businesses complete online Expressions of Interest (EOI) at The Brolga Project with these matched in a central database. Once there's a match, an 'introduction' is performed via a Skype conference, where details of the placement are arranged, then the student completes the placement and hopefully returns to the host agency at the end of their studies, the beginning of their career.

The project is a response to rural drift, young people moving from country areas to live in the city.

External links

• The Brolga Project
• Bush Telegraph report at ABC Radio National, broadcast 27 July 2009
• The Brolga Project at the University of Southern Queensland
• Australian Federal Government: Inquiry into the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Regional Australia
• Richard Fox, (15 July 2009), Hitting regional skills shortage, Bombala Times