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WAGGING TO HEALTH: Horsham’s Jenna Young and Tyler McRae prepare to take their maremma sheepdogs Oskar and Molly for their nightly walk on the banks of the Wimmera River. The Heart Foundation is promoting April as the perfect time for people with dogs to get active and healthy by walking their pets or joining walking groups. Picture: MICK SHANNON
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BY DEAN LAWSON
al training for the ongerenong College Australian domestic wants to market for seas inquiring in 127 years. provide agricultural the past couple training of college wants The application years and it basically for overseas students to open got us thinking. from as early the Commonweal to win a place on international arrivals. the doors for “The college board as next year as part th Register of has now listed In- it as of a long-term stitutions and Courses Mr Goldsmith said one of the key expansion plan. for Overseas the college might items to work have Students, CRICOS, towards.” to wait several represents The
the first year and keep growing from there. But before we reached figures of up to 200, we would have to months before college will apply one of inknowing if its vest in resources to register as the biggest and boldest moves application was an international which would include Vocational training in the college’s history. suc- staffing, education provider cessful. classrooms and at the end of this month Longerenong College College general “In the ideal world “It would be another equipment. is near Dooen, in a move that, manager John Gold- north of if successful, is we would be pillar in securHorsham, and is smith confirmed likely to ing the college operated by looking to have overseas a team was adding Skillinvest, as one of the premier bolster student numbers. significantly final touches students in agricultural formerly Workco. 2017,” he said. to a submission institutions in Australia. It also has the It provides vocational to the “For a start we would potential to dramat- Federal Government. “It has the training, ofpotential to be looking for ically expand the fering Advanced “As the world becomes be ground-breaking. Diploma of Agricul- a small cohort of about college’s direction smaller, par- ture and There are obviously 20. and dynamics and Certificate IV in “We want to take several institutions open the door for ticularly in agricultural industries, Agriculture small offering steps to get ucation greater tertiary-based higher edit courses as well as is logical that we it right and we don’t a raft of for international investment in take want to comprostudents but the region. to bring international that next step ricultural-based educational other ag- mise the quality very few in the of training. students to the vocational area. services. The college has It has 90 students We “We want to get see that provided agricultur- Wimmera,” he said. as being studying for diit right and see how a niche. ploma or certificate “We have had things develop from “It also opens the students from overqualifications full there. potential to draw time and it is in “The intake of in more multi-nationa this study field full-time students l investment the on campus partners.” would lift to about • Warracknabeal 110 in education precinct Phone: 03 5382 1351 Contined page 3 • Anzac Day Read it online:
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‘Trop Pods’ win
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orsham modular housing firm Grampians Homes has had major success at Northern Territory Architecture Awards.
A cluster of tropical holiday units – Trop Pods, designed by Troppo Architects and created in Grampians Homes’ Horsham factory – won three major awards. It collected the overall Tracey Memorial Award, a Peter Dermoudy Award for commercial architecture and a People’s Choice award. Anbinik Kakadu Resort, where the pods now reside, is in the running for a national architecture award. Grampians Homes owner Anthony Op de Coul and project manager Matthew Op de Coul have spent the past three years working in a joint venture with Troppo Architects, building the portable two-bedroom structures. In May last year the units were flat-packed and trucked to Kakadu National Park and reassembled at Anbinik Kakadu Resort. The timber and tin dwellings are now strewn along pathways in a tropical garden setting in Jabiru. The resort is owned and run by the Djabulukgu Association of Traditional Owners of the area, and the duplexes feature fabrics printed in the area and screens laser cut with patterns drawn from the surrounding bush.
WIMMERA PRODUCT: One of the Horsham-built Trop Pods at Anbinik Kakadu Resort in the Northern Territory. Recycled timber and iron in the structures are from Horsham. Anbinik Kakadu Resort was in a category that also included new landmark Darwin city office building Paspaley House, designed by Hong Kong architects also responsible for an extension to the Louvre in Paris. Anthony Op de Coul said he was ‘over the moon’ with the win. He said the remote-area project had been a change for the building team. The duplexes were assembled within ‘a massive’ aircraft hangar-sized shed at Grampians Homes, then dismantled, trucked thousands of kilometres north and reassembled. “It’s like building twice. We’re thinking all the time about the next stage, about how it will work in a remote location where there is no hardware
store, or any of the things we take for granted,” he said. Mr Op de Coul said the construction team travelled with the flat-packed ‘pods’ and worked with locals at the other end. He said it had been an opportunity to see a different side of Australia. “On the last project the boys got to stay in Arnhem Land for two weeks, and meet the people,” he said. Grampians Homes has since worked on projects with Troppo architects in Gunbalanya, Cahill’s Crossing and Alice Springs. Grampians Homes and Troppo plan to continue working together, developing the TropPod idea as a green and portable small dwelling for a wider market.
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