Here is a great opportunity to undertake some practical activism training and count it towards a University degree!

The course is called “Public Interest Advocacy”. It is run through Southern Cross University as part of the Byron Bay Summer Law School program. The course is fully HECS eligible for those already doing a degree or you can study it as a stand alone unit if you are not enrolled at a university.

The course runs as a one week face to face intensive with Aidan Rickets this December (8-14) in Byron Bay NSW Australia.

There is a scholarship on offer for one person to study it free of charge.

For more information on how to enrol, and how to apply for the scholarship contact:
Margaret Morrow at the School of Law and Justice
Southern Cross University, (+61) 02 66203115
or go to http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/law/index.php/60

Ahri Tallon, 21, founder of the Northern Rivers Youth Environmental Society and co-coordinator of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition in NSW says:

This course is amazing! As a young person who left University to pursue activism this was a perfect program that combined the academic rigour of University with the practical and relevant knowledge and skills needed to be an effective activist. I am now employed in the campaign to stop coal export expansion in Nth Qld and am so grateful to have had such a great opportunity to prepare me. The deep and well explained content, the balance of learning styles that are catered for and the idyllic setting make this program an essential for any up and coming radical.