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Queensland Conservatorium alumnus Dami Im will headline the GC2018 Charity Gala and Medal Reveal this Saturday 4 November at The Star on the Gold Coast.
The Masters of Music Studies graduate shot to stardom after winning The X Factor in 2013 and was Australia’s entrant in the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest.
Dami will carry the Queen’s Baton next April, but her Commonwealth Games journey will kick off this weekend as she lends her remarkable voice in support of the Gold Coast Community Fund (GCCF).
“I’m bringing my band, they’re flying in from Sydney, and I just want to have a really good time with everybody,” Dami said.
The multi-instrumentalist, who is also known for her showstopping outfits, is keeping tight-lipped on her wardrobe for Saturday night’s performance.
“I’ll keep it a secret for the people that are coming on the night but it will be something special and it will be fun.”
Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation

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Griffith Business School is launching Queensland’s largest Student Investment Fund.
Providing students with unparalleled hands-on experience, the fund is worth $250,000 and will be invested in socially responsible, ASX listed companies.
“Griffith has a strong commitment to the environment, social justice and good governance,” said Associate Professor Robert Bianchi.
“The Fund will make investments in companies that exhibit those three characteristics.”
The opportunity to be part of the Student Investment Fund will be offered to outstanding third year Bachelor of Commerce students, as well as postgraduate finance students.
Industry-standard experience
Fund managers will make use of Griffith’s state-of-the-art Trading Rooms, which are equipped with 24 Bloomberg terminals.
“Bloomberg is used by investment professionals worldwide, so it’s the closest thing we’ll get to on-the-job experience, in the classroom,” said Bachelor of Commerce student Enoch Pun.
Associate Professor Bianchi said providing access to real funds and live data was crucial to ensuring the Griffith Business School students

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Griffith Bachelor of Musical Theatre graduate Jackson McGovern is stepping into the spotlight with a lead role in a new production at the Brisbane Powerhouse.
Nineteen is a black comedy about four young men living in a share house. From the outside they seem like lovable larrikins but underneath the bravado lurks something more sinister.
The play is a new work by local writer and director Shane Pike, who based the script on interviews with dozens of young people.
“It’s very exciting to be the first person to play this character, and do something completely original,” Jackson said.
“The play is very funny, and very relatable, I think all of us know people like these characters.”
Originally from Bundaberg, Jackson graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium in 2014, and spent two years touring Queensland as a lead Shakespearean actor with the Grin & Tonic Theatre Troupe.
He has also worked with Queensland Theatre and appeared in musicals, plays, short films and web

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Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre Professor Don Stewart believes that music can be the best medicine.
Professor Stewart’s latest project uses an innovative mix of music and traditional shadow puppetry to help combat parasitic infections and break the poverty cycle in rural Indonesia.
The project is one of 17 new grants funded by the Australia-Indonesia Institute, which promotes Australia’s relationship with Indonesia through art, culture and education.
Professor Stewart has worked in Indonesia for a number of years, helping build sanitation facilities in rural parts of the country as part of a project with Griffith’s School of Public Health.
“We installed cheap homemade latrines to help prevent parasitic infections, but I realised we needed some way of getting messages about good hygiene practices across to the local villagers.
“We decided we needed to approach the issue from a different angle.”
Professor Stewart worked with researchers and musicians from the Queensland Conservatorium and an Indonesian puppeteer to develop a short

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After months of speculation, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced Queenslanders will head to the polls on November 25.
Griffith University will look beyond the slogans, blame-games and promises to provide voters with the insights they need to be informed and active participants in the state election.
Griffith experts will draw on their vast experience to contribute to a dedicated website, with written analysis and interactive material including podcasts.
“We have deep cross-disciplinary expertise and a forty year tradition of being engaged in understanding Queensland politics and electorates,” said Professor Anne Tiernan, Dean (Engagement) with the Griffith Business School and Director of the Policy Innovation Hub.
“Expert researchers from across the University’s four academic groups and five campuses are involved as analysts in Griffith’s coverage of the 2017 campaign.
“They study political culture and work very closely with the Government in a number of key delivery areas including, among others, education, health, law and justice and

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