Vic students recognised at Parliament

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Vic students recognised at Parliament

By Jackson Wood | 22 Sep, 2008

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20 Victoria University students were recognised at Parliament recently as participants of the University’s parliamentary internship programme.

The internship programme is a full-year honours-level course that has been offered by the University’s Political Science and International Relations programme since 2000. It is designed to provide selected postgraduate students with an insight into the parliamentary processes and the various roles and responsibilities of MPs.

On 9 September, following a notice of motion on the parliamentary order paper, the House of Representatives formally thanked the 20 participants of this year’s internship programme, as well as programme coordinators Professors Stephen Levine and Nigel Roberts of the University’s Political Science department.

The notice of motion was presented by Labour MP Barnett, who after eight years of partaking in the internship programme, is retiring from Parliament.

Salient political editor Jackson Wood, who has spent the past year interning with Green MP Sue Kedgley, said: “The internship is an awesome programme and I recommend it to any students wishing to pursue a career in the public sector.”

Comments

Graeme Edgeler
September 22nd, 2008 at 3:59 pm

lazy.

Jackson Wood
September 22nd, 2008 at 4:23 pm

Not sure why it is under my name… because I didn’t write it!

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Jackson Wood

Jackson is a destroyer of souls, devourer of delight and all round nice guy. Currently the Political Editor of Salient he has aspirations of one day becoming a Ninja, or perhaps a Man of Letters. Jackson has been described as pompous, arrogant, and most people should be warned not to enter into a binding contract with this man because he uses magic ink. Say what you like about him, Jackson doesn't really care. To him it is like whisky off an alcoholics liver.