Jodie Cunningham with her BMW X2 car wrap. Photo: 5 Foot Photography
A WELL-known Canberra arts leader, educator and artist, Jodie Cunningham is the new CEO and artistic director of Craft ACT.
Outgoing CEO Rachael Coghlan leaves the organisation today (July 9) after five years at the helm to take up a position at Parliament House in a new role bringing together design, architecture, art and craft, was best known for spearheading the development of Design Canberra, which seeks to position Canberra as a global city of design.
Cunningham, a regular contributor to Design Canberra and one of the winners in last year’s BMW car wrap competition, was previously a long-time lecturer in visual art and design at Canberra Institute of Technology.
Kirra Services ramps up Indigenous IT skills with traineeship program
Kirra Services ramps up Indigenous IT skills with traineeship program
A new traineeship program will be launched by the Canberra Institute of Technology on 4 May.
Brad Nagle (Kirra Services) Credit: Kirra Services
Canberra-based IT hardware and software provider Kirra Services is passionately driving Indigenous representation among the IT industry, making a significant stamp on government agencies along the way.
The company was founded in 2017 by proud Bundjalung man Brad Nagle. Since then, the company has grown to 18 staff.
The company’s namesake ‘Kirra’ is reflective of the beach location in Queensland where Nagle’s grandfather spent time, and also means ‘leaf’ in the local language displaying an important connection to the land and country.
Queanbeyan RSL memorial flame.
The memorial gas flame, set inside a “memorial pool” of water and located near the front entrance of the Queanbeyan RSL building on Crawford Street, normally burns year-round and symbolises the heroism of those who gave their lives in war.
Queanbeyan RSL sub-branch life member Chris Pritzler says problems with the gas connection meant the flame needed to be extinguished.
“It was becoming a safety issue, we were worried it might blow up the building, so we extinguished the flame and set about getting it fixed up,” says Mr Pritzler.
Trying to find a specialist to fix the eternal flame was difficult, Mr Pritzler says, but in the end technical teachers and students from the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) stepped in to help.