{"id":351,"date":"2012-07-03T00:38:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T00:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/2012\/07\/03\/supporting-regional-students\/"},"modified":"2012-07-03T00:38:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T00:38:04","slug":"supporting-regional-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/supporting-regional-students\/","title":{"rendered":"SUPPORTING REGIONAL STUDENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BAIRNSDALE STUDENT A \u20182012 YOUNG LEADER\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>July 3, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bairnsdale student Elizabeth Newton is one of only two students from regional Victoria to be recognised by The Nationals as a 2012 Young Leader.<\/p>\n<p>State Member for Gippsland East Tim Bull and Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester have presented Elizabeth with her prize, a cheque for $3000.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Melbourne after completing high school studies at Gippsland Grammar last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Nationals Scholarship for Young Leaders is run each year with recipients receiving a share of $5000 to go towards the cost of living away from home to complete tertiary studies.<\/p>\n<p>The scholarship program is targeted at students who intend to return to a regional community after completing their tertiary studies. Special consideration is also given to regional students in hardship situations.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bull said it was encouraging that students such as Elizabeth wanted to return home after completing university.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Elizabeth is a confident and well presented young lady who is clearly going places,\u201d Mr Bull said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scholarship will help Elizabeth to achieve her goals and it is pleasing she intends to return to a regional community where she will no doubt not only be a great professional asset, but also a terrific contributor to her community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester, an active campaigner for greater support for students from regional areas who led the Independent Youth Allowance campaign, congratulated Elizabeth on her achievements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElizabeth has a keen interest in helping to develop sustainable environmental practices that would work in conjunction with our region\u2019s traditional industries such as timber harvesting, and commercial fishing,\u201d Mr Chester said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has already proven that she is prepared to work hard to pursue her goals and I have no doubt that she would be a welcome addition back into our region after she has finished her tertiary studies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Applications for The Nationals Scholarship for Young Leaders 2013 will open in late 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BAIRNSDALE STUDENT A \u20182012 YOUNG LEADER\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>July 3, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bairnsdale student Elizabeth Newton is one of only two students from regional Victoria to be recognised by The Nationals as a 2012 Young Leader.<\/p>\n<p>State Member for Gippsland East Tim Bull and Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester have presented Elizabeth with her prize, a cheque for $3000.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Melbourne after completing high school studies at Gippsland Grammar last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}