{"id":17815,"date":"2011-10-03T02:56:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T18:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/curtin-student-gets-chogm-experience-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T15:46:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T07:46:34","slug":"curtin-student-karmini-eswaran-gains-media-experience-at-chogm-2011","status":"publish","type":"media-release","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/curtin-student-karmini-eswaran-gains-media-experience-at-chogm-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtin student Karmini Eswaran gains media experience at CHOGM 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curtin University student Karmini Eswaran will be making an important contribution to the smooth running of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth this month.<\/p>\n<p>The final year mass communication and public relations student is volunteering in the CHOGM media centre.<\/p>\n<p>Karmini, who is currently living in Bentley, is an international student from Malaysia \u2013 one of the Commonwealth nations represented at CHOGM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am really excited to be involved with this prestigious event in Australia because it will help me gain invaluable experience. I am really looking forward to being involved with the international media,\u201d Karmini said.<\/p>\n<p>Karmini is one of 21 Curtin public relations students who will be helping out in the media centre at CHOGM, undertaking a variety of duties from escorting journalists to media conferences and assisting at conferences. It is expected there could be up to 300 media representative attending conferences.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor Nigel de Bussy, from the School of Marketing, Curtin Business School, said the high-level event was a great opportunity for Curtin students to utilise skills they had developed over the course of their studies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCHOGM will bring the leaders from Commonwealth countries to Perth for talks that help shape the future of the Commonwealth,\u201d Associate Professor de Bussy said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will give Curtin public relations students an invaluable experience in dealing with important events of a political nature on an international scale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The heads of government from 54 Commonwealth member countries will be heading to Perth for the three-day conference including South Africa, Namibia, Canada, Nigeria, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan and Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>Queen Elizabeth II will also be travelling to Perth to attend the meeting, at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre.<\/p>\n<p>CHOGM 2011 will be held from Friday 28 October to Sunday 30 October.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Denise Cahill, Public Relations, Curtin University<br \/>\n<\/strong>Tel: 08 9266 1931, Mobile: 0401 103 683, Email: <a href=\"mailto:d.cahill@curtin.edu.au\">d.cahill@curtin.edu.au<\/a><br \/>\nWeb: <a href=\"http:\/\/curtin.edu.au\">http:\/\/curtin.edu.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curtin University student Karmini Eswaran will be making an important contribution to the smooth running of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"7711,6257,6329,4618,8188,8453","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-17815","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":[{"title":"","qualification":"","link":"","description":"","faculty":""}],"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}},"experts":false},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17815"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=17815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}