Many Australians love to have a drink, but drinking is not acceptable everywhere.
Some interns have found themselves in trouble for being “drunk”, simply for telling a local colleague that they’d had a “big night”.
While in other countries, it is common to be invited to drinks with the boss into the early hours of the morning.
Remember with drinking: look at how your local colleagues are behaving, and always remember while you are interning overseas you are representing not only yourself, but your university and your country.
Alexandra Wake has been a journalist for 30 years. Although initially trained in print, she has adapted to other technologies and now boasts a career spanning radio, television and on-line. Alex has worked in Ireland, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, as well as Australia. Alex worked for three newspapers: The Rockhampton Morning Bulletin, the Mackay Mercury and The Star (Ireland). Alex spent seven years working for the ABC in Queensland. She has spent time training working journalists at the South African Broadcasting Corporation and three years as a journalism educator at Dubai Women’s College in the United Arab Emirates. Alex also spent three years working as a senior media advisor for a Queensland government minister. Alex still tries to work as a broadcast journalist when her academic work allows.
Alex completed her PhD at Deakin, MA (Research) at QUT, holds a Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching and Learning from RMIT, and a Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults from Cambridge.
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