Kari Arbouin : Season 2, Episode 8

CQUniversity Podcast - Greatvine

This week we chat with Kari Arbouin, CQUni's Associate Vice-Chancellor for Townsville and North West Queensland Region. We hear how Kari grew up in Glasgow in Scotland where she lived in a 270-year-old castle manse and dreamed of becoming an orthopaedic surgeon. We learn how she eventually studied nursing and shocked her parents when she bought a one-way ticket to Australia with plans of spending a few months down under. We hear how a stint nursing in the outback town of Julia Creek led her to her husband and she explains how the rural town became the family home for a number of years. We learn about Kari's health roles that eventually prepared her for a career in universities, firstly at JCU and more recently at CQUni in Townsville. We also discover her unusual skills in bog snorkelling and even hear her attempt an Aussie accent - you can decide if she was successful.