Opportunities and Benefits

Exclusive Swinburne Alumni Offer – Level up your learning with free Cyber Security training. 

As an outstanding Swinburne start up success story, Quitch is a market-leading gamified nano-learning app, that makes learning both fun and effective.  Quitch is proud to partner with Swinburne to offer our alumni community a free professional development opportunity. 

Enhance your skills with "Introduction to Cyber Security Essentials" by Palo Alto Networks — a global industry expert in cybersecurity. 

• Free for Swinburne alumni 

• Earn a Certificate of Completion + 1 CPD hour 

• Flexible, self-paced app-based learning – learn on the go anywhere, anytime 

Sign up now to this next gen learning and future-proof your career. 

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Alumni receive one month free(1) on Medibank’s combined hospital and extras policy including:

• Unlimited Emergency Ambulance Australia-wide(2). 
  
  
• Claim 100% back on your yearly check-up with any of our 6,700 Members Choice dentists, excluding x-rays, when you join Medibank with any of our extras covers. Waiting periods apply.
  
  
• Get 100% back on optical, up to your annual limit, at almost any provider in Australia when you join Medibank with any of our extras covers. Some services, like lens coating, aren’t included.
  
  
• Get 100% back on included extras for kids - such as physio, chiro and major dental - at Members' Choice providers with our Settled Families and Growing Family Covers(3).
  
  
• Access to around-the-clock advice from Medibank nurses, through our 24/7 Health Advice Line.
   

For more information:

• Call 134 190
• Ask on campus at StudentHQ
• Ask instore.
  
  

Medibank is Australia’s leading health insurance provider, helping Australians improve their health and wellbeing to lead a better quality life. 

Swinburne and Medibank have recently come together in a first-of-its-kind partnership to support the health and wellbeing of the Swinburne community and create opportunities for strategic collaboration between the two organisations including research, career development for students and corporate education programs.

Terms and conditions

1. Offer available for new members on new memberships who join combined hospital and extras cover. Must quote promo code Swinburne Alumni and set up direct debit when joining. Must hold cover for 30 continuous days to get the second month free. Not available on Accident cover, Ambulance cover, Visitors Health Insurance, Working Visa Health Insurance, OSHC, ahm covers, Corporate covers and other selected covers. Not available with any other offer. 
   
   
2. Waiting periods apply. For ambulance attendance or transportation to a hospital where immediate professional attention is required and your medical condition is such that you couldn't be transported any other way. Tasmania and Queensland have state schemes to cover ambulance services for residents of those states. 

Annual limits and waiting periods will apply, including 12 months for some dental services. This only applies to child and student dependants.

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Boat O'Craigo Vineyards proudly offers Swinburne alumni a 20 percent discount on any 12 bottles of wine. Enter the promo code SWIN at the checkout on the Boat O'Craigo Vineyard website.

When alumni purchase any 12 bottles of Boat O'Craigo wine using the promotional code, Boat O'Craigo will donate $1 per bottle to Swinburne Student Scholarships.

Boat O'Craigo was founded in 2003 by Swinburne entrepreneur and Diploma of Civil Engineering alumni Steve Graham. Steve is a significant supporter of Swinburne and has a strong commitment to providing educational opportunities for young people.

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Community Bank Inner East in partnership with Swinburne provides a dedicated lending specialist for Swinburne staff and students, following the closure of the Community Bank Swinburne branch in 2021.

Mobile Relationship Manager, Jodie Draffin is available to assist all the existing Community Bank customers, and the staff and students of Swinburne with their lending needs. With a career in banking over almost 30 years and ten years with Bendigo Bank, Jodie is capable, friendly and a banking expert.

Jodie be contacted on 0449 877 748 or via email: jodie.draffin@bendigoadelaide.com.au. Whether you’re looking to buy, invest, refinance, or renovate, Jodie is your home loan specialist.

Who is Community Bank Inner East?

Community Bank Inner East is part of the Bendigo Bank Community Bank network. With four branches located in Canterbury, Surrey Hills, Ashburton and Balwyn and a large mobile lending team, servicing Melbourne’s Inner East area.

We deliver the products and technology you’d expect from a big bank, plus the personalised service you wouldn’t. As one of Australia’s biggest banks, our heartland remains firmly local. As does our focus on you and the quality banking products you need.

We are much bigger than just a bank, with 60% of our profits directed straight back into the local community through grants and sponsorships. Our value proposition is simple, local people support us through banking and we return profits directly back into this community.

For more information:

Contact Jodie
0449 877 748
jodie.draffin@bendigoadelaide.com.au
www.bendigobank.com.au

For information on how we support our local community

https://iecf.com.au/

We support Swinburne through the provision of grants and sponsorships. We have provided scholarships to support young people pursue their dreams, sponsorships to Swinburne affiliated sporting clubs and grants to students needing financial assistance.

Alumni can access two offers from BWA. 

1. Receive a 50 percent discount on first year preparation of your personal taxation return. 
2. Receive a complimentary business health check - one hour no obligation consultation (value $330). 

You'll need to mention you are Swinburne alum when booking over the phone.

BWA is a boutique accounting firm started by alum Bernie Woodland offering both traditional and progressive services, including taxation, bookkeeping and SMSF administration. They provide corporate advisory services for small to medium business, including structuring, business valuation and the sale of business process.

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Swinburne alumni can now enjoy a 15% discount on all food and beverage purchases at the Hawthorn Hotel via the Australian Venue Co app, the Pass. The Australian Venue Co are the owners of the Hawthorn Hotel. To claim your exclusive discount, download , sign in, and enter the code SWINALUMNI in the promo code section.

This discount can’t be used in conjunction with other offers, including student night on Tuesdays.