Have Cochlear cash and implant, will learn nursing

Brooke Michalanney is not one to let something like hearing loss stop her from achieving her goals of self-fulfilment and giving back to the community. When she was 18 months old, a hearing impairment was discovered, and this was exacerbated a few years later when her older brother accidentally hit her with a cricket bat, resulting in total hearing loss in both ears. Now, armed with a Cochlear implant and the Cochlear Graeme Clark Scholarship for Australia and New Zealand, Michalanney is studying a bachelor of midwifery at the University of South Australia and looking to break into the linked bachelor of nursing.