Sports Biomechanics:

Colleen B. Kelly is a prominent Visiting Adjunct Professor, keynote speaker with 40+ years of experience from originally working with Australian Rugby League teams in the 1970’s as an exercise physiologist with the then famous “Trisports” rehabilitation gymnasium, pool and high diving tower, to working at the Pindara Hospital rehabilitation gymnasium, to managing Southport All Sports in the late 1970’s. With studies on carrying and weight-lifting over extended periods with fire-fighters that her father, Frank Kelly, trained on their family farm in Mount Nathan, Queensland, and her diverse career includes starting with endurance riding, polocrosse, “hacking” that we have in Australia, liberty trick performing, dressage & dressage judging, then finally vaulting. Colleen has given lectures and presentations to universities around the world, and although her work has been awarded by therapeutic riding centtres, police and universities, it’s her down to earth “Aussie sense of Humour” that have kept audiences as large as 7,000 laughing and coming back for more.

Animal Behaviour:

Colleen began training animals at three or four years old—teaching the family cats to perform, ride pool toys and genuinely enjoy the show. That childhood talent became a remarkable international career spanning performing dogs, wild horses, Olympic and Paralympic sport, animal behaviour and assistance animals. Her lifelong test remains simple: While Colleen lectured at Universities around the world, her first love was always working with cats and dogs, and in March 2015, Colleen became an official service-dog trainer, registered in the United States, before semi-retiring back to the Fraser Coast, Qld, Australia. While colleen is semiretired, she is busier than ever donating performances and visits to people in the community with disabilities with Tutu the Trickster and Alex the Alley Cat continuing her life long work training owners, horses, dogs and cats continuing her education to this day as research scientifist develop the latest, kindest, softest methods to give us years of safe, relaxed fear-free pets. Her world-wide success —proving that trust can achieve what force never will.

Disability & Senior Support Programs:

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As the previous Spokeswoman for the WorkCover Authority of NSW, Colleen has a special interest in working with people with disabilities and supporting seniors. Colleen combines a lifetime of knowledge working with athletes with disabilities of every kind. From those only able to join along on the bus ride and watch – right up to Paralympic medallists –

Colleen combines the animal behaviour knowledge, experience with people with disabilities and sports biomechanics to help – even in semi-retirement for free in her local Fraser Coast community, and writes programs for individuals, and groups needing help with their service & assistance animals. Colleen’s Tutu the Trickster & Alex the Alley Cat work within the local community helping people too nervous to come out of their homes, or having issues with their service and assistance animals. Colleen does not charge people with disabilities.

The International Anti-Slavery Commission:

Colleen’s charity has always been the International Anti-Slavery Commission, and her pioneering research: “The Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste Transnational Seasonal Employment Study“ of the many worker programs that cover the Pacific and Timor-Leste, such as the Australia Labor Mobility (PALM) Program, the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) in the USA, the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) in Canada, the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) in Canada, and the Seasonal Workers Directive and the Intra-Corporate Transfer (ICT) Directive in the European Union and similar seasonal and temporary worker programs that operate specifically in the Pacific and Timor Leste. This research initiative is recognised as the largest community science, data-driven initiative of its kind in the Pacific region and Timor-Leste. More.

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The Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste Transnational Seasonal Employment Study

by Colleen Kelly

Researcher: Adj. Prof. Colleen B. Kelly Start Date: February, 2025Completion Date: March, 2027 Follow-Up: A comprehensive final report will be submitted upon project completion, with recommended follow-up studies at 12 and 24 months to assess long-term impacts. 1. Introduction The Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste face urgent socio-economic challenges, such as high unemployment and limited educational … Continue reading The Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste Transnational Seasonal Employment Study

Negligent Hiring Practices: Preventing Risk to Organisations.

by Colleen Kelly

Negligent Hiring Practices: Preventing Risk to Organisations. by Colleen B Kelly **DISCLAIMER:** I am not a lawyer. While my background as the Wpokeswoman for the WorkCover Authority of NSW provides me with experience in human resources and workplace safety, and my many years as a Manager at Australia’s leading recruitment agency at the time has … Continue reading Negligent Hiring Practices: Preventing Risk to Organisations.

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