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ARTS WEST NATURE TECHNOLOGY CAMPAIGN HEALTH

New building will transform How much can $13m Centre to Physics gains in Exercise key to way humanities are taught a koala bear? boost innovation latest gifts avoiding decline

A changing climate means that One of the world’s largest advanced Physics at the by 2070 koalas may no longer call technology companies, Lockheed University of large parts of inland Australia home, Martin, will establish a new Melbourne has a University study has shown. STELaRLab (Science, Technology, been advanced Using a detailed ecological model, Engineering Leadership & Research with the researchers found hotter temperatures Laboratory) in the heart of the announcement of and altered rainfall patterns will make University’s engineering and science two major gifts. it more difficult for koalas to get the innovation precinct. Betty Laby water they need – making inland The $13 million Centre is a (MSc 1985), populations vulnerable to heat-stress. collaboration between Lockheed pictured, a former University The researchers mapped potential Martin, the Defence Science Institute DOCTORS statistician and department head, koala habitats in 2070 by using and the University. It will open for an honoured the memory of her father Regular exercise in middle age is information about koala behaviour, initial three years in existing University AT LARGE – esteemed University physicist the best lifestyle change a person can physiology, body size and fur to premises, before moving to a more and chemist Professor T.H. Laby make to prevent cognitive decline in predict how much energy and water permanent location as part of the 4706 (MA 1915) – by leaving a gift in the later years, a landmark 20-year the marsupials need to survive under University’s planned Carlton Connect candidates were her will for a Professorial Chair in study has found. the climate at a particular location. Innovation Precinct. studying for a Physics. The gift will support an area University researchers followed They found that the climatically It marks the first time Lockheed PhD across the in experimental or observational 387 Australian women from the << suitable area will be dramatically Martin has opened a research centre University in 2015, physics. Women’s Healthy Ageing Project The eye-catching reduced by 2070, particularly in outside of the US. 1673 of them in the Ms Laby was the last surviving for two decades. The women were new Arts West Queensland. The Centre’s establishment was Faculty of Medicine, member of a family with close ties aged from 45 to 55 when the study building provides The koala’s range across Australia coordinated through the Defence Dentistry and Health to the Faculty of Science. Her sister, began in 1992. informal learning was limited by water requirements Science Institute, which was set up Sciences. Dr Jean Laby (BSc 1940, MSc 1951, The research team noted their for keeping cool, with the timing in 2010 to facilitate the growth of PhD 1959), was the first woman to lifestyle factors, including exercise spaces and >> See page 15 of rainfall and heat waves being defence science research networks receive a doctoral degree in physics and diet, education, marital and features an image for a snapshot of crucial in limiting the area in which between Victorian universities, from the University. employment status, number of by Indigenous the University’s koalas live. Lead author of the government and the defence industry. Dr Laby later became a renowned children, mood, physical activity artist Tommy research output McRae on its study Dr Natalie Briscoe (BA 2006, Deputy Vice- physicist, specialising in climate and smoking. northern façade. BSc(Hons) 2007, GCALL 2012, Chancellor assessment. The women’s hormone levels, PhD 2014), from the School of (Research) The gift extends the Laby family’s cholesterol, height, weight, Body A new era for the Faculty of Arts collaborative learning is unsurpassed BioSciences, says the findings could Professor James support of the School of Physics, Mass Index and blood pressure were began with the start of Semester Two in the Asia Pacific region,” he says. help in forecasting future impacts of McCluskey, which stretches back more than 30 recorded 11 times throughout the and the opening of the Arts West “Arts West is an innovative, climate change on biodiversity. pictured, says years, largely through gifts from the study. Hormone replacement therapy building. amazing and fun place that opens “Studies of climate change impacts the University’s Laby Foundation. was also factored in. This stunning five-star energy- our minds to the rich possibilities on wildlife have often focused on collaboration with Ms Laby’s gift was followed more When measuring memory loss rated building is located at the heart of an Arts education.” how changes in average temperature Lockheed Martin is strategically recently with a gift from alumnus over 20 years, frequent physical of the traditional Arts precinct on the Vice-Chancellor Professor Glyn or rainfall will affect species, but our important. Dr Jake Haimson (BSc 1948, DSc activity, normal blood pressure Parkville campus, next to the Faculty’s Davis says Arts West will transform research highlights the importance “The University has made no 1967). Dr Haimson is an international and high good cholesterol were all historic home in Old Arts. the way humanities and social of thinking about the extreme secret of its desire to both deepen and pioneer in the design of microwave strongly associated with better recall. The new building’s visual impact sciences are taught at the University. conditions that will be most stressful broaden its engagement with industry electron linear accelerators – the Study author Associate Professor is immediate, with representations “It will be a true student hub, with for the animals – such as hot, dry to have high impact and work devices used to deliver high-energy Cassandra Szoeke (BSc(Hons) 1995, of images from the University’s rich 24 new teaching and learning spaces, periods – and how these may change together to solve some of the world’s X-rays in cancer radiotherapy. PhD 2006), who leads the Women’s cultural collections. The feature image a digital studio and a façade that in the future.” most challenging problems,” he says. Dr Haimson commissioned Healthy Ageing Project, says once on the north façade is by Indigenous displays images from the University’s The study was published in Global Change The Centre is expected to grow Australia’s first linear accelerators at dementia occurs, it is irreversible. artist Tommy McRae. cultural collections,” he says. Biology. rapidly over its 10 years, with its WINNER the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Regular exercise of any type, Curators have also worked “A key theme in the building’s researchers to be co-located with Dr Shwetha Shankar and the Royal Brisbane and Women’s from walking the dog to mountain alongside staff to create cabinets of design is connectivity – embodied universities around the country. (MPH 2015) has Hospital. climbing, emerged as the number curiosities throughout the building, in the principle of interdisciplinarity, It will provide PhD scholarships won a $250 book The Jacob Haimson and Beverly one protective factor against memory which build on learning outside the which informs teaching and research >> and internships, while directly voucher after opting Mecklenburg Lectureship in the loss. Associate Professor Szoeke says teaching and learning spaces. in the humanities at Melbourne, and Koalas are under funding research projects and co- to receive future School of Physics provides the school the best effects came from cumulative Professor Mark Considine the significant connection the Faculty pressure because of authoring applications in the future. editions of 3010 by with the flexibility to teach and exercise, that is, how much you do and (BA(Hons) 1976, PhD 1986), Dean of Arts has to our University and city.” climate change, with Initially the Centre is expected email. If you would research fields vital to society’s future. how often over the course of your life. of the Faculty of Arts, says the entire Arts West was designed by the the area in Australia to focus on basic research, covering prefer to receive The physics gifts are the latest The study was funded by the building makes an impression, architectural teams of Architectus & suitable for them set fields such as hypersonics, robotics, the digital edition, major contributions in Believe – National Health and Medical inside and out. “The focus of Arts ARM Architecture and was built in to be dramatically artificial intelligence, sensors and sign up at the Campaign for the University of Research Council and the Alzheimer’s West on immersive, interactive and partnership with Kane Constructions. reduced by 2070. communications. unimelb.edu.au/3010 Melbourne. Association. 6 MEDICINE MEDICINE 7 unimelb.edu.au/3010 A night in emergency It’s called ED. The place people instinctively turn to when they are injured or suddenly ill, and where the doctors are ready for anything. Writer Gary Tippet and photographer Julian Kingma spend a shift at Austin Health’s Emergency Department.

TUESDAY: a wet, grey, STAT IS the second point cold and miserable day. A day for slips of call for most people who present at the and falls, rear-end collisions, workplace ED. Initial assessment usually happens accidents, broken bones and sickness. at the Nurses’ Triage Station, just off Yet, at 3pm, the waiting room at the the waiting room, where patients are Emergency Department of Austin Health assigned a rating from 1 to 5 according in Heidelberg is little more than half full. to the seriousness of their condition and You should have been here yesterday, the urgency with which they need to be they say. The place was overflowing, the treated – 1 being the most critical. morose, fidgeting throng stretching along Most patients triaged at 1 and 2 will the corridor almost to the hospital foyer. bypass STAT and go straight to the main Of course, Mondays in the ED are always section of Emergency with its two staff busy, with people bringing in the injuries bases, two resuscitation rooms and 23 and ailments they have carried through green-screened cubicles. the weekend. In one of those this evening, ED This afternoon, though, is unusually registrar Dr Wong (BMedSc 2007, quiet. MB BS(Hons) 2009) meets 67-year‑old Quiet, of course, being a relative Maryann Pantalleresco, who, with daughter concept in a department that on average Tracy, has made a 30-kilometre taxi trip sees 225 patients every day – 82,074 in the “You can’t get bored”: Dr Mani Rajee to the hospital from her home at Hillside last financial year. Doctors Mani Rajee, (above) and Dr Lee Yung Wong (right) in the outer western suburbs. They’d have Lee Yung Wong and the rest of the staff in on duty in the Emergency Department. called an ambulance, she says, but knew Emergency are merely busy – as opposed she would have been taken to a different to run off their feet. Still, most of the 31 hospital. And she’s had a long history with cubicles in the department are occupied I turned around, caught my foot under a Austin Health since a liver transplant here by patients being treated or awaiting cabinet and went down like a … well, like in 1999. their turn. a bag of cement.” “I hear you’ve had a pretty rough trot,” In cubicle 26, Lindsay McDonald, 69, He had a similar fall a week ago. “Got a says Dr Wong. of Greensborough, sits with a bandage decent old bump. This one though, there “Yes, I’ve had the liver transplant, wrapped around his head. There is sticky was so much blood it looked like a crime bones broken in both my legs, breast blood in his hair and in dried rivulets scene where I hit the ground.” cancer, a thyroid operation, and whatever down both sides of his face. Dr Rajee Dr Rajee rebandages him. A cut that else there was I don’t remember.” carefully unwinds the bandage to reveal deep and so close to the eye means the Mrs Pantalleresco has had almost a ragged five-centimetre laceration, patient will be going to theatre for plastic constant diarrhoea for the past five days. starting above his swollen left eyebrow surgery, he explains, adding: “This needs She is very pale, badly dehydrated and 2016 ISSUE 2, and running down the side of his nose to be done properly by the experts.” close to exhaustion, with pain in the near his eye. Today, Dr Rajee is working in STAT – abdomen and lower back, possibly, she “Silly accident,” Mr McDonald explains. an acronym explained in a photocopied, says, from a recent fall. She winces and “Just after lunch today I was shopping, pasted-together sign above its inner door: moans softly as Dr Wong presses under

buying a high chair for my granddaughter. “See, Treat, Assess, Transfer”. her ribs and around her kidneys. CONTINUED PAGE 8 8 MEDICINE MEDICINE 9 unimelb.edu.au/3010 FROM PAGE 7

“I worry about her liver and all, her The door that her abdomen: “It’s like labour pain, but being so dehydrated,” Tracy tells him. never closes you probably wouldn’t understand how “That transplant is the greatest gift that feels.” Richard correctly suggests I’ve ever gotten,” says her mum. “I don’t Emergency medicine was not she may have colitis, perhaps from too want to have another.” recognised as a specialty in Australia many antibiotics. Dr Wong orders blood tests and sets until 1993, when the Australasian Back in STAT, 63-year-old Helen about getting her rehydrated. He’ll be College for Emergency Medicine Nikolaou presents with severe tonsillitis back to see her when the results come was formed. and asthma, and a temperature of 38.6. back, he says. “Before then,” says Dr Thomas Chan Later, her husband, Chris, arrives in a (MB BS 1991), Director of Emergency wheelchair from Austin Health’s Olivia Medicine at Austin Health, “emergency Newton-John Cancer Wellness and TODAY Lee Yung Wong was predominantly staffed by junior Research Centre next door, where he and Mani Rajee are two of the staff – doctors with oversight from various has been having radiation treatment for doctors, nurses, ward support staff, clerks, specialties that lent their expertise thyroid cancer that has spread to his imaging technicians and others – working depending on the situation.” brain, lymph nodes and lung. the afternoon shift in Emergency. The shift Under the so-called Anglo- “They’ve told me that without is from 3pm until 11pm, but Dr Wong, American model of emergency care, treatment I’d have 14 weeks; with in blue scrubs, has already been here a emergency departments are now treatment 16 months, maybe longer,” few hours covering for a colleague. staffed by specialists with a range of he says. He suspects Helen’s worry for Dr Wong came to Melbourne from core skills and training in evidence- him has worn her out. Kuching in Malaysia in 2004 as an based pathways to evaluate a range Helen will be admitted, but for 18-year-old enrolled in the University of of patients. his own good Chris has to leave, says Melbourne’s Trinity College Foundation “There are many demands at Dr Rajee. “Because he is having radiation one-year course for high-achieving that coalface,” says Dr Chan. “Time treatment he really needs to stay away international students, before joining the pressures; the ability to think on from someone with a serious infection.” Melbourne Medical School. Apart from your feet is important; there are the They keep coming: 17-year-old one year, he has been at Austin Health demands of shift work; and the ability Angus Garrard has broken the fifth since his internship there in 2010. After to prioritise your clinical demands metacarpal in his left hand after enjoying a few rotations through the ED, and to make sure not only are patients crashing his trail bike into a kangaroo at he began emergency medicine training diagnosed correctly but that they Hurstbridge; he goes home in a plaster in 2013. are identified as either potentially cast. Adele, 31, receives eight neat As someone who likes to work with his A routine day: (Clockwise deteriorating or otherwise.” stitches to seal a cut in her forehead hands, he says he toyed with doing some from top left) Dr Wong It is also vital to discern the social or suffered in a fall at a supermarket. surgical training, “but maybe my attention talks to Mrs Maryann underlying factors behind a patient. A scientist, who has had long-term span was too short”. The ED offered a Pantalleresco; Dr Rajee “The ED is the front door,” he says. eye problems including glaucoma and is similar chance of hands-on medicine gowns up; Dr Wong checks “When there’s no one else a patient can on the waiting list for a second cataract as well as offering constant variety and a patient; and Mr Lindsay go to, be it medical or social, they come operation, presents with a bad bleed in immediacy. McDonald has his head to the ED because we’re open 24/7.” his right eye. A victim of a massive stroke “We’re generalists,” he says. “We try wound treated. passes away in a resuscitation room. to care for the patient as a whole and Late in the shift, Dr Wong bends over I think that’s a good quality of emergency a computer screen and shakes his head. medicine. interesting,” he says. “It was a new field “Emergency is stressful but also very badly swollen. He was putting up some Mrs Pantalleresco’s lab results are back “People are usually in a great deal and you had a chance to do everything. satisfying,” says Dr Rajee. “You have some THE NIGHT guttering yesterday when the ladder and one number worries him. of pain or distress when they come to You could do some surgical work; you gift that you’ve learned and you can use grinds on. Doctors Rajee and Wong tend slipped and he rode it to the ground. Her level of creatinine – a chemical Emergency. I like the fact that you can could do some medical work. You got to it to help other people in critical times. to a constant stream of the injured and X-rays show a fractured patella, an waste product usually filtered out still do a lot for them. There’s a really see everything – the good, the bad and It’s a nice feeling if you’re helping another the ill. ultrasound confirms there is no bleeding through the kidneys – is at 398 when short space of time in which you can the ugly. human being in need. That is the greatest In cubicle 30, 81-year-old Giuseppe in the joint, and a 3D scan reveals in it should be less than 100. Six days of do a really great intervention – whether “You can’t get bored. You might deal feeling.” Prestileo waits with his wife, Caterina. detail the break, which looks like a diarrhoea seems to have shut down it’s just listening to someone or giving with a heart attack, then all of a sudden it’s The ED can be challenging and often Nine years ago, he was treated for slightly tilted capital F. her kidneys. She may be headed for them medication or pain relief. There’s a kid with a broken bone or someone with confronting, adds Dr Wong. But one of prostate cancer and now uses a catheter The good news is that it won’t require intensive care. something attractive about doing a small a stroke. You see every type of patient, the attractions is working in a big team every two days “to clear the way”. wiring and Graeme goes home in a He goes to see her: “I’ve got some thing that has a big impact in a great time the young, the old, male and female, cuts responding to those challenges. He tells Dr Rajee: “I put it in today Zimmer splint stretching from his upper news for you and it’s not good. We have of need.” and lacerations, serious infections, people There is enormous camaraderie in and I think I went too far. I’m urinating thigh to lower calf. done the blood tests and you are in Emergency physician Dr Rajee is dying in the department.” At Footscray Emergency, he says, a strong, positive, blood, blood with my wee. Too much Meanwhile, Fiona Turner, 31, has kidney failure.” Clinical Sub-Dean in Emergency Medicine Hospital years ago, he even delivered a supporting culture. “When something blood.” arrived at Staff Base 2. Dr Wong lets “Oh, lovely,” she says. Her daughter at the Austin Clinical School and the baby in the ED. major comes through those doors and After a bladder scan and some second-year medical student Richard begins to cry. University of Melbourne Faculty of But there are frustrations, he adds. you see everyone switch on and chip in hydration, his home diagnosis is Cole, on his first shift in the ED, “It’s all right, Trace,” says her mum. Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. Increasingly, people are using the ED like and work together, that really is a sight confirmed: he has scratched inside his question her. Fiona tells him she has “And anyway, we’ve got two kidneys, But before coming to Australia 23 years a general practitioner’s clinic for relatively to behold. bladder. He is catheterised and the urine been persistently unwell since a bout of haven’t we? It’s just another word on my 2016 ISSUE 2, ago, he had never worked in an emergency minor ailments. There are drunken and “I think for most people doing dripping into a bag gradually turns from influenza two years ago, has had gastro long list – kidneys.” department. In Chennai, in southern drug-affected patients and staff face abuse emergency, including myself, I don’t think deep red to a light rose tinge. But he’ll problems and has been on antibiotics Dr Wong says they will now admit India, he had been an ear, nose and throat and even violence. It is why the staff in the we can see ourselves doing anything else. spend the night in the short-stay unit. since May. her and begin treating and rehydrating surgeon. triage area now work from behind glass There’s a small caveat to that – it’s a tough In an examination room, plumber Very pale and in tears, she says she has her. “That’s good,” she says. “I know I’m “When I started, it was very, very screens like those in banks. job to do full-time, for your whole life.” Graeme Davis’s left knee is sore and a band of severe pain stretching around always in good hands when I come here.” 10 CULTURE CULTURE 11 unimelb.edu.au/3010 Gold Rush. Yet it wasn’t until the 1970s that Australia rid itself of the last vestiges of the White Australia policy. Today, the biggest sources of immigrants are the The great century’s rising nations, China and India. It is a different world, but there are George Megalogenis obvious parallels with today’s tensions. Again, we are a population where about has made it his mission half of us were either born overseas, or to help Australians explainer are the children of immigrants. Australia has been suspicious of Chinese arrivals, understand their and the Irish, and the post-war ‘wogs’ and Jews, then the Vietnamese, and now country. Muslims. Throughout our history, the fears and suspicions have been similar. BY GAY ALCORN “This is the second time in our history we’ve been in this position,” says e would be embarrassed to Megalogenis. “The last time we were there be so described, but George we did some things that got us into a lot Megalogenis is one of the of trouble … The instincts now are not H country’s leading intellectuals. dissimilar to what they were in the 1880s. Academic Dennis Altman has called him “When Australians are sitting on a “arguably the most important Australian pile of cash, whether it’s been distributed political commentator of his generation”. equitably or not, when we are relative to Megalogenis (BCom 1984) is a rare the rest of the world Number 1 or close to journalist in a time of frenetic, hyped-up, it, we get greedy and we get fearful and we click-bait media. He has chosen to slow think that the only way to hold on to this down, leaving The Australian newspaper thing is to not let anyone else in. We don’t four years ago to concentrate on thoughtful, The son of Greek settlers, want to share it. We almost forget, and it’s big-picture books. George Megalogenis has a a generational thing.” They are ambitious books about deep interest in Australia’s He says the election threw up all the old Australia’s biggest challenges, yet he has immigration story. paradoxes. One Nation’s Pauline Hanson the knack of being able to trawl through PICTURE: DARRIAN TRAYNOR is back, with her policies of stopping mountains of data and find the threads in Muslims from migrating to Australia. our political, economic and social history. Yet academic Anne Aly became the first We meet at a coffee shop – he orders to avoid the Great Recession,” he writes. The Coalition had a poor result in this skinned journalists he can recall – himself the world’s richest nation in 1852, and the Muslim woman elected to the Federal two strong lattes in a row – to talk about “It has left us with gridlocked cities, election, barely scraping back to power and Indigenous journalist Stan Grant. centre of this prosperity was Melbourne. Parliament, winning in a marginal Perth his latest book, Australia’s Second Chance, growing inequality and a corporate sector after a single term in office. Citizens again “Poor old Stan kept getting mistaken The city was, he writes, the world’s electorate. “That tension is alive today published late last year, and his Quarterly that feels no obligation to pay tax.” displayed their disenchantment with for a Greek,” he laughs. It wasn’t until his first middle-class economy, its population between the open and the closed.” Essay, Balancing Act, published in March. The essay was written before the July 2 established politics by directing a record 20s and 30s that he started to feel and rising by more than 70 per cent in The world has changed. Students now Megalogenis is everywhere at the federal election. Megalogenis says now that percentage of votes to independent and understand his Greek background. the 1880s, with a swaggering sense of comprise the biggest movement of people moment. He’s about to do a Wheeler Centre he always believed that counter-intuitively, minor parties. It seems an obvious thing to say that optimism and opportunity. That was a globally in the past 15 years. They arrive talk on the Mornington Peninsula. The it might be a conservative government “The major parties are still looking at the Megalogenis’s background must be time when the population was split – here to study, and many stay. They are following week, he will deliver the annual led by someone like Malcolm Turnbull result as some sort of Australian version of related to his deep interest in Australia’s almost half the people were born locally middle-class and educated, and they are Manning Clark history lecture. He’s at that would find it easier to shift the role of Brexit or the Trump phenomenon, which is immigration story. If Balancing Act is about and half were born abroad. choosing Australia in great numbers festivals and on panels, and last year his a protest vote. I still don’t think it’s a protest how Australia needs to respond to the compared with other countries. lanky frame walked us through a three-part “The default setting of vote. It’s a very active message to both sides challenges of this century, Second Chance “I’m talking about a He wonders about the differences ABC documentary, Making Australia Great: of politics that until you’re prepared to meet is about how we got here, and that is a between their experience and that of his Inside our Longest Boom. politics in the 21st century us, not halfway, but meet us on our terms, remarkable story of immigration. much more diverse generation. While new arrivals after the His Quarterly Essay argues that “the with a more active government, I’m not We have flourished economically and war took up ‘cultural reference points’ debate we have to have is on the role of — to trust in the market — has prepared to give you loyalty.” socially when we have been an open, and confident culture such as football to fit in and become government in the economy”. Both major Megalogenis, 52, is the son of Greek welcoming country, he argues. We have Australian, today’s arrivals can read political parties, he says, cling defensively proven to be bad economics, immigrants. His father, a poor fisherman, suffered when we have become scared and and a country that can and watch anything around the world, to the open market economy when it is arrived in 1950 from the Greek island of turned inward. following their home countries’ cultural “exhausted” and unable to deal with the even for Australia.” Ithaca. His mother arrived in 1962 after Megalogenis wants Australia to look after itself.” and political life with ease. challenges of the 21st century, especially then prime minister Robert Menzies offered realise how special it is at this moment in “The challenge for the culture is to education, physical infrastructure and government, just as it was paradoxically free air travel to girls in her village. history. We are unique among developed All that changed. The boom was include the new arrival quicker than we climate change. The public is volatile, easier for Labor to deregulate and open up Megalogenis remembers being bullied in nations with our quarter of a century of followed by a bust, and Australia turned were included because that migrant is angry and mistrustful of our political the economy in the 1980s. That hope seems primary school, and how the only positive uninterrupted economic growth. “No inwards, fearful of foreign competition more mobile,” he says. system, yearning for a substantially greater dashed for now, with politics becoming representation of Greeks in popular culture other economy has had a comparable and invasion, mistrustful especially of “But once they’ve made that choice, we role for government. Yet neither major more focused than ever on the short term. at the time seemed to be Championship winning streak to ours, and at a time of Chinese immigration. That would lead should be able to convert enough of them 2016 ISSUE 2, party has made that leap. “I’m not arguing for more intervention,” Wrestling. But mostly, he didn’t think much global instability,” he writes. Yet, we are to the White Australia policy, which was, to create a great country. Great sounds a “The default setting of politics in the he says. “I’m arguing for a much more about his Greek heritage. again fearful, worried our luck will falter. among all else, a disaster for the economy. bit hubristic, I don’t mean it like that. I’m 21st century – to trust in the market – intelligent, evidence-based involvement He remembers that when he joined the We have been here before. Spurred by We opened up again with the talking about a much more diverse and has proven to be bad economics, even for for government when the market can’t do parliamentary press gallery in Canberra in the huge numbers of people arriving for immigration experiment after World War confident culture and a country that can

Australia, the only high-income nation t h e j o b.” the late 1980s, there were only two darker- the Gold Rush, Australia officially became II, the largest wave of migration since the look after itself.” 12 DIPLOMACY DIPLOMACY 13 unimelb.edu.au/3010 Her Excellency

he’s across the Russian classics, so I didn’t actually think I had a realistic knows the right protocol for chance. I don’t think that country kids are every occasion, and is attuned as confident about their prospects as city S to the smart chat heard in kids are,” she says. diplomatic circles across the world. She was accepted to Melbourne, She’s a model of calm and tact. Even so, studying Russian (“to test myself”), as Margaret Twomey’s temperament is well as French, Politics and German, sometimes tested. and thrived in the supportive, tolerant Such as in February this year, when environment of St Mary’s College. Cyclone Winston smashed into Fiji with She joined the Department of devastating results. Entire villages were Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in wiped out. More than 40 people were killed. 1988, determined to seize whatever As Australia’s High Commissioner opportunities arose. “You can spend time in Suva, our most senior diplomat in in Canberra waiting and waiting for your Fiji, Twomey (BA(Hons) 1984, St Mary’s As a senior diplomat, dream posting and still not be guaranteed College) has vivid memories of the day of getting it. I don’t think that sort of Winston struck. All communications were Margaret Twomey fixation is the best way to approach a lost. “We didn’t know what had happened career with DFAT. You have to be open to people on different islands, it was just has learnt to expect to the many opportunities it presents – silence. It was quite disturbing and eerie,” opportunities to do things you’d never she recalls. the unexpected. even thought of.” While traumatic for all involved, the That means Her first posting, in 1990, was to disaster was an opportunity for Twomey Belgrade in what is now Serbia, as Third to do what she does best: get things done. everything Secretary, a junior-level diplomat. “It was The career public servant’s no-nonsense just exhilarating. From the day I got there I approach – coupled with a sense of from coups to realised this is what I want to do,” she says. humour – has propelled her rise through Next stop was London, then Fiji and the diplomatic ranks, with postings in cyclones, writes East Timor, interspersed with spells in Belgrade, London, East Timor and Russia, Canberra. In 2008, she finally landed her as well as two stints in Fiji. Val McFarlane. dream posting – Ambassador to Russia. It’s not always been a smooth ride, She was in Moscow for more than and not just because of the forces of four years, and loved finally being able nature. During her first posting, in in a cocktail dress, and she thrives on places. I wouldn’t say all of us find all the integration this achieves varies. to use the language skills she had learnt Yugoslavia, civil war broke out. In 2000, the variety. “Never been bored in my dimensions either easy or enjoyable, but, She tells of performing with local at university. While she had always been just six weeks into her first posting to Fiji life,” she smiles. As the Commonwealth if you’re not prepared to do it all, you’re singers in East Timor: “We had to have more interested in Russian language and as Deputy High Commissioner and the equivalent of an ambassador, she manages not going to be a successful diplomat.” uniforms made – long-sleeved, down-to- linguistics than literature, she found her day after her boss went on leave, there was the Australian diplomatic mission in Twomey says the role she enjoys the-ground dresses, polyester, light blue knowledge of both invaluable. a civilian coup. A few years later, while Suva, and acts as Australia’s representative most is explaining “the vibe” in her host with yellow rick-rack. Not my colours! “I now realise that you cannot work serving as Ambassador to East Timor, on the ground, talking to the Fijian country to the Australian Government. The idea was for us all to look the same, effectively in Russia without knowing severe civil unrest required Twomey Government on issues of mutual interest. “That term has been somewhat but when the conductor said ‘All rise’, the difference between your Dostoyevsky to negotiate the return of Australian The clichés about the glamorous life of discredited by The Castle, but there is and your Tolstoy,” she says. “I knew peacekeepers in a bid to restore calm. an envoy are not entirely untrue. She does truth in there!” she says. “We all look at “The whole point of about that. It really enhanced the Her return to Fiji, which she said was attend events where she mingles with the the world and its issues through different level of respect I got from our Russian a ‘surprise’, came after a difficult period great and the good – but it’s not for fun. prisms and constructs. We can all sit in diplomacy is knowing who’s interlocutors.” in Australia-Fiji relations. Twomey was “The point of those gatherings is to Canberra and say this approach to this She is now halfway through her three- nominated to the post in 2012, but it was network, because the whole point of problem is the logical, sensible way and doing and thinking what, year posting to Fiji and has no idea what not until 2014 that she was able to take diplomacy is knowing who’s doing and if it’s innately logical then we shouldn’t she’ll do after that. “I don’t take any of it it up, after the Australian Government thinking what, where the influencers are,” have any trouble convincing other where the influencers are.” for granted,” she says. “In Moscow, I used dropped the last of the sanctions it she says. “It’s about knowing who to call countries that this is the way it should to have to go past St Basil’s Cathedral imposed on Fiji after its 2006 military when something happens and you need to be approached.” I rise one foot above everyone else in my and Red Square twice a day. I never once coup. “Good things come to those who engage quickly. It’s about having the right By explaining “the vibe”, that is, the row.” failed to stop and appreciate it, because it wait,” she says. “They had elections person on speed dial and being able to way an issue is perceived on the ground, Twomey wanted to be a diplomat was always so stunning. It never got less in September 2014 and I arrived in have that conversation.” diplomats can add real value to the from the age of 12, when her mother stunning. November 2014, so it was a good time for Public speaking is another important formulation of foreign policy. suggested the career might be a good “And in Fiji, I wake up in the morning 2016 ISSUE 2, a fresh start between Australia and Fiji. part of the role. “It’s all about letting Wherever she works, Twomey, match for her interest in languages, and I look out my bedroom window and We just got on with doing things.” people know who you are and what who describes herself as a “respectable history and travel. However, growing up I see lush green grass, banana trees, palm For the modern diplomat, those your government is about. It’s all part Margaret Twomey in the High Commission soprano”, likes to join a local choir to in Shepparton, in country Victoria, she trees, beautiful flowers, and I see a bit of “things” can be almost anything. Twomey of the mix. Diplomacy is about widely grounds in Suva (top); and (above) outside integrate as much as possible into the doubted it would ever happen. “I always the sea … and it is just spectacular. You is as likely to be found in cargo pants as varying demands in widely varying St Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow. community. However, the degree of knew it was going to be very competitive, can’t help but feel lucky.”

MAIN PICTURE: KONRAD THORPE 14 BY THE NUMBERS BY THE NUMBERS 15 IN PROFILE: A RESEARCH POWERHOUSE The University of Melbourne How the numbers shaped up in 2015 is one of Australia’s major Number of sta 8980 research organisations, with engaged in research: expenditure second only $ to the CSIRO, and the largest Total HERDC* cohort of research students million income: $396 Amount * HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH DATA COLLECTION spent on research $1021 in Australia. across the University publication count: 8990 University: million

There are thousands of research stories at Patents granted: 26 the University. Jaclyn Pearson’s is just one. A COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE Dr Pearson swapped rock and roll for Pearson — one of the 4844 medical and microbiology. She was an accomplished health researchers aligned to the University drummer touring with the ARIA-nominated — also received the National Health and “The University of Melbourne $ continues to be the preeminent rock band Lash when she decided she needed Medical Research Council’s Peter Doherty research university in Australia. to return to her other love — science. Early Career Fellowship and now works as With a total estimated research “I felt brain dead,” she says of her frenzied a postdoctoral researcher at the Doherty Gross royalties received: expenditure exceeding $1 billion, rock and roll years. “I just thought, ‘I have to Institute. the University is the second do something different’.” She says the collegial nature of the $2.1 million largest research and development For her doctorate, Pearson (GCALL 2013, Doherty allows her to work more closely organisation in the country. PhD 2014) conducted ground-breaking with other scientists fighting infectious TY Research of the highest quality undertaken by the research into E. coli and other gut bacteria diseases. SI RA ER N University covers a diverse breadth of disciplines. that cause diarrhoeal disease. Her PhD “We have a great bunch of people who V K This is reflected in the University’s strong revealed exactly how the bacteria use work on viruses and the immune system I I performance in the 2015 Excellence in Research

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i o s recognised in its ranking as the number one nature,” she says. sound as glamorous as drumming for a rock m n r e #42 i Australian university in both the ARWU and #33 i Pearson’s work, which won the 2014 band. But Pearson says she is fascinated by e l d k t THE rankings and number two in the QS ranking. s n i Premier’s Award for Health and Medical how something “so small could have such a R a s H Through the Growing Esteem and Research at Research, could lead to more effective A r huge impact in the world”. ig e Melbourne initiatives, the University’s commitment c h n v treatments against these bacteria in the Pearson knows the organisms she studies a er tio i to the people and infrastructure that underpin future. cause disease in millions of people. “It should d Educa n em U world-class research, should see this exceptional “Unless we understand all of the ways be something that we can fix,” she says. i ld level of performance continue into the future.” c R or the bacteria causes the infection you can’t “People have been working on these ank of W PROFESSOR JULIE WILLIS, actually treat the infection,” she says. “And bacteria for over a hundred years. And we’re ing PRO VICE-CHANCELLOR (RESEARCH CAPABILITY) there is no effective vaccine for these bugs still figuring out exactly how they’re causing * THIS RANKING WAS RELEASED IN AUGUST 2016 at the moment.” disease and exactly how we can treat them.” PHILANTHROPY VIA BELIEVE — THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE HAS BROUGHT IN AN ADDITIONAL $230 MILLION FOR RESEARCH, INCLUDING 24 NEW PROFESSORIAL CHAIRS. 16 THE ENVIRONMENT THE ENVIRONMENT 17 HOT ON THE TRAIL unimelb.edu.au/3010 Hundreds of University staff and students are engaged in critical climate change research. Some operate in far-flung locations, others are much closer to home.

BY TIM THWAITES (BSc(Ho n s ) 1974, Trinity College, Janet Clarke Hall)

or a legion of researchers, the and botany, engineering and the medical search for clues as to how our sciences to economics, law and politics, climate is warming can be as as well as many interdisciplinary much about hard toil as hard teams. Their work ranges from the science. And doing it in some highly theoretical, such as constructing Fof the most remote and inhospitable numerical models from basic physics, to places on Earth. the eminently practical, such as studying For Dr Michael-Shawn Fletcher it how best to plant “green” roofs and wall has meant trekking into the Tasmanian gardens. Some of what they find is being wilderness in winter – as he did last used to guide the University itself. year – to drill into the bed of a pristine “Universities are communities with lake, after first cutting through a similar populations to towns and large 20-centimetre crust of ice. businesses, facing many of the same Over the past 15 years, Fletcher challenges of climate-change mitigation (BEd(Sec) 1997, PGDipArts 2000, PhD and adaptation,” says David Karoly, 2009), has been extracting sediment to; and charcoal can show the frequency Professor of Atmospheric Science in cores – with the diameter of a jam jar and extent of fire across time and space. the School of Earth Sciences. “They and up to 10 metres long – from lake All are indicators of past climate. can provide a test-bed as to how to beds all over the Southern Hemisphere: Already, Fletcher has found an successfully transform into a 21st in Chile, New Zealand, south-western astonishing correlation between the century, climate-adapted, sustainable Victoria, the south coast of NSW and, occurrence of fires and climate variation community.” recently, Litchfield National Park near across the entire hemisphere, going back Professor Karoly has been Darwin. tens of thousands of years. documenting and championing action Many of his sites are so remote Earlier this year, he and student on climate change for more than 30 that his floating platform and drilling Michaela Mariani published a paper that years. But there is still much work to equipment have to be dropped in by should assist in predicting high-risk fire do. Although the existence of human- helicopter. For his Tasmanian research, seasons in Tasmania. It linked the drying induced climate change is as well Fletcher, from the University’s School of of western Tasmania and the subsequent documented scientifically as almost any Geography and Resource Management, increased frequency of bushfires over phenomenon, he says, we are still unclear was operating in Ben Lomond National the past 1000 years with the southward as to how it will all work out in detail, Park, south-east of Launceston. movement of the westerly winds known particularly at a regional and local level. Why do it? “Lakes are receptacles as the Roaring Forties. And we also need to know how best to of atmospheric information through The recent depletion of the ozone respond to it practically. time,” he explains. “It can be in the form layer in the upper atmosphere, or “For instance, one important thing 2015 ISSUE 2, of dust, pollen, or charcoal, or even the stratosphere, has previously been shown is to understand extreme weather and products of surface chemical reactions to be a driver of this process. It correlates climate events and the link to human- that are absorbed into the plants and closely with an increased frequency caused climate change. You can already animals living in the lake. Eventually of fires in the past 30 years. Fletcher do this, but only for some events, on

all of these settle into the sediments at believes this is evidence of human- some occasions.” the bottom.” induced climate change at work. That’s why a major activity of his Professor David Karoly His sediment cores provide clues He is one of hundreds of academic research group involves using an has been documenting to what has happened over time. The staff, post-doctoral fellows and graduate international citizen science program, the changing climate deeper one drills, the further back one students at the University of Melbourne Weather@home ANZ, to develop ways of for more than 30 years. goes. Pollen, for instance, tells you what studying aspects of what many regard as understanding the connections between Inset: Dr Michael-Shawn plant species were around; dust contains the world’s most significant challenge. climate change and such events as floods, Fletcher on a frozen the minerals that were present and tells They span a broad range of disciplines cyclones and heat waves. The problem is lake in Tasmania. you about the erosion they were subject from physics and chemistry to zoology CONTINUED PAGE 18 MAIN PICTURE: JUSTIN McMANUS 18 THE ENVIRONMENT ARTS 19 unimelb.edu.au/3010 FROM PAGE 17 bromine, used as refrigerants and in aerosol sprays. a lack of available data to And that’s where Dr Robyn compare what is likely to happen Schofield, of the School of due to the current build-up of Earth Sciences, comes in. She greenhouse gases against what originally trained in quantum MUSIC would have happened without it. chemistry, “but I knew that I The solution is to run wanted to do something applied, hundreds of thousands of something that would make a simulations of different difference some day”. conditions using regional and That opportunity presented FINDS global climate models on the itself when she made a trip to a home computers of volunteers. relatively remote New Zealand And the result is a growing observing station in the central number of papers showing, South Island, one of five for example, that the present worldwide that measures the A NEW devastating coral bleaching “clean” background composition event on the Great Barrier Reef of the upper atmosphere. has been made 177 times more Drilling for evidence: Dr Michael-Shawn Fletcher sets up a rig in his “I saw how I could use what I likely by climate change. And, hunt for evidence of climate change. had learned. And I haven’t looked if we do not act, within a couple back,” she says. BEAT of decades such events could occur every clouds forming as the wind blew over a Dr Schofield now specialises in two years. ridge. I realised that this was just fluid measuring the levels at different altitudes Apart from leading his own research dynamics at work,” he says. “So, that’s what of reactive chemicals and aerosols, group, Professor Karoly encourages I chose to do, because it was something typically greenhouse gases other than research in interdisciplinary groups and meaningful to the average person in the CO2, such as ozone. activities across the University. Last year, street. I could explain it to my mother, She does this by studying the variations for instance, he and his colleagues were the non-scientist in my family.” in the absorption of sunlight, particularly instrumental in the publication of Appetite If Karoly and other researchers need its ultraviolet component, as its path for Change, a report on the practical impact evidence that things can change, they can through the atmosphere changes while the of climate change on food production in draw on a recent example. sun is setting. This research has taken her Australia, together with a cookbook, Successful international action has all over the world, including Antarctica – Melbourne’s Planet to Plate. raised ozone levels in the stratosphere – and it has producing practical results. It all goes back to why he became helping to heal the Antarctic ozone hole She is now part of a team developing musical reputation interested in the subject in the first place. – verification of which was announced in AIR-BOX, a custom-built laboratory that will be enhanced A city boy, he grew up with a love of late June. fits into a shipping container to carry out outdoor activity – bushwalking, rock- This result has been attributed to the comprehensive atmospheric monitoring by a new climbing, skiing. This engagement Montreal Protocol, signed in 1987, under and take measurements in difficult places, continued at university, where he studied which the world community agreed to such as near the Great Barrier Reef. Conservatorium maths and physics. reduce the release of ozone-depleting Its deployment would be another small “On one trip, I stood and watched compounds containing chlorine and step in a massive interdisciplinary effort. at the heart of the city’s Arts Precinct.

It’s not that easy being green . . . The $104.5 million building has been he University has committed Sustainable Society Institute. The designed by John Wardle Architects to significantly reducing its Institute brings together academics at for the Melbourne Conservatorium T greenhouse gas emissions. Earlier the forefront of sustainability knowledge of Music. Plans for the new building this year, it signed a Sustainability Charter and encompasses research groups such include a 443-seat auditorium, with that “sets out the values and principles to as the Melbourne Energy Institute and classes due to start in 2019. be embedded throughout [its] operations, the Australian-German Climate & Energy Existing Conservatorium buildings and identifies the commitments required College, a partnership between the on the Parkville campus, including to achieve a sustainable future”. University and three universities in the the renowned Melba Hall, will be But that’s not easy, as Professor David Berlin-Potsdam area. retained. The new building will be a Karoly points out. “How do you grow your The University, through the Institute, striking addition to the Southbank business at the same time as continuing is also involved in all manner of outreach campus of the Faculty of the Victorian to reduce emissions?” activities, such as public seminars on College of the Arts and Melbourne Devising courses that incorporate climate change policy and research, and Conservatorium of Music. sustainability, establishing climate-change research groups, and support for Climarte, an alliance of people in the arts committed engineering clever ways to reduce energy use are essentially to using their skills to record, reflect and support the struggle To mark the announcement, 2016 ISSUE 2, bread-and-butter activities for universities. for a safe climate. Sonia Harford profiles some But issues such as divestment of fossil fuel stocks and reducing Alumni can contribute to the development of the University’s the level of academic travel, he says, are not. Sustainability Plan – the strategy for meeting the charter’s goals. of the brilliant talent to emerge Still, the University is making headway, with help from For information go to: from the Faculty. >> its interdisciplinary research bodies, such as the Melbourne sustainablecampus.unimelb.edu.au IMAGES COURTESY OF JOHN WARDLE ARCHITECTS 20 ARTS ARTS 21

NICOLE CAR STEPHANIE LAKE OPERA SINGER CHOREOGRAPHER (BMusPerf 2007) (BFA (Dance) 1999)

She’s being compared to Joan Sutherland An award-winning dancer and and her voice has been described as choreographer, Stephanie Lake has her “full‑bodied and honeyed”. Soprano Nicole own company and is also commissioned Car debuted at London’s Covent Garden by other leading ensembles, including last year and received immediate acclaim. the Sydney Dance Company. Her career One critic referred to her “show-stealing” has taken her on numerous international performance. Car started winning awards tours with companies such as Chunky soon after graduating from the Melbourne Move. She recently returned from far north Conservatorium of Music and becoming Queensland, where she premiered a new a regular with Opera Australia. Her most work with the Dancenorth company. recent role with OA was Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS “Recently one of my works toured to Paris CAREER HIGHLIGHTS to the amazing Théâtre National de Chaillot, Car says her debuts in different opera one of the most prestigious dance venues in houses have been serious highlights. the world. That was a pinch-yourself moment “Walking onto the Sydney Opera House … But honestly it’s the little moments in the stage for the first time to sing Micaëla in studio, little triumphs you have when you’re Carmen, my European debut at Deutsche making or performing a work.” Oper Berlin in Eugene Onegin, and performing both roles at the Royal Opera CAREER AND INFLUENCES House Covent Garden are all treasured Lake singles out choreographers Lucy memories for me.” Guerin and Gideon Obarzanek, former director of Chunky Move, as major influences. CAREER AND INFLUENCES “I’m also really influenced by my peers. I’ve “My teacher Anna Connolly (Senior Lecturer collaborated in theatre, film and television in Voice at the Melbourne Conservatorium and with visual artists, and I work a lot with of Music) has always been a great influence. my partner Robin Fox who’s a composer She encouraged a young singer with raw and audio-visual artist.” potential to become the performer and person that I am today. I have worked with WHAT BEING A DANCER AND many wonderful coaches around the world, CHOREOGRAPHER MEANS TO ME but she still knows my voice better than “It’s so bound up in my whole identity, anyone else.” it’s really hard to separate it. I see everything through the lens of movement. It’s my WHAT BEING A SINGER MEANS TO ME passion and also my anxiety and the thing Apart from a demanding calendar of events that keeps me up at night.” in the opera world, Car is also sought out for concert appearances and classical A UNIVERSITY MEMORY music recordings. She believes if you can “Those three years were very intense, and imagine yourself doing any other job you it was a lot of really, really hard work but should pursue that instead. “It’s hard work I look back on it fondly. In second year and there will be many knockbacks and we had a visiting choreographer called challenges along the way. However, the Phillip Adams (DipArts (Dance) 1988) who moment I step onto the stage and know established his company BalletLab the year that I have the chance to move people in I was graduating and that was my first job. the audience, that makes it all worthwhile.” He’d just come back from New York and he brought something we hadn’t experienced A UNIVERSITY MEMORY before — an exciting physicality. It was “In my final year, I was a soloist in Mahler’s really rough and incredibly fast. I had a lot Des Knaben Wunderhorn with the VCA of energy for it then! That was the kickstart orchestra at the Melbourne Town Hall. of my career.” It was my first opportunity to sing with an orchestra and I absolutely loved it.”

Right: Nicole Car (left) in an Opera Australia production Inset: Stephanie Lake of Cosi Fan Tutte. leads a dance class.

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ADAM ELLIOT ANNA SAMSON ANIMATOR ACTOR (GDipFT 1996) (BDrama 2011)

Adam Elliot rocketed to global fame when Anna Samson’s youth belies the breadth his short film Harvie Krumpet, narrated by of stage roles she has mastered since another Australian Oscar winner, Geoffrey graduating from the VCA five years ago. Rush, won an Academy Award in 2004. Having performed with Australia’s major It was the culmination of years working theatre companies and appeared in plays on clay animation projects. While still at by Brendan Cowell and Joanna Murray- the VCA, Elliot completed Uncle, and a Smith (BA(Hons) 1985) among others, she professional debut work, Cousin, soon co-starred recently with Colin Friels in a followed. After his Oscar success, he went Melbourne Theatre Company production on to make a feature film, Mary and Max, of David Hare’s Skylight. in 2009. His obsession with storytelling, he says, continues to shape films such as CAREER HIGHLIGHTS the recent short Ernie Biscuit. “I’m certainly “For me the highlight of Skylight is the not an experimental filmmaker, I’m pretty quality of the writing I got to work with,” old-fashioned, I tell pretty basic narratives.” she says. “I made dear friendships and gained some surprising recognition for CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Birdland at Melbourne Theatre Company. “I remember the very first time I screened I’ve always adored working for the MTC, one of my films at the St Kilda Film Festival and Red Stitch, too — an important little opening night. Just that buzz of hearing theatre and a piece of the puzzle that is my people laugh at what you’ve created. Any career. And, of course, there was the time award opens doors and the Academy Award I was in a film and met my now fiancé.” certainly did. I got to make Mary and Max, which opened the Sundance Film Festival.” CAREER AND INFLUENCES Influences are “a patchwork of people, CAREER AND INFLUENCES places and things” for Anna: “Teachers A self-confessed ‘lost soul’ before his time who inspired me, friends whose work and at the VCA, he was selling hand-painted way of viewing the world surprises me. T-shirts at art and craft markets. Choosing Artists, performances and people that try an animation course, he knew he had to be brave, to do something different or to study hard. “But it really transformed something pure. My friend Olga, my first me. I discovered animation was an drama teacher, the Schaubühne theatre amalgamation of all the things I loved — company, my dad, Winnie the Pooh, my making things, telling stories, entertaining talented mates, Ralph Fiennes ...” large audiences.” WHAT BEING AN ACTOR WHAT BEING AN ANIMATOR MEANS TO ME MEANS TO ME “Acting is the one area of storytelling I felt “You can reach so many people with a film I was most gifted in,” she says. “I’ve always whereas with a sculpture or a painting found the theatre to be a place of great it’s more limited. I get letters from people freedom and magic. I’m still finding myself who’ve seen my films in Iran and Argentina in the world and that can be scary; finding and Iceland, so it’s very validating when you yourself onstage always felt a little more hear from people who have been moved or comfortable. I think being able to go out educated or enlightened or inspired.” under some lights and find the way another human thinks, somehow filtering it all A UNIVERSITY MEMORY through your own truth, is magic.” Elliot recalls the day the highly respected director and producer Fred Schepisi paid A UNIVERSITY MEMORY a visit. “We were all in awe of him. When “My friend Tom Hobbs (BDrama 2012), someone so well-known takes the time a classmate, created what can only be to come to film school you realise it is a described as a miracle of performance — generational thing.” Elliot is also keen to he became the personification of Vegemite. support emerging talent. “So that’s why I go It had to be seen to be believed.” back (to school) and talk as well, because you never know who’s sitting in the audience and might make a fabulous film.” Right: One of Left: Anna Samson in a Adam Elliot’s characters, Melbourne Theatre Company Ernie Biscuit. production, Birdland.

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BRUCE PASCOE (BEd(Sec) 1982) MEMBER OF THE BUNURONG CLAN AND AUTHOR OF DARK EMU Reaping seeds of discontent

A chance botanical bank after the 2009 flood. I began to question everything, Marngrook Footy Show, blended We love a good flood. especially those things the Themeda flour with white encounter reveals My hat was full of seed, too, Australians claimed to know flour and combined them with and I looked around at the about Australia. her starter yeast and baked a loaf what the explorers uniform height of the grass heads. We had just walked through of bread. I was nervous. I chewed knew long ago: Growing through the heath and a field of harvest, but a field a corner off the loaf and my heart banksias was a monoculture of where the harvesters had been leapt. It was beautiful and had that Australia’s kangaroo grass, all the same discouraged from their labour the unmistakable perfume and height and nearly all maturing its 170 years ago. Discouraged flavour of the kangaroo grass. Indigenous seed at the same time. If twenty of by murder. We had a bread of exceptional you stretched out in line with … The image of the hat full taste, and even at the rate at people had been let’s say coolamons, you could of grain stayed with me. which we’d combined it with cultivating crops harvest this 200-acre field in three And when at last I began to conventional flour, it was going to or four days. investigate the real Aboriginal mean a new agricultural industry well before the first That’s too much seed to eat economy so frankly described would be created on the back of all at once, but if you milled the by the explorers, I remembered a grass that needs no more water Europeans arrived. grain and stored the flour you the ugly hat. I’d been growing or fertility than our climate and could eat it later on. Giles and murrnong for five years and the soils provide naturally. A plant Mitchell had found such stores Barkinji, Latji Latji and Mutti domesticated and acclimatised e were stranded on their Australian explorations, Mutti had shown me how to for the land. Why had we spent on a heathland west Gregory had seen fields being make bread from panicum 220 years refusing to eat what the of Shipwreck Creek sowed and irrigated, and Sturt decompositum in the sand First Australians ate? Spleen or Wlike an unhappy had seen the grinding process. dunes of Lake Mungo. A ignorance? family of arthritic brolgas. I’ve been walking this heath grinding dish analysed at Millionaires are going Our mission had been to find since 1974 looking for orchids, Cuddie Springs revealed that to be made by growing and a rare banksia and our success tawny crowned honeyeaters, it had been used to grind grain merchandising murrnong and had been achieved so quickly banksias, ground parrots and the into flour 34,000 years ago, kangaroo grass, but I hope we were faced with the prospect sort of stuff that interests people thousands of years before some of them are Aboriginal. of returning before we’d even who wear second-hand hats. anyone else on earth had Mick Dodson assures me that popped the plugs on our battered I should have noticed this grass discovered the alchemy of flour Monsanto makes it impossible vacuum flasks. before, should have wondered water and heat. This needed for Indigenous people to take We stood there surveying the why it was so predominant, further examination. advantage of the intellectual scene of our triumph in doleful “I began to question everything, why it was seeding all at once. I went back to the heathland, “Why had we spent 220 years property invested in their foods, exhilaration. We were boffins But I didn’t. I’d been educated eschewing the charms of parrots but the tiny second-hand hatman mostly, so the emotion came as especially those things Australians in Australia, where we train our and obscure banksias, and refusing to eat what the of my soul believes that maybe easily to us as our woeful choice claimed to know about Australia.” minds not to think of stuff like stripped the heads of the First Australians ate?” Australians are ready to of tailors. that, preferring instead to be Themeda triandra. I posted acknowledge the whole history One of the gayblades swept his excited by rare sightings of a the grain to a mate whose edgy of their country. After all, it can’t cap across the tops of the grass. dull green parrot. glee comes from milling the be as hard to do as Richmond He’d received his cap during a Bi-Lo grocery chain promotion; The accepted history of Australia is so pervasive, and laded seed of grasses. I knew the first time I met him that he knew what winning a premiership. The local South Coast Aboriginal Food you can’t look a free cap in the peak, so it had become part of his so thoroughly with warm platitudes of self-congratulation, that the he was doing because he was still driving his mother-in-law’s 1986 Communities plan to harvest Themeda in December and market ensemble. image of the Australian as a good-natured knockabout humourist has Mercedes that gloried in a dashboard cracked like a surfer’s lips flour under their own brand. “What’s this?” he hooted mournfully as we all looked into his seeded our literature and society so thoroughly that any questioning of and decorated by enough tartan rugs to keep the highlands happy Please God, let Australia remember who domesticated this cap wishing it was us who’d been there the day Bi-Lo went mad with the national character is met with instantaneous incredulity followed for a decade. grain and invented bread 15,000 years before anyone else on Earth. generosity. His cap was full of seed. soon after by venom. The letters pages of all national newspapers Uncle Mercedes produced 500 grams of wholemeal flour and We won’t get many better chances to come together in friendship. “Themeda triandra,” another of the thrillseekers murmured, were whipped into a froth of indignation when it was suggested in 200 grams of more refined flour from three kilograms of seed heads. But remember that you can’t eat our food if you can’t swallow “kangaroo grass.” The brolgas moved on, planning a grand a school curriculum that Australia was invaded rather than settled. The flour was dark but smelt like a late summer field at dusk, earthy our history. celebration of Thermos coffee on the beach. I dawdled behind We like the word “settled” for its benign passivity. and warm, and tasted rich and fruity. them, not wanting to get involved too early in the shenanigans, I swallowed that history hook, line and sinker, but the gruff Next day, my wife, Lyn, the only orchid boffin I know who can Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu won the and repeated Bi-Lo’s action with my own cap, found on the river teachings and questions of the elders eroded that confidence. walk into a bush paddock looking like Shelley Ware from the NSW Premier’s Book of the Year in 2016.

ILLUSTRATIONS: JUDY GREEN 26 IT TAKES TWO IT TAKES TWO 27 “We treat over Creature comforts 1000 wildlife cases Dr Stephen Cutter (BVSc(Hons) 1995) founded The Ark animal hospital in a year, and a lot of Darwin in 2006, the only veterinary clinic in the area that treats wildlife and exotic pets ... domestic animals. Over the past 16 years, Stephen has also established canine We treat a lot of health programs in more than 100 Indigenous communities. snakes, goannas Dr Ella Richardson (BSc 2012, DVM 2015) moved to Darwin this year to and crocodiles.” work with Stephen. They spoke to Erin Munro (BA 2006). STEPHEN

grew up in Alice Springs where there’s lots of wildlife and we had lots of pets. I spent most of my childhood ELLA denying that I was going to be a vet, even though most I people told me, ‘Oh, you must want to be a vet’. But it ne day an owner brought a freshwater crocodile into the turns out I did want to be one. clinic. We also get lots of pythons, lots of reptiles and On the application for Melbourne University, you had to write bird species that are native to the Northern Territory. why you wanted to become a vet. One of my reasons was I wanted O It’s very different to the wildlife I had seen in Victoria. to de-sex dogs in the Aboriginal communities. I already had that I had wanted to be a vet since I was a little kid. Coming through passion. I’d grown up in an Aboriginal community, so I knew how the veterinary course at Melbourne I found that I also loved problem important dogs were to the people, and I’d seen how badly a lot of solving, so it was more than just a love for animals. people outside of the community treated them. My partner and I both decided that we’d like to move to a different I’ve been living here full-time since December ’99, but for three area, and we’d wanted to move up north for a while. Last year I came or four years before that I commuted back and forth between the top up here with Liz Tudor (BVSc(Hons) 1973), a professor at the uni, end and Victoria. and did de-sexings in Arnhem Land. I absolutely loved it and found I spend about four months a year travelling, but it’s scattered a passion for public health. through the year in one-to-two week blocks. My practice area Stephen does all the work with the bush trips and the dog de-sexings covers the north-western corner of Australia. I go to the Pilbara and out in Aboriginal communities, so when I saw an advertisement for the Kimberleys as well as down into the Central Desert. I’ve done a job at The Ark I made an application. de‑sexings at the base of Uluru and in the Kimberleys. I started work here in January. We are a small-animal clinic so We see a lot of exotic animals. We treat over 1000 wildlife cases we don’t work with any large animals like cattle or horses. There are a year, and a lot of exotic pets. It’s more reptiles and birds than a lot of dogs, and then obviously all the wildlife that comes into the mammals; we treat a lot of snakes, goannas and crocodiles. We also clinic through Ark Aid, which is the spin-off wildlife charity that have a dedicated sea turtle facility – we treat about six or seven sea The Ark runs. As a vet student you don’t get a lot of opportunities turtles a year that come in for a variety of reasons, like being hit by to work with wildlife; the course is focused on domestic animals, so a boat. it’s been great to get the opportunity to treat wildlife. It’s different I’m naturally quite a cautious person so I tend to always think when you’ve got a wild animal. You have to consider how we go about safety first. Most of the hair-raising and risky experiences about rehabilitation. I’ve had have come from being persuaded by various people to do One time a pelican came in from the Territory Wildlife Park. something. Stephen was out on a bush trip so it was down to me to treat this In Aboriginal communities people go out into swamps and places bird, which had been grabbed and injured by a freshwater crocodile like that to collect food. I’ve certainly been in crocodile habitats with in one of the billabongs. people who know it, and it’s their country, but there has been a risk. Stephen goes out on a lot of bush trips, so he’s in and out of the I haven’t had any close calls that I know of, but there’s always the clinic a lot, but he’s great. As soon as he walks through the door he’s potential. happy to give his time and I never feel as though I’m annoying him. Ella’s great. She came here for a variety of reasons, but one of He’s got a wealth of experience, especially with wildlife, so you can her motivations was to get involved with the dog programs in the always rely on Stephen if you’ve got something tricky. community. She’s picked things up very quickly; she’s a conscientious I’ve been out on one trip with him so far. I’d love to go out more, worker and is very caring and compassionate about wanting to learn but, given that I’ve just started, I need to be in the clinic and learning and to do the right thing. She has a general interest in a lot of the on the job. The clinic is always very busy. There’s always something things I’m interested in, like exotic animals and dog programs, so to do, and something new to learn every day. we’re a good team.

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Even the French Musée d’Orsay (2004), Picasso, Love and corrections.” His parents then organised information, and the various scholarships War (2006) and Napoleon: Revolution Alliance Française visits and he won the he has been awarded – including a are awed by to Empire (2012). Alliance French grammar prize in 1977. Harold Wright Scholarship to the Now he has just completed work as Two years earlier, when Ted was 15, British Museum in 1987 and a Harkness Ted Gott’s deep the Australian curatorial coordinator for his parents had taken him and older Fellowship to the United States in A New Vision, which opened in June at brother Robert to Paris on a six-week 1987–1988 – have enabled that. “It gets knowledge of their the NGV and whose primary curator was trip. “They weren’t rich but they saved in your blood. That is what I love about Henri Loyrette (former director of both all their pennies. That was my first time. research. Your questions might be art and culture. the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay). It was magical, as you can imagine.” answered and other times you might “I love telling stories and it is a great find things that challenge your accepted BY ANDREW STEPHENS thrill to be able to fashion something that “What a great joy to do theory. That is the spirit of the chase. That (BFineArt 1994, PGDipA r t s you’ve learnt and turn it into a story that is what captivates me about curating and (ArtHist&ClinSt) 2001) will excite people,” Gott says. “That is the for a living something art history.” great thing: once an exhibition is open, As we walk through Degas: A New ed Gott stands before an to go in and listen, watch people and see that you love, and work Vision and he talks about the rest of his Edgar Degas oil painting. what they are saying and what they are career, Gott repeatedly mentions how It is of a cotton-dealer’s office enjoying. It is a real privilege.” with what a lot of people fortunate he has been to have worked in New Orleans, which Degas Given his extraordinarily detailed at places such as the NGV, the National and his brothers visited in knowledge of French culture, it is no associate with recreation Gallery of Australia, the Heide Museum Tthe 1870s when their uncle worked there. surprise that in June, Gott (BA(Hons) of Modern Art, and as a curator for the It seems, at first, like an odd favourite for 1981, PhD 1987, Ormond College) — visiting museums.” Robert Holmes à Court collection. Gott: there are no radiant ballet dancers, received a knighthood from the French “I have been in the right place at no vibrant colours, no single storyline we Government. Called the Ordre des Arts When he later went to the University the right time and been enabled to can easily latch on to when gazing at it. et des Lettres, it was presented by French of Melbourne, it was in order to become a travel and study to my heart’s content,” Then Gott starts talking. Ambassador Christophe Lecourtier. The French and classics teacher. “I had always he says. “What a great joy to do for a He is the Senior Curator of order recognises significant contributions loved Greek and Roman history from the living something that you love, and work International Painting and Sculpture at the to the arts, literature, or the propagation ‘sword-and-sandals’ Sunday afternoons’ with what a lot of people associate with National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and of French culture. M. Lecourtier said on Epic Theatre on television, after Bob recreation – visiting museums. I do it for he has a talent for bringing a work, with the night that Gott spoke perfect French Santamaria and the world wrestling.” a living. There is no work-life balance immense vitality, into the present tense. – a compliment rarely paid to a foreigner. Brother Robert (BA(Hons) 1978, because there is no division.” He makes art relevant – and this painting’s “Dear Ted, we understand that GDipEd 1979) steered Ted into fine central subject is “work”, something with arts and artists have driven your life,” arts, and after studying art history and The University of Melbourne’s Learning which Gott is familiar. M. Lecourtier told him. “Furthermore classics, Gott embarked on a PhD on Partnership with the Melbourne Winter Many people moving around him that you also embrace the French culture French artist Odilon Redon. Masterpieces at NGV allows alumni and during their visit to Degas: A New Vision and the French language in its entirety. He returned to Paris again to do friends to discover treasures of the art world. try to eavesdrop as he talks, for it’s evident We just need to hear you talking about more Redon research in 1982 and 1983 Visit alumni.unimelb.edu.au to keep up to to them that this man not only has France and your next trip to France … on bursaries from the University, and date with special offers. extraordinary knowledge about Degas to feel the deep emotional attachment, in 1984 with help from his parents. but an entrancing way of delivering it. not to say love, which animates you.” These trips helped enormously with Heads lean inwards, chatter abates. Similarly, NGV director Tony Ellwood his French. “I was alone in Paris and The painting, A Cotton Office in praises Gott’s exceptional ability to bring I had no choice,” he says. “At first I was New Orleans (1873), pays homage to artists’ stories to life. “His passion for really terrible, but then you get your Rembrandt in its dramatic use of black French culture is great and his knowledge confidence. I was spending my days in and white and, while it is not large, it tells of French art history is extremely the Bibliothéque Nationale and other Painting multiple stories as the dozen or so figures impressive,” he says. “His overall depth libraries just reading French newspapers. by numbers It was hard – a lot of it was on microfilm within its frame go about their business. of knowledge as an art historian is greatly • This year’s Degas exhibition But it is the light – coming from multiple respected.” and you would come out feeling like your was the 13th Melbourne sources, even the huge mounds of cotton That love of French culture was eyeballs were bleeding. I was trying to lying on the tables – that is so captivating, nurtured at the Alliance Française, sited find contemporary reviews of my artist so Winter Masterpieces staged plus the way Gott animates it all. in Flemington when Gott was a boy. I was just reading all sorts of newspapers by the NGV. He has curated, co-curated or He had studied French in secondary from the 1860s onwards. • The biggest attendance so coordinated more than 25 exhibitions school in Box Hill. “I had to learn to speed read but, far was for The Impressionists: during his long career, and many have “Fortunately I had a teacher who of course, you’d stop and read all these Masterpieces from the been French-themed. Mostly at the NGV recognised my love of French and other fabulous stories about contemporary Musée D’Orsay, which drew or the National Gallery of Australia organised for the school to enrol me life – tragedies, murders, robberies. 380,234 visitors in 2004. Dr Ted Gott with Degas’ (where he worked from 1991 to 1998), in the correspondence course. That It would divert my attention. But it was Dancer with Bouquets, they have included: The Enchanted Stone: gave me a very personal love of French. total immersion in French language and • More than 2.8 million part of this year’s Winter The Graphic Worlds of Odilon Redon (1990), These packages would arrive every week literature.” visitors attended the Masterpieces at the NGV. The Impressionists: Masterpieces from the with my homework and [the teacher’s] What excites Gott is ferreting out first 12 exhibitions.

PICTURE: JULIAN KINGMA 30 FIVE QUESTIONS FIVE QUESTIONS 31 unimelb.edu.au/3010 The world depends on the internet, Where initially there special machine running SWIFT’s software carries malware, say a keystroke logger by that tangle of interconnected wires was a limit of 4 billion that is supposed to be separate from other which the criminal can obtain passwords and cables girdling the Earth and internet addresses, machines in the bank, but some banks are and key information. Be cautious. Mouse 2 less rigorous than others. Earlier this year over the link and see if it is genuine. Think penetrating ever deeper into the fabric now the number is almost Cyber Bangladesh’s central bank SWIFT system about content; don’t accept what looks like of our lives. But it is also a jungle. infinite to handle the rising was hacked because their SWIFT machine a bank letterhead. demand of the Internet of was being used for other functions. A large The national cyber security plan For years now we have Things (which connects amount of money was lost. recommended adoption of an awareness crime heard about cyber criminal everyday items and devices, In Ukraine last year a power station strategy to train people to be cautious and 1 attacks on individuals, such as home appliances, to was hacked, turning off power to a huge recognise threats – ‘Don’t Take the Bait’. banks, companies and nations. a network). Is it growing too number of homes and businesses. In Software should be regularly updated to Germany a furnace in a steel mill was get the latest security patches, applied to Just how concerned should we fast for us to keep secure? be about the security threats badly damaged by a cyber attack. emails and phone calls – would Microsoft Developers of IoT devices may not It’s not just about turning things off or Telstra make such a call, would PayPal casts an we face on the internet? necessarily think about security. Their or on. If there is a control system that is send such an email? Never disclose a device might have a vulnerability but it in some way connected to the internet or password or an ID. I think a lot does not get reported. Companies takes time for security to catch up. That’s a connected to another thing connected to don’t always want to advertise an attack, worry, too. With IoT, billions more things the internet, damage can be done. It might So it’s a constant battle evil net especially not banks. They generally have very are connected to the internet, which means be connected to a computer where an between the good guys good cyber security, and support customers there is some kind of an attack vector. It email attachment is opened, or a thumb and the criminals. who have suffered credit card loss through may not really matter if your IoT connected drive connection from which a worm or 5 Who is winning? FIVE QUESTIONS FOR cyber fraud. Australia does not have a very refrigerator fails to order more milk, but a virus is inserted to override the control CYBER SECURITY EXPERT big cyber security industry but the banks do think about critical sensors in transport system and make a process or machine It is easy to overhype, but the threat is BEN RUBINSTEIN. quite a bit. I don’t know what banks report networks and medical devices, such as go outside its design limitations. Even for there and growing. Cyber crime presents on losses from cyber crime but we know its pacemakers or glucose monitors for critical infrastructure, where you would very real, hard problems. Defence is BY GARRY BARKER impact in Australia is huge; globally many diabetics. If a technical glitch or a cyber expect to see close oversight, there could difficult because of the asymmetry between billions of dollars. ransom demand interfered with those it be vulnerability because of the IoT. attackers and defenders. The attacker Governments are reticent, too. The could be pretty bad. needs only to find one way in, one door to Australian Government has never reported So what about the break down, but the attacked must defend a large hack. The US Department of Defense Could a “black hat” state suburban grandmother everything. As long as there is an economic has reported being broken into and military stun the economy of with an iPad who does or political incentive for criminals or a equipment designs stolen. US investment in 4 country to attack a system, they will. another nation or group her internet banking, swaps cyber security is quite large; about 28 times 3 The IoT is only going to make the of nations – deprive people more per capita – about 400 times greater as emails and makes FaceTime problem bigger. Self-driving cars will a nation-spend – than the $250 million over of water, food or energy – by calls to her friends and make it bigger. Everything becoming four years that Australia invests. The US is attacking such a network? relatives? You hear of all sorts digital and systems becoming more a prime target, but so is Australia. Attacks of scams preying on people connected to increase productivity – and are not only for money. There is potentially I definitely think they can. The stock like her. How big is that? the kinds of insights you get from data strategic value in a country hacking into the market is very much connected to the – means it is easy to break into a system, systems of another and I think they all do it. internet with significant high frequency Phishing – as it is called – and other jump between systems and make lateral I think there have been attacks on Australian trading, which relies on having a machine social engineering exploits are among the movements. Services such as Gmail have Government systems, but we don’t hear close to the exchange so that with low most serious issues in cyber security, for very good spam filters that don’t just look about them. latency you can make small trades very individuals and companies. Companies at content, but sources. They have a big quickly and make money. But an attack on put their employees through security view of the internet and can gather a lot of the computer system of a stock exchange awareness training; how to spot phishing intelligence. But it’s an arms race and that could hurt a national economy. Affecting emails and other scams. Phishing can be makes it a wicked problem.

Dr Benjamin Rubinstein (BSc, BE(Hons) 2002, MCS 2009) is a computer scientist who understands a power station, even without disrupting general – fake letters from banks, fake the wiles of cyber criminals. production for very long, could affect offers of prizes and other come-ons – He has worked in the industries and consumers. but it also can appear to come from, say, Department of Computing 2016 ISSUE 2, The international banking industry a company manager and be aimed at and Information Systems at has a system called SWIFT (Society an individual whose identity has been Melbourne since 2013. for Worldwide Interbank Financial obtained from a social network or other Telecommunication) used to identify internet source. The email might ask for

banks in money transfers. Banks have a information or have an attachment that

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On the road Lawyer opts “I’d never been in front of a less travelled for class action classroom of teenagers. Having three teenagers JEMMA XU GRANT ANDERSON (BE, BCom 2012) (BCom(Hons) 1987, LLB(Hons) 1988) myself, I knew there’d be a

emma Xu was travelling in Europe when rant Anderson had worked for decades few challenges in there.” she was struck by a compelling idea. After as a corporate lawyer when he left his a whirlwind of old palaces and glamorous high-paying career for a decidedly less J tourist traps that left her a “bit bored”, G lucrative one – teaching. Xu was pleased to visit an old friend in Krakow, where “There were some who wondered what on earth she was introduced to local life in Poland. I was doing,” he says, with a laugh. “Because the salary “I had the best time when I had local friends who cut is quite significant.” took me around,” she says. “It was nothing special. He had spent the previous 27 years, 18 as partner, at Nothing that looked any different to what a normal the legal firm Allens in Melbourne. He was 50 and knew Polish person would do.” if he wanted a change, he would have to start soon. And then she had that thought: what if there was “I wanted to have a second career,” he says. “I didn’t a platform where one could find local experiences want to leave it for too much longer because there’s everywhere one travelled? obviously training you have to do and I wanted to work It would be a few years before her idea came to for perhaps another 15 or 20 years.” fruition. After graduating from the University, Xu One of the things Anderson had enjoyed most about started on a “traditional path” through the banking his work in the law was mentoring and interacting with sector. She worked for three years at Macquarie Group. younger lawyers. “I had it in the back of my mind for a Her business idea, however, kept bobbing up when while that teaching was probably the sort of career that she travelled. She took three weeks of annual leave to would suit me,” he says, “because of the communication volunteer in rural China, where she stayed at a school of information and interaction you have with younger and “did everything a local person would do”. people who are starting off in their career.” “It got to a point in my career where I felt if I didn’t Anderson left Allens in November to pursue a leave banking I’d be there forever,” says Xu, who knew Master of Teaching at the Graduate School of Education, that the further she advanced in her career, the more a three-year program that involves a large measure difficult it would be to pass up the high salary and of practical experience in classrooms. In February, security such a lifestyle afforded. Anderson started work at Victoria University Secondary In 2014, Xu founded Tripalocal, an online platform College in St Albans, teaching legal studies, economics that connects Chinese travellers to local experiences in and business management to years 10, 11 and 12. It was Australia and New Zealand. She and her co-founders no easy feat, even for a man with years of experience in moved into a start-up incubator based in Sydney, where the field. they spent months developing a plan. “I’ve stood up in front of lawyers and clients. But It was a steep learning curve for Xu, a crash course I was nervous,” he says of his first day back at school. in entrepreneurship. She says the idea for Tripalocal “I’d never been in front of a classroom of teenagers. evolved to a business that focused exclusively on the Having three teenagers myself, I knew there’d be a few Chinese market, particularly “education tourism”. challenges in there.” By May 2015, the company had secured $850,000 in Anderson says he has had to learn the art of keeping angel funding. kids interested in the material. Since then, Tripalocal has maintained a Melbourne “You have to grab their attention from the first presence and opened an office in Beijing, where Xu now minute. If you don’t make your lesson interesting within spends most of her time. She travels to universities and those first couple of minutes, then they’re going to just schools in smaller cities outside of the saturated Beijing lose interest. And once they’ve lost interest it’s very hard and Shanghai markets. to get it back,” he says. “It got to a point in my She says students at Chinese schools and universities Anderson says the transition from lawyer to teacher are particularly interested in travelling to English- is not necessarily a stretch. Both professions try to make career where I felt that speaking countries with the prospect of eventually difficult information easy to understand. “There’s a bit enrolling in a full-time degree course. Tripalocal helps of an art to identifying what’s relevant, packaging it if I didn’t leave banking plan tours – for larger organisations or individuals – up and explaining it to clients and particularly non- that include university visits. lawyers,” he says. I’d be there forever.” “Education is the most important thing for Chinese And though he worked longer hours as a lawyer, families,” Xu says. “They want to look at schools, they Anderson has found that teaching can be just as tiring. want to speak to teachers, get an experience of what it “Kids just see teachers in the classroom, but that’s is like to study in Australia, in New Zealand, in the US, the tip of the iceberg,” he says. “There’s a huge amount in the UK.” of preparation and thought, along with administration.” KATE STANTON KATE STANTON PICTURE: MATHEW LYNN PICTURE: HOLLY BENNETT 34 alumniprofiles alumninews 35 A word COUNCIL ELECTION to the wise ANYA ADAIR (LLB 2008, DML 2008, BA(Hons) 2009, MA 2012)

nya Adair has always loved languages, even as a child in Ballarat, when she used to spend recess in a teacher’s office A learning Latin. “That’s the kind of student I was. I must have been insufferable,” she says. Adair thought she might be a lawyer, but it was at Melbourne that she fell hard for Anglo-Saxon Studies and the languages of that era, particularly Old English. After interviewing for several firms, Adair knew she needed to think outside the legal profession. “It just occurred to me that it wasn’t what I loved,” she says of the corporate offices she visited. “That maybe there was something that I loved more.” Adair went on to complete a Master’s degree in Old English Literature at Melbourne. Studying a language, she says, means an Arts degree can be both practical and theoretical. She also enjoyed learning about a historical culture through its words. In 2011, she left Melbourne to pursue a PhD at Yale University, where she is writing a dissertation on medieval statute law. She wants to know how old legal codes were recorded and used outside the courtroom. The work involves intense scrutiny of old English texts, a meticulous study of history through words, BY CHRIS WEAVER networking program. The next two years are something that gives Adair enormous satisfaction. (BA, LLB 2006) Voting is quick and easy: particularly crucial for the Alumni Council, “Some of them are very highly and beautifully as it looks to expand this program. STEP 1 decorated,” she says of the old legal manuscripts. No matter where in the world you are, as a Associate Professor Sarah Ellis Visit the voting form from “It fascinates me to ask not just how they were composed Melbourne alumnus you are forever part of a (BSc(Hons) 1982, MSc 1987, PhD 2011) is Saturday, October 1: from a more literal perspective, but also who was reading unique community. Strengthening this bond a current Alumni Council member with a alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/ACE2016 them and why it mattered so much to own one of these through meaningful networking, mentoring passion for mentoring. She leads the Careers collections.” and career development opportunities is a STEP 2 and Mentoring working group, which helps While at Yale, Adair also founded the Digital key focus area for the Alumni Council as it Check out the profiles of our candidates. the University to identify opportunities for Manuscript Studies Working Group, an interdisciplinary approaches its sixth year. STEP 3 alumni and student engagement in mentor- workshop that helps participants learn how to archive The Alumni Council’s goal is to engage Cast your vote by Tuesday, November 1. ing and career-related activities. digital versions of old manuscripts. Nowadays, Adair alumni and current students, helping them Results announced in Melbourne Alumni “The Alumni Council constantly revises can speak French, German, Russian and Japanese, understand how a continuing relationship e-News on Wednesday, November 23. its working groups, ensuring they are relevant and she can read and understand Latin, Spanish, Old with the University can be beneficial long and responsive to the needs of the University, English, Old Norse and Old French. It’s an impressive after completing your studies. The Alumni its alumni and students,” she says. list, but her favourite language is English. Council also supports initiatives to expand “Being a member of the University of “We work to ensure the University under- Adair is currently researching legal manuscripts mentoring and peer-to-peer professional Melbourne alumni community means being stands and acts on the professional and so- “The first thing they ask is at the British Library. She and a colleague also teach networks for alumni. part of one of Australia’s best-connected cial aims of our alumni.” ‘The History of the English Language’ at Yale, where Such is the background to the 2016 Alum- professional networks,” he says. It has never been more important ‘why?’ It seems so specialised they discuss the diversities and dialects of English ni Council Elections, running throughout “But it’s often hard for alumni to know to expand on that commitment, as the through time – a subject that gives Adair a chance to October, which will see six members elected where they should turn for support on mat- University announced earlier this year that and so particular a set of discuss the Aboriginal Australian English varieties of from across the University’s 10 academic ters such as job advice and career planning, Believe – the Campaign for the University of her home country. divisions for a two-year term. or simply on how to continue the lifelong Melbourne is extending its target to include things to be working on.” Adair says she has met people who are puzzled by David Laidlaw (LLB 1975) is the Presi- learning and connection that is so important engaging 100,000 alumni in the life of its her fascination with a defunct language and culture. dent of the Alumni Council and has been a to our alumni. community. “The first thing they ask is ‘why?’ It seems so member since its inception. The Melbourne “The Alumni Council’s job is to advocate “Exciting times lie ahead for Melbourne specialised and so particular a set of things to be working lawyer says that in establishing the Council for alumni, providing direction on the issues alumni and students,” says Professor Ellis. on. But I think that you can’t go forward without the in 2011, the University prioritised a need that will most affect our community’s rela- “But the Alumni Council needs your support humanities,” she says. to provide social and professional value for tionship with the University.” to make major programs happen, so have KATE STANTON alumni, encouraging a lifelong relationship. One of the key areas of focus has been a your say and vote now.” PICTURE: DAVID WOOLFALL 36 37 alumnimilestones stay connected alumni.unimelb.edu.au

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APPOINTMENTS AWARD SPORT Agricultural Professor Kate University of Soprano Shauntai Richard Lewer Associate Professor scientist Professor Auty (BA(Hons) Melbourne Batzke (BMus 2014) (MVisArt 2000) Two Melbourne alumni won Kevin Tolhurst AM (DipFor 1976, Lindsay Falvey 1977, LLB 1979) researchers Dr Jake starred in won the 2016 Basil rowing medals at the 2016 BForSc(Hons) 1979, PhD 1996) FTSE (DAgrSc is the ACT’s new Shortt (PhD 2012) Indigenous opera Sellers Art Prize for Summer Olympics in Rio de received the prestigious Ember 2005) has been Commissioner for and Dr Ricky Pecan Summer his compendium of Janeiro. Kim Brennan Award from the International elected Chair of Sustainability and Johnstone at the Sydney 12 paintings, titled (BA(Media&Comm), LLB 2010), Association of Wildland Fire the Board of the the Environment. (BSc(Hons) 1988, Opera House in The Theatre of pictured below, won Gold in the for his work on the Phoenix International Professor Auty PhD 1993) (pictured) September. Pecan Sports. Mr Lewer’s women’s single sculls, four years RAPIDFIRE bushfire modelling Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). previously held the same position have been awarded the Happy Hour Summer was written by Deborah work examined the role sport can after claiming Silver and Bronze and prediction software. The ILRI is one of the elite Green in Victoria, before leaving to become research Award from Cancer Council Cheetham AO, Artistic Director of play in relation to mental illness, Olympic medals, while Josh Phoenix RAPIDFIRE software has Revolution Centres that conducts a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the Victoria. The award was created to Short Black Opera and Associate focusing on the extremes of Booth (BSc 2012) won Silver in been used to successfully predict research across the globe for the University of Melbourne. recognise the fundraising efforts of Dean (Indigenous Development) at behaviour that follow very public the men’s coxless four. Another the path of dangerous bushfires, specific benefit of developing nations, the Kerang Happy Hour group, which the University of Melbourne’s Faculty moments of failure. The Basil Sellers six alumni competed in Rio such as those that occurred in addressing the basic human needs The Faculty of Architecture, Building raised more than $95,000 for cancer of Victorian College of the Arts and Art Prize is a biannual exhibition of – Charlotte Sutherland New South Wales in January. of several hundred million people. and Planning announced a new Dean research and support. Dr Shortt and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. sport-related art displayed at the (BAgr 2014), Sarah Banting Professor Falvey was previously in July. Professor Julie Willis (BPD Dr Johnstone will use the award to Ian Potter Museum of Art until (BBiomed 2015) and Jennifer Dean of what is now the Faculty of 1989, BArch(Hons) 1992, PhD 1997) research the treatment of leukaemia A documentary by filmmaker Aidan November 6, 2016. Cleary (BSc 2015) participated Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences. will replace Professor Daryl Le Grew and lymphoma. Prewett (GDipFTV 2008, MFTV 2010) in the rowing regatta, Elena (BArch 1969, MArch 1972, PhD 1983) Professor Robyn Sloggett AM has been picked up by US distributors. The first feature film by Simon Stone Galiabovitch (BBiomed 2010, Sean Rooney (MBA 2004) has been who has been Interim Dean since (BA(Hons) 1979, PhD 2010), The University of Melbourne’s Dr A Venue for the End of the World, (BDramArt 2005, Ormond College), MD 2014) contested the 10m appointed inaugural Chief Executive July 2015. In nearly 20 years at the Director of the Grimwade Centre David McInnis (BCom 2004, BA(Hons) which looks at the dangers of The Daughter, made its debut to air pistol and 25m sport pistol Officer of Leading Age Services University, Professor Willis has served for Cultural Materials Conservation 2005, PhD 2011) has been awarded the audience manipulation and leader critical acclaim in March. The film events, Mary Hanna (BA 1974, Australia, the national peak body in numerous senior roles – most at the University of Melbourne, 2016 Max Crawford Medal by the worship, is Mr Prewett’s first full-length is a reworking of Henrik Ibsen’s DipEd 1988) rode in equestrian representing private and not-for- recently as Pro Vice-Chancellor has been named the winner of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. feature. The Wild Duck. Stone was previously dressage (her fifth Olympic profit providers of retirement living, (Research & Research Capability). 2016 Bathurst Macquarie Heritage The medal is presented to early-career best known for his work as a theatre Games appearance) and dual home care and residential aged care She will commence her role as Dean Medal. The award recognises Australian researchers for outstanding Phoebe Panaretos (BMusThtr 2012) director. national Matthew Guest services. Mr Rooney was previously in November. an individual who has made a scholarly achievement in the and Anna O’Byrne (BMusPerf(Hons) (BMedSc 2006, MB BS(Hons) Executive Director of Sustainability significant contribution to the humanities, and to those whose 2008) were nominated in the Musical Amy Lehpamer 2010) played field hockey for and Climate Change in the ACT Heather Campbell (BE(Hons) 1988, protection or promotion of publications make an exceptional Theatre category of the Green Room (BA 2008) fulfilled Canada. Current students Government. MEngSc(EnvEng) 1995, International Australia’s built, social, cultural contribution to the understanding Awards. Ms Panaretos was nominated a lifelong dream by Joel Baden and Regan Lamble House), General Manager of Health, or environmental heritage. of humanities disciplines by the for her lead role in Strictly Ballroom, starring as Maria in (both athletics) and Jessica Former Australian Government Safety and Environment at CSIRO, general public. Dr McInnis has been while Ms O’Byrne was nominated for The Sound of Music, Morrison (rowing) also took international education counsellor to is the newly appointed Chair of internationally recognised for his her performance in Nice Work If You which toured part. The University had two Beijing and Thailand Jennifer Tyrell Sustainability Victoria. Dr David Hall (BVSc 1978) has been Lost Plays Database, a forum where Can Get It. Australia between representatives in the (BA 1999, BSc(Hons) 2001) has been presented with the Australian Cattle scholars can share information May and September Paralympics – tennis player appointed Director of International AWARDS Veterinarians’ Bovine Practitioner about lost plays in England from this year. Ms Lehpamer’s previous Dylan Alcott OAM (BCom 2016) Education for TAFE Directors 2016 award at Uluru. The award 1570 to 1642. This year he is leading stage roles include Christine Colgate and table tennis competitor Australia. Dr James Hunt (BSc(Hons) 1999, recognises his contribution to the Shakespeare 400 Melbourne, a in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Barak Mizrachi (BE, BSc 2012). PhD 2006, St Hilda’s College) has cattle industry and work with series of events marking the 400th Sherrie in Rock of Ages, and she has Meanwhile former Olympian The University has been presented with the 2016 students. anniversary of the playwright’s death. appeared in several prime time Kitty Chiller (BA 1984) was Team established the Grains Research and Development television shows including Winners Australia’s Chef de Mission in Rio. role of Enterprise Corporation Southern Region Seed Architectural renderer Brian Burr More than 60 University of and Losers and House Husbands. Professor, a senior of Light award for his contribution (BArch 1964) has been awarded Melbourne alumni, staff and friends academic position to communicating the outcomes of the William J. Mitchell International were recognised in the 2016 Queen’s Melbourne artist Louise Hearman designed to enhance grains research. Dr Hunt’s pioneering Chapter Prize in the Australian Birthday Honours. For a full list visit (BFA 1984) won the 2016 Archibald University links research into water use efficiency, Achievement in Architecture Awards. bit.ly/294NZTU. Prize, which is renowned as with industry and time of sowing and stubble The prize recognises Mr Burr’s Australia’s best-known portraiture business. Four Melbourne alumni management has changed many significant contribution to ARTS prize. Ms Hearman’s portrait of were among the inaugural group growers’ practices. architecture internationally. humourist Barry Humphries (LLD of 12 appointees, who will work with Opera singer Shakira Tsindos 2003) was selected as the winning individual faculties to deepen industry Neurosurgery trainee Dr Ruth The 2016 Australian Institute of (BMus(Hons) 2015) made her entry from a final pool of 51 portraits, collaborations. Dr Colin McLeod Mitchell (BSc 1981, MB BS 1986) was Architects Gold Medal has been professional debut when she starred following a vote by the Art Gallery of (BA 1984, MBA 1989, PhD 1998) will presented with the Australian Medical presented to Howard Raggatt in Victorian Opera’s production of New South Wales trustees. join the Faculty of Business and Association’s Doctor in Training of (BArch(Hons) 1978) and the late Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at Economics, former Victorian premiers the Year Award in recognition of her Stephen Ashton (BArch 1977, Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne in Australia’s top subject and genre Ted Baillieu (BArch 1976) and work to address bullying and sexual Ormond College) of architecture April. She took on the role of Alisa painting award, the Sir John Sulman John Brumby (BCom 1974) will join harassment in the medical profession. practice Ashton Raggatt McDougall in the production just months after Everywhere I Look is the latest book Prize, this year went to Esther the Faculty of Architecture, Building Dr Mitchell is completing a PhD at (ARM). ARM’s projects can be found graduating. by acclaimed author Helen Garner Stewart (MACM 2010). Ms Stewart’s and Planning, and Dr Andrew the University of Melbourne and is a across Australia and include the Perth (BA(Hons) 1967, LLD 2003, Ormond entry, titled Flatland dreaming, Cuthbertson AO (BMedSc 1978, neurosurgery registrar at the Royal Arena and the National Museum of On Stalin’s Team, the new book College). It is a collection of 33 was voted the winning painting by MB BS 1980, PhD 1986) will join the Melbourne Hospital. She is also Chair Australia in Canberra. They shared by Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick essays written over a 15-year period. guest judge and former Archibald Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and of the Royal Australasian College of the honour with Ian McDougall, (BA(Hons) 1962, University College), Earlier this year Ms Garner won Yale Prize-winner Judy Watson. Health Sciences. Surgeons Trainees’ Association. the third founding director of ARM. looks at the team of people University’s prestigious Windham- surrounding the former Russian Campbell Prize for Nonfiction. dictator. 38 THE LAST WORD 39 THE LAST WORD Drawing inspiration from our family’s fields of gold

BY ALICIA CAIN (BCom, B Prop 2010, Queen’ s College)

e were drinking a nice bottle we struggled to sell even a packet, we very supportive. This time was no of wine when the idea came would still enjoy eating Dad’s Oats for different. Although they had some initial to us. My brother Peter (BAgr, breakfast. reservations, I think they were excited by W BCom 2007) and I were Our fifth-generation family farm is our enthusiasm and energy. reflecting on how good the wine industry in the foothills of the Pyrenees, about We started selling oats late last year at is at reserving the highest-quality grapes 100 kilometres north-west of Ballarat. farmers’ markets in Melbourne. Since then, for making the best wines and at telling There are no shops or pubs nearby, just a we have expanded to supply a number of the story behind the labels. In the wine sports reserve and a primary school. cafes around the city, and have launched industry, provenance matters. But life was never boring growing up an online store and a subscription-based Other farmed produce, such as grains, at Natte Yallock. On school holidays we’d service. It’s early days, but we have been are treated as simple commodities, sold help Dad with the cropping, the sheep encouraged and excited by the market by farmers in bulk quantities, pushed out feedback. the farm gate, losing provenance and any Even if the idea didn’t go Dad’s faith in the concept was boosted quality distinction. when he came to one of our markets, in Our Dad has always grown top-quality anywhere, and we struggled Daylesford. It was a busy day and we were oats on our farm, winning several awards a little short of staff, so he was thrown into during his 55 years on the land. The more to sell even a packet, we the role of explaining to customers where we thought about it, we wanted to embrace the oats were from, how they were grown the example of wine by taking something would still enjoy eating and processed. from our farm to complete the journey On that day, he realised just how from paddock to plate. Dad’s Oats for breakfast. important food provenance is to many We couldn’t name one brand of rolled people. Not everyone is focused on simply Fiona Holt oats that was single origin, supplied or just general farm work. Ours was the buying the cheapest food they can find in directly from an Australian farm. So, the biggest backyard you could imagine, with the supermarket. There’s another group Bachelor of Commerce (2012) concept was born: we would sell traditional endless places to explore and trees to climb. of consumers that cares about quality and Access Scholarship recipient rolled oats, quick oats, groats and steel-cut When we told Dad about our idea embraces the single-origin concept. Chancellor’s Circle Donor oats, all from our family farm at Natte of selling branded rolled oats from Our brother Matthew (BAgr 2003) Yallock, north-central Victoria. the 800-hectare farm he was a little now operates the farm, with the experience As the idea firmed, we chose the name apprehensive. Although he understood and the wise counsel of Dad close at hand. ‘Dad’s Oats’ as a tribute to family farming, the difference in quality, he was concerned He has also enjoyed talking directly to to our Dad and Mum – Maurice and we wouldn’t be able to compete with customers who appreciate the quality of Ruth – and to the generations who have cheap oats in the supermarket. the grain, the hard work that goes into tirelessly worked the land before us. Mum and Dad always encouraged ensuring the best produce, and the best- EVERY GIFT CAN CHANGE SOMEONE’S WORLD We revealed the brand name to our us to follow our ideas and have been practice farming techniques we employ. parents after we had packaged the first And then there’s the care that goes “My scholarship gave me the choice to focus on my studies and prosper batch. They were surprised and delighted. into maintaining the sustainability of that Even if the idea didn’t go anywhere, and precious land at Natte Yallock. at university. I wanted to give others the same opportunity. A year after I graduated, I made my first gift to the University supporting student scholarships. I may not be making a world of difference, but I know I’m making a difference to someone’s world.”

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Peter and Alicia Cain with their Dad, Maurice, on the farm at Natte Yallock.

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