Melbouru ne University Magazine AUgUST EDiTion 2007

Noise: A loud and clear cinematic success story for Matthew Saville Medical tourism: First world medicine at third world prices? Climate change: Can we get it right? Analysis: David Hicks’ guilty plea, what it really means Review Noise: An Australian Medical tourism film of striking 04 06 power 08

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Contents 3 From the Vice-Chancellor 4 Imagination provides insights into ethics 6 Noise: a loud and clear cinematic success story for Matthew Saville 8 Medical tourism in Asia: First world medicine at third world prices? 10 Climate change – the most signifi cant environmental and economic issue facing Australia for the remainder of this century 13 Government called on to ‘kick-start’ the nuclear industry 14 Analysis: David Hicks’ guilty plea, what it really means 17 Alumni in Print 18 Alumni News 21 Giving to the University 22 University News 28 Queen’s Birthday Honours

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2007 has been a watershed year for the It celebrates the alumni, staff and There is an insightful interview University of Melbourne as it gears up students of the University whose with Victorian College of the Arts for the introduction of the Melbourne contributions to scholarship, research (VCA) graduate and up-and-coming Model next year. and a wide range of professional director/writer Matthew Saville and community activities has been whose first feature filmNoise is Close attention has been given to recognised in the 2007 Queen’s Birthday impressing audiences nationally and finalising the shape and form of new Honours. internationally. Now a faculty of the professional Masters programs and the University, the VCA has brought along a six ‘new generation’ undergraduate MUM also looks at the pressing issue of rich array of arts talent. degrees which will join several climate change from two perspectives. continuing programs in 2008. University of Melbourne anthropologist University agronomist Professor Snow Andrea Whitakker sheds light on the The University is also moving to a more Barlow was one of a handful of scientists phenomenon of ‘medical tourism’ student-centred approach to student asked to comment on whether Al Gore’s which offers third-world prices for services delivery. Students need to access Inconvenient Truth was scientifically first-world medical treatments, and a range of services – administrative, sound. He discusses whether our society University humanitarian lawyer, academic and well-being – in a will ‘get it right’ on climate change and Professor Tim McCormack – an expert consistent, seamless format through explores the challenges that climate witness for the defence in the David faculty/graduate school hubs operating change is setting us. Hicks’ trial – analyses the outcome of as ‘one-stop-shops’. the David Hicks’ saga. MUM also reports on a recent While these important developments University forum where Melbourne There’s also plenty of news and views on are underway, the University’s alumnus Dr Ziggy Switkowski, Chair the University. I hope you enjoy it all. remarkable community of scholars and of the Australian Nuclear Science and students continues to teach, to learn, Technology Organisation, discussed the Glyn Davis to carry out research and to transfer issue of nuclear power as a viable option Vice-Chancellor knowledge. to combat climate change in Australia.

This issue of the Melbourne University Magazine (MUM) captures some of that work and shares it with some 160 000 alumni and friends in more than 120 countries.

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Image supplied courtesy of Melbourne University Publishing Imagination provides insights into ethics

Review by Loane Skene, Professor of Law, University of Melbourne

rofessor Margaret Somerville is Children should be accepted and loved will be more resources to help those an internationally renowned by their parents unconditionally. who acquire disabilities in later life. lawyer and bioethicist at Same sex marriages and the provision McGill University in Montreal. of reproductive technology except Fears that prospective parents will rush P for married heterosexual couples is to IVF and PGD for ‘enhancement’ The cover of her recent book shows wrong because we should respect the seem ill founded as the vast majority a bird sitting on a man’s shoulder. traditional concept of marriage and of couples will seek IVF only to avoid Professor Somerville says that for ‘keep the biological links between extreme risks. With SCNT, it is a her, the bird ‘symbolises the human parents and children’ which is criminal offence to implant embryos spirit, imagination, freedom and a ‘natural biological reality’. used in research into women so those the capacity and courage to explore embryos cannot develop into a child. physical, intellectual and spiritual We should not create human embryos Also, SCNT embryos contain DNA unknowns’. This imagination, for research by somatic cell nuclear almost entirely from one person drawing on experience, might provide transfer (SCNT, the ‘Dolly technique’) so they are different from embryos insights into the ethical issues that because that undermines the formed by the fertilisation of a human arise from modern technology dignity of human life. And creating egg by human sperm which contain and its potential applications. ‘transhumans’ (who are partly human the DNA from both parents. and partly machines) will lead to ‘a Professor Somerville argues that respect future in which humans as we know And there are many types of family. for all life, and in particular human them will become obsolete and will What matters for a child’s development life, and for the human spirit, should be replaced by redesigning Homo is being reared in a loving and make us pause before we make decisions sapiens with technoscience such supportive environment. The new that our children and grandchildren as genetics, artificial intelligence, biotechnologies have much to offer will regret and be unable to remedy. robotics and nanotechnology’. in helping us to understand cellular

There should be ‘a presumption in favour of the natural’ and a reverence “There should be a ‘presumption in for the mystery of life without trying to change it. While it is ethically favour of natural’ and a reverence for permissible to use technology ‘to repair nature when it fails’, we the mystery of life…” should not use it ‘to realize what would be an impossible outcome Many of these ideas are obviously development, bodily functions and through natural processes’. contentious but they are advanced disease and the development of new clearly – and at times poetically – with treatments. People with ‘machines’ Combining these ideas – our duty their foundations logically argued, if inserted into their bodies, such as to future generations not to distort one accepts the author’s viewpoint. pacemakers and bionic ears, seem to nature by technological intervention me no less ‘human’ than the rest of us. – leads Professor Somerville to reject For myself, many pronouncements are preimplantation genetic diagnosis too absolute. I have no hesitation in Professor Skene recently discussed (PGD). Social engineering will distort allowing couples to use IVF and PGD if some of these issues with Professor the community in which we live, she they have a family history of a serious Somerville at the University of says, with all its richness and diversity. genetic condition with debilitating Melbourne. See: www.bookshop. effects and early death. There are so unimelb.edu.au/antinomy • Imagine the outcome if prospective many people in our community who parents could test for a ‘male gay develop disabilities during life that we gene’ or a gene for bipolar disorder, will not lose our sympathy for those and choose not to have children with with disabilities by a reduction in their those traits, which are also connected number, or the diversity they bring to with creativity. Using technology the community. Indeed, if we have fewer to select children of a particular sex people with inherited disabilities, there is also ethically unacceptable.

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MAIN IMAGE: SUPPLIED COURTESY OF MADMAN CINEMA, ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRIS DYSON Noise: a loud and clear cinematic success story for Matthew Saville

BY SILVIA DROPULICH

hrough both the noises and “Every character on some level is Noise is also a very inward looking fi lm, the silences of his new fi lm, reaching out and trying to establish a and Saville concedes that fi lm is a very Matthew Saville is exploring connectedness on some level with the clumsy medium in that regard. what it means to be decent. world,” Saville said. “The strengths of T the characters are that they ultimately “I think it comes down to The Victorian College of the Art’s acknowledge and then overcome their characterisation and how the characters graduate’s recently released fi lmNoise , weaknesses. Despite their failings, are performed,” Saville said. “Part of the which has been around the world in foibles and faults, they do their upmost Australian vernacular and the Australian fi lm festivals such as Sundance, is also to rise above them and behave with a character is that unlike the Americans or a damning social commentary on certain nobility.” Europeans, we don’t do our emotional economic rationalism. laundry in public,” he said. Saville began writing the fi lm after the Described in many a review as an Port Arthur massacre. The massacre “We do everything we can to shield each Australian fi lm of striking power and triggered a range of emotions in him other from out innermost feelings, but originality, Noise is a psychological from dark reckoning and upheaval to if you live in a society that functions in feature built around the dysfunctional anger, dismay and guilt. that way you learn to decode the signals. though laconic and likeable constable Graham McGahan (Brendan Cowell). He argues that it’s too easy to dismiss “What I was trying to do was show Martin Bryant as the personifi cation of some of those signals and have some It opens with a violent sequence on evil. Saville believes Bryant is actually faith that the audience would manage to a suburban train line, where a young far more complex than that, and that he decode them.” woman fi nds herself in a carriage at was a disturbed man. the centre of horrifi c murders. Parallel, The police are portrayed as pedestrian but separate to this scene, McGahan “I kept wondering, what if I’d voted and mundane, but Saville isn’t arguing collapses at another train station – for a government that supported a that the majority of police are like because of tinnitus (a ringing in the healthcare system that might have McGahan. Neither of the traditional ears) – and is later placed on light duties. caught Byrant in the net?” Saville said. cinematic portrayals of police ring true His job is to man a police community “We economically rationalise all of for Saville, who observes that they’re caravan near the scene of the killings these things – the healthcare system, either portrayed as vigilantes against and take information about the crime. the police system – to the point of near crime, or corrupted bad seeds. crisis, then an event such as Port Arthur “The fi rst and big issue I was trying occurs which creates great upheaval, “When we interviewed police they all to explore in this fi lm is the idea of but the system was nearly toppling over had a story about someone who was like decency,” says the 41-year-old Saville anyway. I try to evoke that in Noise. McGahan,” Saville said. “I wanted to see of his fi rst fi lm feature. “As the world It’s not a shiny fi lm, the reality is that past the uniform and acknowledge that becomes increasingly chaotic and our bureaucracy has been gutted and is these are people with a diffi cult job who frightening it becomes more diffi cult fi ghting an un-winnable war.” work under stressful conditions in an to behave with decency. It’s always under-funded institution.” a cataclysmic event that tests these Saville employs unique sound notions and forces characters to techniques in Noise. The sounds in the Like McGahan, Saville has also suffered question their place in a society that’s fi lm are of the everyday variety and are from tinnitus, though not to the same damaged.” familiar in that they are all recognisable, extent as his main character. but they’re expressed in a way audiences There is also a sense of isolation in the don’t generally see to give a distinctive “I’ve had it enough to experience fi lm in that the characters live in a aural perspective. some of the emotions that McGahan metropolis, but feel isolated, particularly experiences: the isolation, anger and McGahan because of his tinnitus, which Another unique characteristic of the selfi shness,” Saville said. “You feel so cut can be quite debilitating in terms of fi lm is its use of dry wit and superbly off from the world that you can’t really how it isolates one from the rest of the sarcastic Australian vernacular. Saville engage with it and you lose a sense of world. McGahan’s journey is to accept says his use of the vernacular, for empathy, which is really quite terrifying. that he does have responsibilities and example, “as full as a State school”, is I always think that the greatest confl icts that he can’t just cloister himself away drawn from his love of it. are the internal confl icts and they’re the and live a self-satisfi ed life. most diffi cult to win.”•

Melbourne University Magazine 7 Medical tourism in Asia: First world medicine at third world prices?

By Sian Prior

edical tourism – the SP: What kind of treatments are we the Australian media of a woman who trade in health services talking about? travelled to India in order to access stem for foreign patients – is cell treatment for spinal damage that one of the 21st century’s AW: Just about anything really. We’re she’d had – the medical establishment in Mfastest growing industries and is being talking about things such as facelifts, Australia seemed quite dubious about it. aggressively marketed in countries cosmetic surgery of all types, things across Asia. such as gender reassignment surgery, AW: That’s an important aspect of At Bangkok International Hospital, for cardiac surgery, right through to it. People are travelling either for example, there’s an advertising sign specialist oncology services for cancer affordability but also those sorts of which reads ‘combine your healthcare treatment, or orthopaedic surgery. issues. The regulatory boundaries of needs with a holiday in paradise’, and care differ from country to country and it’s a classic example of the kind of sales SP: And who’s in the market for this so for instance in Thailand as yet IVF strategy being employed to encourage kind of medical tourism? Is it mostly is unregulated and it is possible to have tourists to travel abroad for their wealthy westerners who want a holiday pre-implantation sex selection there. medical procedures. in paradise to go with their surgery? Or is it people who are having difficulty SP: What are the statistics on the In this edited interview Sian Prior talks accessing the medical treatment that number of people travelling for medical to medical anthropologist, Dr Andrea they need in their own country? tourism or medical treatment? Whittaker, who has been studying medical tourism in Thailand, Singapore, AW: It’s very difficult to pin numbers India and Malaysia as part of her work down. If you believe the websites, then as a senior lecturer at Melbourne’s Asia “The [medical there are a lot of people travelling. Institute. tourism] trend For instance in Singapore, they quote SP: Your research is showing that these that about 150 000 patients went to days, medical tourists are heading off started in around Singapore in the year 2000 and they’re most often to countries in Asia. When 1997, after the Asian saying that that was worth about did this trend begin and why? US$220 million to their economy. economic crisis…” Certainly governments in the region see it AW: The trend started in around 1997, as a whole new form of foreign exchange after the Asian economic crisis and it’s AW: It’s both. It’s a very diverse market and trade for them, and to fill a gap that been the initiative of a number of Asian and in some respects the term medical the Asian economic crisis has left. governments to really start to promote tourism is a bit of a misnomer because medical tourism or the use of hospital at one extreme you have people who are SP: Are there disadvantages to people in services in their countries as a way of combining a holiday with a facelift or a those countries who are now providing generating foreign exchange. tummy tuck to those travelling to access those services? What sort of impact is it Asia now has a number of places, which cancer treatments not available in their having on local people in terms of what are promoting themselves as medical home countries. medical treatments they can access? hubs in Asia, and so we see a lot more people starting to go there because the SP: How much of it is people seeking AW: One of the major disadvantages price makes it very affordable for a large treatment that they can’t get at home? is that it appears as though this trade mass market. I’m thinking of a recent example in potentially has created a two-tiered

8 Melbourne University Magazine health system, where poorer locals access hospitals which don’t have the high-tech medicine that’s available in the sort of export ARTWORk BY CHRIS DYSON oriented hospitals, whereas foreigners can access superb medical facilities in these private hospitals. Trying to fi nd a balance between that is something that a lot of the countries are struggling with at the moment.

SP: What sort of value for money are the patients getting for these trips?

AW: If you take again quotes from SP: What are the risks involved for countries, and they may have very little the hospitals themselves, for example people travelling for these kind of recourse for damages, if something does in India, they’ll say that in general treatments? If it’s cheap, is it nasty? go wrong. their medical procedures cost about a Part of the problem too is that if things fi fth to a tenth of what those medical AW: Not necessarily. A lot of the do go wrong, they’re often not going procedures would cost in a developed hospitals involved, their specialists are to be in the country where they had country. trained overseas so they’ll be trained in the services. So, all of those costs of the US or Britain or Australia, but there complications are going to be handled SP: That’ll pay for your airfare. are risks and as with any biomedical back in their home country again. procedure there’s always going to be They may end up, despite all of their AW: Well a lot of their websites actually things that go wrong. efforts to keep things cheaper, with very say that it’s fi rst world medicine at third The problem for patients travelling from expensive health bills back home. • world prices. overseas is that they don’t necessarily The full story is available at: http:// have the same levels of legal protection upclose.unimelb.edu.au/?q=node/64 that they would expect from their home See also: www.asiainstitute.unimelb.edu. “The problem for patients travelling au/people/staff/whittaker.html from overseas is that they don’t www.sianprior.com necessarily have the same levels of legal protection…”

Melbourne University Magazine 9 Climate change – the most significant environmental and economic issue facing Australia for the remainder of this century

By Professor Snow Barlow ’ campaign reamlarge mages from the ‘D I

10 Melbourne University Magazine he hot spring of 2006 was the tipping APEC meeting in Sydney, immediately prior to point for community attitudes to the election, as the Government attempts to climate change in Australia elevating assume control of the issue. Will this interest it to the top of the political agenda persevere and does the issue warrant such throughT the remarkable synergism of bushfires, attention? drought, a notable movie and a challenging economic evaluation of inaction. Australia is particularly vulnerable, firstly because of our extremely variable climate, and Spring temperatures 3-4°C above normal over secondly because our export economy is based much of Victoria led to a premature start to the on the fossil fuel intensive mining industry bushfire season, blanketing much of the State and climate sensitive agricultural industries. with smoke in December. More than a million Regrettably we are also playing catch-up with hectares of forest burnt before the fires finally regard to climate change policy at a Federal level extinguished in February. after being leaders in this area immediately post Kyoto. In this decade the carbon intensity of Severe water shortages occurred in both wealth generation has risen alarmingly. The lack urban and rural areas. These events in nature of detailed policy research and analysis in the were given extra meaning by an accessible post Kyoto decade has resulted in a government explanation in the Al Gore movie An Inconvenient that has a strategy but no quantitative target, Truth and a powerful analysis of the potential and an opposition that has a target but no costs to society of inaction, the Stern report. The comprehensive strategy to date. pace of disclosure has not slackened in 2007 with the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change is a fascinating area because of the Climate Change (IPCC) fourth assessment report continual interplay between the science of global detailing compelling evidence of significant climate change, the policy of mitigation and global warning. adaptation and the politics of national and global action or inaction. As a scientist who has traveled Australia is particully vulnerable a sometimes lonely road over the last 25 years I find it is always the science that sustains you. Climate change is now an issue of national, as well as global, significance and likely to play a While policy progresses as ‘punctuated significant part in the policy battles leading to evolution’ in sporadic leaps and stumbles, such the Federal election later in the year. It has also as at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the Kyoto become front and centre on the agenda for the Protocol of 1997 and the 2006 spring of action,

Melbourne University Magazine 11 scientific progress is inexorable as new emissions situation is unlikely to change global significance. These challenges can methods develop, new observations substantially before 2020/25. only be met through teams of people are made consolidating the theory, and with high levels of expertise and from a ultimately improved projections are We can expect to pay more for our wide range of disciplines, collaborating published. Fortunately Australian climate energy, food and water under this on creating local and global solutions. change science remains strong with scenario. While the anticipated carbon several Australians acting as lead authors emissions trading scheme will result in The exciting thing is that’s precisely in the IPCC 4th Assessment Report and modest increases in energy prices we what the University of Melbourne as a many others acting as authors. can expect major change in the price world class comprehensive university of food and water. Southern Australia, is able to offer. Through collaborating So what of the future? which includes the nation’s food bowl we have the breadth and depth of the Murray-Darling Basin, can expect knowledge across the campus that’s There are significant threats but ample 10-15 per cent decreases in rainfall with required to create new local and global opportunities for Australia as we explore concomitant increases in temperature solutions to many of these problems. new solutions to the fundamental and evaporation. Access to water will And we can extend this ability by issues of climate change adaptation, become more limited and its price working together with the community, including water availability and food will rise. Food prices will face upward government bodies and industry. production, and mitigation with regard pressure from rising water and fuel to energy generation, transport issues, prices and competition for the nations And it’s already happening in the new and the industrial sector. Under a farmlands from the biofuel industry. generation degrees. A group of us drawn business as usual scenario we expect from Science, Arts, Land and Food and energy consumption to increase by The combined impact around the globe Economics, led by Professor Rachel 1.5 to 2 per cent per year leading to of the Gore movie and the Stern report, Webster, are establishing a sequence an effective doubling of our emissions was a powerful world-wide wake-up call of three breadth subjects in the area of by about 2040. Unfortunately, global to the fact that climate change is now climate change which will be available emissions appear to be following a the most significant environmental to students in all six ‘new generation’ similar path driven by sustained high and economic issue facing the planet. undergraduate degrees. They will growth in developing nations and a lack Furthermore it’s the first truly global give the new Melbourne graduate the of significant mitigation in developed environmental problem. opportunity to understand the physics nations including Australia. of the global climate system, the science We have no choice but to try and meet of the greenhouse effect, potential Recent evidence published in the the immense challenges associated with impacts of climate change on our food Proceeding National Academy of Sciences climate; Australia must start being part and water systems, energy policy and (US) demonstrated that global of the global solution and reduce the socio-economic systems. greenhouse gas emissions are now extent to which we are part of the global running higher than the highest high problem. Fortunately, the solutions we create growth/fossil fuel intensive scenario and discover together will not only developed following the Rio summit The University’s Growing Esteem be of social value – they’ll also be in 1992. Given the current policy Agenda is particularly timely – given its economically valuable and highly positions of major developed and objectives to develop students who are marketable. The trick will be to find developing nations, and the lead time leaders in a civil society, students who clever ways of capturing the value so as required to make substantive change have the ability to both engage with the to make our own teaching and research to energy generation systems, this local community and to tackle issues of more sustainable. •

12 Melbourne University Magazine Government called on to ‘kick-start’ the nuclear industry

By Dr Nerissa Hannink

Dr Ziggy Switkowski is a former CEO of Telstra. He is currently a non-executive director of Suncorp, Tabcorp, Healthscope and Opera Australia. PHOTO: Fred Kroh

s our population grows, the He noted that the Review found there to $40 per tonne of carbon dioxide need for more energy and was no reason to limit Australia’s per year), then the price gap closes. fresh water will increase, prospecting, mining and export of By the time a reactor was up and and nuclear power should uranium as the high prices and demand running in this country, nuclear Abe considered as an option to address for Australian uranium meant that the would become one of the lowest cost this, according to Dr Ziggy Switkowski, business opportunities were compelling. options and probably the cleanest in Chair of the Australian and Nuclear terms of greenhouse gas emissions. Science and Technology Organisation. Dr Switkowski identified the potential need for Government to kick-start the When pressed by an audience Some of Australia’s leading scientists nuclear industry as has happened in member as to whether the cost of were among the capacity crowd that many other countries. There are at decommissioning was factored into came to hear Dr Switkowski’s recent present 31 nuclear powered countries the costs, Dr Switkowski replied that lecture entitled ‘Climate Change with 20 more in the queue, totaling 443 there was an attempt to factor in and Nuclear Power in Australia’. reactors (plus about 150 nuclear powered all costs of decommissioning, waste Dr Switkowski last year chaired the aircraft carriers and submarines). and storage into the 2006 report and Prime Minister’s Review of Uranium should be implemented as a kind of Mining, Processing and Nuclear Energy. Currently 15 per cent of global ‘future fund’. Dr Switkowski believes electricity and 23 per cent in OECD that if the first reactor was built in The focus of his presentation at the countries comes from nuclear power 2020 one national facility would be University of Melbourne, where he which has special relevance in Australia needed in 2080 to permanently store gained a PhD in nuclear physics, was for desalination projects and eventually spent nuclear fuel. He said that these the main findings of the Howard feeding a hydrogen economy. costs were a fraction of the total for Government’s 2006 Nuclear Review. a reactor and that proliferation and “Global decisions will be made illegal diversion of nuclear materials “The demand for electricity is expected around us by our trading partners,” to weapons had not been an issue for to grow by 1.5-2 per cent a year into Dr Switkowski said. inspection-compliant, transparent the future,” Dr Switkowski said. regimes (Australia already being in a “We need to get to ‘the main table’ to help region of nuclear powered countries). “This means that Australian use of shape international thinking, and protect electricity will be double today’s and advance our commercial interests.” “The science of climate change is levels during the 2040s and planning sound, but global emissions continue for, and investment in electricity According to Dr Switkowski, if we to rise,” Dr Switkowski said. Beginning generation needs to happen now. introduced nuclear power in Australia in the 2020s, Australia could have 25 today, costs for electricity generation reactors by 2050 producing a third “All available platforms for generation would be 20-50 per cent higher at of our electricity needs with near must be on the table. For base load the generation stage than for fossil zero greenhouse gas emissions. generation (the minimum amount of fuels, as these are currently so cheap. electric power delivered or required over Generation costs represent one-third “Total greenhouse gas abatement would a given period of time at a steady rate), of nuclear retail costs (the rest being be 18 per cent compared with business as there are probably only four options: in transmission, distribution and usual so nuclear power would be a valid coal, gas, hydro (now at risk given retailing). When carbon costing is part of a portfolio approach to energy our water challenges) and nuclear.” introduced (current proposals are $15 production, but not a ‘silver bullet’.” •

Melbourne University Magazine 13 HICKS’ CASE LEAVES NO WINNERS – LEFT OR RIGHT

BY SILVIA DROPULICH

BC Washington correspondent, “The end result of the Hicks case is Australia years ago, instead of sitting Sales wanted to fi nd out an outcome that will always lack in Guantanamo Bay for several years whether the handling of David credibility,” writes Sales. while Mori waged an unsuccessful Hicks furthered the goals of pressure campaign to force the Howard Athe war on terror, while at the same time “That does not serve Hicks, who Government to repatriate his client.” preserving the legal and human rights should’ve been entitled to the same that distinguish democratic societies. standard of justice as any Australian Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks citizen. It does not serve the Australian is published by Melbourne University In her book Detainee 002: The Case public who would have liked to see Publishing. of David Hicks, she concludes with a Hicks held accountable, given the resounding ‘no’ to her central question. undisputed facts of his Al-Qaeda connections.” “Ultimately the outcome of the Hicks case does not serve the causes of either According to Sales, the Hicks process the left or the right,” Sales says. drained resources from the Attorney- General’s Department in Canberra and “Those who believe Hicks is a terrorist the Australian Embassy in Washington. will be infuriated that the legal process was so mishandled that he will always “It damaged the reputation of the be able to claim he pleaded guilty United States,” she writes. “It did not only to escape the harsh conditions at insulate Australians from terrorism... Guantanamo Bay. Those who believe and any electoral advantage it delivered his trial was rigged will chafe at the to the Prime Minister evaporated long injustice and Hicks’ inability to ever ago.” clear his name.” Sales argues that Bush and Howard The book provides a lot of detail about were not the only parties to the Hicks what was going on behind the scenes issue. She says Major Michael Mori, in Washington between the Australian the detainee’s military lawyer, became Embassy and the Bush Administration. a ‘cult hero’ in Australia as a result of It looks at how the Australian his strong, public advocacy for Hicks. Government, according to Sales, very But, she asks, did Mori and his civilian early on in about 2003 knew that the offsiders always act in process was desperately fl awed, but their client’s best continued to stick with it feeling that interests? they had no option other than to trust the Pentagon. “There is no suggestion that David Hicks appeared at a preliminary Mori was anything hearing before a military commission at other than a sincere Guantanamo Bay on 26 March this year and energetic counsel, with his lawyers striking a deal with the but that does not put his

Convening Authority. He was sentenced defence strategy beyond MICHAEL SILVER critique,” Sales says.

to seven years in prison, six years and PHOTO: three months of which are suspended. He will serve the remaining nine “He was in an excellent position to months in an Australian prison. Sales strike a plea bargain on his client’s completed the last chapter of her book a behalf three years ago, a course couple of weeks shortly after Hicks was he fi nally took in March 2007. convicted. Hicks could’ve have been back in MAJOR MICHAEL MORI PRESENTING THE LAW SCHOOL’S 2006 ALUMNI LECTURE.

14 Melbourne University Magazine MARCH 2007: IDEAL TIME TO PUSH FOR LENIENT DEAL FOR HICKS

BY PROFESSOR TIM McCORMACk

ince arriving back in Melbourne But Sales makes one fundamental a conclusion to the proceedings as from observing the US Military concession in her book as she speculates expeditiously as possible (and, I assume, Commission proceedings about what might have been: well before the Federal election). That against David Hicks in particular constellation of factors made SGuantánamo Bay in March 2007, I “Those who believe Hicks confessed his guilt March 2007 the ideal time to push for have been surprised by the number only to get out of the notorious prison will a lenient deal. Major Mori seized the of people who have asked whether I continue to see Mori as a hero for holding moment and struck a very favourable was disappointed by the entering of out so long. Others will see him as a fool deal indeed. In my view, any attempt a guilty plea. Implicit in the question for not acting pragmatically at the start, to strike a deal prior to 2007 could is a suggestion that David Hicks owed although of course the political situation never have produced such a relatively others a commitment to battle the was not so favourable then for a lenient plea lenient outcome for David Hicks and injustice against him to the bitter end of deal. (p. 227, emphasis added)” I am convinced that he owes a debt the process. I fi nd it wholly repugnant of gratitude to his US and Australian to suggest that he let anyone down in The acknowledgement by Sales that lawyers for the outcome they achieved choosing the path he did. David Hicks the political situation was never as on his behalf. leapt at the offer of an opportunity to favourable for a lenient plea deal as leave Guantánamo Bay after fi ve long, it was in early 2007 is, in my view, John Howard and other senior ministers uncertain years of detention, to return understated. argued that the Australian Government to Australia and to be incarcerated for a had nothing to do with the terms of specifi ed and relatively short period of The case of David Hicks became the pre-trial agreement but I fi nd the time before regaining his freedom. Who a palpable irritant for the Howard arguments disingenuous. How can there could possibly blame him for doing so? Government after the decision of the US be a reference to an Act of the Australian Supreme Court in Hamdan in June 2006 Parliament (the Proceeds of Crimes Act) In her recent book Detainee 002: The declaring Military Commissions Mark I in the pre-trial agreement without input Case of David Hicks Leigh Sales questions illegal and as the period of incarceration from the Australian Government? The whether Major Mori really was acting at Guantánamo Bay, with no obvious end independent representative of the Law in the best interests of his client by in sight, became increasingly untenable. Council of Australia, Lex Lasry QC, negotiating a plea agreement in 2007 forcefully articulated what so many of rather than several years earlier – say The public campaign gained much us believe in a statement to the media 2004 – such that David Hicks may have greater traction in the second half of at Guantánamo Bay after the terms already been free by now. 2006 as many politically conservative of the pre-trial agreement had been organisations and institutions joined announced. Mr Lasry refl ected then the growing chorus on the convenience of David Hicks of discontent for an remaining in prison until just after the apparent disregard federal election and being subject to a for fundamental gag order until early next year and, in principles of so doing, raised a suspicion of extensive justice and respect infl uence by the Howard Government for the Rule of Law. The over the terms of the agreement. expeditious resolution Whether or not the gag order can be of the case became a enforced in Australian courts is moot political imperative for the since David Hicks has made it clear, Howard Government in a through his Australian lawyer David Federal election year. McLeod, that he intends to abide by the agreement he has signed. The Prime Minister himself explained on the 7:30 Report in early April that Our PhD student, Sarah Finnin, and I he had spoken twice to President Bush have both invested a great deal of time by phone and extensively in person and energy on our involvement in to Vice-President Cheney demanding this case. I know I would not hesitate

Melbourne University Magazine 15 16 Melbourne University Magazine Alumni in Print

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The Unexpected Elements of Love Kate Legge (BA (Hons) 1979) Penguin Australia, August 2006 Kate Legge’s book looks at the modern conundrums of family, work and ageing. Legge, a former Farrago editor, explores ADHD, the stresses on modern working families and even global warming which provides a menacing backdrop to the novel. The Unexpected Elements of Love is Legge’s first novel and draws on many of the social issues she has written about for The Australian newspaper. It has been long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award. “I think we’ve devalued caring as a society,” Legge has said. “People who look after plants get paid more than people looking after children. And people who work in Professor Tim McCormack, Director Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, nursing homes similarly are paid appalling amounts of University of Melbourne money. We have to value caring more.” PHOTO: JOE VITTORIO to commit myself all over again Living the French over the past 150 years is replete with heroes and I am sure Sarah would say the Revolution 1789-1799 and villains, valour and pettiness, drama and intrigue. This book follows the development Peter McPhee (BA (Hons) 1969, same – especially given that she of medical education from the days before MA 1973, PhD Arts 1977) has remained in Washington DC ‘bacteria’ and modern surgery, when quacks Palgrave Macmillan, often had as much credibility as university after the end of the Hicks Case to October 2006 assist the Office of Defense Counsel trained practitioners, until the establishment for the Military Commissions What did it mean to of today’s world renowned high tech live through the French biomedical precinct in Melbourne’s Parkville. in some of the other ongoing Revolution? This volume provides a coherent Dr Ross Jones is a Fellow of the Department cases. Both of us became involved and expansive portrait of revolutionary life of History and Philosophy of Science and the by exploring the lived experience of the because of our concerns for the Johnstone-Need Medical History Unit at the people of France’s villages and country towns, threats to principles we have long University of Melbourne. revealing how the Revolution had a dramatic held dear – a commitment to impact on daily life from family relations to Under the Boards: The justice and to the importance of religious practices. Cultural Revolution in Basketball the Rule of Law. These principles Professor Peter McPhee is Deputy Vice- have been seriously challenged by Chancellor (Academic) and holds a Personal Jeffrey Lane (Exchange, the Bush Administration’s choice Chair in History at the University of Study Abroad 2006) of modality for the prosecution Melbourne. University of Nebraska Press, May 2007 of alleged offenders in its War on Leadership for the Terror and, unfortunately, the Disillusioned The true story of basketball lives as much off the court as on the Howard Government extended its Amanda Sinclair (BA (Hons) 1975, hardwood; it is about politics and race and PhD Arts 1984) unqualified support. There are many cultural clashes as heated as a final-four Allen & Unwin Australia, significant challenges in dealing buzzer-beater. Lane’s book documents March 2007 with those involved in terrorism a profound change in basketball and in but I certainly hope that the We expect our leaders to American culture over the last 30 years. be assertive, confident, in current, as well as future, Australian Jeffrey Lane is the founder and director of control. Can they, and we, live up to this? Schoolhouse Tutors, a mentoring program governments re-commit themselves Or should leadership instead be aimed at for middle and high school students in to acting consistently with our altogether different outcomes? This book Manhattan and Brooklyn. foundational principles. tackles fundamental questions about leadership head on and shows how our ideas Murder on his Mind: about leadership have been captured by Australia’s Abortion Clinic Tim McCormack is the Foundation narrow interests and corporate templates. Massacre Australian Red Cross Professor Professor Amanda Sinclair is Foundation Susie Allanson (BA (Hons) 1976, of International Humanitarian Professor Management Diversity and Change MA 1979, PhD MDHS 1999) Law. Since December 2003 he at the Melbourne Business School. Wilkinson Publishing, June 2007 has provided expert advice on Humanity’s Mirror: 150 Five years after what became Law of War aspects of the David Years of Anatomy in known as Australia’s Abortion Hicks Case to the Defence Team. Melbourne Clinic Massacre, Dr Susie Allinson, lecturer and clinical psychologist, has written a book In that capacity he attended the Ross L. Jones (BA (Hons) 1978, with a powerful message, about people with proceedings against David Hicks in GDipEd 1979) committed views. Murder on His Mind is a Haddington Press, August 2007 Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in March riveting read from ‘inside’ the killer’s mind 20 07. The social and intellectual and alongside those who witnessed the horror life of medical Melbourne of that winter day in leafy East Melbourne.

Melbourne University Magazine 17 Alumni News

Alumni key-note at AsiaConnect University of Melbourne Alumni featured as keynote speakers at the 2007 AsiaConnect, Asialink’s biennial business and careers conference.

Opening the conference, Mark Dal Pra (BEng/BCom, 1995) and Sin May Leong (B Education Studies, 1995) spoke about Jetstar’s expansion into the long haul business in Asia.

The Age reporter, Kenneth Nguyen (BA/ LLB 2004) moderated a round table to discuss new avenues for business in Asia. Other presenters included Deputy Secretary of the Office of Learning & Teaching, Department of Education and Training, Dr Dahle Suggett (PhD Arts 2003); Senior Trade Commissioner and Minister Commercial, South Asia, Convenors of the Beijing Alumni Association Mr Freeman Wang (left) and Dr Haifeng Li Austrade, Mike Moignard (BSC 1974, (centre) were pleased to meet the Vice-Chancellor. Photo: Song Hong MSc 1978); and General Manager of Business Operations, Intrepid Travel Shanghai. China is the University of and discover some of the detail of Tom Beadle (BA/LLB 1990). For audio Melbourne’s fastest growing alumni the new curriculum and programs. transcripts see: www.asialink.unimelb. community and these visits follow edu.au/ successful alumni receptions in Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Shanghai and Beijing in March 2007. Professor Peter McPhee impressed the University forges closer links guests with his passion for the new with Chinese alumni Melbourne Model attracts model and the goal of the University On 31 May Vice-Chancellor Professor alumni interest offering education that is widely Glyn Davis and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Two hundred alumni and their guests acclaimed and accredited internationally. Professor Frank Larkins met with returned to campus in May for a forum He was joined by Professor Pip Pattison, senior alumni in Beijing for a private on the Melbourne Model. Alumni President of the Academic Board, and dinner. Professor Larkins hosted a were intrigued to hear the reasons for Professor Rick Roush, Dean of the similar occasion the following week in the University’s bold new directions Faculty of Land and Food Resources.

Coming events For more information visit www.unimelb.edu.au/alumni/events

August 2007 • Young Alumni Reception • Theatre Matinee and Alumni • Graduate Careers and Employment (Bangkok, Thailand) Reception (Geelong) – Saturday 22 Function (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) – Sunday 26 August September – Thursday 25 October • Alumni Dinner (Hong Kong) • Alumni and Friends Reception • Veterinary Science 25-Year Reunion – Wednesday 29 August (Delhi, India) – Saturday 29 September ­– Friday 26 to Sunday 28 October • Veterinary Science 35-Year Reunion October 2007 • Medicine (MBBS) 50-Year Reunion – Friday 31 August to Sunday 2 • Alumni Reception (San Francisco, – Saturday 27 October September USA) – Friday 12 October • Graduate Careers and Employment September 2007 • Alumni Reception (Los Angeles, USA) Function (Singapore) • Melbourne Business School Sydney – Saturday 13 October – Wednesday 31 October Annual Alumni Dinner • Alumni Reception (New York, USA) November 2007 – Thursday 13 September – Monday 15 October • Melbourne Business School Annual • Vice-Chancellor’s Oration for Alumni • Medicine (MBBS) 40-Year Reunion Alumni Dinner (Melbourne) in Melbourne – Wednesday 19 – Friday 19 to Sunday 21 October – date to be confirmed September • Heritage Society Annual Luncheon • Medicine (MBBS) 55-Year Reunion • Grand Union Canal Boat Trip – Wednesday 24 October – Saturday 10 to Sunday 11 November (London, UK) – Friday 21 September

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Making education possible for future generations

Ryen Diggle, Scholarship recipient Mildura Alumni 60th Anniversary Photo: JOE VITTORIO Reunion Lunch Photo: Justin Brierty

In March 2007, the University “The prospect of studying at the 60 years of memories and announced the creation of the Future University of Melbourne was very an enduring legacy Generations Fund to expand the exciting but also daunting.” range and number of scholarships it The Mildura alumni occupy a special currently offers to Australia’s most Timothy Kern, currently enrolled in Law/ place in the University of Melbourne’s promising students. Initial capital to Commerce, said of his ‘exchange year’ that history. From 1947 to 1949 more than the fund was contributed by donors to it exposed him to ideas and opportunities 1300 students and staff from Architecture, the University’s Highest Priorities and that he did not know existed. Engineering, Dental Science, Medicine Scholarships through the University and Science had the unique experience Fund in 2006. “I would not have been able to travel of studying at a residential branch of the abroad at all were it not for the generous University in Mildura. With a goal to create an endowment support of donors,” Kern said. “It may fund of $110 million, the Fund will sound like a cliché but the Melbourne This year marks the 60th anniversary make a Melbourne education possible Abroad Scholarship really changed my of the opening of the Mildura campus. for future generations of outstanding life – without it none of the past year In April 170 Mildura alumni celebrated students. would have been possible.” the anniversary at a lunch hosted by Professor Peter McPhee, Deputy Vice- Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Generous staff donations Chancellor, Academic. At the lunch Professor Peter McPhee acknowledges Dr George Hale spoke passionately about the impact that this support has on the In 2006, for the first time in the the need to support rural and regional student body. “Melbourne has long been University’s history, a University-wide students and honoured donors to the a leader not only in attracting bright Staff Appeal was launched. Over $370 000 Mildura Scholarship Appeal. The Mildura and gifted students from Australia and was generously donated by academic and Scholarship Appeal, launched in 2006, beyond, but also in providing special professional staff. Of this total, $49 000 was established following a reunion in support for students of disadvantage,” was pledged through the Staff Appeal 2005 when the Mildura group decided Professor McPhee said. to the University and three nominated to establish a lasting memorial. They charities, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Oxfam wanted to give back to the community “By increasing our available scholarship Australia and the Australian Red Cross. which had provided them with such an support, we have a unique opportunity enriching experience. to make a difference in their lives.” The Staff Appeal represents part of a broader national trend of increasing The Mildura Scholarships will support Ryen Diggle said that without his philanthropy – in growing numbers students from the Mildura region to scholarship, he would not have been Australians are answering the call to attend the University by providing able to accept the offer of a place at give back, and are making a significant up to $5000 per annum. For further Melbourne. impact locally and globally. information on the Mildura Group or the Mildura Alumni Scholarship “I’ve wanted to study medicine since The workplace giving program is please contact Suzanne McGraw in the Year 10 in high school, but there are no continuing in 2007. See: www.unimelb. University’s Advancement Office, email medical schools in Darwin,” Diggle said. edu.au/giving/staff-appeal [email protected]

Melbourne University Magazine 21 University News

Exquisitely restrained: Seated Girl (detail) c.1896-98, Hugh Ramsay, oil on canvas mounted on board, sight 95.2 x 70.1 cm. Purchased by Melbourne Teacher’s College 1965.

Seated Girl one of our ‘greatest paintings’

Hugh Ramsay’s Seated Girl painting in selecting the six works was that at the University of Melbourne’s they be on public display in a leading Ian Potter Museum of Art has been Australian gallery. With the exception of named by art critic Sebastian Smee as Melbourne’s Ian Potter Museum of Art, one of Australia’s greatest paintings, all are in State or national galleries. based on his criteria of ‘originality, beauty and a sense of surprise’. “This is simply a beautiful picture,” Smee writes. When you look at the Smee’s assessment appeared in The picture, you can almost hear Ramsay Weekend Australian Review [28-29 April] murmuring, asking the girl to divide where he is the newspaper’s art critic. and part her hair and the girl doing it, The only condition he set himself wordlessly.

22 Melbourne University Magazine “Some people might find something diversity and underpin Australia’s creepy or sexist about the situation. I international competitiveness. don’t. The result is too intimate, too reticent, too exquisitely restrained.” “The old system of centrally-allocated university places cannot keep up with Director of the Ian Potter Museum, rapid shifts in labour market needs,” Dr Chris McAuliffe, said Ramsay’s Professor Davis said. “We find ourselves Seated Girl was bequeathed to at an unusual juncture – though the Melbourne High School in 1947 by major parties still disagree on many a niece of the artist. The painting policy details, there is consensus on the was restored and purchased by the big picture about the need for a new Melbourne Teacher’s College before regulatory approach. eventually entering the University Art Collection on the amalgamation of “So the Group of Eight has decided to these two institutions. make a policy contribution today, in the fervent hope this inspires others with The other paintings in Smee’s choice of a stake in higher education to set forth Australia’s greatest paintings included: their vision of the future. In an election Fish Catch and Dawes Point, John Lewin year, in a time higher education has Professor GRaeme CLARK c.1813, Art Gallery of South Australia; Photo: MICHAEL SILVER found some political salience, now is the Luna Park, Sidney Nolan, 1941, Art moment to promote new ideas.” Gallery of NSW; Fire’s On, Arthur Streeton, 1891, AGNSW; Mt Wellington 1970, and then it flourished at the Professor Davis’s speech, the Go8 policy with Orphan Asylum, Van Diemen’s Land, University of Melbourne when Clark paper and summary document are 1837, National Gallery of Victoria; was appointed as Foundation Professor available at www.go8.edu.au Ernestine Hill, Sam Fullbrook, 1970, of ear, nose and throat surgery in 1970 Queensland Art Gallery. till he retired from this position in 2004. International award for University of Melbourne sex education website Inventor of Cochlear His research also received considerable A University of Melbourne website implant wins Germany’s support from the Bionic Ear Institute has won a major international top neuroscience award which Clark founded in the late 1980s award, outscoring entries by major University of Melbourne scientist and continued until his retirement in corporations from all over the world. Professor Graeme Clark has received 2006. the 2007 Klaus Joachim Zulch prize for www.yoursexhealth.org was judged ‘Best his research into neuroscience and the The Cochlear implant would not have in Class’ in the 2007 Interactive Media Cochlear implant, giving hearing to achieved such success if it were not for Awards for the education category. deaf people. the excellent industrial development by This is the highest honour bestowed by the Australian firm Cochlear Limited the New York-based Interactive Media Professor Clark was awarded the prize and the crucial work at the Eye and Ear Council. for outstanding achievements in basic Hospital in Melbourne. neurological research for developing the Although www.yoursexhealth.org was multi-channel Cochlear implant (Bionic Group of Eight outlines a new not marketed overseas, it is attracting Ear). He shares the prize with Dr John vision for Australian higher thousands of visitors from around the Donoghue who leads the brain science education world since it was launched in January. program at Brown University in the US. The Chair of the Group of Eight, Professor Glyn Davis, Vice-Chancellor www.yoursexhealth.org covers 120 The Zulch prize is Germany’s highest of the University of Melbourne, has topics, ranging from physiology to first award in neuroscience, and is made outlined a new vision for higher dates, and has a unique feature called by the Max Planck Institute which education and university research ‘True Stories’. These professionally is ranked by The Times Education in Australia. In a National Press produced photo essays, linked to audio, Supplement in 2006 as the top research Club address entitled ‘Seizing the play out the real-life dilemmas that institute in the world. opportunities’, Professor Davis teenagers face every day – and every called for bipartisan political night. Over 80 000 people in more than support to modernise Australia’s 70 countries around the world now use higher education system. The winning website team headed by Cochlear implants to hear. Professor Rosenthal was: Penny Harris His speech coincided with the release (Creative Director); Kay Ansell and Professor Clark’s research in the of a Go8 policy discussion paper which Brian Diamond (writers); Lara Cameron Cochlear implant was first undertaken proposes measures to reform current (designer/Flash programmer); Patrick at the University of Sydney from 1967- policy, widen student choice, promote Fitzgerald (HTML programmer).

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Dreamlarge campaign touches the imagination

The dramatic launch of the ‘Dreamlarge’ campaign on 17 April at the University of Melbourne. Photo: Michael Silver

The University of Melbourne sees the AJF, using the campaign message The L H Martin Institute for Higher ‘dreamlarge’ message as a stimulus ‘dream large’ to launch the University’s Education Leadership and Management to attract the brightest minds. Melbourne Model degrees. Director – which has received $10 million in of AJF, Andrew Foote, says inspiration Commonwealth funding – will be The University’s ‘dreamlarge’ for the campaign drew on the human located in the University’s Faculty of campaign was aired in cinemas and need to believe and to dream: “It Education. Federal Education Minister on television around Australia from was Eleanor Roosevelt who said: ‘The Julie Bishop announced the funding mid April. Composer Julian Langdon future belongs to those who believe for the new Institute, under the second hopes that the music can provide for in the beauty of their dreams’.” round of the Workplace Productivity the ‘dreamlarge’ campaign a sense of Program. grandeur and weight. Julian is studying The stories and examples on which for a Bachelor of Music Performance the ‘dreamlarge’ campaign is based The Institute is named after Professor with Honours (Practical Composition all relate to broad-ranging activities Leslie Martin, one-time Chair of the Stream) at the University’s Faculty and research at the University of Australian Universities Commission and of the Victorian College of the Arts Melbourne – including science and author of the report that resulted in the (VCA). Julian was one of a small innovation, arts and culture, medical establishment of colleges of advanced number of composers at the VCA and advances and engineering technology. education. the Faculty of Music invited to work up a submission for a panel to assess. To hear Julian’s music and to The L H Martin Institute will be learn more about ‘dreamlarge’ led by a Director, reporting to the Universities have traditionally see: www.dreamlarge.edu.au University’s Dean of Education. It will maintained a conservative approach be guided by an Advisory Board with to advertising, although the education New University of Melbourne a broad membership including senior sector’s advertising expenditure, at institute to train higher representatives of the Group of Eight, around $90 million a year, is significant. education leaders the Innovative Research Universities, A new institute, led by the University the Australian Technology Network, Melbourne has adopted a creative of Melbourne, is set to train the next the Australian Council for Private new cinema and television approach, generation of leaders of Australia’s Education and Training, and a State developed with advertising agency $25 billion higher education sector. TAFE authority.

24 Melbourne University Magazine University of Melbourne Vice- The Royal Society is the independent “Crisis is not too strong a word Chancellor, Professor Glyn Davis, says scientific academy of the UK and to describe the decline in foreign Commonwealth Government support the Commonwealth. Dedicated to language education in our schools for the Institute means a critical gap in promoting excellence in science, its and universities,” said Go8 Executive leadership and management education foundation dates back to 1660. Director, Michael Gallagher. for the Australian higher education sector will be filled. “Our post-secondary Professor Berkovic and Professor Boger “Despite many positive efforts from education sector accounts for some $25 were among 44 new Fellows from committed teachers and language billion of revenue, managed through the fields of science, engineering and experts, the percentage of Year 12 individual universities, VET providers technology. students graduating with a second and private institutions, all operating in a language has fallen from 40 per cent rapidly changing environment,” he said. Fellows are elected for their in the 1960s to as low as six per cent in contributions to science, both in some states in Australia today. “Until now, Australia has lacked a fundamental research resulting in focussed and systematic approach to greater understanding, and also in “At tertiary level where Go8 universities preparing higher education leaders and leading and directing scientific and are responsible for delivering the managers to deal with the increasing technological progress in industry and majority of foreign language education, complexity of their institutions.” research establishments. They must be the number of languages available has citizens or residents of Commonwealth fallen from 66 to 29 in the past 10 years. The L H Martin Institute will provide countries or Ireland. these leaders – in Australia and the “Our national deficit in foreign language region – with a range of award and Sam Berkovic is Director of the capability is something we can no non-award courses in leadership and University’s Epilepsy Research Centre. longer afford to ignore. It is Australia’s management, including a flagship He is distinguished for his discoveries great unrecognised skills shortage – and Masters program. relating to familial forms of epilepsy, the one most directly relevant to our leading to a complete overhaul of their competitiveness and security in an Royal Society elects two of clinical classification and providing new increasingly global environment.” Melbourne’s leading scientists insights into their underlying biology.

His research has established that mutations in single genes encoding neuronal membrane channels cause epileptic seizures, and has been recognised by numerous awards and prizes both within Australia and internationally, including as a Member of the Order of Australia.

David Boger, a Laureate Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is distinguished for his work on fluid mechanics.

His work has been recognised with Professor Sam Berkovic is Director of many awards including the Victoria the University’s Epilepsy Research Centre. Prize in 2002, and the 2005 Prime Bilingual and multilingual dictionaries Photo: Joe Vittorio Minister’s Prize for Science. in the Baillieu Library. Photo: Erin Stapleton Two outstanding University of Go8 releases a plan to rescue Melbourne scientists are the only foreign language education The Go8’s paper sets out the trade, Australia-based academics to be elected The Group of Eight has released its economic and security risks of the Fellows of the prestigious Royal Society plan to halt the decline in foreign widely held assumption in Australia that in 2007. language education in Australia. The English is the only language we need. Go8 policy paper entitled Languages They are epilepsy researcher Professor in Crisis aims to put this important The Go8’s paper, Languages in Crisis: A Sam Berkovic and researcher in fluid issue on the political agenda and Rescue Plan for Australia is available at mechanics, Professor David Boger, who promote its solutions for discussion. www.go8.edu.au discovered elastic liquids, subsequently named ‘Boger fluids’.

Melbourne University Magazine 25 University News

In April 2007 the Melbourne University honours include the Albert Lasker Melbourne, Monash in Magazine featured a report by Professor Award for Basic Medical Research and $2m water crisis move Michael Clyne (School of Languages and the Genetics Prize from the Peter Gruber The University of Melbourne and Linguistics) arguing that Australia had Foundation. Monash University have joined forces a very rich linguistic resource, but was in Uniwater, a major research-driven inhibited by a dominant monolingual Currently Morris Herzstein response to the current water crisis. mindset. The feature is available at: Professor of Biology and Physiology www.unimelb.edu.au/alumni/mum/ at the University of California at The two leading Australian universities San Francisco, Dr Blackburn is have each put in more than $1 million Eminent Fellow internationally recognised for her over three years to spearhead a unique University of Melbourne alumna telomere and telomerase research collaboration creating a powerful Dr Elizabeth Blackburn has been which has uncovered how the tips of critical mass of expertise in water- elected a Fellow of Janet Clarke Hall damaged chromosomes are rebuilt, thus related research. The collaboration is (JCH), the College’s highest honour. protecting human DNA. the first initiative under the revitalised Melbourne Monash Protocol which was Dr Blackburn, who attended JCH while set up in 1997. studying for her BSc, is among the world’s leading scientists. Her recent Uniwater was launched by Victorian Minister for Water John Thwaites with support from the University of Artists lead way Melbourne Vice-Chancellor Professor Six Indigenous artists who graduated from the University of Melbourne’s Glyn Davis and Monash University Victorian College of the Arts recently are the first Indigenous graduates in their Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard respective disciplines. Larkins.

Jacob Boehme of the Narrangga and Kaurma people of the York Peninsula and the Minister Thwaites said the collaboration Adelaide Hills graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma in Puppetry, Jadah Milroy “will further develop our ability to of the Palyku people of Perth graduated with a Graduate Diploma in Community provide sustainable water supplies into Cultural Development, and Janawirri Forrest of the Wongi people in the Western the future by increasing our knowledge Desert, Kye McGuire, a Noongar from Perth, Mark Coles-Smith of Broome and and understanding of water issues”. Mariaa Randall of the Bunjalung people in Casino, NSW, all graduated with a Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Arts Management. Director of Uniwater, Professor John Langford, agrees that research holds Their graduation also set a new VCA record for the number of Indigenous many of the answers to the water graduates in one year. crisis. “We cannot begin to solve water management problems until we do that A new publication from the VCA’s Wilin Centre, Illuminate: Shining the Light on research,” he said. the VCA’s Indigenous Alumni, profiles the VCA’s 2007 Indigenous graduates as well as Indigenous Alumni who have graduated from the college over the past 30 Professor Langford previously headed years. For further information see: www.vca.unimelb.edu.au/wilinabout/ the University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Water Research Centre.

Uniwater’s independent board is chaired by Professor John Lovering, a distinguished geologist and former President of the Murray Darling Basin Commission and Chairman of the Victorian Environment Conservation Council. Uniwater has four strategic objectives:

• Maximising environmental return on investment in repair of rivers, groundwater and catchments;

• Realising the potential of irrigated and dryland agriculture using less Indigenous edge: From left Mariaa Randall, Jacob Boehme and Jadah Milroy. water; Photo: Jorge de Araujo

26 Melbourne University Magazine Role models: Professor Rachel Webster and Professor Tom Healy with Dr Philip Campbell at Nature’s awards event at Scienceworks. Photo: Les O’Rourke

Each winner received $A10 000 and was profiled inNature . Dr Campbell presented the winners with their awards at the Scienceworks Museum in Sustainable water management: From left (front) Professor John Langford and Professor Melbourne recently. John Lovering, and (back) Professor Richard Larkins, Minister John Thwaites and Professor Glyn Davis. Photo: Peter Casamento Rowing success

• Providing a reliable and sustainable Editor-in-Chief of Nature, Dr Philip water supply to Australia’s growing Campbell. cities; and Chair of the judging panel, and head • Developing water policies and of the Australian Academy of Science, institutions within a Federation Professor Kurt Lambeck, said Nature framework. received 74 high-quality nominations from across Australia and New Zealand Uniwater’s research will focus on in a broad range of disciplines. “Judging Melbourne and the Goulburn Valley, these awards was the hardest task I’ve Victoria’s food bowl and part of the ever had to undertake,” he reports. Goulburn–Murray river system. Nature’s citation says Rachel Webster Nature science mentoring awards created a strong research environment for Melbourne two from scratch when she was appointed The inaugural winners of two new just over 10 years ago. Melbourne University Boat Club Nature awards for mentoring in members (from top) David England, Australasian science – one for a “In a relatively short time, she has Geoff Rees, John Whiting, Peter Antonie scientist in mid-career and the other fostered a thriving astrophysics (gold medalist, Barcelona Olympics for lifetime achievement – are two community and spawned a pedigree of 1992), David Ball, Tim Marshall, Sandy University of Melbourne scientists. protégés, who attribute their success to Marshall, John McKenzie and Field her inspirational guidance.” Rickards recently won Gold in the 50-55 The winner of the mid-career award year category at the Australian Masters is Professor Rachel Webster, an The winner of Nature’s lifetime Rowing Championships held on the astrophysicist (Physics). The lifetime mentoring award, Professor Tom Healy, Penrith Olympic Rowing Course in early award goes to Professor Tom Healy, “is an example of a person who not June. MUBC was represented at the a physical chemist (Chemical and only mentors his own students, he also regatta by 22 men and women ‘master’ Biomolecular Engineering). succeeds in mentoring an entire field rowers spanning age groups from 28 to of science”, said one of his nominators. 60+ years, all of whom returned with “We are delighted to recognise the Australian colloid and surface science a range of medals. The University and efforts and commitment of these two is ranked among the best in the world, MUBC enjoy ongoing support from exceptional science mentors,” said thanks in large part to Professor Healy. these very active graduates.

Melbourne University Magazine 27 Queen’s Birthday Honours 2007 The University of Melbourne is proud to announce the following list of alumni, staff and honorary appointees who were awarded honours in 2007.

Companion of the Order of Australia Mr Dennis J. Trewin, AO – BSc (Honours) Dr Tony Mariani, AM – MBBS 1971 For 1968 For service to statistics as the Australian service to medicine as a consultant physician Mr Ross Adler, AC – BCom 1966 For service to Statistician, particularly through the reform of in the fields of gastroenterology and internal business and commerce, particularly through reporting standards and practices and support for medicine and through the development and the promotion of international trade and as a a range of national and international professional promotion of preventive health care initiatives contributor to company and commercialisation organisations, and to the community. within the Italian community in Australia. development in Australia, to the community through administrative roles with educational Member of the Order of Australia The Venerable Barry N. Martin, AM – BA institutions, and as a supporter of the arts. 1964 For service to the community through Mr Sauro Antonelli, AM – BCom 1972 For service contributions to the social welfare services of The Most Rev Dr Peter F. Carnley, AC – BA to the Italian community through a range of church, the Anglican Church, to young people at risk, to (Honours) 1966 For service to religion as Primate welfare, aged care and arts organisations, and to pastoral care and the promotion of ecumenism. of the Anglican Church of Australia, as a multicultural and migrant assistance programs. renowned theologian, and significant contributor Mr Lawrence McCredie, CBE, AM – LLB to international inter-faith collaboration. Ms Gaynor M. Austen, AM – BA (Honours) (Honours) 1960 For service to legal education, 1971 For service to library and information particularly in the areas of tertiary administration Officer of the Order of Australia management, particularly through the integration and teaching, and to the community through and management of new and evolving resources advocacy roles for people living with a disability. Dr John Best, AO – MBBS 1963 MD 1970 For service available in university libraries, and executive to medicine and to public health through support roles with a range of professional associations. Associate Professor Stephen E. McIntyre, AM – for strategic health research and policy development, BA 1968 For service to music as a concert pianist, and as a contributor to the development of rural Dr Kerry J. Breen, AM – MBBS 1964 MD 1976 teacher and supporter of young musicians, and and remote health services and medical education For service to medicine through the advancement through administrative roles with national and programs, particularly in Aboriginal and Torres of medical ethics and professional standards international music festivals and competitions. Strait Island communities and regional Victoria. of training and practice and to the specialty of gastroenterology as a clinician and teacher. Mr Ian M. McMaster, AM – BE (Metallurgical) 1970 The Hon Mr Justice Alex Chernov, AO, QC For service to the sugar and steel industries through – BCom 1962 LLB (Honours) 1967 For service Mrs Ruth E. Bunyan, AM – BSc 1961 For service to a range of executive roles, to the development of to the law through a range of judicial and education through the Invergowrie Foundation, the capital investment initiatives, research and industry administrative roles with Victorian, national Council of International Schools, and as Principal reform, and to the advancement of community, and Asia-Pacific bodies, and to education of Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School. government and industry partnerships. through the University of Melbourne. Dr James M. Butler, AM – MBBS 1972 For Mr David A. Miles, AM – LLB 1968 For service to Sister Eileen A. Daffy, AO – BSc 1970 GDip service to medicine in the field of dermatology, the community through support for Australian Education 1970 BEd (Post Graduate) 1972 LLB particularly through the establishment of innovation and research, to public policy 1987 For service to education through leadership the Skin and Cancer Foundation, and to the development in the areas of trade, taxation and and development roles in Catholic secondary Australasian College of Dermatologists. international relations, and to the legal profession. schools in Australia and Pakistan, and to the community through Caritas Pakistan. Miss Mary Cameron, AM – LLB 1938 For service Ms Susan M. Pascoe, AM – BA 1973 MEd 1991 For to the legal profession and to the community service to education through a range of executive Emeritus Professor Peter L. Darvall, AO – BE through significant contributions to the early roles, particularly in the Catholic education (Civil) 1964 For service to education, as Vice- development of family law, women’s legal sector, to curriculum policy development, to Chancellor of Monash University and as an rights and the role of women in the law. international relations through initiatives to engineering academic and researcher. provide opportunities and resources for educators Mr Tony W. Darvall, AM – LLB (Honours) in the Pacific region, and to the community. Professor Anne Kelso, AO – BSc (Honours) 1963 For service to the legal profession, to 1977 PhD 1980 Dip Teach (Primary) 1979 sustainable urban and transport infrastructure Dr Kevin H. Siu, AM – MBBS 1965 For service For service to science, particularly in the development in Victoria, and to the community. to medicine as a neurosurgeon and through field of immunology and vaccine research contributions to a range of professional associations. through contributions to a range of scientific Dr Ralph A. Fischer, AM – BAgSc 1961 MAgSc organisations, and as an academic and mentor. 1965 For service to agricultural science in Professor Geoff Tregear, AM – BSc 1963 For service Australia and developing countries, particularly to scientific and medical research and through Professor Colin P. Mackerras, AO – BA wheat research in the areas of grain yield administrative roles within research institutions. 1961 For service to Asian studies and and crop cultivation and management. international relations, particularly in the field Ms Gemma S. Sisia, AM – BSc 1992 For service of Chinese society, culture and language. Professor Richard M. Fox, AM – Former staff to the international community through member For service to medicine in the areas of the establishment and development of The Mr Allan J. Myers, AO, QC, – BA 1969 LLB clinical oncology and research, to medical education School of St Jude in Arusha, Tanzania. (Honours) 1970 For service to the community and training, and through governance and through support and sponsorship of a range leadership roles within professional organisations. Emeritus Professor Bruce A. Stone, of educational, Indigenous, heritage and art AM – BSc 1949 For service to science, organisations, to the law, and to business. Mr John W. Gourlay, AM – BCom 1959 For particularly in the field of biochemistry as a service to the community as a philanthropist researcher, academic and administrator. Mrs Maria J. Myers, AO – BA 1971 GDip Social supporting charitable organisations, educational Studies 1972 LLB 1991 For service as a philanthropist institutions and business ethics programs, Mrs Josephine G. Stone, AM – LLB 1983 supporting and endowing a range of charitable, and to the accountancy profession. For service to the community of the Indigenous, heritage and art organisations. Northern Territory, and to the law. Mr Jack H. Harty, AM – LLB 1958 For service to the community through support for a range of Associate Professor Jennifer M. Strauss, AM – health organisations, particularly the Mental Health BA (Honours) 1955 For service to education as an Foundation of Australia, and to the legal profession. academic and scholar in the field of Australian literature and poetry, and to a range of organisations involved in women’s issues and industrial relations.

28 Melbourne University Magazine Ms Yvonne V. Von Hartel, AM – BArch (Honours) Mr Mohamed A. Hassan, OAM – GDip Special Ed Public Service Medal 1967 For service to architecture, design and 1992 PGDip Ed Studies 1996 For service to education building through involvement with a range of and to the Islamic community, particularly as Dr Margaret H. Friedel, PSM – BSc 1967 professional organisations, to the promotion of the founding Director of Minaret College. PhD 1973 For outstanding public service women in business, and to the community. in the field of arid zone research. Associate Professor Jill E. Keeffe, OAM – PhD Professor Peter Vulcan, AM – BE (Mechanical) 1992 For service to public health, particularly in the Ms Valerie J. Gill, PSM – GDip Special Ed 1955 BA 1963 For service to the community area of vision testing, and as a contributor to the (Early Child) 1985 For outstanding public as a contributor to accident and injury advancement of eye care education and practice. service in the field of Autism Spectrum prevention in the field of road transport, and Disorder and Asperger Syndrome. to people with intellectual disabilities. Mr Peter J. Kolliner, OAM – BE (Metallurgical) 1963 For service to the Jewish community through Mr John Leatherland, PSM – BA 1970 GDip Mrs Janet B. West, AM – BCom 1975 For cultural and religious organisations, to materials Social Studies 1973 MSW 1988 For outstanding service to the accountancy profession through engineering and metallurgical education, and to public service, particularly to vulnerable families the Institute of Chartered Accountants the arts and tourism promotion in Melbourne. and children, and to people with disabilities. in Australia, and to the community. Mr John L. McInnes, OAM – BCom 1969 For Conspicuous Service Cross Medal of the Order of Australia service to the community through educational, social welfare and sporting organisations and Lt Colonel Ian W. Upjohn, CSC – BA (Honours) Mr Eddy M. Abraham, OAM – GDip Applied through roles in business and commerce. 1991 LLB 1991 For outstanding achievement Linguistics 1989 GDip Inter-Ethnic Studies as Commanding Officer of 4th/19th Prince of & Education 1978 BEd (Primary) 1982 For Dr Kevin Moriarty, OAM – MBBS 1969 For Wales’s Light Horse within the 4th Brigade. service to the community through migrant service to medicine as an anaesthetist and through assistance, multicultural media programs, honorary medical appointments at the Royal Australian Fire Service Medal and activities supporting senior citizens. Melbourne Zoo and surf lifesaving organisations. Mr Peter R. Billing, AFSM – BSc (Forestry) 1976 Mr John Burt, OAM – Certificate Trained Mr Lynn K. Murrell, OAM – BA 1969 Specialist Teachers 1976 For service to education, GDipEd 1970 For service to conservation particularly through the Ballarat Specialist and the environment through organisations School, and to the community through a involved with natural resource management range of sporting and service organisations. and protection, and to local government.

Professor Allan Carmichael, OAM – MD 1988 For The Rev Brother Henry F. O’Halloran, OAM – BA service to medicine as an educator and administrator 1963 GDipEd 1967 For service to education as a through a range of government and professional teacher and administrator in the Catholic sector. organisations, particularly in the field of paediatrics. Dr Alan G. Parker, OAM – BDSc 1936 DDSc Mr Donald L. Chisholm, OAM – LLB 1953 For 1953 For service to dentistry, particularly service to the community as a legal practitioner, and in the field of orthodontics and oral and to people with disabilities through the provision maxillofacial trauma management. of employment and educational opportunities. Mr Maurice R. Sexton, OAM – BCom 1965 For Mr Norman H. Deane, OAM – BE (SEECS) 1947 service to heritage conservation, particularly For service to sailing as a competitor, coach and in through the Kosciuszko Huts Association, administrative roles, and to the community through and to the community of Canberra. a range of charitable, service and church groups. Dr Ernst P. Silberstein, OAM – BSc 1948 MBBS Mr Peter S. Dwyer, OAM – BAppSc 1966 For 1951 For service to medicine, particularly as a service to optometry through executive roles in paediatric neurologist, and through executive professional organisations, the establishment roles with disability support organisations. of a nationally consistent competency-based approach to the registration of practitioners Dr Graeme R. Smith, OAM – BVSc 1976 For service and as a researcher in the field of paediatrics. to animal welfare through The Lost Dogs’ Home, and to sport through junior soccer development. Mr Bruce G. Fell-Smith, OAM – BArch 1966 For service to humanitarian aid through the Dr Robin J. Wilson, OAM – MBBS 1975 GDip establishment of the Talpe Rehabilitation Mental Health Science (Infant & Parent Mental and Development Trust in Sri Lanka. Health) 1999 M Health Science (Infant & Parent Mental Health) 2002 For service to the Dr John G. Fraser, OAM – MBBS 1958 For service community through the provision of mental to tennis at State, national and international levels health services and to organisations that through administrative roles, and to sports medicine. provide assisted accommodation for people who are unable to live independently. Dr Howard A. Freeman, OAM – BDSc 1965 For service to the Jewish community, particularly Mr Clifford D. Wise, OAM – BCom 1975 For through the preservation of historical documents. service to the community, particularly through organisations that support people with disabilities. Dr Peter R. Harcourt, OAM – MBBS 1973 For service to sports medicine as a practitioner, administrator Professor John R. Zalcberg, OAM – MBBS and educator, and through contributions to the 1975 PhD 1985 For service to medicine in development of anti-doping policies in sport. the field of oncology through initiatives to assist cancer patients and their families and through the promotion of clinical research.

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