Queensland University of Technology Newspaper ■ Issue 157 ■ February 18 – March 3, 1997 Volunteer toddlers sought for asthma training trial by Andrea Hammond

Children aged three to five years are being sought as volunteers in Australia’s first trial of an asthma education program devised by QUT’s Centre for Applied Studies in Early Childhood. Centre researchers want to recruit 120 toddlers and small children with asthma which has been diagnosed by a medical practitioner as moderate to severe. Associate Professor Heather Mohay, QUT to run the centre’s director, said the program tourism aimed to keep children healthy and enjoying life by establishing good habits conference of taking their preventative medication. “We have realised you really have to teach children how to manage their Page 2 asthma as soon as they start to have symptoms, because non-compliance is a major problem – the kids get an asthma attack and they end up in hospital and/ or missing school,” Professor Mohay said. “This program started because we realised that children didn’t understand the condition – the fact that asthma is often intermittent. So you may feel quite well, but you may need to take your medication because it prevents attacks.” Professor Mohay said it had been established children who had asthma When it comes to 'puffer time' for their young sibling, the Lumley triplets of Calamvale before the age of five had a high risk of — Sarah and Timothy — know just how to give Rachel plenty of support continuing to have lifelong asthma. “We looked around for education and conducted with the assistance of Dr the videos, the book and health history Earlier this year, more than 400 programs for young children and found Brent Masters, a respiratory physician at questionnaires, with mothers asked to children throughout Brisbane and the there was absolutely nothing – all the the Mater Children’s Hospital. keep a diary for three months to record Wide Bay region used the videos and Trio promotes programs were aimed at a minimum of PhD student Leisa Holzheimer – who children’s willingness to take medication, the book through local kindergartens, seven- to eight-year-olds and, mainly, has also written a colourful story book symptoms, number of visits to doctors playgroups and child care centres. Pacific uni at 10- to 11-year-olds and we thought for the program – has been testing three, and their quality of life. “The first phase was conducted to that was ridiculous,” she said. fun, five-minute teaching videos which Their records will be compared determine if the education materials “The theory was that children as star puppets Cassie, Cooky and Agro as against health history questionnaires and were an effective teaching tool for young as five were unable to learn health- well as Play School personality Benita. diaries kept by mothers of the remaining increasing children’s knowledge about Page 4 related information, but we were quite “We know there are around 25 per children, who will not have had access asthma,” Ms Holzheimer said. convinced children much younger could cent of children who will experience to the videos and books until the end of “With the second phase we want to learn things if it was taught appropriately. asthma symptoms some time during the three-month period. evaluate the effect of increased “Obviously, little kids can’t read, so we their childhood,” Ms Holzheimer said. “We really want to see how effective knowledge about asthma on children’s have started with video tapes which are “About 5 per cent of these children these resources are in terms of not only management skills and health status. based on sound principles of learning, are with asthma will require medication on increasing children’s knowledge about Parents interested in joining QUT’s developmentally appropriate for children a daily basis and these are the children asthma and its management, but also Children’s Asthma Education Research of that age and are very Australian.” that we are wanting to target.” what impact this might have on Project should call Leisa Holzheimer The program is being supported by The parents of half of the 120 children children’s health and health-related on (07) 3864 3281 or (07) 3282 3651 the Asthma Foundation of Queensland enrolled in the trial program will be sent behaviours,” Ms Holzheimer said. (home) or 041 771 8608 (mobile). Uni welcomes 30 per cent more international starters in 1997 As first semester begins, QUT is their places in undergraduate and be welcoming degree students from Korea, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia and New head for welcoming 30 per cent more new postgraduate courses. more than 50 countries and all Taiwan,” Professor Gibson said. Oodgeroo unit international students to its ranks “We’re very pleased that this is our continents.” He said that, not only would QUT than last year. 10th year of record international Of its 30,000 students expected in benefit from the presence of The bumper intake is yet to be enrolments,” Professor Gibson 1997, QUT will have more than 2,000 international students, but the local finalised, according to Vice- explained. new and continuing international economy would see an injection of tens Page 6 Chancellor Professor Dennis Gibson, “The majority of our degree students students. of millions of dollars as the students but current enrolments show around this year come from Singapore, “Additionally, we have a further 360 paid for accommodation, transport, 850 fee-paying students from mainly Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Hong students in English language and food, entertainment and other items. South-East Asian countries are taking Kong and Taiwan but, in fact, we will preparatory programs, again mainly from – Trina McLellan

QUT Central Administration 2 George Street Brisbane 4000 Telephone (07) 3864 2111 Registered by Australia Post – Publication No. QBF 4778 Naval contract impresses overseas students Conference to take tourism QUT’s contract to supply graduate management education This month four QUT academic staff from the to the Royal Australian Navy has been a major drawcard Graduate School of Business, the School of Management into new millennium for international students, according to the acting head of and the School of Communication will fly to the on- by Trina McLellan • communication and technology; and the Graduate School of Business, Associate Professor Tim shore base HMAS Penguin to begin lectures. • education and training. Robinson. They will teach 32 men and women in intensive one- QUT’s Continuing and Professional Sir James said the conference had already The unique partnership gave international students with and two-day sessions until April. Education unit is providing secretariat services attracted international support from the London- a limited knowledge of Australian universities an “QUT is offering its very first graduate management for the inaugural World Tourism Conference based World Travel and Tourism Council immediate testimonial as to the quality of business program interstate for a very prestigious client – the Royal to be held in Cairns later this year. (WTTC), representing the global private sector, education on offer at QUT, Professor Robinson said. Australian Navy,” Professor Robinson said. The conference will be the first of its type and the inter-governmental World Tourism QUT won the tender to provide in-house graduate “It is a major achievement. QUT staff travel to India to bring together policy formulators and Organisation (WTO) based in Madrid. management instruction to officers studying at the Royal marketing our MBA and, of course, students there – who decision-makers from private and public In Australia, WTC Joint Ventures has been Australian Navy Staff College back in May 1996. know nothing about QUT – ask for evidence that QUT is sectors from developed and developing working with the Australian Tourist The Graduate Certificate in Management now forms in the ‘right league’. nations, according to its organisers, WTC Commission, the Queensland Tourist and part of a staff course for middle-ranked officers from the “When they are told we’ve got a contract to supply Joint Ventures. Travel Corporation, the Far North Royal Australian Navy, the Australian Army and the Royal graduate management education to the Royal Australian Aided by CPE, the group has been working Queensland Promotion Bureau and the Australian Air Force, as well as the American, Asian and Navy, it’s a language that anybody in any country can closely with governments in Australia and Tourism Council of Australia in advance of Pacific defence forces. understand.” overseas as well as key industry organisations the inaugural World Tourism Conference in and associations. early November. According to WTC chairman and former According to Sir James, a number of high- president of the Seychelles Sir James profile people have already agreed to attend Mancham, Cairns will be an ideal venue for the conference, including the prime ministers such a conference, given its outstanding local of Belize (Manuel Esquivel) and Mauritius attractions, its achievements in the promotion (Navinchandra Ramgoolam), the presidents and management of sensitive tourism areas of Uganda (Yoweri Museveni) and the and its world-class convention centre. Seychelles (France Albert Rene) as well as “We will be emphasising a number of noted environmentalist and broadcaster elements which are important to the David Bellamy. development of tourism into the next century,” Sir James explained, “and Cairns, Queensland and Australia are front-runners in most of these areas.” Sir James said high-profile keynote speakers and workshop leaders would guide the deliberations of the conference through an agenda which covered: • preservation and management of rainforests, reefs and wilderness areas; • promotion of indigenous cultures; • infrastructure development; • financing; From QUT's Council Room, Sir James Mancham officially launches the World Tourism Conference to an eager media contingent Change role lures Gardiner from Law by Tony Wilson

Professor David Gardiner relishes a challenge and that’s just how he sees his new job as Pro- Vice-Chancellor (Planning & Resources) at QUT. by David Hawke Appointed to the new position earlier this From the Inside… year, Professor Gardiner has worked at QUT for more than 20 years and, for many of those years, as Dean of the Faculty of Law. Professor Gardiner said he believed planning was central to the successful future of any university, particularly in light of changes in Commonwealth funding and the current review of higher education. “I am excited by the challenges of the current environment,” he said. “I think the QUT's new Pro-Vice-Chancellor, writing was on the wall, even before the current Planning & Resources Coalition Government, that the public purse Professor David Gardiner was unlikely to continue to fund higher education to the extent it had in the past. the university, fostering change in planning “The challenge to universities is to become and resources areas which would better equip more self-reliant upon the expertise we have QUT to manage future challenges. and to look at the services we wish to provide “The challenge in the resources area is to to students, corporations, governments and get a more stable forward prediction of where business.” we are at, in terms of future sources of Professor Gardiner predicted the coming funding. year, “the era of the West review”, would be a “Internally, it is to ensure the efforts of “very exciting time to be around”. people at whatever level achieve returns to Viewing himself as an agent of change, a them of resources commensurate with role he has played throughout his career, performance,” he said. Professor Gardiner recalled the transitions he “The planning section has two faces – we had made in his career to date. are the outside interface with DEETYA and “Before coming to QIT in 1976, I was other places, in terms of all of our statistical practising as a barrister in New South Wales numbers and things such as the Educational and teaching law part-time at Sydney Uni,” Profile. But the other part is the university’s he said. “I contemplated an academic career own corporate planning system. which would have made me a junior academic “A lot of planning goes on at QUT, but in a large prestigious law school surrounded not as much attention is paid to performance by legal luminaries, but I decided it wasn’t for against those plans. In the future there ought me. to be a far greater emphasis on the “However, when the opportunity came to achievement of plans which should be closely go to QIT and help set up a new law course, tied to resource allocation.” I jumped at the chance to get in on the ground While he was keen to get on with the new floor.” job, Professor Gardiner said he would miss Professor Gardiner said that, in his new the interaction with students and academic role, he expected to play a leadership role in staff he had enjoyed as dean.

Page 2 INSIDE QUT February 18-March 3, 1997 QUT people star in Australia Day honours by Andrea Hammond “It keeps you motivated, keeps you moving and makes you even more While the churning waters of proud to be an Australian,” he said. competitive swimming and the hushed “Australia means so much to me – atmosphere of a darkened theatre may concepts such as mateship and battling seem poles apart, they have reaped against the odds in sports and in life – Australia Day honours for QUT PhD it’s what the country’s been built on. student Brendan Burkett and drama We really are the lucky country.” lecturer Don Batchelor. Meanwhile, Don Batchelor, 58, said Gold-medal winning paralympic he was “very pleased” his contribution swimmer Brendan Burkett has had his to theatre and to the community had efforts recognised with the Order of been recognised through the Lord Australia, while theatre director Don Mayor’s Australia Day Awards. Batchelor has won the 1997 Lord He said his family – his brother, sister- Mayor’s Australia Day Cultural Award in-law and their children with whom Mr Burkett, 33, lost his left leg in he lives – had been thrilled with his a motorcycle accident in 1986. He is win, but were deterred from attending married to Cathy and has a nine- the Lord Mayor’s Australia Day concert month-old daughter, Ellen. and awards ceremony at the City He won gold in the men’s 50m Botanic Gardens by wet weather. freestyle swim and silver in the 4 x After an afternoon of – rather sodden 100m freestyle relay at last years’ – entertainment on Brisbane’s River Atlanta Paralympic Games and also Stage, Lord Mayor Jim Soorley captained the 162-member Australia presented distinctive statuettes to the Paralympic team. three 1997 Cultural, Sports and Citizen No stranger to the powerful rush award winners. of patriotism that comes with Mr Batchelor has been involved in competing for his country, he also drama and the arts since the 1960s and won a silver medal at the 1988 Seoul has participated in the cultural Order of Australia honours winner Brendan Burkett . . . ‘my wife Cathy (and our baby daughter Ellen) and I Paralympics and a bronze at the 1992 community through directing, writing are really excited and happy — it’s something you’ve got for life’ Barcelona Paralympics. and acting with ABC radio and television. With Bryan Nason, he also founded Mr Burkett is studying for his PhD He has been a drama teacher with the College Players which went on to in biomechanics through QUT’s QUT’s Academy of the Arts, and its become the Grin & Tonic Theatre. School of Human Movement Studies predecessor institute, the Brisbane One of his most recent and and is training for next year’s College of Advanced Education, for memorable events was directing World Championships, the next more than 11 years. Cutting A Rug for the Australia Commonwealth Games and the Also an active member of the Remembers Celebrations in 1995. Sydney 2000 Paralympics. Brisbane theatre community, Mr “The (Brisbane City) Council He said he was “very excited” about Batchelor has served on the Warana thinks I’ve made a contribution to the Order of Australia Medal (OAM). Board, the Queensland Philharmonic the community and that’s what “I feel really patriotic towards Board, the TN Theatre Company pleased me, because the Council’s Australia and this makes it even Board and for the Queensland policies in the arts are very better,” he said. Community Arts Network. community-based,” he explained. Working ‘robs students of educational potential’ by Tony Wilson from the amount of time and energy their perceptions of the level of devoted to study. commitment of working students. A survey has shown students forced “Being a student is a full-time “Academics need to remain by economic necessity to work part- occupation if it is done well,” Ms sympathetic to the circumstances Lord Mayor’s Australia Day Award winner Don Batchelor . . . ‘thrilled and time while studying were at risk of Berthelsen said. contemporary students find pleased’ to have work seen as contributing to the Brisbane community compromising their education, a “High-achieving students work at themselves in,” she said. situation made even worse by increased being students, but those who have to “Students should be made aware HECS charges and tighter conditions support themselves with one or more early within their course of study of for accessing Austudy. jobs are often too tired to do well and the time commitment involved, The survey of 100 education may become dispirited due to the especially those in courses with students by QUT early childhood demands upon them. professional practice components.” lecturer Donna Berthelsen and “As well, lecturers believe there needs Ms Berthelsen said the financial humanities and social science lecturer to be time for social and intellectual battle facing students was a missing Mary Power from Bond University growth during a university course. element in recent debates about changes showed that part-time work was a “Students need time to talk and to the higher education system. component of financial support reflect on intellectual issues if they are “The national student union has packages for 74 per cent of students. to be more than technically qualified. been the only voice on this issue but, A third of the students surveyed “When time is limited, students in a way, I don’t think they have been were supporting themselves solely on concentrate only on those activities really seriously listened to,” she said income from part-time work. which are part of their assessment.” “I don’t think policy makers really Ms Berthelsen said the research However, Ms Berthelsen said, understand how difficult it can be for showed academics were concerned that academics should guard against letting students to survive financially these days.” the increased need to work detracted their own experiences as students cloud She said Austudy benefits for students calculated on their parents income assumed a willingness or ability of families to support students that, often, did not exist. “There is a lot of talk about families feeling the squeeze of economic circumstances and I don’t think a lot of families are in the position they were 10 years ago to support their children through higher education,” she said. “I’m not sure families feel as strongly about getting their kids to uni. “I think there is a shift in community attitudes about how important higher education is. “It is just becoming too difficult and things like increased HECS and tighter requirements to access Austudy shift people’s attitudes further away from making a Donna Berthelsen … ‘Being a student is a full-time occupation’ commitment to university study.”

INSIDE QUT February 18-March 3, 1997 Page 3 Public relations trio promotes Level playing field risky Pacific university upgrade and elusive – economist by Tony Wilson one sector of the economy to another. But Three QUT students late last year by Noel Gentner “When the booklets and brochures were if you have resources, people for example, spent a number of weeks laying the designed, our next step was to promote The level playing field of world trade is an which are specific to certain geographic ground work for the promotion of support from the Samoan community the new university and the importance of economic fantasy and one which Australia’s locations or specific to some type of work, another university. — was a learning experience in education. leaders indulge at their peril, according to a then those resources will remain idle – which Their work was part of a final-year paradise. “A number of posters were then created QUT academic. is essentially unemployment. project for their Bachelor of Business The group was required to design and a series of media releases and media Senior lecturer in the School of “I don’t think the workers on a car (majoring in public relations). and produce quality publicity and interviews were devised to be distributed Economics and Finance Dr Alan Williams assembly line are likely to be easily The project took Carolyn Martin, promotional materials for the new prior to the official opening.” said increased tariff reduction would not transferred across into the medical services Kylie Paulsen and Melody File to NUS campus and the programs and Ms Martin said the group met only have a detrimental effect on Australia’s area, where we clearly have some export Western Samoa accompanied by their courses it would offer. government ministers and were invited to economy, but would accomplish little in opportunities.” School of Communication lecturer “Our main objective was to promote the Education Minister’s village for lunch. moving other nations towards a free-trade Dr Williams said deregulation would Judy Gregory. the new NUS as an important “We ate all their delicacies — including stance. produce a more specialised Australian At present, the National University educational facility,” Ms Martin said. coral sperm and sharkfins — and other “It is naive for Australia’s leaders to think economy which would be vulnerable to of Samoa (NUS) is located in very “However, they had no written interesting food such as breadfruit and they can lead the rest of the global economy trends in world markets. old buildings at Malifa, Apia. publicity material, all they had was a taro,” Ms Martin said. into a brave new world of free trade,” he “The danger of cutting tariffs is that we But, in August 1997, the university calendar which listed limited Although it was hard work, Ms Martin said. will become a less diversified economy – we university will move to new buildings descriptions of the university and its said she would do it all again. “Even if such a thing as free trade existed will prosper or perish at the behest of the which are being constructed at faculties. “The people there don’t mind Western — and it doesn’t in the real world — Australia world economy.” Toomatagi, Apia under a $US30 “We decided we would do a booklet culture. is a very small player in the global economy Dr Williams said successive Australian million Japanese Aid Grant. for each of the five faculties — “They will always keep their traditional and I doubt very much the people who dictate governments had received economic advice The student project was initiated Commerce, Arts, Science, Nursing and ways but are open to the ideas and American or Japanese trade policy give much which assumed deregulation was sufficient by Professor Bernie Wolff, retired Education — a preparatory program suggestions of the Western world,” she thought at all to what Australia wants or to solve Australia’s long-term economic QUT Dean of Business, now Head booklet on curriculum, a brochure said. believes is right.” problems. of Commerce at NUS. targeting high school students on the “I really appreciated the opportunity to Dr Williams said increased deregulation “Many of the proponents of a deregulated According to Ms Martin, the appropriate subjects they should select assist a Third World educational facility could lead to greater short-term economy fail to understand why we had group’s three weeks stay in Western and an overall booklet for the in its development towards striving for unemployment, especially for the least protection in the first place, which was to Samoa — with financial assistance and university. excellence.” skilled members of the workforce. diversify the economy to stop us riding on “Reducing tariffs will do one of two the sheep’s back and to provide jobs in the things – it will force Australian firms to manufacturing sector for the migrants we become more efficient or it will force invited to the country after World War II,” Australian firms to move into parts of the he said. economy more or less exposed to a world “Of course, circumstances change and market,” Dr Williams said. regulations should be reviewed, but that is “This idea is quite reasonable where you vastly different to getting rid of all have resources that can be easily moved from regulation.” Summer subjects prove popular with students by Andrea Hammond comprehensive summer program catering for students from all faculties,” Professor QUT is set to expand its summer program Gibson said. to give more students the opportunity to “This initiative is most definitely part of fast-track their degrees through a third the changing face of education – the days of semester of study. university facilities lying idle outside the 28 More than 600 undergraduate and weeks of semester are now over.” postgraduate students enrolled in the 81 Mr Morley said the majority of 1996-97 subjects offered through the 1996-97 enrolments were in the faculties of Built Summer Program conducted from mid- Environment and Engineering, Business, December to late January. and Education. Student Administration Associate “Numbers were evenly divided between Getting a taste of real world public relations in Samoa were, Director Ray Morley said the number of undergraduate and postgraduate students,” l-r, Melody File, Carolyn Martin and Kylie Paulsen students participating had almost doubled Mr Morley said. over the previous year’s program. “Most of the engineering, law, science Vice-Chancellor Professor Dennis and education subjects on offer were Gibson said QUT’s Summer Program was undergraduate. an opportunity for students to catch up on “The Business Faculty offered only units, make up time lost through mid- postgraduate subjects and very successfully semester entry or simply to get ahead with targeted and marketed them to postgraduate their study. students. “We’ve had a terrific response this year “Next year all faculties will be targeting to only a limited number of subjects on potential students and business subjects will offer - in future we’ll be offering a more be offered to undergraduate students.” Feathered family calls QUT home

Earlier this year a wild mother duck and her seven ducklings decided to call one of the Gardens Point campus’s leafy, secluded ponds ‘home’. Concerned for their safety, QUT grounds staff cannily erected a temporary fence around the picturesque pond and labelled it ‘university research project’. Mother duck has since taken her young ones out into the big world.

Page 4 INSIDE QUT February 18-March 3, 1997 National gong for Data Collaboration may help nab crims Communications head by Tony Wilson QUT senior chemistry lecturer Dr Serge Kokot suspect had been found at a crime scene,” he are working on a way to match wool fibres to said. International computer industry newspaper Criminals the world over may prove easier to their source garments. The Austrian forensic specialist visited QUT’s ComputerWorld has named QUT’s Professor Bill Caelli, catch thanks to a research collaboration between The technique, which involved analysis of School of Chemistry in January, presenting picutred below right, as a 1996 ComputerWorld Fellow. QUT and one of Austria’s leading forensic trace elements in the fibres, could be applied seminars and workshops to postgraduate students Professor Caelli, the head of scientists. by forensic scientists to gather evidence and scientists from the Queensland Health QUT’s School of Data Dr Friederike Blümelhuber, the owner and against alleged criminals, Dr Kokot said. Scientific Service (Forensic Section) and the Communication, was among a director of the Kriminaltechnisches “Police, for example, would be able to say Scientific Section of the Queensland Police Force. select group of five people to be Privatinstitut in the Austrian city of Linz, and that fibres belonging to a garment worn by a Dr Kokot, who organised the visit, said Dr honoured with a fellowship in 1996. Blümelhuber was a trainer of crime scene The citation for the award, investigators, magistrates, judges and prosecutors presented in Sydney in late in Austria. November, recognised Professor “Her laboratory specialises in fibre and hair Caelli for his outstanding examination, illicit drugs, toxic substances — contributions to computing in including narcotics and bee and snake venom Australia. — and analysing and (confirming the age of) – Tony Wilson ink on documents,” he said. In addition to working with him, Dr Kokot said his Austrian colleague would be an associate supervisor to a QUT masters student who was researching black wool fibres — the hardest to match — using infrared spectroscopy, he said. Not only an accomplished scientist of international repute, Dr Blümelhuber was also an excellent role model for the school’s large contingent of female postgraduates, Dr Kokot said. “Dr Blümelhuber owns and runs her own forensic laboratory and is an accredited court witness in the Austrian judicial system, which draws expert testimony from impartial court- appointed sources,” he said. “This is different from our country where, in the main, forensic scientists operate separately and remotely from the crime scene personnel, who are usually drawn from the police force.” QUT chemistry lecturer Dr Serge Kokot watches as visiting Austrian forensic specialist Dr Friederike Blümelhuber examines minute fibres under a microscope. Ministers should not own shares – former GG by Andrea Hammond Mr Hayden said it was not the actuality of conflict or a benefit, but the “appearance” of a Government ministers could not afford to own potential conflict or benefit which caused the shares after they had taken office, according to downfall of Howard ministers in the spate of the former Governor-General, Bill Hayden. pecuniary interest conflicts at the end of 1996. Mr Hayden, who is an adjunct professor in “Most commentators missed the relevance of the Faculty of Arts, made this prediction during ‘appearances’ and nearly all missed the point the 1996 QUT Annual Ethics and Public Life that standards for political leaders are expected Lecture on Politics, Public Life and the Ethical to be higher than those imposed on the general Imperative in November. community,” he said. The former Governor-General told a packed Mr Hayden said he believed that even the auditorium that he believed ministers should option of blind trusts – touted by Mr Howard sell their investments within a defined period as a possible solution – would not conform to after they had accepted a ministry. the ethical expectations that were realistically “I am firmly of the opinion that once one placed on leaders and ministers. opts for public office and, in particular, where “When we are dealing with ministerial one becomes a minister, one cannot possibly pecuniary interest codes, it is unsatisfactory to continue to own shareholdings at all, or to have codes that are designed to fit the pecuniary operate trusts,” Mr Hayden said. interests of the ministry – the obligation to adapt “That is the cost, the sacrifice, and a minister must be clearly on the Minister or the politician can never evade the appearance of potential – not on the rule,” he said. conflict while he — or his spouse — holds “The fact that such codes are so easily shares, no matter the mechanism used for malleable and that governments can seek to holding them.” publicly justify this malleability, does place a Former Governor-General Bill Hayden Mr Hayden said that, for the 27 years he was question over their efficacy.” government or minister should be protected a Member of Parliament, he consciously resisted In his lecture, Mr Hayden also said: by legislation. the temptation of buying shares in any private • ministers selling their investments should take Mr Hayden served in the Australian business and the opportunity to derive an “the honourable and ethical path” and reinvest Parliament for 27 years as the Member for “appreciable amount of wealth” over that time. them through the banking sector or Oxley, was a Senior Minister in the Whitlam “There are intangible rewards in public life superannuation; and and Hawke governments and was Leader of the that more than compensate for this foregone • public service whistleblowers bringing to light Opposition from 1977 to 1983. material improvement,” he said. the wrong-doing or wrongful intents of a Group formed to represent part-timers Postgrad law gets

Following an intensive seminar organised by • provide enhanced networking opportunities. new program QUT last year for part-time academics, the “Each faculty and teaching unit is represented Postgraduate studies in law at QUT have profile of part-timers is set to rise with the on the PAPTA organising committee,” Ms Lloyd taken a new direction for 1997. formation of a professional association. said. In response to demand from the profession, Association Secretary Margaret Lloyd – “The organising committee has also had a a new Graduate Certificate in Law will be from the university’s School of Maths, number of fruitful meetings with Deputy Vice- offered, with seven specialist areas of law. Science and Technology Education – said Chancellor Professor Peter Coaldrake.” This will provide an advanced level of study the Professional Association for Part-Time Ms Lloyd said an email listserv group had that exceeds the level of Continuing Legal Academics (PAPTA) would support these been created to link part-time academics Education programs, but does not involve academics by representing their interests to and to promote discussion within the new completion of a 96-credit-point masters. QUT administrators. group. The 48-credit-point Graduate Certificate The group, Ms Lloyd said, would: To subscribe to the group, part-time staff may be completed part-time in one year. • provide useful information to part-timers on simply need to email the message “subscribe Specialist areas will include university services; ptacademics” to [email protected], leaving environmental law, international law, • work for more formal processes to be the subject line blank. commercial transactions, planning and established which recognised the needs of part- For more information on PAPTA, telephone resources, litigation, property and taxation. timers; and, at the same time, Ms Lloyd on (07) 3864 5417.

INSIDE QUT February 18-March 3, 1997 Page 5 Oodgeroo leader A special message about shows culture can your diverse uni community coexist with career As students and staff begin a new year QUT has exchange arrangements with by Trina McLellan developments and focusing on – and many of you are at university institutions world-wide as well as an employability,” Ms Tripcony said. for the first time – it is opportune to international bursary scheme. For the new manager of QUT’s Oodgeroo “That is what makes the university so note just how diverse Australian society At this university we take pride in the Unit, Penny Tripcony, taking her new worthwhile to students.” and, even more so, our universities diversity of our student and staff body position was as much a career move as a The Oodgeroo Unit provides academic have become. and have taken steps to improve access to private realisation of her cultural destiny. support, advice and friendship to a growing With 30,000 students and 3,000 our courses for groups under-represented The unit supports indigenous students number of indigenous students — around staff, QUT is a very large university in higher education. academically and socially, encouraging them 250 across all faculties this year — and has by world standards and, like many of These include Aboriginal and Torres to come into and graduate from courses made a small grant to each faculty to support the world’s famous universities, we Strait Islander peoples, those with which will give them the qualifications to recruitment and retention of indigenous have a truly international learning disabilities, women pursuing careers in reach their potential. students. Over time, the unit has forged environment. engineering and technology, socio- Ms Tripcony joined the unit last partnerships with several faculties and helps Our international students come economically disadvantaged people as well September with a strong work and academic deliver classes which have an Aboriginal from 60 countries around the world, as those from non-English-speaking background in indigenous education. and Torres Strait Islander component. but most are from the Asia-Pacific backgrounds. “Most recently I was working at the This, Ms Tripcony believes, is why QUT Region, in particular, Singapore, In our tolerant QUT community, University of Queensland for a couple of is an attractive place for indigenous students. Malaysia, Indonesia, India and we can all enjoy the respect and years,” she explained. “For six years before “Pleasingly, we have strong growth in Taiwan. understanding of our colleagues which that, I had worked in a management the postgraduate area and with fourth-year In an increasingly international mark a mature university. position with the training for teachers business and employment market, We are here to learn, to inquire and State’s Education wanting to upgrade there are great professional and to strive to understand the views of Department (as their qualifications,” personal benefits to local and I encourage local students to others. I invite you to be an active principal policy Ms Tripcony said. international students alike in learning consider doing part of their course member of this community. officer for indigenous “However, with the to appreciate other cultures. overseas. Professor Dennis Gibson education matters). differential HECS Prior to that, I worked and the rising costs A word from the Vice-Chancellor for many years as an of tertiary study, we Aboriginal education anticipated a fairly adviser in the large fall away Victorian Ministry of in undergraduate Pioneering pair head for home Education. numbers. Thankfully, by Trina McLellan cadets employed by the Guyana Sugar Having recently been the first two “After the stints in while those numbers Corporation (Guysuco) and, by mid- Guysuco cadets to complete Bachelor of government, I was have come back from For two QUT students completing three January, they were each working in one Applied Chemistry degrees at QUT, the ready for a break from last year, it has been intensive years of study, there was little of Guysuco’s eight mills, tackling pair arrived back at work just as Guyana’s ‘being in charge’, so I nowhere near as time to relax before they were back to process and quality control issues and crushing season started to move into full took a job at UQ drastic as we thought work on the other side of the world. participating in the introduction of new swing. where I was second in it would be.” The students — Albert Katryan and technology for the Tate & Lyle- Aged in their early 20s, the pair have charge and it was great Ms Tripcony’s Eon Boucher, pictured below — are managed plants. worked hard while in Brisbane, not only . . . for a while. biggest surprise on completing their requisite subjects in the “Bit by bit, though, joining QUT, she minimum time, but also taking extra I again felt the urge to said, was not so much subjects in mechanical engineering in each get back into the role Penny Tripcony . . . ‘we all the imbalance of of six semesters at QUT. of manager, to lead need recognition, value and indigenous students “We had limited free time while we others and make a acceptance’ to non-indigenous were studying, so we didn’t get much of a difference in doing so. students, though that chance to relax or see the sights,” Mr So, in that sense, this job came along at just is so, but the lack of indigenous staff on all Boucher admitted. “We just had our heads the right time.” three campuses. stuck in our books most of the time.” The quiet and carefully spoken Ms “Indigenous people constitute 2.4 per When classes were finished each Tripcony said she, personally, had few cent of the State’s population,” she said. semester, the pair spent valuable time in a preconceptions of her new role and “At QUT, indigenous students make up variety of Australian sugar mills, including employers before she joined. just .83 per cent of the student body. Tate & Lyle’s Millaquin mill in “I really didn’t know what to expect when “But, when we needed two, non- Bundaberg, the Rocky Point export facility I came to QUT,” she said. “I had been Oodgeroo indigenous staff members to sit and a northern New South Wales mill aware of QUT’s strong role and reputation on our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander called Broadwater mill near Ballina. in the education of teachers in this State. Committee, we searched and searched Mr Boucher, who comes from the “QUT seems to prepare people more for before we could find anyone. In the end, capital of Guyana, Georgetown, and Mr the practical side, especially in all levels of we identified only four and they were all in Katryan – who comes from Corriverton, education and that’s where most indigenous relatively low-level positions.” a rural community on the border with people have studied in the past. Far from reading the situation as deliberate Suriname and only slightly north of the “But I was also aware of the history of exclusion, Ms Tripcony believes most people Equator – said they had really enjoyed how the Oodgeroo Unit came to be and at QUT want to know how to help and include attending university in Queensland. how, in its early forms, it was moved from indigenous people at all levels. “Despite the fact we come from an place to place quite a lot. “Indigenous people come in all different equatorial country, it has been a lot hotter “Some people even wished me ‘good skin colours and it’s not always easy to here in Brisbane than we had expected it luck’ in such a way that, despite my recognise their origins. would be,” Mr Katryan said. “But it’s background, I began to suspect that the “Accepting the identity of indigenous not that hot once you’re at uni and we task really might not be for me. students and staff — and their pride in really appreciated the greater range of “However, I grew up in and around being indigenous — is what they need facilities available at QUT, the advanced Stradbroke and Moreton Islands and, most,” she said. technology laboratories and media- maybe because of the unit’s name — “This, and valuing their contribution — equipped lecture theatres. They’re just Oodgeroo (from the district’s late beloved not just tolerating their presence — is a not available in universities at home.” Aboriginal elder known to white Australia recognition that everyone can bring in Mr Katryan said Guysuco had been so as poet Kath Walker) — some of our elders something of value and use.” pleased with the success of its first two urged me to take the position. Perhaps it is her strong core of Aboriginal cadets that four more would be sent to “They reassured me that they believed values which give Ms Tripcony a clear Queensland to begin classes in 1997. the job was for me.” insight into what today’s busy university Ms Tripcony said she had since been decision-makers need to keep in mind. pleased with several things about QUT. “Service to the community is service to Thousands flock to official orientation launch “I was understandably concerned about students and service to students is service to More than 2,500 people crowded into The crowd was also entertained by clubs and societies, with food and how such a small unit would work across the community, but not everyone has the Kidney Lawn and surrounding a live band and an action-packed drinks available to those willing to three campuses. But the communication realised that,” Ms Tripcony said. areas at Gardens Point last Wednesday 8.5-minute orientation video put queue for a while. technology — internal phone lines, voice “Perhaps our notion of the QUT night for the official QUT Orientation together by the Electronic Media Tours of the Library and other mail, mobile phones and email in particular community may be too constrained by the welcome. Production unit and narrated by two facilities ran before and after the — mean we manage quite well, especially notion of campus. Students go back to their Vice-Chancellor Professor Dennis Academy of the Arts graduates, formalities. our lecturers who are based at our small broader community at the end of the day, a Gibson addressed the happy crowd of Margaret Harvey, from the Torres As most classes begin this week, Carseldine and Gardens Point offices community with its own sets of new local and international students, Strait, and Daniel Kealy of Moorooka. QUT will have around 30,000 . . . and they’re out and about quite a lot.” expectations, and it is easy to overlook that. their parents and friends, as did the Stalls lined surrounding the Kidney students being taught by some 3,000 “I’m pleased to see QUT maintains a “If QUT really wants to be a student- Registrar, Ken Baumber, and QUT Lawn carried information from the staff across three campuses and by practical approach to its courses and is focused institution, we have to listen more Guild president Lance McCallum. university’s service areas as well as its distance education. constantly involved in leading-edge to existing and potential students,” she said.

Page 6 INSIDE QUT February 18-March 3, 1997 Collection gains piece by key Aboriginal artist by Tony Wilson Mr Rainbird said Rover Thomas had “a particular style which is very simple, QUT’s growing collection of Aboriginal very elegant and very abstract”. art has received a boost with the acquisition “His work encapsulates the spirit of the of a work by renowned indigenous painter Australian landscape which is probably his Rover Thomas. greatest contribution as an artist Curator of the QUT Art Collection “He is one of those very rare painters Stephen Rainbird said Thomas’ painting, who has provided us with a unique vision Cyclone Tracy, was the most significant of of the Australian landscape. In that sense, the 128 pieces added to QUT’s art he follows in the footsteps of artists like collection last year. Fred Williams and Tom Roberts.” “I had been looking at buying a Rover Mr Rainbird said Cyclone Tracy, painted Thomas painting for the collection for in 1996, was typical of Thomas’ work, the past six months,” Mr Rainbird said. combining traditional visual elements and “He is a major figure, not just in ochre pigments with contemporary ideas Aboriginal art, but in contemporary of abstraction. Australian art and this is borne out by the “As well as levelling Darwin in 1974, fact that his work is now included in most Cyclone Tracy also had a profound effect major public art collections around on the people and landscape of the Australia. Kimberley region,” he said. “He has been given the rare honour of “This painting can be read on several a major survey exhibition at the National levels. Gallery in Canberra and he and fellow “The artist has actually described the Aboriginal artist Trevor Nickolls motifs in the painting as representing the represented Australia at the 1990 Venice eye and the spout of the cyclone, but the Biennale.” shapes also suggest other things including Mr Rainbird said the acquisition of a boomerang and the Sydney Harbour QUT Art Collection curator Stephen Rainbird admires Rover Thomas’ Cyclone Tracy Cyclone Tracy was timely as the artist, now Bridge.” in his 70s, will soon retire from painting. region of north-west Australia. He in his late ’50s or early ’60s, but that’s “He is a prolific artist and has produced Cyclone Tracy was purchased with the “Rover Thomas spent most of his didn’t actually start painting until the not unusual for Aboriginal artists,” Mr a substantial body of very high quality assistance of Friends of the QUT Art life as a stockman in the Kimberley early 1980s, which would have put him Rainbird said. work.” Collection through the QUT Foundation. QUT aims for diversity, not division New scholarships announced Across the university, there have been a related elements into various course explore and create learning experiences Following last year’s Federal Budget education. Early last week the program number of initiatives over the past few structures. Progressively, course materials which inspire and empower people to value which allocated funds for a limited welcomed 130 new students to QUT. years to ensure the QUT community are being reviewed, student forums human diversity. number of scholarships at the same time Co-ordinator of the Q-Step program becomes more sensitive to the needs of all established and staff development Presented by three experts from the HECs rises were announced, QUT will Derek Bland said students who received students and staff. opportunities are being pursued. REACH Center in Seattle, Washington, award 46 Equity and Merit Scholarships. scholarships would have an added Some of those initiatives have involved And, in a growing number of places, the workshop moved beyond awareness These are to be shared between the incentive to continue on to graduate. introducing policies which state the there are mentoring schemes to foster the training. Oodgeroo Unit which caters for indigenous “They will get basically a free tertiary university’s approach to broader, social issues students (and staff) who come from socio- The trio — Gary Howard, Colleen students, students with disabilities, and students education and will be relieved of the burden — such as a strong opposition to sexual economic, cultural, gender, racial and Almojuela, an American Indian, and supported by the Q-Step program. of debt once they have graduated,” he said. and racial harassment; equity in recruitment religious backgrounds which are different Japanese American David Koyama — Q-Step aims to increase the Australian universities received 1,000 and work/study environments; provision to those of the majority of their peers. suggested universities needed to engage all proportion of students from low-income scholarships in 1997, a figure the Federal of services to assist disabled students. In such an environment, cross-cultural the perspectives open to them and to look backgrounds coming into higher Government has pledged to double in 1998. Programs have been run in culturally communication skills become vital to the at a more “systematic” change when it responsive teaching and learning for staff success of such initiatives. came to cultural awareness. and, at a curriculum level, work is going on Late last year, QUT ran a special They took the workshop participants in every faculty to incorporate cultural and workshop for educators who wanted to from awareness of multi-cultural issues to exploring personal approaches to diversity (L-R) REACH workshop presenters David Koyama, Colleen in the workplace and how to bring about Almojuela and Gary Howard take a quick tour of QUT institutional change. Workshop co-ordinator and Academic Staff Development Unit lecturer Patricia Kelly said the three-day intensive “train-the-trainer” session was a chance for the 30 attendees to “expand their repertoires and gain confidence in their ability to bring about change in their faculties”. “Eventually, we hope to train a pool of lecturers who can spread the message,” Ms Kelly said. Not quite a uni student yet, baby Rachel Jordan sits in on – Trina McLellan QUT’s 1997 welcome for around 130 Q-Step students Program lets disabled high school students taste university life Come the start of the tertiary year, new Point – and further explore their areas “It is important for Unitaste students university students are usually of interest. to hear what it is like first-hand and preoccupied with checking timetables, Unitaste co-ordinator Glenda Page not simply from academics and registering for classes, finding out where welcomed to QUT’s Gardens Point administrators,” Ms Page said. things are located on campus, organising campus 29 students with disabilities “What we aim to do is provide them accommodation and tackling the from 22 different South-East with a valuable experience and adequate transport maze. Queensland high schools between information for them to make up their Indeed, some are still coming to grips December 10 and 12. own minds about what, if any, courses with these arrangements months later! “It was an opportunity for students they might pursue. However, for prospective tertiary with disabilities to experience university “And their ability and eagerness to students with a disability, the task can over a short period and to test for learn has been reflected in the high be all the more daunting, even off- themselves whether a university course, standard of their presentations at the putting if the perceived obstacles are too and university life, would be a viable end of their visit.” great. option for them,” Ms Page explained. As in past Unitaste visits, feedback Many are weighing up their options “But it was not a ‘show and tell’. It has shown the students have appreciated years before they even finish high school. was full-on ‘immersion’ where they used the chance to become familiar with But determining just how accessible libraries, computers and their own QUT and its facilities and services, she university courses are has been made ‘nouse’ to move around the campus and said. much easier in the past few years, thanks discover what they need to know.” Extremely positive reports about to a special program called Unitaste. During their three-day visit, Ms Page students’ Unitaste experiences had come The program brings high school added, the students gleaned insights and from teachers and parents, Ms Page said. students with disabilities into a busy advice from 17 mentors who had not let “They certainly report individual university for a few days to attend disabilities stand in their way as they students are more focused and more Donna McDougall of St Patrick’s College in Gympie receives a lectures, work their way around a typical tackled their tertiary studies at QUT motivated to achieve their goals.” Unitaste certificate of attendance from QUT Chancellor Cherrell Hirst tertiary campus – QUT at Gardens and the University of Queensland. – Trina McLellan

INSIDE QUT February 18-March 3, 1997 Page 7 Professor ponders Italian News in brief

Renaissance from afar EARLIER this month, the university The Guild has also recently launched Memorial Scholarship in industrial bade farewell to Deputy Registrar David a fund-raising program called the relations. basically, the sort of research that I’m by Andrea Hammond Greenwood after more than 21 years’ “Friends of QUT Sport” project and is Sponsored by the Australian Services doing requires that you have been service. seeking tax-deductible donations to Union and the Brisbane City Council, QUT Associate Professor Gary collecting material for a long time. QUT Vice-Chancellor Dennis support QUT’s participation in inter- the annual scholarship is in memory of Ianziti, pictured above, is deeply “For me, the important thing is it Gibson said that Mr Greenwood, who university sport. the late BCC employee Suzanne Lines and immersed in the life and times of (using microfilm) allows me to be able had decided to retire after major heart For further information about either will fund this year’s HECS fees, Guild Renaissance Italy – from the comfort to look at the sources the historians surgery late last year, would be keenly project, call Mr Gordon on (07) 3864 fees and textbook expenses for the two of his Carseldine office overlooking are using and whether they use their missed by his colleagues. 1684. students. Both students are completing a myriads of blue-grey gum trees. sources critically or in a more • • • ••• Graduate Diploma in Industrial Relations. Professor Ianziti is the benign face utilitarian way. STAFF on extended leave will be able WHILE southern universities are • • • of 20th Century scholarship, studying “In some ways, the distance to keep in touch with what’s happening struggling to fill their quotas for their MARKETING student Sharon Slattery the forgotten manuscripts of 15th involved in living in Brisbane, at QUT with two new services to be education courses, first-preference has been named the 1996 Coca-Cola and 16th Century documents via Australia, is an advantage. launched this semester. applicants for QUT’s Faculty of Scholarship winner. millions of metres of microfilm “I think, sometimes, people are so Work and family co-ordinator Jane Education courses have risen 15 per cent The scholarship, worth $10,000 over mail-ordered from Italian libraries. captivated by the mythology of the Barker said that staff on extended leave over the previous year, according to the three years, was presented to the Faculty Hand-written letters, speeches and Renaissance that they fail to look at it could continue to receive copies of Dean of Education, Professor Alan of Business student by the General memos in Latin – by authors the more objectively. Teaching Technology and Computing Cumming. Manager of CCA Beverages, Pat Molloy, calibre of historian and diplomat “I have lived, worked and studied News by forwarding their details (name, As a result, the OP cutoff in the at a recent function in QUT’s Council Niccolo Machiavelli – are the source in Italy for a total of 10 years – 30 per school/section, campus, period of leave Bachelor of Education (Primary) has Room. of his study, The Writing of History cent of my adult life – so I have been and home address) to Jason Copeland improved from OP13 to OP12 while the • • • in Renaissance Italy. close up and I know what that’s like. in the Division of Information Services. Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood) BUSINESS student Lani McFarland has Many of the documents make “Now it’s interesting to see what the Staff on extended leave can also has improved from OP10 to OP8. been presented with the Metway Bank mention of three men often seen to study appears like from a huge distance. receive copies of Inside QUT during their Professor Cumming said he was Scholarship for second-year students epitomise the excitement, adventure “I think it might be one reason why absence if they send similar details to particularly pleased to see the results majoring in banking and finance. and curiosity of the Italian I have a more critical edge.” Joanne Garnett in the Public Affairs were strong for both undergraduate and • • • Renaissance – Michelangelo, Raphael Professor Ianziti began his research in Department. postgraduate education courses and that MORE than a hundred well-wishers and Leonardo da Vinci. 1990, during a three-year appointment ••• the QUT result continued to defy a gathered in the Council Room in late “In my collection, I have a letter at the University of Trieste. THE University’s Academic Board has national trend of falling enrolments in January to bid goodbye and good luck from Machiavelli about a battle He said he focused on 15th and confirmed the status of five research teacher education courses. to the Vice-Chancellor’s Executive scene that Leonardo (da Vinci) was 16th Century Italian history because centres at QUT for the next three years. • • • Officer Mary-Rose MacColl. supposed to depict. that was the period universally The centres include the Centre for THE new acting director of QUT’s After working at QUT for a decade, “Machiavelli uses that letter in identified as the time when modern Molecular Biotechnology (a research Academic Staff Development Unit, Ms MacColl is now writing full-time his history (writings), but he also history and modern historical centre), the Centre for Media Policy and Professor Gail Hart, has been appointed after the successful launch of her first makes it available to Leonardo to methods took shape. Practice and the Centre for Public to the Federal Government’s new book, No Safe Place, towards the end of paint a huge battle scene in the “I was intrigued by the history of Health Research (both school centres), Committee for University Teaching and last year. town hall in Florence,” Professor history writing and looking at what the Australian Housing and Urban Staff Development. • • • Ianziti said. were some of the real concerns of Research Institute and the Centre for This new committee supersedes the BOUQUETS to the busy staff of the “There are difficulties in working historians who wrote history – Asset Management (both collaborative previous Committee for Advancement Gardens Point printery. With the rush with incomplete library catalogues rhetorical, literary, formal, political, centres). of University Teaching and the of work prior to the start of first semester, and delays in receiving material but, personal and having • • • Commonwealth Staff Development they were kept busy 24 hours a day to do with ASSOCIATE Professor Richard Scheme. processing 5,646,954 copies in the ambition, careers Johnson, from the University of Hawaii, Professor Hart, who has stepped into month up to February 11. and so forth,” has begun a six-month appointment as the ASDU head role from the School of • • • Professor Ianziti adjunct professor in the School of Early Nursing, has taken over from Professor BRICKBATS to the people who set the explained. Childhood. Phil Candy who has taken a position at refectory prices. Eagle-eyed staff and “I hope that is ••• Ballarat University in Victoria. students report hikes of around 30 per something I bring FINAL-YEAR aerospace avionics ••• cent on some items since last semester. with me to my engineering student Ryan Regan was one BUSINESS Faculty students Angela Staff are finding it particularly hard to history teaching of five finalists for the recently presented Scheers and March Bahnisch have been swallow when their pay packets have here at QUT – to Schneider Award of Excellence. presented with the 1997 Suzanne Lines grown significantly less. encourage my Mr Regan received $500 in the annual students to try award, which is open to final-year looking at history electrical engineering students. Thesis wins second award not as a mere • • • QUT senior lecturer Dr Anne Hickling- She has since been awarded the bundle of facts, but FROM this year, QUT’s Student Guild as something Hudson has won two awards for a PhD 1996 Outstanding Thesis in will offer up to six scholarships to help thesis on adult education in Grenada, Education Award from the Australian constructed by QUT students complete their education historians.” analysing the subject from 1980, through Association for Research in while still competing in their chosen the upheaval of the 1979 revolution and Education. Professor Ianziti sport. has been working the 1983 US invasion, to 1995. Dr Hickling-Hudson has taught at Athletes in any sport in which QUT Last year Inside QUT reported Dr QUT and its predecessor institutions with the help of competes at a NCUSA or AUSF level research assistant Hickling-Hudson’s thesis, Literacy and since 1987, but did her PhD through will be eligible to apply for the two full Literacies in Grenada, won the 1996 Gail the University of Queensland. Lynn Croft and a scholarships (each worth $2,500) or four three-year, $60,000 Kelly Award for the Outstanding She said the two awards highlighted half scholarships (worth $1,250 each), Dissertation of the Year from the North QUT’s new expertise in international Australian Research according to Guild spokesperson Don Council grant. American Comparative and International education. Gordon. Education Society. – Andrea Hammond QUT rep inspects work and family ‘benchmarks’ by Tony Wilson downsizing — had the strongest and most well- behind, especially in the area of direct support established programs,” she said. to staff,” she said. Universities are better able to cope with “They identified that the campuses which fared “They, of course, have been doing it for much shrinking budgets and staff upheavals if they best had a strong strategic approach to human longer – most of them have had their programs have a solid work and family program, resource management and part of that was up and running for four or five years. according to a report published in the United maintaining the morale and commitment of staff. “But they are also better resourced and staffed States. “They assessed the institutions on policies — than at QUT where there is one temporary Late last year, QUT’s work and family co- both formal and informal — programs and position to cover the whole area.” ordinator Jane Barker attended a conference at culture and compared these to programs in the Australia, however, was ahead of the US in Stanford University at which the New York- corporate sector which (in the US as well as backing up work and family policies with based Families and Work Institute presented Australia) is streets ahead of universities in legislation, she said. the results of the first comprehensive study of implementing work and family programs,” Ms “The legislative framework in Australia is work and family issues in the American higher Barker explained. much stronger than in America where these education sector. “Only 29 American universities measured up programs rely mainly on the goodwill of the Ms Barker said she believed close study of the and I was able to visit seven of these – Stanford, institution,” she said. “In Australia, for example, results would benefit Australian university Cornell, the University of California at Berkeley, there have been the parental and carer’s leave administrators faced with reduced Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, test cases, the Industrial Relatons Reform Act and Commonwealth funding, increasingly complex Michigan State and the University of Michigan.” now the Workplace Relations Bill.” human resource issues and the current review of Ms Barker also visited the work and family Australian Universities should capitalise on Australian higher education. research centre at Boston University. that advantage, Ms Barker said. “One of the key findings of the report was “QUT is more advanced in work and family Ms Barker’s four-week visit was administered that institutions which had been through than some universities in America, but in through the QUT Professional Development upheavals — such as reduced funding and comparison to the leading campuses we are way Program for General Staff.

Page 8 INSIDE QUT February 18-March 3, 1997 QUT’s Public Affairs Department has prepared a guide Students host BBQ for Indonesian visitors to academic expertise which will be distributed to There were smiles all round when 95 architecture regular media contacts in hard copy this week. students and four lecturers from Central Java’s Copies of the annual directory are available by University of Diponegoro visited the School of calling (07) 3864 2361. A WWW version of the guide, Architecture, Interior & Industrial Design late last to be updated quarterly, will be available at: year. http://www.qut.edu.au/pubs/00org/ Hosted by third-year QUT architecture students, the chan/pa/mediacontacts.html Indonesian delegation was taken on a tour of the faculty and enjoyed a true-blue Aussie barbecue in the courtyard between D and E Blocks. QUT’s head of the School of Architecture, Interior & Industrial Design, Associate Professor Gordon Holden, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research & Advancement) Professor John Corderoy were on hand to meet and greet the visitors. Their visit to QUT was set up as part of the Brisbane City Council’s sister city project with the Indonesian university’s home town of Semarang. QUT architecture students will make a return trip to Indonesia in late May-early June for three weeks. –Trina McLellan Rollicking good romp expected of The Rover The QUT Academy of the Arts will romp into Mr Mee said Behn was the first professional its 1997 drama season with an upcoming female playwright and, along with John Dryden, production of the Restoration comedy The Rover one of the most prolific and wittiest playwrights at Woodward Theatre from tomorrow, February of the Restoration period. 19, to March 1. “Behn was one of the first voices to speak out Students from the Academy’s acting program against marriage-for-money and was at the will fight, loathe, love and rollick their way beginning of a revolution that revised the idea through Aphra Behn’s work, set against a of marriage in England,” he said. backdrop of the Spanish Carnivale in the 1600s. In 1929, Virginia Woolf said many Director Sean Mee said the play was typical professional women in the arts should pay of a Restoration piece, with much of the focus homage to Behn. on sex and politics. “All women together ought to let flowers fall “Sex was one of the best ingredients for upon the tomb of Aphra Behn . . . for it was she guaranteeing the attention of a Restoration who earned them the right to speak their audience,” Mr Mee said. “Politics was (the) next minds,” Woolf said. best.” Tickets for The Rover are available through “This play incorporates all elements that make Dial’N’Charge on (07) 3846 4646 and are $16 a Restoration piece work, with lovers scorned, for adults, $12 for concession and groups (10 marriage-for-money, mistaken identity and or more) and $8 for school groups. Performances virtue and reputation threatened. will start each night at 8pm. “The Carnivale backdrop ensures that all Final-year acting student James characters take greater licence than normally Stewart prepares for his role enjoyed.” of Willmore in the upcoming Restoration comedy The Rover First weeks ‘key’ to transition – counsellor The first semester of university is a by Elizabeth Tindle, them explore solutions to their critical time in a student’s transition situation. to university life. QUT Counselling Services Neither are they aware of a host of It involves separation from a Then there can be ambivalence resources on campus to help them previous culture and dealing with more about – or dissatisfaction with – the optimise their future at university. challenging and complex university chosen course, often resulting in lower For instance, learning seminars activities. motivation. help tackle problems of an academic Some students drop out. Of these, Some factors seem to be important nature. These seminars deal with the majority leave in the first six to to the successful transition from school topics such as time management, eight weeks of the first semester – or work to university. library use, note-taking, reading before the first HECS cut-off date of These include physical activity, proficiency, assignment writing as March 31. recreational involvement and total well as computer and study skills. But what are some of the factors health care. By forming social and academic which determine a successful or Working long hours in an networks early in the semester, unsuccessful transition for new unrewarding job can contribute to students can get and give valuable students? poor academic performance as well as support and information to negotiate Research suggests that students leave limited involvement in university life. unfamiliar territory or procedures. university for many reasons other than Students who give up competitive It is important for students to academic. (or team) sports completely report the understand that counselling can be Some reasons relate to personal marked drop in physical activity can seen as part of the whole educational characteristics of the student – such as not only contribute to an unbalanced experience and is not just for those a sense of perfectionism, lifestyle but also decrease their feeling with problems. procrastination or social anxiety. of well-being. Counselling can assist students in Other students find the dynamics Studies show new university their goal-planning and help them or pressures of families or other close students report a decrease in physical through periods of uncertainty relationships prevail. activity, sleep, general health, leisure regarding their courses or their careers. Personal health, lifestyle changes, and recreational activities and this can All counsellors in QUT are active accidents or mishaps – for example be coupled with a poor diet. members of professional organisations being burgled – might be behind the Diet-related behavioural, physical and are registered with the State decision, as could financial stresses, and emotional problems are not Registration Board. They also follow complex or time-consuming travel and uncommon with university students, strict ethical and practice codes. problems with accommodation. particularly females. The counselling service is free to Some battle involvement with In fact, 94% of Australian university QUT students and staff. alcohol and other drugs. women “want to be slimmer”, according So, if you are ever thinking of The effect of the dynamics of family to research by QUT’s Student Guild. giving away your studies, at least first life on a student’s successful transition Eating disorders alone are known talk to a counsellor. to university in the early months is to contribute to changes in personality You can simply drop in or call to enormous. and behaviour, increase difficulty of make an appointment to speak to a A death in the family is the top concentrating on studies, diminish counsellor. stressor for first-year students, followed self-confidence and, ultimately, lead Our services are available at the closely by family conflicts and the to withdrawal from social contact. Lower Level Community Building, separation or divorce of parents. People’s hopes and career goals can next to the gym, Gardens Point, (07) Another key stressor is personal be dashed if they withdraw from study. 3864 2383; Community Building, C illness, followed closely by other stressful Yet many students leave without Block, above cafeteria, Kelvin Grove, life events which, themselves, may be discussing their own predicament with (07) 3864 3488; and Lower Level, C significant predictors of later illness. a counsellor who could have helped Block, Carseldine, (07) 3864 4539.

INSIDE QUT February 17–March 3, 1997 Page 9 Speaker calls for free public transport Council & Committee News The Queensland Government has failed to provide sustainable development for This is a summary of the activities taken by the • Master of Applied Science to Michael South-East Queensland, Brisbane Vice-Chancellor, Council and the following Maynard Jackson committees since November 6, 1996 and • Master of Engineering to Janice Anne academic Professor Ian Lowe told people including the December 18 1996 Council Monroe attending the inaugural Peter Selby meeting: • Master of Business to Yi-Jing Jiang and Memorial Lecture. • Vice-Chancellor’s Advisory Committee Abraham Ninan. Peter Selby died in 1993, leaving a (VCAC) on November 7 and 21 and on Research centres December 3 and 6 UAB granted: bequest to the Dean of the QUT Faculty • Art Collection Committee on November 8 • a further three years of University research of Built Environment and Engineering for • Research Management Committee (RMC) centre status to the Centre for Molecular the advancement of technology education. on November 15 Biotechnology • Senior Management Development Advisory • a further three years of school centre status As a result of the bequest the Peter Committee on November 18 to the Centre for Media Policy and Practice Selby Project has been developed which • Equity Board on 18 November and the Centre for Public Health Research includes an annual memorial lecture and • University Research Ethics Committee on • a further three years collaborative centre November 26 status to the Australian Housing and Urban a fund to provide stimulus and support • University Academic Board (UAB) on Research Institute, and for project-based learning focused on November 29 • three years collaborative centre status to the South-East Queensland. • Staff Committee on December 2 Centre for Asset Management. Professor Lowe, who works at Griffith • Convocation Standing Committee on UAB extended University centre status to December 4 the Centre for Instrumental and Developmental University as Professor of Science, • Planning and Resources Committee on Chemistry and the Signal Processing Research Technology and Society, said that December 11 Centre. sprawling outer suburban development MANAGEMENT Course development 1997 student applications UAB approved: was creating social infrastructure The University is around 5 per cent down • a change in the award title for the Bachelor shortages. on total number of applications compared with of Arts (Music) to Bachelor of Music and Named Humanist of the Year in (L-R) Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Research and Advancement 1996. There are: over 11,000 first preferences for the Bachelor of Arts (Music)/Bachelor of 1988, Professor Lowe said he believed Professor John Corderoy, Griffith University’s Professor of Science, for undergraduate courses in 1997 to fill a likely Education to Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Technology and Society Ian Lowe and then Acting Dean of QUT’s 8,600 places; 4000 applications for postgraduate Education Australian governments should provide programs; and full fee-paying overseas student Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering Professor Keith • the title for the new Graduate Certificate in free public transport as an environmental applications are up on 1996. Health Science which will be a component Wallace after the inaugural Peter Selby Memorial Lecture safeguard against air pollution. Equity Board membership of the existing Graduate Diploma in Health The Vice-Chancellor approved the following Science membership for Equity Board to take effect • the recognition of Commercial Law and from the start of 1997: Environmental Resources Law in the areas • Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic) ex officio of specialisation in the Master of Laws (by Second-years to spur on starters as chairperson coursework) and of Psychology as an area of • Chairperson of Aboriginal and Torres Strait specialisation in the Graduate Diploma in Undergraduate students are being Professor Gardiner said the supplemental instruction sessions Islander Committee or nominee Social Science. encouraged to guide and program had proved to be a pro- are conducted in a relaxed, non- • Equity Coordinator or nominee UAB accredited the Bachelor of Social • Chairs of divisional and faculty equity Science (Honours) (Sociology) and the encourage their peers in an active and cost-effective learning threatening environment. Using committees Graduate Certificate in Law to December 31, innovative study program which enhancement strategy. collective learning strategies, these • Council member nominated by Council 2001 and reaccredited the following courses was the focus of a Sydney “Evaluation of these supplemental sessions integrate how to learn with • Enrolled student nominated by the Student for the same period: Guild • Master of Fine Arts workshop by three QUT instruction programs world-wide what to learn.” • Enrolled student nominated by the • Bachelor of Built Environment academics earlier this month. confirms that participating students The three-day workshop at the Postgraduate’s Student Association. (Architectural Studies)/Bachelor of According to the workshop’s generally out-perform non-participants University of Technology in Gardens Point Counter Disaster Plan Architecture Health and Safety Committee considered • Graduate Diploma in Advanced Accounting co-ordinator, Emeritus in terms of academic attainment, course Sydney, from February 3-5, was the Gardens Point Counter Disaster Plan • Graduate Certificate in Management Professor Ron Gardiner, the completion and employability,” conducted by Professor Gardiner developed by the Committee’s Counter Disaster • Bachelor of Education (Inservice) program, known as Professor Gardiner said. and QUT lecturers Francis Working Party and referred it to the Registrar • Graduate Diploma in Education (Early supplemental instruction, has “The program usually targets McGlone (Law) and Henry Loh for approval. The development of counter Childhood) disaster plans for Carseldine and Kelvin Grove • Master of Laws (by research and thesis) been hailed globally as a major historically ‘difficult’ first-year (Life Science). campuses will commence this year. • Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours). learning success in more than undergraduate subjects with study All were recently accredited by University Health and Safety Committee UAB approved the introduction of the 600 colleges and universities sessions led by successful second- the University of Missouri-Kansas Changes to the terms of reference and following double degrees from January 1, 1997: membership of the Committee have been • Bachelor of Arts (Journalism or Media since it was developed by the year undergraduates. City as certified supplemental approved to satisfy the University’s Studies)/Bachelor of Business (International University of Missouri-Kansas “Because these leaders are not instruction trainers. requirements under the Workplace Health and Business or Communication) City in 1973. involved with student assessment, – Andrea Hammond Safety Act (1995). • Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Faculty and division 1997-2001 strategic plans Information Technology (Information Council approved the 1997-2001 strategic Systems). plans for QUT faculties, divisions and UAB approved discontinuation of the Chancellery departments. Associate Degree in Applied Science and the Deputy Chancellor Associate Degree in Clinical Technologies. Children’s Council elected Ms Annabelle Chaplain as Sub-bachelor awards Deputy Chancellor for a one-year term. Ms UAB approved, subject to some Chaplain has been a Council member since modifications, policy framework providing for art study 1992, as a member appointed by the Governor the offering of sub-bachelor degrees. in Council. STAFF FINANCE AND FABRIC Senior staff recruitment scores Physical facilities The Vice-Chancellor has approved the Construction started on the tiered lecture following appointments in the reorganised theatre in C Block at Carseldine. Science Faculty: Documentation is continuing for the second • Associate Professor David Gust as Head of scholarship stage of the built environment precinct project School of Natural Resources Science at Gardens Point. Design work is underway to • Professor Jim Pope as Head of School of PhD student Felicity McArdle (right) accommodate the new Teaching and Learning Physical Sciences, and receives a $12,000 three-year Support Services Unit on Level 1 of V Block at • Professor James Dale as Head of School of scholarship for her study of art Gardens Point. Life Science Internal audit plan and budget review Associates of QUT appreciation in young children from Council approved the 1997 Internal Audit On the recommendation of the Dean of Lady Mary Thomson OBE. Plan and Internal Audit Strategic Plan 1997- Built Environment and Engineering, the Vice- Lady Thomson is a former president 2001 subject to information being provided by Chancellor took executive action to appoint as the Internal Audit Manager. Planning and Associates of QUT for three years from January and life governor of the Creche and Resources Committee approved the September 1, 1997: Kindergarten Association of Queensland 30,1996 position assessment and actions • Dr David Jones, Assistant Director, and has been a key player in early identified in the 1996 third budget review. Biomedical Engineering, Princess Alexandra childhood education for many years. Council approved the 1997 initial budget. Hospital TEACHING AND RESEARCH • Mr Gilbert Logan, Director, Department of Ms McArdle worked as a preschool Research degrees Biomechanical Engineering, Royal Brisbane teacher for 17 years before undertaking University Academic Board (UAB) resolved Hospital, and her PhD through QUT’s Centre for to award the following degrees: • Mr Kenneth Wilson, Director, Physical • Doctor of Philosophy to Jonathan Carey Sciences Department, Prince Charles Applied Studies in Early Childhood. Ralston and Jizhang Sang Hospital. Adjunct professors The Vice-Chancellor took executive action to: • extend the appointment of Professor Ken Sellick as an adjunct professor in the Nursing School to June 30, 1997 • to appoint Associate Professor Richard Johnson of the University of Hawaii as an adjunct professor in the Early Childhood School to July 31, 1997. Quality women in leadership program Senior Management Development Advisory Committee considered an interim report on the QWIL Program and endorsed the continuation of the Program, subject to funding. A complete listing of Council and Committee actions is available on the Internet at: http://www.qut.edu.au/pubs/00org/ adm/secretariat/sec_act.html

Page 10 INSIDE QUT February 17–March 3, 1997 Check out What’s On at http:// www.qut.edu.au/pubs/02stud/whatson.html Send your What’s On entry to [email protected] or via fax on (07) 3210 0474.

CONFERENCES,SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS • Continuing Professional Education SPORT& ENTERTAINMENT • Equity Mar 3 Promoting Professional Women. Learn how to adapt success strategies in your career & realise professional aspirations. Introduction to Equity at QUT workshop (3hrs). Orientation Market Day. Mar 11 For staff members Brisbane ParkRoyal 9am-4.30pm. Maria Lamari at Feb 18 Live band, food & drink, information & wanting to increase their awareness of equity principles, policies [email protected] OR (07) 3864 2915. market stalls. KG/outside Community Bldg, 12.00pm-2.00pm. & programs, esp. supervisors, managers & equity committee Enquiries to Guild. members. KG/B306 9.00am-12.00pm. (Free) Leanne Apr 2-5 Children’s Rights: The Next Step. This Asia-Pacific conference Zimmermann at [email protected] (07) 3864 3653. seeks to bring together those interested in & working to achieve Feb 18 All night movie extravaganza. Action packed movies & favourite children’s rights including children & youth themselves refreshments. GP/Refectory, 8.00pm-8.00am. Enquiries to Guild. Apr 16 Managing diversity at QUT workshop (1 day). Helps supervisors *Registration before Feb 14 $295, after Feb 14 $350, full-time & managers develop skills to manage diversity & maintain a Feb 19 Chicken & Champagne Breakfast. Free food & cool jazz. GP/ student/unwaged registration $150. KG 9am-5pm daily. (Apr 2 Courtyard outside Refectory 8.00am-10.00am. Enquiries to Guild. supportive, inclusive work environment. KG/B306 9.00am- preparation day). Registration via [email protected] OR (07) 3864 4.00pm. (Free) Leanne Zimmermann at l.zimmermann@ 3222. Enquiries to [email protected] OR (07) 3864 4612. Feb 19 Band & BBQ. GP/Kidney Lawn 12.00pm-2.00pm. Enquiries to qut.edu.au (07) 3864 3653. Guild. • Staff Development Feb 19 Orientation Market Day. Entertainment, food information & market FROMTHE ACADEMY Feb 17 Start of 20-hour modules for Certificate IV in stalls. Carseldine/Courtyard, 12.00pm-2.00pm. Apr 21 Workplace Management (start dates for four Feb 20 Orientation Market Day. Entertainment, food information & market Jun 16 terms). • Managing operations • Writing workplace stalls. GP/Kidney Lawn, 12.00pm-5.00pm. Aug 25 documents • Presenting reports • Customer service • Grievances Feb 19 Lunchtime concert series. Knocking on Kevin’s Door, solo music & disputes • Managing finance • Negotiation skills. Own venue, show devised & performed by Linsey Pollak. A complex layering Feb 20 O-Week Party. Live entertainment & drink specials, Port Office own pace. $50 per 20-hour module. Gailene Simpkins at of sounds using keys, drink bottles, microphone & music stands, Hotel from 7.00pm. [email protected] OR (07) 3864 3123. gaffer tape, a clarinet & some digital wizardry. KG/Music Studio, M Block, 12.50pm for 1.00pm-2.00pm. (Free) (07) 3864 3858. Feb 21 O-Week Party. Campus Club, Carseldine & afterwards at City Feb 17 Start of 40-hour modules for Certificate IV in Rowers Night Club, 3.00pm-9.00pm. Feb 20 The Rover. May 19 Workplace Management (start dates for two terms). • Managing - A play written by Aphra Behn, directed Mar 1 by Sean Mee. * $16 adults, $12 uni students, concession, groups Feb 21 Special O-Week Concert. ‘Spiderbait’ plus two other bands. effective working relationships • Managing & organising work Tickets $5 students, $15 public. River Stage, 6.00pm-midnight. for goal achievement • Managing group problem-solving & (10+), $8 advance Guild tickets, $8 school groups. KG/Woodward decision-making • Managing change. Own venue, own pace. Theatre 8.00pm. Dial ‘N’ Charge on (07) 3846 4646. Feb 22 Sailing Course. Manly. Karen Bucholz (07) 3864 3708. $100 per 40-hour module. Gailene Simpkins at Mar 12 Lunchtime concert series. Improvised music, John Rogers (violin), Feb 28 QUT Cup Beach Volleyball. Southbank. Karen Bucholz (07) 3864 [email protected] OR (07) 3864 3123. John Dimond (bass) & Ken Edie (drums). Contemporary, classical 3708. • International Relations & jazz influences together with Indian inspired rhythms in a unique performance style. KG/Music Studio, M Block, 1.05pm- Mar 1 Surfing Course. Burleigh/Tallebudgerra. Karen Bucholz (07) 3864 Mar 7 Exchange student information seminar. Find out more information 1.45pm. (Free) (07) 3864 3858. 3708. about QUT’s Study Overseas Exchange Program. GP/Kindler Mar 1 Parachuting Course. Gatton. Karen Bucholz (07) 3864 3708. Theatre (N Block) 2.00pm. (Free). Felicity Barry at Mar 26 Lunchtime concert series. German pianist Michael Leuschner. [email protected] OR (07) 3864 2200. Schubert Sonata in B flat major, op. posth. D.960. KG/Music Mar 1 Sailing Course. Manly. Karen Bucholz (07) 3864 3708. Studio, M Block, 1.05pm-1.45pm. (Free) (07) 3864 3858. • Centre for Applied Studies in Early Childhood Lunchtime Band. Apr 17-26 The Three Sisters. A play written by Anton Chekhov, directed by Mar 4 KG. Feb 21 No Touch in Early Childhood Education. Presented by Dr Richard Mark Radvan. * $16 adults, $12 uni students, concession, groups Mar 7 Free Movie Night. GP. Johnson from the University of Hawaii at Manoa - Adjunct (10+), $8 advance Guild tickets, $8 school groups. KG/Woodward Professor School of Early Childhood. KG/B302 1.00pm-2.00pm. Theatre, 8.00pm. Dial ‘N’ Charge on (07) 3846 4646. Mar 8 Massage Course. TBA. (Free). Margaret Kays (07) 3864 3660. Apr 23 Lunchtime concert series. Jazz pianist Clare Hansson. Music by Mar 11 ‘VIP’ Course. KG. Feb 28 Identifying and catering for young gifted children: The enrichment Art Tatum, George Shearing, Oscar Peterson & Bill Evans, Mar 13 Aussie Beer Fest. GP. network for the very young. Presented by Carmel Diezman & Dr including the Rodgers & Hart classic ‘Spring is Here’. KG/Music Jim Watters Faculty of Education. KG/B302 1.00pm-2.00pm. Studio, M Block, 1.05pm-1.45pm. (Free) (07) 3864 3858. Mar 17 St Patrick’s Day party. GP, Campus Club. (Free). Margaret Kays (07) 3864 3660. May 7 Lunchtime concert series. Trio Boulevard - Jenny Myers, Diana Mar 18 Sports First Aid Course. KG. Karen Bucholz (07) 3864 3708. • Information Security Research Centre Tolmie & Gabby Jarvis. A modern American work in the jazz idiom by Randy Navarre. KG/Music Studio, M Block, 1.05pm- Mar 19 BBQ & Beer. C. Feb 18 PhD oral examination - A Methodology of Developing a Data 1.45pm. (Free) (07) 3864 3858. Security Model by L F Kwok. A study which formulates a Mar 20 Lunchtime Band. GP. methodology for the development of a Risk Data Repository May 21 Lunchtime concert series. Rodolphe Blois, internationally QUT Swimming Carnival. (RDR) security model. GP/ITE524 11.00am. (Free). Christine renowned composer. Program of acousmatic music - an Mar 21 GP. Karen Bucholz (07) 3864 3708. Orme at [email protected] OR (07) 3864 2846. experience in multi-speaker sound projection. KG/Music Studio, Mar 23 Biathlon. GP. Karen Bucholz (07) 3864 3708. M Block, 1.05pm-1.45pm. (Free) (07) 3864 3858. Feb 19 New Trends in Smart Card Technology: The ‘How’ and the ‘Why’ Mar 25 Lunchtime Band. KG. of More Intelligent Cards. Presented by Professor Vincent Sep 2-13 Romeo & Juliet/West Side Story (drama, dance & music double Cordonnier. Recent developments related to Smart Card bill). Romeo & Juliet directed by Shakespeare & Co., Boston; Mar 29 Parachuting Course. Gatton. Karen Bucholz (07) 3864 3708. technologies from a global perspective. GP/ITE405A 10.00am. West Side Story directed by David Fenton. GP/new theatre. Bushwalking Trip. (Free) Christine Orme at [email protected] OR (07) 3864 2846. Bookings yet to open. Mar 29 TBA. Karen Bucholz (07) 3864 3708. Journalism students win coveted ‘Ossie’ by Andrea Hammond QUT Journalism co-ordinator Cratis throughout Queensland, New South Wales Science lecturer teaching a large group of students last semester Hippocrates said that, since the inception and Victoria. who wore a lapel microphone was red-faced when he returned School of Media & Journalism students of the awards in 1992, QUT journalism Students from six journalism courses from the men’s room to find students had heard everything! have taken out a prestigious Ossie Award students had won at least one Ossie every around the country won awards in the Word is, a Business colleague ended up broadcasting a private for their Internet publication Communique year. annual competition run by the Journalism conversation with his wife during a break. OnLine. “In 1995, we peaked by winning three Education Association (JEA) which The Ossies are national awards for excellence awards, and our continuing success in these represents journalism educators in in journalism produced by Australian university awards is a tribute to the high standards of Australia, New Zealand and Pacific students and are named in memory of author teaching by my colleagues in the journalism Islands. and journalist Osmar White. section and to the quality of our students,” Each individual category (with the Capping off a string of successful years at he said. exception of the best publication categories) the Ossies, the students won their award for “For this win, I would like to thank carries a $100 prize and an inscribed the Best Occasional Journalism Student graduating student Shane McLeod (now certificate. Publication. at the ABC in Gladstone) for his The other judges for the annual Ossies judge and senior sub-editor at the pioneering efforts in getting Communique student journalism awards were Steve Adelaide Advertiser Kathryn Bowd said OnLine up and running in 1996 and to Perkin from The Age, Kerrie Weil and Communique OnLine stood out from other congratulate Kirrily Boulton on her John Highfield from ABC radio current student publications not only because of the highly commended. affairs, and NBN Television News Editor format in which it was presented, but also “The win for Communique OnLine is Jim Sullivan. for its content. further evidence that QUT’s Journalism Osmar White was the only Australian “While it is obviously aimed at students, program is at the cutting edge of what is journalist present at the signing of the it goes beyond the type of institution-based going on in new media technologies and European Peace Agreement at Rheims in reporting often found in student newspapers shows why our graduates are in high May 1945. He was wounded in the Pacific to include wider issues approached from a demand in radio, television and in World World II while accredited to the student or localised viewpoint,” Ms Bowd newspapers.” US fleet. said. In 1997, journalism graduates from QUT When he died in 1991, he had written Third-year QUT journalism student will be working for The Courier-Mail, The more than 20 fiction and non-fiction books. Kirrily Boulton was also awarded a Highly Sunday Mail, Gold Coast Bulletin, Gladstone His daughter – journalist, author and Commended in the Best Radio Current Observer, Sunshine Coast Daily, the ABC, academic Sally White – sponsors the annual Affairs Story/Short Documentary by an Sunshine Television and a number of other awards with royalties from her father’s Undergraduate Student. regional television and radio stations books.

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INSIDE QUT February 17–March 3, 1997 Page 11 Services for Students and Staff Nearest off–campus locations of Security • Kelvin Grove – 15 School Street, • Carseldine 9am-4pm, Mon, Tues, Counselling Services major financial institutions in the city: 7.30am-5.30pm, Mon-Fri, (07) Thurs, Fri; 9-8pm Wed, 11-2 public • Westpac – 189 Elizabeth St Free counselling services are available • General Enquiries (07) 3864 5585 3864 3943 holidays/weekends • Commonwealth – 73 Mary St for students & staff on all QUT • Emergencies (07) 3864 5555 • Carseldine – Eastern Beams Rd Email at all times: [email protected] • ANZ – Cnr Mary & Albert Sts campuses: entrance, 7.15am-7.15pm, Mon-Fri, • Suncorp – Cnr George & Charlotte Sts Researcher’s Centre • Gardens Point – Level 1, Y Block, 9am- (07) 3864 4800 Student Admin. Enquiries • Metway – Queen Street Mall (near Albert 5pm Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri; 9am- 6pm Street) The Researcher’s Centre & its services Lost Property Information regarding admissions, Tue, (07) 3864 2383 Kelvin Grove are open to all QUT staff (general & graduations, credit, enrolments, • Kelvin Grove – Level 4, C Block, 8am- See Campus Administration all A NAB ATM is opposite Bookshop, academic), PhD students & masters by examinations, student fees & student 5pm Mon-Thu, 8am-4pm Fri, campuses: Level 4, C Block. research students & is located in Level 7 records can be obtained from student (07) 3864 3488 of the Library (V Block) at Gardens • Gardens Point – Level 1, A Block • Kelvin Grove – Level 2, A Block administration enquiry counters at Level • Carseldine – Level 2, C Block, 9am- Casual Employment & Point. During semester, open during 4, K Block, Kelvin Grove (07) 3864 5407. 5pm Mon-Thu, (07) 3864 4539 Library hours — 7am-11pm Mon-Fri, • Carseldine – Level 4, C Block Off–Campus Accommodation 8am-6pm Sat-Sun. Union Help Desks are on all campuses Facilities Support Services (07) 3864 5509: • Gardens Point – Top Level, Y Block Facilities Support Services on all 8.30am-6pm, Mon-Fri campuses provide services such as • Kelvin Grove – Level 4, C Block, photocopying, microfilm copying, 8.30am-5pm, Mon-Fri transparency copying, computer file laser • Carseldine – Level 2, C Block, 9am- printing, plan printing, binding, 4pm, Mon-Fri laminating, Questnet internet access payments, computer access password Career & Employment changes & media supplies: Services • Gardens Point – Level 4, V Block, 7am-11pm • Gardens Point – U Block, Level 2, • Kelvin Grove – Level 3, R Block, 8am- 8.30am-5pm Mon-Fri, 8.30am- 6pm 10pm during lectures, (07) 3864 2649 • Carseldine – Level 2, R Block, 8am- • Kelvin Grove – Level 4, C Block, 9am- 10pm 5pm Mon-Fri, (07) 3864 3488 Bookshops • Carseldine – Level 2, C Block, 9am- 5pm Mon-Fri, (07) 3864 4539 Bookshops are located on all campuses: Transport Information (City • Gardens Point – Ground Level, Y Block, 8.30am-6pm Mon-Thu, Council TransInfo Service) 8.30am-4.15pm Fri. For BCC Bus Service, Ferry/CityCat & • Kelvin Grove – Level 4, C Block, CityRail timetable information – call 8.30am-5pm Mon-Thu, 8.30am-2pm 13 12 30 Fri. CityCat services run up & down • Carseldine – Level 3, C Block, Brisbane River half-hourly from 6am- 8.30am-7pm Mon & Wed, 8.30am- 10.30pm (every 20 mins during peak). 6pm Tue & Thu, 8.30am-1pm Fri. Ferry stop at rear of Parliament House Hours of operation for Bookshops One of the many facilities for students at QUT is the popular, heated indoor swimming pool end of Gardens Point. vary during peak demand times, e.g., on the Gardens Point campus semester start, mid-semester & exams. Refectories & Cafes Computer Shop Campus Shop Student ID Cards Fitness Centre Gardens Point (during semester) Student ID card information (as well as The Computer Shop is located on the Campus Shops are located at Gardens There are Fitness Centres at Gardens • Refectory – Ground Level, Y Block, student administration information) can Ground Level of Y Block on the Gardens Point & Kelvin Grove: Point & Kelvin Grove (fees vary). 7.30am-8pm Mon-Thu, 7.30-6pm be obtained at campus enquiry counters: Point campus. The shop is open 9am- • Gardens Point – Ground Level, Y • Gardens Point – Sports Centre (Pool), Fri, 10am-2pm Sat. • Gardens Point – Level 2, U Block, 5pm Mon-Thu, 9am-4.15pm Fri. Block (07) 3864 1688/2818 • Coffee Shop – Ground Level, Y Block, (07) 3864 2371 Longer hours during peak demand • Kelvin Grove – Level 3, C Block • Gardens Point – Fitness Centre 8am-8.30pm Mon-Thu, 8am-3pm • Carseldine – Level 3, C Block times, e.g., semester start, mid-semester Both shops open 8.30am-6pm Mon- (Gym), (07) 3864 1685/2945 Fri. (07) 3864 4536 & exams. Thu, 8.30am-4pm Fri during semester • Kelvin Grove – Fitness Centre, • Degrees Cafe – Top Level (in Campus & 9am-4pm Mon-Fri during recess. • Kelvin Grove – Level 2, A Block (07) 3864 3710 Club) Y Block. 10am-6pm Mon-Fri. Childcare Centres (07) 3864 3922 Student Computing Help Desk Chaplaincy Services Kelvin Grove (during semester) Health Services Centres • Refectory – Level 3, C Block, 7am- Childcare centres are located on all Call (07) 3864 2898. In-person 7pm Mon-Thu, 7am-4pm Fri. campuses with Government subsidies & Fr Clarke is the QUT Chaplain & can assistance available during semester at: QUT Health Services offers a Carseldine (during semester) fee relief available: be contacted on (07) 3864 2700. The • Gardens Point – 7am-11pm Mon-Fri, comprehensive health service to students • Refectory – Level 3, C Block, • Gardens Point – Opposite sports Chaplain is located at Old Government 8am-6pm public holidays/weekends & staff on all campuses. It is staffed by 8am- 7.30pm Mon-Thu, 8am-3pm complex, 7.30am-5.30pm, Mon-Fri, House at Gardens Point. • Kelvin Grove – 8am-10pm Mon-Fri, nurse practioners & doctors with an Fri. (07) 3864 1690 9am-5pm public holidays/weekends interest & experience in dealing with Evening Security Buses health issues. Women’s Rooms • Gardens Point – Lower Level, Y • Gardens Point – 5.45-10.30pm, bus Block, (07) 3864 2321, 9am-5pm leaves from outside ‘O’ block during During semester: Mon-Fri semester & exams, taking any staff • Gardens Point – Ground Level, • Kelvin Grove – Level 3, C Block member or student concerned about Y Block, 9am-5pm, (07) 3864 1682/ (07) 3864 3161, 9am-50pm Mon, their safety to bus, train or parking 1666 stations. • Kelvin Grove – Level 4, C Block, 9am- • Queensland University of Technology Newspaper • Wed, Thu, Fri, 8am-5pm Tue. • Carseldine Campus – Lower Level, C • Kelvin Grove – 5pm-10pm, Mon-Fri. 5pm, (07) 3864 5528 Publication details Block, (07) 3864 4539, 8am-4pm Call x 5585 to book pick-up by bus • Carseldine – Level 2, C Block, 9am- Mon-Fri. • Carseldine – 4pm-midnight, Mon-Fri. 5pm, (07) 3864 4714 Inside QUT has a circulation of 15,000 Letters to the Editor are also welcome Call x5585 to book pick-up by bus or and is delivered to the university’s via mail or email (maximum of 250 Optometry Clinic escort on foot; 6.15pm-9.15pm bus Campus Club Gardens Point, Kelvin Grove and words). Media may reproduce stories from services Carseldine Train Station; after Campus Club is on Top Level of Y Block Carseldine campuses. Inside QUT. Each story has been checked The Optometry Clinic is on Level 5, O midnight, call x5585 for after-hours at Gardens Point. This newspaper is also circulated to with the source prior to publication. Block, Kelvin Grove, (07) 3864 5743 security officer Club Bar – 11am-7pm Mon-Tue, business, industry, government and the This newspaper is published by the or (07) 3864 5695. Open 8am-5pm Banking Facilities 11am-9pm Wed-Fri. media. Public Affairs Department, QUT Mon-Fri. If you know of a story which should (Level 5, M Block, Gardens Point), Podiatry Clinic Gardens Point Clubs & Societies be told in Inside QUT contact one of GPO Box 2434 Brisbane 4001. National Australia Bank (NAB), Top the journalists in the Public Affairs Photography: Suzanne Prestwidge The Podiatry Clinic is on Level 6, O Level, Y Block, 9.30am-4pm Mon-Thu, A wide variety of clubs & societies are Department: & Sharyn Rosewarne. Block, Kelvin Grove, (07) 3864 5652 9.30am-5pm Fri, (07) 3221 6333. administered by the Student Guild. For Trina McLellan (ed) 3864 2361 for further information. A NAB ATM is located outside Y further details call (07) 3864 1213 Andrea Hammond 3864 1150 Advertising: David Lloyd-Jones 3880 0528. Weight Management Clinic Block. Commonwealth ATM is on Tony Wilson 3864 2130 Ground Level opposite cafe in Y Block. Travel Services Noel Gentner (p/t) 3864 1841 The opinions expressed in Inside The Weight Management Clinic is on Uni Credit Union, Top Level, Y Fax 3210 0474 QUT do not necessarily represent those Block, 8.30am-4.30pm Mon-Fri, (07) STA Travel – Top Level, Y Block, 9am- Deadline for next issue of Inside QUT (April 16) is March 30. Level 4, O Block, Kelvin Grove, E-mail [email protected] of the university. 3229 1388. Agencies also at both Kelvin 5pm Mon-Fri, (07) 3864 2215 or (07) 3864 3286 & is open 9am -7pm (07) 3229 0655 Thu. Grove & Carseldine Bookshops.

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