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A LIFE IN THE ARTS UTAS arts administrators OUR GEOLOGISTS University of Tasmania UTAS sets the paceALUMNI in mining NEWS | June worldwide 2013 • Issue 43 | a A bright future, defined by a rich past.

The University of Tasmania was founded over 123 years ago, making it one of Australia’s oldest universities. Today we’re recognised as an international leader, ranked in the top 3% of universities in the world.* It’s that merging of rich heritage with strength of character that guarantees our greatest achievements are still to come. utas.edu.au | 13UTAS CRICOS Provider Code: 00586BCRICOS Provider *Academic Ranking of World Universities 2012 USRM9728rj Contents

Alumni News is the regular magazine for Contents graduates and friends of the University of Tasmania. UTAS alumni include graduates and diplomates of UTAS, TCAE/TSIT and AMC, and staff of three years’ service. Alumni News is prepared by the Communications and Media Office for the Advancement Office. Edited by Sharon Webb Writers Phoebe Bobbi, Peter Cochrane, Cherie Cooper, Aaron Smith, Ralph Spaulding, 9 12 Sharon Webb Photographers Lana Best, Peter Cochrane, Peter Mathew, Tom Roschi Design Clemenger Tasmania Advertising enquiries Melanie Roome Acting Director, Advancement Phone +61 3 6226 2842 15 Let us know your story at [email protected] 3 Geoffrey Tyler’s gift to 19 vanessa Lickfold, head Phone +61 3 6324 3052 UTAS of business development, Fax +61 3 6324 3402 Kumba Iron Ore UTAS Advancement Office 4 2013 UTAS Locked Bag 1350 Foundation awards 20 Adrian Penney, principal Launceston Tasmania 7250 geotechnical engineer, 5–8 A life in the arts AMC Consultants 5 t im Walker, London todd McGilvray, principal Philharmonic Orchestra exploration geologist, NEWS JUNE 2013 • ISSUE 43 6 Bryony Nairn, Tasmanian MMG Museum & Art Gallery 21–26 Keeping in touch 7 Brian Parkes, JamFactory 21 Philip Smith celebrates 8 Sarah McCormack, Stompin its centenary 9–11 Alumni News Big Read 22 Glebe Theatre Players reassemble after 60 years Kate Warner 23 Scholarship celebrates 12–13 uTAS in medical Hobart College centenary research Ag Science reunion 13 Menzies Research Institute coming up

Tasmania A LIFE IN THE ARTS 24 Gallery tribute to Vincent UTAS arts administrators McGrath OUR GEOLOGISTS 14 Sustainability at UTAS UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA UTAS sets the paceALUMNI in mining NEWS | JUNE worldwide 2013 • ISSUE 43 | A Ena Waite reunion in Launceston Cover: All creative people, musicians, 15–21 uTAS sets the pace in dancers, sculptors and painters, need the mining worldwide 25–26 Six Degrees work of arts administrators to present their work to the public with flair. Sharon 15 Neil Martin, managing 27–29 Alumni events Webb speaks to UTAS alumni who work director, Zenith Minerals with artists in Australia and overseas: 18 tracey Kerr, group head 30–31 Books Sarah McCormack, Stompin; Timothy Walker, London Philharmonic Orchestra; of exploration, Anglo Profiles of books written Brian Parkes, JamFactory; Bryony Nainby, American by UTAS alumni Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Jamie Rogers, chief geologist, IAMGOLD 32 Alumni and friends A special thanks to those 19 Darryl Clark, vice-president exploration, Cameco who supported the 2012 Alumni Appeal ALUMNI NEWS | June 2013 • Issue 43 | 1 Welcome Message from the Vice-Chancellor

would like to think that one chief executive and artistic director of the Iof the University of Tasmania’s new London Philharmonic, or, closer to home, infrastructure projects in particular Brian Parkes, head of the JamFactory would get a big tick of approval from craft and design centre in Adelaide, the arts administrators featured on this another institution with global ambitions. issue’s cover, as well as the late Vincent But it’s not just our creative minds that McGrath, whose significant contribution are making an impact internationally. to the creative arts and the Tasmanian This issue also profiles seven alumni who community is celebrated inside. are now prominent mining executives This project is the $75 million Academy scattered around the world, for which of Creative Industries and Performing our ARC Centre of Excellence in Ore Arts (ACIPA), which will connect UTAS Deposits (CODES) can take a bow. and Tasmania with creative industries Based here but engaged in research of and cultures internationally and boost the global significance are the researchers of State’s dynamic arts sector at a local level. the Menzies Research Institute Tasmania. The project will deliver a signature 21st- Their ground-breaking work in the areas century building on what is currently a of prostate cancer, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease and the effect of small car park next to the Theatre Royal parental smoking on children are also in Hobart – Australia’s oldest working explored within these pages. theatre, dating back to 1834. Finally, to begin where we started, in Associated infrastructure enabling creative the creative space, there is the story of industries programs and courses, including the remarkable bequest by Frances Tyler performing arts, new media, events and her late husband Geoffrey – a vast management and digital technologies, will collection of artworks amassed over utilise NBN technology to broaden delivery more than four decades which formerly and scope across Tasmania. covered the walls of the Tylers’ four-storey It would be very satisfying to think that Washington DC townhouse but now has ACIPA, once realised, might not just found a new home at UTAS. produce many artists of national and Warm regards, international renown but also the next Professor Peter Rathjen Tim Walker, an alumnus who is currently Vice-Chancellor, University of Tasmania Proud of the past, part of the future n late 2012 we farewelled with the important work of the UTAS Ilongstanding committee members Foundation, I see an active and relevant Wayne Goninon, Caryl McQuestin, John way ahead for UTAS Alumni. Williamson and Derris Wood from the Also, in sight of 2015 marking the 125th Alumni Committee, who collectively anniversary of the establishment of the contributed over 35 years of volunteer University of Tasmania, exciting Alumni events service to UTAS Alumni. We wish them and activities are being considered to mark well and thank them for this outstanding the milestone, so please keep that year and the contribution. New committee members anniversary at the forefront of your minds. welcomed are Peter Frappell, Di Nicol, You will hear more about all of these Merran Ramsay, Ben Schramm and programs in future communications from Jemina Stuart-Smith. us, and I hope that you will be motivated There has been a new approach to your and able to play your part as an active Alumni Committee’s thinking and energies UTAS alumnus. over the summer months, as we focus on Finally, my congratulations to our our strategic planning, ably facilitated Distinguished Alumni awardees for 2013, by Ben Schramm. A new tag line for Dr Nicholas Hope and Donald Challen, UTAS Alumni was drafted – ‘Proud of and our Foundation Graduate Award the past, part of the future’ – which we recipient, Professor Marnie Hughes- hope you like. The establishment of a Warrington. We have much to be proud UTAS Volunteer Program and the better of in the outstanding achievements of identification and empowerment of UTAS these UTAS graduates. Alumni Champions across the globe are plans being considered further. When Best wishes, coupled with our existing and strong Dr Ashley Townsend program of events across genres and Chair, University of Tasmania Alumni geographies, and our close association

2 | ALUMNI NEWS | june 2013 • Issue 43 News Geoffrey Tyler’s gift to UTAS

By Peter Cochrane ot so long ago, wherever NFrances Tyler looked in her four-storey downtown Washington DC townhouse she would see dots – hundreds of green dots interspersed with the odd red dot. The green dots were affixed to artworks destined for the University of Tasmania, the handful of red dots were on works that would remain on her walls. A consignment of about 600 items – ranging from works on paper to oil paintings to sculptures to ceramics to wooden and glass icons – has since arrived in Hobart, the latest and largest in a series of bequests to UTAS by Frances and her late husband Geoffrey, an alumnus and lifelong collector of art. Many of the paintings are by the Romanian artist Corneliu Petrescu. It means that Frances can now at last open the curtains in her house, which Mr Tyler during their time together would not allow for fear of sunlight spilling into the rooms, causing damage to the artworks. “He was absolutely right about that of course,” she Bequests to UTAS by Frances Tyler and her late husband Geoffrey, a UTAS alumnus: Frances Tyler acknowledges. with one of the donated works, The Sisters, by Arthur Boyd. Now that the majority of the collection is in letters in a cardboard envelope identified by in Romania at the time, and other Hobart she can better appreciate the few the year of receipt,” she recalled. “It would Romanian artists he befriended. personal favourites she retained. “And I can include not only the letter and its envelope appreciate the house!” she jokes. “I think “His style is a little bit dry,” advised but also the artwork. Written on the that repainting the interior of the house Frances, a former long-time publications envelope would be a count of the number could be one of my summer projects.” editor of the National Portrait Gallery in of works by Petrescu contained within.” Washington. “But it is very factual.” The consignment was preceded in early Such is the size of the collection amassed That tome too is now with Rachael Rose, 2011 by a $1 million donation and a small by Mr Tyler over more than five decades Curator of the UTAS Fine Arts Collection, shipment of significant works including an that it took a consultant and her assistant who, as she sifts through the latest early Arthur Boyd (The Sisters), a Leonard two months to appraise what was hanging consignment in the Studio Theatre at the French (Three Towers No 1), a set of 22 on the walls of the spacious Washington Sandy Bay campus, must feel as if she engravings by William Blake and a rare townhouse. has hit the curatorial jackpot of a lifetime. copy of Marcus Clarke’s 1870s novelisation of convict life in Van Diemen’s Land, For Then there’s the library. “About a third the Term of his Natural Life, as well as a of my husband’s library consisted of art selection of Petrescu’s Byzantine era- books,” Frances said. “A great many influenced works, which feature extensive of them you would never find outside use of gold leaf. Romania.” They too are included in the latest consignment. Geoffrey Tyler (BSc 1949) was assistant director of the European Department of “I thought it would be a much richer the International Monetary Fund during contribution if I included the books and the the 1980s and it was during this period that other things that my husband collected, such he befriended Petrescu, who introduced as art exhibition catalogues that Petrescu him to other Romanian artists and advised sent him. There is also something that I him in his collecting. Mr Tyler, for his part, found absolutely delightful and that’s a small would source golf leaf for Petrescu, as it nondescript-looking notebook from the 1980s was not available in Romania during the in which Petrescu made studies of future dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu. artworks and interspersed those drawings When the Tylers moved back to Washington, with drafts of letters to my husband.” Mr Tyler and Petrescu maintained a weekly Not content with amassing a vast correspondence. Petrescu’s letters would art collection, and cataloguing his Corneliu Petrescu works form a large part of the bequeathed collection: Romanian artist invariably include a postcard-sized original correspondence with Petrescu, Mr Tyler Petrescu’s Byzantine era-influenced works artwork. “My husband would catalogue this also found time to pen a manuscript feature extensive use of gold leaf, such as his correspondence very carefully, storing the about the artist, the political situation mixed media work, Bryce Canyon.

ALUMNI NEWS | June 2013 • Issue 43 | 3 2013 UTAS Foundation awards “Poignant” award for ANU academic

By Sharon Webb She is a historian but her passion is good rofessor Marnie Hughes- teaching, hence her current research in PWarrington may be deputy vice- measuring teaching quality, which involves chancellor at the Australian National prestigious collaborators at Melbourne, University but her links to UTAS, her Griffith and Monash universities. She first university, are firm. is also regarded as a world leader in On being awarded the 2013 Foundation curriculum reform and renewal in history. Graduate Award, she voiced her attitude Prof. Hughes-Warrington is currently that when you get your university education responsible for enhancing the ANU’s “you spend your life figuring out how you’re national and global leadership in research- going to give back” to that university. led education. Her work takes her from “When you’re aged 17 they get behind you, innovative double degree design to ANU back you and believe in you – and you get participation in the online consortium your degree. That’s an incredible leap of edX and the recent $50m Tuckwell gift for faith in you as a student,” she said. student scholarships. Prof. Hughes-Warrington described her Her first book, Fifty key thinkers on history award as “a thrill but very poignant for (2000), has sold 30,000 copies and is now me and my family”. in its third edition. Since then she has published five more books; her latest, on Her father, former UTAS noted chemistry revisionism in history, is due out in July. academic Marshall Hughes, died last year: “I was happy to accept the award in Prof. Hughes-Warrington has taught at recognition of his life’s work and my mother’s Oxford, Leipzig, Monash and Macquarie support,” Prof. Hughes-Warrington said. universities, as well as Harvard and the University of Tasmania Foundation Graduate “The award was powerful; it affirmed my University of Washington in Seattle. for 2013: Currently deputy vice-chancellor whole family’s sense of attachment to the In March she was listed in The Australian (academic) at the Australian National University of Tasmania.” newspaper’s higher education league tables University, Professor Marnie Hughes- as being among “the top 20 Australian Warrington gained her Bachelor of Education Prof. Hughes-Warrington gained a Bachelor with first class honours degree at UTAS in 1992. of Education with first class honours at academics to watch”. UTAS in 1992. Her PhD is from Oxford Responding to the listing, Prof. Hughes- having focus, as caring about the tertiary University (1995) after she won a Rhodes Warrington said: “I hope so. I’d like to education sector and wanting to make Scholarship. see that as meaning people see you as good changes.” Distinguished economics alumni recognised

wo renowned economists were Appointed secretary of the Thonoured at the recent annual University Department of Treasury and of Tasmania Foundation dinner in Hobart. Finance in 1993, he held the Former secretary of the Department of position for 17 years. Treasury and Finance Don Challen and Mr Challen worked with former senior director of the World Bank six premiers and six Nicholas Hope were both presented with treasurers, in Liberal Renowned economists honoured by the UTAS Foundation: a Distinguished Alumni Award. and Labor governments, Dr Nicholas Hope and Don Challen are congratulated by the chair UTAS Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter providing advice essential of the UTAS Alumni Committee, Dr Ashley Townsend (centre). Rathjen said recognising the achievement for consolidating Tasmania’s of alumni is important for universities, dire fiscal position, inherited as it is the success of the graduates that from the 1980s. Dr Hope studied maths and physics at the embellishes the history, reputation and Nicholas Hope has made an outstanding University of Tasmania, graduating with prestige of the institution. contribution to economic development in a Bachelor of Science in 1965 and gaining “In Don Challen and Nicholas Hope we have emerging countries as a senior director a Rhodes Scholarship. At Balliol College two UTAS graduates who have made a of the World Bank and as director of the Oxford he was admitted to the degree of significant impact in the world of economics, Centre for International Development at Bachelor of Arts in 1967 and a Bachelor one at a local level, the other internationally,” Stanford University. of Philosophy in Economics in 1969. He Prof. Rathjen said. He has influenced international economic went on to study economics at Princeton Don Challen’s career was founded on theory and practice through his academic University graduating with a PhD in 1975. 15 years as a University of Tasmania role, co-editing How far Across the River? In the 2012 Queen’s Birthday Honours, Dr academic economist after he graduated Chinese Policy Reform at the Millennium Hope was appointed a Member of the Order with a Bachelor of Economics with first in 2003 and Policy Reform and Chinese of Australia for service to the international class honours in 1970. Markets in 2008. business and finance sector.

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All creative people, musicians, dancers, sculptors and painters, need the work of arts administrators to present their work to the public with flair. Sharon Webb speaks to UTAS alumni who work with artists in Australia and overseas. TIMOTHY WALKER, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London

Bachelor of Arts with Honours 1976; Diploma of Education 1977

ormer Prime Minister Malcolm FFraser’s closing of Australian embassies overseas is indirectly responsible for Timothy Walker becoming chief executive and artistic director of the London Philharmonic. His goal of going into foreign affairs thwarted by no graduates being taken on, Tim turned to teaching, perhaps with the idea of following in the footsteps of his well-known educator father, K.J. Walker. A teaching stint for three years at Don College on Tasmania’s north-west coast where he become head of music was the beginning of a career in music administration, setting the foundation for his superintendency of a 110-musician orchestra responsible for creating film scores for movies such as Diehard 3, Lawrence of Arabia, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Between work at Don College and the London Philharmonic came a diploma in financial management and half a law degree at the University of New England, a position as concert manager at the Canberra School of Music (now part of the Australian National University) for four years, and then general manager of the Australian Chamber Orchestra. “I set about changing it from a part-time to a full-time orchestra, establishing a Timothy Walker, chief executive and creative director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra: national concert season,” Tim said. “It gave Working with conductors and soloists at the top of their field – and an orchestra of 110 musicians. Photo courtesy of Examiner newspaper 84 concerts on eight national tours a year and I appointed Richard Tognetti as leader.” “When you start working with conductors along with family concerts and community At the end of 1999 Tim set up World and soloists at the top of their field you Orchestras, which brought orchestras programs. such as the Israel Philharmonic, the just want to continue.” Life in London for Tim is a flat in Smith Pittsburgh Symphony and the BBC Those soloists include Welsh bass- Square, the musical epicentre of London, Symphony to Australia in the first year baritone Bryn Terfel, American soprano from which he can walk to Royal Festival of its establishment. Renée Fleming and German violinist Hall and his office in a building next to MI6. Sophie-Anne Mutter. Violinists Christian After year two, Tim was head-hunted Tim returns to Tasmania often, most for the London Philharmonic, a double Tetzlaff and Vadim Repin are high on recently at Easter, to see his father, position of chief executive and artistic Tim’s approval list, as are pianist Lang who is no doubt chuffed that his son is director and the only one of the UK’s Lang and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. visiting fellow at Cambridge University’s 14 orchestras to have such a position. Then there is extensive travel with the He’s been there 10 years. orchestra, which has a London season Corpus Christi College this year. “I’ve had a few approaches to come back of 32 to 39 concerts a year at Festival “I had lunch with him and he was to Australia but it’s difficult professionally Hall, tours nationally and internationally talking about the recent centenaries of to move from the arts capital of the world,” and does 60 performances of four or five Launceston and Hobart High Schools, Tim said. operas each summer at Glyndebourne at both of which he spoke.”

ALUMNI NEWS | June 2013 • Issue 43 | 5 A life in the arts BRYONY NAINBY, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart

Bachelor of Fine Arts 2003

hen the Theatre of the World Wexhibition opens in Paris in October, “It’s a fantastic Bryony Nainby will finally relax and enjoy one of the most beautiful cities in the world. opportunity to work TMAG’s senior curator, Bryony is working on the exhibition in partnership with MONA across all of TMAG’s and enjoying the professional experience of working with highly regarded Jean-Hubert collections – not just Martin, the French curator brought in by MONA’s David Walsh. art but history, science, Bryony’s first big break into a curating career was after she finished her UTAS fine arts degree. Having worked for a everything,” she said. short time as an independent curator, she Bryony Nainby, senior art curator at the won an emerging curator award from the Working at the Gippsland Art Gallery Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Working Australian Arts Council, allowing her not immediately put me in touch with artists in partnership with MONA on the Theatre of only to attend the 2005 Venice Biennale and galleries nationally and I gained the World exhibition, which will go to Paris. but be mentored by senior curator Zara great exhibition management and Stanhope, then deputy director of the curatorial skills. For Bryony, arriving at UTAS to study was Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne. “After leaving Tasmania in 2005 I’ve had a major step in realising her dream to curate. “That experience took my curating career a range of curatorial roles in Victoria, A mature-age student with a first degree another step forward and two months Queensland and Western Australia, in the sciences, she believes her fine arts after the Biennale I moved to a job in the giving me the skills to become degree gave her a broad understanding of Victorian Regional Gallery network. contemporary art curator at TMAG.” practice in twentieth century art.

Where she developed her drive. ‘The education I received at Collegiate was one UTAS Distinguished Alumni Award of variety, intensity and depth. It was a fantastic foundation of skills and knowledge that I now & UTAS Foundation Graduate Award draw on every day. I learned to work hard — very hard – over and above my natural abilities, and to try everything. Then I could work out Recognising the distinguished achievements what I was best at.’ and outstanding talent of our UTAS graduates. Mel Irons School of Psychology UTAS (PhD candidate) The prestigious Distinguished Alumni and Small business owner— ‘Booty’ Fitness Australia PT Business of the Year 2008 to 2011 Foundation Graduate awards are offered annually Founder “Tassie Fires-We Can Help’ Facebook page under the auspices of the UTAS Alumni Committee and the UTAS Foundation. The awards seek to honour the achievements of UTAS graduates who have made or are making a significant difference in both local and/or wider international communities. Nomination forms and Guidelines are available from the website now at www.alumni.utas.edu.au/ alumni-and-foundation-awards setforlife.net.au

Nominations close 30 November 2013

6 | ALUMNI NEWS | june 2013 • Issue 43 A life in the arts BRIAN PARKES, JamFactory, Adelaide Bachelor of Fine Arts 1991

rian Parkes has a piece of Bcareer advice for graduates which he has learnt from experience: “Never be afraid of the side exit”. Brian has been chief executive of the JamFactory craft and design centre in Adelaide for three years, following commercial and curatorial jobs at Canberra’s Australian National Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Object: Australian Centre for Design, both in Sydney. He admits that at several moments during his arts administration career, he has been faced with the excruciating choice between following pure art or the commercial art. It all began after his degree at the Tasmanian Art School in Hobart (in which he majored in sculpture) when having been mentored by luminaries such as Geoff Parr, Paul Victor and Jonathan Holmes, Brian very successfully ran Entrepot, the art supply and bookshop attached to the school. “Then, as a 24 year-old I had an extraordinary crisis moment when I had to choose between a curatorial future at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the orthodox thing, or a management role in the retail operation of the biggest art institution in the country, the Australian National Gallery,” Brian said. “I chose the latter; within two years I was in a more senior role managing commercial activity there, one of 12 managers planning and delivering extraordinary projects in only my mid-twenties. “I felt vindicated at taking the more unorthodox path.” Having admired the JamFactory since he was at school, Brian believes he had the perfect set of experiences for the job as chief executive. “The JamFactory has always tried to upskill talented graduates, transforming them into successful creative entrepreneurs with business development skills, able to make a living from their work. “We have shops and galleries and four studios: glass, ceramics, furniture and metal design. Each operates as a business unit so there is a training program going on. “A third of the JamFactory’s funding comes from the South Australian Government, so we need to be incredibly entrepreneurial. “Our goal is to be recognised as a global leader and we’re not far off that.” Brian believes graduates should look carefully at the paradigms they’re funnelled towards. “Successful people often sidestep the expected career routes – and that sidestepping is sometimes the Chief executive at the JamFactory, Adelaide: Brian Parkes is aiming for the JamFactory craft and design centre to be a global leader. most fruitful.” ALUMNI NEWS | June 2013 • Issue 43 | 7 A life in the arts SARAH McCORMACK, Stompin, Launceston Associate Diploma of Arts (Drama) 1992; Bachelor of Performing Arts 1994

arah McCormack’s CV reads Slike a list of every arts event held in “They were inspiring Launceston: Tasdance, Festivale, Junction Arts, Theatre North, Streets Alive, Circus on so many different Festival, Launceston Players. In her eagerness to work in arts management, levels,” she said. Sarah’s played a role in all of them. Having been executive producer and “We employed professionals and did performance producer at the Stompin auditions with young people who wanted dance company in Launceston for 12 years, to be involved; then the dancers collaborated Sarah has most tasks in the company with the choreographer and came up with securely under her belt. movements. It creates a performance that really connects with the communities that But because Stompin is a special kind use the locations we choose.” of dance company, strongly rooted in community, she still gets a buzz out of Sarah said she felt fortunate she could every performance. fulfil her dreams living in Launceston. “I love seeing young people aged between “This is where my family is. My parents 12 and 30, who’ve never danced before, played a huge role in supporting me to grow in confidence, as part of a team, work in the arts: driving me to theatres succeeding in something they’ve never when I was stage managing and collecting done before,” Sarah said. me, providing late meals, supporting me Executive producer at Stompin dance company: through uni in Launceston. Stompin employs performance Sarah McCormack believes arts administration comes down to passion and persistence. professionals – choreographers, lighting “My mum died a couple of years ago; and sound people – to work with non- she was ill for a long time and I wanted to be around.” funding. If I’m not working on a show I’m professional dancers to create a show applying for funding – sometimes both at in particular locations. At UTAS Sarah found courses that were once! I just wish there was more funding An example is a recent Ten Days On full-on, giving her skills for a career in because Stompin could do so much more.” the Island performance, On Your Marks, arts management. In the end, Sarah says, arts administration performed in Launceston’s Aurora Stadium “But one of the challenges of working in the comes down to two words: passion, around the theme of competition. arts is the constant need to apply for persistence. “They go hand in hand.”

Board directors sought The UTAS Foundation is the fundraising arm of the University of Tasmania. We assist the University to achieve its mission and objectives by working with our alumni and friends to accept, acknowledge, manage and allocate gifts. Financial support from our alumni and friends translates to an investment in the future of Tasmania and its people. The UTAS Foundation currently manages over $39 million in funds, and in 2012 we provided $2.9m in funding support to University programs including scholarships, research, and facilities such as the Bisdee Tier Observatory. In addition we provided $4.0m towards the completion of the Menzies Stage II medical facility. The UTAS Foundation is governed by an independent board of directors with a CEO responsible for managing the operations of the Foundation. We are seeking two philanthropically minded alumni or friends of the University to be appointed as directors of the Foundation Board to assist in its overall governance and help grow its programs. If you are interested in applying for a Board role then please contact Melanie Roome, Acting CEO UTAS Foundation at [email protected] or phone (03) 6226 2842 for further information.

8 | ALUMNI NEWS | june 2013 • Issue 43 Alumni News Big Read Warner is Tasmania’s ‘first lady’ of law reform “For more than 30 years Professor Warner has given an outstanding and sustained commitment to this university with outcomes that have seen her recognised nationally and internationally as one of Australia’s finest legal scholars and as pre-eminent in her field of scholarship. Indeed, she is an institution in legal circles in this country …”

By Peter Cochrane hen Kate Warner is reminded Wof the UTAS Provost’s laudatory remarks at the Awards of Excellence ceremony late last September, at which she received the Distinguished Service Medal, she shifts uncomfortably in her seat. Did being called an institution suddenly make you feel venerable, I ask. “I think perhaps that I blocked that bit out at the time … “I felt uncomfortable about the whole thing, really, which is not very gracious of me. I don’t think I like that kind of spotlight being on me – I love my work and getting on with it. Of course I was pleased and flattered – I am not saying I wasn’t, but I don’t feel particularly deserving … I don’t feel exceptional.” The record suggests otherwise. As recounted by Professor David Rich at the ceremony, Professor Warner was the first female Professor of Law at the University of Tasmania (1996) and the first female dean of the Faculty of Law (1992-1994). She presently sits on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals, including the Criminal Law Journal, and frequently bobs up in the media as an expert commentator in the area of criminal law and criminology. Her book, Sentencing in Tasmania, has a “Bible-like status” (to quote again the Provost). She has been director of the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute, based at UTAS’ Sandy Bay campus, since its foundation in 2001. Kate graduated from UTAS with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) in 1970. “The year I started my studies – 1966 – was the first one in which there was more than one woman studying law. There were five or six of us out of a cohort of about 30. None of my lecturers were women. It was a time of dramatic change. Now more than 50 per cent of law students are women, and half of the Law School’s academic staff are women. We’ve more female professors than male professors. We not only have a female dean in Margaret Otlowksi but one of our four women professors, Dianne Nicol, is chair of the Academic Senate.” Kate was admitted to the Bar in 1971 and after travelling overseas for a year was on the verge of starting work in a legal firm when pregnancy forced a rethink of her career options. She became a casual tutor instead, at a time when the then dean, Professor Derek Roebuck, was driving a substantial expansion in the academic Professor Kate Warner: The first female Professor of Law at the University of Tasmania (1996), the first female staff of the Law School. dean of the Faculty of Law (1992-1994) and appointed director of the newly established Tasmanian Law Reform Institute in 2002. continued overleaf... ALUMNI NEWS | June 2013 • Issue 43 | 9 Alumni News Big Read

“The Law School was a much easier “They judge you on what you do rather than place for a woman to work, as opposed to practice. That’s why I chose academe, the fact that you’re in the office from 9 to 5. because it was much more flexible and accommodating for a young mother. Back then Kate was the only female The hours are so much more flexible and I member of staff and would occasionally have to bring her newborn daughter into think that’s in part why women find working work. From the comfort of her bassinet underneath the desk, Baby Emily would listen to her mother instruct students. She at the Law School so attractive.” must have absorbed by osmosis some of Kate’s knowledge of and passion for the law because she grew up to become a lawyer, and is currently employed by the Legal Profession Board of Tasmania. (Emily’s younger sister Meg was spared the tutorials and is now making a name for herself as a blogger [megoracle] with a decidedly non-legalistic turn of phrase and composer of domestic ditties [notably The Angry Song], though she did follow her mother’s example in marrying a farmer.) Kate was able to join the Law School full- time in 1979 when Meg started school. It was an environment in which she was given every opportunity to excel. “Derek Roebuck was supportive and encouraging, and Don Chalmers has been a fabulous mentor, not just to me but to all in the Law School.” In 2002 she was appointed director of the newly established Tasmanian Law Reform Institute, a collaboration between the University, the State Government and the Law Society. Since then – and to quote Prof. Rich at the Excellence Awards ceremony once more – she has made “a sustained and scholarly contribution to law reform in the State of Tasmania … and has served the University of Tasmania with great distinction and with extraordinary dedication and commitment”. Retreating from the glare of the spotlight, Kate said she felt “less uneasy” about receiving the Distinguished Service Medal after learning soon afterwards that she had been awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery grant to take jury sentencing research further, with a new project in Victoria. “Our first application was not funded so we refined it and was then successful.” She hedged her bets by also applying for a Linkage grant, the fate of which will be known mid-year. “If we are successful with the Linkage application we can go national, using the same jury methodology but focusing on sex offences. Judges in courts in every jurisdiction agreed to participate.” She was inspired to initiate the project after reading a paper by former High Court Chief Justice Murray Gleeson who argued that if politicians and policy makers really want to know what the public thinks about the leniency or otherwise of sentencing, they should ask jurors about the sentence in the trial they served on – the rationale being that jurors would be better-informed than the average man or woman vox-popped in Changing of the guard: Incoming Chief Justice’s Associate Kate Warner with the outgoing Associate, the street. “I thought: What a good idea! Robin Trethewey, at the opening of the new Burnie Court in 1970. “We got Criminology Research Council

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An expert commentator in the area of criminal law and criminology: Professor Kate Warner’s book, Sentencing in Tasmania (Federation Press, 2002), has a “Bible-like status”. funding and we did it first inT asmania. research project on the topic. When the a follow-on from the Sexual Offences It attracted a lot of interest, particularly Children’s Commissioner asked us to look Against Young People final report released from the judiciary, because we found that at non-therapeutic male circumcision, we last year – and another on self-defence. the majority of jurors that we interviewed employed Warwick Marshall, a student who The two papers for which the Institute has suggested a sentence more lenient than used the topic for his masters thesis. that imposed by the judge.” received the most media coverage have “It means that our work can sometimes concerned same-sex adoption and physical Sentencing was also the subject of the take a long time but we do have the benefit punishment of children. longest project undertaken by the Institute, of the resources of the university. So with a request by the Attorney-General in 2001 Amelia’s paper we were able to ask our “I did something like 20 media interviews prompted by community concern about constitutional law experts, Michael Stokes in two days when the latter was released,” the adequacy of sentences for violent and Brendan Gogarty, to assist, along with Kate recalls. “It was a nightmare – we are and property crimes, and criticism of bail Professor George Williams from UNSW and not geared up to cope with that sort of decisions. It took six years to complete, the Solicitor-General, Leigh Sealy.” attention.” during which time there had been four Referrals usually come from the Attorney- The Institute takes particular pride in a attorneys-general and three chief justices. General, though Kate is quick to point Charter of Rights for Tasmania project Since the Institute was established it has out that anyone can suggest a topic to which aimed to address the State’s published up to five discussion papers the Institute. “We produced a report patchwork of human rights protections. and reports a year. Even Kate seems on easements in 2010 as a result of an Run by Law Terese Henning, it attracted surprised when reminded of her institute’s approach from a member of the public, a record 407 submissions. productivity. and Vanessa Goodwin (the Liberal MLC for There are just two people on the payroll: Pembroke) has suggested one on hedges More recently, the circumcision paper Kate, who also lectures at the Law School, planted in spite and boundary fences, has excited national media interest, and Dr Helen Coburn, the part-time which we are planning to start in the which continues to this day. executive officer.T he State Government second half of this year.” The odd controversy aside, Kate looks chips in with funding of $50,000 a year The Institute’s annual reports reveal an back over the last decade or so of reform and UTAS provides in-kind support and extraordinarily wide variety of proposals projects with a sense of satisfaction. additional support for some projects. The submitted for consideration. In 2011, for “It is very rewarding, I must say, that’s Institute can also apply for Law Foundation example, six proposals were considered. competitive grants. Two were accepted, including one about probably why I have been doing it for as Kate concedes that the Institute is under- the planning regulations around the long as I have. resourced financially but points out that its installation and use of wind turbines (since “But I also like the teaching and the location at the University is an advantage. shelved), and four were deemed not to be postgraduate supervision; it’s so rewarding “Sometimes I write the papers myself; appropriate. Among those declined was one seeing the postgrads move into academic often not. We manage to produce what regarding the classification of budgerigars jobs or otherwise. And I love the research.” we produce because we have assistance as controlled animals. She pauses, perhaps recalling the start from students and academic staff at the Currently the State Government is funding of our conversation, and laughs: “I should Law School. the aforementioned paper setting out the spend more time with my grandchildren – I “A current project, on same-sex marriage, legal issues around same-sex marriage. feel a bit guilty about not being more help for example, involves Amelia Higgs, Other current projects include a paper a student who wrote her supervised on anonymity of sexual-abuse victims – to Emily and Meg …” ALUMNI NEWS | June 2013 • Issue 43 | 11 UTAS in medical research Investing in the future through UTAS’ Medical Science II building he UTAS Foundation has The UTAS Foundation will raise $5 million Tassisted in securing the vital funding to be matched by $5 million from the to complete Stage II of the new facilities in Tasmanian Government. Donations and the Medical Science II building by working pledges of $3.7 million have already been with The Atlantic Philanthropies, which has secured, and will be matched. provided significant funding to the project. Tasmanians can be part of this aspirational The new building extends the state-of- venture by making a donation today and the-art facilities for the Menzies Research doubling the impact of their gift. A gift, Institute Tasmania and the UTAS Faculty large or small, makes a donor an investor of Health Science, providing excellence in Tasmania’s future – and the future of in research and teaching. The impact of Medical Science II – the home of UTAS’ these facilities will be felt in Tasmania and generations to come. Menzies Institute: To complete stage two of the internationally, with the brilliant minds who • If you are interested in making a building, $10 million has been pledged by The choose to work here focused on curing or donation, contact the acting CEO of Atlantic Philanthropies. The UTAS Foundation will raise $5 million to be matched by $5 million preventing disease and saving lives. the UTAS Foundation, Melanie Roome, from the Tasmanian Government. Donations The focus in 2013 is to realise the Challenge phone 6226 2842 or see www.utas.edu.au/ and pledges of $3.7 million have already been Grant to complete Stage II, with $10 million foundation/building-healthier-lives secured, and will be matched. pledged by The Atlantic Philanthropies. for further information. Key research at the UTAS Menzies Institute researchers discovered that people on the they can short-circuit and information Genetic discovery for MS drug, interferon-beta, produce up to is no longer transferred to where it is prostate cancer three times as much vitamin D from sun needed. Collaborative research spanning exposure as those not on the treatment the United Kingdom, Australia and Japan Prostate cancer is the most commonly or on other MS treatments. This study has determined that the cells responsible diagnosed cancer in Australian men, provides further support for people with for making brain insulation (called with one in eight Tasmanian men being MS to periodically have their vitamin D oligodendrocytes) are not the passive diagnosed in their lifetime. Thanks to the measured and if the protective effects of bystanders to brain function that we once hard work of researchers at Menzies, we vitamin D on relapse risk are validated in thought. Menzies’ researchers are currently now have one more piece of the genetic clinical trials, this could markedly affect investigating ways to hijack the natural puzzle. Menzies’ researchers identified clinical practice in the treatment of MS. ability of these cells to make new insulation. seven new regions across the human This may have important implications for genome that increase the chances of sufferers of Alzheimer’s disease, because developing prostate cancer, bringing the Long-term effects of protecting nerve cells would prevent the total number of identified regions to over 40. parental smoke on children rapid deterioration seen in people after Ongoing research at Menzies conducted in they are diagnosed with it. conjunction with the international prostate A collaborative project between cancer genetics consortium, PRACTICAL, researchers in Finland and Menzies found has identified two genes of interest.T hese that children exposed to their parents’ two genes are closely related in their cigarette smoke may suffer irreversible function in influencing tumour spread damage to blood vessels and increase and remain the subject of research in our their risk of cardiovascular disease later laboratory. These findings greatly improve in life. This is the first study to examine our understanding of prostate cancer the long-term effects of passive smoke and could potentially lead to improved exposure in childhood on blood vessel diagnosis by allowing tailored screening health in adulthood. The study found that and treatment of men at risk of this disease. adults who had been exposed to parental smoking when they were children had less Link between vitamin D elastic arteries, an early indicator of poor cardiovascular health. Studies like this are and multiple sclerosis (MS) vital for our policy-makers to make well- Menzies’ researchers recently discovered informed decisions to protect children and that a common MS medication may help ensure they have the best opportunity to increase vitamin D levels. Three out of four lead healthy and happy lives. people with MS are women, and most cases are usually diagnosed in their 20s and 30s. Impact of nerve cell research It is widely believed, but not yet proven, that increasing your vitamin D level reduces the on Alzheimer’s disease Menzies finds one more piece of the genetic puzzle risk of getting MS and that higher levels To transfer information quickly in our brain, for cancer: Researchers James Marthick and of vitamin D are associated with a lower our nerves are insulated like electrical Associate Professor Jo Dickinson working in the relapse risk in patients with MS. Menzies’ cables. If nerve cells lose their insulation cancer genetics laboratory at the Menzies Institute.

12 | ALUMNI NEWS | june 2013 • Issue 43 UTAS in medical research Menzies Research Institute Tasmania Menzies focused on improving human health and wellbeing

By Phoebe Bobbi Step into the precinct, located in the Through Menzies, medical research at n its first 25 years, Menzies heart of the Hobart CBD near the Royal UTAS has a pulse that is racing, and it is Research Institute Tasmania has firmly Hobart Hospital, and you will feel a buzz of not slowing down anytime soon. I excitement and energy. The architecturally established itself as a leading powerhouse Prof. Marwick said: “I am excited about the designed buildings are filled with students of health and medical research. future, particularly what improvements we and researchers, hard at work to find can achieve for patient care and clinical A proud institute of the University of answers for the prevention, treatment outcomes for the community.” Tasmania, Menzies is first and foremost and cure of devastating diseases such about improving human health and as arthritis, cancer, dementia, diabetes, With strong leadership, cutting edge wellbeing, with the ultimate goal to heart disease, mental health and multiple facilities and dedicated researchers, cure or prevent disease and save lives. sclerosis. Menzies will keep Tasmania at the forefront both in Australia and internationally in Menzies has made substantial strides At the head of this dynamic institute sits medical research, clinical translation and towards achieving this goal over the past Menzies’ new director Professor Tom education, well into the future. 25 years. From humble beginnings, Menzies Marwick, a distinguished research leader The success of Menzies’ past 25 years quickly stamped itself on the international and highly regarded cardiovascular expert. cannot be understated and the many map with the discovery of the link between Prof. Marwick, who recently returned to achievements deserve to be celebrated babies’ sleeping position and sudden infant Australia from the United States to take up proudly. But perhaps most importantly, death syndrome. Since then, Menzies has the position of director of Menzies, is set to Menzies’ future looks brighter than ever. continued to build an impressive record of lead the Institute into an exciting new era. research discoveries. “We have high expectations for Menzies to • to learn more about the Menzies Research exceed our past triumphs and reach new 2013 marks a significant milestone in the Institute see www.menzies.utas.edu.au history of Menzies with the celebration of heights over the next decade,” he said. its 25th anniversary, the opening of a brand “Menzies will continue to further new building and, with it, completion of the strengthen and develop its international UTAS Medical Science Precinct. collaborations around the globe.”

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Menzies new director Professor Tom Marwick: Under Prof. Marwick’s leadership, Menzies has a clear focus on its research areas and is set to MEN9745_rj reach new heights over the next decade. Celebrating 25 years of building a healthier community Low res PROOF only ALUMNI NEWS | June 2013 • Issue 43 | 13 Sustainability at UTAS The future’s greener than ever at UTAS

By Cherie Cooper In late 2012 the Medical Science 2 building, he University of Tasmania is the second stage of the medical science Tworking hard to lead the way as an precinct in central Hobart, became the first environmentally responsible institution. education building in Tasmania to achieve a Green Star rating for environmental design UTAS’ sustainable transport strategy and by the Green Building Council of Australia. sustainability strategy have resulted in a MS2 is also only the fifth building in number of achievements in 2012-13. Tasmania to achieve a Green Star rating; The highly successful annual UTAS Energy the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Challenge sees university schools and Studies’ new home on the Hobart sections compete to save the most energy. waterfront also has that rating. The 2012 Challenge resulted in a $90,000 UTAS won the Australasian Campuses annualised energy saving. In addition, Towards Sustainability Award of Excellence, an e-waste collection on the Sandy Bay which recognises continued efforts to and Newnham campuses resulted in the improve the sustainability of an institution. collection of a whopping 10 tonnes of UTAS was also highly commended for the recyclables. Green Gowns Australasia Award Continuous Another popular sustainability initiative Improvement and Generating Institutional is the new Bike Hub on the Sandy Bay Change Award. campus. Partly funded through a $10,000 The University has also been granted grant from the State Government’s Cycling $5,000 from the Higher Education Services for Active Transport – Local Infrastructure Australian University Procurement Network A cycle of sustainability: Student and staff Development Fund, the hub features to provide sustainable procurement training bikes line the racks at the Bike Hub on the shelter and storage for bikes, solar panels, Sandy Bay campus. to 25 staff. electric bike recharging points and a bike maintenance station. UTAS Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Rathjen said a number of staff and students ride their bikes to the campus. “We will also be trialling electric cars in our vehicle fleet, starting an online car pooling system and improving our inter-regional bus services.” Students from the UTAS schools of Architecture and Design and Geography and Environmental Studies gathered campus travel data and designed the structure of the bike hub. UTAS’ environmentally conscious efforts have resulted in grants, awards and partnerships. Early this year UTAS won an award in the 2013 Australian Bicycling Achievement Awards, in recognition of the University’s delivery of improved bike-friendly infrastructure. Striking and sustainable: An artist’s impression of the Green Star rated Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, currently being built on Hobart’s waterfront.

14 | ALUMNI NEWS | june 2013 • Issue 43 UTAS sets the pace in mining worldwide

They’re spread all over the world, from Africa to Canada and the Australian outback: the University of Tasmania’s geology graduates are among the elite of the mining world. Having graduated from UTAS’ Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits (CODES), these people who populate mining companies consider they have elite professional skills because of the expertise of UTAS academics and their access, while studying, to the varied geology of Tasmania. In particular, UTAS’ masters and PhD qualifications in economic geology are highly regarded in the mining industry – and according to seven graduates Sharon Webb spoke to, a CODES qualification is an entrée into a select mining network operating worldwide.

Neil martin, Perth PhD 2004

y company, Zenith Minerals, course at CODES and when I was offered I’ve met a lot of CODES graduates as I’ve Mis a junior exploration company. a scholarship at UTAS my wife and I moved travelled around the world; they’re a tight I’ve got to grow it and find new ore to Tasmania for four and a half years while network and we keep in contact. There’s bodies, develop new mines. I’ll be using I did my PhD. a fair amount of camaraderie as well as the exploration skills I learnt at UTAS That led to working in Mongolia for networking on the technical side. at CODES. six months, then to a job as exploration I’ve used some of the CODES staff for I was working as a geologist all over manager at Jabiru Metals for seven consultancy work; CODES staff and Australia from 1987-1999 in base metals years and exploration manager at graduates are like-minded in that there’s and gold exploration. By 1999 the mining Bauxite Resources for a year before a culture of getting on with the job and industry was in a downturn with a high I came to Zenith. understanding the mining industry. unemployment rate. Doing a PhD at CODES gave me a different Even though I was employed, I wanted skill set, along with many academic and a game-changer. I’d done a training industry contacts in Australia and overseas.

Dr Neil Martin: Managing director, Zenith Minerals

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DR VANESSA LICKFOLD TODD MCGILVRAY TRACEY KERR DR NEIL MARTIN Head of business development Principal exploration geologist, Group head of exploration, Managing director, Zenith for West and Central Africa, MMG, Melbourne Anglo American, London Minerals, Perth (PhD 2004) Kumba Iron Ore, Pretoria, (BSc Hons 2003) (M Econ Geol 1995) South Africa (PhD 2002) “My company … is a junior “Other CODES graduates and “I am responsible for greenfields exploration company. I’ve got to “At a youth group camp, a woman I had a knowledge of geology mineral exploration for a variety grow it and find new ore bodies, who was studying geology asked above colleagues with a similar of commodities including develop new mines. I’ll be using me: How do you think this rock qualification because we’d had copper, nickel, iron ore, and the exploration skills I learnt at got here? From then on I knew extensive exposure to the geology thermal coal in more than 12 UTAS at CODES.” geology was what I was going of Tasmania and support from countries. I manage an annual to do. Not once have I thought I industry leaders at CODES.” budget of $100m and a team of chose the wrong career.” approximately 370 people.”

16 | ALUMNI NEWS | june 2013 • Issue 43 DR NEIL MARTIN DR JAMIE ROGERS DR DARRYL CLARK ADRIAN PENNEY Managing director, Zenith Chief geologist, IamGold, Vice-president exploration, Principal geotechnical engineer, Minerals, Perth (PhD 2004) Canada (PhD 1997) Cameco, Canada (PhD 2003) AMC Consultants, Melbourne (BSc Hons 1998) “My company … is a junior “… the CODES network is “CODES is recognised as one of exploration company. I’ve got to widespread throughout the world. the leading economic geology “I was working at Beaconsfield on grow it and find new ore bodies, I was employed by a former institutions in the world because Anzac Day 2006 when the mine develop new mines. I’ll be using graduate I know – it’s almost a the study is very applied. Some collapsed. I worked with 50 or 60 the exploration skills I learnt at tick on the box if they know you very successful mining explorers others providing geotechnical UTAS at CODES.” graduated from CODES.” have come out of there.” input to aspects of the rescue and helping to figure out ways to rescue the trapped miners. It was one of the most trying and interesting times of my life.”

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TRACEY KERR, London Master of Economic Geology 1995 orking as group head of of exploration for the Americas. From there Wexploration for Anglo American, I moved to my current role with Anglo I am responsible for greenfields mineral American. exploration for a variety of commodities The broader background my masters including copper, nickel, iron ore, and degree gave me provided an important thermal coal in more than 12 countries. platform for me to move from initially I manage an annual budget of up to $100m specialist geophysical roles to increasingly and a team of approximately 370 people. broader roles in exploration management. Without my masters I would not be where In my first degree from the University of I am today. Sydney I majored in geophysics (1987) and In terms of striking a work/life balance, I’ve then went to work for BHP. But the main been lucky my choices enabled me to work focus was on geophysics; if you want to with different people in different countries; be an exploration geoscientist you need I’ve found my team members and managers to know about economic geology and very supportive throughout my career. exploration management. I’ve taken maternity leave twice – once So I did a masters degree at UTAS’ Centre while on an expatriate assignment. I was of Excellence in Ore Deposits (CODES) offered my role as chief geophysicist for while I worked part-time for BHP. BHP while I was on maternity leave. After that I continued to work as an Clearly being pregnant and then taking exploration geophysicist, initially in Russia maternity leave as an exploration and then as BHP’s chief geophysicist. Later geoscientist placed some limitations on my I switched to work as a geoscientist in travel and workload but my managers and BHP’s global iron ore and coal exploration team members willingly stepped in to help me out, for which I will always be grateful. team. I then moved to work for Vale, in project generation, management of Tracey Kerr: Group head of exploration, Anglo American. technical specialists and finally as director

JAMIE ROGERS, Toronto, Canada PhD 1997

y whole career has been in My current job at IAMGOLD, a mid-tier Mmineral exploration, from the time Canadian gold mining and exploration I left UTAS in 1996 for the mining industry company, is to provide technical and often in Western Australia. moral support to our geologists in South America, Canada and Africa. My other major role is to look for research initiatives I’ve lived and worked that can help the group. My studies have had a major influence on in Ghana and my career. When I graduated the market was tough and there weren’t a lot of jobs. Botswana as well Having a postgraduate degree helped; the CODES network is widespread as Australia, and throughout the world. I was employed by a former graduate I know – it’s almost a moved to Toronto tick on the box if they know you graduated from CODES. in 2008. My wife and In the future I see myself staying in this sort of role, building my team from my current position. Chief geologist is one four children live of the most senior technical roles in a here, too. mining company.

Dr Jamie Rogers: Chief geologist, IamGold.

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Darryl Clark, Saskatoon, Canada PhD 2003

n my current role, I am vice- CODES is recognised as one of the leading Ipresident of exploration at Cameco economic geology institutions in the world Corporation, leading the global uranium because the study is very applied. Some exploration program. Cameco is one of very successful mining explorers have the world’s largest uranium producers come out of there. accounting for about 14 per cent of the For me the most valuable part of studying world’s production from its mines in at CODES was the broad range of subjects Canada, the US and Kazakhstan. that you’re exposed to. My first degree was in science and All aspects of the Earth’s processes were economic geology from James Cook covered with emphasis on how these led University and I’ve since earned a PhD to the concentration of specific elements in economic geology from the University such as gold, copper, zinc, lead, silver, of Tasmania. iron and manganese in certain places During previous corporate roles with both within the Earth’s crust. This knowledge Vale and BHP Billiton, and with consulting was also coupled with learnings from work at SRK, I’ve been responsible for cutting-edge research on how to focusing business development strategies explore for these mineral deposits. and designing multi-commodity exploration These are the fundamental concepts of the programs. These roles include country mining and exploration business I’ve built manager with Vale Mongolia, general my career on. I dare say the same is true manager at Vale Minerals Exploration of many of the other CODES graduates. Australasia and geology manager at In addition, the network of CODES MinEx BHP Billiton. graduates is extensive in the mining There is no problem getting work when and exploration industry. This network you’re a CODES graduate from UTAS – is extremely useful and is a great they’re highly sought-after. advantage when dealing at the business Dr Darryl Clark: Vice-president of exploration, end of our industry. Cameco, Canada.

vanessa lickfold, Pretoria, South Africa PhD 2002

y daily work is in managing It was the best choice for me – the real Ma team that evaluates new mining expertise the CODES guys have in projects in Africa for Kumba Iron Ore. their specialities means they challenge That includes technical and financial everything you put forward, make you viability as well as assessing country justify yourself and in so doing give you risk. I get my hands dirty out in the field extra credibility. now and then, too! I came into geology as a career when I was born in England but my family I was 14 when I realised I couldn’t do emigrated to South Africa when I was astronomy because I didn’t have high young. My Australian husband now lives enough maths marks and probably with me here in Pretoria. wouldn’t get a good job. At a youth group camp, a woman who was I came to CODES to studying geology asked me: How do you think this rock got here? do my PhD after I saw From then on I knew geology was what I was going to do. Not once have I thought an advertisement for a I chose the wrong career. When I started out, at 23 years old, there were mining places I went to where there particular project on a were no ladies’ loos. That’s changed. photocopier while I was at Rhodes University in South Africa, and I Dr Vanessa Lickfold: Head of business development for West and Central Africa, never looked back. Kumba Iron Ore.

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ADRIAN PENNEY, Melbourne Bachelor of Science with Honours 1998 ’ve been working for AMC and helping with numerous projects to IConsultants in Melbourne for three figure out ways to rescue the trapped years. My job is geotechnical engineering miners – alternative extraction ideas, – understanding the mechanical properties ground improvement techniques, blast and and excavation principles of a rock mass for vibration monitoring and vent design. mining. It was one of the most trying and interesting Typically we get involved in mining projects times of my life. I pretty much lived at the from conceptual studies through to mine site for two weeks. Like everyone I feasibility studies and implementation. We worked 14-hour days then went home, ate, also provide operational advice nationally slept and went back out. My wife was 39 and internationally on problematic mining weeks pregnant at the time as well. situations. We work across all commodities The worst part was that I knew all three and for all mining applications including trapped miners well, including Larry Knight, underground and open pit mining. I who died. I still struggle with that today. specialise in hard rock underground mining. The rescue day was one of the most The mining industry is fantastic to work confusing days of my life; after Brant Webb in but it is cyclical. One year there may and Todd Russell were rescued early in the be huge demand for anyone with skills morning everyone began celebrating – but in particular areas then markets change, Larry’s funeral was also that day. There was resulting in good jobs being harder to find. joy but within hours we were burying Larry. I was working at Beaconsfield on Anzac One memorable experience was to see a Day 2006 when the mine collapsed. I was whole community coming together for that part of the 14-person emergency response single common cause. It was heart warming team called out at the time of the rock and you’d think: “Maybe not everything is so fall. But I was quickly moved to the area bad in the world.” of my technical expertise so that I could Adrian Penney: Principal geotechnical have input into forming rescue strategies. • Adrian also has a Master of Engineering engineer, AMC Consultants, Melbourne. I worked with 50 or 60 others providing Science (Mining Geomechanics) 2011, geotechnical input to aspects of the rescue from Curtin University

Todd McGILVRAY, Melbourne Bachelor of Science with Honours 2003 work as principal exploration I was lucky with my degree; qualifications Igeologist with MMG (Minerals and Metals from CODES are very well regarded in the Group), a mid-tier company mining and minerals industry. exploring for base metals around the world. When I started looking for work I was We operate the Century Mine in competing with guys who were 10-20 years Queensland (lead, zinc and silver), the older trying to get back into the industry. Golden Grove Mine in WA (copper and zinc), CODES study put me ahead of other the Rosebery Mine (zinc, lead, silver, copper candidates. and gold) and Avebury Mine in Tasmania The degree itself is strong and broad. Other (nickel), and the Kinsevere Mine (copper) CODES graduates and I had a knowledge in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We of geology above colleagues with a similar recently gained approval to develop the qualification because we’d had extensive Dugald River Mine (lead, zinc and silver) exposure to the geology of Tasmania and in Queensland. support from industry leaders at CODES. My role is to manage exploration activities Mining as a career is rewarding but it in Queensland, NSW, the Northern Territory makes family life difficult. You have to go and WA, and involves greenfield target to remote areas to make your way in the generation through the use of geophysics, industry and the constant travelling is geochemistry and drilling, overseeing staff tough on families. in day-to-day exploration activities and A lot of geologists end up marrying administering leases. other geologists! After I graduated, work in the mining My aim is to continue in the minerals industry was hard to get and I went industry and gain more exposure to the to Queensland to work on short-term financial side of the industry and markets. exploration contracts for a year, then As a principal geologist, the next career exploration in the Northern Territory for step is an exploration manager. two years, then mining and exploration Todd McGilvray: Principal exploration geologist, at the Rosebery Mine for six years. MMG.

20 | ALUMNI NEWS | june 2013 • Issue 43 Keeping in touch Home to teachers celebrates its centenary

Philip Smith Centre has a history in teacher training: Celebrating its centenary this year, it is named for the English-born lawyer and landowner who donated funds for its establishment because of Tasmania’s “inferior and incompetent schoolmasters”.

By Aaron Smith Board of Education, believing its lack of In 1962 the Education Department decided he Philip Smith Centre is responsibility had saddled Tasmania with to establish a second teachers college at Tcelebrating its centenary this year – inferior and incompetent schoolmasters. the building, opening in February 1963 – but even though there is some dispute about He offered parliament £1000 to build a 10 years later the role of the Philip Smith the exact year of its opening. teacher training college. With an additional building as a full-time centre of teacher education and training in Tasmania ended. An important landmark in Tasmania’s £500 donated by his daughter, the Philip education and teacher training history in Smith Training Centre was finally built In 1973 the building was occupied by the the Hobart suburb of The Glebe, it opened about thirty years after his death. newly established Rosny College, pending the completion of the college’s own in February 1911 and will be remembered by From its opening in 1911 until 1948 the buildings at Rosny. It then became home generations of Tasmanian teachers. centre provided teacher training. Retired to organisations such as the Education Throughout its 102-year history it has UTAS history lecturer Professor Michael Department’s Centre for the Continuing been principally a facility to train teachers Roe is compiling its early history: Education of Teachers (CCET), Southern but also used as a venue for university “It provided basic teacher training Teachers’ Centre (STC) and the Centre for exams, university revues, a theatre methodology, as well as some academic Advanced Teaching Studies (CATS). company, many community groups and a subjects. They studied the basics of Philip Smith was almost destroyed by fire professional development training centre. educational theory, history, psychology in 1984 and in 1997 the property was put Today it is managed as a venue promoting but also very practical things like on the market. Glebe residents formed community education, by Hobart Discovery blackboard drawing, elocution, and music.” Incorporated, a non-profit organisation an organisation to buy it; Wendy and established to preserve the building. After 1948 the Hobart Teachers’ College Ken Heatley mortgaged their home to was taken over by UTAS and the Philip guarantee the loan. Philip Smith, as it is fondly called by those Smith Centre became the home of the who know it, was designed by architect “We wanted to retain public ownership and Faculty of Education throughout the Wilhelm Rudolf W Koch (1874–1952), who for it to be used for educational purposes. 1950s, offering courses to prepare student also designed the Richmond Town Hall It is run today as a viable not-for-profit teachers in infant, primary and secondary and the Children’s Hospital. It was named business and all profits are put back into after Philip Thomas Smith (1800–1880), education. maintaining the building,” said Wendy. an English-born lawyer and landowner It was also the venue for a local theatre Today Philip Smith is used regularly by who settled in Tasmania. A staunch company, the Glebe Theatre Players, more than 30 groups, including the Hobart teetotaller and generous donor to the as well as university revues and Friday Walking Club, the Hobart Film Society, church, Smith was highly critical of the night dances. church groups and training providers.

ALUMNI NEWS | June 2013 • Issue 43 | 21 Keeping in touch Glebe Theatre Players re-assemble after 60 years

By Ralph Spaulding n November last year 20 surviving Imembers of the University English Department’s Glebe Theatre Players met at the Philip Smith building on the Domain. As students in the late 1940s and early ’50s, they participated in about 25 drama productions either as actors, producers, stage managers or wardrobe and music co-ordinators. With small grants from the University Council and the support of the Professor of English (A. B. Taylor), English lecturer Joyce Eyre founded the Players in 1947 to ensure English students studying drama texts would experience practical theatre activities. At the reunion Emeritus Professor Michael Roe and Dr Ralph Spaulding provided information about the history of the Philip Smith Building and Glebe Theatre productions. Glebe Theatre Players reunion 2012: Former Players Beth McLeod, David Mattingley and Christobel Mattingley in front of the Philip Smith Hall stage. Among those attending were Dr Geoffrey Haward (BA Hons, DipEd 1960), David Mattingley (BA Hons 1951) and Kate Arms and the Man (1949) and Viola in Festival. This play celebrated Joyce Eyre’s Sainsbury (ne´e Waugh, BA 1953). Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (1950). work both as director of the Glebe Theatre Players and pioneer in the teaching of Geoffrey Haward directed Shaw’s Major Helen Hoyle is remembered also for Australian literature. Joyce died in tragic Barbara in 1947 and acted in four other productions of Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s circumstances in 1950 but the Players plays during the next two years. He Holiday and Shaw’s Saint Joan and her continued, its final productions being recalled Joyce Eyre as the driving force starring role in Wilde’s The Importance Jean Anouihl’s Antigone directed by Peter in the operation of the Players, ensuring of Being Earnest. Wilde’s play was co- Brooker (BA Hons, DipEd 1956) and Le all English students participated and produced by Drs Christine Wood (ne´e Beaux Stratagem directed by Neal Blewett. sometimes recruiting ex-servicemen and Richardson, BA Hons 1952) and Alison other ‘outsiders’ to assist productions. Hoddinott (ne´e Wright, MA 1954). Doris • The reunion was hosted by Leone Scrivener, Looking back he was amazed at the high Banks (ne´e Ingram, BSc Hons 1955) played MHum 1982, program coordinator for the production standards achieved on such the role of Miss Cecily Cardew in this Hobart Branch of the University of the Third a small, poorly equipped stage. production and enjoyed sharing memories Age and facilitated by the Philip Smith of that time with other former players. Centre, Hobart Discovery Inc. For more Kate Sainsbury, who with John Boden information about the Glebe Theatre Players produced Sidney Howard’s The Silver Cord Helen, Christine and Alison were unable and the reunion contact Beth McLeod in 1952, remembered how she and to attend the reunion but sent greetings ([email protected]) or Ralph John spent the afternoon before the and photographs of the productions. Spaulding ([email protected]). first performance painting flats for the Helen acknowledged her gratitude for production. Before that performance, the emphasis Joyce Eyre placed on they discovered somebody had replaced performance when studying drama, an the ginger ale in the cocktail shaker (an emphasis she subsequently practised important prop) with something alcoholic. as a teacher and lecturer. They drank the contents and refilled Dr Neal Blewett (BA Hons, DipEd 1955) the shaker with soft drink before the and Hugh Hadrill (BA 1950) also sent performance! apologies, together with memories from David Mattingley co-produced King Lear Neal of an amorous scene in Farquhar’s and Macbeth and played roles in five other Le Beaux Stratagem when the bed productions. Secretary of the Players in collapsed on stage. Hugh recalled playing 1947, he recalled Joyce Eyre encouraging the Duke of Cornwall in King Lear and students to select and produce plays. He incurring Professor Taylor’s wrath when he explained the special method employed to substituted the line ‘Cast the slave upon arrange the dimming of stage lights: Vacola the fire’ with ‘Chuck him on the fire’. preserving bottles were filled with acid in Apologies were also received from John which copper rods were placed, and moved Clark (MA 1956), Gwenda Webb (ne´e Cox, up and down to achieve lighting effects. BA 1951), Judy Thirkell (ne´e Rudd, BA Twelfth Night: One photograph displayed at David attended the reunion with his wife Hons, DipEd 1954), Nairn O’Rourke (ne´e the reunion was of Robert Coogan and Beth Dr Christobel Mattingley (ne´e Shepley, Scott, BA Hons 1951), Margaret Ranson McLeod in their roles as Sebastian and Viola BA Hons 1951) whom he first met during (ne´e Long, BA, DipEd 1954), Jean Freeman in the Glebe Theatre’s 1950 production of the Glebe Theatre days. Christobel played (ne´e Hopkins, BA 1951), Lois Schindler (ne´e Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, produced by two roles in 1948 – Lady Catherine Lasenby Symonds) and the Hon. Rodney Wood (LLB Helen Hoyle (ne´e Murray, BA, DipEd 1952). in Barrie’s The Admirable Crichton and Hons 1953). Other cast members at the reunion were Cordelia in Shakespeare’s King Lear. Beth One highlight of the Glebe Theatre Players’ Audrey Bowden (pianist and song arranger), McLeod (ne´e Tribolet, BA Hons, Dip Ed activities was Dr Jane Pitman’s (BA Hons Graham Clements (BA 1955), Nigel Heyward 1952) produced Marlowe’s Dr Faustus in 1953) production of Vance Palmer’s The (BA Hons 1951) and Keith Mackriell (BA 1950 and played the roles of Riana in Shaw’s Black Horse for the 1951 Inter-Varsity Drama Hons 1953).

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he first scholarship provided Griffith and the principal of Hobart College, scholarships to be available this year in Tto mark the centenary of Hobart High Tracey Siedler, is from the Tasman Peninsula time for the reunion of former students. School/Hobart College was presented and completed Year 12 at Hobart College. Georgina will receive $3,500 from the OHA at the Centenary Awards Evening in The scholarship follows successful Scholarship trust and UTAS pays her HECS March to Georgina Wulf-Rhodes, who fundraising by OHA to provide a lasting fees for the year, making the scholarship began a Bachelor of Science degree this worth more than $11,000. year. Georgina, pictured second from the memorial of their celebrations for their right with the chair of the Old Hobartian much-loved school. To date $115,000 of With further support sought from Old Association fundraising committee Ted Best the targeted amount of $200,000 has been Hobartians, the committee hopes to achieve AM, UTAS alumna and appeal donor Elaine received, allowing the first of two annual the full fundraising target by the end of 2013.

Ag science careers in reunion coming up his year is the 50th anniversary of Tagricultural science at UTAS. To celebrate this landmark event in the history of forestry agricultural education and research in Tasmania, the School of Agricultural Science/Tasmanian Institute of Forests - the best work places Agriculture is inviting everyone associated to a reunion and open day on Friday October 25. that nature provides Celebrations will include an opening ceremony with Accounting/commerce speakers from current and former ag science staff and graduates, TIA and UTAS, as well as short presentations, Mapping demonstrations and displays in ag science labs. Conservation There will be teaching spaces on current research, Tourism development and extension projects, and the work of Forest research postgraduate students. Human resources In addition, a dinner at the University Club on the Sandy Bay campus is planned, along with a BBQ lunch and Information technology other activities off campus on Saturday 26 October. Silviculture Head of the School of Agricultural Science Professor Resource planner Holger Meinke said alumni are welcome to contribute to the program for this event or suggest other activities. “I would also ask agricultural science alumni to pass on this invitation to others,” he said. For more information phone: So that the School can contact alumni with event 1800 FOREST or visit our website information, alumni should let the School know their www.forestrytas.com.au email address via [email protected].

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ALUMNI NEWS | June 2013 • Issue 43 | 23 Keeping in touch McGrath Space launch honours artist

of Professor McGrath’s ceramics and significantly to increasing the professional paintings made available by his wife, understanding and appreciation of the Debbie McGrath. arts as an academic research activity Professor Marie Sierra, head of the in Tasmania, across the nation and Tasmanian College of the Arts, said internationally,” she said. the launch was timed to coincide with “Vincent held a leadership position for UTAS Tasmanian Creative Arts Summer School in the north. It was Vincent’s vision and as well as the beginning of the three academic drive that not only gave substance creative schools of UTAS operating as one. to the concept of Inveresk as a cultural centre, but he was also a leader among “From January 2013, the School of Visual those who dreamed that a largely vacant and Performing Arts, the Tasmanian industrial wasteland at Inveresk could School of Art, and the Conservatorium become a thriving centre for creativity.” of Music became one school within the Faculty of Arts – the Tasmanian College Director of the Academy Gallery Malcom of the Arts,” she said. Bywaters said: “He was a highly regarded and successful artist, with work represented “Both of these events are symbolic of in all state galleries of Australia, the National Vincent’s strong belief in the arts as Gallery of Australia and several important a driver for wider cultural growth and international collections. economic development, a belief we wish “Vincent exhibited in numerous solo and he College of the Arts at to acknowledge, celebrate and continue group exhibitions and in a distinguished Inveresk has named its Academy Gallery to promote for Tasmania.” T career received several high profile public main exhibition room the McGrath Space, to She said UTAS wished to acknowledge commissions to create beautiful ceramic acknowledge the contribution of the former the significant contribution to the creative installations and murals.” head of the school, Emeritus Professor arts and the Tasmanian community by Prof. McGrath’s great friends and former Vincent McGrath, who died in 2012. Emeritus Professor McGrath. colleagues, Dr David Hamilton and The McGrath Space was launched in “In a 40-plus year period of service to Dr Terry Davies, supported Heartlands, mid-January with Heartlands, an exhibition the arts Professor McGrath contributed which was opened by Don Wing AM. Fond memories of Ena Waite College

n April former residents of Ena it existed, and comments from the 46 much humour, but it was the affection with IWaite College came from all over attending the reunion reflected the special which everyone recalled significant events Tasmania and interstate to attend a reunion family atmosphere the college provided. and the rekindling of friendships that gave at The Gorge Restaurant in Launceston. Memories of college life and participation those attending a chance to reflect on the One attendee, Libby Kolka, said many former in inter-college activities were recalled with richness of their lives at Ena Waite College. students from 1968 through to 1978 attended. Ena Waite College closed in 1979 when it merged with St John Fisher College in 1980. “Our Ena Waite reunion was a great success and much laughter could be heard throughout The Gorge Restaurant grounds; you can imagine the din 46 enthusiastic women can make!” Libby said. “Attendance was very pleasing, with several undertaking travelling from the mainland to be with us. We received several apologies.” Ena Waite College was established to provide accommodation for female students of the University of Tasmania and the former Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. It was located at 63 Goulburn Street, previously the Mayfair Guest House. The college was non-denominational but was run by the Dominican Sisters, with the most well-known principal being Sister Cyprian and later Sister Joan and the Loreto Sisters. Ena Waite reunion: Pictured are most former UTAS students who attended the recent reunion of Approximately 132 students lived and those who lived at Ena Waite College in Hobart. studied at the college over the 10 years

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community radio station, broadcasting in Indian language to the city’s Indian 2000s community. City Park Radio president Luigi Romanelli said the award, for which Ramnik was the only Tasmanian nominee, had placed the station on the national stage. “Ramnik’s award entry highlighted the experiences of people who work in the taxi industry in Launceston,” he said. “He is a talented and dedicated community radio presenter and we are proud of his achievements.” The award citation says Ramnik delivered a well-researched documentary of outstanding quality production about Catherine Studley BCA 2011. Bachelor how technology has helped improve the of Contemporary Arts graduate Catherine services of the taxi industry in Launceston. Studley has begun studies in Sydney after winning a place on the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art’s theatre production course. Catherine majored in theatre at UTAS and during her time at from a brief visit when she was toddler had the School of Visual and Performing Arts never returned – until Tasmanian Regional worked on many shows as stage manager Arts’ 2010 Visual Arts Touring Programme and director and acting in numerous included her paintings in an exhibition performances. She was also front-of-house there. She was invited to the island to manager during her second and third years conduct painting workshops, taking up at the SVPA and received the NRM North an Arts Tasmania residency at the King Award in her second year. After Catherine Island Cultural Centre in 2011. Elizabeth graduated she won the 2012 Country Club created a series of paintings inspired by King Island’s landscape and its history and of Tasmania CentrStage Award, leading her Bronilyn Smith BA Hons 2010. On her to work as associate lecturer in theatre, do after a successful exhibition in April 2012 2012 travels in Italy, Tasmanian writer at Red Chapel Art in Sandy Bay she painted set design and production for the Terminus and photographer Bronilyn Smith visited production in 2012 and to direct the School’s more works for a second exhibition – on fellow alumnus Phillip K Cowie (BA King Island. To see her King Island Gothic graduate show, In the Company of Coward. 1958) at his home at Monforte San Catherine won her place through a process paintings, visit her website: Giorgio, a perpendicular town clinging to www.tasmaniangothic.com. of interviews and constructing model stage a volcanic hillside in Sicily. Originally from sets from a pool of nearly 50 applicants; 14 Beaconsfield, Professor Cowie is a research Todd Henderson BEnvDes 1998, students nationwide were offered a place. scholar. Retired from Messina University, Cowie is a four-decade-plus resident of Italy and a world authority on Giuseppe Garibaldi. Bronilyn made contact after reading about him in Alumni News of December 2011; also, she was a first-year Launceston High School pupil in PK Cowie’s early teaching career. Their meeting consisted of a long Sicilian Sunday lunch prepared with flair by Cowie and a late afternoon personal tour, led by the knowledgeable “Australiano professore”. Bronilyn says it was a culturally enriching experience in a country overflowing with archaeological treasures. Prof. Cowie has an honorary doctorate from the University of Turin. Elizabeth Barsham BA 2007. Elizabeth is an artist working in oil paints and BArch Hons 2001. Launceston architect Ramnik Singh Walia BA 2003, MJMC exhibiting regularly in Hobart. She has a 2011. Tasmanian broadcaster Ramnik Singh Todd Henderson has become the third deep interest in Tasmanian history, has consecutive northern Tasmanian winner Walia was named best youth broadcaster written and illustrated two books of local of the year at the National Ethnic and of the Property Council’s Tasmanian Future history and transcribed and edited various Leader of the Year. Todd said his business Multicultural Council’s 2012 conference in family memoirs. Elizabeth was born on Adelaide. Ramnik has worked for two years partner at Cumulus Studio, Peter Walker King Island and majored in German and (also a UTAS architecture graduate), at City Park Radio, Launceston’s volunteer computer science in her degree, but apart

ALUMNI NEWS | June 2013 • Issue 43 | 25 Keeping in touch secretly nominated him for the award. in Australian Studies at Tokyo University. The two established their business with The visiting professor is appointed from offices in Hobart and Launceston 18 Australian academia each year. The chair months ago. They employ three other UTAS is jointly supported by the Australia-Japan graduates, Kylee Scott, Louise Walsh Foundation and Tokyo University. Professor and Guy Edwards. Cumulus is working Dabner is the first legal academic to be on residential and commercial projects appointed to the role and was formerly in Hobart and Launceston, including the associate professor at the Law School revamp of Launceston restaurant Holy at James Cook University. In addition to Guacamole and the refurbishment of having worked as a legal practitioner in Domain House for UTAS. Todd is also Tasmania he has also held the position tutoring in the School of Architecture and of National Tax Technical Director with was asked this year to be an examiner for international consultancy firms Ernst final-year architecture students. & Young and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.

Slott Lim BBus 1995. Slott is a dual 1990s qualified CPA and barrister-at-law. Slott 1980s Ben Duckworth BArch Hons 1998. has a law practice in Brisbane and is currently based in Singapore. His main areas of practice are taxation, migration and mediation. Slott graduated with a Bachelor of Business degree from the University of Tasmania in 1995. Thereafter, he was conferred with a Bachelor of Laws and Master of Commerce from the University of New South Wales in 2007 and 1999 respectively. Slott was admitted as a lawyer at the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 2007, and called to the Queensland Bar in 2010. He was subsequently entered into the Roll of Practitioner at the High Court of Australia in 2011. He has been a member of CPA Australia since 1998 and is proficient in languages such as English, Mandarin, Hokkien and Cantonese. Aside from having volunteered as a counsel at a community Architect Ben Duckworth has moved legal centre, he has been a corporate Peter Byers BSc Hons 1983, PhD 1987. from Herzog & de Meuron in Switzerland adviser and teaching academic in the Peter has been appointed pro-vice- to Hassell as a principal, based in its areas of law and commerce. chancellor (education) at Liverpool John Melbourne studio. Ben has impressive Moores University in the UK. At UTAS design credentials, having worked with Professor Byers majored in chemistry some of the world’s most creative and and obtained an honours degree in respected international design practices organogold chemistry and a PhD for over the past 15 years. After studying, his work in the area of high oxidation Ben worked in Hobart and Sydney before state organopalladium chemistry being awarded the RAIA PolyflorT ravelling (1987). After leaving Tasmania he joined Scholarship in 2003 and basing himself Bristol University where he conducted in Europe. During his five years with research in the field of cluster chemistry Herzog & de Meuron, Ben was involved (1988-1990), before moving to Sheffield in projects ranging in scale from single University to work in the area of Fischer- spaces to master plans for 20,000 people Tropsch chemistry (1990-1991). In 1992 he – and across various sectors including was appointed lecturer in the School of residential, sport, culture and education. Chemistry at Birmingham University. He Ben led the extension and expansion of was promoted to senior lecturer in 1999, the Tate Modern, Lords Cricket Ground to associate professor in chemistry in Master Plan and the Blavatnik School of 2004, and then professor in the School of Government at the University of Oxford in Chemistry (2010). In 2008, he was appointed the UK. He was also project director for the deputy pro-vice-chancellor for teaching, Kolkata Museum of Modern Art (KMOMA) learning and quality, with portfolio in India. Hassell and Herzog & de Meuron Justin Dabner BComm, LLBHons, responsibilities for both quality assurance are currently collaborating on a shortlisted 1984, PhD 1995. A Law School graduate and quality enhancement. In 2006 Professor proposal for the Flinders Street Station and former senior lecturer at the UTAS Byers completed an MBA in Higher International Design Competition. Law School from 1986 until 1994, Justin Education Management at the University Dabner is currently the visiting professor of London (Institute of Education).

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vents at Domain House, Ethe Sandy Bay campus and at the Australian Consulate in New York attracted many UTAS alumni. An art exhibition entitled Before and After held in the original UTAS site at Domain House in March was especially fascinating to UTAS alumni of a certain vintage. More than 100 alumni and invited guests listened to Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Rathjen talk about UTAS progress and plans to ‘reclaim the Domain’ as they sat in the old Electrical Engineering lecture theatre, which is now the substantially refurbished School of Nursing & Midwifery. Unify Trivia Night for alumni under 35 years old was popular, as quiz host Gavin Baskerville from Ta-Daa! Professional Entertainment took guests on a trivia tour, with great prizes, finger food and drink and networking. And 42 guests attended a UTAS Alumni cocktail party hosted by the UTAS Chancellor, the Hon. Michael Field AC, and Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Rathjen at the Australian Consulate in New York. Before and after: Many older alumni toured Domain House then tried out the refurbished lecture theatre in the new School of Nursing and Midwifery building.

In the Big Apple: Attending the UTAS cocktail party in New York are alumni Prabin Bhattari, Bishwa Prasad Paneru and assistant secretary Unify team Unify winning team of UTAS Foundation USA Marisue Taube. Dates for your diary 24 July: Alumni function, Brisbane 19 October, noon: Alumni lunch UTAS Bleeding Heart, Brisbane, 5.30pm Blundstone Arena, Bellerive 25 July: Alumni function, Melbourne 25 October: Agricultural Science Alumni RACV Club, Melbourne, 5.30pm 50-year reunion Reunion and Open Day, UTAS Sandy Bay campus Committee vacancy 12 August, 7pm: The Jury’s Out! 27 October: Alumni function Public Debate 1 Graduates of the faculties and Canberra, 6pm Annexe Theatre, UTAS Inveresk campus, institutes of UTAS are represented on the Alumni Committee. Did Launceston 21 November: Christ College alumni reunion you graduate from the Faculty of 23 August: John Fisher College Pepperz Restaurant, UTAS Sandy Bay campus Health Science? Would you like 50-year reunion to assist the committee in guiding 29 November, 12.30pm: 50+ Club lunch the engagement of our valued Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, Hobart, University Club, UTAS Sandy Bay campus worldwide UTAS alumni networks? 6.30pm 2 September, 7pm: The Jury’s Out! Almost all event invitations are emailed so If you are interested in applying please contact Melanie Roome, Public Debate 2 please ensure we have your current email address and city. For more information or Acting Director UTAS Advancement, Annexe Theatre, UTAS Inveresk campus, to book and pay for events see www.alumni. at [email protected] Launceston tas.edu.au and go to Events calendar. or phone (03) 6226 2842 for further information. 12 October: Engineering reunion Email [email protected] or (1972 - 1979 alumni) Ph. +6 3 6324 3052 for enquiries and email/ University Club, UTAS Sandy Bay campus address updates. ALUMNI NEWS | June 2013 • Issue 43 | 27 Alumni events UTAS scholarship winners celebrated

ach year the University of ETasmania Foundation holds dinners in Hobart and Launceston to celebrate the outstanding achievement of the young students to whom scholarships have been awarded. Held this year at the Grand Chancellor in Launceston and Wrest Point in Hobart, the dinners also acknowledged the generous support of donors to the University Foundation. The occasion is one of achievement, excitement and a little bit of glamour, as the formally dressed mix of young Medical science achievement: Bronwyn Achievers in science: Ashlie Burnett (Lois and people who have just started university Smithies (Morrell Family Trust Scholarship in Medical Research) and Menzies Institute senior Alan Dann Scholarship in Science); Grace Giles and older students well into tertiary study research fellow Dr Joy Rathjen. (Broadreach Holdings Scholarship in Science). are acclaimed.

Law leaders: Rhiannon Fletcher (Tasmania University Scholarship); Aaron UTAS scholarship achievers: Jonathan Hennessy (Nick Martin Tasmania Moss (the Order of Australia Association Foundation Scholarship); Law University Scholarship in Surveying and Spatial Sciences); Ken Wong School Associate Professor Rick Snell; Charlotte Hunn (Sandy Duncanson (Tasmania University Scholarship); Josiah Sullivan (Ball and Chain Grill Social Justice Bursary). Tasmania University Scholarship).

Australian Maritime College achievers: Liam Greene (Outstanding Achiever Scholarship); Emilio Roberts (Excellent Achiever Scholarship); Alexander Cliiford (Subsea 7 Scholarship); James Fisher (BAE Systems Scholarship); Alex Ruskin (Tasmania University Scholarship); Tobias Pearce (Outstanding Achiever Scholarship); Mark Bennet (Club Marine Scholarship, Outstanding Achiever Scholarship); Sean McDonough (Excellent Achiever Scholarship); Nathan Wallace (Outstanding Achiever Scholarship).

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In honour of Crown Princess Mary of Denmark: Princess Mary’s sister, Jane Stephens; Helle Mouritzen (2013 Crown Princess Mary Scholarship); Simon Knudson (2013 Crown Princess Mary Scholarship); Wayne Goninon, UTAS community engagement and partnerships; Paula Goninon; Craig Stephens; Katrine Nannestad (2013 Crown Princess Mary Scholarship); Vice-Consul, Royal Danish Consulate of Tasmania Judy Benson; Princess Mary’s sister, Patricia Bailey; Scott Bailey.

Saving the Tassie devil: Tasmanian Devil Appeal manager Rebecca Cuthill; Elise Dewar (Jon English Encore Theatre Tasmanian Devil Honours Scholarship); Tasmanian Devil Appeal board member Brian Hartnett; Jacqui Hartnett.

Launceston

Launceston Foundation dinner: Leticia Saunders (Tasmania Honours Hobart Foundation dinner: Caitlin Davie (Tasmania National Undergraduate Scholarship); UTAS Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Rathjen; Courtney Scholarship); Kate Talsma (Tasmania Honours Scholarship). Brusamarello (Tasmania University Scholarship).

ALUMNI NEWS | June 2013 • Issue 43 | 29 Books Tassie short stories race off the shelves asmanian literature, TProfessor Ralph Crane and Dr Danielle Wood insist, has always punched above its weight. The first Australian play to be performed, the first collection of Australian Stories from Tasmania essays and the first Australian novelDeep South all emanated from Tasmania. A. J. O. Now Tasmanian literature has achieved another milestone with the publication Carmel Bird Ralph Crane is the author or of Deep South: Stories from Tasmania A. J. O. Roy Bridges editor of sixteen academic (Text, 2012), the first anthology of Carmel Bird Tasmanian short fiction. Marcus Clarke books. He lives in Hobart and Edited by Crane and Wood, both UTAS Roy Bridges is Professor of English at the Geoffrey Dean alumni, and spanning the period from 1869 Deep Marcus Clarke University of Tasmania. to 2012, the anthology includes fiction by Adrienne Eberhard some of the island state’s best-known and Geoffrey Dean Henry J. Goldsmith loved writers. Danielle Wood is the author of Adrienne Eberhard The first collection of Tasmanian short fiction—Despite the gloom currently surrounding James Leakey a novel, The Alphabet of Light twenty-four of the finest stories about the islandthe Australian state, publishing industry, Deep Henry J. Goldsmith Tahune Linah and Dark (2003; winner of the from the nineteenth century to the present.South has raced off the bookshelves and James Leakey James McQueen Australian / Vogel and Dobbie went into a second (paperback) edition in April, only seven months after it was Tahune Linah Hal Porter awards); a collection of short launched late last year. James McQueen stories, Rosie Little’s Cautionary Philomena van Rijswijk Deep South includes work by Marcus Hal Porter Tales for Girls (2006); and a Clarke, whose famed novel For the Term Barney Roberts of His Natural Life (1874) is probably the Philomena van Rijswijk non-fiction work, Housewife best-known Tasmanian novel, Roy Bridges, Margaret Scott Superstar: The Very Best of Tasmania’s most prolific writer with 36 Barney Roberts Nicholas Shakespeare Marjorie Bligh (2011). She lives novels and numerous short stories to his Margaret Scott name, and the iconic poet and novelist H. W. Stewart in Hobart and teaches at the Margaret Scott. It also features work from Nicholas Shakespeare Tasma University of Tasmania. James McQueen, Hal Porter, Carmel Bird, H. W. Stewart Danielle Wood, and rising Tasmanian Theresa Tasmania Edited by Ralph Crane literary star Rohan Wilson. Tasma Rachael Treasure & Danielle Wood In editing Deep South, Crane and Wood Theresa Tasmania Price Warung were delighted to make the discovery of a Tasmanian grandmother-granddaughter Rachael Treasure A. Werner pair. Juxtaposed at the end of the anthology Price Warung are stories by contemporary best-selling Rohan Wilson author Rachael Treasure and her witty A. Werner Joan Wise grandmother Joan Wise, a relatively little- Rohan Wilson known author who published the superb Danielle Wood Joan Wise ISBN 978-1-922079-02-2 tale ‘The Conquest of Emmie’ in a 1950s South edition of The Bulletin. Danielle Wood

Cover design by WH Chong. 9 781922 079022 Cover image by Olegas Truchanas: Three Truchanas children at Lake Pedder (1971). Edited by Ralph Crane & Danielle Wood Used with the kind permission of Melva Truchanas. textpublishing.com.au

Crane-Wood_DeepSouth-jacket.indd 1 “We are thrilled that these tales, many found in 6/07/12 1:53 PM long-forgotten back issues of magazines and journals, will now be read and appreciated once again,” said Prof. Crane. ‘I’m sure many alumni will Deep South: Professor Ralph Crane and Dr Danielle Wood from the School of English, enjoy revisiting Tasmania through these stories.” Journalism and European Languages edited the first anthology of Tasmanian short fiction. • Deep South was published by Text Publishing in 2012. The cover image by Olegas textpublishing.com.au Truchanas, Three Truchanas children at Lake Pedder (1971), is used with the kind permission of Melva Truchanas.

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GriffithREVIEW Edition 39: Tasmania: Island of Treasures psychology to education. It was a long Tasmania – The tipping point? journey via universities in Australia, the UK, Canada and Hong Kong. His experiences were variously traumatic, bizarre, hilarious and rewarding, with the SOLO Taxonomy and constructive alignment as outcomes. His experiences tell us what universities were once like, how they came to be what they are today, with a hopeful stab at what they might be like in future. He is critical of the modern corporate university but denies that, once upon a time, universities exemplified a Golden Age of scholarship …. Far from it. By Pam Sharpe, UTAS School of History and Classics, and Sue Atkinson, 40 Degrees Pathfinders inT asmanian botany: South, 2012. an honour roll of people connected through naming Tasmanian plants Tasmania is well known for its built heritage and its many beautiful Georgian and Victorian buildings; whole villages are straight from the pages of history. Accompanying this built heritage is a rich collection of beautiful and significant artefacts. The state collection is on display in the larger population centres and in a fascinating array of smaller museums curated by an army of dedicated volunteers. This beautifully produced book Co-edited by Julianne Schultz and Natasha with 133 museums and history groups Cica, Inglis Clark Centre for Civil Society, celebrates our physical links with the past UTAS, Griffith University/Text Publishing, and acknowledges the people, amateur and 2013. professional, who ensure the survival of our Griffith REVIEW is Australia’s leading physical cultural heritage. journal of ideas and analysis. This issue presents new writing exploring the Changing Universities: A memoir theme of Tasmania. A collaboration with about academe in different places UTAS, this edition will generate debate, and times conversations and strategic approaches to the challenges and opportunities facing the State. It comprises a robust collection of original commentary, memoir, reportage and fiction from award-winning authors, academics and talented newcomers – including Natasha Cica, Peter Timms, Favel By Dick Burns, Tasmanian Arboretum INC, Parrett, Cassandra Pybus, Rodney Croome, 2012. Jonathan West, Matthew Evans, Scott It is well known that Banksia is named for Rankin, Kathy Marks and David Walsh. Joseph Banks. But what about Boronia and They paint a portrait of an island in a state Grevillia? Who were these plants named of transition, and a microcosm for a major for and what was their life story? This book part of Australia. profiles over 30 of the botanists, collectors, artists and supporters involved in the nomenclature of Tasmanian plants. Among them are Robert Brown, Allan Cunningham, Leonard Rodway, Charles Darwin, Labillardiere and Riche, William Bueolow Gould, Francesco Correia and, of course, father and son Hooker. Because of the early close ties with NSW, that colony’s early history is touched on. As well, the book includes a guide to botanical nomenclature, By John Biggs, Strictly Literary, 2013. relevant history and two indexes. Fully UTAS alumnus John Biggs is a retired illustrated and written for the curious non- Order these books online academic, his last post being at the botanist, Pathfinders reveals the stories, from the Co-op Bookshop University of Hong Kong. In this book he interactions and commitment of a range of www.coop.com.au examines how universities have changed people involved in Tasmanian botany. over the past 60 years and whether they Free postage within Australia function any better now than before. From student days Biggs wanted to apply

ALUMNI NEWS | June 2013 • Issue 43 | 31 Alumni and friends 2012 Annual Appeal thanks 2012 Annual Appeal Dr Janet Dunbabin Mr Anthony Jones Mrs Annabel Richards Mrs Helen Dunford Dr Fiona Joske Mr Simon Robertson donors: Mr Athol Eiszele Dr Edmund Kazmierczak Mrs Margaret Rodgers Anonymous – 71 Ms Jacqueline Elliott Dr Herbert Keil Mr Leslie Rollins Mr Adam Abdul-Rahman Mr Saul Eslake Mr Nigel Kidd Mrs Helen Rolton Mrs Lesley Abell Mr John Evans Dr Colin Kleinig Ms Melanie Roome Datuk Verus Aman Sham Ms Rhonda Ewart Mrs Shin Ching Ko Woo MBE Lady Heather Rossiter Dr Gregory Austin Associate Professor Mrs Ellen Langdon Ms Marion Sargent Mrs Janet Avery Roderick Ewins Mr Randall Langdon Dr David Seymour Ms Diane Baillie Reverend Dr Robert Faser Emeritus Professor Mr Robert Sharman Mrs Philippa Baird Mr Michael Fenton Francis Larkins Associate Professor Mrs Claire Bamford Dr Anthony Fist Professor Alex Lazenby AO Robert Shellie Mr Damian Banks Dr Kerry Fowler Mr Anthony Le Clerc Captain Ravindra Singh Dr Maxwell Banks AM Mrs Jillian Fox Ms Kerry Le Rossignol Senator The Hon. Lisa Singh Mrs Hilda Bardenhagen Emeritus Professor Dr Andrew Lichon Miss Elizabeth Smith Miss Karenne Barnes Maurice French AM Ms Caroline Long Miss June Smith Mrs Alison Bates Ms Nina Fudala Mr Gerald Loughran Associate Professor Rick Snell Mr Mark Bennett Ms Carol Fuller Mrs Rowena MacKean Mrs Heather Spicer Mr David Berechree Mr Richard Gardner Dr Costan Magnussen Dr Karen Stack Ms Frances Bevan Mrs Noreen Gibson Mrs Cathie Makin Mr Ralph Straton Dr Peter Binks Dr Timothy Gibson Mr David Matthews Dr Frederick Sutherland Mr Rodney Glover Mrs Margaret Binns Dr Christobel Mattingley AM Mr C.H. Tan Mr Kris Birrer Mr Peter Goddard Mr Malcolm McAully Miss Chia Tan Dr Simon Bower Mr York Lin Goh Associate Professor Ms Clare Thompson Dr Matthew Brain Mr Peter Gorman Frederick McDonald Mr Mark Tiitinen Mrs Suzanne Breen Mr Richard Gould Mr Dugald McDougall in memory Dr Graeme Tonks of Mrs Cynthia McDougall Professor John Bremner Ms Helen Gourley Mr Michael Townley Emeritus Professor Ian McDougall Mr Kenneth Briggs Mrs Teresa Grabek Dr Ashley Townsend Mr David McEwan Miss Kay Britcliffe Mrs Melanie Green Dr Paul Tucker Mrs Betty McKenzie-Tubb Dr Marguerite Broadby Mr Richard Green Dr Peter Tucker Mrs Judith McKernan Mrs Edna Brock Mr Colin Grey Mrs Cheryl Turner Mr Peter Griffin Associate Professor Ms Anne Brown Andrew McNeill Mr Christopher Vassall Reverend Hugh Hadrill Mr Anthony Burridge Dr Jodhi Menon Mr Geoffrey Verdouw Ms Julie Hamilton Mrs Catherine Campbell Mr Richard Merry Mr Marcello Verrocchi Mr Stuart Hamilton AO Mr Roger Campbell Mr Luke Miller Mr Bernard Walker Dr John Hamilton Mr John Carey Dr Kenneth Milton Mrs Doreen Walsh Mr Murray Hanson PSM Mr Roger Carrington Dr Louise Minty Associate Professor Mr Marcus Harris Pikul Wanichapichart Mr Terence Childs OAM Mr Wayne Moore Mr Brian Hartnett Mr Glenn Ward Professor Wah Soon Chow Ms Sylvanie Morgan Mr Stewart Harvison Dr Michael Watt Dr Ning Chuang Mr Leon Morrell Dr Geoffrey Haward AM Dr Melanie Webb Dr Philip Clarke Dr John Morris Mr Brenton Head Mrs Barbara Weissflog Mrs Catherine Clarke Dr Christine Mucha Ms Paula Heald Dr Margaret Wells Mrs Mavis Clifford Mrs Robyn Nandan The Hon. Peter Heerey AM, QC Mrs Rosemary Whatley Ms Penny Cocker Dr Ian Newman Mrs Jan Hellessey Ms Claire Williams His Honour, Mr Mohd Norwawi Judge Richard Cogswell SC Mr Otto Hello Mrs Doris Wong Mr James Omond Mr David Combes Dr Kerryn Higgs Dr Derris Wood Mr Seng-Yew Ong Mr Paul Connolly Mr Raymond Hilder Mrs Roslyn Woolley Dr Cynthia Parker The Hon. William Cox AC, RFD, ED Mrs Maureen Hill Professor Wyss Yim Ms Dorothy Pearce MBE Mr Alan Crook Mrs Suzette Holmes Miss Ardelle Young Mr Colin Peters Ms Rebecca Cuthill Mrs Joan Holt Professor Cherrie Zhu Ms Robyn Phillips Ms Amal Cutler Mr Peter Horne Mrs Carolyn Pillans Mrs Ina Dallas Dr Andrew Hunn Thank you for your generous Miss Margaret Price gifts. Alumni and friends of the Mr Marcel Dayan Dr Frank Hytten Dr Louis Rae university may give online at Ms Moya Deigan Dr Robinson Jacklyn AM, PM www.utas.edu.au/foundation/ Mrs Carol Ralph Mr Geoffrey Denny Mr Struan Jacobs donate. Donations change the Mr Frederick Ralph Mrs Gladys Dodson Mrs Jane James lives of students and are tax Mr Peter Ramshaw deductible; please donate today.

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