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UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA 2018 APR ALUMNI, SUPPORTERS AND FRIENDS Diversity and Leadership / Inspirational Alumni / Mentors and Mentees TIMES THEY 04 ARE A CHANGIN Having a diverse leadership team is a powerful asset. Three local leaders discuss embracing diversity, enacting change and having the courage to challenge social norms. RIGHTING FOOTBALL’S WRONGS While diversity and equal opportunity are pillars of modern western society, sport has remained a notable laggard. 12 UC alumni are helping change that. DOES ‘HAVING IT ALL’ 20 EQUAL HAPPINESS? Although happiness is a universally shared ideal, achieving it is a different journey for each of us. So how do we measure it? Donning a mortarboard and gown for graduation day is a special milestone for any student and an important tradition that Welcome to the latest edition of Monitor, STORIES AND REGULAR FEATURES continues to this day. the magazine for University of Canberra alumni and friends. We’d love to hear your story ideas, feedback and thoughts. Contact us at: VC's Introduction: Why diversity in leadership? 02 [email protected] My Favourites: Brett and Matt Hogan 10 Publisher University of Canberra Health and Lifestyle: Growing Up 18 Contributors Marcus Butler, Tara Corcoran, A Week in the Life of: Duanne White 26 Stephanie Cossetto, Evette Deaves, Claudia Doman, Amanda Jones Alumni Events: Connecting UC 28 and Antony Perry Q&A: Kate Mason 30 Photography Adelaide Football Club, AFL Media, We Are UC 32 Chrisppicsplus, David Beach Photography, Lightbulb Studio and University of Canberra The Latest 34 image library Graduation cohort at the Canberra College of Advanced Education (1973) Design canberra.edu.au/monitor Foundry Donning a mortarboard and gown for graduation day The Canberra College of Advanced Education Pictured here is one of the first formal graduation is a special milestone for any student and an important (the precursor of the University of Canberra) presented ceremonies held in the main lecture theatre in Cover tradition that continues to this day. diplomas to 23 librarianship students in the Council Room. Building 2. It was the very first time graduates wore Foundry academic dress and received testamurs to mark The very first semblance of a graduation ceremony Following a student opinion poll, a more formal Australian Government Higher Education the completion of their studies. at the University can be traced back to 30 July, 1971. graduation ceremony was adopted in 1973. (CRICOS) Provider #00212K. UCCOR0388. CONTENTS / 1 WHY DIVERSITY IN LEADERSHIP? Vice‑Chancellor and President Professor Deep Saini considers the importance of diversity of ideas and voices in leadership teams. One of the main pillars of our for Gender Equality citation, awarded by Strategic Plan is Our People. the Workplace Gender Equality Agency. Our people — students, staff and Examples of the University’s commitment community — are the heart and soul to gender equality in the workplace of our University and we seek to be include a more generous paid parental the national leader in equity, diversity, leave scheme, increased paid partner inclusion and access in the higher leave and flexible working arrangements education sector. to accommodate family commitments. The University is also an inaugural Last year, we also released the inaugural member of the SAGE Athena SWAN Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pilot program which aims to tackle equality Strategic Plan to create a comprehensive and diversity in science, technology, environment where our Indigenous citizens engineering and mathematics fields. will flourish. This initiative demonstrates that the University is looking beyond One of 2017’s success stories for gender providing high‑quality education and equity in Australia was the creation research opportunities — we also focus our and success of the women’s Australian attention on creating positive impact on Football League (AFLW). University of big, complex societal problems through Canberra alumna Bec Goddard led the constructive, planned and focused action. Adelaide Crows women’s team to the premiership flag in the inaugural AFL At UC, we understand the value of Women’s season. Goddard, along with different backgrounds, ethnicity, gender Adelaide Football Club Chief Executive and/or religion within leadership teams and and alumnus Andrew Fagan and Keith our first feature of this issue highlights the Lyons, a Teaching and Learning Fellow benefits of an inclusive team. We also hear at the University, discusses the history of from some local leaders about the value women in sport and the meaningfulness they place on diversity and the work they of the AFLW. are doing to achieve greater diversity in the Canberra community, particularly for University of Canberra alumna people with a disability and people from Kate Mason, currently the Chief culturally diverse backgrounds. Transformation Officer at Coca‑Cola Amatil, also embodies what good The 50/50 by 2030 Foundation, based leadership is all about, after breaking at the University of Canberra’s Institute some glass ceilings in the corporate for Governance and Policy Analysis, world. Kate was recently awarded with is focusing on greater gender equality the University’s Alumni Excellence Award in leadership roles. Virginia Haussegger, in Business, Government and Law for Director of the Foundation, discusses her impressive professional career and the ambitions of the initiative and the inspiring philanthropic work. Read about overarching aim of impacting on social, Kate’s journey and hear her thoughts on cultural and organisational norms. female leadership in this issue’s Q&A. The University itself has established I hope you enjoy this issue of Monitor a reputation for its commitment and reflect on the actions and steps that to gender equality, consistently you can take to encourage diversity and achieving an Employer of Choice inclusion in your professional space. 2 / INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION / 3 TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN’ Having a diverse leadership team is a powerful asset. Three local leaders discuss embracing diversity, enacting change and having the courage to challenge social norms. DIVERSITY IN LEADERSHIP STORY: STEPHANIE COSSETTO 4 / TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN’ TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN’ / 5 voices into the mix. Specifically, they “ Generally, when we talk about diversity Australia’s unique history has helped shape it into one of the most have found that inclusive teams are more culturally diverse nations in the world. An estimated one in four likely to be highly effective, innovative in the workplace, we’re referring to and more likely to provide excellent gender, disability, and ethnicity.” people living here are born overseas, with more than 300 ancestries customer service. represented in our population. “Generally, when we talk about diversity in the workplace, we’re referring to gender, disability, and ethnicity,” Yet when we look at the diversity of She says workplaces have a dominant “If women are soft and nice in the Professor Edwards says. leadership in Australia, we are faced with culture with the white, Anglo‑Saxon workplace, they’re not considered good “Nowadays, it is moving into other areas a grim reality in the lack of multicultural male form of leadership being the leaders or if they come across like a man like religion as well as gender identification. character. According to research by most prevalent. they are labelled as being aggressive. Diversity Council Australia, those of They can’t win. Why can’t they win? “There’s a lot of material in terms of the “Traditionally, that’s been a very narrow Anglo‑Celtic descent reign supreme in The model is too narrow. If you modify business case for diversity among leaders. model which people have defined makes corporate Australia, a theme that extends that model and allow for difference or Many firms do better when they have a good leader — if they look like and to media and higher education circles diversity in leadership style, then you more diverse boards and leadership act as an Anglo‑Saxon male would, across the country. can accept all sorts of types can make because of the differences of view; then that’s been taken as a good thing,” good leaders.” but if it’s not handled well, that diversity University of Canberra Emeritus Professor Edwards says. can lead to confusion and bad decisions. Professor Meredith Edwards is an expert There has been a greater push for “We have an existing unconscious bias Basically, the argument is the more voices in the public sector and co‑authored diversity among our leaders and the towards that type of leadership which you have, the more factors are considered the report Not yet 50/50: Barriers to Diversity Council Australia research shows has become a double bind for women. in decision‑making which makes for a the progress of senior women in the businesses benefit by incorporating more better outcome.” Australian public service. LOCAL LEADERS But what does diversity in leadership mean? Monitor spoke to some Canberra‑based community leaders on what they think about the importance of Sue Salthouse is passionate about leadership training for women with disabilities. a diverse leadership. At the forefront of the move for greater diversity among leaders is In the ACT alone there are more than “At the moment, we have many people University of Canberra Council member, 32,000 women living with a disability, with disabilities who are highly qualified former Canberra Citizen of the Year and making up eight per cent of the and most working just within the disability advocate Sue Salthouse. entire population. Yet these women are disability sector,” Ms Salthouse says. vastly underrepresented in leadership “What I am trying to do is make sure that Describing her introduction to the roles and are often the subjects of abuse there is positive discrimination across all disability sector as an “arrival by surprise”, and discrimination. Ms Salthouse’s passion sectors to recognise their abilities and Ms Salthouse became a paraplegic in 1995 lies in leadership training for women employ them.

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