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52429 Bulletin Sep 03 LA TROBE UNIVERSITY SEPTEMBER 2003 Bulletin CLIVE JAMES FINANCE Poetry From Iraq matters with hope LA TROBE UNIVERSITY NEWS Bulletin IN THIS ISSUE Restoring Iraq’s Restoring Iraq’s financial infrastructure 2 Tough bacteria and discriminating bees 3 Recognising Clive James 4 financial infrastructure Speak of languages – but be quick! 5 he Head of La Trobe La Trobe Law goes regional 6 T University’s Department of Economics Water management research in India 6 and Finance, Professor Imad Moosa, is hopeful that Research in Action Iraq will regain its banking and financial infrastructure Bee patient: application of vision research 7 and commercial stability. Coaching to win the game of life 8 Professor Moosa spent Collar that dollar: foreign exchange from early May to mid-July hedging 9 working in Baghdad, Kuwait and Washington as Fragile X may cause more problems 10 an adviser to the US Treasury and a member of a team of economists La Trobe heads Asian studies assembled to rebuild Iraq’s associations 11 financial sector. Books: Plants and their chemicals 12 In Baghdad he stayed in For love of matter 13 the Presidential Palace on the banks of the Tigris River Cyclops – with an eye to today 14 where the Coalition Republican Ned is a possibility 14 Provisional Authority (CPA) for Iraq had its Healthcare honour for Stephen Duckett 15 headquarters. AIDS in South Africa: a message of hope 16 ‘Our job was to revive the Central Bank of Iraq and other financial institutions which had ceased operation by the end of the fighting,’ Professor Moosa said. Professor Moosa negotiated with the Central Bank of Kuwait and the Arab ‘We had to restore the physical as well Cover: Clive James delivers the Planning Institute (Kuwait) for training annual La Trobe University – as the financial structures as the major Australian Book Review lecture programs for bank officials. He wrote 14 central bank building was destroyed by at the Mildura campus recently, papers for the CPA regarding ways of see story page 4. fire, while another building was flooded.’ restoring the financial sector. Working from one of the bank’s training One included options for a new buildings, Professor Moosa and his currency, discussing whether it should colleagues appointed new local staff, have fixed or flexible exchange rates. CPA including an Iraqi as Acting Governor and Head, Paul Bremmer, announced recently started a minimal level of banking that a new Iraqi currently was planned for operations, including the accounts of later in 2003. The La Trobe Bulletin is published ten times a year by the government institutions. Public Affairs Office, La Trobe University. Professor Moosa said that war, Professor Moosa: Outside and inside the Articles may be reproduced with acknowledgement. Presidential Palace in Baghdad. sanctions, tyranny and neglect had led to Photographs can be supplied. hardships for the Iraqi people – but there Enquiries and submissions to the editor, Ernest Raetz, were signs that things were improving. For La Trobe University, Victoria. 3086 Australia example, there was a free press, with 120 Tel (03) 9479 2315, Fax (03) 9479 1387 newspapers now being published. Email: [email protected] Design: Campus Graphics, 52429 ‘Above all there is brisk commercial La Trobe University. activity,’ he added. Ⅲ Printed by Vaughan Printing Pty Ltd. Website: www.latrobe.edu.au/bulletin See also: ‘Collar that dollar’, page 9 2 LA TROBE UNIVERSITY BULLETIN NEWS NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK Tough bacteria and discriminating bees he strange appetite of when exposed to air T arsenic-eating and water, it becomes bacteria – and the varied soluble and toxic to cognitive abilities of plants, animals and honey bees… humans. Mining and boring rock for Research into these drinking wells can projects recently won two expose the arsenic and young La Trobe turn it into two toxic University scientists forms: arsenate and coveted places as finalists arsenite. in this year’s ‘Fresh Science’ forum. They are Arsenate is easy and microbiologist, Dr Joanne safe to get rid of. But Santini, and vision arsenite is not, and it is scientist, Dr Adrian Dyer. this form of arsenic Dr Santini hopes can be The ‘Fresh Science’ removed by the use of forum was a highlight of arsenite-eating National Science Week bacteria on a mass held during August. scale. Dr Santini’s ‘Fresh Science’ featured group has found the sixteen of Australia's enzyme directly brightest young scientists responsible chosen from 105 for converting arsenite nominations nation-wide. to arsenate. It is now They presented their work working to identify to the public at media the same enzyme in the conferences, in schools other microbes and and at other special events hunting for other throughout Australia. Above: Dr Santini and Dr Dyer. Below: Dr Santini with members of her laboratory, from left, Steve Lade, Sarah Bydder and Heidi Macklin. proteins and genes r Santini leads a one day, fewer people on the subcontinent involved in eating arsenite. research group that is working out will get sick.’ Theoretically, she says, it is D r Dyer’s research on the significance how to use bacteria with an appetite for cheaper and safer to use bacteria to clean of bee vision deals with multi- arsenic to clean up contaminated up the environmental mess than chemical D spectral colour systems and how these wastewater on Australian and overseas methods using chlorine or hydrogen operate in varied lighting conditions. He mining sites and in drinking wells in peroxide. Arsenic occurs naturally in says bees can discriminate between far Bangladesh and West Bengal, India. rocks and in this form is harmless, but more colours than once thought, even She and her students are studying 13 various shades of blue if they take their rare bacteria that were isolated from gold time. They can also see ultraviolet colours. mines in the Northern Territory and at Possible applications of his research, Bendigo in Central Victoria. Dr Santini which was recently also published in the says her laboratory is the only one in the international science journal, Nature, range world that has isolated these bacteria. from improved greenhouse crop ‘If the iron guts of bacteria that can eat pollination, where most plastic coverings arsenic without dying could be harnessed block ultraviolet light, to the development to process this waste, less damage would of robotic vision. Ⅲ be done to the environment and hopefully, See ‘Bee prepared’, page 7 SEPTEMBER 2003 3 LA TROBE–ABR ANNUAL LECTURE RECOGNISING CLIVE JAMES La Trobe University recently what you have done – and quite often the ‘The disadvantage is that there is always person who knows what you have done has some gossip he ought to hear. Knowing sponsored a visit to Mildura by no idea of what you look like. What I did about Hodgins’s possible death sentence celebrated writer and television to get this medal with Philip Hodgins’ earlier wouldn’t have altered my name on it – this outstanding emblem of estimation of his qualities, but it would performer Clive James. recognition in a country which has so have drastically affected my appreciation spontaneously developed an outstanding of the way he brought them into action.’ James delivered the La Trobe literature – never made me famous while I James quoted excerpts from a number of University-Australian Book Review was doing it. Hodgins poems, for example ‘Question Annual Lecture on The Meaning of ‘As I poet, I spent two thirds of my Time’: Recognition, and was a guest writer at the career without even a reputation. Mildura Writers’ Festival, of which What you knew began with wonder Receiving this award, I feel like someone La Trobe is also a sponsor. The festival On your father’s farm who has run the whole race invisible and featured other well-known writers And though it wouldn’t be that good again popped into sight at the finishing line. To including Les Murray, Coral Hull, Geoff You could have gone on so easily. be recognised means to be reassured that Page, Lisa Gorton, Peter Goldsworthy, you were right to pursue a course that had And then from one of the death poems. Paul Kane, James Griffin, Diane Fahey and no immediate rewards and got in the road ‘Walking Through the Crop’, starts like a Peter Rose. of activities that had. renunciation, said James: Clive James, who has lived in Britain ‘Poetry is something I gave at least part It doesn’t matter any more since 1962, was educated at Sydney of my life to. Now, to remind me that I had The way the wheat is shivering University – where he was literary editor things easy, I have been honoured in the On such a beautiful hot day of Honi Soit and wrote for various other name of a man who gave his whole life to Late in the afternoon, in Spring. university magazines – and later at it, and his death as well. So the honour Cambridge University. Author of more ‘But it does matter, or he wouldn’t be seems disproportionate; but I suppose an than twenty books, he is particularly saying so. It’s the writerly paradox that lies honour ought to.’ recognised for his autobiographies, essays at the base of all poetry about despair.’ and literary criticism and, in Australia, is a ames praised Hodgins’ poetry. James spoke at length about Hodgkins’ regular contributor to the Australian Book J ‘Lavishly talented, Hodgins would contribution as one of Australia’s great Review (ABR), of which La Trobe is chief have been a major poet whatever the contemporary pastoral poets. ‘Les Murray sponsor. circumstances,’ he added. James said the was clearly right to salute Hodgins as a pastoral poet without equal,’ he said.
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