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The University has announced an ambitious The plan also pushes for aspects four‑year strategy committing it to action on of sustainability to be embedded in all climate change and its impacts. undergraduate curricula, as well as outlining IN BRIEF Under the Sustainability Plan 2017–2020, the University’s response to calls to divest AUSTRALIAN STUDIES released in January, the University will become from fossil fuel-intensive companies. BOOST IN LONDON carbon neutral by 2030, achieve zero net Developed in consultation with students, A new fellowship emissions from electricity by 2021, and report staff, alumni and community partners, the plan hosted by King’s annually on its sustainability impact and reflects a commitment to embed sustainability College London performance. at all levels of University operations. and the University Vice-Chancellor Professor Glyn Davis says The Spot Building (home to the Faculty of of Melbourne the plan positions the University as a leader in Business and Economics) and the Nona Lee has bolstered sustainable practice and innovation. Sports Centre are among six sites on the Parkville Australia’s presence “The Sustainability Plan reflects the campus recently fitted with solar panels. These in international consolidated efforts and collective will of the are expected to reduce the University’s carbon academia. The Joint Distinguished Fellow University community, responding to public footprint by about 850 tonnes per year. An exhibition to celebrate in Australian Studies will expand analysis expectations of the role we should play as a 150 years of art at the A world of Join of Australian politics, culture and society university in helping meet a grand challenge The Sustainability Plan can be viewed at Victorian College of the in the United Kingdom. Anti-tobacco of our age,” he says. ourcampus.unimelb.edu.au/sustainability-plan Arts and its antecedent possibility advocate Dr Bronwyn King (MB BS 1999), institutions will enable World-changing research was at the centre of an innovative University promotion the is the inaugural appointee to the role. recent graduates to enjoy that came to life in Melbourne’s city centre in November. Fourteen projects were MELBOURNE a measure of financial support during the early highlighted by the Made Possible by Melbourne campaign during a month- GIFT TO ADDRESS DOHERTY STATION 24 VOTES 1 Metro poll years of their careers. The 9 x 5 NOW exhibition, long exhibition. Dedicated installations provided prototypes, audio and visual club INEQUALITY A poll on the University’s part of the ART150 celebration, will feature more METRO demonstrations of research breakthroughs as diverse as robotic arms and organs NUMBER OF CLUBS Social inequality will be addressed as Facebook page asked than 150 works by prominent alumni at the VCA, grown outside the human body. pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/madepossible/ AFFILIATED WITH part of the largest philanthropic gift in MELBOURNE what the new Metro including 2016 Sulman Prize Winner Esther station near the Parkville THE UNIVERSITY the University’s history. The Atlantic GRATTAN STATION 81 VOTES Stewart (BFA(Hons) 2011, MACM 2014), pictured OF MELBOURNE Fellows for Social Equity program is campus should above. Proceeds from the sale of the works will METRO APPOINTMENTS STUDENT UNION: a multi-partnered initiative that will be called. fund the Art150 Alumni Fellowship. address the broad issues underpinning MELBOURNE The exhibition title is derived from the size of inequality in Pacific-region indigenous PARKVILLE STATION 831 VOTES the works on show. All will be nine-by-five inches, Allan Myers new Chancellor societies. The program is a US$50 million recalling the cigar-box lids used as canvases in the METRO One of Australia’s pre-eminent legal and business figures, Allan Myers AC QC, has 216 investment from Atlantic Philanthropies, 1889 9 by 5 Impressionism Exhibition featuring been appointed as the University’s 22nd Chancellor. He began his term on January 1. NUMBER OF CLUB the US-based philanthropic organisation MELBOURNE National Gallery of Victoria Art School alumni. Mr Myers (BA 1969, LLB(Hons) 1970, LLD 2012) replaced Ms Elizabeth Alexander founded by entrepreneur Chuck Feeney. MEMBERS (APPROX): UNIVERSITY STATION 1208 VOTES 6 AM (BCom 1964), who stepped down after six years in the position. Starting this year, up to 25 fellowships 9 x 5 NOW will be held in the Margaret Lawrence METRO Qantas Ltd Chairman Mr Leigh CliffordAO (BE 1968, MEngSc 1971) has replaced will be awarded each year, with the Gallery in June. art150.unimelb.edu.au Mr Myers as Chair of Believe – the Campaign for the University of Melbourne. 18,000 University one of several partners Mr Clifford had served as Deputy Chair since 2013 and together with his family MOST UNUSUAL committed to developing 500 social endowed the Clifford Chair in Neural Engineering, a major CLUB: change agents, influential leaders and research collaboration investigating neurological disorders. FRIENDS OF innovative thinkers. ARCHITECTURE Mr Martyn Myer AO, whose generosity has contributed UNNATURAL to the construction of the new Melbourne Conservatorium LLAMAS (FOUL), BUILDING NAMED Station returns to of Music, will continue as Deputy Chair. He will be joined by A BAND OF MONTY AFTER PROFESSOR Ms Jane Hansen, who in 2015 established The Hansen Trust PYTHON LOVERS. The late Professor Peter Hall was traditional hues to support the history discipline. honoured in December by having Forensic analysts from the University have Believe – the Campaign for the University of Melbourne his name attached to the School of worked to uncover the original colours used announced in February it had raised $628 million for the Mathematics and Statistics Building. on Flinders Street Station’s iconic façade. University and engaged almost 63,000 alumni. Professor Hall – a leading authority The current building – which dates back It is the largest philanthropic initiative in Australian in non-parametric statistics – was to 1910 – will return to its original colour history and supports the University’s teaching, world-renowned for his contribution scheme as part of a $100 million upgrade. research and engagement goals. to statistics and probability theory. 6 LAW LAW 7 A day in court unimelb.edu.au/3010 2017 ISSUE 1,

ack in his day, the defendant had a He was wearing a Bluetooth earpiece, but its battery Justice for all: November 2012, he is in charge of 105 sitting and It’s the ‘engine room’ of the familiarity with tribunals of a different was dying and he could barely hear. So he pulled over An artist’s 17 reserve magistrates, four deputy chief magistrates, sort. In five seasons in the old VFL, at the first opportunity, switched off the radio and impression of more than 20 assorted co-ordinating magistrates, judicial system. Thousands of the big footballer had thrown a punch engine, removed the earpiece, took his phone from proceedings in judicial registrars and Drug Court magistrates – or three and missed 30 games through its pouch, took the call and quickly disconnected. the Melbourne and, by far, the state’s busiest court. people – victims, defendants, suspension. He wasn’t fond of rule- It all took 46 seconds and he has the records to prove it. Magistrates’ The Magistrates’ Court is “the engine room” of our keepers either, missing four of those Only then did he notice the sergeant tapping on his Court (below). court system, according to Lesley Fleming (BA 1981, witnesses and lawyers – pass matches for abusing the umpire. window. About 90 per LLB 1985), a magistrate in the Children’s Court. BNow 78, and a self-funded retiree, he finds himself The matter has already been heard by a judicial cent of cases “We deal with over 90 per cent of the cases that come through Victoria’s Magistrates’ in Court 11 of the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court, in registrar (a court member with delegated judicial that go to court before Victorian courts,” she says, estimating that more furious disagreement with a traffic policeman over a functions), who found him guilty and ordered a $200 in Victoria are than a million people – offenders, prosecutors, witnesses Courts every day, all seeking penalty for using his mobile phone while driving. payment into the Court Fund. But the defendant was heard by a and students – pass through its doors every year. In the officer’s version, he was spotted talking on the entitled to seek a review of the decision by submitting magistrate. As a consequence, she says, the court has “an justice. Gary Tippet takes a phone while in heavy traffic. Pulled over, he allegedly an affidavit – which is why he’s in the witness box opportunity and an obligation to make that experience admitted: “You got me. I was talking to my wife, she’s before Victoria’s most senior magistrate. for court users one that is just, efficient and without seat in the public gallery. in hospital.” However apparently minor, it is significant to the undue delay”. Nonsense, the big bloke tells Chief Magistrate accused and demands proper consideration. Today Volume is an issue, with huge pressure on Peter Lauritsen. His version is very different, a lot longer the Chief Magistrate is sitting in Court 11 and like all magistrates to move through the daily lists in a timely and much more complicated. magistrates hears whatever pops up. way, Fleming adds. Greatly condensed, it goes like this: While on his way The increasing administrative duties of Lauritsen points out that for most matters the to visit his gravely ill wife in hospital, his phone rang. his position mean he does not sit in court Magistrates’ Court is the first point of entry into the as often as he’d like. He makes time to court system. “If you consider the system as a pyramid, ensure he does sit. the County and Supreme courts are at the apex, and Peter Lauritsen (BA 1973, LLB 1974) the bulk of the rest of the structure is the Magistrates’ presides over Victoria’s 11 metropolitan Court.” and 42 regional Magistrates’ Courts. After beginning his secondary education in schools Appointed Chief Magistrate in in England and Germany, where his father was posted

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ILLUSTRATION: FAY PLAMKA 8 LAW LAW 9 unimelb.edu.au/3010 2017 ISSUE 1, FROM PAGE 7 LAW SCHOOL CELEBRATES 160TH as an Army electrical engineer, Lauritsen completed his matriculation in Melbourne. He entered Melbourne Law School in 1969, though geology had been a consideration. Verdict of history “I took the view that I’d do better doing law than I would in geology, which is pretty much an up-and-down career, depending on the fortunes of the mining industry,” he admits. “But as I got into law I found I quite enjoyed it – the development of principle, preparing cases.” In 1975, he joined the “robust people’s practice” of John Cain (LLB 1953), who became Premier of Victoria in 1982. In 1987, Lauritsen became a magistrate in the Northern Territory, returning to Melbourne two years later. He found the magistracy suited him. “A magistrate has to be first and foremost impartial,” he says. “A magistrate in our court has to be decisive. You don’t have the luxury of putting it off to another day to think about it. You need a n its 160 years, Melbourne Law School has made a rich and lasting good judicial demeanour. You have to be patient contribution to Australian life, politics and law. Its distinguished alumni with people. You’ve got to be hard working. And, include four prime ministers (Deakin, Menzies, Holt and Gillard), two I suppose, you have to be reasonably energetic to governors-general, a Victorian premier, four chief justices, including keep coming back at it all the time.” I arguably the nation’s greatest jurist, Sir Owen Dixon, and the first woman This day in court, a couple of those qualities are to practise as a lawyer in Australia, Grata Flos Greig, pictured above. being tested. The old ruckman is a talker, offering Offering Australia’s first law course, MLS was established in 1857 by the a long, meandering version of events, constantly University of Melbourne’s founding chancellor, Sir Redmond Barry. It began digressing, and adding sound effects by tapping on in what was then the University’s main building, later known as the Old the witness box. Even the soft-spoken magistrate’s MAIN PICTURE: CHRIS HOPKINS, INSET: STEVE McKENZIE Quadrangle, and initially had no lecture rooms of its own, using instead the renowned patience is tried and three times he Mathematical and Natural Sciences rooms. gently steers the witness back to the point. A magistrate has to with a number of measures, including Saturday and drug issues she’s going to keep knocking off With the school’s creation, Victoria became one of the first places in the Eventually, after carefully weighing both versions be impartial, decisive, Sunday sittings and more audio-visual links. other people’s stuff and she’s going to keep going common law world where lawyers were required to complete part of their of the story, Lauritsen finds him guilty of the original hard working and Now, a large flat screen flickers to life. A heavy‑set, to jail. The head sentence is two-and-a-half years training at university. In 1873, a reorganisation created the Faculty of Law, charge but dismisses it under a provision in the energetic, says crew-cut, crooked-nosed man in a white T-shirt is on the top, 12 months on the bottom.” It’s a long the University’s first faculty, to oversee the school’s academic activities. Sentencing Act. Chief Magistrate appearing from prison for sentencing. Two weeks parole term, but she won’t get it unless she does Initially offering the degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD), the University from Peter Lauritsen. ago, he pleaded guilty on six counts of burglary, all the programs attached, he adds. 1881 awarded a Master of Laws (LLM) to honours graduates. Between 1883 and ownstairs in Court 9, dealing with the proceeds of crime, and breaching The woman wears a look of outrage. “That’s 1895, a two-year Bachelor of Laws (LLB) course was made available to students a procession of defendants a Community Corrections Order. massive,” she tells her lawyer. “That’s just bloody who had completed a Bachelor of Arts. passes before the bench, He gets a short lecture on the distress of victims massive.” But she cops it. In 1884, as links with the practising profession and courts grew, classes almost all seeking and an aggregate sentence of five months’ jail, topped Defence lawyer Bernie Balmer (LLB 1982) and lectures in several subjects shifted to what is now the Supreme Court in adjournments. It’s all fast, with another 12-month CCO. With 114 days already – nicknamed Bernie the Attorney – has William Street. efficient and business-like. served, that means he has another 41 days to serve in watched legions of defendants troop through Federation in 1901 transformed Australian constitutional law and MLS led None of it makes much prison. “Thank you, Your Honour,” he says. these environs in the 46 years since he began the way. The then dean, Professor William Harrison Moore, became one of impression on the skinny girl In Court 5, a red-faced woman in her late 30s is as a Clerk of Courts at the old Melbourne the country’s leading constitutional authorities, advising governments and Din black in the back row of seats. She keeps nodding less content, fidgeting unhappily under the withering Magistrates’ Court. governors-general. off, slumping drowsily to the side. She’s still clearly gaze of Magistrate John Doherty (LLB 1986). While studying at the University he also The years after the Second World War saw great expansion of MLS, under the influence of what brought her here. She is appearing in court on six matters, including won an Australian university heavyweight establishing, in the words of former dean and alumnus Sir Zelman Cowen, “Wake up,” says her lawyer from the seat in front. shoplifting and theft. She has “an extensive history” boxing title, and in 1983 set up his own practice, “new horizons for Australian law schools”. “You’re up next.” of dishonesty, but her life has been “a tale of woe” specialising in criminal law and traffic matters. Housed since 2002 in purpose-built premises in The Magistrates’ Court has never wanted for of abuse and drug issues, pleads her barrister. Abolition of suspended sentences, increasing Pelham Street, MLS is ranked No.1 in the Asia Pacific custom, but since 2013, after the murder of Jill But he knows he’s swimming against the tide. drug-related crimes and the rise in people on in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Meagher and public reverberations over bail and Doherty, with a salt-and-pepper buzz cut, neat remand have built pressure on the Magistrates’ Rankings by Subject (2017). parole, there has been “a truly massive increase” beard and call-it-a-shovel manner, peers over his Courts, he says. “It’s become more of a factory in the number of people on remand, says Lauritsen. glasses and pithily opines: “Until she gets over her now. We’ve got to a stage where I believe there’s Top: The University’s main building in the 1860s, The proportion of people on remand – in custody an obscene haste with which justice is now where MLS was established (University of awaiting trial – has doubled from 18 per cent to “The uninformed look in on the being dispensed, which then creates enormous Melbourne Archives, 1993.0036.00001) 36 per cent, and the number is growing. Magistrates pressure on judges and magistrates. and Grata Flos Greig (UMA/I/5131); now hear 27,000 bail applications each year. system and criticise judges and “The system gets criticised unnecessarily. and right, alumna and former Prime Minister “No system can realistically cope with such a The uninformed look in on the system and Julia Gillard (LLB 1986, BA 1989). huge increase over such a short time,” he says, magistrates, but don’t credit them criticise judges and magistrates, but don’t credit and one result was that the authorities them when they get it right.” In 2017, the University is celebrating 160 years of legal education. were increasingly failing to present when they get it right.” Melbourne Law School will mark this milestone with a series of flagship events. people from prison to court when It takes two: Judge Wendy Wilmoth More information: law.unimelb.edu.au/160 required. The court has responded — Lawyer Bernie Balmer (left). on mentoring – page 26 3010 10 CLOSE ENCOUNTER CLOSE ENCOUNTER 11 In search of the not -so-beautiful line unimelb.edu.au/3010 2017 ISSUE 1,

t was a modest grant of $3000 compulsion. But that compulsion can be It is that fine human complexity, the writing which will eventually blend with She has 21 works to her name, from the University of Melbourne formed and nurtured in a family home intricate shadings in all of us, that has actors, movement, direction, lighting and and her words ring out in in the 1980s that took Arts Honours that in Murray-Smith’s case was filled with informed so much of Murray-Smith’s work. design. After the first inspired authorial student Joanna Murray-Smith books, conversation and ideas. Her father “Mostly, for me, writing plays begins flourish, technicality intrudes. theatres across the world. to New York. And, once there, was the academic and editor Stephen with the question ‘what if?’ “They are really two different processes. to the theatre: “Every night, I saw Murray-Smith (BA(Hons) 1947, GDipEd “There is in that swirling mass of ideas The process of writing is accidental, Yet Joanna Murray-Smith a different play.” 1947, BEd 1961, PhD 1967). and sensitivities and anxieties that we chaotic, uncontrolled, unconscious and describes herself as a It was a formative experience, Being a writer of close human interiors, all have; in all of that, certain things will without the input of any critical faculties. Ia worldly experience, a time that reinforced she’s not shy of exploring her own. just find a moment in which they are in a “So when I sit down and write that first reluctant playwright. for Murray-Smith the simple truth that, “I’ve been interested in the psychological spotlight.” For most of us, this is the stuff draft I never look back over the previous even now, budding writers in theatre need elements that have driven me into certain of internal dialogue, of quiet reflection, but piece of dialogue and think, ‘is that any She speaks to Jonathan Green. to take their eyes and ears overseas to preoccupations. It really happened when then most of us don’t write plays. good?’. When I finish it I look at the first experience the full possibilities of their craft. I googled myself – which one should never “If you are a writer, then you are draft and try and work out – and it’s “It’s probably the most important thing do – and saw that some PhD student had sensitive to those moments of clarity or usually not hard – where is the energy you can do.” written a thesis on my work and they had illumination. Your mind will flick over in that draft, where is the vibrancy and New York would prove to be doubly written, something along the lines of, ‘… them and then backtrack, and say, ‘hang theatricality, and I preserve that.” formative for Murray-Smith, perhaps as is customary in Joanna Murray-Smith’s on, that’s a play’.” And on it goes. Draft after draft. the country’s leading contemporary plays …’ something which made me, for From there the writing takes on a Sometimes with an easy pouring out playwright, a woman with 21 plays to the first time, contemplate the idea of her name, and a constant presence on repetition, of recurring preoccupation. Australian and world stages. “It made me stop and think: if other ANOTHER OPENING, Broadway brought her career people can see those preoccupations, then ANOTHER SHOW breakthrough with the 1998 staging perhaps I should be able to see them, too.” of Honour, a play that drew Tony And so with typical application, she set Melbourne Theatre Company’s nominations in New York, then did about holding her plays to the light. production of Joanna Murray- even better in the West End. “Memory came up again and again. Smith’s latest play, Three Little Honour had found its feet in the Mothers and daughters came up again and Words, will run at the Southbank New York summer of 1996 through again. Ideological conviction clashing with Theatre until May 27. readings that featured Meryl Streep, emotional compulsion, the way in which Sam Waterston and Kyra Sedgwick. the head and the heart collide. Back then, Murray-Smith (BA(Hons) 1985) “The failure of hard-line ideologies attended Columbia University on a Rotary came up again and again.” life of its own. That first setting down, a of words, sometimes with tough, page- scholarship, juggling a three-month‑old It all made a certain sense. “I grew up in quick fusing of thought, feeling or stolen scrunching graft. “And then each draft – child with the teachings of novelist a household with parents who, when I was observation, with words and character, and for this STC play I’m working on now AM Homes, screenwriter Loren-Paul born, were not yet a decade out of their life that is a process that for Murray-Smith is I’m probably up to my 20th draft – each Caplin, short story writer and poet Alan in the Communist Party, and still wearing an almost otherworldly thing. It is not a draft is a bit more knowing.” Ziegler, and playwright Eduardo Machado. the effects of that disillusionment.” It left meditated space. The Sydney Theatre Company play is For the writer this was a moment of an “atmosphere of scepticism of hard-line “The working writer, or at least this a slow work in progress, but her latest for vocational confirmation, a transformative ideology”. one, is in a state of suspension between the the Melbourne Theatre Company, Three period in which she mixed young real world, between consciousness and the Little Words was a quick process, writing motherhood with the most brilliant of “Anything that makes you world of the imagination. that seemed eager to fill the page. The professional opportunities. “Of course you are drawing from your result, as you settle into the stalls, is just Joanna Murray-Smith is a woman less in control as a human intellect, of course you are drawing from the same. of family. A woman of tough-minded real life, but you have to let go of control or “The most important thing is that when professional dedication. And the writing? being makes the writing you’re not going to end up with anything the words come out of the mouth of the Well that was never an option. that has got any kind of theatricality to it, human being on the stage is that those “If it comes down to a conscious choice,” more vivacious . . .” or any kind of human interest. words sound authentic and you’re not she says, “you’re probably not a writer. “As a practised writer now, I know, as breaking the magic of luring the audience “My entire professional life has been This had a consequence not only in the I sit down at the desk, that if I’m feeling into a creative universe. an absence of conscious choice. I was preoccupations of her dramatic characters, too conscious of what I’m doing I might as “The audience might sit there and interested in writing, but I was also very but also in the very gristle of her writing: well just stop, because I’m not going to be think, ‘oh that’s a beautiful line’, but as interested in acting.” it must not slip into blunt polemic. writing anything worthwhile. soon as they think that, they’re out of the PICTURE: JACKY GHOSSEIN And then: “Once I started writing, I had “I grew up with a real sense that in your “Which is why sometimes I find it world you’ve created. Early on I found that no desire to be a playwright, and I still have creative work you cannot push a political great to write when I’m tired, or after a really difficult, because I wanted to write as no desire to be a playwright. I’d rather be barrow. If you do you are in some way glass of wine. Anything that makes you beautifully as I could, and then I realised a great novelist.” There have been three denying the humanity and the energy of less in control as a human being makes that beautiful writing was sabotaging a novels, but the plays, by weight of number what it is to be human in what you write. the writing more vivacious, and the ideas really good night on the stage.” and reputation, have taken the upper hand. You are oversimplifying, and people don’t more interesting and complex.” She describes the drive to write as a work that way.” This is, though, writing for the theatre, Jonathan Green is the editor of Meanjin. 3010 12 SPORT SPORT 13 unimelb.edu.au/3010 2017 ISSUE 1, UMPIRE KICKS PERSONAL GOAL

In a league of their own nnie Mirabile has never been a footballer, not in a “proper team” anyway. “There was A knee injury ended Kane’s playing days at 20, structural change that’s occurred mirrors the rapid the occasional thing at Australian football, part of Melbourne’s but six years later she exemplifies the doors that linking of arms in footy clubs throughout Australia, school … but in the few times fabric, has long been dominated by men are opening to women in football, not just in a which last year saw 250 women’s teams play in A I played I wasn’t much of a talent.” playing sense. greater Melbourne. Hers is not an uncommon story, of the President of the University’s six-team women’s Perhaps the greatest revolution has been the – until this year, when the sport was footy lover who yearns to be more than a club, Kane last year became head of women’s PICTURE: IMAGES GETTY conversion of fans who cared only for men’s football. fan but knows the most intimate vantage gripped by a revolution. football at AFL club North Melbourne. Then, “Go back 10 years and look at how women’s football point – that of a player – is one they’ll in the week of AFLW round one, she quietly was viewed, there’s been incredible change and never comfortably occupy. The umpiring BY PETER HANLON ascended to the role of football operations momentum,” McLachlan says. ranks have long been filled with such manager for the entire club. “That attitude, the embracing of it by the hardened devotees. Mirabile’s emergence merely s a world championship winner She celebrated by joining the masses football supporter … there’s very little scepticism reflects that it’s not just in player in the relatively obscure pursuit that flocked to Princes Park for the anymore.” McLachlan takes an old boy’s pride in the numbers that female participation of ultimate frisbee, and an historic first game between Carlton and University having 17 players drafted onto AFLW lists, is climbing. accomplished athlete who as a Collingwood, walking down Royal the most of any club in the country. “I found a way to be really up‑close student excelled at netball while Parade among men and women, boys to the action,” the 23-year-old University trying her hand at everything and girls clad in club colours “like it “All I know is it’s a really of Melbourne physiotherapy student from cross-country running to was a normal thing to do”. (pictured below) says of a pursuit Asurf lifesaving and water polo to soccer, Cat Phillips The AFL had anticipated a crowd important thing for our game, that began with the Moorabbin Saints is a handy barometer of the sudden, up-in-lights of up to 15,000; officials were forced juniors in her early teens, progressed appeal of women’s Australian Rules football. to lock the gates when it topped a really significant moment in through the local senior competition, and Like Phillips with ball in hand, the game has A different game: 25,000. in the historic opening game of the AFL latterly been cutting a mesmerising dash. AFL chief Gillon When Phillips arrived at an outer Australian Rules football.” Women’s season saw her toss the ball “I think I might have left it a bit late – I’m loving McLachlan (top) and suburban venue almost three hours GILLON McLACHLAN into the air to start the action as one of my engineering career and don’t want to give that (main) Cat Phillips before Melbourne’s first game two days the game’s three field umpires. up,” the 25-year-old says of the prospect that women under pressure later, she couldn’t believe fans were already “I first started to get the sense of it could soon make a living out of a sport that for during her opening queueing to get in. “Playing at Cranbourne Kane doubts this could have happened when we went out and an hour-and-a-half more than 120 years has been almost exclusively game against with a thunderstorm forecast I didn’t think if the Uni women hadn’t been preparing before the game, the seats were already the domain of men. Brisbane in the anyone would turn up … it was amazing,” and training out of North Melbourne’s filling up,” Mirabile (BSc 2014) says of a “But I’m definitely seeing the girls who are 17, 18 AFLW. she says of a crowd of 6500 that, buttressed Arden St headquarters for the past six years, Princes Park crowd that surged past all and coming through now, they’re putting everything by staggering television audiences, kept accessing the same facilities and expertise expectations and forced a “house full” sign. into it and thinking they can make it into a career. women’s football where it had been – gym, theatrette, nutrition and medical “I thought, ‘Gee, this is going to be big.’ And I think that’s a really valid and viable option, all weekend but scarcely ever before staff – that North’s male players have at I got chills during the national anthem, which is amazing.” – on the back page of Melbourne’s their disposal. This was pioneering, but then the crowd cheered at the end of it. When Phillips (BSc 2013, DipMathSc 2013, ME newspapers. has quickly become the norm. It was amazing.” 2015) joined pre-season training with the Melbourne No one is better placed to mark She has no doubt the talent pool As more women follow her and the University Women’s Football Club two years this progress than AFL chief will grow, and the women who made AFL-listed Eleni Glouftsis into on-field ago, ostensibly to boost her running for ultimate executive Gillon McLachlan the transition from club football officiating, more will know the perverse frisbee, her footy experience amounted to half-time (LLB(Hons) 1996), who was into the AFLW will improve accomplishment she felt in reflecting kick-to-kick in the MCG carpark while attending playing for University Blues markedly. on her performance. “I think we did Collingwood games with her family. in the Victorian amateur McLachlan, meanwhile, everything we could to make sure we She dipped her toe in a little deeper last February competition when the women’s wavers at the notion that went as unnoticed as possible, which is at an AFL women’s talent day, and in July finally arm of the club began in 1996. AFLW could be the great always an umpire’s goal.” played her first official game. Many wouldn’t have “It was very much legacy of his time in football’s persevered beyond her first “unofficial” game. separated from the men’s club,” top job, saying his task is to “My first practice game I went to tackle a girl and McLachlan recalls. “They manage expectation and help she put her hand right in my chest,” Phillips says with played on Sundays, there was bridge the talent gap between a laugh. “My Mum didn’t love it when I came home no relationship or connection the best players and those filling out and said, ‘I’ve got a fractured sternum but I’m going with the men’s clubs. In fact, club lists. “All I know is it’s a really important to keep playing’.” there was a level of antipathy thing for our game, a really significant moment If this was supporting evidence of the primitive I guess. It was just seen as a in Australian Rules football generally.” wisdom that football is no game for women, Phillips women’s team.” His eldest daughter plays netball, her sister was having none of it. She shrugged it off, recovered, Since last October, the plays football and basketball, and both love and in October was drafted to Melbourne, one of the women’s club has sat alongside their footy. “They’ll get older, they’ll make four Victorian clubs granted an AFLW licence in the men’s teams Blues and Blacks decisions, but they now know it’s a real option for inaugural eight-team national women’s competition. in a governance structure that them,” he says of a future that female footballers On the first Sunday in February, she played against oversees the University’s three can look to with great optimism. the Brisbane Lions, and the sight of her haring down football arms, which continue Casey Field and kicking long into the Demons’ to operate autonomously. n The Adelaide Crows beat the Brisbane Lions forward line almost reduced Laura Kane to tears. McLachlan says the by six points in the AFLW Grand Final. 3010 14 ANATOMY MUSEUM ANATOMY MUSEUM 15 unimelb.edu.au/3010 2017 ISSUE 1, At first blush they may seem a little macabre, Bones of but the exhibits in the University’s Anatomy Museum provide a great teaching resource contention – and the odd mystery. Left: Four plaster models showing thoracic and abdominal dissection, circa 1900. Right: A dermatone model. Each colour represents an area of skin primarily supplied by a single spinal nerve. Below: The skeleton of a French beggar with ‘mermaid syndrome’.

BY MURIEL REDDY what we know about the particular objects,” says Dr Hayes (MB BS 1982), now Associate Professor of n death, he has the kind of star presence he Topographic Anatomy at the University, and Chair might have craved in life. A beggar who played of the museum management committee. the recorder on the steps of Notre Dame in It has been this sort of collision of the old with I Paris, he has beguiled thousands of people, the new world that makes a tour of this museum so young and old, since his move to Melbourne in 1862. stimulating. It houses one of the largest collections But it has been his medical rather than his musical of real human tissue specimens and historical story that has made him one of the big drawcards anatomical models in the country. at the Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy In all, about 1200 specimens are on display, and Pathology at the University of Melbourne. 10 per cent of the museum’s collection. The oldest He suffered from a severe malformation of his material is a small collection of Egyptian mummified lower limbs, a rare medical condition known as remains believed to be more than 2000 years old. sirenomelia, or “mermaid syndrome”. Using the latest technology – forensic It has made him a lodestar for tens of thousands science, computerised tomographic scanning, of students – in medicine, biomedicine and 3D printing, Egyptology and art – a physiotherapy – who have been fascinated by the multidisciplinary team from the Faculty of single, symmetrical lower leg that makes him such Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences produced a phenomenon. Unusually for someone with this a full facial reconstruction of a woman. condition, he lived to the age of at least 18. But Meritamun, as she has been named (it means It has been more than three decades since beloved of the god Amun), is so much more than Jenny Hayes was a medical student at the University, a thing of beauty. Through her, students will but she still recalls how captivated she was by the learn how to diagnose pathology marked on our skeleton and the mystery surrounding the beggar anatomy. They will also be able to explore how of Notre Dame. the environment can affect population groups. Arguments have raged over the years about What is remarkable about the museum’s whether or not it was a fake. Sirenomelia is rare, collection is that it is also a teaching resource. occurring at a rate of 0.98 per 100,000 births; More than 2000 students have swipe-card more than half are stillborn. access, and classes and tutorials are held on-site Advances in technology, however, have allowed regularly. Although many of the older specimens are “It’s a very vibrant the museum to discover the truth about its popular behind glass, students do get to handle the plastinated skeleton. Using computed tomography, the Victorian specimens. environment to study in. Institute of Forensic Medicine was able to establish “It’s a very vibrant environment to study in,” that the bones were naturally formed and that this says Hayes. “Anatomy is a language.” Anatomy is a language.” was indeed a genuine pathology. The collection includes dissected anatomy and The result has thrilled museum staff. pathology specimens, moulages and death masks, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JENNY HAYES “It’s exciting because it shows the museum isn’t PICTURE: CHRIS HOPKINS a static collection but ever-changing in terms of CONTINUED PAGE 16 16 ANATOMY MUSEUM 17 THE INNOVATORS Everyone talks A FACE STRAIGHT about it, but what does innovation really OUT OF HISTORY mean? And how do you create a culture in which innovators flourish? The University of Melbourne believes it has some answers. unimelb.edu.au/3010 2017 ISSUE 1,

Coming to the University: an artist’s impression of Science Gallery Melbourne, part of Carlton Connect. The new innovation precinct will highlight talent and ideas.

The face is serene and enigmatic – just as any romantic would wish of a visage straight out A wax model from about 1890 of the ancient world. demonstrates the cardiovascular system. It is reconstructed from a mummified head dating back 2000 years that is a mysterious part of the Anatomy Museum collection. IN ADDITION TO THE FROM PAGE 15 A team of specialists, including some from ANATOMY MUSEUM, the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health THE UNIVERSITY OF including one of the notorious Ned Kelly. It also has Sciences, combined their knowledge with MELBOURNE HAS a prized selection of the Steger/His gypsum-based modern technology to reconstruct the face TWO OTHER MEDICAL anatomical models. Many of the European collections of the Egyptian woman, aged 18 to 25, they MUSEUMS: of these models were destroyed during the Second named Meritamun. World War. Removing the head from its original MEDICAL The museum is home to a small collection of bandages was never an option. A CT scan was HISTORY perfectly preserved skeletons of babies from foetal taken so that a 3D printer could produce a MUSEUM stage to newborn. These are rare because under the facsimile of the skull (below). Located on level 2 Human Tissue Act of 1982, the museum can no longer Sculptor Jennifer Mann then used her of the Brownless accept material from anyone under the age of 18. forensic and artistic skills to reconstruct the Biomedical Library “At the time, however, it was within the moral BEYOND face. (Building 182) on the and legal framework,” explains Dr Ryan Jefferies, Although the head has been part of the Parkville campus. the museum’s curator. “They’re of great teaching collection for about 100 years, how it arrived Reopening this month. importance to our students.” at the University remains unclear. It’s just medicalhistorymuseum. In an apparently seamless journey down the ages, THE BIG IDEA another mystery at the museum. mdhs.unimelb.edu.au the specimens of bygone eras are being given new life BY TANYA HA (BSC 1994, MENV 2013) with today’s advanced technology. A set of human PICTURES: PAUL BURSTON/UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE HENRY FORMAN lungs from the historical collection, for example, has ATKINSON been recreated in exquisite detail on an advanced 3D t is 200 years since the English surgeon James Innovation has seldom been a hotter topic. DENTAL MUSEUM printer, allowing students to handle and study them. Parkinson wrote his influential An Essay on the It’s a buzzword in newspaper headlines, political Located at the The same technology and techniques that were Shaking Palsy, the first systematic description manifestos and hype-filled marketing pitches. Royal Dental Hospital used to reconstruct the head of Meritamun are being of the progressive degenerative disease of the It’s being applied to every advance, big or small, of Melbourne, deployed to give relevance to the collection. “The nervous system we now know by his name, from self-driving cars to new flavours of ice-cream. technology means that students can use 3D virtual Swanston Street, Parkinson’s disease. Amid all this frenzied talk of transformation Carlton. Open Monday reality and printouts to understand tissue, bones and IEven now, it’s a disorder that has no cure. and disruption, the University of Melbourne is to Friday, 9am–5pm. organs,” explains Jefferies. museum.dent.unimelb. “Surgeons can even use them to practise on Researchers are still striving to unlock its causes. reinvigorating the role of a university in innovation, edu.au representations of the actual structures in a patient But previously house-bound sufferers of the making the changes, building the infrastructure they will be operating on. Everything we are doing disease are gaining some relief thanks to a wristwatch and doing the hard yards needed to turn the talk with Meritamun has an application in modern carrying smart science, an innovation that emerged into action. It starts with an understanding of what practice.” from the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental innovation is and how it works. The museum’s collection, not open to the public, Health, part of the famed Parkville medical research can be viewed at: harrybrookesallenmuseum. precinct. CONTINUED PAGE 18 mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/collections 3010 19 Australia’s world ranking on innovation according Percentage of economic growth in developed nations that to the Global Innovation Index – below the US, can be attributed to innovation. The Australian government South Korea, New Zealand and Singapore, invests $10 billion a year in research and development for 19 but above Norway, Israel and China. 50 science and innovation (2.1 per cent of GDP). SOURCE: GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX unimelb.edu.au/3010 2017 ISSUE 1, FROM PAGE 17 University teaching and research with Charlie Day says the process of developing an startups, small and medium enterprises, idea through to a product creates jobs along the “Innovation is a much-misused word,” says Doron student accommodation, and even artists’ way and contributes to economic growth. Ben-Meir, the University’s Vice-Principal for Enterprise. spaces. It’s already home to the University’s “You bring in clinical nurses and the “Invention is not innovation. An idea by itself is useless. start-up accelerator, the Melbourne healthcare system as you take new therapies Worthless. Innovation is invention plus adoption.” Accelerator Program, and is the site of the through clinical trials, for instance. The jobs The CEO of BioMelbourne Network, Dr Krystal future Science Gallery. aren’t created only when it hits the market; Evans (PhD 2005), describes innovation as a process “Carlton Connect was premised on there’s quite a lot of work that happens creating a product or service that provides a solution to the vision of a university as a place where between invention and delivery.” a significant problem, with vastly improved outcomes. innovators could meet,” says Dr Charlie Day Associate Professor Rufus Black says “There’s several pieces to that: it’s got to be a finished (BE(ChemEng)(Hons) 1992, BA 1993), the modest innovations are just as important product or service, and there’s got to be a significant initiative’s former director and now the inaugural as the spectacular ones for our future improvement; it’s not a ‘me, too’ product. When you CEO of the Office of Innovation and Science economy. tease that out, you find there are a lot of players in an Australia. “Germany’s enormous manufacturing ‘innovation ecosystem’.” “I strongly believe innovation is a team sport,” he says. economy is built on countless acts of industrial That medical wristwatch is Evans’ textbook example “To be successful you need to assemble the best players innovation that have built the leading producers of what innovation looks like. The problem facing the to be part of that team. In successful innovation, those The PKG ‘watch’ of a whole range of sophisticated products that are doctors treating those with Parkinson’s disease is relying players are going to come not only from the University, (above) has helped exported around the world. None of these is an on a patient’s recollection of their tremors to determine but also from the private sector and broader civil society.” thousands of Uber or an Apple, but they power a huge economy.” their medication dosage. Similarly, the Bio21 Institute brings together Parkinson’s university and industry researchers under one roof sufferers monitor lack says that, in Australia, we need to “Invention is not innovation. An idea by in the heart of Melbourne’s biomedical precinct, their movements. make sure our innovation agenda is broad, with the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the Victorian Dr Krystal Evans and that we must remain committed and itself is useless. Worthless. Innovation Comprehensive Cancer Centre, and other medical (below) describes excited about the continuing incremental research institutes in the neighbourhood. the device as a Binnovation that maintains our competitive is invention plus adoption.” textbook example advantage in areas such as agriculture and “Ten years later, with my hand on my of what innovation biotechnology. looks like. “We need to resist getting lured off chasing lorey researcher Professor Malcolm Horne heart, I can say that that vision has unicorns! They’re exciting, but they don’t build had developed an algorithm that measures a whole economy.” the movements of Parkinson’s patients. been realised. We’ve attracted great Black (BA 1990, LLB(Hons) 1991) is Master of Global Kinetics Corporation was established Ormond College and has held leadership roles in to commercialise his invention and take it scientists and had great results.” both academia and the corporate sector. He’s sharing F PICTURE: CHRIS HOPKINS from “bench to business to bedside”. his insights and developing the skills of the next The finished product, called the PKG (Parkinson’s “I strongly believe (See Research harnesses power of the crowd – page 30). CSL Limited, Australia’s largest multinational generation of innovators through the University’s KinetiGraph) watch, looks more like a conventional innovation is a Kaggle helped NASA crowd-source better ways to biopharmaceutical company, chose to build its research new Master of Entrepreneurship degree, taught at watch than a medical device. It’s a vehicle for Horne’s team sport,” says map invisible dark matter in the cosmos using images facility at the Bio21 Institute to help attract the best the Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship. algorithm to collect accurate information about a Dr Charlie Day, of distorted galaxies. talent, foster collaboration and improve outcomes. “Converting ideas into products and services patient’s movements. Doctors can download this data, former director of Kaggle has gone on to work with supermarket chains, “If you can show scientists great labs in a great needs a particular skill set; it’s a discipline,” Black then analyse and use it to identify the optimum dose Carlton Connect healthcare organisations, and several major US insurers. medical research precinct, they’re more likely to come explains. “Failure rates for startups in Australia of medication. and now the It has also developed a new line of business, hosting and work for you than if you’re showing them labs away are high because this skill set is inherently The device also alerts patients when it’s time to take inaugural CEO of competitions to help companies such as the American from where all the action is,” says Dr Andrew Nash difficult and not widely distributed. The Master of their medication. Today, thousands of people in 17 the Office of business giants Walmart and Facebook find and recruit (BSc(Hons) 1983, PhD 1988), senior vice-president Entrepreneurship has been established to develop countries benefit from this innovation. Innovation and the best data scientists. for research at CSL these capabilities in a very practical, hands-on “People who were completely house-bound are Science Australia. Why did Melbourne boy Goldbloom relocate to “Ten years later, with my hand on my heart, I can say w ay.” now able to go out and play tennis because they’ve got San Francisco? Because Google, Apple, Stanford and that that vision has been realised. We’ve attracted great Krystal Evans, meanwhile, hopes the Parkinson’s the dosage of their meds right,” says Evans. “That’s a Berkeley universities, and a host of startups are there. scientists and had great results,” says Nash, naming wristwatch, made in Melbourne, is a sign of significantly improved outcome.” “You can go to a dinner party and most of the people a long-acting treatment for haemophilia that has things to come.“I see Melbourne in 2050 as a Anthony Goldbloom (BCom(Hons) 2006) created there will work in tech, so the chance you’ll meet a received US Food and Drug Administration city that’s known for medical manufacturing the competitive data science platform Kaggle, which useful connection or learn something that’s useful to approval as one result he’s particularly proud of. with a thriving local industry, exporting cures was recently sold to the technology giant Google in a your business is very high without even trying,” he says. CSL will double its tenancy at Bio21 over and therapeutics to the rest of the world.” multi-million dollar deal, to solve a different problem. The University of Melbourne is striving to replicate the next three years to about 150 researchers. For Anthony Goldbloom, innovation There were organisations with large data sets but that culture near its front door. The Carlton Connect Such ambition is music to the ears of isn’t just an intellectual process, but a without access to top data scientists. There were data Initiative is the University’s new innovation precinct, Doron Ben-Meir. “When you’ve got that activity, pursuit with a visceral dimension. “If you scientists itching to play with more real-world data. aiming to bring to the site of the old Royal Women’s diversity and density, you have the preconditions do something that’s really novel, and you’re Kaggle hosts competitions, with clients providing Hospital the kind of talent and activity density that for invention and innovation,” he says. “We might the first there, it’s scarier and it’s riskier, and the data and a predictive problem to solve; the data Goldbloom enjoys in the United States. call it the startup or innovation ecosystem, but you’re going to have lots of missteps. But it’s scientists compete to develop the best predictive model Carlton Connect will foster innovation by co‑locating really, ‘it’s the eonomy, stupid’.” exhilarating when it works.”

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MEASURING ATHLETE PERFORMANCE ATHLETE MEASURING enduring enduring examples examples famous and famous boasts many many boasts of innovation The University University The “I was much more likely to be captain to of the chess likely much more “I was haun Holthouse loves sport, haun Holthouse loves though he has more talent natural than any maths and science aptitude for on the field. of his school days he says team,” club than the football southeast. in Melbourne’s Innovation is about more than good ideas. It’s about converting those those ideas. It’s about converting is about more than good Innovation Despite 1996) his early lack of athleticism, Holthouse (BE(Hons) sports use 900 elite than now teams more from Athletes with a laugh. “I get to he says of the Nerds’,” ‘Revenge like “It’s sport when he graduated jump into science Holthouse didn’t across an impressive spectrum of fields. Here are some of their stories. Here are some of their spectrum of fields. across an impressive ideas into products and services. Melbourne alumni have achieved this this alumni have achieved and services. Melbourne ideas into products

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PICTURE: PETER CASAMENTO to develop a running shoe that combats painful osteoarthritis shoe that combats a running osteoarthritis painful to develop ASICS SHOE steam engines, steam engines, the knee joint. They created the created in the knee joint. They without relief pain providing load on the knee, the reduces shoe that drugs or surgery. drugs or surgery. ASICS nearby. University physiotherapists partnered with the international shoe brand partnered shoe brand the international with physiotherapists University 2002 DESIGN #05 The FREO2 group has conquered the seemingly the seemingly has conquered group The FREO2 ountless children in low-income countries die each die each countries in low-income ountless children medical-grade no access to have because they year of group that led a determined a cruel fact oxygen, students of Melbourne and academics University to solution. an ingenious develop GENERATING PURE OXYGEN PURE GENERATING “To treat a child with pneumonia you need antibiotics of a child with pneumonia you treat “To began in 2011 with Rassool and physics post-doctoral FREO2 looking at options like spent years The team “The problem we’re dealing with is the biggest killer of kids dealing with is the biggest killer of kids “The we’re problem “If you can provide them with concentrated can provide “If you their 48 hours it improves for oxygen 30 or 40 per cent.” by chances of recovery until Sobott flipped the problem and realised mechanical power mechanical power and realised until Sobott flipped the problem in a siphon generates created needed. The vacuum wasn’t enriched air and leave from nitrogen separate to enough power All that is needed is a small stream oxygen. course, but many will die anyway. If you can provide them with with them can provide If you will die anyway. but many course, their chances of 48 hours it improves for oxygen concentrated 30 or 40 per cent.” by recovery Dr Bryn Sobott (BSc(Hons) above fellows 2004, PhD 2010), pictured (BSc(Hons) PhD 2006, Peake and Dr David right with Dr Rassool, Jim Black from with Associate Professor 2012), who partnered a larger into Health. It has grown Global the Nossal Institute for of academics and volunteers. foundation impossible task of generating and storing pure oxygen without without oxygen and storing pure impossible task of generating ancient Greeks to known using a simple device by electrical power – the siphon. and Egyptians in Associate Professor pneumonia,” says and that’s in the world, Rassool (BSc(Hons) Dr Roger 1982, co-founder, Physics and FREO2 “ThatPhD 1996). think people because they fact surprises many AIDS or malaria,” he says. it’s C

. Sonotec doesn’t print a model of the entire baby, just the baby, print a model of the entire doesn’t Sonotec me the capacity to the models will also give “Developing but while about six months ago, only started the company “We been have I wouldn’t “Without the Master of Entrepreneurship, 39 per cent of malformed foetuses were were foetuses of malformed 39 per cent ultrasounds routine not detected by of different 3D printers to create the models, and envisage that the models, and envisage to create 3D printers of different the type and packaging choose of material will be able to parents want.” they hands or feet, 3D on one side and flat on the of itscontours face, piloting after the models worldwide market plans to Raja other. network. biggest radiology Australia’s them through abnormality foetal improve needed to start building the software detection,” she says. the data needed for collate be able to testing the 3D models we’ll and it journey, and exciting a fast been the diagnostic product. It’s had itsdefinitely challenges along the way. All this has startup. build my to build the right foundations able to including my becausebeen possible of the support networks, of my Institute.” the Wade and classmates from lecturers what we’re currently focusing on. We are also trialling a range also trialling a range are on. We focusing currently what we’re RECALDENT SOFTWARE PICTURE: CHRIS HOPKINS CHRIS PICTURE: 1981 Dental School the University’s from In 1981, researchers used be milk that could cow’s from derived a protein discovered under the it is sold tooth enamel. Today weakened to repair gum in chewing used as an ingredient and Recaldent trademark and toothpaste. #04 FROM ULTRASOUND TO 3D TO ULTRASOUND FROM The idea, boosted by a $10,000 CMB Capital “Best Startup a $10,000 by The idea, boosted t’s a big jump from the tiny bronzed booties parents once once booties parents bronzed the tiny a big jump from t’s a three- child to of their new-born as a memento kept in the womb, face dimensional model of their baby’s images an amazing into ultrasound from transformed sculpture. 3D-printed relief Her company – originally called Teenyco, but now changed to changed to but now – originally called Teenyco, Her company with the recently strengthened was motivation Raja’s in the final stages of models are baby Sonotec’s Meanwhile, a specialised 3D required images to the ultrasound “Converting

Pitch” award, will soon hit the market in partnership with radiology in partnership with radiology will soon hit the market award, Pitch” will lead to it clinics, (MEntr 2016) is determined but Bindi Raja important than money. something much more around help sonographers to software new – is developing Sonotec 20- missed abnormalities often in routine identify foetal the world examinations. ultrasound week 200,000 than study of more publication of a major European were foetuses of malformed that 39 per cent which found women, ultrasounds. routine not detected by while studying came Raja up with the idea lastdevelopment. year doing routine part-time as a qualified sonographer and working babies in the womb. of 20-week-old ultrasounds after “But even she says. Singapore,” got from which we program, and that’s smoothing process, the files needed a refined conversion I BREADTH AND BREWING 25 2005 INTELFUSE unimelb.edu.au/3010 2017 ISSUE 1, University software engineers partnered with data analytics company Intelfuse to create an interactive computer platform that monitors power lines and vegetation using laser light technology. This allows utility companies to identify anything Students get that might disrupt power transmission. a taste for Museum brewing on the edge

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magine a museum where you can trace your heartbeat, test your blood or learn to pick locks. Museums don’t have to be stuffy collections of artefacts, says Rose Hiscock. They can be Paul and Natasha Holgate engaging, edgy – even transformative. “What I’m have taken their beer-making interested in is impact,” she says. “I’m interested knowledge to campus. Iin changing people’s lives.” PICTURE: CHRIS HOPKINS That’s Hiscock’s dynamic vision for Science Gallery, an unusual blend of science museum, art gallery and BY JENI PORT expanded to a restaurant and hotel, with events space coming to the University in 2020. a showroom and beer discovery centre in Hiscock (BCom 1991), a lifelong arts administrator, rewer Paul Holgate is quite the works. The Holgate brews sell in bars, had been director of Sydney’s impressive Powerhouse emphatic. The new subject he pubs and outlets across Australia. Museum for two-and-a-half years when she was tapped helps teach at the University, Subject coordinator Dr Charles Pagel, to spearhead the ambitious new project in Melbourne. An Introduction to Beer Styles, a lecturer in veterinary and agricultural Science Gallery Melbourne is part of an international PICTURE: CHRIS HOPKINS does require students to sciences and an avid home brewer himself, network that explores connections between art and swallow, not spit. says the study of craft brewing fits well with science. B“It’s the only way,” he says. “The only other University subjects in wine-making The first gallery opened at Trinity College Dublin way! This is what we do in beer judging and viticulture. in 2008. Seven more are planned for cities around the to understand style and a beer’s “Breadth subjects allow students to learn world, all embedded within educational institutions, characteristics. To get the full hop or bitter “To get the full hop or about something they’re interested in from and all tasked with attracting young people to think sensation on the back of the tongue, you outside the core disciplines of their degree,” creatively about science and innovation. need to swallow the beer.” bitter sensation on the he says. “Many of the students I have talked Hiscock says she was inspired by a 2015 visit to The higher the percentage of hops the to are interested in the recent rise of the the Dublin gallery’s SECRET exhibition, where she more bitter the beer, but students need to back of the tongue, you craft-brewing movement, and are keen to was asked to hand over her credit card, only to find Rose Hiscock at keep in mind that bitterness can be off-set learn more about brewing and even to get later that the museum had displayed her personal the entrance of by the sweetness of malt, which helps need to swallow the beer.” their hands dirty and have a go themselves.” information as part of the artwork. her temporary determine a beer’s flavour and style. Tasting Dr Pagel says enrolments in the subject “It kind of taps into the zeitgeist,” she says of University home, the beer will tell a drinker all about that. work in the chemical industry before Paul have been high, prompting him to move Science Gallery. “We can be really playful and really the historic An Introduction to Beer Styles and decided to take his enthusiasm for home classes to a bigger lecture theatre and to experimental. I think about what we’re going to do in our Grattan Street Sensory Analysis and Principles of Brewing brewing and turn it into a business. add more practical sessions. Students will exhibitions as a laboratory, as an experiment, rather than Gatehouse. She – two breadth subjects introduced this The couple moved to Woodend and learn the skills to brew good-quality beer, as a really highly polished contemporary art experience.” will soon move to year by the Faculty of Veterinary and began selling beer they made in a backyard with additional lectures in biochemistry, Hiscock wants Science Gallery Melbourne to help the new gallery, Hiscock’s first exhibition at Science Gallery Agricultural Sciences – cover a fair bit shed. Eventually, they left their corporate agriculture, sustainability and marketing. dispel the notion that arts and science are separate and artist’s impression Melbourne, Blood, will run in collaboration with Science of beer-making and drinking territory, careers to concentrate on their passion. Meanwhile, Paul and Natasha’s competing disciplines. True innovation, she says, comes at right. Gallery London starting in June. Potential contributors with help from Paul and Natasha Holgate, The timing was perfect. daughter, Emily, is now at the University from combining the two. “Arts and science both are were encouraged to submit works addressing blood as it of Holgate Brewhouse in Woodend, By 2002, when the Holgates bought studying a Bachelor of Arts. She has yet to endeavours in the pursuit of the unknown,” she says. relates to menstruation, doping, HIV testing, biological 70 kilometres north-west of Melbourne. an old hotel (circa 1896) in Woodend’s say whether she will follow in her parent’s “They’re both about exploration.” identity and other topics. Paul is a guest lecturer in the highly main street, interest in the craft-brewing beer-brewing footsteps. The Science Galleries are particularly aimed at those It will run as pop-up exhibitions around the city popular Beer: Theory and Craft subjects, movement, which had begun in the US “I think she would know a lot more aged 15 to 25, in the hope of inspiring more students until the building that will house Science Gallery which teach a range of skills to would-be and Britain, was taking off in Australia. about beer than regular kids her age,” says to take an interest in the skills of the future – science, Melbourne is completed. beer-makers. It’s a chance for students to It has been portrayed as a kind of grass- Paul. “We’ll wait and see. Let her enjoy uni technology, engineering and maths (STEM). learn about a fast growing industry from roots rebellion against the dominance of first.” 3010 Hiscock is thinking big; she wants young people to Innovation EXCLUSIVE 3010 OFFER FOR ALUMNI real-world professionals. big, multinational brewers. 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Both were chemistry It has proved to be a winning formula mag.alumni.unimelb.edu.au/holgate creative minds.” (MJourn 2016) majors (BSc(Hons) 1989), who went on to for Holgate Brewhouse, which has since 26 IT TAKES TWO IT TAKES TWO 27 “Her presence is unimelb.edu.au/3010 2017 ISSUE 1, Matters of judgement definitely felt in a Judge Wendy Wilmoth (BA 1972, LLB 1973, LLM 1979) is one of Victoria’s courtroom. Her most experienced and esteemed judges, having served on the County Court knowledge of the since 2003. Pinar Tat (BA 2015) is a third-year law student at the University law is absolutely of Melbourne. She met Judge Wilmoth through the University mentorship incredible.” program. They speak to Kate Stanton (MJourn 2016). PINAR

JUDGE WILMOTH always knew I wanted to study law. I wanted to do something where I was engaging with people directly and helping them. hen I was a young solicitor, there were no women I think the law can be used to empower people – that’s the magistrates. But in 1986 the first women were I driving force for my career. appointed. I knew a couple of the women who were As soon as I finished my undergraduate degree, I started law Wappointed and I thought, ‘well, now it’s a possibility.’ school. I’m now in the final year of my JD, which is my sixth year I worked as a solicitor for five years, moved on to lecturing and, of university. It’s been a really enriching experience so far but I’m eventually, worked on the Social Security Appeals Tribunal. From looking forward to finishing. It’s been a long six years of study and there I was appointed to the Magistrates’ Court and in 2003, I was I’m eager to start my career in the law. appointed to the County Court. I completed a mentorship program in my first year and decided I really enjoy my job. Even though I could have retired last year, to do it again. By my second year, I had a much better idea of the I don’t intend to for some time. I like the exercise of applying the direction I wanted my career to take. law in different ways. The challenge of applying it to different human I was very nervous and excited the first time I met Judge circumstances can be testing, but it’s also professionally rewarding. Wilmoth. I think that stems from the fact that law students can I’ve done ad hoc mentoring over the years and I still do that for be quite fascinated by judges because we spend so much of our young people, or students, who could spend a few days shadowing time studying their legal opinions. Judge Wilmoth was absolutely me. I also started working with the University’s mentorship wonderful and made me feel very welcome. I felt like I could ask all program about seven years ago and I’ve since had one student a of the questions that I wanted to ask about the law and what life as year. When I heard that Pinar was my mentee last year I asked her a judge is like. to come and meet me at my chambers. She came into court with It was a really interesting experience to talk to a judge directly me on the first day and, eventually, she sat through a whole trial about how they practise law. And I was lucky enough to be able – I think it was about 10 days – so she was able to see the whole to sit through the entirety of one of her trials, which is something process from start to finish. I had never done before. The study of law can be quite theoretical, That’s a huge advantage. When you’re a law student you may not so seeing the law in practice was invaluable. get any real sense of what a whole trial might be like. You might sit I think I would like to become a judge one day. Being able in court for a day and see a bit of cross-examination, for example. to see what they do – and their role in court – was absolutely But you might not see where that fits into a whole trial. Students fascinating. Judge Wilmoth was calm and approachable but also always tell me that watching a trial is a great experience because firm and assertive. Her presence is definitely felt in a courtroom. they can understand how it all fits together, how it works. Her knowledge of the law is absolutely incredible. It was difficult Pinar was very receptive to it. She realised straight away how not to be in awe of her. beneficial it was to be able to do that and she committed to it. When I expressed my interest in criminal law, Judge Wilmoth I think perhaps she was inspired by the whole process. put me in touch with one of the partners of a criminal defence Sometimes I didn’t have time to talk to Pinar during court firm. I was lucky enough to be able to spend three weeks there proceedings, but we could sit down later and talk about what through her recommendation and this further solidified my happened. I gave her all the court documents to read so she knew interest in criminal law. Although our formal mentor-mentee what was going on. relationship has concluded, Judge Wilmoth is someone I have She’d ask what things meant and why they happened. In that a lot of respect for and hope to continue to keep in touch with. sense, mentorship is not just the experience; it’s instructive as well. I’m looking forward to consulting her in the future when it It would be most rewarding if Pinar were to become a judge comes to making career decisions. 3010 one day. I think it’s excellent that she can get exposure to the work of a judge through programs like these, which weren’t available in ARE YOU INTERESTED IN MENTORING A STUDENT? the past. For further information or to register your interest I do like the opportunity that it presents to discuss different visit mentoring.unimelb.edu.au ways of being a lawyer and different ways of using a law degree.

PICTURE: STEVE McKENZIE 28 INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL 29 unimelb.edu.au/3010 2017 ISSUE 1, The synopsis: Wise’s time there is dictated by her work. She can often be “People here our aspirations don’t overlap in a found shooting a film on location. So far, she has travelled to significant way,” Hopkins says. “We’re not Four driven, young Canada, Morocco and Manhattan, as well as film markets and think it’s cannibalising each other’s opportunities. festivals. When a film is in post-production, she may be holed up Especially as the business is so big here.” graduates come for days in an editing suite, or in a recording studio working on hilarious that Wise is similarly pragmatic. audio replacement with actors. “We don’t really seem to get jealous of together in a “Often I’m engaged in all of those stages at once on multiple we’ve rustled what the others are doing,” she says. “If projects,” she says. “Being out on set is generally my favourite time there is any jealousy or competitiveness, Hollywood house as we get to meet a multitude of talented people, from actors to up four I’ve somehow remained fairly oblivious to costume designers to sound mixers and the countless army it takes it. I like to see them succeed because I love to pursue their to make a movie.” Melburnians and care about them.” Although Brukner She learns from them by osmosis, she says, simply by being was the last to arrive at Beverly Grove, the movie dreams. around them and observing their work. to fill out a 27-year-old was in fact the first to move “I like having people at home whose opinions I trust and who to the United States, leaving Melbourne Andrew Murfett I can bounce ideas off,” she says. “We have intellectual discussions share house.” in 2012. – and sometimes respectful arguments – about industry issues, “You have to start by saying, ‘I’m takes up their story. and the guys are informed and working in the thick of it, so it’s an starting everything from scratch and am invaluable resource for each other. It helps keep me motivated.” willing to take a full zero on this’,” he says. Charles Hopkins (BA(Media&Comm) 2010, JD 2013) moved “We all gave up a lot to get here, but we hey share an address, to LA to pursue screenwriting and was the first to snare a spot in have also seen what one another has done an accent and an ambition Beverly Grove, in mid-2014. “People here think it’s hilarious that and that makes us feel more secure.” to make it big in the world we’ve rustled up four Melburnians to fill out a share house,” he says. A screenwriter by trade, Brukner went on epicentre of entertainment His screenwriting ambitions are on hold as he works as a junior to complete a Masters of Fine Arts at New – while also ensuring the executive at Shoreline Entertainment, a film sales, production and York University after he left Melbourne. pantry is well stocked management company. After NYU, he landed an internship on the with Milo and Vegemite. “I review script submissions, collaborate with clients and Housemates: (left) long-running TV series, Blue Bloods. “There TThese four housemates in Los Angeles producers on projects in development and negotiate deals,” Joe Brukner, is a culture of apprenticeship in the writing – Joe Brukner, Charles Hopkins, Brigitte he says. “It’s really a practical education in independent film Charles Hopkins world here,” he says. “Working in that Wise and Robert Chislett – have something production. I chose to stay here for my professional aspirations and Robert Chislett writing room for two months, I shadowed else in common: they are University of and I’ve learned to love the city, the lifestyle and the people.” on the Hollywood one episode from inception to final edit, an Melbourne alumni. Joe Brukner (BA 2012) is a prolific writer and producer, Walk of Fame. amazing opportunity.” Through happenstance and connections having written and produced music videos for pop artists such Below: Charles Brukner had known Hopkins in forged through University social and as The Fratellis and Jack Ü. He played key roles in supporting the Hopkins with Melbourne for many years: they attended career networks, these ambitious production of blockbuster films such as Sony’s Ghostbusters (2016) Brigitte Wise at a kindergarten together. Their paths twentysomethings find themselves living reboot. film festival launch. first crossed again via the Melbourne together in a Spanish-style, two-level “Charles keeps us all on track,” says Brukner. “He makes University Law Revue, a seminal incubator abode on a leafy street in Beverly Grove, sure the house is running, unstacks the dishwasher a lot. We all of talent, in which all four of the LA bisecting West Hollywood and Beverly work long hours or travel but it always feels like coming home. housemates had participated. Hills, in the heart of the American film It’s interesting hearing how other parts of the industry work. Chislett and Hopkins write comedy industry. It’s especially helpful if our roles ever overlap or we need together; it was through the latter’s Of course, there is nothing unusual guidance: an accomplished producer is literally down the hall.” connections that Wise landed her first about Australians relocating overseas. LA internship – and her place in the According to the Australian Bureau of obert Chislett (BA 2010, JD 2013) runs house. Statistics, more than 92,000 did so last several restaurants for an Australian Several months ago, Brukner year. And sun-soaked Los Angeles has long restaurateur, including the well- noticed a “For Rent” sign fixed to held an allure for Australians, particularly known West Hollywood hangout the hedge next door. He quickly those enticed by its film and television Goldies, while developing several messaged a friend from Melbourne; production studios. Yet the strike rate for comedies, including one with within a month the house success here is predictably low. Hopkins. was filled with Melbourne “I simply hoped someone would employ R“Charles and I lived together in Melbourne and expats. “We’re now slowly me and I wouldn’t be homeless,” says Wise Joe and myself were neighbours in New York, growing a compound of (BA 2011, JD 2014), who worked as an so I love coming home and feeling like I’m with Melburnians in Beverly associate producer on Robert De Niro’s family,” Chislett says. “My friends think it’s weird Grove,” he says. recent release, The Comedian. “I didn’t we only have Australians living there, but that’s The housemates know what to expect.” just the way it’s evolved. This is a space where we’re are optimistic their Wise and her alumni housemates all comfortable being ourselves, for better or worse.” success thus far is merely the Looking for have been able to carve out their own The diversity of their work has ensured that no beginning. Still, there is one thing slice of home in LA and make headway one in the house has been in the awkward position they need to work on. “We can’t be in the entertainment industry. They of angling for the same jobs. trusted with Milo,” Hopkins says. share the spacious house with Tilly, a “I don’t think there’s jealousy in the house because “It goes way too quick.” 3010 chocolate Labrador mix. It’s where they a break in can commiserate with each other on bad days, or toast their successes on good AND ON THE EAST COAST . . . ones. It’s a sanctuary in which to speak DID YOU KNOW THAT THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE NOW HAS AN ALUMNI GROUP IN NEW YORK CITY? one’s mind, collaborate, solicit ideas, trade Led by alumni volunteers, the New York Alumni Association invites you to get to know the growing alumni gossip and unwind. La La Land community in NYC and surrounding areas. Meet new friends and build your networks at monthly events PICTURE: DAN TUFFS – stay in touch with the group via facebook.com/unimelbNYC/ 30 FIVE QUESTIONS FIVE QUESTIONS 31 unimelb.edu.au/3010 2017 ISSUE 1, What was the goal of the competition? 1 + Research - For the competition we worked with data It’s also a good way to study humans. recorded at the University of Melbourne Epilepsy is such a severe condition that between 2010 and 2013 during a clinical people are willing to let you put electrodes trial of a brain implant device. We are in their brains to study the condition, harnesses trying to understand how seizures emerge although researchers also work with in the brain while trying to develop animals. Research has been done using algorithms that can predict seizures from dogs, which are vulnerable to epilepsy. changes in brain activity signals. That’s Research has been going on for about power of the assuming we can find a pattern or marker 20 years but around the late ’90s it started that is a reasonably reliable predictor of getting serious with a lot of international seizure. As we understand more about workshops held. The seventh of these how seizures are generated we hope to was in Melbourne in 2015, a huge inter- improve the prediction of them and make disciplinary effort with people from crowd the randomness more deterministic; more mathematics, physics, engineering, definable mathematically. The hope is to computer science, medicine, neurology make seizures less like earthquakes, which and biology all aimed at trying to can strike without warning, and more understand how and why seizures FIVE QUESTIONS like hurricanes, where you have enough occur and to understand the neuro-

advance warning to seek safety. Basically, physiology underlying it all.

- FOR NEURO-ENGINEERING + EXPERT LEVIN KUHLMANN that’s the goal. How But that’s only BY GARRY BARKER common part of the is epilepsy? 2 problem, isn’t it? 5 Yes. Epilepsy is highly different among More than 50 million people – about one individuals, very patient-specific. The per cent of the world’s population – are types of epilepsy that people have can vary known to suffer from epilepsy, but some between groups and even within groups. estimates put the figure as high as three Collection of data from patients, either by per cent. Treatments currently range from external sensors on the patient’s scalp, or medication to intracranial operations to by placing electrodes directly on the brain remove parts of the brain affected by the or deeply into it, has been done for some disease. In both cases, side effects can time, but accurate prediction of a seizure produce problems such as loss of memory remains elusive. and physical and cognitive abilities. Also, Seizures seem to be random and come about 30 per cent of patients are resistant without warning, although a very few to the current range of drugs. Seizures patients experience warning signs, called occur with abnormal, storm-like activity prodromes, of an imminent seizure. We in the brain but vary widely. think that to achieve successful prediction Causes range from brain injuries in the algorithms will have to be trained for free access by anyone. Next, a post-contest How did you come accidents and in wars to brain tumours individual patients through machine- assessment of the top 10 teams’ algorithms to be involved in the and autism. Rwanda, for example, has one learning techniques, as has been done will be held, using data from at least 100 competition and how of the world’s highest rates of epilepsy, When Dr Levin Kuhlmann (BSc(Hons) 2000) against the cruel and unpredictable disease for years with speech-to-text, image pre-seizure periods per patient. That’s 4 particularly among the thousands of child set about probing the mysteries of how and of epilepsy. Much of that research owes its recognition and other computer-based important because it assesses the ability of far has research gone in casualties of the war there. Brain damage why epileptic seizures occur, he took a novel origins to the Bionics Institute and research functions. Deep learning with neural the algorithms to work on large amounts finding an answer? to infants before or during birth can be a approach to advancing the cause. there into the retrieval and interpretation networks is now a hot topic among of data they have not “seen” before. It helps cause, also, in older children and adults, He organised an international of brain signals and the development of the researchers working on seizure prediction. us to ask, if we use the algorithms and train I am interested in how the brain works strokes, and infectious diseases such as crowdsourcing project. He and his cochlear implant – the bionic ear. You need to collect data for a few them on a patient for six months, will they and finding a way to predict epileptic AIDS, meningitis and viral encephalitis. Melbourne colleagues sought engineering Members of that same team, centred months and then, with the patient, train continue to work years ahead? seizures is one of my areas of research. It can even be genetic. talent rather than investors’ money with on the University of Melbourne and the the algorithm on that period of time. Once If the post-contest assessment shows we About 10 years ago, I worked at the Bionic the goal of writing computer algorithms Royal Melbourne Hospital, went on to it is trained you let it run to see if it can can predict seizures on large amounts of Institute when researchers were beginning Dr Kuhlmann acknowledges the expertise capable of predicting epileptic seizures invent the bionic spine and then took up the predict seizures after that period. “unseen” data for patients whose seizures to think of branching out into other areas contributed to the project by Professor based on the electrical signals and activity challenge of epilepsy in collaboration with have previously been difficult to predict, of medical bionics. In the meantime I went David Grayden (BE(Hons) 1990, BSc 1991, recorded from patients’ brains. the University of Melbourne and St Vincent’s What it will likely lead to new, larger long- to Boston to do my PhD in computational PhD 1999), deputy head of Electrical and The project, with prize money of Hospital, Melbourne. happens term clinical trials of the algorithms and modelling of vision and when I came back Electronic Engineering and leader of the $US20,000, was sponsored by the University now? hopefully devices that can reliably give to the Institute the epilepsy project was Bionics Laboratory at the Centre for Neural of Melbourne, the US National Institutes of Dr Kuhlmann is Research Fellow 3 warnings of impending seizures or activate under way. Engineering at the University, and by Health, the American Epilepsy Society and at the University’s Neuro-Engineering The three prize-winning teams will a brain implant that can control or avert Epilepsy is interesting because you Professor Mark Cook (MB BS 1983), director MathWorks. It attracted 10,082 entries. Laboratory in the Department of publish their algorithms online on Kaggle seizures using electrical stimulation or get to study the whole brain dynamics of Neurology at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne is a world leader in the fight Electrical and Electronic Engineering. (See Beyond the Big Idea – page 17) for drug delivery. and how the brain can change over time. Melbourne, an expert in epilepsy. 32 ALUMNI PROFILES ALUMNI PROFILES 33

A DELIGHT IN THE MUSEUM CALL OF THE WILD JULIE BARNES ANGELITA TEO BVSc(Hons) 1989 MArtCur 2012 DIRECTOR OF ANIMAL CARE AND HEALTH AT SANTA BARBARA ZOO DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SINGAPORE

ngelita Teo has a vivid memory of racing through the Louvre as a child, eager to see Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa first-hand. “I was quite disappointed, to be honest,” she says with a laugh. “It was really, really crowded, I was young and had to tiptoe to see over all the Aheads, and then I realised how tiny it was.” Undeterred by that disappointment, Teo went on to study anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and in her early 20s worked as an assistant curator in Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum before dabbling in the IT industry. She found herself drawn back to museums, however, when an ex-colleague asked her to work at the National Museum of Singapore. In 2010, she was awarded a scholarship by Singapore’s Ministry of Culture, and decided to complete a Masters in Art Curatorship in Melbourne, citing the city’s culture and networking opportunities. “During my two years in Melbourne I got to meet really important people in the industry, and I continue some of those wonderful relationships today.” In 2013, 11 years after first being hired by the National Museum, Teo was appointed its director. “I never expected PICTURE: SANTA BARBARA ZOO to be the director of a national museum,” she says. “I’ve been r Julie Barnes always liked working “When you go through vet school you’re constantly doing this for slightly more than three years now and it’s with Australian animals, but these told that there are not many openings in zoo and wildlife been extremely invigorating.” days, as the Director of Animal Care medicine, so you know it’s going to be challenging,” she says. Over a period of 18 months in 2014–15, Teo oversaw a and Health at California’s Santa After 12 months at a private mixed practice in complete revamp of the museum’s galleries. In her first year Barbara Zoo, she’s concentrating Shepparton, Barnes travelled to England to locum for a year as director, more than a million people visited the museum, on conserving endangered North and ended up staying for seven, achieving her Master’s a record for any museum in the American species. degree in wild animal health at London Zoo. From there, “During my two years in country. “Our zoo, along with many other she has worked at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, at Ocean Park Teo credits her success in part Dpartners, has made a significant contribution to the in Hong Kong, and spent time on scientific research vessels to timing – she was appointed recovery of the endangered California condor. The pay-off in Antarctica, performing anaesthesia on seals. Melbourne I got to meet director shortly before Singapore is really starting to happen with that now – there are over That career highlight wound up being a personal really important people in the celebrated the 50th anniversary 400 condors back in the wild,” she explains. one, too. While on the remote continent, Barnes met of its independence, an occasion The zoo also contributes to recovery programs for the her American husband, who was scuba diving on a krill industry, and I continue some that resulted in extra funding for Channel Island fox, which research project. Their the museum – and partly to her lives only on six of the eight “I think the capacity of zoos marriage set her life in a new of those relationships today.” experience as festival director Channel Islands off southern direction, to a career in the for the National Heritage Board. California, and the California to educate people about the United States. “When I came back to the red-legged frog. It has been She started working at museum I brought those portfolios with me, and because of asked to partner on other importance of conservation Los Angeles Zoo and is now that we had a lot of opportunities to create exciting events recovery programs for six years into her position that were either held at the museum or within the museum endangered species, such as is really where they can have at Santa Barbara Zoo, which grounds,” she explains. the unarmored threespine recently expanded to include Singaporeans don’t traditionally go to museums, but stickleback, a small fish native the most impact.” animal care in addition that’s changing. By installing activity corners and workshops to a watershed 100 kilometres to animal health. Barnes’ in the museum, Teo has encouraged the young to develop from Santa Barbara. experience has led her to a passion for history and culture. A lifelong lover of animals, Barnes’ journey to a career believe that zoos can play a crucial role in conservation. “The number of children coming to the museum has with them began late in secondary school, when she “Zoos can provide valuable expertise and support increased quite dramatically, and I’m hoping that we’ll be decided to study veterinary medicine. It wasn’t until to recovery programs for threatened and endangered able to have a new children’s wing at some point,” she says. university that she discovered her deeper interest lay in species around the world, but I think the capacity of zoos “I’ve always felt very strongly that the first experience wildlife care – an area in which it is notoriously difficult to educate people about the importance of conservation for kids coming to museums should be with family.” to find veterinary jobs. is really where they can have the most impact.”

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THE POWER OF SPEECH Alumni attend a special event for the NATHANIEL SWAIN Degas: A New Vision exhibition last year. BA 2010, MSpeechPath 2012, GCALL 2016 WINNER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE’S THREE MINUTE THESIS IN 2016

athaniel Swain credits studying Japanese with kick-starting his passion for speech and language. “I soon discovered it wasn’t actually Japanese that I was interested in; it was the phenomenon of language and communication altogether,” he says. NQuickly changing his major to Linguistics, Swain thought about how to apply his passion to a profession, and came across speech pathology towards the end of his degree. After graduating, he immediately enrolled in the Master of Speech Pathology. “As soon as I went into it I really loved it, and could see enormous benefits of having experts in communication and language address these sorts of problems,” he says. The problems Swain refers to are developmental language disorders, hidden disabilities that impair an individual’s ability to comprehend language or to express themselves through speech. This affects 10 to 15 per cent of the population. In 2014, after working as a speech pathologist for a year, Swain became a PhD candidate and a National Health and PICTURE: NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA Medical Research Council (NHMRC) postgraduate scholar. His thesis centres on language disorders in young offenders, Bringing Melbourne’s whose disabilities can contribute to their disengagement from society, and also prevent them benefiting from rehabilitation interventions such as counselling and cognitive behavioural therapy. cultural life closer “There are only a handful of speech pathologists working in youth justice at the moment,” Swain explains. he University’s cultural National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne Recital Centre “My research was looking at partnerships bring the world a way that a speech pathologist of arts and learning closer The oldest and most Combining architec- “I could see enormous could go in and directly try to our alumni community visited gallery in tural innovation and benefits of having experts to make a difference in the Tthrough a range of exclusive Australia has more acoustic perfection, communication skills of some offers and exhibitions. than 70,000 works the Melbourne Re- in communication and of the boys that were in there.” It has long been so. Many of Mel- in its collection, cital Centre houses Ultimately, Swain’s results bourne’s cultural institutions trace their which spans thou- two of the finest language address these showed he could make a origins to the University. sands of years and a performance spaces meaningful difference in some The National Gallery Art School, wealth of ideas, disciplines and styles. in the southern hemisphere. Each year the Cen- sorts of problems.” young offenders’ communication now the Victorian College of the Arts, Since 2014 the Learning Partnership between tre presents more then 450 concerts and events skills. The boys, and their teachers, was founded at Australia’s first public the University and the Gallery has given alumni across a variety of musical genres, from classical responded positively. Swain hopes art museum, the National Gallery of access to exhibitions such as Degas: A New and jazz, to popular and cabaret. policy-makers and youth justice professionals take notice. Victoria. Vision (2016). Last year the Centre forged a Learning Last September, Swain stepped up his efforts to share The National Museum – as Museums This year’s Melbourne Winter Masterpieces Partnership with the University of Melbourne. his findings by entering the University’s Three Minute Victoria was once known – used to be exhibition is Van Gogh and the Seasons. This partnership will enhance the University’s Thesis (3MT) competition. He won, and subsequently flew housed on the Parkville campus. To complement these exhibitions, experts research into the impact of the arts, opening up to Brisbane for the Asia-Pacific contest, where he placed The University itself is home to a from the Faculty of Arts and NGV curators a world of opportunities for our young mu- runner-up. diverse and vast array of cultural collec- have presented The Faculty of Arts Melbourne sicians through commissions, masterclasses, “3MT tends to work well for projects where researchers tions – from veterinary anatomy to rare Masterclass series, allowing alumni and students internships, interaction with visiting artists, and demonstrate how it will affect the public, like medical manuscripts. the chance to enter the intricate world behind shadowing and mentoring opportunities. researchers saving lives, or engineers producing efficient Partnerships with the National the art. solar cells,” Swain explains. “I felt very proud to win. I saw it Gallery of Victoria and the Melbourne as a sign that my research resonated with people and that Recital Centre present a wonderful Alumni offer: Discounted one-year membership Alumni offer: Two-year membership of the of the NGV at the concession price of $73. Melbourne Recital Centre for the price of one its impact was understood.” extension of that rich resource. alumni.unimelb.edu.au/special-offers ($50). alumni.unimelb.edu.au/special-offers PROFILES BY ERIN MUNRO (BA 2006) Here’s how you can benefit:

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AUSTRALIA DAY APPOINTMENTS ARTS, BOOKS & ENTERTAINMENT A TASTE FOR HONOURS SPORTING GOLD Eminent constitutional lawyer Richard Larkins The University of New South Wales The maiden feature Sister Joan Healy (GDipArts 1972, Five alumni received the nation’s Dr Stephen Donaghue QC (BA 1995, (MB BS 1966, MD appointed Professor Emma film by Melbourne BA(Hons) 1974) tells the story of six Dylan Alcott (BCom 2016) won highest civilian award – the LLB(Hons) 1995) has been 1972, LLD 2004) Johnston (BSc(Hons) 1997, writer-director families who fled the aftermath of two gold medals in tennis at the Companion of the Order of appointed Australia’s 12th Solicitor- replaced Professor PhD 2001) Dean of Science in Ruth Borgobello the Cambodian killing fields in Rio Paralympic Games, then Australia (AC) – in the 2017 General. His appointment is for a Adrienne Clarke November 2016. Johnston, (BCom(Hons) 1999, Writing for Raksmey. They were held followed up by winning his third Australia Day Honours. tenure of five years. Prior to joining as Chancellor previously the University’s Pro GDipFTV 2002), in a crowded refugee camp at the successive quad wheelchair Honoured were former prime the bar, Dr Donaghue served as an of La Trobe Vice-Chancellor made headlines The Space Between, border of their country and then sent Australian Open tennis title. minister Julia Gillard (LLB 1986, associate to High Court judge University in earlier in 2016 after she discovered opened the 2016 back to a nation still at war. Alcott previously represented BA 1989), current Governor of Kenneth Hayne AC QC for a year. February 2017. It is the latest in a a species of flatworm that had Lavazza Italian Film Festival. Australia in wheelchair basketball Victoria Linda Dessau long series of senior university both male and female reproductive Borgobello’s semi-autobiographical Patrick Brammall – a sport in which he also won (LLB(Hons) 1973), pictured, Ross Williamson appointments for Professor Larkins, properties. movie traced the opening days of her (BDramArt 2001) Paralympic Gold. former federal minister Dr David (BSc(Hons) 1983) who was previously the Dean of the relationship with her future husband. has become one Kemp (BA(Hons) 1965, LLB 1966), took over as Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Jay Savage (BA(Media&Comm) It is the first film to be officially of Australia’s most chemist Emeritus Professor director of Health Sciences at the University 2005) has been appointed Australia co-produced under an Australian- sought-after actors. Andrew Holmes (BSc 1965, Healesville of Melbourne and Vice-Chancellor editor for BBC.com. Previously a Italian cultural treaty signed in 1996. Recent credits MSc 1967) and ophthalmologist Sanctuary in of Monash University (2003-09). journalist with the Herald Sun, Famed fashion designer Alexander include No Activity, Professor Keryn Williams January 2017. Savage is responsible for shaping For the first time, an all-Australian McQueen found a kindred spirit in Offspring and (BSc(Hons) 1970, PhD 1975). He was previously Luci Ellis (BCom(Hons) 1990) editorial direction on cast performed on New York City’s Sarah Harmarnee (BFineArt 1992), Upper Middle Bogan. The latter won In all, more than 75 Melbourne Zoos Victoria’s General Manager became the first woman appointed the BBC’s dedicated Australian famed Broadway in January 2017. who worked with the iconic British Best Television Comedy at the 2017 alumni and staff received awards of Threatened Species. The Assistant Governor (Economic) news service. Cate Blanchett and Christopher designer for several years until Australia Film Institute Awards. in the first of two honours lists appointment caps a 30-year career at the Reserve Bank of Australia. Ryan (BMusPerf 2001, BDramArt 2001. Harmarnee’s designs are now Brammall has also appeared in the released in 2017. in wildlife conservation. Her November 2016 appointment Jennifer Gidley (BA 1972) will step 2005) starred in Andrew Upton’s featured in Alexander McQueen: US spin-off of Upper Middle Bogan, is a good omen – she holds down this year as President adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Unseen (Yale University Press). titled Furst Born. More details: Jewish Community Council of a position previously of World Futures Studies Platonov, which was produced under The book’s release coincides with alumni.unimelb.edu.au/honours Victoria president Jennifer Huppert held by the last three Federation, a UNESCO the stage name of The Present. Harmarnee’s shift to photography, Dena Kahan (BA(Hons) 1982, (MUP 1993) was appointed to the Reserve Bank and UN-ECOSOC partner with her portfolio focusing on BFineArt 1992), a former art board of the Victorian Equal Governors. Ellis (right), organisation, charged A novel by Cher Chidzey (MSc 1985, horses, specifically in the Tuscan conservation expert at the Centre Opportunity and Human Rights a housing expert, with bringing together GDipEd 1987), Ken’s Quest, published countryside. for Cultural Materials Conservation, Commission in 2016. She was has been with the academics, researchers, in November 2016, tells the story of a worked on a series of paintings previously a Member of the RBA since 2008. practitioners and Chinese migrant’s turbulent journey based on the botanical models in the Legislative Council (2009-10) and She regularly represents students to examine to Australia. In a surprising career shift, physicist University of Melbourne Herbarium. director of the Emergency Services Australia’s central bank innovation and ideas that Justin Matthys (BSc 2008, MSc 2010, Her exhibition took place in March and State Superannuation Board at parliamentary will help resolve future In a research breakthrough, music PGDipTeach 2012) went from helping 2017. (2006-09). inquiries. problems. therapist Professor Felicity Baker to discover the fabled Higgs boson (BMus(Hons) 1992, MMus(MusThrpy) particle to founding a teaching model Cynthia Lee 1999) was able to demonstrate that tipped to revolutionise maths in (BCom 2009, dementia sufferers can still be schools. Maths Pathways is the BIS 2009) was capable of learning. Professor Baker, venture Matthys founded with Teach selected as AWARDS whose University-led pilot program for Australia recruit Richard Wilson. the Young ICT centred on the role of song writing, It is an online maths problem-solving Professional of the Bede Jones (BA(Hons) 2015) Tony Birch (BA(Hons) 1991, helped patients at the Caladenia program used in more than 110 Year (Female under became the first Indigenous MA(CrWrtg) 2000, PhD 2003) took Dementia Care Centre in Mooroolbark schools across Australia. 30) at the Australian Tasmanian and second Indigenous out the 2016 Victorian Premier’s write, record and remember lyrics Computer Society’s Digital Disruptors Australian to be awarded a Rhodes Literary Award for Indigenous writing from new compositions. Former AFL premiership player Peter Awards 2016. Financial services and Scholarship. Jones received the for his novel, Ghost River, a coming- Bell (LLB 2002) embraced a career accountancy firm Deloitte gave Lee 2017 Tasmanian award, while fellow of-age story set in Fitzroy in the It’s been a startling change in October 2016, when he her breakthrough in 2010, when she Melbourne graduate Rebecca Duke summer of 1968. rise for novelist began as a breakfast radio presenter was invited to join the graduate (BA(Hons) 2016, DipL 2016) received Anna Snoekstra on ABC Perth. Bell previously worked program. the Victorian award. The scholarship Dr Eva de Jong-Duldig (GDipPhysical (BA 2009), whose as a lawyer. covers postgraduate study costs at Ed 1957, BA 1971) won the Historical debut novel Only Nadia Tass (GDipTeach(Sec) 1975, Oxford University. Interpretation Award as part of the Daughter is being BEd(Sec) 1980) directed an 2016 Victorian Community History turned into a adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Jenny McGregor (BA(Hons) 1974, Awards. Dr de Jong-Duldig created Hollywood Uncle Vanya at St Kilda’s Red Stitch GDipEd 1981) was selected as a BOSS with Dr David Smith (BSc 1971, PhD screenplay by Universal Pictures/ Theatre in 2016. Tass is best True Leader 2016 by The Australian 1976) a documentary about her father Working Title. The psychological renowned for her work in Australian Financial Review. The Asialink titled Duldig Studio Documentaries: thriller centres on an imposter who cinema, with directing credits founder was honoured for her A modern take on Romeo and Volume 1. Her father, Karl Duldig, was claims to be a missing teenager. including Malcolm (1986) and institution’s role in furthering Juliet resulted in Randa Abdel- a renowned Jewish sculptor who fled The film adaptation will be called The Big Steal (1990). Asian-Australian relations over the Fattah (BA 2001, LLB(Hons) 2001) to Australia following the annexation The New Winter. past 25 years. Other University receiving the Victorian Premier’s of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938. Garden designer Michael McCoy representatives in the BOSS True Literary Award for Young Adult VCA graduate Hannah Fredericksen (BSc 1984) has worked for many Leader awards were former federal Fiction. When Michael Met Mina Urban planner Professor Alan March (BMusThtr 2012) played 1950s teen high-profile clients. Now the minister Andrew Robb AO (DipAgrSc is the story of the son of anti- (PhD 2004) received the Planner of idol Sandra Dee in Dream Lover – Woodend-based botanist 1971), Professor Ian Frazer AC (MD immigration campaigners who the Year Award at the 2016 Planning The Bobby Darin Musical, which has made his mark on TV, 1988), Professor Brendan Crabb AC falls in love with an Afghan refugee. Institute of Australia – Victoria premiered at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre hosting an eight-program (BSc(Hons) 1988, PhD 1992), Professor Abdel-Fattah is a former litigation Awards. Dr March worked with many in 2016. Fredericksen (pictured right series on the ABC. Dream Douglas Hilton AO (BSc(Hons) 1986, lawyer who ran for Federal industry partners to better recognise with David Campbell) had previously Gardens, which went to air in PhD 1990) and Vice-Chancellor Parliament in 1998, aged 19. bushfire vulnerability, disaster risks played singer Olivia Newton-John in February, looked at striking Professor Glyn Davis AC. and resilience in regional Victoria. Channel 7’s miniseries Molly. garden designs across Australia. 38 ENTERPRISETHE LAST WORD Mamma Mia, here we go again – the music that refuses to die Michael Ingvarson (BEd(Sec) 1993) has played the role of Benny in an ABBA tribute band, BABBA, for the past 22 years. He recalls how his musical journey began.

ABBA’s long musical for twice as long as ABBA. journey began with There are many highlights, a crush. It really was such as performing to 45,000 at that simple. Singer Etihad Stadium for the closing BKathy Mikkelsen had of the Masters Games, touring the hots for the owner of the Asia on seven occasions, and Royal Derby Hotel and thought playing at the Melbourne Zoo he might be impressed if he Twilight concerts. heard her sing with her friend, These days we play on cruise Gabriella Favretto, in his hotel’s ships several times a year, and we ‘Battle of the Bands’. are now preparing for a massive The hotel manager then gig with the Canberra Symphony thought it would be a good Orchestra, performing our whole idea to try an ABBA-style show with them in front of 20,000 band at the Fitzroy pub on a people. Indeed, we’ve also loved Thursday night. Always up our University of Melbourne for a challenge, the girls sang courtyard gigs. Always such an Fernando in harmony for appreciative audience! him, and so began the story People often ask if we ever of BABBA. tire of playing the same music. This was in the early ‘90s We don’t, and the reason is that and though the legendary ABBA these are well-crafted songs had not performed since 1982, with lovely melodies and song their music refused to die. Who structures. They’re hugely could ever really forget classics satisfying to play. like Waterloo, Dancing Queen, The arrangements, vocally Mamma Mia and One of Us? and instrumentally, are I had met Kathy while we complicated and unique – so we were both studying music at are always musically refining our Melbourne University, but was performances. The audiences, too, still a bit surprised when she play their part. It’s fun and joyful invited me to play Benny. I went to watch the faces of people as the The world’s library... to the pub for an audition and music flicks a switch and triggers had my own crush experience BABBA today (from left): James Macdonald, Susannah Gidley happy memories. when I met the gorgeous (BA 2013, BMus 2013), Jacqueline Hamilton and Michael Ingvarson. My other great passion in life exclusively yours Gabriella, who played Frida. has been composing, recording James Macdonald, who had also been “People often ask if we ever and producing music. I found the joy performing in the Battle of the Bands, in music as a boy of 14 when I began was recruited as Bjorn. Our robust rhythm tire of playing the same improvising on the piano. Soon I was section was filled with Kim May and Paul doing MIDI sequencing with early Macs Special offer for University of Melbourne alumni Edsall (BMusPerf 1993). music. We don’t, and the and samplers, composing music for a film We had our first gig on December 2, and producing and co-writing music for As alumni, you’re entitled to access the University of Melbourne’s eJournals, 1994, when we played for an audience reason is that these are singers and songwriters. My University a repository of the latest and greatest academic minds the world over. of 450. We were terrified and thrilled at course gave me the basics for all that the same time. Within a couple of years, well-crafted songs with followed it. From wherever you are in the world. we were performing 180 shows a year. Since 2003, I have owned a professional Now, 22 years on, we have crossed the lovely melodies . . .” music production studio in Canterbury On call. Online. Exclusive to UoM alumni. And for only $20 per annum. 3000-gig mark. called Big Hand Productions. Music is I loved music but never really imagined very much a family affair. Gabriella and making a career out of it. I had studied success. After one semester, I began to I have been together since pretty soon Join online Music and Drama at the University of look for other ways to make a living from after my BABBA audition. We now have alumni.unimelb.edu.au/ejournals Melbourne and in 1994, I began teaching music. BABBA was the passport to my three children, all involved in music. the subjects at a western suburbs school. new life. Music has been good to us because, Other exclusive alumni offers It was my first teaching job and, to put The group members have changed over as ABBA sang long before we did, ‘Without alumni.unimelb.edu.au/benefits-services it mildly, it wasn’t exactly a resounding the years, but we have now played together a song and a dance what are we?’ 3010 Terms and conditions apply. See website for details. Cover image: Interior of Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, Parkville campus

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