SEPTEMBER 2011 JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY

In their shoes A tribute to the victims of Christchurch’s earthquake Tigers in trouble How malaria threatens India’s endangered wildlife Making movies An anthropologist at work in remote

www.jcu.edu.au/discover Cover: Creative Industries student Jay Feather. Photographer: Sue Wellwood

In their shoes 4

Creative Industries student Jay Feather used 182 pairs of shoes to create a work dedicated to those who lost their lives in the Christchurch earthquake.

Civil concerns 6

A study of 32 communities aims to assess the civil and family law needs of Indigenous Australians in areas including credit, debt and child protection.

Tiger trouble 7

Limited access to healthcare for staff in India’s wildlife reserves means less protection against poaching for tigers and other endangered animals.

Outstanding 8

In this year’s Alumni Awards JCU has acknowledged the achievements of eight Outstanding Alumni as well as four Outstanding Early Career Alumni.

Once a year we invite everyone to opening of University College Coral map 9 visit James Cook University during in 1961. We are Open Day. Perhaps you have picked celebrating those first years by Sequencing the genome of the staghorn coral will up a copy of this magazine during inviting back our original students help scientists understand how corals build reefs, and that visit. I hope you enjoyed your and staff to various functions in the why they fail to do so when they are under stress. visit and that you will also discover next few months. a little bit more about us from the Making movies 10 following pages. From being an outpost of The University of , James An award-winning film made in Papua New Guinea’s We see Open Day as an opportunity Cook University has, since gaining remote Manus Province examines how people need a not only to show off what we have to autonomy in 1970, established itself vision of the past in order to imagine a future. offer to prospective students from far as a world-ranking institution of and wide but also to showcase the learning and research. Sweet history 13 University to our local community in The sugar industry strike of 1911 ran for four months, northern Queensland. In 1987, a campus was added with 117 students and early extended from Mossman to Childers, and saw arrests, A visitor will see growing campuses in August this year the number of riots and unlawful burning of cane crops. with new buildings, widespread students actually studying on that research facilities and, most campus hit 4000 for the first time. In Alumnus honoured 17 importantly, meet people who are 2003, JCU Singapore was established JCU biology honours graduate Dr Tracy Langkilde has dedicated to creating a brighter and a few months ago we achieved received an Ecological Society of America award for future for life in the tropics, world- sole ownership of the campus her work investigating fire ants and lizards. wide, by teaching our students and making us truly an international achieving discoveries that together university of the tropics. In print 18 will make a difference. We are proud of the fact that Literature in and about the tropical north, a cow’s It is the fulfilment of the vision our presence makes Cairns and view of the world, and the science and charisma of espoused 50 years ago when tertiary Townsville university cities and that kangaroos: new books by JCU staff and alumni. education was first established the JCU community extends far in northern Queensland with the beyond our campus boundaries.

Volume 5 No 2 Discover James Cook University Sandra Harding Editor: Linden Woodward Vice-Chancellor Contributors: Robin Beaman, Paul Dymond, Amber Hill, Liz Inglis, Caroline Kaurila, Cameron Laird, Jim O’Brien, Rob Parsons, Narelle Reece, Kristof Schrader, Pinky Sibal, Kristof Schrader, Romy Siegmann, Sue Wellwood. Design: Twocan Multimedia Advertising enquiries: [email protected] Online: www.jcu.edu.au/discover ISSN: 1835-2456 CRICOS: 00117J

2 SEPTEMBER 2011 Building better Queensland Premier and With the Chair of the Queensland Minister for Reconstruction, Reconstruction Authority, Major General Mick Slater, the Premier Anna Bligh, recently visited saw a demonstration of the effects

Photographer: Cameron Laird Cameron Photographer: JCU’s Cyclone Testing Station of cyclonic winds on houses at the to launch new building Cyclone Testing Station. guidelines, following Major General Mick Slater said the northern Queensland’s summer disasters also reminded us summer of natural disasters. that cyclones do not only affect the Queensland coast. Rebuilding in tide prone “Cyclone Yasi crossed the areas: Tully Heads and Hull Heads is Queensland coast causing millions designed to help those who choose in damage, but its sheer size meant to rebuild their homes in areas its effects were felt 1500 kilometres impacted by Cyclone Yasi. west in ,” General Slater “We have said we want to build it said. back better in Queensland and we “Therefore, guidelines like these mean it,” the Premier said. have benefits for communities not “These guidelines will give people only around , but anywhere rebuilding their homes or building in the world where serious new homes some directions on how like typhoons and hurricanes are to limit the damage should a storm prevalent. surge hit their region again.” Major General Mick Slater watches as Senior Engineer Ulrich Frye and Queensland Premier Yasi lessons, p 14 Anna Bligh fire the Cyclone Testing Station’s air cannon.

A healthy alliance Treasurer and Mr Fraser said the Queensland QTHA Director Professor Louis resistant tuberculosis, cholera, Tropical Health Alliance would Schofield said the Queensland diarrhoea, bat-borne viruses, and Minister for State become one of Queensland’s great Tropical Health Alliance would diseases that particularly afflict scientific assets. significantly increase Queensland’s Australia’s Indigenous people,” he Development Andrew research capability in relation to said. “Cairns is uniquely placed to lead tropical health, making the State Fraser launched the game-changing research in tropical one of the foremost research “And, given that half the world’s health,” Mr Fraser said. locations in the world. population live in the tropics, the Queensland Tropical contribution our scientists make Health Alliance This collaboration among “By working together, what these to tackling these diseases will be Queensland universities and scientists do will go a long way to significant.” (QTHA) and its new research institutes, creating a helping us to defeat blights like “ malaria, dengue fever, multi-drug www.qtha.com.au medical research wealth of health and medical research expertise in the tropics, laboratory at JCU will set the region apart from Cairns in July. global competition. In 2009, the Queensland Government committed” $19.45 million as an interest-free loan to establish the QTHA.

The University of Queensland recently announced it is joining the Alliance, which comprises JCU, the Queensland University of Technology, Griffith University, and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research.

This makes it a Queensland-wide alliance with all the Queensland- based research institutes and universities conducting significant research activities in tropical health. Nathalie Ruyssers, from the Loukas laboratory at JCU, is part of the Queensland Tropical Health Alliance

www.jcu.edu.au/discover 3 “Our brief was to produce something substantial, so I looked at the work of artists like Christo, who famously In their shoes wrapped a stretch of coastline,” she said. A collection of 182 pairs of “I love the way those huge shoes might inspire frivolous works inspire the viewer’s tactile or indulgent thoughts... Carrie imagination and engage you partly Bradshaw’s love affair with via the process: you find yourself her Manolo Blahniks, or Imelda thinking a lot about how they Marcos and her famed collection achieved that result – the work of footwear. behind the scenes.” For creative industries student Trying to imagine herself in the Jay Feather shoes became the shoes of the people of Christchurch raw material for an installation took on a more literal shape – she dedicated to those who lost their decided to represent the victims lives in Christchurch’s February with pairs of shoes. earthquake. “When I was completing the Jay says her work, completed as planning for my installation the part of a creative arts subject, police reported that they believed was inspired by other large-scale 182 people had died, so I made a artworks and the enormity of list of their names to include in a the situation then unfolding in plaque and I set about collecting Christchurch. 182 pairs of shoes.

“I wanted the work to make an impact through the repetition, scale and shape. I hoped the repetition would give a sense of the scale of the disaster. 182 victims sounds a lot, but seeing 182 pairs of shoes is a way of experiencing that more directly and more personally.”

The shoes, collected from friends and charity stores, are painted white. “The colour represents another state of being,” Jay said. “I hoped it would also communicate a sense of peace. It’s a sad work, but I wanted to make something that people could contemplate peacefully.

Jay Feather collected 182 pairs of shoes from friends and charity stores.

4 SEPTEMBER 2011 Shoes in many sizes and styles give a sense of the victims as individuals.

“Painting those small shoes was heartbreaking for me.”

“It took several coats and three months of painting to get all the shoes the right colour, but it was calm and meditative work.”

Three of the victims were infants, represented by three tiny pairs of shoes. “Painting those small shoes Shoes in many sizes and styles help was heartbreaking for me. As I to communicate a sense of the painted I was able to reflect on the victims as individuals. lives lost. I found myself thinking a lot about just how fragile we are as “When they walk among the shoes a society, and the power of natural some people cry or want to talk disasters - that what lies beyond about how they felt when they such an event is unknown.” saw the earthquake stories on the news. Sometimes ordinary life Jay arranged the shoes in rows intervenes, and you’ll hear someone along intersecting paths at the say ‘I really like those sandals’ or ‘My entrance to JCU’s Cairns campus. sister has a pair like that’ and then they’ll remember what the sandals “The paths form a cross, and the represent.” D neat rows of white shoes bring to mind a cemetery. I set them out Photography: Sue Wellwood with enough space to allow people to wander amongst them.”

“I wanted to make something that people could contemplate peacefully.” © Geoff Sloan, Newspix

Emergency services and volunteers rescue people from the collapsed CTV building.

www.jcu.edu.au/discover 5 “It’s an area where research is were with private landlords or public sorely needed,” said Professor Chris housing authorities, many people Cunneen, a Tropical Leader at The were either unable to access legal Civil inquiries Cairns Institute. advice or were unaware of their rights. “There has been a great deal of discussion on access to “It was not uncommon for people in justice issues, particularly at a our focus groups to feel powerless against public housing authorities. A study of 32 communities federal level, but there is little They didn’t know enough about understanding or information on aims to assess the civil and the legal system and its processes family law needs of Indigenous what services Indigenous people to have any chance of achieving are accessing, or what they need.” Australians in areas such as justice. discrimination, consumer “Preliminary research so far reveals “In matters of family law, where that many Indigenous people are children might be removed matters, credit and debt, unaware of their legal entitlements by government agencies, or child protection, education, and how to pursue them. Lack of grandparents might be caring for awareness means lack of access.” children in informal arrangements, employment, health, housing having people unaware of Professor Cunneen is conducting even the possibility of legal and wills and estates. Australia’s first large-scale representation can have very serious investigation of this area of law with consequences.” his fellow chief investigators Ms Melanie Schwartz (University of New Professor Cunneen said poor access South Wales) and Professor Larissa to legal advice could sometimes Behrendt (University of Technology, cause a civil law matter to escalate Sydney). Ms Fiona Allison, an and become a criminal law problem. experienced lawyer and researcher, is the senior research fellow on the “Where people are attempting project and is based at the Cairns to resolve an issue themselves, Photographer: Romy Siegmann Romy Photographer: Institute. perhaps a matter of family law or Funded by an Australian Research a dispute between neighbours, Council linkage grant of just there’s a danger that it can end over $700,000, the researchers badly, with criminal acts, charges, will conduct separate men’s and and a perpetuation of the over- women’s focus groups in each representation of Indigenous of four states and territories: people in our courts and prisons.” Queensland, , Northern Territory and Western Australia. This three-year project aims to inform successful models of legal The study will include urban, service delivery, better access to regional, rural and remote justice, enhanced human rights communities and will also gather compliance and improved social information from legal service justice outcomes for Indigenous providers. people. D “When combined with a pilot study Melanie Schwartz and I conducted earlier in New South Wales, this project will give us data and analysis Project partners on the five states and territories The Cairns Institute at JCU; that are home to more than 85% of University of New South Wales; Indigenous Australians,” Professor University of Technology, Cunneen said. “It will be a landmark Sydney; Northern Territory Legal study of Indigenous civil and Aid Commission; Legal Aid family law needs which will have Queensland; Legal Aid Commission significant public policy impact.” of Western Australia; Victoria Aboriginal Legal Service Co- The New South Wales pilot found operative Limited; North Australian significant unmet need for legal Aboriginal Justice Agency Limited; Professor Chris Cunneen is a Tropical Leader at The Cairns Institute, James Cook advice and representation in North Australian Aboriginal Family University. He is a leading criminologist specialising in Indigenous people and the law, matters relating to housing, juvenile justice, restorative justice, policing, prison issues and human rights. Violence Legal Service; Aboriginal education and family law. and Torres Strait Islanders Legal “Those were by no means the only Service (Qld) Limited; Aboriginal areas, but they were the stand- Legal Service of Western Australia out problems,” Professor Cunneen Inc; Central Australian Aboriginal said. “When we looked at tenancy Family Law Unit. disputes for example, whether they

6 SEPTEMBER 2011 A home for clean and green science

Senator Kim Carr, Minister for The researchers will collaborate Innovation, Industry, Science and on subjects including: biodiversity Research, officially opened the and climate change; sustainable Australian Tropical Science and production systems; sustainable Innovation Precinct (ATSIP) in July. ecosystem management; hydro- ecological interactions; social and ATSIP, at James Cook University economic factors in sustainable in Townsville, is headquarters communities, industries and Photography Glass the Looking Through for research underpinning the governance systems. sustainable use of natural resources in the tropics. The Queensland Government has provided $14 million as a Smart “Our climate is changing and there State Research Facilities Fund loan, has never been a more important two-thirds of which must be repaid. time for governments to invest in JCU will contribute $8.2 million to science,” Senator Carr said. the Precinct.

“While some choose to deny the Queensland Minister for Marine evidence, the Labor Government is Infrastructure, Craig Wallace, said determined to fight climate change. the investment was vital to ensure a sustainable future for unique “That is why the Gillard Government tropical areas such as northern is providing $10 million through Queensland. D the CSIRO for construction of this vital research hub, which will house www.csiro.au/places/ATSIP.html researchers from the CSIRO and Senator Kim Carr doing the honours at the opening of ATSIP – a new research hub for James Cook University.” northern Queensland. Malaria threatens tigers too Limited access to healthcare for endangered species such as the measures can significantly reduce

staff in wildlife reserves poses tiger,” he said. the number of people who contract Singh iStock © Aditya a threat to tigers and other these diseases. endangered animals, according to Professor Laurance said that many a new study led by a James Cook Indian parks were in remote and “Prevention is indeed better than University doctoral student. rugged areas, where disease and cure,” Ms Velho said. “Not only access to healthcare were major is it cheaper and often easier to Research conducted in India found issues. implement, it also means that fewer that the incidence of diseases such families will suffer from disease or as malaria and tuberculosis severely death.” affected the management of the country’s national parks and wildlife During the study Ms Velho, with sanctuaries. the help of Mumbai’s Sumitomo Chemicals, distributed insecticide- Lead author Nandini Velho, a treated mosquito nets to all forest doctoral student at JCU in Australia watchers in anti-poaching camps and a research associate at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, said that in one tiger reserve more than 70 per cent of the forest staff suffered from malaria over a four-year period.

“Malaria made many of the guards too sick to carry out their duties, and this likely led to an increase in wildlife poaching in the park,” she “Malaria is a serious problem in tiger in Pakke Reserve. As a result, the said. reserves such as Namdapha and malaria infection rate has dropped Dampa. It’s also prevalent in parts of ten-fold over the past year. Another of the study’s authors, JCU’s eastern India, all along the foothills Distinguished Professor William of the Himalayas, and in at least a “This is surely good news,” Ms Laurance, said this was a serious dozen other tiger reserves across Velho said. “But for these gains and deadly problem. India.” to continue, the institutions responsible must step up and take “In a sense, malaria is not just Diseases such as malaria and responsibility. It doesn’t take much sickening and killing people. It is tuberculosis kill thousands of – just simple mosquito nets can killing wildlife as well, including Malaria poses a threat to India’s Indians every year. However, simple make a huge difference.” D endangered tigers

www.jcu.edu.au/discover 7 Outstanding Alumni Ms Tricia Brand, Executive Director of Finance and Resource Planning, JCU Dr Catherine Day, Director of Catholic Education for the Diocese of Townsville Professor David Durrheim, Director Health Protection, New England, NSW, Conjoint Professor of Public Health Medicine at the University of Newcastle and Adjunct Professor of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at JCU Dr John Glaister, Deputy Director- General of Queensland Health Mr Glenn Poole, Queensland’s Auditor-General Dr Glen Richards, founder of Mr Glenn Poole, Dr Jan Strugnell, Professor David Durrheim, Professor Sandra Harding, Ms Tricia Brand, Dr John Glaister, Dr Catherine Day, Dr Glen Richards. Greencross Vets Mr Matthew Salmon, Assistant Director NT Policy and Programs with the Federal Department of Outstanding alumni Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities They come from Sydney, Vice-Chancellor Professor Sandra “Our research is externally and , from Harding said she had no doubt that recognised as both excellent and Dr Jan Strugnell, Lecturer, and Newcastle, each of the Outstanding Alumni had relevant and our graduates are Department of Genetics, LaTrobe and as far away as to be displayed the grand triumvirate of highly employable,” she said. University acknowledged as Outstanding professionalism: confidence to know Alumni of James Cook University. that there is always more to learn; “What’s more, we know that many Outstanding Early Career commitment to serving the purpose of our graduates become leaders in Alumni Eight were named as Outstanding of their profession; and courage their professions and in the broader Dr Christopher Bartlett, Country Alumni and four were awarded to face immense challenges, community. Today, the spotlight is Director of the SPC-GIZ Coping the accolade of Outstanding Early sometimes getting it wrong and on eight such accomplished leaders with Climate Change in the Pacific Career Dymond Paul Photographer: Alumni. learning from that hard experience. and four leaders who, while early in Islands Region Program in Vanuatu their career, have achieved greatly There was also a Special To the Early Career Alumni, all the same.” D Mrs Natalie Davis, Dean of Students Recognition Award for former JCU I say, we are watching you. We at the Senior School of the veterinary science lecturer and — Photographer: Rob Parsons applaud your impressive career Cathedral School in Townsville disabilities advocate Dr Max Murray. “ success to date and look to your Dr Liang Joo Leow, Conjoint Greencross Vets founder Dr Glen further success as your career Lecturer at St Vincent’s Clinical Richards, who completed his Masters develops, as we know it will. School of the University of NSW degree at JCU in 1992, received the You are already that type of and internationally accredited Chancellor’s Outstanding Alumnus professional, with an exciting interpreter and translator award. journey ahead. Ms Angela Lowe, solicitor and President of both the Townsville JCU introduced its Outstanding Professor Harding said that JCU’s District Law Association and the Alumni Awards during its 40th place - northern” Queensland, Management Committee of the birthday celebrations last year and northern Australia, Singapore and A special award recognised the achievements of veterinary science Townsville Community Legal has now made them an annual the greater tropics - was becoming lecturer and disabilities advocate Service event. more important, not less. Dr Max Murray.

Dr Glen Richards received the Chancellor’s Outstanding Early Career Alumni Mrs Natalie Davis , Dr Christopher Bartlett Outstanding Alumnus award. and Ms Angela Lowe.

8 SEPTEMBER 2011 A mystery mapped © iStock

Australian scientists have sequenced This is the first animal genome The study shows that while corals project to be carried out may look like simple animals their the genome of the staghorn entirely in Australia and is an DNA is surprisingly complex, with important milestone in Australian the high level of polymorphism of coral Acropora millepora, a major biotechnology and the study of coral this genome posing an additional component of the reefs. challenge. and coral reefs worldwide. “This is a first for Australian Like most animals, coral is diploid. science,” said project coordinator Dr Each individual contains two near- Kirby Siemering from the Australian identical sets of genes – one from Genome Research Facility. “Here we the father and one from the mother. show that Australia can unlock the However the two haplotypes (the genetic potential of its own unique father and the mother halves of fauna and flora for the national the genome) are more different in benefit.” corals than in other animal species.

Dr Sylvain Foret, from the ARC Addressing these challenges Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef required that the Australian Studies, said the cost of genome scientists develop a number of sequencing had decreased by pioneering genome assembly several orders of magnitude methods. in the past few years thanks to groundbreaking technological The first draft assembly of the advances. Acropora millepora sequence is available to the scientific Photographer: Robin Beaman Robin Photographer: “These new technologies present community under specific us with a unique opportunity to conditions. explore the DNA of our fascinating Australian animals. However, The coral genome sequence has Professor what we need is the funding and been a national collaborative David Miller, investment in skills needed to carry effort by: the Australian Genome from the ARC out such research,” said Dr Foret, Research Facility; the ARC Centre Centre of Excellence who led this initial analysis. of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies for Coral Reef Studies based at James Cook University; and JCU, said the project had both The coral genome, comprising 28 the Australian National University; practical and scientific significance. chromosomes, is amongst the first Monash University; the Walter and animal genomes in the world to be Eliza Hall Institute; University of “It will help us to understand how sequenced entirely using Illumina Queensland; Illumina. D corals build reefs, and why they fail sequencing technology. to do so when they are under stress,” he said. Illumina is one of the next- generation sequencing methods James Cook University and the ARC “The availability of the genome and produces huge numbers of sequence for Acropora millepora Centre of Excellence for short sequence reads each of will enable major advances in the Coral Reef Studies will host the around 100 letters. understanding of many aspects 12th International Coral Reef of coral biology, including the One of the main challenges in Symposium in 2012. responses of corals to climate this project was to reconstruct the change, ocean acidification, approximately 400 million letters of www.icrs2012.com/ pollution and disease.” the coral genome using those very small sequences.

www.jcu.edu.au/discover 9 Male dancers performing with obsidian-tipped spears.

The camera rolls and the in 2008 and has screened at more log drums thunder as than 26 international film festivals. Making movies the drama of a cultural “Film is a valuable tool,” struggle unfolds in an Professor Otto said. “I use it to get feedback on my analysis of exotic island location. what is going on. My first film It sounds like a Hollywood still screens regularly in PNG, blockbuster, but this award-winning is used in teaching around the film is a valuable research and world and has created greater teaching tool. understanding of ethnographic fieldwork in PNG and among a Unity through Culture, a film by wider audience.” Cairns Institute Tropical Leader Professor Ton Otto, scooped two Both films stem from Professor prizes at a prestigious London film Otto’s 1980s doctoral work on the festival in June. ethnography of Manus province in PNG, where he spent two years It won the Intangible Culture living on remote Baluan Island. Film Prize and the newly established Richard Werbner With a diameter of only five Award for Visual Ethnography at kilometres and a population of the 12th Royal Anthropological 1400, Baluan may be nothing Institute International Festival of more than a speck in the Pacific Ethnographic film. Ocean to many, but its unique cultural revolution makes the island This is the second film Professor Otto very important in the world of has made about cultural traditions anthropology. on Baluan Island in Papua New Guinea. Both are collaborations Professor Otto originally planned with filmmaker and PhD student to document Baluan’s Paliau Christian Suhr. Movement, which followed a post-World War II declaration by Their first film, Ngat is Dead; indigenous leader Paliau Maloat of Studying Mortuary Traditions, his vision to modernise the villagers won an award at the Jean Rouch to make them equal to white A traditional Manus dance. International Film Festival in Paris people.

10 SEPTEMBER 2011 Anthropologist and filmmaker Unity Through Culture will be screened at the Tanks Arts Centre Professor Ton Otto. in Cairns on Friday 16 September as part of the Celebrating Research@JCU program and PNG Independence Day Celebrations. Admission is free, but you are asked to register at www.jcu.edu. au/cr11/register/index.htm or by calling 07 4042 1759.

“My initial interest was in Baluan as Becoming part of the local a place that was planning for the scene created family obligations future, where people had declared and formed the basis of his an intention to remake their first film, which documents his society,” Professor Otto said. “But I return to Baluan to help with discovered much more.” ceremonies following the death of his adopted father. Part of Paliau’s plan had been to dispose of a lot of customary Ngat is Dead; Studying Mortuary ceremonies, which he thought were Traditions illustrates how an wasteful. But by the time Professor anthropologist studies cultural Otto arrived to document the traditions by becoming part of movement in the 1980s he found them and how tradition becomes many traditional ceremonies were an aspect of people’s awareness in The chief festival organiser (wearing hat) watching the Balopa Cultural Festival being performed again. negotiating social change. performances in the company of leading politicians.

“This became the new focus “The second film, Unity Through Baluan never had culture, only films that Professor Otto hopes will of my research – the question Culture, is about tradition, culture tradition. So a struggle to define the continue to break new ground in of why people return to their and social change, including past, present and future of Baluan anthropology. customs. Over time it has led to modernity and the tensions it culture erupts.” my current work on the theory brings,” he said. His next goal is to take the subject of how people need to create This struggle will be to an even wider audience via a vision of the past in order to “It follows Soanin Kilangit, who is documented in a forthcoming television. D imagine a future.” determined to unite the people book about temporality, and attract international tourism historicity and social change, —Liz Inglis As a young anthropologist Professor through the revival of culture on and how people define Otto was able to delve further into Baluan Island. themselves as agents in their the customs and culture of the own history. Baluan people after being adopted “He organises the largest cultural by a local family nine months into festival ever held there, but some While publications remain an his stay. traditional leaders argue that integral part of his work, it is the Photographer: Christian Suhr Christian Photographer:

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SES volunteer Emma Pascoe In a scene from the film, guests and participants are welcomed by a traditional leader standing on a dancing pole that bears the motto of the festival: Unity through culture.

www.jcu.edu.au/discover 11 iStock HOT FISH Climate change threatens not only the corals that build reefs, but also the fish that live there.

Scientists are concerned “Coral reefs are extremely “This is an important step in that the impact of climate vulnerable to sustained and ongoing demonstrating the potential Schrader Kristof Photographer: climate change, mainly because economic ramifications of climate Associate Professor Claudia Diaz has change on reef fishes of the temperature sensitivities of change,” he said. received a national award for innovative approaches to teaching anatomy. might be greater than first reef-building corals,” the project’s thought. chief investigator Dr Morgan JCU is working with Queensland’s Pratchett said. Department of Employment, Behavioural changes found in small Economic Development and Top teachers fishes such as damselfish, which “But climate change threatens not Innovation (DEEDI) to assess if larger fish feed on, has highlighted only the corals that build reefs, but climate change’s impact on the Six JCU staff have been cited concern that valuable fishery also the animals that live on coral Great Barrier Reef would improve by the Australian Learning and species such as coral trout could be reefs, including many different or cause a decline in wild stocks of Teaching Council (ALTC) in their under long-term threat. fishes.” coral trout. 2011 awards for Outstanding Contributions to Student Professor Philip Munday, a QEII Professor Munday said increased Dr Pratchett and DEEDI fisheries Learning. Research Fellow at James Cook ocean acidification interfered with biologist Adam Reynolds will be University, recently found that ocean the ability of small prey fishes to working closely with colleagues Two of the awards are for early acidification, caused by the addition distinguish potential predators during the two-year project. career achievers – the first time of carbon dioxide, led to significant through smell. the Council has singled out this behavioural changes in damselfish The project, funded by the group. and anemone fish, leaving them “The effects of ocean acidification Fisheries Research and open to predation. on the behaviour of reef fishes are Development Corporation through JCU’s Senior Deputy Vice- much more striking than any of us the National Climate Change Chancellor Professor Andrew Researchers from the Australian had thought possible,” he said. Adaptation Research Plan, is Vann said he was delighted the Research Council Centre of directly testing environmental teaching skills of the University’s Excellence for Coral Reef Studies Dr Pratchett said the evidence sensitivities of coral trout during academics were nationally and JCU had already found that showed it was high time for greater reproduction, fertilization and early recognised. many coral reef fishes would be understanding of how climate development. D vulnerable to environmental and change impacted on fisheries, “Our research rightly receives habitat changes due to climate including Queensland’s $40 million national and world-wide change. coral trout industry. recognition and equally it is very pleasing that our staff are recognised for their excellence in teaching,” he said. Distinguished service The early career recipients at JCU are Dr Rabin Tuladhar from William Laurance, a Professor Laurance will receive the He will present a special lecture at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, and Associate Distinguished Professor and award in December at a ceremony the conference about his research, in Auckland, where the Society will which spans much of the tropical Professor Shashidhar Venkatesh Australian Laureate at James hold its annual conference. world. D Murthy from the School of Cook University in Cairns, Medicine and Dentistry. is to be awarded one of the The other JCU winners are: top prizes in the field of Associate Professor Claudia Diaz, conservation biology. School of Medicine and Dentistry; Dr Rebecca Sealey, Institute of Professor Laurance will receive Sport and Exercise Science; John

a Distinguished Service Award Dymond Paul Photographer: Smithson, School of Pharmacy from the Society for Conservation and Molecular Sciences; Ms Beth Biology, ‘in recognition of [his] Tinning, School of Arts and Social outstanding contributions to tropical Sciences. conservation science and policy’. The $10,000 awards were The Society for Conservation Biology presented at the 2011 Australian is the world’s largest scientific Awards for University Teaching organisation focusing on the ceremony at the Sydney Opera maintenance and loss of biological House on August 16. D diversity, with more than 10,000 members worldwide. Professor William Laurance

12 SEPTEMBER 2011 This year marks the 100th Dr Griggs said the story of the strike “The sympathies of the protagonists anniversary of a significant but revealed a great deal about the in the strike were not clear cut,” Dr little-known part of Australia’s times. Griggs said. industrial history – the sugar industry strike of 1911. “The strike had its roots in the time “Some canegrowers were supportive just after federation, when the new of the demands by the workers. JCU geographer Dr Peter Griggs Parliament of the Commonwealth of Henry Cattermull, a Bundaberg says the strike extended to almost Australia legislated to prohibit the canegrower, led a deputation to Sweet all the sugar-producing districts recruitment of Pacific islanders to the local mill-owners trying to from Mossman to Childers and saw work in the cane fields. secure better prices for cane so arrests, riots and unlawful burning that growers could pay the wages history of cane crops. “As Europeans entered the sugar demanded.” industry to take the place of the “It went on for four months, with departing Pacific Islanders, the Although the unions were only police cordons guarding sugar unions, industry and government all partially successful in their mills, and union marches through saw a need to improve the working demands, the strike revealed the towns along the Queensland coast,” conditions and accommodation.” need for reform to ensure that he said. “It became regarded as canegrowers, field and mill workers a general strike in the Australian Union frustration at the rate of could receive a better share of the sugar industry.” progress came to a head in the industry’s profits. Lower Burdekin in late May 1911 when the district’s canegrowers Labor Prime Minister Andrew Fisher ignored the union’s demands and appointed a Royal Commission the canecutters refused to harvest in October 1911 to investigate all the crops. aspects of the Australian sugar industry. D “Unrest soon spread to other sugar- producing regions as local farmers’ organisations rejected the union’s demands,” Dr Griggs said. Global Industry, Local In each district, well-disciplined Innovation: The History of Cane strike camps were set up to provide Sugar Production in Australia, accommodation and food to 1820-1995 by Peter Griggs. hundreds of men. www.peterlang.com Photographer: Graham Crouch © Newspix Crouch Graham Photographer:

property and possessions, as well as The survey can be completed www.surveymonkey.com/s/ emotional distress levels,” Professor anonymously by anyone who is aged MT9V2LF A model Usher said. 18 or over and lives in a coastal area between Cairns and Townsville. D disaster The results of the study will be shared with local disaster How did you prepare for Cyclone management services to help Yasi, and how do you feel now? northern Queenslanders prepare for future cyclones.

By answering these questions in an “Queensland’s Disaster Management online survey you can help disaster Services want to use the survey management services improve our for flood victims in southeast preparedness for disasters. Queensland and it will also be used for the tsunami victims in Japan,” The survey is part of Preparedness, she said. loss and distress: the Cyclone Yasi experience, a research project “I have close links with a professor managed by Professor Kim Usher in the School of Nursing, Tokyo, from the School of Nursing, who is the head of the World Health Midwifery and Nutrition at JCU in Organisation Collaborating Centre Cairns. for Disaster Nursing.

The study will be used as a “The survey will be translated and it prototype for similar work with will also need changes to adapt it to victims of the Japanese tsunami and the Japanese situation. southeast Queensland’s floods. “We will then have a survey “Our aim is to find out what that can be used to determine preparation residents undertook preparedness and losses prior to Cyclone Yasi and how these related to cyclones, floods and preparations impacted on loss of tsunamis.” Residents of coastal areas like Cardwell are asked to complete an online survey. © Newspix Nowakowski Jake Photographer: www.jcu.edu.au/discover 13 in 2003 and moved to major shareholder the following year.

JCUS began with 50 students and occupied several floors in the SPRING Singapore Building.

“We have since acquired our own campus in Upper Thomson Road, but with 2500 students in 2011 we have now acquired a second campus,” Singapore-based Deputy Vice-Chancellor Dr Dale Anderson said.

The new Ang Mo Kio campus can cater for around 1000 students and also offers a range of sporting facilities. It is currently used by students undertaking pre-university programs, who will be joined from October by students in university- level programs, particularly from the Faculty of Business.

A new initiative, the English Club, has been introduced at the Ang Mo Kio campus to give students Singapore: part of a brighter future some fun ways to improve their English, outside the classroom. Club activities include karaoke and video James Cook University has Vice-Chancellor Professor Sandra “It means we now have the potential nights, on-line learning resources Harding said the full ownership of to become more authentically global moved to sole ownership and conversation corners. JCU Singapore fitted perfectly with in scope and ambition through three of its Singapore Campus the University’s strategic intent to tropical campuses. Dr Anderson said JCU was planning deliver a brighter future for life in by buying out its minority for further growth in Singapore. the tropics worldwide. “The prospect of our greater shareholder. “The university continues to see engagement in Singapore promises the need for its own campus in “This is the first step on the road to to enliven and add a new dimension Singapore and will over the next few fully embrace Singapore, city and to our strategic intent, broadening years be seeking a single, purpose- campus, and eventually move to our tropical agenda and making the built facility designed to support one totally integrated University tropics more fully our place.” with three tropical city campuses teaching, learning and research.” D – Cairns, Townsville and Singapore,” JCU was a minority partner when Professor Harding said. JCU Singapore was established

the effects of extreme winds, community after the devastation educate the building industry on of events such as in Lessons from Yasi relevant topics and conduct testing Darwin. James Cook University’s Cyclone “What we learn from examining on products and materials. Testing Station has taken the the effects of cyclones such as Yasi www.jcu.edu.au/cts lessons of Cyclone Yasi to Brisbane is applicable to other areas that It was founded in 1977 to in a workshop for government and experience high winds and storms.” minimise loss and suffering in the industry representatives. The workshop reviewed the Manager Cam Leitch said the recommendations of Technical station’s research was not limited Report No. 57 on Cyclone Yasi, to the effects of cyclones but also a joint initiative of the Cyclone focused on ensuring buildings Testing Station and the Australian across Australia were able to Building Codes Board. withstand anticipated wind loadings. The workshop brought together key stakeholders from government “While the Cassowary Coast and industry who may have a role experienced Cyclone Yasi in to play in ensuring action is taken February this year, Brisbane for based on what has been learnt example experienced devastating from Cyclone Yasi. storms in November 2008,” Mr Leitch said. The Cyclone Testing Station is an independent business unit within “We are focused on ensuring that JCU’s School of Engineering and buildings across Australia are able Physical Sciences, and receives to resist their anticipated wind support from government and Cyclone researchers have taken the lessons of Cyclone Yasi south to Brisbane loading. industry to conduct research into © Newspix Gary Ramage Photographer:

14 SEPTEMBER 2011 On straight streets

Do neighbours really become Developers, however, preferred good friends in cul-de-sacs like cul-de-sacs as they were cheaper to the fictional Ramsay Street? build, offered more flexibility, and lots in cul-de-sacs tended to sell A James Cook University town first, he said. planning graduate has won the State Town Planning Award for his “My research focussed on which honours thesis, in which he found pattern was preferred by the people that people were happier living actually living on the different street on the straight and narrow of patterns.” traditional grid-pattern streets. Mr Ingram surveyed 154 residents © Susan Trigg iStock Trigg © Susan “There is currently a lot of debate from three different subdivisions in between developers and planners the Cairns area – one with a grid, “Additionally, I found the so-called Mr Ingram said many of the as to the best street pattern for one with loops (a mix of grid and cul-de-sac) and one with a cul-de- preference for cul-de-sacs, that people in the grid street patterns residential subdivisions,” said sac street pattern. developers say exists, is more of a mentioned they had specially Matt Ingram, who now works as a perceived preference than anything. chosen such a pattern after Planning Officer at Mackay Regional “I found that people living on grid previously living in cul-de-sacs. D Council. street patterns were more satisfied “Many people living in cul-de-sacs with their street pattern and tended were living on such a street pattern “Planners are presently arguing to exercise more, catch more public for the first time as they too had for a return to grid street patterns transport and use their cars less,” expected them to be better in terms as they encourage pedestrian he said. of safety and noise, for example. connectivity and public transport use,” he said. “In most cases they “They also interacted with their “However, since moving to a cul- are a more sustainable outcome and neighbours more than those in de-sac they were the least satisfied foster a sense of community.” cul-de-sacs. with their street pattern.”

Deadly iStock Raghuvanshi © Vikram traditions Female infanticide and foeticide are the focus of an award-winning Bollywood- style film co-written by JCU’s Professor Ajay Rane.

Riwayat: When traditions kill confronts the cultural pressures and attitudes that lead to the killing of many millions of baby girls. It was written with West Australian neonatologist Sanjay Patole. The film was inspired by the reported deaths of 100 million baby girls

It was a 2006 article in The Lancet that inspired Professor Rane, Head delivering babies and trying to The film, which combines its “Fourteen years later Gosha of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at save lives, this was not something I tragic subject with some classic Hospital is the only recognised JCU, to tackle the issue of female could just sit down and accept. Bollywood music, is just one training unit for urogynaecology infanticide – a tragic practice in chapter in a story that began in in India and services thousands of India, China and other countries. “In an attempt to highlight this 1999 when Professor Rane visited unfortunate patients with fistulas issue and save lives I made this a hospital in the slums of Chennai, and pelvic floor dysfunction. A “The Lancet reported that 100 movie, telling the story of three India. dream has come true.” D million baby girls had died women facing these issues in since 1984 due to foeticide and “The conditions were very primitive www.riwayatmovie.com/ infanticide of the female, purely the city and in the village life and my wife and I decided to adopt due to tradition,” he said. of India.” this hospital and develop it,” he said. “The numbers were shocking. As Professor Rane’s film has received an obstetrician and gynaecologist, 17 awards to date.

www.jcu.edu.au/discover 15 From the bush to Budapest Australia’s new ambassador John Griffin is a senior career Originally from Mackay, Mr Griffin to Hungary graduated from officer with the Department of attended JCU in Townsville from JCU with a Bachelor of Foreign Affairs and Trade and was 1970 to 1973. Arts degree with first class most recently Assistant Secretary, European Union and Western “Mackay had a population of about honours and a university Europe Branch. 25,000 at that time, and for a medal. north Queensland boy with zero experience of the wider world, JCU in Townsville was a lot closer and a less scary prospect than Brisbane,” he said.

Ambassador John Griffin “Plus the low student-to-lecturer ratio was attractive, and this was borne out by experience.”

Photographer: Bojan Pavlukovic iStock Pavlukovic Bojan Photographer: Mr Griffin said his time studying at JCU and living at St Paul’s College was a very positive, happy and formative period.

“University was place of maturing, both personally and intellectually,” he said.

Budapest Castle

Professor Graw said Justice Law legend Cullinane’s support also included an energetic personal involvement in the Law School’s teaching, research retires and other activities. Justice Kerry Cullinane has retired as the Northern Judge after He also personally established decades of service in law but the Northern Judge’s Prize, will continue to contribute to the awarded annually to the student north Queensland community. who achieves the highest pass in administrative law. Head of JCU’s School of Law, Professor Graw said Justice Professor Stephen Graw, said JCU alumni got together in Yangon Justice Cullinane had a long and Cullinane’s work in legal advocacy in distinguished association with the North Queensland was legendary. Connecting with JCUS University. “In 1982 his superior advocacy skills were recognised by his commission With alumni from across the Professor Sandra Harding, “Justice Cullinane has had an as Senior Counsel. He was the first region, JCU Singapore is going the Vice-Chancellor and President exceptionally close association with North Queenslander to take silk.” distance to reach out to graduates of the University, congratulated our School of Law, having served on located outside Singapore. all graduates. “This is an the Steering Committee that was In 2009, Justice Cullinane was extraordinary moment. You have formed to seek its establishment,” appointed a Member of the Order of The first JCUS regional alumni done something special. Now Professor Graw said. Australia. D event was held in Yangon, you need to think of what your Myanmar. contribution will be to the world.” “He was a member of University Council from 1993 to 2005, during Guests say they had a great Mr. Inderjit Singh , MP for the Ang which time he also served as a evening, while enjoying the Mo Kio GRC, gave the occasional member of both the Strategy panoramic view of Yangon city at address followed by a graduate Committee and the Ceremonial and Thiripyitsaya Sky Bistro. address by graduate and academic Honorary Degrees Committee.” medallist, Mr Jean Bernard Alumni events in Vietnam and Sampson. Jean encouraged Justice Cullinane was awarded India were to follow. all the graduates to thank their an Honorary Doctorate of Laws in parents and family members 2007 in recognition of his long A crowd of 1100 parents, students who contributed so much to their and distinguished service to the and friends saw 450 graduands achievement. D law, the University and the North receive their testamurs at JCU

Queensland community. Justice Kerry Cullinane Schrader Kristof Photographer: Singapore’s graduation ceremony.

16 SEPTEMBER 2011 “There’s an open access studio for artists to print their own work, and we also offer custom printing for artists who prefer not to do their own printing.

“My role is to coordinate the studio resources, liaise with the artists, organise contracts, plan workshops, prepare prints for sale, health and safety compliance, administration – I do a bit of everything!

“Printmaking is a real strength of the far northern art scene, especially amongst artists from the Torres Strait Islands. It’s exciting to work in a creative place with such a wide range of really impressive artists.”

Kacey continues to work on her own art, using a combination of printmaking, drawing, sewing, and photography, but she also wants to advance her career in the business side of creativity.

Kacey Johnson at work at Djumbunji Press This was exactly the type of “role I had in mind when I was Graduate update: Kacey Johnson studying,” she said. “The degree prepares you for business and Kacey Johnson completed her Press provides fine art printmaking master classes, for people who want management careers in the Bachelor of Creative Industries facilities to northern Queensland to extend their printmaking skills. creative sector. At university I in Cairns in 2009 and is now the artists. The printmakers also run workshops enjoyed the mix of practical and Studio Coordinator at Djumbunji in remote communities on Cape theoretical subjects. That’s what Press. “We have etching and linocut York and in the Torres Strait, and my job’s like, and it’s a good presses and studio space where have recently begun a series of combination. D Established by KickArts artists can work,” Kacey said. “We workshops for high school students ” Contemporary Arts, Djumbunji run workshops, from beginners to at Yarrabah.” kickarts.org.au/djumbunji-press/

Honoured among of the United States rapidly acquired new behavioural strategies and lizards altered morphologies to avoid lethal attack by invasive fire ants. Dr Tracy Langkilde, who completed her honours degree in biology at Her work provides insight into JCU in 1999, has received an award how native populations are able from one of the United States’ to persist in the face of increasing most prestigious environmental environmental change, guiding the organisations. conservation of global biodiversity.

Now an assistant professor at Penn Dr Langkilde has been awarded State University, she has been grants from the National awarded a 2011 Mercer Award from Geographic Society, the Eppley the Ecological Society of America. Foundation for Research, the American Museum of Natural The society has honoured Dr History, and the National Science Langkilde for, in particular, her Foundation. paper titled Invasive fire ants alter behaviour and morphology of native She fondly remembers studying lizards, published in the journal at JCU with Associate Professor Lin Ecology. Schwarzkopf, Professor Ross Alford and Professor John Endler. Dr Langkilde studies the processes that determine how individual “On-campus life at JCU in Townsville species interact with one another also offered many chances to and with their environments, and observe native fauna,” she said. how responses to environmental changes can shape biological “As a biologist, there’s a lot to be communities. said for having wallabies in your backyard and frill-necked lizards She recently discovered that native running around in front of the fence lizards in the southern region library.” D Recognised for her work with fence lizards: Dr Tracy Langkilde

www.jcu.edu.au/discover 17 In print

cultural, why we find kangaroos so fascinating,” he said.

Kangaroo tells the story of our most famous marsupial, Island adventures

Jiri Haureljuk, iStock Haureljuk, Jiri including its ancient origins, its importance to Aboriginal people, and current-day management and conservation.

The amazing diversity of this group of animals is revealed, ranging from tiny forest dwellers and tree kangaroos, to majestic animals living on the open plains of central Islands provide the theme for the LiNQ was founded in 1969 by Australia, and the giant kangaroos latest volume of LiNQ (Literature in Dr Elizabeth Perkins, a lecturer that once roamed the Pleistocene North Queensland). in English at the then University landscape. College of Townsville, along with The theme was inspired by Deborah An iconic hopper members of the English Language The authors also investigate the Jordan’s presentation at the Tropics and Literature Association and natural history of kangaroos of the Imagination conference, interested undergraduates in the While sharing office space in – their unique reproduction where she discussed two of Department of English. Chris Johnson’s mammal ecology methods, intriguing behaviour, Australia’s best known literary lab at JCU, postgraduate varied diet and trademark figures, Vance and Nettie Palmer, From its first issue LiNQ has students Karl Vernes and hopping – all of which make them who spent some time on Green published poetry, short stories, Stephen Jackson hatched many such fascinating animals. Island in the 1930s. play scripts, reviews and articles on plans for publication. literary, artistic, historical and social Dr Jackson, now working with the LiNQ Volume 37 includes a focus themes for scholarly and general Two PhDs and many research papers New South Wales Department on our region. Susan Manworren readers in the arts community. later, the two marsupial experts of Primary Industries, has also writes of a visit to the former leper have co-written Kangaroo: Portrait published Koala. colony Fantome Island, Nicole LiNQ is edited by Dr Lindsay of an extraordinary marsupial. Crowe recollects her Magnetic Simpson and Dr Victoria Kuttainen Kangaroo: Portrait of an Island childhood and Vance and from JCU’s School of Humanities. Dr Vernes, now a senior lecturer extraordinary marsupial Nettie Palmer tell of their time on at the University of New England, Green Island. LiNQ 37 By Stephen Jackson and Karl Vernes says their plan was to write a lively Guest editors: Deborah Jordan, and informative book, informed by In the LiNQ tradition, contributions Allen & Unwin Fiona McKean science and accessible to anyone range from poetry and prose to interested in kangaroos. magic realist short stories, book ISSN 0817-458X ISBN: 9781741759037 reviews and academic discussions “We wanted to touch on the many of colonialism and climate change. www.linq.org.a reasons, both biological and A wordy cow Poet and publisher Dr Susan focused around life in the tropics Hawthorne’s latest book is all before and after . about cows. It’s about the world Photo: Keith Molloy iStock Keith Photo: according to one cow, whose The inspiration for Cow came during name is Queenie. an Asialink Literature Residency in Chennai, India. Queenie might be a woman, or she might be a cow. Either way, “Having grown up on a farm I was her history takes in the creation of struck by the cultural importance of the universe and she encourages cows in India, as well as their place readers to see the world in new in mythology and the economy,” ways. she said.

I am nothing special just a cow who Through Queenie this collection wants to change the world a cow draws on ancient languages and whose eyes are on the sky. philosophies, as well as the Sangam poetry tradition of South India. Through her company Spinifex Press Dr Hawthorne publishes feminist Cow writings, both in print and as By Susan Hawthorne eBooks. She teaches creative writing at JCU and has been writing poetry Spinifex Press for almost 40 years. Her previous book was a collection of poems ISBN: 9781876756888

18 SEPTEMBER 2011 JCU FC V Close the Gap mini Plant ID workshop, Paluma Ornithological Conference, Cairns conference Details: A short course on Details: Australasian Ornithological The calendar Details: Showcasing research in identifying weeds Conference Indigenous health Date: 22–25 September Date: 28 September – 1 October Open day, Cairns Date: Friday 2 September Admission: $495 Admission: free Details: Explore your local university Time: 9.00am – 1.00pm Location: JCU Research Station, Location: JCU Cairns Date: Sunday 21 August Location: Cairns A1.103; Townsville Paluma Contact: [email protected] Time: 10.00am – 3.00pm 3:002 Contact: 07 4042 1837 Location: JCU Cairns Admission: free Festival of Life Sciences, Admission: free Contact: 07 4781 5307 Research seminar, Cairns Townsville Contact: 07 4781 4771 Details: What a linguist does in the Details: Celebrates the work Ethnographic film festival, Cairns field of North Queensland research 50th Anniversary, Townsville Details: PNG Independence Day Date: Friday 23 September institutions Details: 50 years since teaching celebrations Time: 2.00pm – 4.00pm Date: Thursday 29 September began at University College, Date: Friday 16 September Admission: registration required Time: 1.00pm – 5.00pm Townsville Time: 6.00pm – 8.30pm Location: B1:031, JCU Cairns Admission: free Date: 27 – 28 August Admission: free Contact: [email protected] Location: JCU Townsville Location: TAFE and JCU Townsville Location: Tanks Arts Centre Contact: nqfl[email protected] Contact: 07 4781 4707 Contact: 07 4042 1759 Jocelyn Wale psychology seminar Details: Professor Philip Taylor Jocelyn Wale psychology seminar www.jcu.edu.au/events/ Open day, Townsville asks: What is the Workability of the Details: Explore your local university Details: Professor Tracey Wade on Australian Workforce? Date: Sunday 28 August Risk Factors for Adolescent Weight Date: Friday 23 September Time: 10.00am – 3.00pm and Shape Concern Time: 4.00 – 5.50pm Location: JCU Townsville Date: Friday 16 September Location: A21.002, JCU Cairns. Admission: free Time: 4.00 – 5.50pm Video linked to the Padua Theatre, Contact: 07 4781 4771 Location: A21.002, JCU Cairns. JCU Townsville. Video linked to the Padua Theatre, Admission: free JCU Townsville. Contact: 07 4042 1207 Admission: free Contact: 07 4042 1207

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