UTS: ALUMNI ISSUE 6 / WINTER 2012

Crossing borders Alumni journalists on life in China Centrestage Meet UTS’s creative guru Hael Kobayashi Sky’s the limit Australia’s role in the Asian Century

tomorrow’s graduate UTS journalism student Brooke Boney discusses the big issues for her generation ASIAN CENTURY ISSUE Did you know… You can now read TOWER online, PLUS the very first TOWER is TOWER app is now available to going digital. download from the App Store. Check out the construction site of UTS’s groundbreaking Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, designed by world- renowned architect Frank Gehry; get the inside word on the partnership between UTS and Frank Gehry; hear from two students who interned at Gehry Partners in LA, and meet future journalist and current UTS student Brooke Boney – plus much more.

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2 3 T vice-chancellor’s message The time is now The growth of Asia, and in particular China and India, is likely to be the most significant transformative change of our time: economically, politically, socially, and importantly in terms of a major strategic balancing and realignment throughout the region and the world.

rowth in China and India is unprecedented, with China’s GDP Gnow second only to the United States. This time in history has been aptly coined ‘the Asian Century’. The economies of Asia are rapidly transforming and living standards

and consumption are rising quickly. As China Photography: Anthony Geernaert and India seek to redefine their place in a new world order commensurate with their newly Through our Key Technology Partnership the Tata Institute of Social Science in India. found economic standing, this poses great Program, UTS has developed significant Key Technology Partnerships in Japan are opportunities and potential challenges for the research and research training links, and also in progress. world polity, and in particular for Australia engagement in China. Key Technology UTS also sends more than 1000 students as we engage with these near neighbours Partnership agreements were signed in overseas on exchange programs, with and take up opportunities to supply a 2010-11 with Beijing Institute of Technology more than 60 per cent now going to Asia. seemingly insatiable demand for a variety of (BIT), Huazhong University of Science and Last year, UTS students were involved in mineral resources. Technology (HUST), Shanghai University a range of activities across Asia including If Australia is to take up all of the and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. These year-long exchange programs in Chinese, opportunities offered by the Asian Century, we agreements are institution-wide, involving Japanese and Indian universities, studying will need as a country to deepen and broaden significant team-based research, major in the target country language; volunteering our level of engagement within the region, visitor exchange programs, and joint research programs such as the one available with the and build a higher level of understanding training including dual PhD degrees. 40K Foundation in India; and other short and knowledge of Asia within the Australian UTS has also established a number academic programs ranging from micro- community. Australian universities, as the of joint research centres through these financing through to a shadowing program nation’s principle education and research partnerships, including a joint centre for with Bollywood directors in India. institutions, have a vital role and responsibility Internet Authentication with HUST in Through these activities, we are playing to play in deepening this engagement and Wuhan, the Centre for Data Mining and our part in building important research and building the global and intercultural skills of Service Technology with BIT in Beijing, people-to-people links and engagement the Australian community. and a Centre for Artificial Intelligence across Asia. We are also helping our students UTS, through its Internationalisation with the renowned Shanghai Jiao Tong to build their global and intercultural Strategy, is already on the move and responding University in Shanghai. In June, we also skills so they are equipped to be important to the challenges of Australia in the Asian signed a memorandum of understanding contributors in Australia’s engagement in the Century. Currently, UTS has more than 11,000 with Shanghai University to begin work region during the Asian Century. international students from the region studying on a major research program on Smart at our main campus in Sydney or at our joint Cities. Later this year we expect to sign venture campus with Shanghai University Key Technology Partnership agreements in China. UTS’s alumni are now also heavily with Jawaharlal Nehru University, the located in Asia, with more than 170,000 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, TERI Professor Ross Milbourne alumni living and working in the region. University, The University of Hyderabad and Vice-Chancellor

2 3 Issue 6, winter 2012 Vice-Chancellor’s message 03 With Professor Ross Milbourne TOWER is published twice a year for alumni and friends of the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). The views expressed are not necessarily those Newsbites 06 of the University. TOWER is produced by the UTS Alumni Relations Office. The latest UTS news P +61 2 9514 9861 F +61 2 9514 9872 E [email protected] www.alumni.uts.edu.au The social network 08 The rise of social organisations Alumni Relations Amy Brooks, Manager, Alumni Relations Towering 10 09 Editorial Advisory Committee Meet 10 dynamic UTS alumni Professor Bill Purcell, Jane Westbrook, Jenna Price, Robert Button, Melanie Withnall, Mark Lillis Tomorrow’s graduate 14 With UTS journalism student Brooke Boney Contributors Professor Ross Milbourne, Professor Jim Macnamara, Rehmana Khan, When East meets West 18 Adrian Sellaro, David Phillips, Terry Clinton, James Stuart, Philip Wen, Australia’s interaction with Asia Stephen McDonell, Cameron Cooper, Lucinda Schmidt, Nick Gardner, Anthony Black, Mark Abernethy, Rosemary Ann Ogilvie Rules of engagement 20 Advertising enquiries Attracting global thought leaders to UTS Contact the UTS Alumni Relations Office above. UTS fights to protect 24 intellectual property IP protection in the Asia-Pacific

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Centrestage 32 Meet creative guru Hael Kobayashi

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4 5 T newsbites Gehry’s vision: all systems go

By James Stuart

Frank Gehry’s first Australian building, UTS’s Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, has received planning approval from the NSW Department of Planning and Infrastructure. “This is a major milestone in the design of an Australian architectural icon,” says UTS Vice-Chancellor Professor Ross Milbourne. “We welcome this approval – it brings us one step closer to creating a world-class education precinct in Sydney’s southern CBD.” The 12-storey building is located in Ultimo, on a site adjacent to both the ABC and the Powerhouse Museum. Up to 1256 students and 326 academic staff will study and work in the building. The project was approved by the NSW Department of Planning and Infrastructure after a rigorous assessment, including a 30-day public exhibition and consultation process. Other key features of the approved project include: construction of a $1 million pedestrian link connecting the site to the Ultimo Pedestrian Network; installation of a gas-fired tri-generation plant enabling the building to generate its own power and achieve a five-star energy rating, and provision of 177 bicycle parking spaces for staff and students to encourage sustainable transport use. “This building will be an asset to the Sydney community, and the heart of a transformation that encompasses Broadway, Darling Harbour and Barangaroo,” says Milbourne. “The collaborative nature of the design process will ensure the building is also an extraordinary asset for UTS students and academics.” The Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, named after the Australian-Chinese businessman and philanthropist, will house the UTS Business School in 2014. Dr Chau donated $20 million for the building’s construction. It is a key component of the wider $1 billion City Campus Master Plan redevelopment. Top: Dr Chau Chak Wing Building. West elevation, model scale: 1-to-100. Second Early works began on site in late 2011, from top: (l–r) Ms Winky Chow, Professor Ross Milbourne (Vice-Chancellor of UTS), with the European heritage archaeological Dr Chau Chak Wing, Professor Vicki Sara AO (Chancellor, UTS), Mr John Hartigan excavation recently completed. The (Registrar, UTS). Third from top: Dr Chau Chak Wing and Professor Ross Milbourne. main excavation works are now Above, left: The Hon Anthony Albanese MP, Dr Chau Chak Wing and Professor Ross Milbourne. Above, right: Professor Ross Milbourne showing Dr Chau Chak Wing proceeding. The main building works are displays of the UTS Campus Masterplan. Photography by Chris Bennett. to begin in mid 2012.

6 7 Professor Jock Collins. Picture by Joanne Saad. UTS alumna Sydney’s most wins prestigious entrepreneurial award community revealed UTS congratulates Dr Nurul Barizah (pictured above) who was recently The Korean community may not be the deciding to move into other businesses that awarded the prestigious 2012 most visible of Sydney’s immigrant groups, are more profitable. Their businesses create Indonesia Australian Alumni but it is the wellspring of some of the city’s substantial employment in Sydney.” Award for Excellence in Education most successful entrepreneurs, according Collins says a very positive finding at a ceremony held in Jakarta on to a new report by researchers from the was the near absence of racism in the 2 June 2012. Australian education UTS Business School. interviewees’ experiences of living and institutions are invited to nominate Based on interviews with 65 immigrant working in Sydney. alumni for this program. entrepreneurs in food retailing and the “The overwhelming majority of According to the Australian restaurant industry, the research is the first entrepreneurs surveyed said that they plan Government, the Australian Alumni detailed investigation of the economic, social to spend the rest of their life in Australia. Awards reflect the significant and cultural contribution that the Korean This is a strong affirmation of their contribution made by Indonesian community makes to Australian society. experience in Australia as entrepreneurs alumni of Australian education The report was officially launched on and in Sydney as Korean immigrants. institutions in their chosen profession 28 May at Eastwood by NSW Minister for “The biggest problem they reported was when they return to Indonesia. Citizenship and Communities and Minister immigration restrictions affecting their Dr Barizah earned her PhD in for Aboriginal Affairs, Victor Dominello. ability to hire chefs and other staff for their Law from UTS in 2009, after Lead author Professor Jock Collins says restaurants while potentially reducing their completing her Masters in Law at Sydney had been the focus for Korean customer base,” Collins says. UTS in 2001. She is currently the immigration to Australia, with settlement “NSW is home to more than 33,000 Vice Dean for Cooperation, and business hubs forming in Strathfield, residents of Korean heritage and this Development and Information Eastwood, Campsie and the Sydney CBD. dynamic community makes a significant Systems and Head of the Intellectual “Korean immigrants have the highest contribution to the success of our state,” says Property Centre in the Faculty of Law rate of entrepreneurship in Australia – twice Minister Dominello. “The research conducted at Indonesia’s Airlangga University, the Australian average,” says Collins. by UTS for Sushi Bay Pty Ltd shines new located in Surabaya, East Java. “The 65 entrepreneurs surveyed light on the entrepreneurship of Korean In addition, Dr Barizah is the Vice in Sydney were not only involved in immigrants and their role in local industry. Chief of Law and Human Rights restaurants selling Korean food, but also “The NSW Government recognises Assembly for Aisyiyah, a women’s owned Japanese restaurants, including the social and economic advantages of movement involved in charity work sushi restaurants, Chinese restaurants, our culturally diverse community,” says in health and social welfare, and the cafes and takeaway food shops. Minister Dominello. “Promoting our thriving largest religious women’s organisation “Their businesses are profitable and ethnic restaurant scene is one of the ways in Indonesia. Dr Barizah also they are survivors in the Australian small we’re looking at utilising multiculturalism established the Intellectual Property business sector that is notoriously scattered to grow economic opportunity.” Rights Law Lecturer Association with failed entrepreneurs. Many of those The Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurs in of Indonesia, and is involved in the surveyed have had a number of businesses the Sydney Restaurant Industry report was Association of Southeast Asian in Australia before their current restaurant, prepared by Professor Collins and Dr Joon Nations (ASEAN) University Network cafe or food bar. Shin of the Management Discipline Group for Intellectual Property. “They are very innovative, planning in the UTS Business School and supported UTS congratulates Dr Barizah on future changes to improve their business or by funding from Sushi Bay Pty Ltd. receiving this prestigious award.

6 7 T OPINION The social network A new study reveals the rise of ‘social organisations’ that lack strategy and governance – so how can companies mitigate the risks but capitalise on the opportunities of social media? By professor Jim Macnamara

lmost half of all businesses and The result is significant legal and marketing by providing training and support organisations in the private and public reputational risk exposure for organisations for staff to become online ‘ambassadors’ and Asector in Australia and developed from employees inadvertently or ‘evangelists’. ‘Turn them on, not off’ is the Asian countries are now using social media, intentionally revealing confidential recommended approach. according to research by KPMG. A new term information or commenting inappropriately Legendary examples include Sun has even entered the lexicon of management online, which can range from being ‘off Microsystems, which created more than – the ‘social organisation’. message’ to posting offensive content or 3000 staff bloggers, and Dell, which set However, 65 per cent of organisations have engaging in ‘flame wars’ with others. up a Social Media and Community University no clear policies or guidelines on employees’ A number of companies and organisations to train staff across all its business units. use of social media, 67 per cent provide no have already found themselves in legal trouble In Australia, Telstra has launched a social training, and almost half do not monitor and face reputation damage because of media policy and a number of government what is said about them in social media. employee leaks, comments and other online departments and agencies are leading the These are findings of a recent UTS study behaviour. The answer, however, is not to way. The NSW Department of Education of the use of social media in more than ‘clamp down’ on employees using social and Communities has published its 200 private and public sector organisations in media, according to social media experts. progressive Social Media Guidelines online Australasia – covering Australia, New Zealand, In addition to surveying communication (www.det.nsw.edu.au/policies/technology/ Singapore and Hong Kong. The findings point managers in more than 200 organisations, communication/socmed_guide.pdf) and to a concerning lack of governance and a lack the research study involved in-depth the Victorian Department of Justice has of strategy in what is becoming an increasing produced a short video to encourage and investment of time and resources. guide employees in using social media (www. The study found that only 34.8 per cent youtube.com/watch?v=Ws3Bd3QINsk). of organisations have specific policies and Only 20 per cent of A 2011 KPMG study supports this staff- guidelines on social media use by their organisations monitor enabling approach, warning that “clamping employees. More than 22 per cent have no down was likely to result in more, rather than policy or guidelines at all and another all mentions of their less, misuse of social media”. 20 per cent rely on verbal instructions and occasional emails. Only 20 per cent of brand, products and Social media strategy organisations monitor all mentions of their As well as establishing a sound governance brand, products and services in social media, services in social media framework, social media strategists stress the while almost 40 per cent monitor in an ad hoc need for organisations to have a social media or occasional way. Another quarter monitor strategy. However, the research study found only a small selection of social media. interviews with 14 social media strategists most organisations are adopting social media and heads of digital media in consultancies in an experimental way, or simply because Training and support and major organisations. their competitors and peers are doing so. Only one-third of organisations provide Successful navigators of the online world A social media strategy should include clear social media training for employees, just say control is not an option. Social media objectives for engaging online, details about over 23 per cent provide technical support, cannot be controlled – it is simply too open, who can speak on what, training and support. and very few provide support such as editing too vast, too unregulated, and often too It should incorporate a sound governance services for staff using social media, such as anonymous. Attempts at control usually framework involving policies, specific organisation bloggers (6.8 per cent). backfire on the organisation. guidelines and monitoring of social media. The trend seems to be global. The UTS Instead, organisations should apply The ‘social organisation’ is a positive research was a collaboration with University governance – key elements of which are development for business, government and of Leipzig academics who undertake annual clear policies and guidelines for employees society, but it needs strategy to be effective surveys of communication managers across as well as regular monitoring. Furthermore, and governance to be safe online. T 43 European countries where 60 per cent of social media strategists say organisations can organisations have no social media policy or engage with key stakeholders not accessible Professor Jim Macnamara PhD is Deputy Dean guidelines and only one-third have tools or through traditional media and significantly and Professor of Public Communication in the services for monitoring social media. expand their public communication and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UTS.

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01 Pauline Nguyen

Pauline Nguyen (BA Comm, 1997) has led the popular Vietnamese restaurant Red Lantern over the past 12 years. Located in Sydney’s inner-city Surry Hills, Red Lantern won the title of Australia’s favourite overall restaurant at the 2012 I LOVE FOOD Awards. But it isn’t just Red Lantern’s popularity that makes it a standout – it’s the restaurant’s commitment to ethics and sustainability. “Red Lantern is a very progressive business,” says Nguyen. “Having kids was Photography: Anthony Geernaert. Words: Renee Carl and Keris Lahiff. a big wake-up call to what’s going on in the world, so we decided to change our business model.” Along with the other directors – her brother Luke and partner Mark – Nguyen gave the restaurant a complete eco The makeover. Now, everything is recycled, the restaurant infrastructure uses as little water and energy as possible, all produce towering 10 is locally sourced, sustainable and ethical, and a 400kg compost bin out the back of the restaurant means nothing is ever wasted. Meet 10 dynamic UTS alumni working across the With Red Lantern booked out months globe: from a Sydney-based radiochemist, to a ahead, Nguyen and her team are now in the process of opening a second restaurant, Red celebrated restaurateur; a charity founder saving Lantern on Riley in Sydney’s Darlinghurst. lives in Burma, to a lawyer launching a new Despite the busy months ahead of her, Nguyen says this is a time of much writing career in Hong Kong. excitement. “I don’t think we’d have it any other way,” she says. “The challenges are what make it fun. It is a case of what’s next, what’s the next challenge?”

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Left: Chris Fox. Bottom: Convergence, 2011 (atrium) by Chris Fox. Photo by Jérôme Epaillard.

Above and bottom: Ian Stewart.

10 11 Pictured far left and above, left: Kanchana Thornton. Photos by Phil Thornton.

02 03 04 Chris Fox Ian Stewart Kanchana Thornton

Garlic Fish Man 2006. 1 Kilo Block Feeds Straight after graduating from UTS (B Bus Kanchana Thornton (B Nursing, 1995) is the Whole Family 2005. Charlotte 1996 1990), Ian Stewart went to Asia. Twenty years no stranger to the reality facing Burma’s (featuring a wholly suspended vehicle later he’s still there and “still going strong”. underprivileged children. As Founder and hanging from a ceiling). These are just some Shanghai-based Stewart is Converse’s Asia- Program Manager of the Burma Children of the titles of Sydney-based visual artist Pacific Marketing Director. “Converse is a Medical Fund (BCMF), Thornton works at the Chris Fox’s work. Combining architecture brand that supports creativity and fosters coalface of a rundown health system where with sculptures, interventions, hybrid an independent spirit,” says Stewart. “It’s patients – many needing lifesaving treatment objects, drawings and models, Fox (BA a brand that believes in celebrating our – who can’t access or afford health care Architecture 2003, Hons 2006) has forged consumers rather than ourselves and I was services in Burma are referred to the BCMF. an international reputation, exhibiting from naturally drawn to [that] organic approach.” The BCMF started in 2006 with six Bondi to Amsterdam, Prague, Miami, LA, While the days are long – “being across patients. Since then, more than 500 patients San Francisco and more. the world from the Converse Boston have been through its programs. The success So where else does this talented artist headquarters, a typical day brings early rate is about 99 per cent. “One per cent of draw inspiration from? “Some projects morning and late night phone calls” – it’s the our patients either get to us too late or their have developed out of songs I have written, diversity of Stewart’s role that he thrives parents can’t afford to bring them back to others from research into historical events on. “Asia has a vibrant youth population, so us for full treatment,” says Thornton. “This and autobiographical narratives,” says Fox. there are always a lot of exciting programs is due to financial difficulties or security “Often I will start a project by researching to work on across all of our 12 Asian markets. reasons when travelling through conflict different materials, machine components In particular, Korea has a renewed creative zones. Our successful cases are living and systems, all of which fascinate me. More class and offers a host of opportunities, as do proof of our effectiveness – children able recently my work has been inspired and the bigger markets like India and Indonesia.” to continue their education and resume influenced by large scale city infrastructure.” So what’s the best thing about his normal lives, and adult patients able to A recent project in Paris was a career job? “Being so close to creativity, being return to work and support their family.” highlight for Fox, titled Convergence. around so many cultures that are ever- The greatest challenge facing the BCMF, “Utilising 370 metres of steel, Convergence changing, and having the chance to work says Thornton, is raising funds to pay for is a large scale sculptural intervention in an environment that encourages an lifesaving surgery for patients. “Since our moving through the lobby and atrium entrepreneurial way of thinking,” reveals patients can’t access or afford health care space of a data-storage facility,” explains Stewart. “China is an exciting place to be services in Burma, ongoing funding is Fox. “It was produced during 2010/ 2011 right now – everything is growing, everyone critically important to help us continue to between Sydney, London and Paris.” is optimistic and anything is possible.” save lives. It is that dramatic.”

10 11 Left: Duco Delgeorge. Above: Roland Wong. Right: Adi Nagara.

05 06 07 Duco Delgorge Roland Wong Adi Nagara

For someone who admits to getting bored The best things about working as a Adi Nagara is not shy of a professional easily, it’s unsurprising that Duco Delgorge radiochemist, according to Roland Wong challenge. His career spans four different is at the helm of three organisations. The (B Sc Applied Chem), is that not every day is industries, including advertising, finance, Tokyo-based B Bus graduate (1983) is the the same and he’s constantly learning. “Plus,” education and e-commerce. The 27-year- Founder and President of MIE Project, Wong adds, “I work at Australia’s only nuclear old B EngSc (2008) graduate also had a stint a leading supplier of packaged organic reactor. It just sounds cool saying that.” studying law, worked at a fish market, and food to the Japanese market. “MIE stands During his third year of study for a taught university-level maths. for the company’s three core values: Bachelor of Science in Applied Chemistry at Nagara began his career as a consultant Meaning, Inspiration, and Effectiveness,” UTS, Wong completed a one-year industrial at global company GHD, before moving says Delgorge. “Our meaning is linked to placement at the Australian Nuclear to Macquarie Bank as an analyst for sustainable development.” Science and Technology Organisation more than three years, then in post-deal Delgorge is also the Founder and (ANSTO). Ten years later, he’s still there. integration and change management. He President of Unlimited Dream Company A typical day for Wong involves the later switched to marketing at JWT in Paris (UDC), a non-profit organisation set up to use of an analytical technique called for brands such as BMW, Virgin and G-Star, engage in commercial activities. “This is Gamma-ray Spectrometry. before taking on his current role as Managing intended to be the model for the business of “We get drums containing radioactive Director at Rocket Internet in Indonesia. the future, whose primary purpose is to ‘do waste, as well as general laboratory So what prompted the latest move? good’ and to help humanity move towards waste (tissues, gloves, plastic bottles, For starters, the lure of working in a start-up sustainable development and greater social etc.) which may or may not have come environment. “I wanted a bit of autonomy, responsibility,” he explains. into contact with radioactive material.” setting businesses up from scratch and To cap off his leadership credentials, It’s Wong’s responsibility to generate a running them,” he explains. “I also wanted Delgorge chairs the European Business detailed analysis of these drums in order to get a taste of complexities in managing Council (EBC) in Japan, the trade policy to determine how to handle and process people in multi-disciplinary teams, which I arm of the 17 European National Chambers them, and how long it will be radioactive. have the privilege of doing right now.” of Commerce and Business Associations in “I take my job very seriously because I Nagara says the relatively new online Japan, established in 1972. know that my decisions can have a huge industry in Indonesia means customer Having lived in Japan since 2008, it’s impact on the safety of people who work education will prove vital. “Indonesia truly home for Delgorge. “I feel like I am part with me and the environment,” he says. as a growth economy means that of a fortunate minority to have been able to “I’m looking forward to what the future demographics are changing and there is discover Japan and establish my life here.” holds for nuclear science in Australia.” opportunity to influence behaviour.”

12 13 “I know that my decisions can have a huge impact on the safety of people who work with me and the environment.” roland wong

Far left: Dong Ly Quang. Left: Rachel Jacqueline. Above: Vanessa Shaw.

08 09 10 Dong Ly Quang Rachel Jacqueline Vanessa Shaw

The sustainable urban development Rachel Jacqueline never intended to be a Imagine working at the cutting edge of movement is gaining ground in Vietnam, lawyer. “I actually started [studying] a forensic analysis of illicit drugs – not only and Dong Ly Quang is right in the thick of B Comms (Public Communications) / being able to see new trends in ‘designer things. After graduating from UTS with a B Laws degree at UTS, but dropped out drugs’, but developing methods for identifying Masters in Planning (2005), Ly spent two of the B Comms course after three years them. It’s not an episode of CSI; it’s what years as an urban development consultant (I only had six months to go!) as I was Vanessa Shaw deals with on a daily basis. for Worldbank in Vietnam. Ly and his enjoying studying law so much,” she says. After graduating from UTS in 2006 – B Sc colleague saw the opportunity to provide “The law career inevitably followed.” (Hons) – Shaw moved to Canberra for a stint the same service for various clients in The Hong Kong-based commercial with the Chemical Criminalistics team of the Vietnam, and together, they established lawyer at Baker McKenzie recently made a Australian Federal Police. She later joined EZConsulting in 2010, which focuses on decision to pursue a new career as a writer, the Division of Analytical Laboratories (DAL) urban development projects in Vietnam. focusing on her interests in sport, health, in 2007, working in the Forensic Toxicology While the growth of the sustainable adventure and travel. “In some ways, writing lab for three years, and is now a permanent design industry in Vietnam is still in its early found me. I signed up to a charity boxing member of its Illicit Drugs Laboratory. stages, the future seems positive. match last year and started writing a blog to Working in this field is no walk in the park. “After the first wave of messy and help me through the process of learning how “The most challenging aspect of my role uncontrolled urban development, Vietnam to get my face punched in while still smiling. in the drugs lab is trying to complete the is now more interested in sustainable I developed a strong following of friends enormous workload of cases for NSW Police, development,” says Ly. “The government and and family on my blog. Since then I have who want to charge offenders, and for the business are now more aware of sustainable had some very lucky breaks which have courts to determine if a person is guilty or development with more focus on public allowed me to develop my writing. I am now not guilty. New cases are constantly being transport, green design, eco urban areas and a freelance writer for Hong Kong’s English submitted and we want the process to be as agricultural land reservation.” publication,The South China Morning Post.” short as possible for all parties involved.” Ly expects the field will grow stronger in So where does this dynamic young But this process, says Shaw, leads to the next five years, with more opportunities writer/lawyer see herself in the next two the most rewarding aspect. “Which, for to practise. “I have a family with two kids years? “Probably running a multi-stage ultra myself, is knowing that I have assisted in and I believe the best thing I can do is to marathon in the desert, while carrying my fighting crime – by helping keep convicted contribute to their future which will be lap top and writing about my experience. I criminals from being out on the streets achieved through sustainable design, also hope to inspire women to do something dealing drugs or on the flip side, helping to particularly in urban development.” a little adventurous in life along the way.” prove someone’s innocence.”

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One of Australia’s most promising young journalism students, UTS undergraduate Brooke Boney, shares her hopes for a better future, plus her views on the big issues affecting her generation as Australia enters the Asian Century. story cameron cooper photography anthony Geernaert

Expect to see and hear more of Brooke Boney in the increasingly engages with peers across the region years to come. during a period that is being hailed as the Asian The 25-year-old UTS undergraduate is compiling Century courtesy of the emergence of global a list of résumé credits that already puts many superpowers such as China and India. experienced practitioners to shame. A presenter For now, though, Boney is pleased to be honing on Koori Radio, internships with the Nine Network her skills at UTS, a leader in journalism education and ABC Radio, looming work-experience stints on for more than three decades which has schooled the national broadcaster’s flagship current affairs many of the nation’s most acclaimed journalists. programs Lateline and 7.30. The internships, along with work at community For Boney, a final-year Bachelor of Arts in station Koori Radio, have convinced the former Communication (Journalism) student, it is all part sales coordinator that broadcasting is her future. of her plan to gain experience and have a head start She likes the fact that television and radio have a when she graduates at the end of this year. profound impact on the construction of people’s “It’s so competitive for cadetships when we reality and informs their understanding of local, graduate, so the more on [my] CV will hopefully national and international events. make it that little bit easier,” she says. “TV and radio is the way for me,” she affirms. Her desire to get work experience also complements UTS’s commitment to a practice- Reality check based journalism course that features a high Work experience has also served as a reminder proportion of working journalists on the lecturing to Boney about how much she has to learn if she and tutoring roster. hopes to one day reach the top of her profession. “That kind of access to the world of journalism is “The first day that I went in to work at the ABC, amazing,” Boney says. what I learnt is that I knew so little,” she admits. Rather than being daunted by such a gap in Starring role knowledge and experience, Boney has used it as Boney is no ordinary student. Of Indigenous motivation to learn and grow. As students seek to descent, she is passionate about becoming a role establish their careers, she believes they face a model for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander balancing act: they need enough self-confidence people and raising awareness of issues affecting to succeed while understanding they are novices. ethnic and minority groups. She is poised to Humility, a strong work ethic and “being very keen become one of the voices of her generation as it to learn” are part of her blueprint for success.

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Brooke Boney, shot on location at UTS City campus.

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“It’s liberating to think that people take you more seriously when you are educated and that you have more of a voice as a journalist as well. I like that.”

Brooke Boney, UTS journalism student

“And being willing to do anything [within such as the ABC and SBS, she maintains out the wrong message to Australians an ethical framework] to make your name.” it is important for them to cross over to and those watching from further abroad With that in mind, she questions commercial media outlets, too. who have memories of the White stereotypes about members of generation “Indigenous media is fantastic, but if Australia Policy. Y and their supposed aversion to hard Indigenous journalists and Indigenous “If we want to set an example to our work. Boney notes that most of her UTS stories are left only to Indigenous media it Asian neighbours, we need to remove that,” colleagues are willing to put in the long creates the idea that those issues are only Boney argues. hours to flourish at university and beyond. for the people who watch those channels As Australia navigates its course in “We know what it’s going to take to get and listen to those radio programs, rather Asia, universities such as UTS will play a good work when we finish uni.” than being an issue for all of us.” crucial role in preparing students to work in the region and engage with its citizens. Colour blind Global vision According to Boney, a focus on languages at The journalism course at UTS is ticking all Like many of her generation, Boney is not UTS is an important contributor to a better the boxes for Boney, the first member of her defined solely by her Indigenous roots cultural understanding of other countries. family to attend university. or being born in Australia. She has local, At the same time, UTS’s reputation for “It’s liberating to think that people take regional and world views, and is proud educational quality and creativity are you more seriously when you are educated of the fact. significant assets for undergraduates and and that you have more of a voice as a Boney believes Australia is fortunate graduates alike. Journalism education at journalist as well,” she says. “I like that.” to be linked geographically to an Asian UTS critically engages with the intellectual, One of Boney’s principal reasons for region that is reshaping notions of global ethical and political foundations of studying is to use that voice as a tool to power. Cities such as Beijing and New Delhi journalism that resonate with students change the way Australia thinks about its now compete on a credible footing with such as Boney. She is confident the practical Indigenous population. For starters, she established strongholds such as New York, and theoretical skills she is acquiring hopes more people can learn to appreciate Paris, Berlin and Zurich. through her journalism degree will serve that Indigenous people come in all shapes, To further enhance our standing in Asia, her well into the future. sizes and colours. With an Aboriginal Boney is adamant that we should cut the “I think the degree puts us in good mother and non-Aboriginal father, Boney apron strings to the British monarchy and stead to work not only in Australia but is like many modern Indigenous people become a republic. internationally as well.” whose skin is not as dark as ancestral “I think that’s an important step. We UTS will again showcase its international Aborigines. She wants to dispel the notion are such a multicultural country and to links with the construction of the that this makes her any less Aboriginal. embrace that part of our heritage (through Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, Boney “It denies you your identity if people the Royal Family) kind of discounts the believes the new building sends out an don’t understand your ethnicity just value that all our other cultures in the important message about Australia’s because of the way you look,” Boney country bring to our everyday life.” engagement with Asia given Dr Chau’s explains. “That’s why having more people Such an action would send a clear contribution to the project. She adds that of all ethnicities on TV and in the media message to Asia that we are a truly the site reinforces the standing of UTS as is [crucial]. If people don’t know anyone independent and international country, a creative university and will benefit all from that background then the way they according to Boney. students in and around it. understand that whole culture is from “I think it’s more than just symbolism.” “Just having such a building on campus people they see on television or people On other matters close to her heart, will be amazing. I think it will be a landmark they hear on the radio.” Boney advocates for a referendum to and something that all of Sydney can be Boney hopes she can use the medium of change the nation’s constitution to proud of – not just UTS.” journalism to educate and inform people recognise Aboriginal people and repeal about Indigenous people and their issues. Section 51 (Part 26) – the so-called ‘race Multicultural focus While conceding there are now more power act’ – that still allows for government As a university located in Australia’s opportunities for Indigenous voices to be to make laws based on a person’s race. She growing creative and digital sector heard through government broadcasters says such entrenched discrimination sends precinct, UTS is preparing students for a

16 17 world in which creative thinking and an entrepreneurial mindset are highly valued. Boney appreciates being part of a progressive university and believes it plays to the region’s strengths as an emerging business and technology hub. She hopes the economic gains of such progress will be felt right across the Asia-Pacific region, in addition to wider societal benefits stemming from technology advances and the rise of social media formats. For her part, Boney cannot conceive of a world without Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media tools. The only caveat is that such fora sometimes allow anonymous critics to express racist and sexist views, raising questions about how or whether to censor and police such contemporary media channels. “I am concerned about that, but I can’t imagine my life without social media.” As the world deals with such issues and much bigger ones including global warming and economic inequality, Boney confirms that such topics are always on the agenda for generation Y. She and her friends are also focused on issues closer to home, such as the aforementioned push to become a republic and improve racial equality. Boney believes such matters strike at the heart of perceptions about Australia’s national identity and the importance of numerous countries across the globe. years to come. She hopes to become a championing our multicultural history. The University integrates intercultural respected reporter and dreams of one day With the nation comprising a melting pot and global perspectives into all facets of becoming a correspondent for the likes of British, Greek, Italian, Vietnamese, campus life, including a commitment to of the ABC or a similarly well-respected Chinese and Middle Eastern immigrants, internationalisation of the curriculum. media group. among others, she says it is vital to Likewise, Boney says the media plays “I am lucky being so young and having remember that Australia is home to a a vital role in shaping Australia’s identity all these great idealistic goals for my career diversity of cultures, not just that of the because of the stories it pursues and the and I hope I can stick to them – and get work early colonisers. sources it uses. Upon graduation, she hopes when I finish my degree.” T “Every culture contributes to the fabric to help give more people a voice. that is Australia. That’s an amazing thing “I’m just a lowly minion now … but that’s Cameron Cooper is a journalist with and we should acknowledge it.” something to aspire to.” more than 25 years’ experience. A former Boney notes that the UTS campus With just months to go before finishing editor of Business Asia, he is now a regular reflects the nation’s multicultural her degree, Boney is excited at the prospect contributor to The Australian and a range of ties, with students being drawn from of rising through the media ranks in the other corporate publications.

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The Asian Century when is upon us – so how can Australia capitalise on its burgeoning relationship with east the region? story nick gardner meets west

Australia has always felt a greater affinity for which data is available, these countries Economic Co-operation and Development with ‘the west’, but as we enter the Asian were only responsible for 21 per cent of total (OECD). Asian languages are barely getting Century our integration into the region foreign investment flowing into Australia, a look in. is set to accelerate, bringing challenges highlighting the extent of this ‘one-way’ and opportunities in equal measure. But relationship. If Japan is removed from the Lost in translation if Australia is to fully capitalise, it must calculation, the share drops to just 6.3 per cent. “Not only are we monolingual, we are do much more to embrace Asian culture While some put this down to anti- virtually Asian illiterate,” says Dr Bronwen and commerce than simply provide vast Chinese xenophobia, Timothy Devinney, Dalton, Senior Lecturer in Management amounts of commodities for the region’s Professor of Strategy at UTS, says the at the UTS Business School and board rapidly urbanising nations. investment imbalance is much more to do member of the Australia Korea Foundation From education to investment, with legal complexities. Department of Foreign Affairs. immigration to cultural integration, “Japanese companies can invest more A 2010 report on the current status of experts say Australian policies and heavily in partnerships and joint projects Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian and Korean attitudes need to be overhauled to facilitate for the same reason that the Americans, languages in Australian schools shows Asia’s ascendance. French, British and Germans can – that the scale of the task. Only 18 per cent of “We seem to be embracing the Asian there are more options to take legal action Australian school students currently study revolution a little reluctantly,” says if something goes wrong. an Asian language, decreasing to fewer Brian Haratsis, Managing Director of “If a Japanese company does a deal with than six per cent by Year 12 level. MacroPlan Australia, the demographic an Australian firm and then runs back to A scant 300 students who do not have economists. “We still make it difficult for Japan, the Australian firm could sue that a Chinese background are currently some Asian companies to invest in Australia company in Japan. But with China the legal studying Chinese at Year 12 level. and immigration is still too low, from Asia options are more restricted. Many would The government is trying to tackle and elsewhere. The US and the UK are the say you’d be mad to sign a contract with the problem with the National Asian biggest foreign investors into Australia a Chinese company with a Chinese base. Languages and Studies in Schools despite the enormous assets on our The legalities need clarifying before that Programme, started in 2008, which doorstep in Asia – and China in particular.” situation can improve.” is encouraging more students to take That said, a sluggishness to embrace up an Asian language. However, while A complex imbalance Asia is not just evident in business, but it is desirable for more Australians to In 2011, merchandise exports from also in our grassroots education. Almost embrace the language and culture of Australia to Asia (China, Hong Kong Special unbelievably, French is still the most our neighbours, Devinney says the most Administrative Region, India, Korea, Japan, commonly taught language in Australian effective way to build bridges is to harness Taiwan) accounted for 76.2 per cent of schools and our linguistic skills rank as the skills of our existing Asian residents Australia’s total. Yet in 2010, the latest year the lowest in the Organisation for and those of future generations.

18 19 “History has shown that the more “The US and the UK are the biggest foreign investors into integrated you are in terms of other groups in your society the easier it is to Australia despite the enormous assets on our doorstep in engage in trade,” he says. “So the more Asia – and China in particular.” Chinese Australians we have here, the easier it will be to conduct trade with Brian Haratsis, Managing Director, MacroPlan Australia China, because it is these people, with a direct link to their ancestral homes, who are usually best placed to conduct the transactions. in marketing. But having employees who now they are made in China and Malaysia. “It doesn’t matter if we don’t have enough can relate more closely to the culture could Those economies have successfully Anglo-Saxon Asian-language speakers, as help overcome these hurdles by better adapted to change by focusing on finance long as we have enough Asian-background understanding what will be culturally and [and] commerce – they adapted their Australians who can manage these legally acceptable. economies accordingly, lowering tax rates business and investment opportunities in As for how Australia copes on a domestic to attract businesses to locate there, among years to come.” level, there are plenty of challenges other things. ahead, especially in hard-hit areas such as “Likewise, Australia needs to focus on Challenges and opportunities ahead manufacturing. This part of the Australian niche areas where we can add real value, A more integrated Chinese/Australian economy employed 25 per cent of the our design know-how and our services working community might also help population 50 years ago. Today it is only sector, which relies far more on our diffuse fears about expanding into China 8.5 per cent. intellectual capital and experience. We generated by issues such as the internet But Shane Oliver, Chief Economist can’t compete on price alone so we have to and social media censorship. at AMP Capital, says it’s a problem that work smarter.” T Facebook is blocked. Twitter is blocked. many Asian economies have already YouTube is blocked. These issues successfully negotiated, and we can learn Nick Gardner is the former Money Editor of are off-putting for businesses wary of from what they have done. “Hong Kong The Sunday Times in London and Business breaking laws in this infamously grey area, and Singapore used to provide the world Editor of The Daily Telegraph and The especially given the role of social media with all its cheap manufactured goods but Sunday Telegraph in Sydney.

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From poor cousin to powerhouse, India has India and China. Through their research a compelling story to tell. and teaching programs, UTS academics are UTS has cemented its place With a population of more than 1.2 billion, exploring a diverse range of India-related as a world-class destination a fascinating political, commercial and issues in disciplines such as law, politics, for global thought leaders religious history and a modern status as business, humanities, social sciences, a global business dynamo, few countries sciences and engineering. from India, helping to can match it for intrigue. This narrative is The University draws on strong ties with generate a stronger cross- reflected in the strength of Indian studies institutions such as New York University, cultural understanding at UTS, where an acclaimed cohort of the University of Leicester and the between the two countries. academics and researchers is engaging with University of Delhi. It also woos leading students and the broader community. figures from abroad for its workshops and Story Associate Professor Devleena Ghosh, of seminars, including Dipesh Chakrabarty, cameron cooper the Social and Political Change Group at the a renowned South Asian historian from photography UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the University of Chicago; and celebrated plays a key role in attracting distinguished Indian investigative journalist Palagummi anthony Geernaert Indian scholars to the University, where a Sainath, whose investigative and social complementary series of workshops, papers sector reporting as rural affairs editor of and seminars helps better explain India’s The Hindu newspaper has earned him a history and its relationship with Australia. string of international awards, including the “There’s quite a lot of interesting Ramon Magsaysay Prize in 2007. comparative work that goes on,” Ghosh In February this year, Sainath says. “We want to look at, for example, participated in the Talking India series the Australia-India connection as British that is held at UTS through the Indian colonies in the Indian Ocean during the Ocean and South Asia Research Network 19th century and examine the informal (ISOARN). He captivated attendees migration of people. The people most of us with an address that explained how an know about are the Indian camel drivers, but agrarian crisis had contributed to a spate there are lots of others who came here. It’s of farmer suicides in India, with more than to some extent about relocating Australia’s a quarter of a million farmers taking their place in Asia and relocating India as one of lives between 1995 and 2010. The deaths the major regions of interest to Australia.” represent the largest single wave of suicides Ghosh suggests that Australia’s post-1788 within an occupational group yet recorded, focus on its European settlement roots and mirror a similar but smaller scenario in often obscures the significant impact of Australia where isolated and lonely farmers Asian immigration from countries such as have taken their lives.

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Left: Associate Professor Devleena Ghosh, Social and Political Change Group at the UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and Coordinator of the Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network. Right: Professor Ujjwal Kumar Singh, the Rajiv Gandhi Visiting Chair for Contemporary Indian Studies at UTS.

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Ghosh says another workshop in the “I sometimes tell students that they need to know pipeline will consider nuclear power in the more about southern areas, including South Asia context of Australia’s recent decision to sell and India, because in many ways there is a growing uranium to India.“So what we are trying to do is take these issues that deal with relationship between Australia and India. And Australia’s place in Asia and its relationship improving that knowledge will help them in the future with India and have workshops and events with their job and career prospects.” and speakers around those issues.” Thought leadership at UTS Professor Ujjwal KUMAR Singh A key step in the advancement of Australia- India ties is the appointment of Professor Ujjwal Kumar Singh, a political scientist at the University of Delhi, as the first Rajiv Gandhi Visiting Chair for Contemporary Indian Studies. The role is a collaborative venture between UTS and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and has the support of ISOARN. Under the agreement, UTS will appoint an Indian academic as a visiting professor for one semester a year over four years, with a new candidate selected each year. Singh specialises in areas such as laws and institutions, electoral governance, democratic and human rights and indigenous rights. He will teach global politics during his stay at the UTS campus, and at a recent forum addressed the topic Cat and Mouse Games: Hunger Strikes and Political Prisonerhood. The topic explored the notion that political imprisonment is a conceptual tool for a historical and ethnographical exploration of modern states. In his paper, Singh focused on how hunger strikes can be used as a mode of resistance and reclamation of the self within jails. At the same time, the response of government also varies for different groups of prisoners, with distinct versions of the ‘cat and mouse game’ playing out with diverse intents, ranging from freeing hunger-striking suffragettes from prison only to re-incarcerate them to a conundrum over how to respond to the Gandhian ‘fast’ to purge the nation. Singh noted that hunger-striking inmates have sought to effect a range of outcomes. For example, the Hindustan Socialist Revolutionary Army prisoners and the Naxalites in India have tried to change repressive prison regimes, while others like Anna Hazare and Irom Sharmila have sought to draw attention to political wrongs through their ‘fasts’. Singh told TOWER that although hunger strikes have been used as a popular mode of protest, they have had mixed success. “It only works if it is used as a moral force,” he says.

22 23 Across the great divide occurred and discussing how such Singh agrees it is important to build incidents can be avoided in future. stronger cultural understanding between Ghosh says such seminars are crucial UTSpeaks nations and argues that there is a “huge in generating deeper understanding For more information about UTS void” in Australians’ knowledge of India between Australians and Indians. The events, including the UTSpeaks and South Asia that needs to be addressed presence of high-profile commentators series, see http://newsroom.uts. as commercial and career opportunities such as Singh and Sainath also builds edu.au/events and to access expand between the two economies. Australia’s understanding of India’s culture the latest UTS news, visit http:// “I sometimes tell students that they and politics, and strengthens the bilateral newsroom.uts.edu.au need to know more about southern areas, relationship between the two countries. including South Asia and India, because in “What we’re trying to do is really refocus many ways there is a growing relationship some of Australia’s foreign policy attention between Australia and India. And improving on India, as opposed to having it totally establishment of the Rajiv Gandhi Visiting that knowledge will help them in the future focused on China. This is not a zero-sum Chair role sent a clear message about the with their job and career prospects.” game – it’s not saying we should take the importance of growing Australia-India ties. Singh believes greater cultural focus away from China – it’s really saying As UTS also examines a range of key interaction and education can also help that’s it’s a bad policy to always put all your technology partnerships with various ease Australia-India tensions that took hold strategic political eggs in one basket, and Indian universities, Ghosh agrees that in 2009 following a spate of violent attacks it’s better to have a variety of ways in which apart from promoting cultural ties, such against Indian students living down under. you create these relationships.” programs will help develop employment “In a way, the impact of those events Ghosh praises ISOARN and UTS opportunities from New Delhi to Canberra still exists in India and people are still leaders such as Vice-Chancellor Professor and cities in between. apprehensive,” he says. “But I think Ross Milbourne for supporting the Indian “People want to actually be able to exchanges of this kind will really help.” studies programs. She notes, too, that work in a global context and have the In recent months, UTS has hosted a the visit to UTS last year by the former opportunity to do so. And to have that work workshop examining the Indian student President of India, Dr Abdul Kalam, to sign readiness it’s really important to experience crisis, considering why the phenomenon a memorandum of understanding for the other cultures.” T

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UTS isn’t resting on its laurels when it comes to intellectual property protection in the Asia-Pacific. story lucinda schmidt

We’ve all had a laugh at the strange material brought into Australia, often from “Awareness building in IP is how UTS marketing blurbs on the back of pirated Asian countries like China, Thailand and is leading the way,” says Professor Natalie DVDs. “This sometimes too objective Indonesia, which regularly appear on the Stoianoff, who chairs the UTS Faculty movie lacks a sense of definitive character, US’s Special 301 Report, a priority watch Research Network for IP, Media and undermining its gorgeous scenery and list of countries that need to strengthen Communications and is the Director of the interesting perspective on the plight of enforcement of IP rights. University’s Master of IP program. Native Americans,” says the cover of a Intercepting counterfeit and pirated For example, plans are underway to offer bootleg copy of Kevin Costner’s 1990 epic goods at customs is one option. the University’s world-class online program Dances with Wolves. Increasingly, however, the focus is shifting for training trade mark and patent attorneys The reality of intellectual property to strengthening IP protection and to students in China and India. (IP) theft, however, is not funny at all. For enforcement in the originating countries, those who make a living through work to stem the huge international flow of fake Crossing borders protected by copyright, trade marks, DVDs, luxury goods, food, medicines, In May, Stoianoff hosted a visiting law patents, designs or confidential information tobacco, car parts and even cleaning professor from China’s Huazhong laws and for countries like Australia where products. UTS is playing a leading role University of Science and Technology the economic benefits of innovation and in enhancing IP rights in several Asian (HUST) to discuss IP enforcement, creativity are significant, protection and countries, through initiatives such as judicial exhaustion of IP rights and cross enforcement of IP rights is vital. That training and joint projects with universities border innovation and cooperation includes reducing the amount of infringing in Asia to advise on IP capabilities. on patents. UTS has a Key Technology

24 25 “Four or five years ago, there were no strong incentives to enforce IP laws because China was a net importer of IP. Now, as technology is being created and owned by Chinese companies, there’s a much stronger incentive.”

George Tian, Senior Lecturer at the UTS Law School

Partnership with HUST, one of China’s Stoianoff, China has a very extensive those laws is often suited to the country’s top 10 universities, which Stoianoff says IP administrative regime, although stage of development. will eventually lead to a joint IP research enforcement remains a problem area. “They become more serious about program, including offering joint PhDs. Professor Michael Fraser, the director enforcement when they have more IP Stoianoff’s expertise in Chinese IP rights of UTS’s Communications Law Centre industries that are trying to export,” he was cemented by a project funded by and the Chair of the Australian Copyright says, adding that this is a shortsighted view the Australian Research Council (ARC) Council, agrees that cultural traditions play because good protection and enforcement in 2005-08 to investigate IP enforcement a big role in the approach to IP protection is required first, as a basis on which to build and awareness building in China, Thailand in countries like China and Thailand, innovation and creativity. and Indonesia. She led the China segment particularly for copyright. He has worked Recently, his centre hosted a visiting of the project and has since delivered for years with the World Intellectual academic from the University of Indonesia many journal articles and seminars on the Property Organization and other groups to discuss joint research to advise the topic. She has also been a consultant to on copyright capacity building in South Indonesian government on copyright provide IP training for Chinese judges and East Asia and China, including helping to laws. He also spent a week in Indonesia administrative staff and in October she will develop societies of authors and copyright in May finalising the research program, travel to China to prepare case studies on associations in the region. which includes issues such as copyright IP enforcement. “They are much closer historically in traditional cultural work such as batik (a “Nations like China, in particular, started and culturally to a tradition that scholars, traditional textile hailing from the island out as massive counterfeiters of products. creators and inventors were supported of Java). Later this year, Fraser hopes to It’s always on the 301 watch list,” Stoianoff and patronised by the Crown or religious develop a project on capacity building in says. “But they’ve been improving. Over institutions or the aristocracy,” he says, copyright for countries like Cambodia and the last decade there has been a complete adding that this was also the case in Europe the Pacific Islands. turnaround in attitude because locals are until the 1700s. creating their own IP and want to protect it.” “They were highly respected – and still Forging its own path Another impetus has been international are – but they were not seen as working George Tian, Senior Lecturer at the UTS trade relations; when China joined the in the market or part of the commercial Law School, agrees that IP protection and World Trade Organization in 2001, it took on sphere. The fruits of their labour were for enforcement has changed dramatically the obligations of the Agreement on Trade- the benefit of society and it would be seen in China and other Asian countries over Related Aspects of Intellectual Property as almost offensive to pay those people the past few years. In the past, he says, Rights plus massive international pressure for their work.” efforts to improve enforcement have come to observe those obligations. from international pressure, such as the A new way of thinking Special 301 Report; now China is focusing History and culture Fraser, who founded Australia’s Copyright on developing its innovation capacity As Stoianoff points out, historical and Agency Limited, which collects payment and indigenous IP, which requires strong cultural differences have played a big for content creators such as journalists protection and enforcement. role in shaping China’s approach to IP. when their work is re-used, says the modern “Four or five years ago, there were Traditionally, China did not classify IP as market economy, where copyright makes no strong incentives to enforce IP laws a property right, although that started to works of the mind into a property right and because China was a net importer of IP,” he change in the 1800s with increasing trade the patronage of powerful institutions no says. “Now, as technology is being created with the West. longer provides a livelihood, is a big change. and owned by Chinese companies, there’s a Under Chairman Mao’s Communist “That comes as a new and revolutionary much stronger incentive.” T rule, however, the concept of private way of thinking of the role of creativity in ownership diminished and it wasn’t society and it’s not an easy step for those Lucinda Schmidt is a journalist who has until the open door reforms under countries to take,” he says, noting that many written for the ABC, The Age and BRW Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s that IP countries in the region have good laws on among others, and was a former lawyer protection again emerged. Now, says their books but practical enforcement of specialising in intellectual property .

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Crossing Borders What are the key issues facing foreign journalists working in China? Two UTS alumni – Fairfax Media’s acting China correspondent Philip Wen and the ABC’s China correspondent Stephen McDonell – open up on life inside the communist country.

Philip Wen Yunnan province. They were long trips that goes beyond financial figures. To that My stint as China correspondent began that were physically tough, but ultimately end, the media will play a crucial role. at the start of the year, when I was rewarding for the great people we met and posted to Beijing to cover for our regular the spectacular scenery along the way. Stephen McDonell correspondent, who had taken a sabbatical. It is no secret there are challenges that China is a story machine. It doesn’t know It was 1 January when I entered China – I foreign journalists face when reporting in how to do anything but make news. had left Australia directly from a New Year’s China. It is a country that is still grappling This is a place with: military Eve party at a mate’s house. with the importance of press freedom. expansion; construction; corruption; Landing in Beijing, there was no time There have been some massive stories three-wheeled motorised delivery to think about what I had got myself into. It out of China recently that have garnered bicycles passing glittering skyscrapers; a was a case of hitting the ground running, international attention. Other foreign massive population that seems at times and making the most of the experience. correspondents tell me this is by far the breathtakingly ignorant, at times blindly As a journalist, it probably doesn’t busiest time they’ve seen, probably since nationalistic and at times exploding onto get any better than being a China the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. the internet with newfound possibilities of correspondent. It is the place to be for news; The ruling Communist Party is in a real expression; the most disgusting polluted the country is moving along at such a pace state of flux after the sensational scandal rivers you could possibly imagine and the that good yarns are everywhere you look. involving the ousting of senior politician most enormous wind farms rolling across And with China becoming an increasingly Bo Xilai – once seen as a sure bet for the hills; a generation of people whose lives influential power in the world, those stories promotion to the party’s inner circle. are dramatically better than their parents are also having more impact. It has been a real eye-opener into the and grandparents; people who are gaoled Being a foreign correspondent is very inner workings of the party, including the for advocating democratic reforms and much a full-time gig. I quickly learnt to cut-throat, high-stakes hunger for power where 95 per cent of the population have measure the time off I had to relax in hours and the corruption and violence that can no idea whatsoever that this is happening. rather than days, and to get as much sleep often come with it. This country is the future and Australia as possible when I could get it. Most importantly, it has shown that there is well and truly locked into it. The good It helps that the job itself presents such has been a lot more factional infighting and news for Australians is that we are magnificent experiences that even though instability within the party than people had well-regarded in China by taxi drivers you’re working hard, it’s quite easy to enjoy previously thought. and CEOs alike. yourself while you’re at it. Closer to home, Matthew Ng and When we, as Australian reporters, deal Beijing and Shanghai, and even the Charlotte Chou have both been sentenced with Chinese officials they do view us likes of Guangzhou and Chengdu, are true to lengthy stints in jail in Guangzhou in differently to Americans and Europeans. international cities in their own right these very murky circumstances, and continued Let’s face it, they want our iron ore, gas, coal days, but for me the highlights have been coverage of their plight is important. and uranium. the opportunity to work on stories in more As our trade and investment ties with However, there is also an far-flung places like the Tibetan areas of China continue to increase, it is important acknowledgement that most Australians Sichuan, and some of the poorer areas of that we develop an understanding of them view this country differently to the

26 27 Right: Philip Wen. Photo by Sanghee Liu. Bottom: Stephen McDonell.

“You never feel like you know enough about this place – or that you ever could. Of course, that’s also the enduring appeal of it for a reporter: the harder it is to find out what’s really going on, the more intriguing it becomes.”

stephen mcdonell, the ABC’s China correspondent

way most Western Europeans and Chinese experience. Because there are so went down, he took the hopes of a big slab North Americans do. It sounds like I am many elements to modern China, at this of the Party with him. pumping Australians up but I reckon point in history there is no way that I am The sad thing for the followers of his the ‘average’ informed person in Sydney doing any of them justice: I simply can’t. so-called ‘Chongqing Model’ – named after has an understanding of China which If I was to cover the economy here the huge city he ran – is that he did have incorporates more of its complexities in the detail it really warrants, I’d be considerable success in lifting up the poor than does say the average informed doing nothing about the enormous earth- in the underprivileged west of the country Londoner or New Yorker. changing environmental crisis in China. while at the same time courting the The potential downside in this is that, If I was to cover the environment in the business community there. because many Australian diplomats, detail it warrants, I’d be doing nothing Like many a leader before him, though, politicians and businesspeople know that on the biggest political crisis China has his ambition, which o’erleapt itself, led him significant human rights abuses only touch experienced in two decades and so on. to trample on those who got in his way: a relatively small proportion of Chinese On this last point, people should not lawyers who had the gall to represent crime people, they can tend to down play them underestimate the significance of the bosses, were framed and thrown into gaol. and even discourage each other from Bo Xilai story. Sure, it’s a sexy yarn You never feel like you know enough raising these issues with Chinese officials involving murder, intrigue and betrayal about this place – or that you ever could. or, heaven forbid, mentioning these but it also represents an open clash of Of course, that’s also the enduring appeal matters publicly. ideology within the upper ranks of the of it for a reporter: the harder it is to find out As a reporter with a massive and Communist Party. what’s really going on, the more intriguing complex beat, I am trying to convey In short, Bo Xilai represented a renewal it becomes. something of all the important facets of the of a type of neo-Maoism here. When he I can’t imagine ever being over it. T

26 27 T feature sky’s the limit It’s not just the mining sector that is benefiting from our blossoming relationship with China. Nick Gardner investigates the impact of the Asian Century on tourism in Australia. illustration christopher nielsen

Australia’s tourism industry is enjoying unprecedented visitor growth from the region, with Chinese visitor numbers up by almost 20 per cent in the past year, to 542,000. China is now the largest overseas contributor to our tourism sector, with an economic value of $3.8 billion, higher than the total value of visitors from both the UK and the US. And by 2020 it is expected that Chinese tourists will contribute between $7 billion and $9 billion a year to the local economy, but only if Australia delivers on China’s high expectations. If they are let down when they are here, negative word- of-mouth could deter a large proportion of potential tourists and allow rival destinations to increase their market share. So far, however, so good. “Visitor numbers have been growing steadily since Australia and New Zealand became the first two ‘Approved Destinations’ on China’s overseas travel list, and Australia is listed among the ‘must see’ destinations of China’s travelling classes,” says Leo Seaton of Tourism Australia (TA). Visitors are spread across all age ranges but according to a 2011 report by the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism, 31 per cent of visitors were aged between 15-29 years, and that group alone contributed 70 per cent of the total economic benefit to Australia, spending an average of $13,00 each. However, this age bracket is dominated by people visiting for education purposes, spending far longer here than typical holidaymakers. The next age bracket – 30-44 – spent an average of just over $3000 each and, along with the 45- to 59-year-olds (spending $2590 each), represent the two segments that are

28 29 “Although it seems like Australians going overseas is ‘evil’ because it means money going overseas, in the long term, it will pay dividends through higher Chinese visitor numbers.”

dr david beirman, Senior Lecturer, School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism at UTS

most valuable for tourism purposes. It is here It’s especially tough, says Tony Griffin, However, Adele Labine-Romain of the that TA is targeting its marketing dollars. Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management Tourism and Transport Forum , says that In its China 2020 Strategic Plan, TA at UTS, given that Asian visitors, and the a key to improving the Asian/Chinese identified numerous key areas which it has Chinese in particular, are not great fans of experience are more Mandarin-speaking prioritised for targeting over the coming years beaches or the bush. workers who can not only welcome the to maximise the number of Asian visitors. “The Chinese are quite conservative in guests in their own tongue but can help Crucially it has focused on the need where they will travel. It’s not a problem educate their co-workers about Chinese for more targeted marketing activities in getting them to capital cities and iconic culture, and how to make Chinese visitors China, honing in on the burgeoning middle- destinations such as the Great Barrier feel genuinely welcome. class and affluent couples, in addition to Reef, but a group of Chinese travel agents “We have suggested that the working the lucrative business market, which TA recently concluded that there was holiday visa scheme be extended to believes it can attract to Australia for more nothing north of Newcastle to capture the China because this would be invaluable in conferences and business trips. imagination because it was all beaches and improving our ability to cater to the Chinese It has also pointed to greater airline national parks,” he says. market,” says Labine-Romain. “Getting capacity and route availability, and TA has Indeed, China and India have the lowest more workers of Asian backgrounds to already boasted deals with international share of visitor nights spent outside the educate our own tourism workers about carriers such as China Southern, Air China, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane/Gold Coast Asian cultures could be a real benefit apart China Eastern, Cathay Pacific, Qantas and, and Perth regions of the 23 source markets from their ability to make visitors from their more recently, Jetstar, which have opened reported in Tourism Research Australia own countries feel more at home during up more routes and expanded flight data. Only one night in 10 by Chinese their stay. Australia doesn’t have a great numbers between China and Australia. leisure visitors and one night in eight by reputation for customer service and if Asian This has been backed up by more Indian leisure visitors is spent outside these visitors don’t feel that they have been treated marketing on the ground. “[TA] already key gateway cities. well enough they will vote with their feet.” has a presence in 13 cities but we intend “It seems that if you’re going to get them to Longer term, however, Dr David Beirman, to expand that to ‘secondary cities’ in national parks and nature-based activities it Senior Lecturer, School of Leisure, Sport coming years where we see real growth needs to be heavily tamed,” says Griffin. “One and Tourism at UTS, says that more opportunities,” says Seaton. “We’ve successful example is in the Blue Mountains Australians need to visit China to foster established a network of 5000 dedicated – next to the National Park you have some a process of “cross-pollination” which Aussie specialist travel agents in those man-made attractions with a good scenic will encourage more Chinese to come 13 cities all expertly trained to sell Australia railway and a cable car into the valley. That to Australia. “Just like trade, tourism is a to the Chinese population.” kind of thing works well with the Chinese.” two-way street,” he says. “It will be difficult Griffin says better infrastructure and to get the Australian Government to back Australia’s lagging position more coach tours around regional Australia this publicly because outbound tourism is But while recent visitor numbers show that would also help. already doing so well, and all governments this strategy is relatively successful, it is prefer to focus on getting as many inbound definitely not all good news and Australia Great expectations tourists as possible. But the more that China has a fight on its hands to capture the However, while Chinese consumers rate and other Asian countries are exposed to growing Asian tourism market. Despite the Australia as a highly desirable destination, Australian tourists, the more likely it is that strong increase in visitors, Australia is lagging the report by the Department of Tourism Asian people will become more curious behind the growth of other destinations. concedes there have been instances where about visiting Australia. The most recent figures show that more “visitor expectations have not been met”. “In addition, the relationships that than one million Chinese travelled to the These include experiences on group Tourism Australia is fostering with China’s US, up 36 per cent on the previous year – a travel trips and also shopping. Another major carriers – China Southern and China far bigger increase than for Australia. And common reported problem is a lack of Eastern – means that they will be actively while smaller numbers are travelling to Mandarin-speaking guides. promoting China to Australian tourists in the UK and Canada, those destinations are The Department of Resources, Energy order to ensure their planes that land in enjoying greater visitor growth, at and Tourism recently announced a plan to Australia are full on the return trip to China. 32 per cent and 24 per cent respectively. invest $600,000 in a ‘Welcoming Chinese And although it seems like Australians This represents a big challenge for Visitors’ Strategic Tourism Investment going overseas is ‘evil’ because it means Australia. How do we continue to attract Grant, intended to fund training and money going overseas, in the long term, it a large share of travelling Chinese against support for businesses looking to improve will pay dividends through higher Chinese such appealing global destinations? their readiness for Chinese customers. visitor numbers.” T

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A scholarship program for Tuan Anh Vu, PhD scholarship student (left) and Tze-Ay Chuah, Vietnamese PhD students Director, UTS International. is not only attracting top talent, it’s playing a vital role in strengthening UTS’s engagement with Vietnam. story Anthony black photography anthony Geernaert

Asia is the powerhouse of the 21st century and UTS is part of its educational growth engine. The UTS-Vietnam International Education Development (PhD) Scholarship is equipping Vietnamese students with invaluable skills in their chosen field before returning home. By its very nature, the PhD scholarship attracts the best scholars prepared to endure the rigours of postgraduate studies in the pursuit of excellence. As Tze-Ay Chuah, Director of UTS International, says: “As support for scholarships programs are generally about capacity building, many Vietnamese scholarship holders at UTS are lecturers from universities in Vietnam. They will return to their universities after finishing their studies. This form of collaboration also helps strengthen their education systems.” The UTS-Vietnam International Education Development (PhD) Scholarship consists of about 15 students today, with some choosing to study engineering, renewable energy, agriculture and social media. The scheme began in 2010, but UTS has enjoyed a long association with Vietnam via other programs. The UTS-Vietnam International Education Development (PhD) Scholarship complements what UTS refers to as its singular vision – to be a world-leading university of technology. It’s part of the UTS strategic plan. It’s forthright. It’s bold. UTS makes clear that realising its vision relies on “attracting high quality students, academics, researchers and administrators – people who are passionate about knowledge, learning, discovery and creativity”. Vietnamese students meet the UTS vision, Chuah says, because they are “hard

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working, conscientious and very driven”. is the future for global communications. The third strategic level involves They have to be, otherwise they wouldn’t And, I want to get a better degree.” UTS collaboration at local Vietnamese be invited to participate in the scholarship. What appeals to Vu is the internet is government levels. AusAID contributed As Chuah says: “The Vietnamese students still in its infancy. Internet growth appears $48 million to the Mekong Delta Transport who receive a scholarship usually have unlimited. On the other hand, daily Improvement Project, which includes to go through rounds of selection hurdles newspaper circulations across the world upgrading 315 kilometres of rural roads before they even begin their studies at UTS.” are declining in favour of online news and 118 bridges. platforms. Studying internet capability and “Support of bilateral projects, such as A student’s experience social media in Australia enables him to these, are in line with the key objectives of One student currently doing his PhD under make comparisons with the online world the UTS internationalisation plan,” Chuah the UTS scholarship scheme is Tuan Anh in Vietnam. Vu says access to social media says. She highlights that collaborating Vu. Certainly not content to rest on his content in Vietnam is far more restricted. with Vietnamese government agencies in laurels, Vu also holds a Master of Arts in “Even blogger material in Vietnam is various programs can enable UTS to Journalism after graduating from the UTS/ censored,” he says. “So studying at UTS make a difference in people’s lives and AusAID scholarship program in 2009. improves my knowledge, which hopefully their communities. In Vietnam, Vu is a university lecturer, I can pass on to university students when I “Together we can help boost Vietnam’s specialising in online journalism and return to Vietnam. At UTS, I’m studying in growth and aspirations,” Chuah says. communications. He returned to Australia the practical world.” “UTS has been engaging with the region in August 2011 to start his PhD on social [Vietnam] for a long time now in one form media and expects to finish it within UTS’s engagement with Vietnam or the other. We want to raise educational the next three years. His thirst for more According to Chuah, UTS engagement awareness, so the Vietnamese can be part knowledge in online media and journalism with Vietnam involves capacity building at of history in this Asian Century.” T was behind his return to UTS. three strategic levels. The first is supporting Vu says returning to Australia exposes the Australian Government via its AusAID Anthony Black worked as a newspaper him to mass saturation daily press, in program. “UTS has been receiving AusAID journalist for 23 years, and was Sunday printed form and online, and television students for a long time,” she says. “Each Herald Sun Finance Editor for eight years. and radio. Living in Sydney enables semester we welcome these excellent him access to the inner workings of the scholars. The scholars who have graduated Australian media and senior journalists and returned home are now contributing to within the industry. During the interview, the development of their country.” “Studying at UTS improves he often mentions “freedom of the press” in The second strategic level involves UTS my knowledge, which Australia – as opposed to Vietnam, where, collaboration with relevant Vietnamese hopefully I can pass on to he says, censorship is never very far away Government agencies, such as the Ministry of from publication in the country with a Education and Training. “This collaboration university students when population of about 90 million people. supports the Vietnamese Government’s I return to Vietnam. At Vu says about 30 million Vietnamese have goals to increase educational quality for UTS, I’m studying in the access to the internet. its labour force,” she says. “UTS has a direct For Vu, the lure of UTS is opportunity. role in receiving these scholars, who will practical world.” “I want to improve my knowledge by return home to their universities and play doing more research on social media and an important role in Vietnam’s educational tuan anh vu, Vietnamese communications,” he says. “The online world and socio-economic development.” PhD scholarship student

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UTS’s Executive Director of the Creative Innovation Unit, Hael Kobayashi’s distinguished resume includes a role on the Oscar-winning movie Happy Feet. He talks to Cameron Cooper about Sydney’s emergence as a hub for creative industries. photography anthony Geernaert

As a pioneer of the digital revolution who support from the NSW Government and success story, Kobayashi was invited to has worked in smart cities such as San the City of Sydney has been instrumental speak in April at the 13th United Nations Francisco and Copenhagen, Hael Kobayashi in Sydney becoming a hot spot for creative Conference on Trade and Development has a keen sense for trends and the next industries collaboration. (UNCTAD) in Doha, Qatar. Presenting big thing. So it is no coincidence that he is Digital Sydney, an Industry and an overview of Australian activities in now at the heart of Sydney’s emergence as a Investment NSW program to promote the this space, including the role of the CIIC, hub for creative industries and innovation. state’s strengths in the converging ICT and entrepreneur groups and the Department The signs are clear for the NSW capital: creative industries, is also playing a key of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research clusters of entrepreneurs; collaboration role in linking government, education and and Tertiary Education, he outlined among educators and industry leaders; and industry in a creative industries precinct initiatives to build a creative economy. government and city investment. that includes inner-city suburbs such as Kobayashi says he was proud to have “Watching those kinds of things happen Surry Hills, Ultimo and Pyrmont. “You are the opportunity to showcase Australia’s in an ecosystem, I’d say, are very similar to now getting a critical mass of activity in the progress in creative industries in front of a the kinds of dynamics that you would see city,” says Kobayashi who chairs the group. UN audience. “Australia was referenced as a in San Francisco and Copenhagen,” says He believes UTS is also cementing its country that is able to create great strategy Kobayashi, who’s also the Associate Director leadership position in this space on the and implement it.” of the Creative Industries Innovation Centre back of a whole-of-university Creative (CIIC) at UTS. “And there are early indicators Innovation Strategy and a $1 billion Growth of the inter-connected world that the ecosystem is beginning to connect. campus redevelopment that will ensure Looking ahead, Kobayashi says it is clear That’s very exciting.” a cutting-edge campus of the future. “So that technologies around social media Born in Canada, Kobayashi has a there’s a great deal of interaction beginning will be one of the big plays for the digital distinguished résumé spanning 30 years’ to happen between all these different economy in years to come. While formats experience in film, digital, broadcast media groups,” Kobayashi says. “That’s when you such as Facebook and Twitter have already and the visual and performing arts. Now see this kind of fantastic alchemy that can built valuable brands on the back of through the CIIC, launched in 2009 as part transform a city. And it’s wonderful that the facilitating connectivity between people, of the Australian Government’s Enterprise university is smack bang in the middle of it.” he has no doubt that there is a long way to Connect initiative to support the growth A career highlight for Kobayashi was go as communities and businesses become of creative industries, he is again at the his engagement as associate producer for more agile and visually literate courtesy of forefront as Sydney follows in the footsteps visual effects company Animal Logic on new social media and digital technologies. of California’s Silicon Valley, Denmark and George Miller’s production of Happy Feet – “But I don’t think it detracts from the Sweden’s Medicon Valley. the endearing cartoon hit about penguins fact that the content still needs to be which won an Academy Award for best- well developed and articulated in that The cutting edge of creativity animated feature. Kobayashi says it was environment, and we actually need to Of the CIIC, Kobayashi notes that the gratifying to work with such a talented team. allow this kind of dialogue to happen.” business advisory service has helped more “In any culture it takes a lot of vision and On a personal level, Kobayashi is pleased than 600 creative enterprises connect with integrity of vision for those creative groups to be part of the fast-growing Sydney digital funding, technology, training and networks to come together and realise a project like economy. As was the case with San Francisco to help them flourish. “It’s the first time we’ve that,” he says. “And there were several UTS and Copenhagen, he seems to be the right had this kind of centre in Australia,” he adds. graduates who were in the core group in person in the right place at the right time. In May, Federal Minister for Industry Animal Logic and some of them were in “UTS is a very inspiring environment,” he and Innovation Greg Combet announced lead roles and supervisory roles.” says. “[We] have a critical mass of wonderful an additional three years’ funding for the In a further indication of Australia’s and people with a great deal of vision and also CIIC. Kobayashi believes complementary Sydney’s standing as a creative industries the skills to implement the vision.” T

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Hael Kobayashi, Executive Director, Creative Innovation Unit at UTS. Shot on location at the Aerial Function Centre, UTS.

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Australia’s top scientific research organisation, the CSIRO, is actively working with several Chinese partners to confront the challenges of global warming accentuated by the rise of greenhouse gases. story anthony black

Smog pollution in Shanghai.

34 35 Australian technology is at the forefront says China is building a coal-fired power dioxide can also be injected into coal layers in tackling climate change in China. The station every fortnight, so it will be emitting to extract methane.” challenge to reduce carbon emissions in CO2 for at least the next 40 years. The Australian Government has China – or globally as CSIRO scientist “With China growing at eight to committed between $10 and $12 million to Dr Paul Feron would say – cannot be nine per cent a year and its people striving a feasibility study that includes integrating underestimated, but it isn’t beyond reach to lift their living standards, there’s full carbon capture at existing and new provided there’s a willingness and a increasing demand for energy,” Dr Feron coal-fired power stations in China. The commitment to achieve goals. says. Coal accounts for about 70 per cent of feasibility study will thoroughly examine Crucial to CSIRO thinking, in China’s power needs, with the remainder the costs – planning permits, engineering, collaboration with its Chinese partners, is made up of nuclear, gas, oil and, to a tiny construction, storage and transportation – reducing carbon emissions from coal-fired extent, renewables – wind and solar. of capturing CO2. power stations. In essence, this involves According to Dr Feron, China accounts post combustion capture (PCC) of carbon for about 10 per cent of the world’s CO2 From little things… dioxide (CO2) at the source. The PCC emissions. Yet, he says, cutting coal fired Australia’s commitment to tackling climate process strips CO2 from the flue gases at power in China by one per cent, in favour of change is well documented, with the fossil-fuel driven industrial plants. alternatives, is the equivalent to powering a introduction of a carbon tax from 1 July 2012. The PCC process involves several quarter of Australia’s electricity needs each Today, coal generates about 75 per cent of technologies at varying stages of year. China is generating more power from Australia’s power needs, and is responsible development, which do work. But a greener sources each year, says Dr Feron, for about 40 per cent of greenhouse gas key objective is to improve existing but it’s coming off a very low base. emissions. The global warming debate has technologies and to develop new ones in been robust, but Australia is committed to a bid to sustain coal plant efficiency, while Work in progress generating up to 20 per cent of its energy capturing carbon dioxide. Today, there’s an It’s against this backdrop that the CSIRO from renewable sources by 2020. imbalance between capturing CO2 and coal and its Chinese collaborators have Significant investment already in wind, plant efficiency – an opportunity cost. embarked on several pilot projects, with solar and geothermal energy is expected Dr Feron explains that capturing the objective to reduce, or at least constrain to grow exponentially. Australia’s Climate 90 per cent of CO2 doubles the cost of CO2 levels in China over the longer term. Institute estimates $31 billion of clean producing power and reduces a coal Dr Feron says ammonia and amine-based energy projects are already underway. station’s efficiency from a maximum liquids that absorb CO2 are another method Dr Feron says China, as a rapidly 40 per cent to an unsustainable 28 per cent. of capture at the power plant. It’s essentially developing nation, is eager to draw on “We are undertaking a lot of research on a separating process. Australia’s bank of knowledge in dealing addressing the efficiency shortfall,” he says. “In heating the liquid, the CO2 bubbles with global warming and carbon emissions. out of the solution,” he says. “The CO2 is “China is looking to Australia for Joining forces captured, but the liquid can be reused in assistance and is very interested in what we Research into PCC and improving the absorption process. We are working are doing,” he says. “After all, Australia and efficiencies involve several stakeholders – with our Chinese partners on several liquid China have a good trading relationship.” notably the CSIRO, the Huaneng Group, one absorptive processes that won’t stifle plant He says China, despite its growing of China’s big five power companies, China’s efficiencies in line with carbon capture.” dependency on coal, is acutely aware of the Clean Energy Research Institute and the Capturing CO2 also has the added impact that its industries are having on the Chinese and Australian Governments. benefit of cutting poisonous gases, such global environment and its people. The collaboration, which began in 2008, as sulphur dioxide, and the acid gas, “China is seriously considering an has evolved into a joint scientific team nitrous oxide. After capture, CO2 itself is emissions trading system,” he says. “China dedicated to finding practical solutions to compressed and cooled to form a liquid, wants to be a player in global warming China’s carbon footprint in a country that and can be safely stored in porous rock solutions, and Australia’s scientific continues to post annual economic growth up to four kilometres below the earth’s knowledge, backed by Federal Government beyond eight per cent. Of course, China, surface. Or, in certain locations, CO2 can be investment programs, are geared towards often referred to as the engine room of the used to extract more fossil fuels. helping China and Australia achieve its global economy, is a major carbon emitter Dr Feron says CO2 can recover additional lower-emissions objectives. as its industries work around the clock to oil that otherwise couldn’t be extracted “But China’s carbon emissions status has churn out an increasing array of consumer from an oil field. He adds that injecting to be kept in perspective – you just don’t go products for world markets. CO2 displaces oil in the field, enabling it from fossil fuels to emissions free energy To keep up with industrial demand to be pumped to the surface. “It’s been a in a matter of years. The switch to greener and to provide electricity to an estimated commercial practice in Texas for years and energies is an incremental process and one population of 1.3 billion people, Dr Feron China is following,” Dr Feron says. “Carbon that has to be practical.” T

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development needs of Australia’s local government, or its recent review The UTS Centre for Local Government may be local of excellence frameworks in local government, which included a redesign of in name, but it has forged an international reputation. a ‘leadership framework’ by CLG, which is Mark Abernethy talks to the Centre’s Assistant Director, being rolled out to local governments. Sarah Artist, about its growth and commercial success “We’re still a university,” says Artist. “So over the last 21 years. we will always retain an academic focus.” But the growing part of the CLG business photography anthony Geernaert has been its design and delivery of education and professional development course for the local government sector, the exemplar being its Management Challenge Why would a local council need help from local councils needed development of in which local governments from Australia a university? It’s a question answered not management and leadership skills and and New Zealand send teams of six to only by the services offered by the UTS because many of them were amalgamating compete in a variety of management Centre for Local Government (CLG), but the and being pressured by state governments challenges. The best teams win their kind of help requested from Australia’s to operate more efficiently, they were tournament – not unlike theatre sports – 565 local governments. searching for best practice templates. and state winners meet for the grand final. “Local governments are a microcosm of And the sector is big: 110 teams competed the community,” says Assistant Director of A natural evolution in CLG’s 2012 series. the CLG, Sarah Artist. “So any problem you The CLG started as an academic research can imagine a business or an organisation centre but quickly expanded into offering Need for skills having, local governments have them too.” professional development programs and Artist says that the local government Those difficulties are as varied and as consultancy services under its own banner. sector has an ongoing need for skills, serious as you’d expect from a form of Artist says the growth of the CLG into the expertise and best practice benchmarks government that has more than 150,000 largest of its type in Australia has followed in the technical areas of planning, employees and administers more than the evolution of local governments building and infrastructure management, $100 billion worth of public infrastructure. themselves, from insular delivery arms which are always cross-referred with But more importantly, local governments of state government to democratic competing interests such as dealing with operate under the mantra that they deliver organisations expected to reflect the environmental issues, bush fires, floods and what the community desires, says Artist, communities they serve. general public safety. making good governance at a local body “Most local councils are medium- “Every local body has the same level a delicate matter. sized businesses but they are political budgetary, management and decision- “Local governments have to be focused organisations and community making processes as any medium-sized on financial sustainability while also organisations, too,” says Artist. business,” says Artist. “But the local supporting the needs of the community,” “So, we offer programs in management council has all these other decisions that says Artist. “This is the challenge.” best practice, but we also offer some have to be made. We designed a course The CLG was formed in 1991 as a interesting, higher-level leadership courses.” called Corporate Management and research and professional development This means the CLG still produces Organisational Change, precisely to deal resource for Australia’s local government research papers such as the national with the fact that when local government community. In those days, says Artist, review of education and professional works well, it’s because they’re shaping

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places: not vaguely, but specifically. That’s a difficult mission statement – to make a place look and feel the way the community wants it.” Which is why the CLG has developed itself as a centre for excellence in terms of leadership and leadership development.

Community-minded Unlike the governments formed at the state and federal levels, says Artist, local government leaders are under a much greater pressure to deliver value to the community and to do things that reflect who and what the community is. “When citizens read about the federal budget or they see the premier of their state making an announcement, it can seem distant. But in local government, the leaders – whether mayoral or management – feel very strongly that they should be making good decisions.” This difference in local government values and leadership has meant the development of a pure consultancy arm of CLG, which performs commercial projects for clients needing an expert external facilitator in local government. The CLG’s success speaks for itself: “When local government The CLG’s reputation for expertise it is now a self-funded commercial works well, it’s because has spread sufficiently far that they division of UTS. But perhaps its greatest recently picked up the Seoul Metropolitan accolade came in 2009 when the they’re shaping places: not Government as a client, designing a series Federal Government decided vaguely, but specifically. of professional development programs for Australia needed a centre of excellence its senior managers. in local government, awarding the That’s a difficult mission This is reflected in a current CLG contract and an $8 million grant to statement – to make a project called Governing Sydney, in the CLG. T place look and feel the way which the Centre is bringing together 42 Sydney local councils and showing Mark Abernethy is a business the community wants it.” them how to develop capacity and journalist who writes for the Australian develop a forum mechanism so they can Financial Review and CFO. He has Sarah Artist talk as one voice when dealing with the edited accounting magazines and Assistant Director, UTS Centre NSW state government. is a ghostwriter. for Local Government (pictured)

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comes partly from her mother, Rhonda Smith, who urged her daughter to never give up, and partly from discrimination when she was growing up, such as security staff following her in shops and demanding to The see the receipts of any purchases. “I already had all these dreams and goals, but [the scholarship] made it possible,” says Griffen, although she rejects the notion two us that she’s now a role model for other young of Indigenous women. “I don’t want to be a big head. But I hope people can look at me and Former UTS student scholarship recipient and current say ‘if she did it I can do it too’.” SBS journalist Larteasha Griffen’s career has taken off Philanthropy in practice thanks to the support of scholarship donor Laurie Cowled. Cowled’s inspiration for setting up the foundation came from a conversation with story lucinda schmidt photography anthony Geernaert her late husband, Ron Macnamara, when the couple, who have no children, decided that whoever died second would leave the Larteasha Griffen’s first year as a journalism to a friend’s daughter, Dean of the Faculty estate to charity. When Macnamara died student at UTS was tough. While other of Law Professor Jill McKeough, about the in 2005, Cowled decided she wanted to students sat in class surrounded by their university’s Jumbunna Indigenous House start straight away, so she could follow the textbooks and laptops, she’d have just a of Learning. Larteasha Griffen (née Smith) careers of those she helped. notepad and pen. Her classmates prepared was the first recipient, in 2008, enabling “When I was a girl I wanted to do all sorts top-notch PowerPoint presentations; hers her to complete the second and third years of things but Bethungra [the closest town] were done on the library computer. of her Bachelor of Arts in Communication couldn’t provide anyone to teach me and “I was from the country and Aboriginal – I (Journalism). The scholarship, worth about neither could Cootamundra,” says Cowled, was different already and to not have those $20,000 a year, paid for her accommodation who left school after her intermediate things was so intimidating,” says Griffen, at UTS’s Gumal Ngurang Residence, as well certificate (today’s equivalent of year 10) who was surviving on just $50 a week after as textbooks, excursions – and a laptop. and started working in a bank. paying rent. Freed from worrying about how she Her foundation has so far helped three Enter Laurie Cowled, a retired banker would feed herself, Griffen was able to take students at UTS, plus 45 others at various who grew up on a sheep farm near the first steps towards her dream job as a institutions. A scholarship in memory of her Cootamundra in NSW’s Riverina district. In presenter on SBS’s Living Black program. sister, Ruth, a stage designer who died aged 25, 2007, she set up the Cowled Foundation to During her university course, she worked has supported nine students at the National help underprivileged regional or Indigenous as a volunteer at Gadigal Koori radio and Institute of Dramatic Art. Three students at the young women complete their post-school prepared some segments for ABC radio. Australian Ballet School and another three studies. So far, she has helped almost 50 After graduating at the end of 2009, she at Neuroscience Research Australia have students at universities and schools in New spent a year at SBS as a production received Cowled Foundation scholarships, South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, in co-ordinator for the Living Black program, and Cowled also helps female year 12 students disciplines ranging from engineering to which led to an SBS cadetship last year. from her old high school in Cootamundra ballet, neuroscience and design. Now, aged 23, she’s travelling Australia who wish to go on to tertiary education. “I want to help someone who’s going to as an SBS video journalist, collecting stories Outside the foundation, Cowled donated do something wonderful for Australia,” says for Living Black, including one from her a block of land to the Queensland University Cowled, 82, who moved to the Sunshine hometown of Kempsey on NSW’s north of Technology to sell, and the proceeds Coast after a 35-year banking career in coast, on the revival of the Dunghutti cover a scholarship for a Masters of Nursing Sydney. “I want to produce another [NSW language in local schools and pre-schools. student, a two-week Harvard leadership Governor and Professor] Marie Bashir or “I love it, meeting new people and hearing course for alumni of the business school and [Governor-General] Quentin Bryce. Both their stories,” says Griffen by phone from financial assistance to cash-strapped first were country women.” Townsville, where she is doing segments on years. “It’s made me feel 100 years younger, youth crime and chroming (the inhalation and joyous,” says Cowled, who is having A world of opportunity of chemical products to get high). “I always morning tea the day after our interview At UTS, the Laurie Cowled Scholarship is wanted to work for Living Black and I’m with some of the girls she helps. “It’s really awarded each year to an Indigenous female really passionate about Aboriginal and thrilling to see a young woman able to do student. Cowled picked UTS after talking Torres Strait Islander issues.” That passion what she wants to do and flourishing.” T

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Larteasha Griffen (left) and Laurie Cowled. Shot on location at Maximus Cafe, GPO Sydney.

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the Asia-Pacific, through technical advice; research; policy analysis; consultation; Australia may boast world-class maternity facilities, but the advocacy; training; and skills development. situation for many South Pacific countries is very different. “All of our work takes into consideration The outlook is gradually improving thanks to the vital work the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for 2015, which are now a of UTS to improve maternal-child health in the region. priority across the region,” says Rumsey. “Specifically, we work on goals four and story Rosemary Ann Ogilvie five, which encompass maternal and child photography anthony Geernaert health. However, others such as gender equality underpin our work.” WHO CC is currently involved in a large In achieving World Health Organization Designation is given for a maximum AusAID-funded Papua New Guinea (PNG) Collaborating Centre (WHO CC) status of four years, after which the institute Maternal Child Health Initiative, which saw in January 2008, the Faculty of Nursing, must apply to be redesignated. After going it recently employ eight clinical midwifery Midwifery and Health at UTS became one of through “a massive global process” – as facilitators and two obstetricians into seven nursing and midwifery collaborating Rumsey describes it – the WHO CC achieved regions in PNG to help rebuild midwifery, centres in the Western-Pacific region. redesignation at the beginning of 2012. and support four universities to assist with As an institute designated by the The process involves supplying a work educational standards for maternal health. WHO Director-General to form part of an plan and terms of reference, which are: “The PNG government aims to rapidly international collaborative network, a • improving health systems and building increase the number of skilled obstetric CC’s primary role is to implement WHO’s capacity health workers,” Rumsey says. “We’re mandated work and program objectives, • strengthening cross-sectoral working with them to make an impact on and develop and strengthen institutional relationships, including supporting the educational and practice standards of capacity in countries and regions. regulatory systems, research-based existing and incoming healthcare workers. “The Faculty’s extensive history of education, and faculty development This way we can sustainably address the regional work in human resources for health, • Promoting and supporting national, dire situation of mothers and babies who education, regulation, policy and capacity- regional and international development are dying through childbirth.” building means we’re well-placed to carry of nursing and midwifery health PNG has one of the highest maternal out activities in support of WHO programs,” systems, which includes human mortality rates in the region: today, five says Michele Rumsey, Director of Operations resources for health women will die in childbirth. and Development at the Faculty, which • strengthening maternal and child “The vast majority of maternal deaths – is headed by Professor John Daly, Dean, health care. 88 to 90 per cent – are preventable, yet only Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health. 39 per cent of births in PNG are reported as An application to become a CC can only “It was very exciting for us to be redesignated being attended by a skilled birth attendant. be submitted following a two-year working as it validates that we are doing good work in It should be 80 per cent. Moreover, only relationship with the WHO, while the line with WHO’s broader aims,” says Rumsey. around half of pregnant women receive the designation process takes at least two more minimum internationally recommended years. Each institute is assessed on areas Millennium goals number of four antenatal visits.” such as scientific and technical standing, The WHO CC’s key strength areas are “What has happened in many countries and development of working relationships around improving health policy and service like PNG,” says Professor Caroline at country, regional and global levels. delivery in nursing and midwifery across Homer, Associate Dean (International &

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“The vast majority of maternal deaths – 88 to 90 per cent – are preventable, yet only 39 per cent of births in PNG are reported as being attended by a skilled birth attendant. It should be 80 per cent.”

Michele Rumsey, Director of Operations and Development, WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Development

Development) and Director of the Centre Staff undergo security training with mentoring, the chief nursing officer for Midwifery, Child and Family Health the UN Security Services. Numerous becomes a mentor for these participants.” in the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and security protocols are in place around The Fellows choose their own projects Health at UTS, “is that midwives haven’t travel: they have radios in their cars, they to address local issues. These have ranged been well supported. Some of this relates don’t travel alone at night and if they from focusing on strengthening midwifery to the fact it’s a women’s issue and not need to go into rural areas where there’s care, to infection control measures, to particularly valued. Some of it’s because trouble, they always travel with security setting standards of care. “While some may resources have not been put into nursing support – sometimes armed security. be quite simple in concept, all can have and midwifery education. Resources Houses are protected, with UN security huge impacts on patient care,” says Rumsey. haven’t been put into education in lots clearance to ensure they meet Quality improvement in education for of areas, but particularly nursing and security requirements. nursing and midwifery is a global project midwifery. Additionally, some issues have “For the most part, if people just are on which the WHO CC is working with the existed around regulation of midwives: not sensible and keep their head down, it’s WHO Western Pacific Regional Office. “Our regulating or even registering them quickly fine,” says Homer. “But there’s no question project is around faculty development,” enough because of resource issues. So it’s a difficult environment. Still, despite says Rumsey. “Many schools or universities midwifery largely died off.” this, they’re totally committed and really in the Asia-Pacific region suffer from Eighty student midwives will go through enthusiastic.” In fact, two women have inadequate numbers of skilled educators the PNG program this year. Next year it moved their families to PNG. “One is there in nursing and midwifery. So we’re working will be 100, and the year after 120, which is at the moment with two small children, to identify the issues for nursing and exceptional for a country that currently has while another is about to give birth to her midwifery schools through a faculty- around 200 midwives. child,” says Homer. “The kids live in a very development survey, with the ultimate aim “The students have been really well protected environment and are having a to create faculty-development programs supported by AusAID, which is fantastic,” great time as far as I can see.” to strengthen nursing and midwifery says Homer. “Their fees are paid and they education in the region.” receive a living allowance. Many come from Improving population health A meeting last December with colleagues rural areas – often from quite a distance – Across the region the WHO CC is working from Vietnam, Samoa, PNG, Lao, China, the into Port Moresby or Madang or Goroka to with the WHO and other organisations Philippines, and Hong Kong provided the do their training. So it’s very exciting to be such as AusAID, NZAID, World Bank, and opportunity to hold a focus working group rebuilding the profession, and there’s a real the Asian Development Bank to improve on this survey to ensure the language is sense of pride. I think we will see benefit in population health by strengthening nursing accurate for all the Asia-Pacific regions it will the next two or three years around people and midwifery. “One area where we’ve done go to. “For us, it was amazing to know we’re feeling part of what they do, and wanting to this is working with our partners, the South at that next stage,” says Rumsey. make a difference for women.” Pacific ChiefN ursing and Midwifery Officers She continues: “We looked at a variety Alliance,” says Rumsey. “These are the of issues, including educational standards Security issues nursing and midwifery leaders in education, and competencies. It’s about ensuring Two midwives at the University of Goroka regulation and the Ministries of Health in we have adequately trained midwives work alongside midwifery students and the 14 countries of the South Pacific.” in the region, and this is something we’re clinicians in the hospitals, doing on-the- A program to come out of this work is continuing to work on with the WHO, ground teaching and learning activities, the annual AusAID Australian Leadership AusAID and other bodies. and going out into rural areas with their Award Fellowships program, which “Some of our rural and remote case students to run antenatal clinics, attend commenced in 2009. studies and mapping work reveals that women in labour; and role model good “This work is very innovative, with the our nursing colleagues are the primary practice and good teaching. chief nursing and midwifery officers of the caregivers, so it’s really important there are “It’s pretty hard work,” says Homer region selecting ‘Fellows’ to participate in sufficient professionals in the region.” T with clear admiration. “Security in PNG the program, which focuses on developing continues to be an issue, and even though leadership skills and capabilities,” says Rosemary Ann Ogilvy is a journalist a range of security protocols are in place, Rumsey. “They basically identify future with more than 16 years experience this puts huge restrictions on people’s lives, leaders in specific sectors and put them after working in the corporate world as particularly in Port Moresby.” forward. 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