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Newsletter No 14 September 2007 Emeritus Faculty Australian National University

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Changes at Old House

The Crawford School of Economics and of the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Government has been expanding very the Crawford School has an extensive rapidly and is aiming to position itself as one network of student, research and policy of the major policy schools in the world. As connections internationally. part of this transformation the School will be moving to a new and permanent home at ”There are some happy senses in which Old Canberra House. history is turning a full circle with this development. One is that it will see the Professor Andrew MacIntyre writes, “The public policy program return to its earlier magnificent natural surroundings together home at Old Canberra House. Another - with the heritage values of Old Canberra likely to be popular across the ANU and House lend themselves wonderfully to the Canberra more broadly - will be the return of Crawford School's mission. Following an an attractive cafe/restaurant facility to Old international design competition last year, Canberra House.” Tanner Architects - a firm renowned for its heritage work (e.g. the redevelopments of The proposed changes have sparked some Mt Stromlo and the Kingston debate in Letters-to-the-Editor of The Powerhouse/Glassworks) - was selected to Canberra Times, pointing out the negative design a new building linking Old Canberra impact on the building’s Commonwealth House and the Stanner building. Heritage values.

“The resulting design is inspired: an The ANU website notes that the Old understated structure with a quietly Canberra House was erected in 1913 and is Australian feel that sits lightly on the the first substantial dwelling associated with landscape and weaves around and through the new capital. Originally known as 'The historically significant clusters of trees. Residency' (later renamed 'Canberra House') it was built for the first Administrator ”The project is scheduled for completion at of the ACT, Colonel David Miller. the end of 2008 and will be a wonderful new Since 1916 the house was used variously as facility for the University and Canberra. It the residence for the Chief Commissioner of will be a delightful venue for students, the Federal Capital Commission (1926) and scholars and senior policy-makers from the residence for a number of British High around Canberra, as a whole and Commissioners (1931-1953). In 1910 the the Asia-Pacific region more broadly. As part Continued next page 2

Continued from previous page sheep and cattle grazing and breeding land on which Canberra House stood was property at Mt Moriac, near Geelong, all his set aside for a university. life. He was always a serious thinker and academic, and became a psychologist with From1965 until 1999, it was used as the clinical and teaching experience and an University Staff Centre. In 1999 Old ongoing interest in rural and remote Canberra House was refurbished and had psychology, health psychology and many of the original features such as the organisational psychology. fireplaces, wood panels in the foyer, and He pursued his career in Australia, England, central wooden staircase restored. The Germany and Canada. His love of fine building is currently home to the University's music was well known, but what was less Humanities Research Centre and the Centre well known was that he could have made a for Cross-Cultural Research. career as a pianist, and particularly as an accompanist, himself. Queen’s Birthday Honour He spent time during and after the Second ANUEF member Professor David Williams, World War in the Army and then the Air Director, School of Arts, in the ANU’s Force, and had a great sense of service to National Institute of the Arts, was made a his country. He liked physical challenges, Member of the Order of Australia in the and in his fifties went trekking in Kathmandu, Queen’s Birthday Honours list for service to climbed the Anapurnas, and experienced the arts as an educator and administrator. white water rafting. He was a keen skier for many years. The latter part of his working life was spent in teaching aspects of Obituary edition organisational psychology at Deakin University’s Geelong campus. This edition of the ANUEF Newsletter could easily earn distinction as the one carrying John Champness and Elizabeth Murphy most obituaries and thus a black-edged (then Manning) first met in the course of sadness. However, an obituary is both an work for Qantas in in 1959. After he embryonic biography and, for many readers, retired from Deakin, John assisted Elizabeth an introduction to a person, perhaps, they in training courses in Canberra, Cooma, did not know well enough in their lifetime. In and Fiji, and they then both met James Lipton’s collection of collective Roger Scales who was keen to help reverse nouns, An Exaltation of Larks, there is no the trend for small rural towns to die and collective noun for obituaries. Rather than a disappear. This vision led to John’s pall or a sympathy of obituaries, here is a preparation in 1999 of a rural lifestyle pilot celebration of lives. survey which showed significant gaps in rural town living standards and John H Champness BA PhD MAPS expectations. As a result of this survey, June 1921-22 August 2007 Roger, John and Elizabeth formed in 2000 a President of RAPlink Inc 2002-2003 group then known as RAP (Regional Australia Partnership), soon to be renamed The ANU Emeritus Faculty has lost one of RAPlink (Regional Action Partnership link). its earliest members, and our affiliate In 2001 with Roger as its first President, and organisation RAPlink has lost one of its John its second. RAPlink’s mission remains staunchest champions. Dr John Howard as it was then -- to be the link between small Champness, co-founder of RAPlink with (often rural) communities and the Roger Scales and Elizabeth Murphy, died information or resources they need to help peacefully at age 86, in Geelong, , them implement their local community on Wednesday, 22 August, 2007. projects. John maintained his interest in psychology throughout his retirement, John was born in Kaniva in the serving on several committees, speaking at district of Victoria, the eldest of three boys. psychology conferences, and acting as He was part of a farming family, and national liaison officer for regional branches maintained an active interest in the family of the Australian Psychological Society 3

Continued next page chemist at the Shell Company’s plant in Continued from previous page Yarraville while studying part-time at and for RAPlink, particularly in relation to Melbourne Technical College (now RMIT). rural and remote psychologists. John was a He went on to Melbourne University, first as member of the APS from 1950, and was a trainee social worker. There, he developed declared APS inaugural Life Member in a passion for philosophy, and eventually 2004. In September 2006, he received the graduated with first class honours in that honour of the College of Organisational discipline. On his way through, he worked as Psychologists’ Award of Distinction at a a youth group organiser, taxi driver, ceremony in Melbourne. salesman, kaolin miner and builder’s labourer. He was also active in student Among his fond associations with Canberra, theatre, appearing in the 1954 revue Terror John was a member of the Emeritus Faculty Australis with (inter alia). of the Australian National University, a member of the Friends of the Canberra Having graduated with a Bachelor’s degree, Symphony Orchestra, and a he stayed on at Melbourne University, taking supporter of the arts in general in Canberra. out a Master’s degree with first class honours in philosophy. John’s voluntary work for RAPlink has been unstinting and enthusiastic. He never He was awarded a travelling scholarship to ceased encouraging people to join or get on study at Oxford, and took a Bachelor of the newsletter mailing list. He provided Philosophy there under the supervision of many opportunities for RAPlink to be seen Gilbert Ryle. His 1960 article ‘Thoughts’, and heard at a long string of conferences published in the premier philosophical and seminars in Melbourne, Canberra, journal Mind, opens with a reference to Sydney and , as well as several Ryle’s classic book The Concept of Mind. regional centres in Victoria, and This article remains Bill’s main contribution accompanied Elizabeth on tours up and to the philosophical literature. In Oxford he down the eastern side of Australia, between tutored at Christ Church and Saint Hilda’s Tasmania and Queensland, to visit small College. communities and to hold discussions with community leaders. He had a particular Returning to Australia, he took up a interest in projects that aimed to improve the lectureship at Sydney University, where I chances of young rural people who wanted met him. His lectures, and more especially to undertake academic pursuits, and his supervision of my undergraduate thesis, supported RAPlink’s efforts in these areas, kindled my own passion for philosophy. We particularly the RuStiC (Rural Students in also shared an active interest in student the Community) project and more recently theatre, and I have many happy memories the Country Education Foundation of of shows we were both in at Sydney. While Australia. He will be missed. at Sydney University, Bill for a time served as Secretary of the Australasian Association (Written by Elizabeth Manning Murphy, ANU of Philosophy. In that capacity he Emeritus Faculty member, member of contributed to the public debate, between RAPlink committee and Professional Affiliate 1956 and 1966, surrounding the summary member of the APS, 5 September 2007, dismissal of Professor Sydney Orr from the with acknowledgment to material prepared Chair of Philosophy at the University of by Denis Flores FAPS, Past National Chair, Tasmania. College of Organisational Psychologists, for Award of Distinction presentation 2006) In 1965 Bill moved to ANU, where he rose to the rank of Reader and served for a time as William Joseph Ginnane Head of the Philosophy Department. I (1929 - 2007) worked with him as a colleague after I moved to ANU in 1967. He made many Bill Ginnane, who died in early May, was contributions to the University and to born at Melbourne on 2 July 1929. He Canberra life more generally. worked for three years as a cadet industrial Continued next page 4

Continued from previous page voyages of discovery with his students He served as an elected member of the mandated his practice of rewriting his University Council, was one of those lectures every year. His affinity for teaching involved in setting up the Religious Studies was also increased by the facility for the Program, was President of the ANU Gliding well-turned phrase which he displayed at Club (the Federal Soaring Club), and seminars and conferences in later years. continued to participate actively in theatre both on and off campus. Our ways parted The heavy teaching burden he shouldered when he left the University. I will remember was but one symptom of John’s commitment him as a mentor and a friend. to the academic enterprise. His desire for Paul Thom meaningful interface with undergraduates prompted his prolonged chairmanship of the John Edward Stephen Gage Economic History Departmental Committee, 23 April 1941 – 7 July 2007 his stints as Sub-Dean of the Economics Faculty advising students about their After four decades of service to the courses and his role as Director of the ANU Australian National University, John Gage Union for over a decade. At a more exalted stunned his many friends by succumbing to level were his membership of the University cancer. John was a loveable colleague who Council in the late and his ignored academic stereotypes by dressing Chairmanship of the ANU Campus Advisory immaculately, engaging in risqué banter and Committee from 1997 until his death. John’s even bursting into song if the spirit moved involvement in these activities was not him. He was valued for his unstinting driven by a desire for preferment but flowed contribution to the academic, pastoral and from his perception of the academic administrative life of the University. And his vocation in any tertiary institution worth its remarkable aptitude — rare among salt. academics — for networking and outreach enabled him to play a major part in John’s desire to enhance the standing of the promoting European and Latin-American ANU and to temper the prevailing alignment Studies, fields which are integral to a well- of Australia towards the Asia-Pacific region rounded university and to the national was what prompted the networking on which interest. he embarked in the . The multi- disciplinary bent acquired at Manchester John was the only child of Frank and had already led him to collaborate with ANU Dorothy Gage, who lived in a village near Europeanists in a variety of disciplines to Hereford in the English Midlands. As a advance the cause of European studies. scholarship boy at Hereford Cathedral School, he seized with both hands the By the mid-1990s, intimations that Brussels educational opportunity which had been was prepared to fund cultural projects denied to his parents. His prize-studded first abroad prompted him to seek the aid of the class degree in history, economics and Delegation of the European Commission in politics at Manchester University instilled Canberra to establish a National Europe into him a penchant for thinking outside the Centre. Nye Hughes, the former EC disciplinary box. Ambassador to Australia, recalls that he was persuaded by John days after arriving in After his appointment to the ANU in 1969, Canberra in 1995 that there was ‘a crying his intellectual span enabled him to present need for a fully fledged (Europe) centre …at an array of undergraduate and graduate Australia’s prime research university, ANU’... courses on the economic history of Australia, Britain, the European Union, the ‘My problem’, Hughes remarked, ‘was to get Soviet Union, the United States and the Brussels to ... put up the money to get it Asia-Pacific. Still more offerings tackled the going and John’s was to ensure that the themes of globalisation and regionalisation, ANU authorities would be willing partners. I the international economy and the think he had the easier task!’ international commodity trade. The Continued next page intellectual curiosity which inspired these 5

Continued from previous page a substantial mechanical engineering When this collaboration bore fruit four years enterprise, and invented and designed many later, Hughes related, ‘John broke the back of its products. His mother, Eva, nee of the habit of many years and deigned to Salomon, a woman of high bourgeois have a drink! The two of us celebrated at the culture, developed a strong interest in art Charcoal Grill (in Civic) with a bottle of Krug and archaeology. Both were non-religious which he had been keeping for years and Jews. After Nazi thugs, early in 1933, broke the best bottle of claret in stock. He also did into his home and threatened his father with justice to the largest steak I had ever seen: it internment in a concentration camp, his was vertical rather than horizontal.’ parents sent their son to Hailebury, a public Lynne Hunter, Adviser to the EC Delegation, school in England. By 1938, remittances who was heavily involved in the from his family ceased and Herbst had next negotiations, reflected that the Europe to no means of support. He sought to enlist Centre was tantamount to John’s baby. He in war service, without success, not being a was responsible for ‘its conception, the British subject. Instead, like many other nurturing of it in the womb of the ANU and German nationals in England, he was EU processes, and giving birth to it in such rounded up as an “enemy alien” and an innovative way as to produce not one shipped out aboard the Dunera to Australia building but three.’ in 1940, where he was interned for about two years, first at Hay, later at Tatura (100 John’s crack hardy response to his affliction miles north of Melbourne). In mid-1942 he in the weeks that followed was in keeping was invited to join the army, and served in with the bonhomie and humour which an "employment unit". He was soon able to infused his life. Towards the end, the wintry combine this with studies in philosophy at weather prompted a discussion of the the University of Melbourne. provenance of ‘brass monkey’. On the day before he died, he could still manage a wan In 1946 he was discharged from the army. smile when told that he was right in insisting People in Herbst's position, who had been that it was naval gunnery slang. welcomed into the army to join the war effort, would now be subject to legislation John is survived by Susie, whom he married that would re-classify them as "enemy in 1992; his step-daughter Dimity Douglas- aliens", if powerful elements in the RSL and Byrne; his son-in-law, Chris Byrne; and his the Country Party were to prevail. This grandchildren, Chloe and Lachlan Byrne. would have prevented him from finishing his degree. The nefarious scheme was foiled, Bruce Kent thanks to much help and advice provided by [Several tributes are included in the full text Brian Fitzpatrick, secretary of the Council for of this obituary available from Civil Liberties. Herbst always felt immensely [email protected]] grateful to him. He could continue his studies and was awarded the degree with Peter Herbst 1st class honours in 1946. During the years (1919-2007) that followed he was a tutor in the Melbourne philosophy department, and Cultural and intellectual life in Canberra, and gained an M.A. with 1st class honours in far beyond, benefited greatly when Peter 1948. Herbst arrived in 1962 to occupy the chair of philosophy in the Faculty of Arts at the In that period Herbst was also engaged in a Australian National University. He and his wide range of other activities. He was wife, Valerie, a highly talented pianist, made among those in the Labor Club who tried to their home a welcoming meeting-place for thwart communist infiltration. But being on lovers of music and the visual arts and for the left nevertheless made him a victim of local and visiting academic colleagues. right-wing anti-communists who influenced Calwell, Minister for Immigration, to refuse Peter Herbst was born on 5 August, 1919 in his application for Australian citizenship. Heidelberg, in today's Baden-Württemberg. Continued next page His father, Richard Herbst, was the owner of 6

Continued from previous page creative, powerful and new. The attitude to When Herbst was offered and accepted a competing philosophical tendencies was lectureship at Victoria University in dismissive. For those inspired by Wellington in 1948 he could not take up the Wittgenstein, there was, moreover, a position, being unable to travel without a distinctive manner of conducting passport. In 1949 the government changed; philosophical inquiry. Progress was to be Geoffrey Sawer interceded with Harold Holt, made in the course of dialogue, rather than the new Minister for Immigration, and by solitary additions to the flood of academic naturalisation followed swiftly. publications. The wide corridors in the new Haydon-Allen building, erected about the Herbst was also at that time a partner in a time of Herbst's arrival, proved well suited pottery workshop at Murrumbeena, then a for peripatetic philosophical discussions. Of village south-east of Melbourne, now a course, his arguments and views reached a suburb, together with Arthur Boyd and John greater audience over the years through Perceval. He came to form close bonds of lectures, talks, seminars, conferences, and a friendship with the . In 1990, he number of published papers. As a teacher, was the co-author with Patricia Dobrez of Herbst made a strong impression. The Art of the Boyds: a generation of artistic Fascinated by watching him pacing to and achievement. He also participated in the rich fro on the lecture hall podium, speaking cultural life around the university, and it was without notes, simply thinking out loud, in this environment that he met his future many students changed their proposed wife, Valerie Petschack, who at the time was course plans to include a major in obtaining a B.Sc. and subsequently a Philosophy, and sometimes honours. demonstratorship. They married in 1949. Herbst did not abandon his great respect for The years 1950-1955 were spent in Oxford, Wittgenstein as a philosopher, but over time chiefly at Christ Church. From 1956 to 1961 his own view of philosophy changed. One he taught at the University College of the sign of this was that very early, in the mid- Gold Coast (later Ghana), which was , options began to be available to sponsored by the University of London. students to acquaint themselves with There he gained rapid promotion to become "continental" currents of thought (Marx, professor in its department of philosophy. Husserl, Freud, Merleau-Ponty, the He resigned from the chair in 1961 because Frankfurt School, feminist philosophy, etc.). of the corruption of academic standards and He also came to oppose the narrow governance brought about by Nkrumah's "scientism" into which, in his opinion, much government under the influence of advisers analytical philosophy was declining. What he from communist countries in Eastern resisted was the attempt to reduce all forms Europe. After a short stay living in London, of thought and discourse to those employed and doing some teaching at Magdalen in the natural sciences. His aim was not to College, Oxford, he held the chair in create a niche for some religious or quasi- Canberra from 1962 until his retirement at religious world-view, but to defend the the end of 1984. For a few years in the cultural, artistic and personal values without he was periodically on leave, holding which, he believed, human life in the modern a half-time professorship at Simon Fraser world becomes seriously impoverished. Nor University in British Columbia. could these values, in his view, be accommodated by the materialism and Herbst's approach to philosophy was initially utilitarianism advocated by a number of influenced partly by Wittgenstein, whose Australian philosophers who, from the late ideas greatly impressed a select circle of 1950s and onward, were to gain great devotees in Cambridge and were then more international prominence. For the same widely communicated, in Melbourne in the reason he also opposed the fashionable 1940s by George Paul, and partly by other egalitarianism of the levelling-down kind, strands in the analytical-linguistic philosophy also called anti-"elitism", cultivated by parts that began to dominate in Oxford at that of the democratic left with which Herbst in time. For Herbst, as for so many of his other respects sympathised. generation, it was felt to be imaginative, Continued next page 7

Continued from previous page George Bellamy Mackaness The adverse attitude to the writing of books 1922-2007 in philosophy was not confined to Wittgenstein's followers. Gilbert Ryle, a Born in Sydney on 20 August 1922, George leading Oxford philosopher, was firmly of the Mackaness graduated MB BS(Honours) at opinion that, generally, Ph.D. degrees, the University of Sydney in 1945. which involve the writing of a major thesis, were not for people of talent. Herbst was After a year as a resident medical officer at influenced by these views, but later came to Sydney Hospital, he worked at the regret it. He realised that cultural and Kanematsu Institute as a pathologist before intellectual life requires continuity and for going to the Department of Pathology at the this the written word is indispensable. British Postgraduate School of Medicine in Dialogue is too ephemeral. The affirmation London, where he obtained a Diploma of of values other than those associated with Clinical Pathology. In 1949, on an ANU mere pleasures or profits also came to Overseas Scholarship, he joined Florey's expression in commitments outside department at the University of Oxford, academia. In the 1970s, Herbst played an graduating MA (Honours) in 1949 and D.Phil important part in the Association for Modern in 1953. At Florey's suggestion, he then Education, whose AME School in Canberra worked in Oxford as an ANU Research was to provide alternative schooling in a Fellow until 1954, then he, as a Senior progressive educational spirit, without, Fellow, and a couple of other Australians however, radically deviating from standard working with him in Oxford, came out to set curricula. up the Department of Experimental Pathology in the temporary laboratories of He was also passionate about the the John Curtin School of Medical Research preservation of the natural environment, and in Canberra. was in his retirement increasingly active in a number of campaigns to protect sensitive He was promoted to Professorial Fellow in areas from the destructive schemes of 1960, but in 1963 he accepted the position developers and conniving public authorities. of Professor of Pathology in the Adelaide He joined the poet Judith Wright in founding University School of Medicine. He had in 1986 the Friends of the Mongarlowe spent a year's study leave with Professor River, near Braidwood, and was René Dubos at the Rockefeller Institute of instrumental in the creation in 2001 of the Medical Research in New York, and in 1965, Monga National Park, where he loved to go at Dubos's suggestion, he was invited to bushwalking. Herbst became increasingly become the Director of the Trudeau Institute dismayed at the increasing of Medical Research at Saranac Lake, in the bureaucratisation of the universities. If he Adirondack Mountains, New York State. did not come out against their After working there for 11 years, in 1976 he commercialisation, it was because it only was appointed President of the Squibb began in earnest when he was well into Institute of Medical Research, a position that retirement. He was profoundly repulsed by he occupied until his retirement in 1988. the ethos of modern commercial consumer society, and, like the late John Passmore, His work in Oxford had convinced him of the he was one of the few philosophers who see importance of macrophages in tuberculosis part of their task as being that of a public and he demonstrated the importance of cell- critic of contemporary cultural, intellectual mediated immunity in listeriosis and and political life. brucellosis, both, like tuberculosis, intracellular bacterial infections. For this Peter Herbst died on 30th May 2007. His work, initiated in the John Curtin School, he only sibling, his much loved half-sister was awarded the Paul Ehrlick Ludwig Elsbeth, ten years older than he, Darmstaedter Prize in 1975 and was elected predeceased him. He is survived by his wife a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1976. He and their two children. died on 11 March 2007.

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Leigh Frederick Dodson and manage the National Biological Born Sydney November 20, 1920; Standards Laboratory (NBSL), now the died Canberra December 30, 2006. Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), to carry out quality assurance of Australia’s human and veterinary medicines. In Leigh Frederick Dodson was born in preparation for this, Leigh spent time with Croydon of a modest background where his the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in father was an electrician who had survived Washington and with other relevant gassing in the trenches of the Western authorities. On returning to Canberra, he Front. He grew up during the great started an exciting but frustrating time depression: an only child doted upon by his pioneering the creation of the laboratory mother and grandmother. within a public service department. The NBSL expanded into sixteen temporary sites Working with his father in the home across Canberra and Melbourne before its workshop he quickly became skilful with his eventual consolidation into one complex, the hands. At age eleven Leigh won a statewide TGA building in Symonston, ACT. competition with his essay for the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. He was a Leigh succeeded in establishing an natural student and won a scholarship to organisation of world renown and this is now Fort Street Boys High School and excelled his memorial. Australian pharmaceutical in running. He graduated from the University companies improved their quality control, of Sydney in medicine as MB BS at the age and the number of clinically serious failures of 22 years under the wartime five-year of medicines began decreasing. Quality accelerated course. His superior at St assurance of Australian made Salk, and Vincent’s Hospital left to join the Army later Sabin, polio vaccine; and other areas of Medical Corps leaving the young Pathology regulation were added to his responsibilities Registrar with serious responsibilities in a such as medical devices, and the important very demanding position. He completed his program of Brucella vaccine testing with the DipClinPath and married nurse Mollie establishment of standards for human and McPhillips in 1949 and a son was born veterinary vaccine testing. This speeded the before moving to Oxford on an ANU eradication of Brucella across Australia. Travelling Fellowship. Leigh gained a DPhil under the eminent Sir Howard Florey, and Under Leigh’s direction the laboratory with Mollie two more children – not usually completed valuable applied research such considered conducive to intense study. as particulate matter contamination, especially asbestos fibres, in large volume The group was researching drug effects on injectable fluids. Its analytical capability was tubercle bacilli grown in cells, and published recognised around the world and the valuable results. laboratory was invited to participate in International Collaborative Assays. With the This group (with Dr George Watson, Dr cooperation of the States and industry, George Mackaness and some laboratory Leigh established the Code of Good staff) moved to Canberra in 1953 into Manufacturing Practice and introduced temporary laboratories as the nucleus of the inspection of manufacturing sites. This Department of Experimental Pathology of provided additional benefits to industry the new John Curtin School of Medical where such certification enabled Australian Research within the Australian National pharmaceuticals to be accepted overseas. University. His laboratory colleague, Tony Howkins, remembers the productive The thalidomide disaster required Leigh and research which followed with Leigh his colleagues to develop a system to investigating, and publishing on, the blood assess not only the quality but also the pressure response to hypertensives in safety and efficacy of therapeutic goods. An pregnant rats. important component was creating the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee In 1958 the Australian Department of Health (ADEC) with himself as inaugural secretary appointed him founding Director to establish and guiding light. Continued next page 9

Continued from previous page scientist would. His father was a keen swimmer and his boys crewed his yachting The ADEC first met in July 1963 and endeavours. Leigh was a family man and required submission of data on the safety cared deeply for his wife and children. and efficacy of new medicines before their introduction into human use. As Leigh’s Dr Leigh Frederick Dodson died a victim of a administrative workload increased, so did smoking related illness and will be greatly his regret at his decreasing involvement in missed by his loving wife Mollie and his six medical research. He continued as director children: Tim, Simon, Peter, Mark, Caroline, of the laboratory and became a First Virginia and their families. His large circle of Assistant Secretary of Health for several friends and former staff members will also years until compulsory retirement. miss him. Leigh’s bequest to us is the supply of safe, pure, efficacious and potent His son, Peter, recalls Leigh engaging in medicines. pistol shooting, accurately making the shot and weighing the gunpowder as only a [An edited obituary of Lo Hui-min 1925-2006 by Colin Mackerras has been Continued next column held over to the next edition]

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The House Environment Committee tabled Currently there are more than 350 its report Sustainability for survival: creating community broadcasters in Australia, a climate for change on September 6, broadcasting diverse, independent and local recommending the establishment of a content that reflects the character of national Sustainability Commissioner, Australia and its cultural diversity. Commission and Charter. The report argues that strong Australian Government The report, Tuning in to Community leadership is required to advance Broadcasting, makes a total of 14 sustainability. recommendations, on key issues such as funding and management training. The Sustainability for survival report examines issues surrounding the national Copies of the report can be obtained by governance framework for sustainability contacting the Committee Secretariat on previously proposed by the Committee in its (02) 6277 4601, emailing Sustainable Cities report (released August [email protected], or on the 2005). Committee’s website at: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/cita The report is available on the Committee’s /community_broadcasting/index.htm website: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/env Security treaty and human rights iron/charter/index.htm, or from the Committee secretariat on (02) 6277 4580 or Federal parliament’s Treaties Committee, in [email protected] its report recommending the Australian Government ratify the Lombok security Tuning into Community Broadcasting Treaty between Australia and Indonesia, has recommended that the Australian Government: Ways to support the Australian community Continued next page broadcasting sector are discussed in a new

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KIOLOA WEEKEND 16-18 November 2007

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TIME ACTIVITY NOTES Friday (16 November) 3:00 – 5:00pm Arrival and informal socialising. 5:00 – 6:00pm Free time. 6:00 – 7:00pm Pre-dinner drinks and nibbles. • BYO drinks. 7:00 – 9:00pm Bush BBQ. • Peter Scardoni, ably assisted by EFTT (the Emeritus Faculty Tucker Team) will present a bush BBQ. 9:00 - Late Camp Fire Reverie. • If weather permits there will be an out-door fire to gather around, drink red, tell stories, and toast marshmallows. Saturday (17 November) 7:30 – 8:30am Breakfast. • Peter Scardoni (ably assisted by EFTT) will prepare and serve a light breakfast. 8:30 - 8:45am Free time. 8:45 – 10:15am Planning Workshop – • The session will briefly look Session One. at past ANUEF projects/activities and lessons learned and then brainstorm possibilities for the next 24 months. • Paul Coker to facilitate. 10:15 – 10:30am Morning Tea • Simple help-your-self tea and bikkies. 10:30am – Planning Workshop – • The session will prioritise 12:30pm Session Two. the possibilities developed in the previous session and work on action plans for three of these. • Paul Coker to facilitate. 12:30 – 2:30pm Lunch • Peter Scardoni (ably assisted by EFTT) will prepare and serve a salad/ham/chicken style lunch. 2:30 – 4:30pm Walk or drive to the highest • All those interested in point on the Kioloa property & playing “the didge” should 12

Didgeridoo Reflection. take this opportunity to entertain their colleagues. • Non-players may be well advised to bring suitable ear protection! 4:30 – 5:00pm Free time. 5:00 – 6:00pm ANUEF Website • Nik Fominas to expose the Demonstration. benefits and ease of operation of the website to members. • The nature of the demonstration may be dependent on the availability of appropriate technology and infrastructure. 6:00 – 7:00pm Pre dinner drinks • BYO drinks. 7:00 – 11:00pm Formal Dinner & Musical • Peter Scardoni (ably Interlude. assisted by EFTT) will prepare and serve a gourmet meal. • Angela Giblin to arrange the musical interlude. Sunday (18 November) 7:30 – 9:00am Farewell Breakfast & Poetry • Peter Scardoni (ably Reading. assisted by EFTT) will prepare and serve a hearty breakfast. • Giles Pickford will delight breakfasters with poetry readings of his choice. • John Molony to respond, thank our hosts and farewell participants. 9:00am onwards Settle account and departure.

1. BYO drinks. 2. Those who have not visited Kioloa before may be interested to know that the property abuts the Pacific Ocean and that there are plenty of opportunities for beach-related activities including fishing.