Enter theChancellor:

David Gonski takes the chair

• Beyond history and geography:an address by Goh Chok Tong

• Change and opportunity inhigher education: Brendon Parker

• Thinking outside the square:the cross-faculty professors

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T H E M A G A Z I N E F O R A L U M N I A N D F R I E N D S

Have you ever considered serving your University as a graduaterepresentative on the University Council? Your experience andideas can have an impact on the future of the University andpositively benefit the next generation of students.

UNSW will be calling for nominations in February 2006 fromgraduates of the University for the election of four graduatemembers to the University Council. Under the University of NewSouth Wales By-law 2005, two of the available positions will havea two-year term and the other two available positions will have afour-year term. All positions will commence their terms of officeon 1 July 2006. From 2008, there will be elections held every two-years for two graduate members to serve four-year terms each.

Who is eligible?If you are a graduate of UNSW, or any of its forming institutions,you are eligible to stand for election with the followingexceptions:

i. If you are currently undertaking undergraduate orpostgraduate studies at UNSW you cannot stand for election;ii.If you are currently a staff member of UNSW you cannotstand for election.

NOTE: If election to Council means that you would be servingmore than 12 consecutive years in office, the Act provides thatyou may not be elected without Council approval.

All graduates of UNSW, or any of its forming institutions arequalified to vote.

How to nominateNominations will open on Monday 20 February 2006. Completednomination forms must be lodged with the Returning Officerbefore 5:00pm on Monday 20 March 2006. Each nominationform must be signed by two graduates and endorsed with thesignature of the candidate.

To obtain a nomination form:• collect a nomination form from the Reception counter, at the

main entrance to The Chancellery, UNSW• request a nomination form from the Elections Office (see below)• print a nomination form from the internet at

http://www.elections.unsw.edu.au/

ElectionsIf necessary, a postal ballot will be conducted closing at 5:00pmon Tuesday 6 June 2006. Ballot papers will be posted to personsentitled to vote in the election at their last known address. Ballotpapers that do not reach the Returning Officer by close of ballotwill not be counted in the election.

Where to enquireEnquiries about the currency of voters’ addresses should bedirected to the Marketing & Development Office at UNSW +61 (2) 9385 3279 or email alumni@unsw.edu.au. If you haveother enquiries concerning the election, please contact theElections Office by phone on +61 (2) 9385 1546 or emailelections@unsw.edu.au.

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F irstly I’d like to thank all of you whocontacted us with feedback on the lastedition of Alumni News. We have

incorporated your comments into this edition,and you will notice among other things, anew name, UNSWorld (thanks to Dr IanWalker for this suggestion), a new look andcontents designed to provoke thought andreflect the current teaching and researchactivities on campus, as well as providing acloser link with our development activities.

2005 has been momentous in terms ofnew appointments. In August, we weredelighted to welcome a new Chancellor,following the retirement of Dr John Yu AC.David Gonski AO has had a long associationwith UNSW and is the first alumnus to beappointed to the role. He has been a memberof the Board of Directors of the UNSWFoundation since 1999, is well known for hisadvocacy of corporate social responsibilityand is widely regarded as one of the foremostthinkers in Australian corporate law.

We have also been pleased to announcethe appointment of Fred Hilmer AO as ournew Vice-Chancellor. He will officially start inthe role in June next year. Mr Hilmer has hada distinguished academic career, both hereand overseas, with degrees in law fromSydney University and the University ofPennsylvania, and an MBA from the WhartonSchool of Finance, where he was appointed aJoseph Wharton Fellow. From 1989 to 1998he was Dean and Professor of Managementat the AGSM.

Mr Hilmer served for seven years as CEOof John Fairfax Holdings. He has helddirectorships with some of Australia's leadingpublic companies, and chaired a number ofmajor public bodies, including theCommonwealth Higher Education Counciland the National Competition Policy ReviewCommittee. He therefore brings to the role ofVice-Chancellor a rare combination ofexperience at the highest levels of business,academia and public life.

We have also appointed Professor GregWhittred as the inaugural President of UNSWAsia. He will take up his new role inNovember this year. Greg is currently theDean of the Faculty of Commerce andEconomics, a position he took up in February2002 after eleven years as a Professor atAGSM. Greg is an alumnus, with a PhD fromthe AGSM at UNSW in 1986. He has longhad an association with Asia, having lived andworked in Singapore, Hong Kong andShanghai. As Dean, he has shown greatleadership in alumni relations within thefaculty.

Professor Peter Smith returned to Australiain August to assume the position of Dean ofMedicine at UNSW, after four years as Deanof the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciencesat the University of Auckland. ProfessorMargaret Harding was appointed as the Deanof Graduate Research in July. The newGraduate Research School, which opened forbusiness in October, will deliver the servicesrequired to support postgraduate researchstudents and supervisors.

In other research news, four UNSWscience researchers scooped the pool at the2005 Eureka Prizes, taking out three of theprestigious awards – more than any otheruniversity or institution. Associate ProfessorJames Franklin, Professor Veena Sahajwalla,Associate Professor Brett Neilan and DrBrendan Burns won the valuable prizes forresearch spanning scientific ethics,environmental sustainability and the origins of life.

The University also announced the winnerof its international competition to develop theMaster Plan for the new UNSW Asia campusin Singapore. Internationally acclaimedarchitect Kerry Hill was the unanimous choiceof a 10-member selection panel, whichincluded world-renowned Australian architectand UNSW alumnus, Dr Glenn Murcutt AO.We also set up a Foundation in Hong Kongwhich means that alumni living in Hong Kong can give and gain tax benefits. Further afield, we have set up a similarFoundation in the US.

Finally, we were pleased to host our annualWallace Wurth lecture on 27 September, withan attendance of well over 1000 guests.Former Australian Foreign Minister GarethEvans gave an insightful speech on TheGlobal Response to Terrorism.

Professor Mark S Wainwright AMVice-Chancellor and President

Welcome from the Vice-Chancellor Contents

Editor: Louisa WrightDesign: Gadfly MediaCover image: Peter Sharp, Shadow Portrait, 2003Printed by Rostone Print, 10/71a Rhodes St Hillsdale NSW 2036Australia Post print approvedPP224709/00021UNSW, Sydney NSW 2052CRICOS Provider No 00098G

NEWS

4 Highlights 2005

6 Innovation

7 The Chancellor

INTERNATIONAL

8 Beyond history and geography: agraduation address by Goh ChokTong SM

9 UNSW Asia: a garden university ina garden city

RESEARCH AND TEACHING

10 At the heart of the matter: theCentre for Vascular Research

12 Thinking outside the square: theNewSouth Global professorships

14 Brendon Parker on engineeringeducation

ALUMNI

15 Windows onto history: MichaelFullilove, LLB (1997)

16 From the President of the AlumniAssociation

17 2005 Alumni Awards

18 Executive in Residence: John Doumani, BCom (1978)

DEVELOPMENT

19 The Law Endowment Fund

20 The John Lions Chair appeal

21 connection {POINT

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22 Fowlers Gap artist-in-residenceprogram

Three, two, one, go

Three UNSW medical students were theworld’s first recorded instance of tripletsgraduating together from medicine, when theyreceived their testamurs at last December’sgraduation ceremony. Tamara, Veronica andMartina Preda have started work at LiverpoolHospital, alongside fellow UNSW medicalgraduates, twins Anne and Dianne Tran.

In the same graduating cohort was CaseyWadwell, the first Indigenous student tocomplete UNSW’s Pre-Medicine Programand go on to become a doctor. She hasreturned to her home area to begin work atTamworth Base Hospital. The Pre-MedicineProgram, now in its seventh year, is designedto address the national shortage ofIndigenous doctors. ■

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Sultan of Brunei visits UNSWUNSW literally rolled out the red carpet in February for thefirst visit by a royal head of state in more than 30 years. HisMajesty the Sultan of Brunei was welcomed by Vice-Chancellor Professor Mark Wainwright and senioracademics for his only visit to a university in Australia duringhis official state visit.

His Majesty met UNSW’s two dozen students fromBrunei and spoke briefly to each of them. On his tour of thecampus, His Majesty visited two of UNSW’s internationallyrecognised research centres, the Centre of Excellence inAdvanced Silicon Photovoltaics and Photonics, and theCentre of Excellence in Quantum Computing Technology,as well as the Scientia building.

Brunei has a number of educational links with Australiaand in 2004 had more than 700 students at Australianinstitutions. At UNSW, they are predominantly enrolled inpetroleum engineering. UNSW students from Brunei are alsoenrolled in marketing, pathology, surveying and art programs. ■

Meet the CEO: Michael HawkerMichael Hawker, CEO of Insurance Australia Group and former Wallabies Vice-Captain, was the guest speaker at the final Meet the CEO event for 2005. Definingwhat can’t be done allows innovation to flourish, he said in the on-stage interviewwith Helen Trinca from the Australian Financial Review’s BOSS Magazine. Trust isthe key to successful teamwork, and the team-focused culture at IAG is somethingof which Mike Hawker is justly proud. “You have to trust others to serve thecustomer the way you would,” he said.

In front of a capacity audience of alumni, students and friends of the Faculty ofCommerce & Economics, he shared his thoughts on what makes a great leader.From ‘competence and capability’, influence is born, and influence leads ultimatelyto success. Mr Hawker also stressed that great leaders care more about thepeople who work for them than for themselves.

Earlier speakers in the series during 2005 included Richard Pratt, chairman ofVisy Industries, and Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon. ■

Taxing times with OECDUNSW’s taxation school, Atax, is to become the only Australasian institution in theOECD International Network for Tax Research, which includes universities such asHarvard, Cambridge, the Sorbonne, the National University of Singapore, theUniversity of Hong Kong and the University of Leiden. The network’s steeringgroup, which met for the first time in London last month, will drive research that willassist both OECD and non-OECD countries to formulate international anddomestic tax policies.

“This is an exciting development for Atax,” director Professor Chris Evans said.“It reflects our global leadership credentials in tax and will expand our contributionto international tax research and debate.” ■

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The business of languageAustralian export businesses now have a partnerto help them address the issues of appropriatecultural awareness, intercultural communicationand business language: the National Centre forLanguage Training (NCLT). Announced by theFederal Government last year as part of a $113million package of measures to support Australia’sinternational engagement, the NCLT is based atUNSW and operates through a consortium ofnational partners, including five universities andthe Australian TAFE Consortium (ATCON).

The centre provides customised servicesincluding language and cultural readinessassessment, short courses in practical businesslanguage and seminars and workshops on culturalawareness. The National Centre for LanguageTraining office is located at the AustralianTechnology Park, the site of the former EveleighRailway Workshops. ■

UNSW’s 2005 Federation FellowsScientia Professor Tom Davis, of the School of ChemicalEngineering and Industrial Chemistry, and AssociateProfessor Matthew England of the School of Mathematicshave been named Federation Fellows, two of the fifteenresearchers in Australia. A further nine fellowships wereawarded to expatriate Australians and foreign nationals,including UK neuropsychologist Professor John Hodgeswho will come to UNSW’s School of Psychology.

The prestigious Federation Fellowships are the richestpublicly funded research fellowships to be offered inAustralia, valued at $235,000 a year for five years. ■

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Photovoltaics: the $2 million menProfessor Martin Green and Dr Gavin Conibeer have won a StanfordUniversity Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) grant estimated atUS$2.37million. Professor Green of the Centre of Excellence forAdvanced Silicon Photovoltaics and Photonics, and Dr Conibeer of theCentre for Photovoltaic Engineering will lead a team of ten researchersinvestigating nanostructured silicon-based tandem solar cells.

“This award allows us to explore a very original approach to solarenergy conversion that uses abundant materials and little energy, butpromises high performance and low costs,” Professor Green said. ■

Formation of the UNSW Hong Kong FoundationThe University has recently established the UNSW Hong Kong Foundation. Its purposeis to undertake development activities on behalf of the University that will provide,amongst other benefits, scholarships for HongKong students to attend UNSW in Sydney andSingapore.

The Directors of the Hong Kong Foundation willbe Professor Mark Wainwright; Professor JohnIngleson; Clare Taylor, the UNSW Director ofMarketing & Development; Rod Houng-Lee theHead of the Hong Kong Alumni ExecutiveCommittee and Dr Ronald Lu the patron of thelocal alumni chapter.

Liddy Korner, Manager of UNSW Hong Kong,has been instrumental in the establishment of theFoundation and was also on the selection panel for the UNSW Hong Kong AlumniChapter's first scholarship. The scholarship was awarded to Li Wai Tak, a first-yearoptometry student. Wai Tak was also a Foundation Studies student in 2003. ■

Brennan and BrennanJesuit priest, lawyer and writer FatherFrank Brennan received an HonoraryDoctorate of Laws last month. FatherBrennan is the author of a number ofbooks on Indigenous land rights,reconciliation, civil liberties and refugees,and is professor of human rights andsocial justice at the Australian CatholicUniversity and the University of NotreDame. His father, former Chief Justice ofthe High Court Sir Gerard Brennan,received an Honorary Doctorate of Lawsat UNSW a week later, also in recognitionof his eminent service to the community.Both were guest speakers at theirconferring ceremonies. ■

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Ross Woodham ScholarshipIn August the University’s commercialarm, NewSouth Global, announcedthe establishment of the RossWoodham scholarship atMahanakorn University in Bangkok.The scholarship recognises thesignificant contribution Ross made todeveloping the relationship betweenMahanakorn and UNSW during hislifetime.

The scholarship is designed toenable undergraduate engineeringstudents to improve their Englishlanguage skills through study at theUNSW Institute of Languages. Thefirst recipients of the scholarship willtake up their awards in early 2006. ■

Hong Kong Office Manager Liddy Kornerwith colleagues Lily Ng and Peggy Lee

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Think ahead: a new visual identity for UNSW

UNSW reveals new advertisingcampaign and slogan

UNSW has already built an enviablereputation as one of Australia's mostprestigious universities, however most

people do not know the depth and breadthof what is happening within the University.Marketing from UNSW therefore has tocapture one's imagination in order to makepeople look deeper.

After inviting several advertising agenciesto creatively pitch, UNSW has embraced anew slogan for marketing and advertisingcommunications. The new slogan isdesigned to appeal to all stakeholders in thewider university community including highschool students, potential postgraduatestudents, corporations and the generalpublic.

The new slogan was unveiled to thepublic in October and September through ahigh-frequency advertising campaign inSydney newspapers and on the sides ofbuses. Three simple but striking creativeexecutions served the dual purpose ofpromoting the Postgrad Expo and the new

slogan. Based on market researchconducted with target audiences, theadvertising has achieved cut-through inthese mediums, with the featureadvertisement being the sassy 'bike toPorsche' creative execution.

UNSW plans to use this slogan in allmarketing collateral over the long term tobecome enduring and memorable inconsumers’ minds. ■

David Gonski’s association with UNSWstarted in childhood, just two yearsafter his family emigrated from South

Africa. Aged nine, he sat on his father’sshoulders at the opening of the UNSWMedical School in 1963. Now 85, Gonskisenior, who taught at UNSW for 20 yearsand dissected many of the specimens still inthe Anatomy Museum, was the most excitedof all the family at his son’s appointment tothe Chancellorship in August.

David Gonski’s formal association withUNSW did not end after his graduation witha BCom LLB in 1977. That year, aged 23, hejoined the leading law firm, Freehills, and alsotook up a part-time lectureship in the lawschool, teaching industrial and intellectualproperty. He continued teaching for fiveyears, during which time he became apartner at Freehills aged 25.

In the mid-1990s he was asked toparticipate in the fundraising program for theScientia building and then joined theUniversity Foundation. His lifetime links withKensington extend throughout his family: his

wife and his three siblings are UNSWgraduates and his two older childrenpresently attend UNSW.

“I have a love for education,” Mr Gonskisaid. “It is not only one of the mostinteresting areas of human endeavour butone of the most essential. This university hasbeen such a part of my life and the lives ofmy family. The Chancellorship gives me theopportunity to give something back and tobe involved in its growth.”

He has been a company director for 23 years – 27 if he includes a not-for-profitorganisation, a school for disabled children –and has a range of chairmanships to hiscredit. Some that are potentially incompatiblewith the Chancellorship will go but the rangeand pace of involvement will not change.“Something I learnt at university was timemanagement – I’m very good at it. I don’ttake on anything that I can’t do or can’t fit inwith my private life.”

The issue of philanthropy, and how tocreate a climate to encourage people todonate, has long occupied him, not only in

the context of education but also his otherpassion, the arts. Seven years ago hebecame a member of the Prime Minister’sBusiness and Community Partnership, andchairman of that organisation’s taxation sub-group. Extensive work followed with thegovernment to change tax provisions thatactively discouraged charitable donations. Asa result, in the past five years, 300 newphilanthropic foundations have beenestablished in Australia that have disbursed$17 million dollars a year to charity over thelast two years alone.

“I believe very strongly in philanthropy,” hesaid. “And if philanthropy is increasing, whyare people not giving back to the universitiesthey attended? Perhaps because they seethem as commodities. We have to changethat.”

He has been gratified by the response tothe announcement of his appointment asChancellor. “I have been surprised by thewarmth people have shown,” he said.“People are stopping me in the street andcongratulating me. The goodwill is there.Now we have to translate it and get peoplefeeling they are actively linked to theuniversity they attended. It’s the nextstage.”■

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A passionate supporter of the arts,David Gonski has had a long relationshipwith many branches of the arts and isthe chairman of the Australia Council forthe Arts. He jokes that his city office isperfectly located, giving him a direct lineof sight to both UNSW and the ArtGallery of New South Wales, of whichhe has been president for nine years:“one more to go”. The greatest perk ofhis Art Gallery position, he considers,has been to adjudicate the past nineArchibald Prizes, using his mediationskills to reach decisions by consensus.He considers Gallery director EdmundCapon “inspirational – even though hehates to use the red carpet”. From hisoffice window one day he looked acrossthe Domain and saw a red carpetdecking the Gallery’s front steps. Hepicked up the telephone and rang Mr Capon, who told him it was there“only because Dame Edna insisted”.

When I graduated from the then-University of Singapore, my careerplan was to study for a PhD and be

an academic. But that was not to be. I wasbonded to serve the Singapore Governmentand I became a civil servant. A few yearslater, I was seconded to serve in Singapore’sfledgling national shipping line. From there, Iwas drafted into politics. So you could saythat I failed to achieve my youthful ambition.But thanks to you, I have achieved half of mydream today.

I am grateful to the University of NewSouth Wales for conferring on me theHonorary Degree of Doctor of Laws. It isindeed an honour not just for me but also forSingapore, which believes in forging closerties with Australia. Your university is one ofthe leading universities in Australia and theregion – renowned for the quality of itsgraduates and commitment to creativeapproaches to education and research. Thatis why we welcome your decision to set up acampus in Singapore. Yours will be the firstcomprehensive foreign university to beestablished in Singapore.

We live in exciting and challenging times.Familiar strategic relationships are beingreconfigured or replaced by new ones.Today, I want to reflect on Australia’s place inthe emerging Asian order.

Asia is on the move, fuelled by themomentum of a rising China and anemerging India. Never before in the history ofmankind have we witnessed thesimultaneous rise of two huge powers,

whose combined population makes up morethan one-third of humanity. Moreover, Japanwill continue to be a major player. Therelationship between Beijing, New Delhi andTokyo will profoundly affect the regionalenvironment. Some jostling among them isinevitable, and periodic tensions can beexpected. However, I do not expect this tolead to armed conflict.

The US will maintain its global pre-eminence in the political, military, technologicaland economic spheres for decades to come.America will remain embedded in the EastAsian regional order, as it recalibrates itsrelations with China and India.

Amidst these geostrategic shifts, I believethat Australia has a special role in the region.Australia is a developed country rich innatural resources, talented people andtechnology. Its political and cultural valuesare Western but the society has a rich Asianmix. Australia enjoys close ties with the USand Europe. Australia is therefore well placedto serve as another nexus between the Westand Asia. But to fulfil this role, Australia’sfuture must transcend its historical legacyand geographical location. On Asia’s part, itmust take an inclusive and open approachand not be trapped by traditional notions ofgeography and ethnicity.

For many Australians, debate about theirplace in Asia is not new. Some of us willremember that in the 1990s, there was anintense – and some would even say angst-ridden – discussion about whether or notAustralia was truly part of Asia.

The problem was the assumption of Asiaas a homogeneous entity with definite andimmutable geographical borders. In reality,Asia has never been defined purely in termsof physical geography. It is characterised bypolitical, ethnic, cultural, linguistic andreligious diversity. The notion of a single,unchanging and homogeneous Asia wasitself illusory.

Australia’s regional security role hasbecome even more important in recentyears, with the threat of transnationalterrorism. After September 11 and thebombings in Bali and Jakarta, it is clear thatAustralia can enhance the region’s counter-terrorism capacity through co-operation inintelligence-sharing and joint operations.Australia has also contributed generously tothe region’s humanitarian needs. During lastDecember’s tsunami crisis, Australia

contributed a relief and assistance packageworth more than A$1billion to help affectedcountries.

In economics, Australia is increasinglysewn into the tapestry of Asian productionpatterns and trade flows. Last year, the topfive Australian export destinations wereJapan, China, the US, South Korea andNew Zealand. Three were Asian. Australia’stop five import sources were the US, China,Japan, Germany and Singapore. Again,three were Asian.

Complementing these linkages are recenttrends in the demography of Australia.

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T he Singapore-based firm, Kerry HillArchitects, has conceived ‘a gardenuniversity in a garden city’ for the

master plan of UNSW’s Singaporecampus.

A celebrated Australian architect, Mr Hill has practised in Singapore for thepast 25 years. His firm was theunanimously chosen winner of aninternational competition by a panel thatincluded world-renowned Australianarchitect Glenn Murcutt.

“Kerry Hill’s scheme for UNSW Asiahas the potential to rank amongst thebest campuses in the world,” Mr Murcuttsaid. “It is a unique response to thelandscape. The scheme will give a heartto the campus from day one.”

Mr Hill envisions the idea of tropicalityas “the recognisable identity of theUNSW Asia campus – a gardenuniversity in a garden city”.

Construction of the campus is plannedto begin in 2006 with studentscommencing in 2009. UNSW Asia willopen for business in 2007 in temporaryaccommodation at the former campus ofSingapore’s Republic Polytechnic. ■

Beyond history and geography: Australia in AsiaAn address by Goh Chok Tong SM

A gardenuniversityin a garden city

About five percent, or almost one million, ofAustralia’s population are of Asian origin.This figure will grow. Together with our co-operation in security, economics andeducation, these people-to-people links bindAustralia and Asia to each other.

Singapore, too, has multi-dimensional tieswith many countries in several continents.We have strong historical links with the UK.The form of our relationship has evolved fromthe colonial days, but the strength anddurability of ties remain. Of course, thesehistorical ties are not identical to Australia’scultural connections with Europe, but theybear out the essential point that strong linksto Asia and Europe are not mutuallyexclusive.

Similarly, the idea that Australia cannot bepart of an Asian grouping because of itsalliance with the US is false. Japan,

Thailand, South Korea and the Philippinesare treaty allies of the US. India recentlyembarked on a New Strategic Framework indefence relations with the US, whileSingapore has just signed a StrategicFramework Agreement in defence andsecurity co-operation with the US.

A far more constructive approach to theissue of Australia’s place in Asia would be toengage Australia in contributing to theregion’s vibrancy and diversity.

Given the region’s diversity, Australia willcontribute most by playing a multi-dimensional role. Its status as an ASEANDialogue Partner, its membership of the EASand the proposals for the ASEAN-Australiaand New Zealand FTA are a good start.Australia should, for instance, play aconstructive role in helping to define thesubstantive agenda of the EAS. Australia

could also build on its growing involvementin regional capacity building.

Australia is already looking beyond historyand geography just as Asia is lookingbeyond geography and ethnicity. PrimeMinister Howard has said that Australiansneed not tie themselves “in knots definingAustralia’s place in the world with someunyielding, rigid formula”. This is goodadvice. I would add, neither should we tieourselves in knots defining Australia’s placein Asia. Australia is in Asia. ■

This is an edited version of the speechgiven by Mr Goh Chok Tong, SeniorMinister of the Republic of Singapore,at a ceremony in September duringwhich he received an HonoraryDoctorate of Laws.

Where do you start the concept of designinga university that is a foreign presence?By imagining I am a student thinking aboutwhat kind of special place I would like theuniversity to be; a place that allows students(and staff) to manage the social dimension oflearning; a place with generosity of spirit; aplace that imparts a sense of belonging.You envision a ‘garden university in a garden

city’. Can you expand on your design visionfor the UNSW Asia campus?The design embodies the idea of ‘tropicality’as the recognisable identity of UNSW Asia. Itis not just an image but a physicalrepresentation of the tropics.You’re renowned for embodying theenvironment in your work. How important is thelandscape in the campus scheme? And how

does this plan draw on your previous work?The design begins with a landscape matrix. It is the notion of a campus where landscapebecomes the object and buildings are placedwithin it. In this way, landscape sets thestructure of the campus and informs itsgrowth. I believe this proposal brings togetherthe best of our efforts from 25 years ofpractice in Asia. ■

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T he fourth floor of the Wallace WurthBuilding is an unassuming space, withfaded posters and labyrinthine

corridors covered in laminate. But it is herethat you find some of the most highlyregarded medical researchers in the country,who are members of the Centre for VascularResearch (CVR).

“I really wanted to build a research groupin a hospital and university environment,rather than an institute,” founder andDirector, Professor Colin Chesterman, said.Professor Chesterman now presides over acentre that has also grown to includelaboratories at the Australian NationalUniversity and Monash University, as well asSt George Hospital and the original lab in theDepartment of Haematology at the Prince ofWales Hospital.

The centre is gaining momentum, winning18 of the 21 research grant applications itsubmitted for 2005. That figure represents anastonishing 86 percent success rate, farabove the national average of 20 to 30percent. “The success of the CVR in fundingalone shows that we are really maturing asan organisation,” Professor Chesterman said.

E ight of the CVR’s 14 research groupsare based at UNSW. One, theDisulphide Switching Group, is led by

Professor Philip Hogg. This group isresponsible for a discovery that couldbecome an entirely new field of research initself. Professor Hogg and his team havediscovered a new mechanism governingproteins, which can determine what they do.

“People thought that disulphide bondsheld proteins together, but were otherwiseinert,” Professor Hogg said. “Since the late1990s we have shown that some disulphidebonds actually control how proteins work,rather than just hold them together.”

The process, which they dubbeddisulphide switching, has been shown bythe CVR to occur in four different proteins sofar – but the research could have a fargreater impact. “The indications are thatdisulphide switching may be relevant to alllife forms,” Professor Hogg said.

The research has led to the development ofa drug, GSAO, which inhibits tumour bloodvessel formation and tumour growth (see box).

R esearchers at the CVR are alsoworking towards developing drugs tocombat cardiovascular diseases. “My

work is largely focused on atherosclerosis,the build-up of fatty deposits on the insidewalls of arteries,” said biochemist ProfessorRoland Stocker, head of the Vascular RedoxProcesses Group who looks at oxidationreactions involving free radicals and otheroxidants.

“We have had a surprise finding with onedrug, called Probucol, which is already usedon people who have heart disease, or thosewho are at high risk of it,” Professor Stockersaid. “We have done tests on animals whichshow that the drug has several protectiveactivities unrelated to the oxidation ofcholesterol. It actually has benefit on acellular level.”

A ssociate Professor Wendy Jessup,who with Associate Professor LenKritharides leads the Macrophage

Biology Group, is also interested inatherosclerosis. “Our main interest is in thecells that are accumulating cholesterol andgetting rid of it,” she said. “We want to findout how it works in healthy cells and thenhow it might go wrong in atherosclerosis.”

One project looks at a protein that acts asa cholesterol ‘pump’ to remove cholesterolfrom the cells. Professor Jessup hopes toestablish how these pumps work and howto stimulate or block them, through thedevelopment of new drugs.

Some of the research from the CVRexplores the very building blocks of lifeto come up with clinical applications.

Professor Levon Khachigian, head of theTranscription and Gene Targeting Laboratoryat the CVR, leads a team interested in genetherapy and anti-gene therapy.

“Gene therapy is defined by theintroduction of a given gene, which may wellalready be expressed at the site of interest atlow levels, and just topped up,” ProfessorKhachigian said. “Anti-gene therapy is whenyou use strategies to knock down a so-called bad gene.”

Most recently his lab has had significantsuccess in anti-gene therapy with DNAenzymes. “These molecular tools are

One of the clear reasonsthe CVR has been sosuccessful is because ofthe wonderfully talentedpeople who are a part of it

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At the heart of the matter:inside the Centre for Vascular Research

essentially tiny bits of DNA that we havecustom-designed to find and destroy thegene of interest,” he said. “They bind to astring of genetic material which arises fromthe DNA, called RNA, and snip it.”

RNA is significant because it is the go-between in the conversion of genetic codeinto protein, which ultimately controls cellbehaviour. Professor Khachigian hopesthese DNA enzymes might be used asdrugs. While his anti-gene therapeuticstudies show great promise, his lab’s effortsin gene therapy are also showing potential.

“The idea we’re exploring is that genetherapy might also be used in the injuredvessel wall to add back a repressor orsuppressor of growth,” he said. “That shouldgive the same result as an anti-gene therapy,depending on the growth gene beingtargeted or anti-growth gene being over-expressed.”

P rofessor Beng Hock Chong is theleader of the Platelet andMegakaryocyte Group, which hopes to

develop new ways to treat heart and blooddiseases. The work concentrates on thestudies of the genes that regulate stem celldifferentiation to heart muscle cells andblood cells.

“I believe that one day we could injectbone marrow stem cells into someone whohas had a heart attack,” Professor Chongsaid. “If we understood how to manipulatethe genes, then you could take some stemcells, and inject those into the heart,effectively creating some new, healthy heartcells.” Professor Chong said this couldeventually prevent people from having towait for a heart transplant.

“Understanding the genes which regulatethe stem cells differentiating into blood cellswill give us an insight into the mechanismsof blood diseases such as leukaemia,” hesaid. “This could lead to the better diagnosisand treatment of these diseases.” ■

More information about the CVR is at www.cvr.net.au.

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Trial run may stop growth

H uman safety trials of a drug thatcould revolutionise the treatmentof certain types of tumours will

get underway in early 2006.GSAO, which has been developed

by Professor Philip Hogg and his teamat the CVR, has been shown to stoptumours from growing larger thanmicroscopic size in pre-clinical testing.The compound works by inhibitingtumour blood vessel formation.

“Our research focuses on trying toturn cancer into a disease that can bemanaged on a lifelong basis,” ProfessorHogg said. In principle, this compoundshould be effective against all solidtumours. GSAO derived from theconcept of disulphide switching, whichProfessor Hogg and his teamdiscovered in 1997.

“This protein chemistry we describedhappens mostly outside the cell anddrugs that target this process don’thave the burden of crossing the cellmembrane,” Professor Hogg said.

The Cancer Council NSW hasrecently given Professor Hoggsignificant extra funding to further hisresearch. This follows a five-year grantof more than a million dollars from theCouncil that was awarded in 2000. Ifthe human safety trials of GSAO aresuccessful, further trials to test whetherit works are planned for late 2006 inAustralia and probably North America.

“There is nothing that would pleaseme more than to do something thatmakes an impact on human health,”Professor Hogg said. ■

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2005has seen theappointment of fiveoutstanding academics

appointed to UNSW’s new cross-facultychairs, established as part of a bid to capturenew areas of groundbreaking collaborativeresearch. The appointments follow aninternational and nationwide search foroutstanding academics able to transcendtraditional boundaries between disciplines.The Professorships are funded by andnamed for the University’s commercial arm,NewSouth Global.

Health and human rights:Daniel TarantolaDaniel Tarantola’s passion for health andhuman rights stretches back 35 years to hisnative France. As a young doctor with aninterest in international events, he saw theinjustice of health aid being tied to politicalmotives. The small group he helped toestablish went on to have a big future, theNobel Peace Prize-winning Médecins sansFrontières (MSF).

“Until MSF started, official governmentassistance or formal non-governmentalagencies and faith-based groups active inhumanitarian health work were limited bytheir political or ideological focus,” ProfessorTarantola said. “We felt that there was a needfor a way in which doctors could intervene inany conflict situation or disaster and focus onthe victims, regardless of how governmentslooked upon them.”

Professor Tarantola was MSF’s first doctorto travel to the West African country of UpperVolta, now known as Burkino Faso, wherechronic poverty had been aggravated by acatastrophic drought. It was the first of manysuch stints, such as a posting in the 1970sto northern Bangladesh where he supervisedthe World Health Organization team

responsible for the eradication of smallpoxand attended the last case of this disease inAsia.

“My experience has shown that if youreally want to achieve significant impactthrough sound public health practices, youcan’t solely do it from a medical or healthapproach,” he said. “You have to involve avariety of disciplines, in particular law andsocial sciences.”

It is this multidisciplinary approach thatattracted Professor Tarantola to theNewSouth Global Chair in Health andHuman Rights. “This position is unique inthat it brings three faculties together. There isnothing like this anywhere else in the world,”he said.

Professor Tarantola will bring togetherresearchers from Medicine, Arts and SocialSciences, and Law to work on issues suchas HIV/AIDS, migration, post-conflictsituations and others where the neglect orviolation of human rights breed ill health andpoverty.

“Where action is most needed now is inthe research field and the documentation ofthe powerful synergy between health andhuman rights. We need to collect theevidence and make it known. UNSW hascreated an innovative opportunity to bringout this evidence through multidisciplinaryresearch and make it the essence of ourteaching.”

New Media Narrative andTheory: Vivien JohnsonIndigenous art has been a lifelong obsessionfor Vivien Johnson, the NewSouth GlobalProfessor of New Media Narrative andTheory, who has spearheaded therecognition of Indigenous art as part ofcontemporary Australian art and promotedawareness of copyright issues and the need

for law reform in relation to Indigenous artsaforgery.

“I consider Indigenous art to be the mostimportant art movement to have occurred inAustralia to date,” said Professor Johnson,whose cross-faculty chair spans COFA, Artsand Social Sciences, and Law. Most recentlywith the Centre for Cross-Cultural Researchat ANU, she has combined ethnographic,sociological, philosophical and art historyresearch. Her role at UNSW will focus onIndigenous art and new media, copyrightand cultural sovereignty issues, and a newAustralian art history.

Professor Johnson’s biographicaldictionary of Western Desert artists will formpart of the blueprint to be developed for theDictionary of Australian Artists Online.

“It’s a revolutionary development to includeIndigenous artists alongside non-Indigenousartists across the entire landscape ofAustralian art since colonisation,” ProfessorJohnson said. “One of the ways forIndigenous artists to be recognised ascontemporary artists will be for their work tobe explored thoroughly and documented inthe same way non-Indigenous work mightbe. However, in compiling the dictionary, wemust ensure it’s designed with database

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fields and search categories that aregenuinely cross-cultural.”

The 1990s boom in contemporaryIndigenous fine art has seen ProfessorJohnson’s focus shift to the campaign forintellectual and cultural property rights forIndigenous artists and communities and theissue of Indigenous art forgery. ProfessorJohnson will continue her pioneering work onforgery at the University through The CliffordPossum Project: On Forgery and Forensicsin Indigenous Art.

Another major project Professor Johnsonwill undertake at UNSW is an exhibition oflarge Papunya Tula canvases from the 1970sfrom the National Museum of Australiacollection. She will also undertake researchon urban Indigenous art, with particular focuson NSW. “Artists like Gordon Syronpioneered a tradition of angry politicalIndigenous art which addresses issues thatpeople don’t like to think about,” ProfessorJohnson said. “But that’s one of art’s mostimportant functions in our society: tochallenge people.”

Criminology: Chris CunneenFor Chris Cunneen, the NewSouth GlobalProfessorship in Criminology brings with ittwo valuable prizes: a research budget andtime.

“It’s very exciting to have a research chairof this standing,” Professor Cunneen said. “Inthe area of criminology, there previouslyhaven’t been these opportunities available inAustralia.

“There are some excellent people incriminology in various faculties here, so theidea of working with them and puttingtogether joint research proposals to furtherdevelop the profile of criminology is also veryappealing.” Building on the University’scriminology research group, theprofessorship in Criminology involves thefaculties of Law, Arts and Social Sciences,and Science.

“The other area that’s an important part ofthe role of the professorship is to establish

and deepen the links that we haveoutside of Australia – that’simportant,” he said. “I plan topursue more internationalcollaborations, particularly inemerging areas of concern suchas criminalisation and humanrights abuses.”

Collaboration is an importanttheme in Professor Cunneen’sapproach. He is a committedadvocate of interdisciplinaryactivity – a key part of the NSGProfessor’s role. “Criminology asan area of study is inherentlyinterdisciplinary, in that it draws onlaw, history, sociology, psychology andmedical sciences, so it is an area of studythat lends itself to this approach.”

It was this broad range of intellectualtraditions that attracted Professor Cunneento criminology. “My interest came from thedisciplines of history and sociology, not law.My focus has always been on the institutionsof crime control rather than, say, thepsychology of offending. But that’s what isso appealing about this area – there is notjust one way of looking at an issue.”

Also on Professor Cunneen’s list is asignificant project on prisons, which hehopes will draw on the expertise of UNSWacademics to look at the growth in the useof imprisonment over the last 20 years inAustralia.

Multidisciplinary Design:Richard Hough and DavinaJacksonRichard Hough is a leading structuralengineer and a principal with one of theworld’s largest independent integrateddesign firms. Davina Jackson is anarchitectural writer and curator and apromoter of progressive architecture anddesign. Together the two, who havecomplementary positions as Professor andAssociate Professor of MultidisciplinaryDesign, personify the goals of theirappointment.

“It’s a bringing together of the yin and theyang, I suppose,” Professor Hough said.“Lots of architects notice there’s another halfto what they do and vice versa [withengineers]. Our job is to bring those rolesmore closely together.”

In looking for connections between thefaculties of Engineering, the BuiltEnvironment and the College of Fine Arts,the pair is working towards an integratedapproach to design.

“It is up to engineers and architects to

articulate consequences and futurescenarios,” he said. “We’ve been on a pathof material development so far. We need toask ‘How does society need to grow? Whatkind of society do we want?’ In my mind,this is the bigger context in which thisposition sits.”

Not that the artistic aspect of design isdownplayed. Professor Hough, a principalwith the international Arup Group, believeswe need iconic and beautiful projects todraw attention to such easily overlookedfactors as the energy efficiency of a building,for example.

“Our broader based vision of design andhow we can use it could also be a majorboon to our economy,” Associate ProfessorJackson said. “I believe we have a majorexport industry in property development –creative services that we can offer tocountries around the world.”

Extending UNSW’s reach internationally is an important part of the MultidisciplinaryDesign agenda. Workshops have beenconducted with Politecnico di Milano, a key design centre in Italy, to build acollaboration that will form the basis of adesign initiative in NSW. ■

The first NewSouth GlobalProfessorship to be announced, inearly 2005, was that of biochemistCaroline (Lindy) Rae, who wasappointed as NewSouth GlobalProfessor in Brain Sciences based atthe Prince of Wales Medical ResearchInstitute.

“Studying the brain is like looking ata room though a keyhole,” saidProfessor Rae, who is internationallyrecognised for her expertise inmagnetic resonance. “You get a verynarrow perspective. By providing aninterdisciplinary approach, it will be likehaving dozens of keyholes.”

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T hese personal comments areprompted by the recent discussionpaper from Brendan Nelson (Minister

for Education, Science and Training) entitledBuilding University Diversity. They are writtenfrom the point of view of my position as theleader of a large and successful engineeringfaculty that enjoys an excellent reputation forits research and the quality of its graduates.My task is to sustain and enhance thatreputation in a climate of a reduction in thereal value of government funding perstudent.

Engineering is vital is for a prosperous andsustainable future for Australia and asignificant number of our best and brightestyoung people need to be attracted to theprofession. The Nelson paper canvasses anumber of options for the future that includeteaching-only universities, opening uptertiary education to private and internationalproviders and specialist institutions focusingon a limited range of programs.

It is interesting to look at the presentdiscussion in the context of engineeringeducation prior to the Dawkins reforms ofthe late eighties. In those days professionalengineering programs were offered by asmall number of universities (twelve) andthere were many sub-professionalengineering-related programs in the Collegesof Advanced Education. The engineeringworkforce consisted of a small number ofprofessional engineers directing the work ofa larger number of sub-professionals.

The Dawkins reforms resulted inprofessional engineering programs in 34universities and a large reduction in the sub-professional workforce. At some institutions,entry to engineering is not demanding interms of UAI and this has changed theperception of young people in their choice ofprogram. Many graduates now fulfil the rolespreviously undertaken by sub-professionals,further eroding the standing of theprofession in the eyes of the community.Professions such as law and medicine weremuch less affected by the Dawkins reformsand have been able to maintain theirstanding.

The possibility of teaching-only universitiesmay provide the opportunity to return to asmall number of professional engineeringschools in research-intensive universitieswith sub-professional degrees offered in theteaching-only institutions. Graduates fromsub-professional programs could continueinto professional schools or they could enterthe workforce, helping to meet the massiveskill shortage. Germany has an excellentsystem of three-year and five-year programsand the European education reformsemerging from the Bologna accord will see asomewhat similar structure adoptedthroughout Europe.

It is unlikely that private providers will offerundergraduate engineering. Curricula andresources are strongly influenced by theneed for professional accreditation and thismakes engineering very expensive to deliver.Maintenance of standards is essential in theinterest of the safety of the community.Private providers may be attracted to the

delivery of lower cost, high-demandprograms (for example, business and law).This may affect the overall economies ofpublicly funded universities, which will needto provide expensive disciplines such asengineering and medicine and programsessential to our culture such as those in thehumanities.

There is a view that the best engineers inthe world come from specialist institutionsthat focus on science and technology.Imperial College, MIT, Ecole Polytechnique inParis, ETH Zurich, KTH Stockholm, HKUSTin Hong Kong and the Indian IITs come tomind. It may be, however, that the perceivedexcellence of these institutions is due to theirability to attract the very best students ratherthan their nature as specialist institutions.They attract top students because thecommunity is aware of the impact of theirresearch and the success of their graduates.The specialised nature of their programsmakes it easier to articulate their mission tothe community.

In conclusion, there is opportunity andchallenge ahead – which is about all thatdoes not change! ■

Brendon Parker is Dean of the Facultyof Engineering and was President ofthe Australian Council of EngineeringDeans until the end of 2004. He iscurrently chair of the Go8 EngineeringDeans and Associates. The viewsexpressed are his own.

Change and opportunity in higher education: a perspective from Engineering

BY BRENDON PARKER

Michael Fullilove’s day job is theanalysis of foreign policy; speechesare his hobby – but there is

crossover. “Speeches are still the currencyof politics and to some extent of foreignpolicy – they are a way of transactingbusiness in foreign policy,” Michael said.“[Former foreign minister] Bill Hayden usedto say that in diplomacy, words are bullets.Speeches matter – but Australians don’tgo for the highfalutin’ kind.”

Michael calls the speeches that he hascompiled in Men and Women of Australia!Our Greatest Modern Speeches, publishedin November, “our greatest speeches ofthe modern era, from Federation to thepresent”.

Among the inclusions are speeches byRobert Menzies at the burial of WinstonChurchill; soldier Frank Bethune on theWestern Front (see box); Paul Keating atthe interment of the unknown Australiansoldier; Richie Benaud on DonaldBradman; Vida Goldstein on the rights ofwomen; Robert Hughes on an Australianhead of state. Speeches by non-Australians include Douglas MacArthur onthe battle for Australia; Pope John Paul IIon Aboriginal civilisation; and Bill Clintonon our ethnic diversity.

Michael (LLB 1997) sees speeches astime capsules. “Regardless of the speakerand the venue,” Michael said, “all havesomething to say about Australia.” Hebelieves it is important to read speechesfor the same reason it is important to readhistory – understanding where we havebeen helps to show where we are nowand where we are going, and many issuesfrom earlier generations still haveresonance and still influence aspects ofAustralian culture. He cites issues from theWorld War I period, a time that still exertsa powerful influence on the nationalimagination, and the recurrent debate overtime on the question of a republic and anAustralian head of state.

Asked to name his favourite speech,Michael was unable to select just one.“The Keating eulogy in 1993 for theunknown soldier has not been bettered inAustralian history as a piece of formalrhetoric – but Frank Bethune, a CambridgeBlue who enlisted for World War I, madesome stunning speeches, and Menzieshimself was a brilliant debater.”

Michael made his selections based bothon historical relevance but, even more, on‘readability’. As a speechmaker andspeechwriter himself, he looked for rhythm,colour, style and delivery – “like laceworkon a Paddington terrace,” he said, “allthese things attract an observer’s attentionand please the senses.” As a result, thebook is neither a textbook nor a collectionselected solely on historical significance.“It’s to be enjoyed – and to be read aloud.”

And the choice of title, the most famous salutation in Australian history? “Of course Gough Whitlam was a greatspeaker, and the title nods to a very famous Australian speech, but it alsoacknowledges the importance of theaudience. Every speech, and everyspeechmaker, needs an audience – aspeech is a contract between the two.” ■

Windows onto history: the best Australian speeches

Dr Michael Fullilove, Program Directorfor Global Issues at the Lowy Institutefor International Policy, has worked asa lawyer, a volunteer in the UnitedNations Transitional Administration inEast Timor, and an advisor to PrimeMinister Paul Keating. He was aconsultant to Frank Lowy AC on theestablishment of the Lowy Institute.

Michael graduated in internationalrelations and law from the Universitiesof Sydney and New South Wales, withdual university medals. He was aRhodes Scholar at the University ofOxford, where he took a master’sdegree in international relations andwrote his doctorate on Franklin DRoosevelt’s foreign policy. His firstbook, Men and Women of Australia!Our Greatest Modern Speeches, ispublished by Vintage.

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Frank Bethune: This position will be heldIn March 1918, Lieutenant FrankBethune and his section wereordered to defend an exposedposition on the Western Front.Bethune issued the following SpecialOrders to his men, all of whom hadvolunteered to follow him to theposition. Given that Bethune’s sectionconsisted of only seven souls, militaryhistorians think it likely that the orderswere issued verbally as well as inwriting. Although isolated, the sectionheld the position for eighteen days.

◆ This position will be held, and thesection will remain here untilrelieved.

◆ The enemy cannot be allowed tointerfere with this programme.

◆ If the section cannot remain herealive, it will remain here dead, butin any case it will remain here.

◆ Should any man, through shellshock or other cause, attempt tosurrender, he will remain heredead.

◆ Should all guns be blown out, thesection will use Mills grenades,and other novelties.

◆ Finally, the position, as stated, willbe held.

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Welcome to UNSWorld! A newmagazine for the many friends ofUNSW, including the 150,000 or so

alumni who are spread across Australia andlocated in more than 50 overseas countries.Alumni will find it an excellent way of keepingin touch with their University, and theactivities and events that are of direct interestto them.

The Alumni Association’s relationship withthe University has undergone somefundamental changes these past eighteenmonths. Chief of these is the decision toabolish the former membership feestructure; all alumni of the University arenow automatically members of theAssociation, with the benefits of

membership available to all.Thus with the stroke of a pen, our Alumni

Association membership has increaseddramatically. This practice has been adoptedby many of the world’s leading universities asa means of encouraging greater involvementby alumni in the activities of their university.

Your Board has been looking at how bestwe might exploit this new arrangement withthe University and our greatly expandedmembership base. Certainly we see acontinuation of our traditional activities suchas the Alumni Scholarships Program, theAlumni Awards and the Graduand AwardsPrograms.

But in this information age we believe wemust also offer alumni access to what wemight call brain food. UNSW is one ofAustralia’s leading centres of learning and ofresearch and our alumni are engaged in aprocess of lifelong learning which doesn’tend at graduation. So we offer our alumniaccess to the University library at a much-reduced fee.

And this year we have also introducedprivileged access to some of the excitingresearch being undertaken by UNSW faculty,

through our 2005 Speaker Series. The 2006Series will get underway in mid-February.More details on these programs can befound on the alumni website: seewww.alumni.unsw.edu.au.

Fundamental to a successful alumniprogram is our ability to keep in touch withyou, our members. If you have not alreadyavailed yourself of the offer to alumni of afree, lifelong University email address I wouldstrongly urge you to do so. Again, thewebsite has details, and signing up takes notime at all.

This benefit is available wherever youmight be located and its overwhelmingadvantage is that your alumni colleagues,your faculty and school can always reachyou.

I invite your active participation in alumniaffairs through your Association. Eightgovernors are elected by alumni and ballotpapers go to all alumni for whom a currentaddress is on file. Another good reason toensure your contact details are up to date!

Peter BergmanPresident, 2005

From the President of the Alumni Association

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WANTEDThe Alumni Association will be calling fornominations in February 2006 from UNSWAlumni for the election of four alumni to theAlumni Association Board of Governors to beheld in 2006.

POSITION DETAILSElected governors will serve a four-year termcommencing 1 July 2006.

ELIGIBILITYIf you are an Ordinary Member of the AlumniAssociation you are eligible to stand forelection and to vote. If you are an Honorarymember of the Alumni Association you arenot eligible to stand for election or to vote.

Under the Alumni AssociationConstitution, graduates of the University areentitled to be Ordinary Members. Anygraduate who does not wish to be anOrdinary Member of the Association shouldadvise the Executive Officer.

HOW TO OBTAIN A NOMINATION FORMNominations will open on Monday 20 February 2006. Completed nominationforms must be lodged with the ReturningOfficer before 5:00 pm on Monday 20 March 2006. Each nomination form mustbe signed by two alumni who are OrdinaryMembers of the Alumni Association andendorsed with the signature of the candidate.To obtain a nomination form:

■ collect a nomination form from theReception counter, at the main entrance toThe Chancellery, UNSW

■ request a nomination form from theElections Office (see below)

■ print a nomination form from the internetat http://www.elections.unsw.edu.au/

ELECTIONSIf necessary, a postal ballot will be conductedclosing at 5.00pm on Tuesday 6 June 2006.Ballot papers will be posted to persons

entitled to vote in the election at their lastknown address. Ballot papers that do notreach the Returning Officer by close of ballotwill not be counted in the election.

FURTHER ENQUIRIES For nomination enquiries, contact theElections Office by phone on +61 (2) 93851546 or email elections@unsw.edu.au. Forgeneral information about what it means toserve as an Alumni Governor, contact theAlumni Association Executive Officer on +61 (2) 9385 3193 or emailalumni@unsw.edu.au.

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2005 Alumni Awards

John Prescott

Jillian Segal

Susan HayesSusan Hayes

Gordon ParkerGordon Parker

UNSW is proud to acknowledge theaccomplishments and achievements of ouralumni. In October 2005, four graduates

were presented with Alumni Awards by theUNSW Alumni Association. The winners wererecognised for their outstanding efforts in theirfields of expertise as well as the widercommunity at a presentation during a galaalumni event at Kensington.

The graduates recognised were:

For business and commerce: John Prescott AC (BCom ’62, Hon DSc ’95)Mr Prescott has had a distinguished career ofmore than 40 years with BHP, one of Australia’sindustry giants. He was Managing Director andChief Executive Officer from 1991 to 1998.

He has been Chairman of ASC Pty Ltd(previously Australian Submarine Corporation)since 2000 and Chairman of the Sunshine CoastBusiness Council since 2004. Internationally heis a director of Newmont Mining Corporation andwas also a member of the Booze Allen &Hamilton Advisory Board, the InternationalCouncil of JP Morgan Chase & Co and the AsiaPacific Advisory Committee of the New YorkStock Exchange and a trustee of the ConferenceBoard of USA, among others.

For Arts/Law: Jillian Segal AM (BA ’77, LLB ’79)Ms Segal has had an outstanding career as alawyer, regulator and director. She became apartner at Allen Allen & Hemsley in 1986 afterserving as an Associate to Sir Anthony Mason ofthe High Court. From 1997 to 2002 Ms Segalwas a Commissioner and then Deputy Chairmanof the Australian Securities & InvestmentsCommission (ASIC) where she had a particularfocus on policy formulation, policy responses tothe needs of business and implementation oflegislative reforms in the financial servicesindustry.

In 2002 Ms Segal left ASIC to participate inthe Dawson Committee Review of the TradePractices Act. From 2002 she served asChairman of the Banking & Financial ServicesOmbudsman (BFSO), resigning in 2004 tobecome a Director of the National AustraliaBank.

Ms Segal is also a member of the MajorPerforming Arts Board of the Australia Council.The Board’s objective is to work together withstate funding agencies and major performingarts companies to achieve a major performingarts sector that is artistically vibrant, financiallyviable and broadly accessible. Jillian is also a

Director of the Australian Stock Exchange, amember of the Council for Multicultural Australiaand a member of the Government’s BusinessRegulatory Advisory Group.

For contributions to the community: Susan Hayes AO (BA ’68, PhD ’74)Associate Professor Hayes is head of theDepartment of Behavioural Sciences in Medicineat the University of Sydney. In 2004, she wasmade a Fellow of the International Associationfor the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability.

Professor Hayes’s work has been primarily inthe field of intellectual disability, in which she hasdemonstrated leadership in the fight for rights forpeople with intellectual disabilities. She has beena consultant to the NSW Law ReformCommission and has undertaken research inprisons and courts across Australia and in theUnited Kingdom. Her research findings havebeen presented in evidence to the NSWParliamentary Standing Committee on SocialIssues as part of its inquiry into early interventionand the prevention of crime, and also to theNSW Parliamentary Select Committee’s inquiryinto the increase in the prison population.

For science and technology: Gordon Parker (MD ’78, PhD ’83, DSc ’97)Gordon Barraclough Parker was head of theSchool of Psychiatry from 1983 to 2002 anddirector of Psychiatry of Prince of Wales/PrinceHenry Hospitals from 1983 to 1996. In 2001 he was awarded a Scientia Professorship atUNSW.

In 2004, he was identified as the most highlyinternationally cited scientist in the field ofPsychiatry/Psychology in Australia receiving aCitation Laureate. In 2005, he was identified asthe most productive researcher in the Faculty ofMedicine over the preceding three-year period.He has published more than 500 scientificarticles and has been author of six books.

Professor Parker is internationally recognisedfor his work in the field of mood disorders. Hehas acted as a pioneer for advanced study andtreatment in his field of mood disorders andinspired many students to follow his lead. He is afounding director of the Black Dog Institute,affiliated with UNSW and recently funded by theNSW State Government. This Institute aims toadvance the understanding, diagnostics andmanagement of mood disorders by continuouslyraising standards of clinical research, educationand training in this field. In doing so the Instituteaims to improve the lives of those affected and,in turn, the lives of their families and friends. ■

E thics, corporate accountability andmaking a contribution are keymotivators for John Doumani, the new

executive-in-residence at the Faculty ofCommerce & Economics.

“There’s this perception that people inbusiness are all like JR Ewing [from the TVseries Dallas], that we’re all out to make adollar at any cost,” said John, who is thepast president of Campbell’s International.“But it isn’t like that. Strong ethics guidemost business people.

“Businesses that have a strong set of ethicssurvive; those that are cut-throat don’t last.”

In his new role in the faculty, thesepassions are combined. He hopes to giveback to the University where he studied andto develop stronger links between the Facultyand industry.

“I believe that a university degree providesterrific technical training in a formal sense,”John said. “If that can be enhanced byadding a level of practical experience, I thinkthat’s a huge advantage to the students anda huge service to industry.”

The faculty has already made great strides

in this area through outstanding initiatives likethe Co-op scholarship program and theMeet the CEO series. He hopes to help buildon that by bringing his own practicalexperiences and perspectives into thefaculty, as well as by enlisting support from arange of industry colleagues and contacts.

Ask him about what he believes is the keyto success in business and he responds withpassion. “You need a collaborative businessenvironment, based on an open culture withno hidden agendas. Those are theorganisations that are able to move fasterand smarter than any other company.”

He is keen to share this perspective withstudents.

“The point of entry is having the technicalskills,” John said. “But what makes peoplepowerful in terms of getting things done istheir ability to work with others.”

This philosophy has taken him through hiscareer in the consumer goods industry,including positions with multinationals such asUnilever Australasia, Johnson & Johnson andCampbell’s. Lately, he has used the sameapproach with the non-profit sector.

He is one of the founders of CorporateCountdown, a philanthropic organisation thathas raised $750,000 from three annualevents to date.

“We have had some well-knownperformers play alongside some leaders inbusiness,” he said. “We’ve also unleashedsome great musical talent. I’m in a rock bandnow and we have provided a spark forothers, like another alumnus David Lowyfrom Westfield, to strut their stuff in a moreserious way.”

John (BCom 1978) is also looking at waysin which the Faculty of Commerce andEconomics can develop links with thecommunity and with non-profit organisations.

“There is such great intellectual capacity inthe faculty,” he said. “It would be great toshare that around a little. Philanthropicorganisations run on such a tight budget, soperhaps we could help build their capabilitiesin terms of business planning and marketing,for instance.

“At the same time, this will offer greatpractical experience to our students. It will bea real win-win.” ■

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D E V E L O P M E N T

The Law Endowment Fund

T he University of New South Wales LawFaculty has been the innovator andpacesetter in legal education and legal

research in Australia since its opening in1970 by the foundation Dean, Professor HalWootten. The new Law Building is anexciting project on the UNSW Kensingtoncampus and will deliver a leading edgefacility located on one of the most high-profile sites on campus in 2006.

The new law building provides strongconnections to the broader campuscommunity and public realm. It finallyincorporates the Law Faculty, Atax,Kingsford Legal Centre and ten leadingresearch and social justice centres to fullyintegrate law teaching, learning andresearch.

The faculty is acknowledged as the pacesetter in the area of legal education, ourmodel of interactive teaching in small-sizedclasses putting students at the centre of thelearning process. This tradition will continue

in the new building with 12 smaller teachingrooms adding flexible learning spaces for aninteractive style of teaching.

For the first time, the school will have alarge lecture theatre for public lectures andpresentations. The new auditorium spacehas a seating capacity for 350 people andthe Harvard-style lecture theatresaccommodate 90 students. These largervenues will also be available as centrallyallocated teaching spaces (CATS).

Planning an adequate resource base isessential. For this reason we embarked ona campaign to establish a Law EndowmentFund of $10 million. This vision is just thebeginning. Our plan is to enlarge this fundover time with careful investment andongoing support from corporate partners,individual benefactors and alumni.

Linking endowment gifts with the newbuilding provides our benefactors with aspecial appreciation for their commitmentand contribution. The Law Endowment

Fund is vital to the future success of ourinstitution.

On 26 October, Chancellor David GonskiAO, Vice-Chancellor Professor MarkWainwright and Dean of Law, ProfessorLeon Trakman, marked an importantmilestone in the law campaign, with theLighting of the Flame ceremony andannouncement of key partners, bothcorporate and individual. The supportshown by law alumni and their firms showsan exceptional generosity and passion forthe work of the Faculty of Law and inspiresus as we embark on this $10 millionchallenge. Join us as we continue to lightthe flame for support.

You may preview the progress of thebuilding at www.law.unsw.edu.au/newbuilding/index.asp. If you are interestedto learn more about the campaign pleasecontact Amanda Hansen, the DevelopmentOfficer for Law, on (02)9385 1538 ora.hansen@unsw.edu.au. ■

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An inspirational teacher:the John Lions Chair in Operating Systems

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An alumni-led appeal to establish anendowed chair in computer operatingsystems has achieved its goal with the

recent donation of US$500,000 fromcommunications giant QUALCOMMIncorporated.

Former students Greg Rose, John O’Brienand Steve Jenkins have led a seven-yearcampaign to establish a chair in the name oftheir former mentor, eminent academic JohnLions.

This includes Greg and John donatingsubstantial sums of their own money in a bidto raise $2 million to honour the visionarylecturer who wrote a lauded book on UNIXsystems.

Now, with the generous donation fromQUALCOMM Incorporated, for whom Gregworks as vice-president of technology, theappeal finally has enough funds to offer theJohn Lions Chair in Operating Systems in2006.

For Greg, it has been very much apersonal quest. “My father died some yearsago and John was a surrogate father figureto me,” he said. “He was there for me when Ineeded advice and he convinced me to writemy first peer-reviewed paper.”

For the team behind the appeal, which alsoincludes Chris Maltby, Peter and Lucy Chubband UNSW’s Gernot Heiser, it has not beeneasy raising the funds, especially through the

years of the tech-wreck. And despite theirrecent success, they are still ‘on the warpath’to raise enough funds to beat the bushes andmake it perpetual. “It will be the role of thefirst incumbent to raise the extra cash,” Gregsaid.

John graduated from Sydney University inin Applied Mathematics in 1959. Afterworking overseas, John became seniorlecturer with UNSW’s then-Department ofComputing in 1972. He became AssociateProfessor in 1980, and remained at UNSWuntil 1995 when ill health forced him to retire.He died in 1998.

During the mid 70s, John wrote aninsightful and often witty commentary on theUNIX code in order to better teach hisstudents about programming.

“The manuscript was a revelation tostudents,” Greg Rose recalled. “The bookquickly gained a reputation among theprogramming community and became atechnical bible for students, hackers andqualified professionals throughout the world.

“However the various owners of the UNIXsource code have always viewed the bookas a threat to intellectual property and soughtto have the book suppressed.”

This resulted in the book goingunderground, where it became “the world’smost illegally copied book”, a source of prideand status for owners of the pirated copies.Finally in 1996 the book was legallypublished.

For Greg, it is sweet victory that the chairalso recognises John Lions’ immensecontribution to UNIX and to computingscholarship at UNSW.

“John was the quintessential nerd. A manwith a great sense of humour and all-roundgood guy. He was brilliant. I hope this chaircan further open source research and thegood programming that was part of John’svision.”

Professor Gernot Heiser said the chairwould add a valuable dimension to histeam’s work. “We have recently built up aworld-class operating system research groupwhich is putting UNSW back on the map inoperating systems,” he said. ■

To help combat the national shortage ofmining engineers, Mitsubishi DevelopmentPty Ltd has donated $500,000 to fundeducation programs in mining engineering atthe University of New South Wales.

The fund will support a range ofeducational activities at UNSW. They include:• the upgrading and replacement of

computing facilities provided for mineplanning and design in the MitsubishiComputing Laboratory;

• rural scholarships for undergraduatestudents studying or proposing to study inUNSW’s School of Mining Engineering;

• postgraduate research scholarships. The donation will be paid in $100,000

instalments over five years. UNSW will match at least 20 percent of thecontributions made by MitsubishiDevelopment when each instalment is

received. This is the second large donationfrom Mitsubishi Development. In 2003, thecompany donated $150,000 to UNSW tofund education and research activities insurface mining.

“Mitsubishi Development has now had arelationship with the University of New SouthWales for the past two years,” saidMitsubishi chief executive officer, Mr TetsuroTerada. “We are delighted with the way that ithas progressed over that time.

“The creation of this Endowed Fund willassist greatly in the continuation of future andongoing funding for education, so critical forthe mining industry. The establishment of thisfund enhances that partnership we have withthe University.”

UNSW's Dean of Engineering, ProfessorBrendon Parker said Mitsubishi’s generouscontribution would help UNSW's mining

program contribute a growing number ofgraduates to the 150 required by industryevery year.

“Our intake of mining students increasedby 40 percent last year but our numbersneed to keep steadily increasing if we are tohelp satisfy industry need.” ■

Mr Terada with Professor John Ingleson, Deputy-Vice-Chancellor (International & Development)

Education programs in mining engineering

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This year, the Faculty of Commerce &Economics celebrates its 50thAnniversary. But instead of looking

back at the past, it is the future that is themain focus of the faculty’s attention.

“It’s all about making connections,”Director of External Relations for the Faculty,Jane Westbrook, says. “This is the drivingforce of the faculty and its relationship withstudents, schools, employers, research andbusiness partners and alumni, both here andoverseas.”

Over the past 50 years, the faculty hasgrown to become one of Australia’s andAsia’s top business faculties, and its alumnican be found in a wide range of leadershiproles both in Australia and abroad. Thecornerstone of the faculty’s success lies inits steadfast commitment to recruiting thebrightest and best students, producingtalented, industry-ready graduates and topursuing a research agenda that is informedby current economic and business issuesand its stakeholders.

UNSW has long recognised theimportance of engagement with the Asianregion and the Faculty of Commerce &Economics has been in the forefront of thiscommitment, in both its teaching andresearch programs. Indeed, as Australianbusiness and government sectors extendtheir links with the region, the faculty hasbeen able to ensure a steady supply of‘Asia-ready’ graduates and researchoutcomes to meet these developing needs.

In recent years, the faculty has embarkedon an intensive program of re-engaging withits alumni, through successful programssuch as Meet the CEO, which provides aunique networking and professionaldevelopment opportunity for alumni to hearfrom some of Australia’s most outstandingbusiness leaders. Now in its third year, theseries attracts audiences of 600 to 800alumni for each event. “No sooner has theMeet the CEO invitation been distributedthan our alumni are busy emailing eachother to attend and to catch up for a drinkor a meal afterwards,” Jane said. Theprestigious Alumni Leaders Networkcomprises a limited number of very seniorand experienced people who arespearheading the faculty’s efforts to expandlinks with the wider community. And with thesupport and participation of the FacultyAdvisory Board, an extensive network of

industry partnerships is being developed tocreate a unique learning environment and aresearch agenda that is truly industry-relevant.

In late 2007, the faculty will consolidateand move into the refurbished Heffronbuilding. This new home will provide state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities anda focus for the faculty’s schools, researchcentres, students, staff and alumni – allunder one roof.

The faculty is uniquely positioned to bothrealise its vision to be the leading businessfaculty in the Asian region: a compellingplace to work, to learn and to which toreturn; and also to expand its alreadyenviable reputation even further into thegrowing economies of the Asian region.

According to the Dean of Commerce &Economics, Professor Greg Whittred, “ourgoal is to be the premier source of

intellectual capital – of leading-edge researchand high-quality graduates – for our partnersin the community.” To achieve this, aninspirational program has been developed,called connection {POINT whichconcentrates on developing leaders andconnecting them with people and ideas thatwill transform business and the economyand secure Australia’s and Sydney’s positionas a leading regional business and financialcentre.

The faculty is uniquely positioned to playthis role and boasts more than its fair shareof Australia’s best and brightest businessstudents and scholars, an enormouslyaccomplished and influential alumni network,and partners that include some of the

region’s most successful businesses. However, boosting its capacity to support

students, and attract, develop and retain topacademic staff who can put the faculty onthe international map requires significantinvestment.

Grounded on the principle of providing thebest educational and research capitalavailable, the faculty is launching a bold newprogram of development that focuses onnurturing leaders, creating an environmentthat fosters innovation and entrepreneurshipand bringing the intellectual capacity of thebrightest minds to bear on the challenges ofcreating a productive and sustainableeconomy.

The faculty will pursue an integratedapproach that encompasses graduate andundergraduate curriculum, communityengagement, relevant research and a trulyinternational perspective. The outcomesfrom investing in this course of action will besignificant.

connection {POINT is an ambitiouscampaign for achieving this vision. With thesupport of the faculty’s closest friends andpartners, the faculty plans to underwriteanother 50 equally successful years. ■

connection {POINTMaking Connections

Jane Westbrook with inaugural Meet the CEO speaker, Sir Richard Branson

The faculty has embarked onan intensive program of re-engaging with its alumni,through successful programssuch as Meet the CEO, whichprovides a unique networkingand professional developmentopportunity for alumni

For further information, please contactJane Westbrook, Director, ExternalRelations, Faculty of Commerce andEconomics on 9385 6228 orjane.westbrook@unsw.edu.au.

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In the art of Australia, the desert is anenduring presence. From the cavepaintings of generations of Indigenous

artists to the landscapes of Drysdale, desertimages are at the fore of the nation’s visualculture. Yet most Australians have nevertravelled far enough inland to experience thearid zone, and for the rest of the world it ismost likely seen as the comic backdrop tothe adventures of Steve Irwin or CrocodileDundee.

Those who travel to the desert know itdifferently. Far from being a barrenenvironment, it is brimming with animal andplant life. Its spaces are expansive, the airclearer and colours more intense than in thecity, so that one’s own sense of being alive isheightened.

The desert experience is set to becomemuch more accessible to artists, thanks to anew venture by the University of New SouthWales. The Imaging the Land InternationalResearch Institute (ILIRI), based at the Collegeof Fine Arts, is working to establish an Artists-in-Residence Program that will enable local,interstate and international artists toexperience the desert first-hand, living andworking there for an extended period.

At Fowlers Gap, 112 km north of BrokenHill, a program of building has been proposedto enable the existing UNSW research stationto function as an International Residential ArtCentre. A number of fully equipped artstudios are part of the vision planned at theFowlers Gap settlement, with sites surveyedfor addition ‘outpost studios’ on more remotelocations on the 35,000 hectare property.Fowlers Gap is one of UNSW’s best-keptsecrets, a significant site of scientificresearch, but off the beaten track of mostinland travellers.

The introduction of artists to the facilityoffers an unusually fertile creative mix.

Peter Sharp is an artist who can alreadyattest to the benefits of time spent at FowlersGap. This graduate of COFA, now a lecturerin the School of Art, credits his trips toFowlers Gap as the formative experiences ofhis artistic life.

“Going out there gave me another way ofviewing the world,” said Sharp, whose recentexhibition at Sydney’s Liverpool Street Gallerywas reviewed as his best yet. “Looking anddrawing, rubbing the drawing away andlaying different perspectives down… beingthere in the landscape opened up different

ways of interpreting nature. I could abstractthe image in a way that would never havehappened if I wasn’t immersed in theenvironment.”

As the Fowlers Gap Artists-in-ResidenceProgram proposes being open to artistsworking in all media, from painters like Sharpto those working with new technologies, ILIRIcan expect an enthusiastic response from allcorners of the world. Idris Murphy, Director ofILIRI, explains: “The volume of enquirieswe’ve already received, before reallypublicising the program, has been staggering.There is such excitement about what we’retrying to do, but right now we are workingtowards gathering the initial investmentsupport. There’s the building of the studios,which is several hundreds of thousands ofdollars alone. It’s a great vision offering asignificant Australian and internationaleducational, social and cultural return, ILIRI isworth investing in.”

For more information on the Fowlers GapArtists-in-Residence Program, see the ILIRIwebsite: www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/iliri. Toenquire about sponsoring a studio contactIdris Murphy, i.murphy@unsw.edu.au9385 0757. ■

Desert images: the artist at Fowlers Gap

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