Office Rentals

GRADUATE HOUSE

IS OPEN AND SAFE – MEET FACE-TO-FACE!

Need a break from online video meetings? (Yes, it’s exhausting!) Craving real live person face-toface 3D interactions? Have your meeting or function face-to-face and safely at Graduate House; or book a table in our dining room and court yard for an informal meal and get together. We are COVIDSafe and adhere strictly to, and have experience with, capacity limits, physical distancing, hygiene, cleanliness.

Graduate House has:

• meeting and function services – flexible and tailored room configurations for 2 to >100 people; • ‘hybrid’ meeting capability – good audio, video, technical support for in-person and/or online (Zoom, Teams, Webex, etc.) meetings; • excellent catering and service – delicious and healthy food*, friendly, welcoming and professional staff; • membership options for greater affordability – a ‘Ritz’ experience but at a charity price; • car parking – secure and cheap with online booking/payment and contactless automatic car plate recognition; • accommodation – interstate and regional delegates can book to stay for a few nights in a clean, safe, quiet college room, with breakfast and weekday dinners included; and • offices to rent temporarily – to enable onsite event/function preparation. These singleperson well-ventilated spaces are clean, quiet and convenient.

To make a booking or for any enquiries, please contact our Hospitality Manager, Rosie Ellul on +61 3 9347 3428 or rosie. ellul@graduatehouse.com.au. * Catering for events not held at Graduate House but within this education precinct may also be provided (subject to sufficient notice) – morning and afternoon teas, working lunches and grazing platters.

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Office Rentals

Book a day, a week, a month – the hours you need!

Offices are in the iconic Gladstone terraces on University Square. Close to public transport stops (trams, buses), and with on-site secure bike and car parking, they are a short walk away from Melbourne’s CBD, The University of Melbourne and RMIT. Separate single user offices are available. Each has a desk, a lamp, shelving and a cupboard. The majority also have a basin. This means no open plan spaces, no lifts and low numbers sharing washrooms and staff facilities – thus COVIDSafe!

Booking your Office Space at Graduate House

To ask about renting offices at Graduate House – a one-off booking or something more regular (e.g., two days a week) or longer term – please telephone or email. We have humans at the end of the phone (03 9347 3428) from Monday to Friday between 8:00AM to 6:00PM who will check availability on the spot and talk you through the options. If you call after hours, leave a message with your phone number and we will return your call on the next workday. We have a similar turnaround for emails to admingh@graduatehouse.com.au. Indicative office rental fees:

• 1 to 5 days = $85 per day • 6 days up to 3 months (90 days) = $70 per day • 3 to 6 months (91-180 days) = $60 per day

* Car Parking fees apply (and are not included in the rent). ^ Standard Wi-Fi (suitable for web browsing and emails) is provided for free. Packages are available for the connection of additional devices and for higher speeds – contact us by phone (+61 3 9347 3428) or email (admingh@graduatehouse.com.au), or visit us at reception to ask about the costs for different plans.

Offices are available between 8:00am and 6:00pm Monday to Friday. Minimum booking of one day. Subject to requirements, offices may be available at other times.

Services included in the rental fee, and options that can be added:

• reception services, including contact tracing records (included) • post/package receipt and inform services (included) • Internet Wi-Fi^ (included, and with upgrade options) • casual meeting and breakout spaces (included subject to capacity limits and availability) • office services (e.g., printing, meeting scheduling, website) (option) • event/function areas and management (option) • breakfast, lunch, dinner and other catering (option) • café bar and BBQ facilities (option) • vending machine • regular cleaning and sanitising (included) • shower facilities (option) • secure bicycle shelter (included) • car parking (option)*

Get in touch! Phone: +61 3 9347 3428 Email: admingh@graduatehouse.com.au

Room Types, Prices and Features

The safest place to stay in Melbourne

• Single room private bathrooms • Double room private bathrooms • Stella Langford large/medium apartments • Double rooms with separate lounge and private bathrooms • Barkly Place and Barry Street apartments • Bed linen • Weekly housekeeping • Wi-Fi • Utilities (electricity, gas, water) included in rent • Short term accommodation – one night, a few weeks • Long term accommodation – months, semesters, years

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On the 21st of April, Members were treated to a free tour of the Buxton Contemporary Gallery. They were given a brief outline by the Buxton staff on the exhibition: This brittle light: Light Source commissions and provided with large print catalogues. It was a most enjoyable experience that was captured perfectly by one of the group: “A thought-provoking engaging collection that my daughter enjoyed viewing and later recalling the interesting and contemporaneously relevant Collection.” As expressed by Irene Jablonka, who organised this wonderful opportunity, “the varied exhibits were a crucible for generating personal thoughts about history, structure and form, politics and objects. There is something for everyone in the collection. Many thanks to the staff of the Buxton Contemporary for generating the large print catalogues for the group.”

AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING

Commercialisation of Biological Science

Founded in 1975 ATSE, the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, is a Learned Academy made up of almost 900 Fellows elected by their peers. The Victorian Division of ATSE holds monthly meetings, usually at Graduate House, at which Fellows and other invited speakers deliver presentations on scientific, technological and engineering subjects of broad community interest. It welcomes participation in those events by interested members of the public, and is keen to expose its activities to earlier career graduates pursuing studies and careers in all fields of scientific and engineering endeavour. Attendance at events is free. A dinner is normally held after each event, for which a charge is levied as shown in the below notice for the next meeting being held on Thursday, 6th May.

Professor Sally Gras FTSE

Director, ARC Dairy Innovation Hub, University of Melbourne

Robert Klupacs FTSE

Chief Executive Officer of the Bionics Institute

Date and Time

Thursday, 6th May 2021 6:00pm – 7:30pm AEST

Location

Graduate House, 220 Leicester Street Carlton, VIC 3053

Refund Policy

Contact the organiser to request a refund. Eventbrite’s fee is nonrefundable.

Tickets

Fellow Ticket (including dinner)

$30.50

Guest Ticket (including dinner)

$30.50

Fellow Ticket (presentation only)

Free

Guest Ticket (presentation only)

Free

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FIRST NATIONS

Oldest ever Australian bone tools found in the Kimberley used as long as 46,000 years ago

by Peter de Kruijff

The unearthing in the Kimberley of the oldest bone tools ever found in Australia is debunking the assumption such equipment was only used in southern parts of the country. New research suggests that eight bones excavated in the past 20 years from the Riwi Cave, about 100 kilometres east of Fitzroy Crossing in the Central Kimberley on Mimbi country, were used by Aboriginal people as far back as 46,000 years ago. It has been well known that bone tools were used for stitching animal skins in southern parts of Australia but research from the University of WA (UWA), Griffith University, and the Australian National University with support from the Mimbi community shows they also could have been used to weave plant materials, hunt birds or fish, and process spinifex resin in places like the Kimberley. Lead author Michelle Langley from Griffith University said it was once thought bone tools were not that important in northern Australia historically and were only used more recently. “These tools show that wasn’t the case – they were always made and used; we just hadn’t found them because they haven’t been surviving long-time periods in the hostile preservation conditions of northern Australia,” she said. “They were used for activities which typically do not survive archaeologically. “One indicates plant or skin working (making baskets or working skins) while another appears to have been used in digging up or working resin. Resin was used to glue together tool parts and to make handholds for tools.”

UWA archaeology professor Jane Balme said the alkaline nature of the limestone range where the eight bones were found had preserved the delicate find. “These were excavated some time ago but it just takes some time to look at the details of the material,” she said. “This shows you a greater diversity [of tools] and that people used organic materials, not just stone.”

Bone tools found in Riwi Cave were being used in the Kimberley as long as 46,000 years ago.

Professor Balme said the oldest bone was a kangaroo fibula (lower leg bone) which looked like it had been used for weaving baskets. There were also two 43,000-year-old bird bones with one looking like it could have been used on a spear and the other also used for weaving. Mimbi Aboriginal Corporation chair and Gooniyandi-Walmajarri woman Rosemary Nuggett said finding out about the great age of the bones was no surprise considering how long Aboriginal people had been living in the region. She said the knowledge of the tools’ age would add to the Mimbi Cave tours run by traditional owners. “A lot of the tourists that come and visit are really fascinated about hearing these stories,” Ms Nuggett said. “We tell them about the caves and the reef which are 350 million years old.” The Mimbi Caves are a popular tourist stop off the Great Northern Highway and part of an ancient Devonian Reef system. But Ms Nuggett said Riwi Cave, where the bones were excavated, was not somewhere tourists would go and was a place just for traditional owner families to visit.

The new paper describing the find, published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, comes about five years after Australia’s oldest bone artifact, a nose ornament from Bunuba country near Fitzroy Crossing, was identified. Professor Sue O’Connor, who was another coauthor of the recent paper, was part of the original dig at Windjana Gorge where the nose bone was found.

Dr Langley, who specialises in bone and shell tools, had first thought the piece of nose jewellery would have been used for weaving but found traces of red ochre under a microscope which indicated it had an ornamental use.

Peter de Kruijff is a journalist with WAtoday. This article was first published in The Age newspaper on the 8th of April 2021.

THE GRADUATE UNION

of The University of Melbourne Inc.

220 Leicester Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia Telephone: +61 (0)3 9347 3428

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