The Melbourne Graduate July 2013

The Melbourne Graduate

THE MELBOURNE GRADUATE The Graduate Union of The University of Melbourne Inc.

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The Melbourne Graduate

I Never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the condition in which they can learn

Editorial

Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)

Shirley Ho, Eliah Castiello, Zac Matthews

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The Melbourne Graduate Contents

FROM OUR GOVERNING BODY

from the President from the Chair of Council from the CEO and Head of College

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THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DINNER

The Annual General Meeting 31 May, 2013 The AGM Dinner Citation for award of Honorary Life Membership st

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MEMBERSHIP

New members, Valete and Donations Stories from Members Reciprocal Associations Worldwide

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OUR COLLEGE College Garb and Merchandise 35 College Events

Monthly Luncheons 36

Twilight Lecture 38

Sunday Music Concerts 39

Snippets from the Bar Acknowledgement of Patronage

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The Melbourne Graduate from the President President of The Graduate Union, Major General Professor Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld AM, OBE, CStJ, chaired the annual general meeting on the 31st May, 2013. He shares with members the following abbreviated version of his address at this meeting.

I am delighted to be the President of The Graduate Union and I applaud the wonderful work being undertaken by the Association. In acknowledging the Council, I thank them on behalf of members for their contributions and dedication, and for taking The Graduate Union forward.

I also extend my gratitude to Mr David Sparks for having undertaken the challenging role of Chair of Council over the past three years and for his visionary and significant contributions to The Graduate Union. I acknowledge Dr Kerry Bennett’s contributions as the CEO and Head of College, in leading operations with the support of an excellent team of dedicated staff members.

I would like to speak of the importance of teamwork. I refer to the example of Captain Chesley Sullenberger in mobilising and supporting his team during the 2009 emergency landing onto the Hudson River of the aircraft he was piloting. Shortly after taking off from LaGuardia Airport, both engines were damaged when the plane was struck by a flock of geese. Notwithstanding the pilot and his crew having had little prior training for such a unique and unanticipated incident and the very real and immediate potential for massive loss of life and destruction in densely populated New York, the crew, led by the very experienced Captain Sullenberger, worked together as a team and made the nearly impossible landing with no human casualties. This extraordinary achievement has become a model example of a team of experts becoming and operating together as an expert team.

The changes over the last few years in the fields where I am a leader – medical practice and the military - have been phenomenal. I note particularly that lessons have been taken from the aviation industry where huge advances had been made in moving from a hierarchical approach to a shared leadership arrangement, every person being considered an important contribution to the team. Take my work as a neurosurgeon by way of example of recent changes in team practice. Surgery now involves all staff (from consultant neurosurgeons and anaesthetists to nursing assistants) being expected to contribute as experts to the expert team. This has seen great improvements to safety and quality.

The Swiss Cheese Model of accident causation is used as a metaphorical model in the risk analysis and management of human systems, such as healthcare. Holes in cheese slices are analogous to weaknesses in an organisation. When slices of cheese and these holes become aligned to form a tunnel, the weaknesses and failures come together and may result in significant challenges or ‘accidents’ for the organisation. This model is now used by many organisations to assist in identifying and mitigating risks through a team-based approach.

I would like to conclude by applauding the continuing and dedicated efforts by the leadership team of The Graduate Union and I express my confidence that the hard work now will result in a sustained and growing organisation, and the continuation of benefits for graduates over many years to come.

Major-General Professor Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld AM, OBE, CStJ President of The Graduate Union July 2013 volume 68 No.2 Page 4

The Melbourne Graduate Order of The British Empire Our President, Major General Professor Jeffrey V Rosenfeld AM, OBE, CStJ, is in the 2013 Commonwealth Queen’s birthday honours list, having received an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of The British Empire (OBE) for services in neurosurgery and to the University of PNG (Papua New Guinea) School of Medicine.

The Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an award in the Order of Chivalry, first established in 1917

by King George V to acknowledge those aiding the war front without being on the front lines. It has since become a means of recognising important services to the state.

Professor Rosenfeld is an internationally recognised leader in the treatment and management of neurotrauma (damage to the brain and spinal cord), particularly that resulting from war, such as bomb blasts. He is Director of Neurosurgery at the Alfred Hospital, Head of the Monash Department of Surgery and of the Division of Clinical Sciences, and Pro-Vice Chancellor, Advancement (Major Projects) at Monash University. He has developed unique neurosurgical techniques to remove tumours (seventy children with epilepsy have come to Melbourne from around the world for his revolutionary treatment) and to advance bionic eye technology.

His career in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) began in 1984 and has involved numerous postings and field operations, including in Rwanda, the Solomon Islands, East Timor, Bougainville and Iraq. His ADF distinctions are too many to acknowledge here but are seen by the medals in the above picture. He has risen to the positions of Surgeon General Australian Defence Force Reserves with responsibility for the ADF Health Reserves, Chair of the Defence Health Reserve Executive Committee and Patron of the Australian Military Medicine Association. He is a Board Member of the Sir Edward Weary Dunlop Medical Research Foundation and a member of the Medical Research Advisory Committee of the Defence Health Foundation.

Major General Rosenfeld was awarded Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2011 for service to medicine through clinical leadership and academic roles, particularly in the field of neurosurgery as a researcher and author, and to professional associations. He is committed to implementing long term improvements to health service systems in developing countries and visits PNG, Fiji and the Solomon Islands regularly to perform neurosurgery and to teach. In describing his contribution to PNG over thirty years, he mentions feeling part of their nation. It is indeed a rare signal honour for an Australian to be receive this honour from HM The Queen and the PNG Governor-General for services by an Australian in another country.

Professor Rosenfeld has been a volunteer with St John’s Ambulance Victoria for over 50 years. He is a member of the Leadership Committee for the new Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and, as a talented musician - principal clarinet with the Australian Doctors Orchestra and Corpus Medicorum Chamber Orchestra - and ANAMbassador Champion, is keen to perform here at Graduate House with musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music.

In the next few weeks, our President will be travelling to Papua New Guinea to receive the award. We extend again our congratulations to Major General Professor Rosenfeld for having received this honour. To us here, this is well-deserved and comes as no surprise given the calibre of his leadership and his significant contributions globally. We feel humbled, honoured and grateful for his involvement now with The Graduate Union and confident that we can all learn from him in working together as an ‘expert team’.

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The Melbourne Graduate from the Chair of Council The Hon Justice Tony Pagone was elected unanimously to the position of Chair of Council - the governing body of The Graduate Union - on the 12th June, 2013. We extend congratulations and a sincere and warm welcome; and look forward to working with The Hon Justice over the coming years. Here he gives a message to members, inviting their continued contribution and commitment.

I am both pleased and honoured to have been elected Chair of your Graduate Union’s Council. I have been a member of the Union since 2012 and have seen the potential of the Graduate Union in this past year. The Graduate Union has a strong and proud history as a 102 year old Association, but its future is now in our hands.

One of my first tasks, and one of the first tasks of the new Graduate Union Council, is to raise significant and ongoing funds to enable the Graduate Union to continue its ongoing role in the lives of growing minds and life long learners everywhere.

I strongly encourage members to participate actively in the process of raising funds for the Graduate Union, but more importantly, I would be delighted to hear of any other ways in which you, as our Members, think we can work together to keep the Graduate Union alive and well as a meeting place, as a post-graduate college and as an important and influential network with minds and skills that can contribute for the benefit of society nationally and internationally.

I hope to be able to continue the work of our former Chair, David Sparks, and his excellent efforts in getting our organisation to grow and prosper. The Graduate Union’s organisational design allows graduates to foster relationships amongst like-minded academics both within Australia and across the world. We have a great deal to offer not only our Life and Regular Members who reside in Australia and around the world, but also our Resident Members and the Organisation Members which bring in thousands of people each month for academic, research, professional development and charitable purposes.

Our central location means that people can continue their education and foster their networks in an easily accessible environment, close to a myriad of university facilities. It offers a perfect place for graduates to study, relax, discuss, meet, eat and park in the heart of Carlton’s Graduate Precinct. It also happens to be close to Lygon Street, one of Melbourne’s most iconic and popular streets known for its Italian food, atmosphere and culture.

As a College, The Graduate Union offers excellent value accommodation for graduates with reciprocal rights in similar colleges and associations in countries around the globe. In partnership with the Association of College and University Clubs (ACUC), we can offer reciprocal benefits for our members to over one hundred clubs and associations worldwide.

I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge our CEO and Head of College, Dr Kerry Bennett, and all the members of our Council, for the dedicated work I have witnessed during my time at The Graduate Union. Alongside their governance and your contributions, I know that we can create an improved Graduate Union for generations to come.

The Hon Justice Tony (Gaetano) Pagone Chair of the Council of The Graduate Union July 2013 volume 68 No.2 Page 6

The Melbourne Graduate Appointment to the Federal Court of Australia On the 13th of June, 2013, Attorney- General for Australia, Mark Dreyfus QC, announced that four judges would be appointed to the Federal Court of Australia. One of these judges is our newly elected Chair of Council, The Honourable Justice Tony (Gaetano) Pagone.

In his media release, the Attorney-General explains that judges are chosen for appointment to the Federal Court because they have a demonstrated and strong commitment to the service of the law and access to justice, together with considerable experience and a track record of excellence.

“Justice Pagone and Justice Davies are currently judges of the Supreme Court of Victoria and Justice White is a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia, and all have made valuable contributions to the rule of law in their respective State jurisdictions” Mark Dreyfus QC explains.

Justice Pagone holds a Bachelor of Arts (1976), a Diploma in Education (1977) and a Bachelor of Laws (1979) from Monash University, as well as a Master of Law with First Class Honours from the University of Cambridge (1983) in Great Britain. From 1980 to 1992 he held various teaching positions in Law at Monash University.

He was made a Professorial Fellow of the Melbourne Law School at The University of Melbourne in 2002, and now provides lectures and tutorials regularly here in the graduate precinct of an evening.

Justice Pagone became a barrister in 1985 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1996. He was first appointed to the Supreme Court in October 2001. However in June 2002 he left this position to take up the newly created position of Special Counsel to the Australian Taxation Office, a position he held from July 2002 till December 2003. He returned as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2007 and was the Judge in charge of the then newly established Commercial Court of the Supreme Court of the Supreme Court of Victoria between 2009 and 2012. His specialities include tax, commercial law, administrative law and civil rights.

From 1992 to 1996 and then from 1998 to 2001, Justice Pagone also held various positions with the Law Council of Australia, including that of Chairman of the Business Law Section Executive. He is the author and editor of several publications, including his books Tax Avoidance in Australia and Tax Effective Writing, the latter of which was launched on the 16th May, 2013 by Michael D’Ascenzo, Commissioner of Taxation 2006 to 2012, at the Melbourne Law School and with the Australian Italian Lawyers Association.

The Federal Court was created by the Federal Court of Australia Act (1976) and hears matters relating to corporations, trade practices, industrial relations, immigration, bankruptcy and a variety of other items in relation to the areas of Federal Law. The Federal Court has no inherent jurisdiction but flows from statute over all of these Federal areas, excluding cases of family law. In the hierarchy of courts in Australia, it stands only below the High Court of Australia.

We congratulate Justice Pagone on this appointment and take this opportunity to extend congratulations also to the other judges who have been appointed to the Federal Court - The Hon Justice Jennifer Davies and Ms Debbie Mortimer SC, who are appointed to the Melbourne Registry, and The Hon Justice Richard White who is appointed to the Adelaide Registry.

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The Melbourne Graduate The Swearing-in Ceremony On Friday the 21st June, 2013, in Court One of the Owen Dixon Commonwealth Law Courts Building, our Chair of Council, the Honourable Justice Tony Pagone, was sworn in as a Federal Court Judge for the Commonwealth of Australia. The days events commenced for us prior to the ceremony with our CEO and Head of College, Dr Kerry Bennett, leading a small group of Pagone supporters to 305 William Street following an invitation from The Hon Justice to experience and participate in this unique swearing-in ceremony. The team is pictured here: resident members, (from left to right in the front row) Alexandra Mot, Linda Shen, Zoe Ma and Maria Civisic; and myself, Eliah Castiello (second from right in the back row).

Arriving a tad early, and being informed that seating was available only for four, Alexandra put in a gallant effort but lost a game of paper-scissors-rock to Maria and was thence tasked to stand with me. Positions of verticality were not adopted for long however. Coming to our rescue was Councillor Barrister R. Kingsley Davis (pictured above far right), who promptly arranged for us to occupy seats notified as apologies. From the moment we entered the room there were other familiar faces - our just retired Chair of Council, Mr David Sparks, and his wife Prue, together with Councillors Leo Santalucia and Meredith Doig.

The ceremony began formally with Justice Pagone filing into the room with Chief Justice, the Honourable James Allsop, and Honourable Justices Marshall, North, Kenny, Gordon and Dodds-Streeton. Once all the judges had entered, the Full Court of The Federal Court of Australia was declared in session. Justice Pagone announced that he had received a commission from Her Excellency, the Governor-General of Australia, appointing him a Judge of The Federal Court of Australia, and then handed this commission to the Chief Justice. After the District Registrar had read the commission out aloud, the Chief Justice invited Justice Pagone to take the Affirmation of Office which Justice Pagone so did. The Chief Justice then welcomed Justice Pagone and shook hands with the now Federal Court Judge.

The highlights for we neophytes were the speeches that followed the formal ceremony. Ms Louise Glanville, in welcoming Justice Pagone on behalf of the Attorney-General, outlined Justice Pagone’s contributions to the Italian community in Melbourne alongside his academic and personal achievements. Each speech, while respectful of Justice Pagone and his distinctions, had humour that had the entire court room near chuckling.

My favourite snippets regarded Justice Pagone’s love for a proper cup of coffee which, as an Italian myself, I understand. I believe it was Fiona McLeod SC, Chair of the Victorian Bar Council, who claimed that Justice Pagone had once tried the coffee at a friend’s house and exclaimed “What is this?!” before leaving and purchasing that friend an espresso machine to better accommodate himself when visiting. The coffee stories, however, were soon rivalled by the story from Mr Geoff Bowyer, President Elect of the Law Institute of Victoria, of the Justice’s love for Mongolian vodka which we learnt he now purchases directly from - yes - Mongolia!

During and following each speech, the court remained quiet largely due to mass suppression of natural human instincts to laugh out loud, cheer or applaud. Indeed, on more than one occasion I began to clap only to hold myself back once I realised that this was not the done thing. I was relieved however to notice several neighbours making the same silent motions. It was simply hard to not get enthused by the events unfolding in that court room.

On behalf of The Graduate Union, I congratulate the Honourable Justice Tony (Gaetano) Pagone on his appointment, and thank him for this opportunity to attend such a memorable event.

Eliah Castiello, Editor July 2013 volume 68 No.2 Page 8

The Melbourne Graduate from the CEO and Head of College As seen by the news on previous pages, it is an exciting time to be part of this organisation. How very grateful we all feel here to have the excellence in leadership from Councillor David Sparks over the last three years continued through that from our new President, our new Chair of Council and our new Vice Chair, Cheryl Kidston, the latter of whom is a long-standing and dedicated Councillor with whom I value the opportunity also to work alongside.

In the 2012 - 2013 Annual Report of The Graduate Union, that you received in the month prior to our annual general meeting late May, I explained that 2012 was a year of great and necessary change as we focused on the highest priorities of safety and comfort for all members who live in or visit the Graduate Union, while also building on the membership service foundations that have sustained us in the past and which enable us to continue into the future. Major and planned change continues as order of the day in 2013 and at the conclusion of the first six months of the year, we have a number of in-parallel major projects at or near completion, and a baseline from which we can launch business and organisational development initiatives, the success of which we can (and plan to) measure objectively in three years time.

Our ethical, dedicated and hardworking staff members here at Graduate House make these changes happen.

Daily I am thankful for the way in which they keep the ship steady while running an expanding operation in a seamless, cheerful and friendly manner. I feel proud to be part of this ‘team of experts’, to coin the term referred to by our President in his address at the AGM. After having worked comprehensively with Survey Matters in designing the member and stakeholder survey to which over 400 of you responded in May and April of this year, we are now analysing the results. Coming as no surprise, and characteristic of other membership bodies, a key risk to our sustainability is our ageing membership, with 70% aged over 60 years. The survey results, while providing many feasible ideas to retain and grow membership, have come in as we complete our Strategic Plan and the new constitution and regulations; and as we adopt a new governing committee structure that is in alignment with the organisational and budget restructure that we implemented successfully over 2012 and that we are now subjecting to continuing quality control improvement measures, particularly, through ongoing back-end systems development.

We have received also the results of an Organisational Culture Inventory™ (OCI) undertaken by Human Synergistics® with forty staff and Council members. I am satisfied that this OCI is a valid and reliable measurement tool (as some will know, my neuroscience background allows for some authority on this position), and that the results give us good direction for continuing to work as a ‘constructive’ team with organisational effectiveness outcomes. The staff and I participated in a one-day retreat on the 12th June to learn from Member Jane McKellar, who is an expert in this field and whom we acknowledge gratefully for her pro-bono contribution on this intensive day and over the last six months. We now continue progress made during the retreat with business unit groups meeting regularly on cultural change and on the development of plans and budgets for 2014.

As members will appreciate, receipt of the survey and OCI results in tandem is timely. From operational to governance levels, we are all working to align membership and organisational development with the purposes of The Graduate Union (currently near final redraft in the new constitution) and the five strategic priorities adopted

by Council 12th June, 2013: (1) Advancement and Major Projects; (2) Financial Stability; (3) Quality College and Meeting Facilities; (4) Effective and Well-Structured Governance; and (5) Membership, Organisational Development and Culture.

Though we bid farewell to David Sparks as Chair of Council, it is pleasing to know that he is continuing on Council and continuing to advance major fund-raising and benefaction initiatives. I thank him sincerely and on behalf of all Members for his many hours of dedicated work to The Graduate Union and for his unwavering ‘in-good-faith’ focus on the future and welfare of this Association. I welcome our new Chair and look forward to continued learning, challenges and interactions with him and the many others who make this place buzz.

Dr Kerry Bennett, CEO and Head of College

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The Melbourne Graduate The Annual General Meeting The Annual General Meeting (AGM) was a successful evening for The Graduate Union. Our President and Chair for the Annual General Meeting (Chair), Major General Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld, welcomed our attending members before announcing that The 2013 Graduate Union Research Scholarship would be awarded prior to the commencement of the AGM. Members Anne and James Mulholland with staff Shirley Ho before the AGM.

Members Fiona McConnell, George Markou and Catherine Van Wees.

Councillors Cleghorn, Kidston and Sparks with Life Member Gordon Duxbury.

The winner, Matthew Li Yuen Fong, accepted the award trophy and framed certificate, and gave a presentation on his research on reprogramming for cell replacement therapy by attempting to use stem cell technology to turn skin cells into a nervous system for the digestive tract. Matthew will be using The 2013 Graduate Union Scholarship funds to purchase the necessary laboratory products and equipment for different phases of his innovative research. The Graduate Union wishes Matthew all the very best with this exciting project and looks forward to hearing of his progress.

The Chair declared the meeting open, and introduced the Deputy Returning Officer, the Accountant, the Auditor and members of Council and staff.

He brought to the attention of attending members the documentation of relevance in guiding the conduct of the AGM, as well as other publications, such as the 2012-2013 Annual Report and a 2013 published report by Belinda Moore of the Australasian Society of Association Executives (AuSAE) entitled Membership is Dead.

The Secretary noted apologies and the Deputy Returning Officer presented his report on the proxy allocations. A total of 60 proxies were submitted of which one was invalid. They were distributed in the following manner:

For: 51

Against: 0

Undirected: 8

Rejected: 1 After the proxies have been addressed, the Chair moved to confirm the minutes from the 2012 AGM. The motion was carried unanimously, with no business arising from the minutes, and no other business being raised.

Life Members, Barbara Funder and Heather Kudeviita.

David Sparks delivering his speech as Chair of Council.

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The President then gave his address. The speech (an abridged version of which is on Page 4 of this Melbourne Graduate) was one dedicated to teamwork and leadership, and the important role that each plays in the safe and efficient management of an organisation. He expressed confidence that the hard work shown so far will result in a sustained and growing organisation that benefits all involved for years to come.

David Sparks then took to the podium for what would be his final Annual General Meeting address as Chair of the Graduate Union Council. He delivered an eloquent reflection of his three years as Chair and of the development of the Graduate Union Council into the functioning body that it is today. Noting the contributions of Councillors who had worked with him during this period of significant challenges, particularly Mrs Glenda

The Melbourne Graduate The Annual General Meeting Fisher, he also acknowledged Mrs Lyn Weston for her decade of service to The Graduate Union and for her leadership from late 2010 to end-July 2011 before the appointment of our current CEO and Head of College, Dr Kerry Bennett in August of 2011.

The Chair of Council concluded reflections on the past by expressing his pride in having seen the organisation through its centenary year, and then moved on to discuss the future of The Graduate Union. He brought to the attention of attending members the necessity to find funds to repay the mortgages for the Main Building and the Stella Langford Wing. He urged all to read the Membership is Dead paper by Belinda Moore and to encourage their networks to join The Graduate Union, in the hope of raising member activity and finding new and innovative ways to increase member participation.

David Sparks thanked all who had helped him through the past three years, explaining that there were too many to thank individually, and expressed confidence that this successor (now known to be The Honourable Justice Tony Pagone) would continue to care for the 101 year old heritage of the Association and its progress towards sustainability and growth. The President took to the rostum, thanking the Chair of Council for his years of outstanding service and dedication and awarding him a Certificate of Appreciation and a gift.

The evening took an emotional turn when Councillor R. Kingsley Davis announced that Ms Barbara Anne Funder would be receiving the award of Honorary Life Membership in appreciation of long service and ongoing support of The Graduate Union. A more detailed account of Ms Funder’s contribution to The Graduate Union is presented as a special feature later in this Melbourne Graduate.

A report on the past year of The Graduate Union was presented by the CEO and Head of College, Dr Kerry Bennett. She began by outlining the main cohorts of membership, referring firstly to the near 600 resident members who stay at our college throughout the year. This group of membership has been increasing rapidly since 2011, and comprises people from all cultures and all academic and research disciplines. She then explained the characteristics of the non-resident cohort, the majority of whom are long term Members who reside in Melbourne and across Victoria, and of a third group, Organisation Members, which bring over 24,000 people into our facilities each year.

Displaying graphs of memberships statistics, Dr Bennett showed that while there is stability in the number of Life Members since 2005, there is a slight decrease in non-resident member numbers. Supporting the message from the outgoing Chair of Council, David Sparks, Dr Bennett reiterated the need for new members, and encouraged all current members to continue the great work that they have been undertaking for decades in promoting membership to their colleagues, family and friends and in bringing people in to experience the elegance and friendliness of Graduate House.

Matthew Fong receiving his award from the President of The Graduate Union.

The President thanking outgoing Chair, Mr David Sparks

Cr Davis acknowledging Ms Barbara Funder’s contribution to the Association.

President Major General Professor Rosenfeld with Councillor Phillip Cobbin.

The Deputy Returning Officer, Mr Brian Ritchie.

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The Melbourne Graduate The Annual General Meeting

Councillors Andre Cleghorn and Cheryl Kidston.

The new Chair of Council, The Hon Justice Tony Pagone and Councillor Keith Ryall.

Dr Bennett then presented graphs to illustrate the significant changes to operating revenue since 2005. She demonstrated that The Graduate Union is now bringing in income close to $AUD3million and expending a relatively similar amount, and explained that the largest generation of revenue came from accommodation which earned The Graduate Union approximately $2million per annum, with meeting services following closely at just over $1million per annum. With regards to capital expenditure, Dr Bennett acknowledged the generous bequest of Dr Phillip Law (received in 2011 and 2012) which made possible such major projects as the installation of reverse-cycle air conditioning in 100 resident rooms, the repainting and rewiring of the William Berry Wing and the refurbishments to the ground floor of the Stella Langford Wing, all of which had been completed.

Dr Bennett concluded by extending her thanks to the many staff members who had contributed so much over 2012, and by showing a collection of photographs of Ms Barbara Funder over her fifty years of involvement with The Graduate Union. The CEO then commented on the response to the survey and indicated that results had just been received and that these would be analysed and reported on further in upcoming circulations to members.

Following a motion, the report from the CEO and Head of College was accepted unanimously by a show of hands.

A show of hands by members to accept the CEO’s Report.

Councillors Meredith Doig, Glenda Fisher and Siôn Lutley.

The Financial Report, as published in the May 2012-2013 Annual Report of The Graduate Union, was then submitted to members and following the putting of a motion by Vice-Chair Dr Phillip Cobbin, who also expressed regret in not being able to deliver his 25-75 minute long prepared speech, was adopted unanimously by a show of hands.

The Deputy Returning Officer reported that six valid nominations had been received for seven vacancies on Council, and that this thus ruled out the need to call for members to vote. The elected Councillors and their terms were noted as:

Term

until 2016

Councillor Mrs Vivienne Corcoran Mr Keith Ryall Mr Leo Santalucia Mr David Sparks

until 2015

Ms Cheryl Kidston The Hon Justice Tony Pagone

Mr Anthony Law, FCA, Registered Company Auditor, was then reappointed unanimously by members as Company auditor.

Major General Professor Rosenfeld with Chair of Council Mr David Sparks.

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In discussion and question time, Member Mr John Farrell, in declaring his position as President of the National Federation of Independent Business, reminded members of the mission to engage in intellectual and social

The Melbourne Graduate The Annual General Meeting stimulation with the wider community of The Graduate Union. Outlining the need for cross disciplinary activity, he encouraged members to interact not just amongst themselves but also with the variety of members residing at Graduate House. The CEO and Head of College responded that she had been pleased to learn more about Mr Farrell’s ideas since he raised these at the 2012 annual general meeting and that she would continue to meet with him towards developing a suitable member interaction program.

Ms Barbara Funder commented on her recent attendance at Council meetings as an observer and encouraged other members to do the same, claiming she found the experience informative and interesting. The CEO and Head of College responded by thanking Ms Funder and supporting her encouragement of other members to attend as observers. She reiterated her deep commitment to accountability and transparency, particularly in lieu of the reviews of governance and financial control in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Further to this suggestion from Ms Funder, Ms Catherine Van Wees requested information on the dates of Council meetings to which the CEO responded by reminding members that all Council and Committee meeting dates are shown in the 2013 Graduate Union Calendar which was posted at the end of 2013 to all members, and that they may also be viewed on The Graduate Union website.

Ms Funder also commented on the lengthy Membership forms and Election Kit offered to potential members, stating that the size of these documents may deter new members from applying or from offering to join Council. The CEO and Head of College responded by thanking Ms Funder for her observation and by showing to members the new, reformatted membership application forms. She explained that these were now considerably shorter and that they were available in the foyer for members to collect and to hand out in their networks.

In speaking to the Election Kit, the CEO explained that this was made available only to those members who had indicated to the Returning Officer intention to nominate. She explained that the new sections in this Kit had been included to meet new governance standards required by the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission (ACNC) and to provide additional details about the candidates on the website, as had been requested by members who sought to inform better their voting decisions.

Ms Patricia Hudson brought to the attention of members discrepancies in the 2011 AGM minutes relating to attendees and proxy allocations. The Chair noted that this enquiry would be examined further by Council at its next few meetings.

The Chair of the Meeting advised that the next Annual General Meeting was scheduled for Thursday the 29th May, 2014 from 5.30pm. He thanked members for attending and invited those who were booked in for the AGM Dinner to mingle in the Phillip Law Members’ Lounge before moving into the Ian Potter and Stillwell rooms. The Chair declared the 2013 annual general meeting closed at 7.25pm.

Councillor Leo Santalucia and Member Glenys Goricane.

Councillor Phillip Cobbin speaking to the 2012 Financial Report.

Member John Farrell speaking during discussion session

Ms Funder encouraging members to attend as observers at Council meetings.

Member Catherine Van Wees clarifying the dates of Council meetings in 2013.

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The Melbourne Graduate Professor Simon Richard Molesworth AO QC Professor Simon Richard Molesworth AO began his interesting talk on the work of the International National Trusts Organisation (INTO) with a story of The Prince of Wales visiting the Hungarian National Trust in 2010 and convening a workshop for INTO, during which he encouraged this National Trust to go with INTO to places where they had not been before and to expand their horizons. The theme of Professor Molesworth’s address was ‘potential’ - more precisely, INTO’s potential to expand their efforts in protecting heritage sites across the world.

Moving onto discussing other National Trust organisations across the world, Professor Molesworth illustrated similarities between The Land Conservancy of British Columbia in Canada and the Australian National Trust which is concerned with the conservation of the cultural and natural heritage in this country.

He then presented a fascinating visual tour of similar organisations, including those in the Gelderland (Netherlands), Slovakia, Shanghai (one of the two in China), Bermuda, The National Trust of Cayman Islands, Indonesia, The African Research Centre, Jamaica, Bangladesh, Taiwan (which created an off-shore reserve national park), Scotland (which he stated was one of the oldest and most beautiful national trusts in the world today) and Uganda.

Professor Molesworth explained the importance of humanity respecting each other’s cultures and the important role of national trusts in reinforcing effectively humanity’s ideals of values and human rights. Speaking to The Indian National Trust for Art and Culture, he noted its one hundred and fifty chapters across the sub-continent and the involvement of several thousand youths who are rewarded and acknowledged for their efforts in heritage conservation.

He moved on to showing the INTO Footpath Plan in France. The work on these centuries old French heritage footpaths was essential to securing the future of these particularly distinct sites of human significance. Professor Molesworth thus outlined how INTO has focus on many similar ‘human footprint’ projects, informing that this particular approach had been gaining popularity and that similar projects were now being undertaken by the Malta National Trust and by a National Trust in Malaysia.

Professor Molesworth noted that though each national trust is different, they tend to share a similar set of goals, legal constitutions and structures. For over thirty years, they have been coming together under the umbrella of the International Conference of National Trusts (ICNT) to share information and good practices, to develop solutions to common problems and to show solidarity with other members of the movement.

Professor Molesworth expressed his view that the great challenge facing national and international trusts is to find resources to support the projects that need urgent attention. He pointed in particular to the 15th International Conference of National Trusts in Entebbe, Uganda, from September 30th to October 4th 2013. Due to the lack of funds, several participants from developing countries who would usually be sponsored by major international corporations, may not be able to afford to attend the conference.

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The Melbourne Graduate Professor Simon Richard Molesworth AO QC He also said that we all have a shared obligation to cherish these special places and heritage sites and made an impassioned ‘call to [link] arms’ to give mutual respect and to work collectively for the sustainability of each other’s cultures, to make this place, this world in general, a better place to live for future generations.

Professor Molesworth then answered questions from our members and guests on movable cultural heritage, climate change responses and the sophistication of human kind. He gave suggestions for the Australian Government to reward the nation’s farmers for their conservation of Australian landscapes, and spoke of the importance of ensuring that natural resources are adequately treated for pests and on using lessons from economics to deliver better outcomes in land management, worm control and the retaining of natural vegetation.

Professor Molesworth concluded by saying that ‘rejection is a part of the battle to achieve our goal’ but that we - and particularly graduates across the world - should have faith in our intellectual capacity and emotional commitment to embrace the values of each other’s cultures. He encouraged members to learn more about the strongly held position of the Global Heritage Forum that cultural heritage is a key factor for international unity.

Members and guests expressed their gratitude to our excellent Culinary Team for a sumptuous meal.

Professor Simon Moleworth AO addressing members and guests at the 2013 AGM Dinner.

Vote of Thanks and Appreciation The following is the transcript of the vote of thanks and appreciation that was delivered by Councillor Davis following the AGM Dinner presentation by Professor Molesworth.

I have known adjunct Professor Simon Molesworth for more than thirty years, since shortly after the Labassa Mansion in Caulfield was acquired by the National Trust in 1980.

In the mid 1980s, I saw Simon in the lobby of Owen Dixon Chambers and we spoke about how my grandparents had owned a house on the same street as Labassa and close to the mansion. I told Simon how as a young boy, The grand Labassa Mansion on Manor Grove, Caulfield North I had walked up to the property many times and been fascinated by its extraordinary decoration and grandeur.

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The Melbourne Graduate Vote of Thanks and Appreciation Soon afterwards, as Chairman of the National Trust of Australia in Victoria, Simon recruited me to the Labassa Management Committee which I chaired for about fourteen years. During this time, I served for six years on the National Trust Council under his remarkable and eloquent leadership. What a great pleasure that was!

But here is a story which is not well-known. Simon’s great grandfather was Judge Hickman Molesworth, a judge of the County Court of Victoria from 1883 until 1907.

When a Queen’s Counsel, Molesworth QC was offered the defence brief for Ned Kelly. He wanted fifty guineas per day and fees to be paid in advance. Ned’s family did not have that sort of money and the government would only fund seven guineas per day under the legal aid scheme in force, the first such scheme in the English speaking world.

As history discloses, the brief was taken by one Henry Binden. Binden had only been practising for a few months and had never conducted a trial. This was his first and last criminal trial. During the trial which commenced on 28th October, 1880 in the old Supreme Court on the corner of Russell and LaTrobe Streets, he was bullied by Justice Barry. Binden was traumatised and emotionally devastated by this case. Afterwards, he opened a legal practice in Benalla and never again appeared in court.

The weather was very hot during the two and a half day trial. Justice Barry was dying of diabetes, although he did not then realise it. He survived Kelly by a little more than a week.

I am unaware of that as to any of Judge Hickman Molesworth’s charitable activities. However, from what you have heard this evening, Simon Molesworth AO has made an extraordinary contribution to charitable causes in this country and worldwide. These include, but are not limited to, the preservation of built, natural and cultural heritage in Victoria, Australia and on the world scene, now as foundation Executive Chair of the International National Trusts Organisation (INTO).

What a special insight he has given us into the operation of the International National Trusts Organisation.

This was an uplifting experience for us all.

It has taught us about uniting all people by bringing about respect for the cultures of each other.

It is shown that we are all citizens of humanity.

How well this ties in with the International Collegiate and uniting aspirations of the Graduate Union.

Here is an unrecognised link for us, and an involvement for our members to consider.

What a lot for us to think about, whether you be a dyed-wool climate change sceptic or a devoted disciple of conservation. I am sure you will all have been inspired by Simon’s support of heritage and the environment.

Councillor R. Kingsley Davis , Chair of the Membership Committee

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The Melbourne Graduate Barbara Funder - Honorary Life Member Citation On the occasion of the Award of Honorary Life Membership of the Graduate Union of the University of Melbourne to

Barbara Anne Funder Barbara Funder has made an exceptional and long contribution to the Graduate Union. Her achievements are numerous.

These remarks are structured as follows:

Pre Graduate Union.

Working at the Graduate Union.

Election to Graduate Council.

William Berry Trust.

Continuing Connection.

Pre Graduate Union.

Barbara Anne Funder was born in Melbourne.

She is the only child of Thomas Ellis Funder who was Danish and Anne Margaret Funder who was of Irish parentage. Thomas Funder was a solicitor and Anne Funder was traditionally involved in creating a good home.

An Irish mother indeed! Samuel Johnson once said:

The Irish are an honest race, They never speak well of one another!

I can’t claim to be Irish. So this evening I intend to speak very well of Barbara Funder.

Barbara attended Kildara College Malvern. The Menzies of Malvern retirement units now occupy the former site of Kildara College. Barbara attained Leaving Certificate (now the year prior to VCE) at Kildara College. Her father wanted her to study law but she was not attracted to this discipline. So after Kildara, she attended finishing school for one year. Her father had a contact at the British Trade Commission. After being introduced through him, she was employed as a secretary at the Trade Commission for five years.

Miss Funder then became an air hostess with Ansett Airways. She was in the skies around Australia for two years. On her second morning, on a very hot day, while working a flight to Hamilton, she recalls feeling dizzy.

One of the male passengers said that she looked green and asked her if she would like a seat. He gave her his seat. She soon recovered and continued her work on the flight. A few days later she recognised a photograph of the good Samaritan in The Age newspaper and read that he was a Mr Law-Smith, a senior member of the LawSmith family who was on the Board of Qantas.

Barbara’s first contact with The University of Melbourne was as a secretary in the Audiovisual Aids Department, now Educational Technology, at this University. Newman Rosenthal was the head of the Department. One of her tasks was to print lecture slides for academic staff. Barbara spent three years at Audiovisual Aids.

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The Melbourne Graduate Barbara Funder - Honorary Life Member Miss Funder was then recruited to International House by the Warden, Samuel Dimmick, who was the former cultural attaché at Jakarta. International House is owned and operated

by The University of Melbourne. So this was her second contact with the University. She remained his secretary for about twelve months and then did secretarial work for an architect for the next six months. She was now ready to commence her third connection with the University which would become a lifetime involvement and dedication.

Graduate Union In January, 1962 Barbara saw what she describes as a pompous advertisement in the Melbourne Age for “Keeper of the Graduate Roll”. On replying to the advertisement, she was asked to attend the following Saturday morning at 159 Barry Street, Carlton, a Victorian terrace, which was then occupied by the Science Language Department of the University. As instructed she “waited at the gate”. At the appointed time a man smoking a pipe accompanied by two dachshunds arrived. He left the dogs downstairs and Barbara followed him upstairs to his office for her interview. This was her first contact with the Graduate Union.

Prior to the interview commencing, the interviewer, by then introduced to her as Mr William Berry, sent her back downstairs with the request to “bring up the mail”. At the end of the interview, he asked Barbara to open the mail. He told her that other people had also applied for the job. At the conclusion of the interview, Bill Berry accompanied Barbara down to the gate. He pointed east and said (rather reminiscent of John Batman identifying the site for Melbourne on the north bank of the Yarra) “See those terraces - that’s where we will have a college one day!”

Two days later Bill Berry telephoned Miss Funder and told her that she had the job. She began immediately, on the day after Australia Day. Soon after Barbara started, Bill Berry said that the Graduate Union would be “moving in July” to the terraces that he had pointed out. He also said that the Tin Alley Players would be performing in Leith Hall at the Women’s College, now University College, to raise funds for the Graduate Union.

The Tin Alley Players became the Graduate Union’s own graduate dramatic group, whose productions were actively promoted by the Graduate Union. Commencing in 1939, they performed for over fifty years. They joined forces with the Graduate Union in 1954 and had a permanent home in Graduate House from 1968.

Stage One of Graduate House opened on 13th July, 1962. So Barbara had arrived just in time to be involved in this occasion.

This was the first phase of the building program and provided accommodation in one terrace for seven postgraduates.

Barbara Funder’s appointment at Graduate House was as office secretary. However her role was very much wider and intertwined with that of Bill Berry.

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The Melbourne Graduate Barbara Funder - Honorary Life Member In 1966 Bill Berry appointed her as Assistant SecretaryWarden. The Melbourne Graduate of 1st May, 1967 opined: This appointment acknowledges not only the need for more senior assistance [expansion of the Graduate Union and inception of Graduate House] for the Secretary-Warden, but also the unusual personal qualities which Miss Funder has brought to her present duties.

As Assistant Secretary-Warden of the Association, Barbara had much to do. In addition to her secretarial duties she was involved with considerable public relations work for the Graduate Union. She was also engaged in arranging social activities for both the residents and the non-residents. For the residents, house parties and outings were organised.

There were barbecues, lunches and dinners at weekends which introduced many international scholars to Australian hospitality.

Probably the oldest continuous activity conducted by the Graduate Union is the monthly luncheon. The minutes of the Executive meeting of the Melbourne University Association, as it then was, held on 29th April, 1921 disclose that: The matter of the first luncheon of the Association was considered.

It was decided to hold a lunch at Victoria Coffee Palace.

It was not until 1975 that the luncheons moved to the dining room at Graduate House. So Barbara was in charge of the considerable organisation of the luncheons at the Victoria Coffee Palace in Little Collins Street, and then at Graduate House. She prepared the guest lists and assisted with the speaker contacts and helped host these events.

Miss Funder remembers the opening of the Graduate House, Stage Two on 18th March, 1965, and the opening of Stage Three on 10th May, 1971 (which included the three terraces purchased as a result of the benefaction from Stella Langford), the opening of the centre section erected on the site of Kidd’s warehouse on 10th November, 2005 and most recently the opening of the rebuilt Stella Langford Wing on 31st March, 2010.

The opening of the Johnston Library in 1971 also stands out for her as a most significant event in the history of the Graduate Union. She says that the Johnston library should never be altered. “It is the place where I really feel in College”.

Barbara recalls the challenge to the Graduate Union of the purchase of Kidd’s Warehouse in 1974. It was another untold story. At that time, Kidd’s Warehouse was owned by the Danks’ hardware and plumbing business. Bill Berry was friendly with the Danks executives, and from time to time lunched with the manager. At one such lunch, he was told that the Danks were thinking of selling the next-door property. Mr Berry was excited by the prospect of a contiguous frontage of more than

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The Melbourne Graduate Barbara Funder - Honorary Life Member 200 feet in Leicester Street facing the then Victoria Bowling Club, now University Square and an area of three quarters of an acre for future expansion. He put the idea of purchase to the next Council meeting. The Council showed a marked lack of enthusiasm about the proposal.

Not to be deterred, the Secretary-Warden pursued his idea.

He told the councillors that the University was also keen on the building. He said “I know the people who are interested, (meaning the University). If the Council does not decide to purchase the building, I will take the John Danks people to see the Vice-Chancellor tomorrow morning so at least they will buy the site”. Fortunately, the Council then capitulated and agreed to the acquisition. The rest is history - here we sit today!

For Barbara, her biggest highlight whilst employed at the Graduate Union was the affiliation of the Union as the 11th College of the University of Melbourne in 1972. She notes that the University Statute envisaged a college of graduates having both members and members-in-residence. The college has hosted many postgraduate scholars who have been predominantly doctoral or master’s degree candidates including many distinguished overseas academic visitors.

When William Berry retired in December 1984 after thirty-six years as Secretary-Warden. Barbara Funder was appointed acting Secretary-Warden for 6 months from December, 1984 until 9th June, 1985, when she retired from her Graduate Union employment. The Melbourne Graduate of August, 1985 observed: Barbara Funder in her many years of work for the Graduate Union has made a special place for herself in our hearts and we wish her joy as she goes on to fresh fields and new commitments.

Unfailingly loyal and dedicated to the work that she was doing, Bill Berry could have had no better colleague and lieutenant in the exacting and often anxious early years of the Graduate Union’s existence, and the amount of work that they shifted between them was phenomenal.

The residents of the house, particularly those from overseas, brought her problems and questions which she solved and answered, and difficulties had a way of melting at the sound of her sympathetic and irrepressible chuckle.

Her long time friend Margaret Brown, wife of former Chancellor Maurice Brown and a member of the Graduate Council, [said] that at the risk of offending the feminists, she felt the Bacon’s words apply most aptly to Barbara: “if a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world”.

We look forward to Barbara remaining a citizen of the world of the Graduate Union.

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The Melbourne Graduate Barbara Funder - Honorary Life Member Graduate Council In 1987, William Berry told Barbara that he intended to stand for the Graduate Council and suggested that she also nominate. In the event, they were both elected. Miss Funder was elected for a term of one year to fill the balance of the term of a former councillor who had resigned. In 1988 Miss Funder was re-elected for a term of three years until 1991.

William Berry Trust On his retirement from the Graduate Union, William Berry formed a society entitled Firm Friends of the Graduate Union which on 8th July, 1992 became the Past Graduates and Postgraduates Society Inc. Among its objects was the raising of funds for the Graduate Union. On 9th September, 1993 the Society established a trust known as the Post-Graduate College Trust and the trustee was the Past Graduates and Postgraduates Society Inc. William Berry died on 2nd, July 1999. He left $100,000 to be administered by the Past Graduates and Postgraduates Society and the further sum of $20,000 to pay for the administration of this trust. At the AGM of the Society held on 14th September, 1999, the trust was renamed the William Berry Post-Graduate College Trust.

On 25th June, 2004, the Past Graduates and Postgraduates Society was dissolved. At its final meeting, the society appointed Barbara Funder and Life member Heather Kudeviita trustees of the William Berry Post Graduate College Trust. Barbara Funder and Heather Kudeviita have since applied the fund to the maintenance and refurbishment of the William Berry Wing. The total cost of this work has been $110,337. An extraordinary contribution to the Association.

Continuing Connection Barbara has continued her connection with the Graduate Union to this day. In addition to facilitating assistance to Graduate House through the William Berry Trust, she assists with mail-outs. She attends all AGMs and is seen at most dinners and luncheons. The personal involvement of Barbara Funder to the Association is an important part of the history of the Union. She has devoted her life to what she sees as the best interests of the Graduate Union during a period of great change and development. She has made many friends.

We salute Barbara Anne Funder for her extraordinary, personal, lifetime contribution to the Graduate Union of the University of Melbourne.

Councillor R. Kingsley Davis Chair of the Membership Committee

a letter from Ms Funder On May 31st this year, I attended the 101st Annual General Meeting at The Graduate Union, as I had for almost half a century, with expectations to welcome the new President, perhaps ask one or two questions and later, hear a distinguished speaker from the National Trust.

What I did not expect was to find myself listening to a recitation of my time at the Union, standing on a dais holding an elegant certificate of Honorary Life Membership and an armful of beautiful flowers with a standing ovation from those present to cap it all. How did I feel? Quite frankly dazed and speechless, unusual for me, and then the next morning a feeling of warmth and gratitude on receiving this honour for simply being a part of the progress of a place that I have loved for all these years.

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The Melbourne Graduate Membership and Valete New Members We extend a warm welcome to new members of the Association.

Regular Members Ms Satu Alakangas Ms Adela Aliaga Yori Mr Ross Anderson Dr Mark Burton Mrs Vivienne Corcoran Dr Ian Crichton The Hon Dino De Marchi Mr Murray Geddes Mr Ian Gostelow Mr Warwick Howitt Miss Deloraine Keegel Mr Joshua Landau Mr Keith Frederick Mr David Roberts Mr Matthew Storey Mrs Donna Storey Ms Marian Thakur Dr Murray Verso

Life Members Miss Kate Powe

Organisational Members ISANA Education Association Classical Association of Victoria School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne

Resident Members Ms Amna Adnan Mrs Gayatri Alagiriswamy Ms May Aung Mr Julian Bafera Mr Gregory Bass Mrs Richa Bhardwaj Mr David Budden Mr Toralf Burghoff Mr Paul Byrne

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Resident Members Miss Mingxue Cai Mrs Francesca Cavalieri Professor Siriporn Chirawatkul Ms Anna Chiu Mr Andrew Colebatch Mr Enrico Colombo Doctor Gayatri Das Ms Angela De Somocurcio Cornejo Mrs Richa Dhawan Mr Farshad Doust Mr Robert Dukaric Mr Steven Eamegdool Ms Kai Egan Ms Erika Emy Nishi Mr Filipp Esselborn Mr Sean Faircloth Ms Xiao Gao Ms Lorena Gavilanes Reyes Professor Peter Gawthrop Dr Lindsay Govan Dr Amit Gulati Mr Bart Hendrikx Dr Anupriya Ignetius Mr Nish Jayarathna Mr Meng Ji Ms Harman Kaur Mr Patrick Kearns Mr Sahil Khanna Ms Sarinya Khattiya Ms Kanishka Kogar Dr Jumpei Kondo Dr Venuga Kugathasan Ms Youjia Lu Ms Peggy MacTavish Ms Emma McCosh Ms Louise Mcleod Mr Remo Meier Miss Samantha Michael Mr Nesse Mintjens Dr Emma Mitchell Mr Kieran Montgomery Ms Louise Mulcahy

The Melbourne Graduate Membership and Valete Mr Syano Musyimi Ms Hanae Nakayama Mrs Gagan Nat Mr Natachat Norabhoompipat Mr Francis O’Hanlon Miss Kathryn Owens Mr Arlo Paranhos Mr Sehyouk Park Mr Nitin Patil Ms Marjan Qazvini Miss Ruby Railey Mrs Prabhjot Randhawa Ms Emily Samuels Mr Shree Shivally Dayananda Mrs Nour Shoukry Mr Ross Smith Mr Sheikh Solaiman Mr Vincent Sovis Mr Eleuthere Stathopoulos Ms Maria Tanzer Mr Giovanni Tarantino Miss Soscha Tencate Ms Elise Thomas

Ms Jacquie Tinkler Ms Caroline Unsinn Mr Matteo Vaccaro Incisa Mr Koen Vandelannoote Ms Gauri Velankiwar Mr Nicolas Vogt Miss Ai Vy Moeller Mr Qing Wen Xu Professor Richard White Mr Tianli Wu Mr David Ye Ms Nga Ying Chan Mr Ian Young Ms Manami Yumoto Mr Peng Zhang Mrs Lulu Zhu

Valete We extend condolences to family and friends.

Mr Jeffrey Charles Bird, Life member since 1961 Mr Harold Roy Hanton, Life member since 1951 Mr Edward Charles Hauser, Life member 1952

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The Melbourne Graduate A Farewell to Ian Barrah The Graduate Union regrets to inform members that Ian Barrah, former Councillor and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The Graduate Union passed away, aged 79 years, on the 8 th June, 2013.

Ian was a long standing contributor to The University of Melbourne and to The Graduate Union. He taught at both tertiary and secondary education levels, including in Mathematics at Camberwell High School. He is remembered by his students as a dedicated, encouraging and caring teacher and mentor. The Graduate Union extends condolences to Ian’s family and friends.

Excerpts from the Melbourne Graduate

Ian’s appointment to Chief Executive Officer in 1991.

The Melbourne Graduate, Volume 44, No.1, February 1991.

Vol 37, No. 2, April 1986.

Register (Academic), The University of Melbourne.

Member of Council since 1982 and currently member of House Board.

“I remain committed to the objects of the Graduate Union emphasising the principal objects the first of which is to promote the welfare of the University of Melbourne. I will uphold the authority of the Council, as elected and appointed from time to time, to control and direct the management of the Graduate Union as provided in article 14.”

Ian’s departure from Graduate House in 1995.

The Melbourne Graduate, Volume 49, No.1, February 1996.

Vol 43, No.2, April 1990.

Registrar (Academic), The University of Melbourne.

Member of Council since 1982.

“I will continue to promote the objects of the Graduate Union, noting that the first is to promote the welfare of the University. The Union must develop its unique role for graduates and complement the roles of University bodies also working with graduates, consistent with its Objects and Articles of Association.” Retired from Council 21.12.1990.

Vol 44, No. 1 ,February 1991.

“A former Councillor, Mr Ian Barrah, has been appointed Vol 41, No. 2, April 1988. to the temporary position of Chief Executive Officer of The Registrar (Academic), The University of Melbourne.

Graduate Union and Warden of Graduate House.

Member of Council since 1982 and currently ViceThe Graduate Council is taking this opportunity to review Chairman of Council. the organisation of The Graduate Union and to establish “I remain committed to the objects of the Graduate Union an appropriate staffing structure in the light of the present emphasising the principal objects, the first of which is to circumstances and future requirements. promote the welfare of the University. I will uphold the Ian Barrah, who took early retirement from the position of authority of the Council, as elected and appointed from Registrar (Academic) at the University, had been an elected time to time, to control and direct the management of the member of the Graduate Council. He is a graduate in both Graduate Union as provided in the Articles of Association.” Arts and Science of the University 30 years ago after a short teaching career”.

With appointment of the new CEO on 6 April 1992, Mr Barrah took on the position of Deputy Executive Officer.

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The Melbourne Graduate Our Members Our Membership comprises Non-Resident, Resident and Organisational members.

Thank you to the following Members for sharing their graduate stories.

Darren Ro om, Life Member I was born in Elsternwick, Victoria. Travelling in those days was simpler and I could remember the train trips to the Melbourne Show Grounds by train when I was three years old.

I started school at St Leonards College. I could recall the attention given at the outbreak of war which was discussed by train passengers and there was no doubt that war was eminent. Soon after, we heard that the armies were spreading towards South East Asia and it was a matter of time before their invasion into Australia. I was moved to Tasmania for safety reasons and remained there till 1943 and then moved back to Melbourne and resumed my studies at Hampton Primary School.

Darren with Australia’s favourite Steam Train, Puffing Billy.

In 1947, my family moved to Tasmania. I attended Devonport High School in Tasmania and onwards to the University of Tasmania where I did my Arts degree. After graduation, I moved back to Melbourne and started work with the Commonwealth Government at the Department of Defence. In 1958, the Department relocated to Canberra and wanting to remain in Melbourne, I joined the State Public Service. My role at the time of joining was a Probation and Parole Service Officer.

I had various roles in the Public Service including Deputy Director of Correctional Services. I have also been responsible for the Children’s Court Probation Services. I worked in the State Public Service until my retirement in 1991.

Riding his favourite vehicle, the Honda Gold Wing.

Since retirement, I resumed my hobby of studying railway and public transport. I am a lifetime member of Puffing Billy Preservation Society (PBPS), a group that helps contribute to policy making through voting for the Executive and running of the railways in Australia. Having always been a man of two wheels, I pursued my passion of cycling and motor biking. I owned many two-wheeled vehicles ranging from bicycles to motorbikes like the Honda Gold Wing. Joining my buddies from the touring club, we rode our bikes to many places interstate including to and from Darwin, Perth, Cairns and Tasmania.

I made many road trips to the United States of America (USA) and the hospitable members of the Gold Wing Road Riders Association (GWRRA) would meet me at designated points to show me around the country and we would tour various states from California to Denver Colorado and Utah. I have been back to the USA six times.

With his friends from the Melbourne Bicycle Touring Club.

Due to some back injury, I stopped riding my motorbikes and now move around with my push bikes, taking shorter trips at a time. Living in South Yarra makes it very convenient for me to get to the city and other places in Victoria. I enjoy riding to Graduate House to attend functions and lunches. On wet days, I use public transport.

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The Melbourne Graduate Our Members In the December 2012 issue of The Melbourne Graduate, we featured Michael Victor Meszaros OAM, the well known sculptor commissioned to create the bronze relief that is currently installed in the newly-named Phillip Law Members’ Lounge. This stunning artwork is much talked about and admired by patrons and members who visit or reside at Graduate House. Below is a story by Life member Roy Hardcastle on a story of another commission involving this internationally known artist.

Roy Hardcastle, Life Member Harold Richard, Life Member Roy Hardcastle and his business partner Harold Richard’s association with Michael Meszaros and his sculpture Tension and Compression go back thirty four years.

Roy Hardcastle and Harold Richards in 1980.

In 1952, Roy Hardcastle and Associate Professor Harold Richards formed the firm of Hardcastle & Richards Consulting Engineers as a result of being part of a team which won the design competition for the Olympic Stadium which was to be built in Princes Park for the 1954 Melbourne Olympic Games. Unfortunately, a change of government caused the cancellation of this project and the Games were held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) instead.

Incidentally, Andor Meszaros, Michael’s father was the commissioned sculptor for the medals for the event which were to be given to the place-getters and other award winners at the Melbourne Olympics.

Twenty-five year later, the firm celebrated this anniversary by giving to the Engineering Schools at both The University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), where Harold and Roy trained as Civil Engineers.

These generous gift were to be used as they pleased. The Melbourne School of Engineering (MSE) was under the guidance of the Dean of Faculty at that time, Professor Len Stevens, who suggested that they commission a sculptor to which they wholeheartedly agreed.

Roy Hardcastle and Harold Richards in 2012.

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After several meetings with Professor Stevens and Michael Meszaros, the form of the sculpture evolved into the final version that we see today (pictured opposite), erected on the Civil Engineering School wall and entitled Tension and Compression. As can be seen, the sculpture shows two men in a parallelogram, with one pushing it out and the other resisting its collapse. Though there is no intended

The Melbourne Graduate Our Members or actual physical likeness to either Harold or Roy, they both felt that Michael had explored the essence of the partnership they shared, with Harold pushing (compression) and Roy restraining (tension), as the title explains. They continued to enjoy the partnership sixty years after it was formed, a relationship and friendship which embraces both their families along with their involvement in the Rotary Club of Carlton - meeting at Graduate House weekly - where Harold was the Foundation President and also, as members of The Graduate Union.

As a tourist, Roy has been to the Ross Sea region of Antarctica, the area explored by Scott, Shackleton and Mawson. In his opinion, the bronze relief by Michael Meszaros to commemorate Dr Phillip Garth Law and to acknowledge his significant bequest is a fitting remembrance of Dr Law’s involvement in Antarctic Exploration and involvement with The Graduate Union. He feels that the sculptor has captured the power and beauty of the land as well as the strength of Dr Phillip Law.

Sculptor Michael Meszaros

Tension and Compression Melbourne School of Engineering Cast Bronze 1.5m x 1.5m, 1979.

Many members will have entered and exited The University of Melbourne through Gate 9 on Grattan Street, just across the road from Graduate House. On your next visit, as you enter through this gate, we suggest looking at the building wall on your right where you will see the Compression and Tension bronze relief by Michael Meszaros pictured above.

The relief is a representation of the two most basic forces in Civil Engineering - the complementary and opposing forces of tension and compression. Every structure depends on a balance and an integration of these two elements. The design sets out to express this by using a square frame which has been distorted by some external influence. One diagonal comes under tension and the other under compression. The forces are shown by two figures, one pulling, the other pushing.

In commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the founding of the partnership of Hardcastle & Richards, this sculptural relief work was presented to the Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Melbourne in November 1979.

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The Melbourne Graduate Our Members Matthew Fong, Canada Resident Member and Recipient of the 2013 Graduate House Research Scholarship Originating from Ontario, Canada I undertook my Bachelor degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. A bit over a year ago, I came to Australia to start my Master’s degree in Biomedical and Health Science, working with Dr. Heather Young and Dr Lincon Stamp in the Anatomy and Neuroscience Department in the Medical Building of The University of Melbourne. For the past the year and a half, I have been working on two linked research projects.

The first has been on finding novel ways to treat Hirschprung’s disease and the second has been on investigating cell cycle dynamics of neural crest cells in the gut.

Travelling to Australia to continue my studies has been an eye opening experience, as Melbourne is an amazing city with a lot of culture and activity. Life here is always interesting. After long days in the laboratory, it is nice to be able to visit the area and the multiple attractions found in this vibrant city. In addition to working in a well-recognised laboratory in gastrointestinal biology, I have had the opportunity to stay at Graduate House and it has been great to meet so many resident members through this diverse yet tight knit community. The opportunity to speak to and learn about other people who have come from all across the world with different cultural and educational backgrounds is something that makes my stay here very enjoyable.

When I speak about the nervous system, often, people think that my work revolves around the coordinated activity of the brain and spinal cord. However, my focus is on the complex nervous system of the gut - the enteric nervous system (ENS) - which can work independently from the brain and spinal cord.

The ENS is vital for gut absorption and digestion as well as being responsible for peristalsis, which allows for the proper movement of food down the gastrointestinal tract. One focus of my research is on Hirschsprung’s disease (HSCR), a rare disorder diagnosed in infants whereby a population of cells responsible for forming the ENS are unable to colonise the gut early in development. The lack of neurons in a section of the gut can cause chronic constipation and a “mega colon” because of the build-up of faecal matter. Currently surgery is the only treatment option for this disease, and while lifesaving, many infants suffer life-long problems including absorption, constipation, and/or faecal incontinence.

A side-on radiographic image of a child with Hirschsprung’s Disease showing severe gut blockage resulting in the ‘mega colon’..

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My research is seeking alternative treatment approaches which will involve patient-specific cell replacement therapy.

Using the novel reprogramming technology identified in the stem cell field of science, it is now possible to manipulate skin cells (fibroblasts) from an individual to change into another cell type. In terms of HSCR, where a portion of the nervous system in the colon is missing, we aim thus to take skin from these patients, transform these cells into neural crest cells

The Melbourne Graduate Our Members that give rise to the ENS and hopefully also restore gut function. This taking of cells from the original owner and putting them back in another form gives ‘patient specificity’ and thus the avoidance of the tissue rejection problems so commonly seen in other types of transplantation.

The Graduate House Research scholarship will allow me to further advance my The major research steps ito be undertaken by Matthew Master’s research by providing funds for to generate a new gut nervous system. the necessary reagents and services that are required for this reprogramming project. The initial stages of the project requires a significant amount of molecular and viral work in order to generate the reprogramming factors required to convert skin into neural crest cells.

Despite this being my last year of my Master’s degree, I hope to see this project through until it becomes a viable approach in treating Hirschsprung’s disease patients. Because this technology is very powerful, I hope also to see this approach having an impact in other areas of medicine where transplantation is required.

The Graduate Union Scholarship is an annual award to a Resident Member who is undertaking a research post-graduate degree (Master or Doctorate). it is open for applications from late January each year, with the closing date and interviews in April. The successful recipient receives the award and gives a presentation to Members at the AGM late May.

James Guest, Life Member For many years the medical graduates of 1941 have held their Reunion Luncheon at Graduate House. Our numbers have shrunk from 101 to 2 at our 71 st reunion on the 12th October, 2012 - Mary Wheeler and myself.

As we were leaving Graduate House, the CEO and Head of College, Dr Kerry Bennett suggested we might put in writing something of our “graduate journey” and what follows is my answer to that question.

James Guest and Mary Wheeler are friends of long standing, having read Science together before commencing Medicine. They have kept in touch since 1935 so there was plenty to talk about at their last reunion. We were pleased to hear that they found the food to be excellent.

In the Final Examinations of 1941, Ian McConchie put in a stellar performance, obtaining 1st Class Honours and exhibitions in all subjects. It was a performance only achieved once before in 1917 by the legendary physician, Leslie Everton Hurley.

1941 was the first year in which the course was shortened because of the War, the result being that teaching suffered as many of the younger clinicians had volunteered for active service. We had to do a minimum of six month hospital residency before being called up. Mary Wheeler married and raised four children before returning to work at the AntiCancer Council and later the Anatomy School. She was Vice Principal at the then University Women’s College, now called University College, from 1974 to 1980.

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The Melbourne Graduate Our Members I joined the HMAS (Her Majesty’s Australian Ship) service for three years at sea in HMAS Westralia, then spent five years in London training as a surgeon. On returning to Australia, I was appointed to the surgical staff of the Alfred Hospital and resumed teaching Anatomy.

The majority of those who had graduated in 1941 went into General Practice. Some of us decided on an academic career. Joseph Bornstein became the Foundation Professor of Biochemistry at Monash University in 1961 and remained in this position until his retirement in 1983.

Leslie Ray became Head of the Anatomy Department at The University of Melbourne in 1955 and Professor in 1961, while George Swanson Christie became Professor of Pathology at The University of Melbourne in 1966.

Mr James Guest AM OBE VRD Keith Campbell Bradley had a successful career as a Neurosurgeon at 25th May, 2009 when appointed as the the Alfred Hospital and Professor of Anatomy also at The University inaugural Patron of The Jack Brockoff Foundation in recognition of his 29 years of of Melbourne for ten years from 1966 to 1976. Dr John Billings was service, having been Chairman for 15 a successful neurologist but is better known, with his wife, Dr Evelyn of those years between 1990 and 2005.

Billings, for the world wide promotion of the Billings Ovulation Method (BOM) of natural fertility regulation. Both were honoured by the Pope for this work and the approach.

Alan Ross Wakefield was co-author with senior author, Benjamin Rank, on the famous 1968 book entitled Surgery of Repair as Applied to Hand Injuries. Rank (later Sir Benjamin Keith Rank) was the pioneer of Plastic Surgery in Australia and had trained during (pre-war) with leading plastic surgeons in the United Kingdom and America. David Pitt trained as a paediatrician becoming Consultant Paediatrician to the Children’s Cottages Training Centre in Kew, and contributing significantly to the early detection, intervention and prevention of mental handicap by developing the first genetic screening program for Phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare metabolic disorder that if not detected and treated soon after birth can affect severely the nervous system.

Sam Benwell wrote the book Journey to Wine in Victoria (1960), which is still regarded as the pinnacle of wine and travel writing, and was a member of the inner circle at Jimmy Watson’s Wine Bar, still a favourite and iconic haunt in Lygon Street, Carlton. Benwell was among those who set up the Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy as a memorial to Jimmy Watson (died 1962). This is the most prestigious wine award in Australia, and is presented annually at the Royal Melbourne Wine Show to the producer of the best one or to year old, dry, red wine.

Marcia Jack married Harold Blackburn, an Adelaide medical graduate. Their daughter Elizabeth Helen Blackburn is also a graduate of The University of Melbourne, and went on to become a Professor of Molecular Biology and the first Australian woman to win a Nobel Prize. Awarded in 2009 in Physiology or Medicine, this was for work on telomerases which protect the enzymes of chromosomes from deterioration or fusion with neighbouring chromosomes, and are thus important in ageing.

Stewart Moroney had the distinction of coxing four university crews. I rowed in three of those crews and we had two wins. Stewart was Medical Director of Ansett Transport Industries and Airlines (a major Australian airline of the 1990s that is now no longer in existence) and made a considerable contribution to education as Co-Founder of Peninsular School, Mt Eliza and as a Board Member of Toorak College, also on the Mornington Peninsula.

Looking back over seventy years, war service involved practically all the men. War is an accelerator of medical progress where the results are required quickly. One of the first was the mass production of penicillin by Howard Florey (after whom The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health here at The University of Melbourne is named), Ernst Chain and Alexander Fleming Oxford. It is estimated that this discovery has saved more than 6 million lives worldwide. The urgent need for active material drugs were met, advances in blood transfusion meant that blood could be stored longer and the need for advanced plastic surgery became apparent to deal

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The Melbourne Graduate Our Members with the wounds caused by aerial and tank warfare. Better understanding of infectious disease resulted in the development of effective vaccines; smallpox has been eliminated and poliomyelitis has been controlled in the Western world.

Improvements in public health, child-care and the treatment of mental disease have had a profound effect on the health of the population at large.

In 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson unravelled the genetic messenger shared by almost every life form.

The discovery of the double helix structure of Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid (DNA) was considered one of the greatest scientific achievements of all time. The way DNA was organised suggested solutions to two of biology’s major questions - how hereditary information is stored and how it is replicated. The DNA molecule has been cloned, cut and spliced in laboratories worldwide and this has opened up the field of molecular genetics which is a most contentious area of medical research having great ethical and legal implications.

The pharmacopoeia we used as students has almost vanished - a few drugs such as digoxin and aspirin have survived. The techniques and scope of surgery have been revolutionised. Liver, heart and lung transplants are common place and endoscopic techniques are replacing the open operations of the past. More and more, science is driving medicine, but progress is not always positive. We had the ‘thalidomide disaster’ in the 1960s and HIV/AIDS appeared in the 1970s, a scourge that has been likened to the Black Death of the fourteenth century.

Let me give one example of the changes in treatment in my professional life time of a common disease - peptic ulcer. As a student, we were taught to recommend a bland diet, cessation of smoking, limited alcohol (good advice at any time!), reduction stress and an alkaline gel to combat gastric acidity. Few ulcers were cured and the treatment moved to surgery. At first the acid secreting area of the stomach was resected (partial gastrectomy) and later the treatment was refined by dividing the nerves linked with acid secretion (vagotomy). Some success was achieved but there were often unpleasant complications of the operation. This surgical phase was followed by more sophisticated medical treatment using designer drugs, again with some success. Finally the puzzle was solved by two West Australians, Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren and decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid was reversed. In 2005 Marshall and Warren were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease”.

During my professional life time the role of the medical doctor in society has changed considerably. The high position the medical practitioner had in the 1930s to 1940s has diminished. Patients no longer have blind faith in their doctors. Patients are much better informed and are able to be involved in a discussion of their disease and the treatment options. Medicine of the 21st century no longer enjoys the authority it had seventy years ago, but as its prestige has declined its capacity to help the patient has increased.

We live in interesting times!

Mr James Guest AM OBE VRD was awarded the degree of Honorary Doctor of Medical Science as part of the Melbourne Medical School’s 150th anniversary celebrations last year. This rare and signal honour is bestowed by The University of Melbourne in recognition of Mr Guests’s serving with distinction, as surgeon, anatomist, medical historian and as an astute and perceptive leader.

James Guest with the Chancellor Ms Elizabeth Alexander and Provost Margaret Sheil at the conferring ceremony in University Hall on the 11th September, 2012.

The Graduate Union extends congratulations and 97th birthday best wishes for July 2013.

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The Melbourne Graduate Our Members Zoe Ma, China, Resident Member Xiaoying (Zoe) Ma is in the final stages of her PhD in business. She has been a member of The Graduate Union of the University of Melbourne since July 2010.

Her research focuses on the corporate governance, organisational behaviour and management of higher education institutions and she has published a number of articles in this field. Her future career plan is to teach and to do research in higher education institutions, as well as to be a consultant for international business. After a few years of teaching experience in Australia, she has fallen in love with teaching and the undertaking of research in this country and hopes to secure a post-doctoral position here.

In 2012, she was selected as one of the top twenty international student leaders from all of the universities in Melbourne to participate in a three-month professional training initiative in leadership entitled The City of Melbourne’s International Student Leaders’ Program – EDGE 2012. This staged program of Experience, Develop, Generate and Execute (explaining the acronym EDGE) enabled her to explore contemporary leadership theories and to address the key topics of Career Management, Leadership and Success management and Cross Cultural Skills and working in Asia. Her involvement in EDGE 2012 and an interview was reported in Meld Magazine, Melbourne’s International Student News source.

During her doctoral studies in Melbourne, she has taught local undergraduates business related courses and now, as an inaugural Graduate Union tutor, is offering tutorials to undergraduates in micro, macro and managerial economics, management principles and business strategies. She also tutors in basic to advanced Mandarin at all levels ranging from VCE to advanced. Zoe has also taught Chinese undergraduates in similar fields of business and economics in Beijing.

All of these teaching experiences have drawn her attention to the significant cultural and behavioural differences between local Australian students and Chinese students for many of the routine activities of academic life - faceto-face class time, the delivery and receipt of knowledge, the undertaking if assignments, etc. She believes that this has strengthened her teaching and tutoring skills, and her capacity to work appropriately and effectively with cultural differences to achieve the best results. In particular, and in realising the importance of social skills for problem solving in real life, she is developing expertise in the coaching of Chinese undergraduates and postgraduates to acknowledge and work carefully for the ‘social intelligence’ required for the very competitive international business world.

With her research on the business of higher education, she has identified that such skills are worth learning by Chinese students as many seem to lack or not realise the skills that are required - indeed, essential - to enter, stay and progress in international companies. In her view this is hindering China’s progress into advanced technology industries. Even graduates from the top universities in China, like Tsinghua and Beijing Universities, rank much lower - by about ten percent - in employment rates compared with graduates of universities in western countries (McKinsey Report, 2008).

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The Melbourne Graduate Our Members Her work at a German company and in Swiss companies back in Beijing, has also increased her understanding of the significant differences in doing business between China and Europe and she is now called upon in her consulting capacity to assist local Australian companies in the translation for business at a multicontinental level (macro-economics being one of her particular areas of speciality), between Australia, China and Europe.

The following is a sample of the conference and journal papers produced from her current research. Zoe is aiming to continue researching in this field of cross-cultural business management.

The organisational management and regulation of the Chinese private higher education sector’, Asia Pacific Journal of Business and Management, vol. 3(2), 2013.

The nature of the governance, regulation and growth of private higher education’, Journal of International Education and Business, vol. 3(1), 2012.

Management education and its expansion in emerging markets - a case study. Conference Paper, 25th Annual Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, December, 2011.

Overseas investment in China’s higher education sector and the management of education growth. Conference Paper (oral presentation), the 5th VACPS Research Workshop, Annual Conference, Victorian Association of Chinese PhD Students and Scholars, University of Melbourne, November, 2011.

Dominic Siu, Hong Kong, Resident Member I grow up in Hong Kong. Some say it’s The city that never sleeps. Having spent a large portion of my life in hustles and bustles, I am not at all used to the silence of living by my own. For that reason, I decided to reside in a college when I knew that I would be studying in this less densely populated colleges, and chose Graduate House as my first stop in Australia. I still think it was a wise decision.

Here, not only do I find the environment I need for studying, I also get to meet the many brilliant minds from all around the globe, who each have their own unique story to share. Where else can you talk over breakfast to experts from various fields in your T-shirt and shorts?

In 1997, I witnessed the epidemic outbreak of bird flu in Hong Kong.

Since then, I have been motivated to study about emerging diseases.

After obtaining my Bachelor’s degree in Molecular Toxicology at the University of California, Berkeley, I decided to pursue a career in which I could integrate my academic and professional interests in diseases, animals and public health.

And here I am on my way to completing the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program at the University of Melbourne!

Melbourne is a colourful city with diverse culture and friendly people, and I am most fascinated by the many and varied examples of natural scenery. In my spare time, I like to explore the city, do road trips around Victoria, exercise and eat! And none of these would be as fun if it was not because of you guys, my dearest friends from Graduate House. As such, I would like to take this opportunity to show my gratitude. Thanks all for the joy and fun! Cheers!

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The Melbourne Graduate Reciprocity Worldwide The Graduate Union enjoys reciprocity arrangements with similar organisations all around the world. Besides Australia and New Zealand, we have formal agreements in Asia, Europe and the USA. We are also in affiliation with the Association of College and University Clubs (ACUC), and have access to nearly one hundred clubs which particpate in an international reciprocity program.

AUSTRALIA ACT: University House NSW: NSW Masonic Club and CTA Business Club WA:Trinity Conference and Accommodation Centre SA: Kathleen Lumley College NEW ZEALAND Auckland University Club SINGAPORE The National University of Singapore Society (NUSS) NTU Alumni Club INDIA PYC Hindu Gymkhana

HONG KONG Graduate House and Robert Black College, University of Hong Kong American Clubs International (Member of ACUC) SWEDEN Karolinska Institute, Stockholm (ACUC) ITALY ESU di Padova Universita degli Studi di Sassari FRANCE Six Cottages The NETHERLANDS University of Amsterdam (ACUC)

UNITED KINGDOM London: Goodenough Club; Oxford and Cambridge Club; The St James’s Club and Hotel Scotland: University of Edinburgh; University of Glasgow and The Burn UNITED STATES OF AMERICA University Club of St Paul, Minnesota; University Club San Francisco; Harvard Club of Boston; The Graduate Club Association, New Haven, Connecticut; The Bellevue Club, CA CANADA University Club of Toronto University of British Columbia

Our external auditor, Mr Tony Law, visited the NSW Masonic Club in Sydney earlier this year and has kindly provided this write-up to share his experience. Please note that Mr Law received neither the benefit afforded to members of The Graduate Union under our reciprocal arrangements nor recompense for this article.

I was privileged to have recently spent three evenings at the NSW Masonic Club (better known as the Castlereagh Boutique Hotel) at 161 Castlereagh Street, Sydney. The accommodation is so conveniently located to the central environs and downtown shopping stores of Sydney; the beautiful parklands to the East and is in easy reach of the airport. It is also close to the city underground rail link and overhead mini-rail to the Darling Harbour tourist precincts and Sydney’s recently renovated Sydney Casino and conferencing facilities. Sydney’s major central retail outlets of Myer and David Jones are only half a block away as is the World Heritage Queen Elizabeth Centre specialist shopping and restaurant facilities. Every visitor to Sydney should include this famous building in George Street in their itinerary.

Within the Boutique Hotel, I was warmly welcomed by the reception, staffed twenty-four hours daily and offered assistance to our room, which is serviced by two excellent security-checked lifts. Breakfasts were either self served continental style or a full selective English cooked meal by a courteous female house staffer. Evening dinner was served on the same level 4 in the Cellos Restaurant, together with full bar/bistro licence. Meals were also available by way of Room Service.

The Boutique Hotel impresses with an older-style club entrance and atmosphere but offers comfortable accommodation at reasonable rates for such a central and convenient location and would be suitable for international as well as interstate and local residents. I would not hesitate to recommend a short stay by international residents wishing to see the Sydney environs from a most central location.

Tony Law

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The Melbourne Graduate College Garb and Merchandise The newly named Phillip Law Members’ Lounge now houses a display cabinet showcasing The Graduate Union apparel which comprises mens and women polos, a windcheater with hood, a merino pullover, a knitted vest and a cap. This clothing range is made to last and is of the highest quality materials. It is made by Rowboat, a company that specialises in products for rowers and seafarers. Please come in to see this popular range and to purchase from our office. Alternatively, order online from our website - see the link to Rowbust on our home page www.rowbust.com/graduate-house

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The Melbourne Graduate College Events - Monthly Luncheons February - Dally Messenger III Dally Messenger III is often referred to as the pioneer and Don of Civil Celebrancy and this idea was proven in the first Monthly Luncheon of 2013. Dally Messenger III presented his acclaimed book Ceremonies and Celebrations which provides insight into the world of ceremonies, vows, tributes and readings for occasions that include weddings, funerals, namings, graduations, house dedications, special birthdays, step-family unions and divorce. Dally’s talk began with a recount of the beautiful ceremony he performed in The Graduate Union library, joining in marriage fellow librarians Marie Dowling and Colin Watson to what he believed was the first union of two librarians in a library. He continued to announce the rise in the number of Civil Celebrants and their diverse roles in Australian society, commenting on Legalists vs Ceremonialists.

A legalist is a Civil Celebrant who believes a civil marriage is only a legal contract whereas a ceremonialist is a Civil Celebrant who believes that a civil marriage holds a much deeper meaning. Dally concluded by saying a masterful celebrant knows and works skilfully with human psychology and the human need to express emotion.

March - Professor Katrina Sckewes McFerran Dr Katrina McFerran, Associate Professor at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Head of Music Therapy, presented her research on the ways that adolescents use music, and focused on the detrimental effects of the unhealthy use of music. She began by explaining the roles music plays with adolescents, its effects on their mood and its use as an emotional regulator. Her research revealed that music was being associated with both positive and negative events in an adolescents life. It was this choice to listen to music associated with negative events that led to some adolescents becoming sadder than when they had begun listening to the music. Her contention was that it was wrong to rely on music as a means of making oneself happier. Furthermore it was proved that the qualities of the music made little difference to the effect on mood - e.g., classical music may have the same effects as hard core metal, it simply depends on the person. Katrina outlined strategies for vulnerable young people and their use of music - one being listening to music that matched the youths mood, instead of choosing music to make the youth feel better.

April - Doctor Gerard Vaughan Dr Gerard Vaughan spoke on the future of the Art Museum, its current role in society and the major issues confronting museums internationally in today’s society. He explained that Art Museums have been a symbol of a city’s cultural identity and their popularity may have begun in Paris during the 1960s and 1970s with the opening of Paris’ Centre Pompidou or the later Musée du Louvre which absorbed more money than had ever been spent on any one project anywhere else in the world. Since the opening of the Louvre it has become the most popular Art Museum in the world attracting eight million visitors in 2012 alone. This may be the Louvre’s downfall, as overcrowding and a lack of air conditioning leaves the Louvre experience increasingly unpleasant. Dr Vaughan commented that this is unlikely to happen in Australian Art Museums due to our relatively low population density and our relatively low number of tourists. He exclaimed that Australian Art Museums ought to consider not only the popular exhibitions to meet their attendance quota, but also those minor exhibits that deserve attention.

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The Melbourne Graduate College Events - Monthly Luncheons May - Maxine McKew Ms Maxine McKew, Vice Chancellor’s Fellow of The University of Melbourne, notable journalist and ex-politician gave her Monthly Luncheon talk on the challenges that Australian schools face in the wake of poor performance reviews in comparison to international benchmarks. She drew particular attention to the 2012 Progress in International Reading and Literacy Study (PIRLS) data which ranks the reading proficiency of primary school children. It was found that Australian primary school students ranked significantly below their international counterparts. Maxine made it clear that this trend must stop before an entire generation of Australian students begin to struggle with critical thinking skills. She highlighted expert opinions which stated that Australian primary schools ought to have richer reading content throughout their curriculum and teachers who know how to stretch their students knowledge and challenge their educational abilities. She concluded by stressing the importance of school principals and lead teachers to pursue an evidence based curriculum and to use the upcoming funding to improve their student’s education.

June - Margaret Simons Ms Margaret Simons is an Australian academic, award winning freelance journalist and author. Throughout her career she has witnessed an unprecedented change in technology and communication. Her presentation relayed this journey and her interpretations of the underlying constants of news and journalism, and led her to her predictions for the future of news and the future of journalism.

Giving a brief history on journalism she discussed how the publication of news can disrupt power relationships and over time, change our idea of what it means to be human. She spoke on the decline of newspaper sales associated with the availability of online information, but the ever increasing appetite of the general public for newspaper content. The role of advertising as the key income source for paper-based news was noted, with Ms Simons highlighting that websites now offer cheaper and more efficient advertising spaces than newspapers and that it was up to the industry to become innovative and proactive to survive financially and with sufficient resources and journalistic expertise. She continued on to outline how online media, or online news content, may not be from reliable sources and is more often than not, an opinionated piece written by the masses. These changes in media usage and media observance will ultimately lead not to one mass media website, but many smaller niches of media output.

The Graduate Union Monthly Luncheons The Graduate Union Monthly Luncheons have been held at Graduate House since 1975. They are held on the first Wednesday of every month, except for the months of January and December. The Luncheon in November is on the second Wednesday to accommodate for our world-famous Melbourne Cup. They provide an opportunity for resident and non-resident members to interact, and to continue a stated aim of the Association from its origin in 2011: ‘lectures by distinguished visitors and others.’

The format is similar on each occasion. Members and their guests gather in the dining room from 12.00 midday and move in to commence a two course meal with wine from 12.30pm. They then enjoy a presentation from a well-known speaker.

The speakers and topics are made known in advance in the newsletters which are sent out in advance either by snail or e-mail.

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The Melbourne Graduate College Events - Twilight Lectures Professor Geoffrey Blainey AC At the Twilight Lecture of the 27th March, 2013, Professor Geoffrey Blainey AC gave a talk on writing the history of the world. Professor Blainey is one of the world’s most famous historians, having written several outstanding books and is Australia’s best known living historian in recent years. Professor Blainey began his talk by explaining how he wanted to write history in a way that would interest not only himself but everyone who reads his writing, while still being educational and informative.

Taking advantage of his time as a lecturer, he travelled the world on luxury cruise ships, visiting diverse cultures and furthering the knowledge for his book A Short History of the World which was published in 2000.

In writing the book he decided to allocate each time period a certain amount of words - for example, 5000 words for the renaissance, but not a single word over. This lead to Professor Blainey exclaiming he occasionally rued the loss of some of his best writing.

He described this method of writing with reference to the game of cricket. Sticking religiously to his word count, he would use fast-bowling fact sections with brief but concise information about that particular time period and would intermittently switch to a slow-bowling pace to delve into topics that he thought should be further highlighted. Professor Blainey continued on to say that he always tried to place emphasis on the people and how they may have lived all those years ago. The philosophy behind the decision to place the focus on the people was simple. Historians nowadays place all their efforts into explaining history as a preordained set of events and he wanted to change this, by acknowledging the power of history’s unexpected factors.

On the power of technology, Professor Blainey claimed that technology had possibly done more than anything else to shape the world in the past 300 - 400 years. He noted that we are in the most materialistic time in history, with many heads in the audience nodding in agreement having lived through a period of remarkable technological advancements.

He remarked on how he experienced the simple art of writing with a fountain pen as typing was expensive and undertaken by specialists. Explaining how concise he had to be when deciding what went where in the development of his book where each chapter had to be perfectly thought out, Professor Blainey saw this experience as fundamental training in understanding the sequence of a book. Of course, by his fourth book, he had indeed taught himself to type and eventually moved on to a computer and through various information technology developments that supported text composition and research. Professor Blainey was not over enamoured by such functions as cut and paste, but pressed onwards and endured them.

When Professor Blainey’s first book began to get re-published, it was forced to go through a process of updating and shortening for the sake of its translation into several different languages. He commented on a cheeky remark from his publisher about the many pages of a short history of the world. The result of all these factors was Professor Blainey’s book A Very Short History of the World which became more popular than the original.

With regards to updating, Professor Blainey exclaimed that historians spend little time in their own era, and as such, he found it a challenge to include this decade in the same novel as the previous decades. He assured the crowd that none the less, he would continue to try and do so.

Answering questions from the audience, he commented briefly upon his latest book A Short History of Christianity and his thoughts of the changing attitudes in regards to religion in the 21st century to which he said that any powerful religion comprises of cycles of rise, decline and revival.

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The Melbourne Graduate College Events - Sunday Music Concerts Coco’s Lunch As the focus of a day was fun for the family, children were delighted by the show ‘I WANNA BE A MERMAID’ presented by Coco’s Lunch on Sunday, 21st April.

Coco’s Lunch is a very accomplished a cappella group of singers and percussionists. Members of the group are Gabrielle MacGregor, Lisa Young, Emma Gilmartin, Nicola Eveleigh and Jacqueline Gawlor. The show was especially written for children and has been presented in sold out performances at the Opera House in Sydney.

Coco’s Lunch began their performance by swimming into the room to the sound of breaking waves and then launching into the title number.

They soon had young and old joining in and several usually quite reserved Members were seen to transform magically into seaweed and various sea creatures waving their arms to the movement of the water and releasing their inner seagull or pirate. Children in particular enjoyed the Wally the Wombat action song. With all this excitement one could miss the outstanding musicianship and originality which the artists brought to this incredible performance but fortunately Coco’s Lunch have recently issued an Extended Play (EP) for children featuring songs from ‘I WANNA BE A MERMAID’ which is available form their website at www.cocoslunch.com.

Many enjoyed the other activities of this day for the generations - gaming for older kids, face painting for young ones, decorative henna painting, book displays and the talk by Ann Dixon on dating historic photos by period dress, the lunch and of course the splendid afternoon tea where everyone had the opportunity to talk to the musicians and to a surprise celebrity guest who may have simply been trying to take her children out inconspicuously!

Wilma & Friends Wilma Smith, concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, brought a new group of friends to Graduate House for their concert on 16th of June. In an all Brahms program, Ian Munro, concert pianist and Saul Lewis, Principal Third Horn of the MSO joined Wilma, violinist, for two works, the Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano in G major, Op. 78 and the glorious Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano in Eb major, Op. 40.

Both works are close to Wilma’s heart and this showed in the great performances. They are obviously accomplished chamber musicians who played so well together with a common understanding of the music - each instrument very different but harmonising together with the mellow sound of the horn contrasting with the violin and the more percussive nature of the piano. This was a superb afternoon of music and we were very lucky to hear Wilma and Friends in an intimate setting.

Member of the music group Andrew Roberts ably introduced the artists and our CEO again had Melbourne Theatre Company tickets to raffle for three lucky members to win. Members and guests enjoyed a roast lunch before the concert and were able to view displays from the Friends of Rippon Lea, Australian Tapestry Workshop and the Lyrebird Music Society - in keeping with the ‘classics’ theme. We also enjoyed the lavish afternoon tea following the performance when we had the opportunity to talk to the performers.

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The Melbourne Graduate Snippets from the Bar

Bill’s Bond Beverage Martini: Shaken, Not Stirred 40ml Gin (London Dry) 10ml Dry Vermouth Ice

Method Add ingredients to a shaker.

Shake and strain.

Add garnish of an olive or a twist of lemon.

Wine Review Debortoli Vat 9 Cabernet Savi gnon

The Deen Vat 9 Cabernet Savignon is a heavier wine, its stand out feature is its rich fruity flavour and its slight tinge of liquorice. As well as being delicious its deep full colour leaves it aesthetically pleasing.

The wines come from Debortoli’s prized King Valley vines. Lighter than a Shiraz, but heavier than a Pinot Grigio, the Vat 9 is a lovely wine to accompany any occasion.

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The Melbourne Graduate Snippets from the Bar

Tom Collins The Perfect Drink for a Warm Day 30ml Gin 30ml Lime Juice 1 teaspoon Fine Sugar Soda Water Ice Method Build the lemon juice and sugar over the ice.

Add the gin and stir.

Top with Soda and stir gently.

Garnish with a lemon slice.

Wine Review Bella Riva Pinot Grigio

Another wine from King Valley, this light white has an intense and sweet aroma emanating from its pale colouring. Compared to most Pinot Grigios the Bella Riva Pinot is quite dry. It also strays from typical Pinots in that it is not quite as sweet on the palette. A lovely afternoon wine, perfect for day functions or a family gathering.

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The Melbourne Graduate Acknowledgement of Patronage We acknowledge and thank our Organisational Members for their continued patronage.

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The Melbourne Graduate Acknowledgement of Patronage

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