The Australian Rhodes Review - Michaelmas 2018

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EDITION HIGHLIGHTS // Current Scholar: Emilie McDonnell From the Archives: Sir George Parkin in Australia ARSA Dinners: Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Hobart

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A LETTER FROM THE ARSA PRESIDENT // Welcome to the fourth issue of The Australian Rhodes Review. We are delighted to be entering our second year of the publication, with contributions from Scholars continuing to flow in.

Inside this Michaelmas 2018 issue, you’ll find copies of Sir George Parkin’s letters describing his 1903 efforts to set up the Scholarship in Australia; a farewell letter from the recently-departed Warden Charles Conn (Massachusetts & Balliol 1983); a reflection by current Scholar Emilie McDonnell (Tasmania & University 2016); a report from Graham Craig (South Africa-at-Large & Brasenose 1974) about a recent dinner in Melbourne; and an amusing speech delivered that night by Mike Fitzpatrick (Western Australia & St John’s 1975); reports of other state dinners; Scholar updates and obituaries in ‘Alumni Notes’; and more.

I would like to use my letter to celebrate the tremendous accomplishments of Australian Scholars in 2018 in many different fields. They are ‘fighting the world’s fight’ and we should be enormously proud of their achievements. Any such list is incomplete, of course, but let me make special mention of: Malcolm Turnbull (New South Wales & Brasenose 1978) concluded his term as Prime Minister. He was the third Rhodes Scholar to occupy that position after Bob Hawke (Western Australia & University 1953) and Tony Abbott (New South Wales & Queen’s 1981). His time in office saw several significant achievements, including record jobs growth, the legalisation of same-sex marriage, and tax reform.

Kim Beazley (Western Australia & Balliol 1973), former Deputy Prime Minister, Opposition Leader and Ambassador to the United States, was sworn in as the 33rd Governor of Western Australia in May. Wendy Erber (Australia-at-Large & St John’s 1982) is the winner of the ANSTO Eureka Prize for Innovative Use of Technology for the detection of abnormal chromosomes inside leukaemia cells. Wendy’s work will lead to personalised treatments and better patient care.

Carolyn Evans (Victoria & Exeter 1995) was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Griffith University. Carolyn is the first female Rhodes Scholar to be a Vice-Chancellor of an Australian university.

Angus Taylor (Australia-at-Large & New College 1991) is the newly-appointed Energy Minister in the Morrison Government.

I would also like to congratulate Mike Fitzpatrick (Western Australia & St John’s 1975) who was appointed a Rhodes Trustee a few months ago. It is a richly deserved honour and we look forward to having another Australian voice on the Trust.

And finally, the lifetime accomplishments of three other Scholars deserve special recognition. In the past few months ARSA was deeply saddened to learn of the deaths of Graham Bond (Queensland & Balliol 1961), Peter Pierce (Tasmania & Balliol 1973) and Peter Wetherall (Queensland & Balliol 1978). They will be missed greatly.

You’ll find tributes to Graham Bond and Peter Wetherall pages on 14-15; an obituary for Peter Pierce will appear in the next issue.

I hope you enjoy this latest issue of The Australian Rhodes Review. And I encourage you to get involved. Please contact the Editor, Gillian Fullilove at gillian.fullilove@rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk to submit a contribution or make a suggestion. We are always glad to hear from Scholars.

Best wishes, Tim Orton (Australia-at-Large & Magdalen 1986), ARSA President Front cover image, left to right: Tasmanian Scholars Jess Radford, Rufus Black, Damian Murphy, Tony van de Vusse, Bruce Cole, Henry West, Elle Leane and Alastair Christie.

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CURRENT SCHOLAR IN OXFORD // EMILIE MCDONNELL (TASMANIA & UNIVERSITY 2016) As my second year at Oxford draws to a close, it is the perfect time to reflect on my time living and studying in Oxford. Being on the Greek Islands certainly helps create the perfect mood for reflecting, as well as having a clear mind after recently submitting the final (I hope) draft of my MPhil thesis and completing the research I was doing for a professor.

In my first year, I read for the Bachelor of Civil Law, which I completed with Distinction in 2017. The BCL was academically rigorous but by far the most rewarding degree I have undertaken. I made many lifelong friends and experienced new and exciting things at Rhodes House, Univ and the Law Faculty. I became a co-convener of Rhodes to Asylum, a Scholars’ group focused on asylum seeker and refugee related issues; sang with the Univ chapel choir; wrote for the Oxford Human Rights Hub on Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers and refugees; was a Social Secretary for the Univ MCR; tried my hand at AFL with OUARFC; and travelled abroad.

In my second year I began the MPhil in Law. My research focuses on protecting the human rights of asylum seekers, refugees and other migrants when migration control has been offshored to other countries (such as Australia with PNG and Nauru, and the EU with Turkey and Libya), which is done by destination states in an attempt to prevent the irregular arrival of migrants at their frontiers, prima facie violating the rights to leave and to seek asylum in international law.

The MPhil is different from the BCL. The constant need to work on your thesis is always niggling at you, accompanied by a feeling that you have never quite done enough, and being unsure of whether the work you are doing is any good.

Oxford is a weird and wonderful place. I have been in constant awe of the beautiful architecture surrounding me; wined and dined with incredible people; and attended events I only ever dreamed of, such as talks by Kofi Annan and Hillary Clinton. I am grateful for all the opportunities I have had and am excited to be staying on for the DPhil in Law. However, if Oxford has taught me one thing, it is to question my privilege and all that comes with the Oxford lifestyle. It is a stark eye-opener when, after enjoying a three or four course meal with wine pairings alongside friends and colleagues, that on the cycle or walk home the streets of Oxford are scattered with homeless individuals. Oxford is far more than an academic experience, or even a Rhodes experience. It is a chance to become part of new and different society, get involved in the nonacademic community, make a difference, and challenge the status quo.

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A MESSAGE FROM RHODES HOUSE // CHARLES CONN BIDS SCHOLARS FAREWELL network and publications like this one, as well as the Rhodes House and constituency convenings that bring together Scholars of all ages and other clever people to work on the world’s challenges. Our new partnerships mean that Rhodes Scholars are joined with Schmidt Science Fellows, Atlantic Fellows and from time to time with Schwarzman Scholars in China. We are a fellowship of fellowships of the highest order and aspire to make positive change in the world. …

The following excerpt is taken from the latest issue of The Rhodes Scholar Magazine. It is a final letter to Scholars from former Warden Charles Conn.

It is that time of year when sun streams through the windows of Rhodes House, Mr Whippy plies his ice cream trade next to the University Parks, and Rhodes Scholars find any excuse to take their books out onto our lawns. It is a new day for the Rhodes Scholarships. In five (short? long?) years the language around the Trust has shifted from that of storms and the righting of ships to sunlight and potential. This happy story is that of a community coming together to craft a better future. Thanks to the efforts of the Rhodes community, the endowment is secured and our geographic horizons expanded, with more than 100 Scholars a year now selected from every corner of the globe. The idea of lifelong fellowship has been reinforced with the Character, Service and Leadership Programme, our alumni online

As you know … I step down [as Warden] later this summer. Camilla and I are so grateful to all of you who have made our time here remarkable. Our heartfelt thanks go out to you as event leaders, alumni association organisers, moderators, selectors, donors, committee members, National Secretaries, Trustees, and we thank you for all the ways you have volunteered to breathe fresh air into the Trust in its Second Century. We leave Oxford knowing that the Trust is in very good hands – all of your hands – and of course those of our wonderful new Warden Elizabeth Kiss and her husband Jeff Holzgrefe.

Warm thanks,

Charles Conn (Massachusetts & Balliol 1983)

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FROM THE ARCHIVES // SIR GEORGE PARKIN’S 1903 TRAVELS IN AUSTRALIA Sir George Robert Parkin KCMG (1846-1922) was a famous Canadian educator, imperialist and author.

He was also an attractive and lively person, and a highly capable and influential adviser during the establishment of the Rhodes Scholarships.

In 1902 Parkin was invited by the Rhodes Trust to be the Organising Secretary of its new Scholarship program. The Trustees needed an adviser to undertake the enormous task of translating Cecil Rhodes’ idea of the Scholarships into a working system. Parkin was a charming man, a gifted writer, a skilled negotiator and one of the most impressive public speakers of his day. He was also a proud Oxford man, having matriculated on the very same day as Cecil Rhodes.

In 1903 Parkin commenced the first of many journeys which laid the foundations of the Rhodes Scholarships system as we know it today.

Over the next two years he travelled over 225,000 kilometres, including trips to the United States, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, the West Indies, Bermuda, Canada and Newfoundland. He held countless conferences and interviews, formed committees and generally roused enthusiasm for the new Scholarships in each of the countries he toured. His job was by no means easy. His letters back to the Trustees in Oxford describe numerous contretemps with university leaders and government officials as he tried to devise a workable scheme.

Who were to select the Scholars? How were Cecil Rhodes’ wishes to be translated into a system of semi-uniform regulations in multiple countries?

Should Rhodes Scholars be schoolboys, undergraduates or graduates? Could they be married men? These were just some of the many initial questions Parkin was trying to settle.

Former National Secretary John Poynter recently sent the current National Secretary, Marnie Hughes-Warrington, some of Parkin’s letters describing his 1903 consultations and factgathering in Australia. As Marnie noted, they make for fascinating and amusing reading. In Marnie’s words, “it was a real privilege to get a copy of the letters, and I quickly gained the sense of how lively and controversial the idea of the Scholarship was in Federation era Australia. There were few universities, and there was genuine debate about whether this was to be a scholarship for school leavers, or for university graduates. If you check down the minutes of the selection committees in the second decade of the twentieth century, you see a much clearer view of the value of the Scholarship for university graduates’.

Click here for a scanned excerpt from Parkin’s letters recounting his time in Australia.

Sources: ‘Sir George Robert Parkin’, The Dictionary of Canadian Biography; and ‘The First Fifty Years of the Rhodes Trust and the Rhodes Scholarships’, G.E. Elton (1953)

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VICTORIAN DINNER 2018 // GRAHAM CRAIG (SOUTH AFRICA-AT-LARGE & BRASENOSE 1974) REPORTS ON THE ANNUAL FAREWELL DINNER Our annual dinner invariably generates an air of anticipation. It enables Senior Scholars to meet the newly elected Scholars and learn about their aspirations.

This year the excitement was heightened by Brigid O’Farrell-White (Australia-atLarge & Magdalen 2018) who, already on her way to Oxford, addressed the audience from Cairo. An unfulfilled ambition of Cecil Rhodes was to build a trans-Africa railway linking the Cape to Cairo. Now the Middle East is a rapidly growing area of interest for the Rhodes Scholarships - and for Brigid.

Dragon Down Under’. Citing his research, he explained the impact of Chinese imports on the Australian labour market. An important conclusion is that workers in impacted industries tend not to relocate and hence the challenge for government is to find new industries suited to the underutilised workforce and facilities in the affected areas.

Left to right: Geoff Cumming, Mike Fitzpatrick, Helen Sykes & Andrew Michelmore Left to right: Graeme Vosen, Joan Vosen, Evelyn Chan & David Cash

Evelyn Chan (Victoria & Hertford 2011), Deputy Chair of the Victorian Selection Committee, welcomed the 36 guests present and spoke of the ongoing efforts to broaden access to the Scholarships and to make the selection process equitable for all applicants.

Mike Fitzpatrick (Western Australia & St John’s 1975), a newly appointed Rhodes Trustee, delivered the keynote address, which is excerpted below on page 7.

James Maccarrone (Victoria & Balliol 2018) entertained the audience with his talk entitled ‘The

Laura Hilly (Australia-at-Large & Magdalen 2011) had arranged for Brigid O’Farrell-White to deliver her speech from Cairo. Brigid is learning Arabic in preparation for her course in Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford. In her speech, Brigid explained that there are layers of history beneath current events in the Middle East. Australia is part of this history owing to its century-long military involvement in the region.

Diversifying our engagement through economic and cultural opportunities will broaden this one-dimensional exposure.

Arabic is amongst the top-three languages spoken in Australia. By learning Arabic, Brigid aims to contribute to tolerance and understanding.

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Victor Finkel (Victoria & Brasenose 2012) bade farewell to Brigid and James, highlighting the challenges faced by some Scholars and the

character-building nature of these tests. Balancing this are the extraordinary experiences of Oxford which provide lasting memories – as did this dinner.

MIKE FITZPATRICK SPEAKS TO SCHOLARS IN MELBOURNE

In June 2018 Mike Fitzpatrick (Western Australia & St John’s 1975) was appointed a Rhodes Trustee.

The following is an excerpt of his speech to Scholars in Melbourne at Victoria’s Annual Farewell Dinner.

In late 1975 I applied for the Western Australian Rhodes Scholarship. I applied on the last day, under pressure from Josh Reynolds, Rod Eddington and my mother - “you will be a Rhodes Scholar one day Michael” - but torn between three pretty good alternatives: a VFL football career in Melbourne, leading the Guild Council, or two more years of university in Oxford, England. Given the chances of winning were small, I decided to leave the decision to fate.

Past Scholars know the story from there. The interview, the dinner, the wait, the line up, the announcement and the photo session and celebration. And a very different future. A move from engineering to finance, travel to the USSR, Europe and the US, friends all over the world, and meeting my wonderful wife Helen, one warm, bright summer’s day at St John’s.

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In 1975, the Rhodes was only available to men, you could not marry in the first year, your first year was in college and you were encouraged to select an undergraduate course and complete it in two years.

A third year was available, but you had to convince the Warden.

The Rhodes then, as now, was highly regarded, with good reason as it turned out. The previous three winners in WA were: 1974 Sir Rod Eddington (Cathay/Ansett/British Airways); 1973 Geoff Gallop (Premier of WA); 1972 Kim Beazley (Minister for Defence, Minister for Communications, Leader of Opposition; Ambassador to the United States; and now Governor of Western Australia). And of course in the far distance, Bob Hawke.

Academically, Oxford was regarded as one of, if not the, leading university in the world, well ahead of that technical college in East Anglia and the American Ivy League schools. The 1:1 tutorial system with world leading academics, the isolating nature of the staircase system, the sheer intellectual talent of the students from all over the world, the dreadful weather, combined to make it a cold, formidable, stimulating, wet, exciting experience.

When I travelled to Oxford, coming in on a 747, Perth to Bombay to Heathrow flight, Rod Eddington picked me up in his MGBGT, number plate PYWIF, and we drove through the gorgeous October autumn to St John’s College, Oxford.

The greeting at the Porters Lodge, burdened with several bags, went something like this: “I am Mike Fitzpatrick, Rhodes Scholar from Western Australia.”

“You are, are you? Right.” Fumble/hunt/grunt of satisfaction. “Here is your key, you are in Room 2 on the third floor of staircase N2 in the North Quad.”

“Where is the North Quad?”

“Through that archway.”

It was indeed, but there was no staircase N2. I carted my bags back to the lodge: “There is no staircase N2.”

“Ah, that will be because they have been renumbered!”

Ten minutes later I was in my room. I knew one person in Oxford, Rod Eddington, and one in London, Fred Davenport.

So far, there was not much information about what was to come next. There was no information pack about the college or the university. Everything else was on the college notice board, and it was brief.

‘PPE students. Meet at Dr Baker’s room at 4pm on Thursday.

St John’s rugby team.

ANOTHER’s’.

13 names, and two

There were no phones in the rooms, no mobiles. A scout came in daily to clean the room, a WWII veteran, who liked colonials but not the English Northerners.

In the first week there was a sub fusc photo of the Rhodes Class of ’75. Otherwise there was little contact with Rhodes House, or the Warden. There was maybe one event per term, and I did not always go.

Visiting Oxford in June this year as a new Trustee, much has changed, in response to changes in the world and academic life. The Mandela Scholarship marked a high point of the Rhodes, providing commitment to the new South Africa. The crash of 2008 however, threatened the Rhodes Scholarship’s very existence, with over half of the endowment being wiped out.

This led to great introspection on the governance of the Trust, its purpose and its scope in the modern world.

Without the generous support of John McCall MacBain, and previous Scholars, the Rhodes’ future as the number one scholarship in the world was uncertain.

Smart decisions were made. Rather than the English great and good, the Trustees were selected on a global basis, mostly from ex-Scholars. The endowment was given to the University to manage, which it has done with great success.

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Rhodes House saw itself as the manager of the Scholarships, organising recruitment of candidates, supervising selection processes and placing Scholars in their preferred colleges. Far more responsibility, along with the colleges, is taken for their welfare.

Warden Don Metcalf put in place the building blocks to recover the Endowment and Charles Conn has greatly built on those foundations.

And build he has!

Joint ventures with Atlantic Philanthropies, and the Schmidt Fund, globalisation of the Scholarship into China, and the recently approved expansion of Rhodes House.

This has meant that the 2018 Oxford experience is somewhat different from that of 1975. Almost all students choose post graduate courses. Contact with Rhodes House is more extensive, responding

to courses in leadership, entrepreneurship, and a wider set of social opportunities. Colleges appear to be less important in Scholars’ lives.

This should help our new Scholars through their daunting first few days.

Dr Elizabeth Kiss is the first female Warden. She is married to Jeff Holzgrefe, a Queensland academic, and Elizabeth has spent time in Melbourne, to the extent she supports St Kilda. She has an affinity for all things Victorian.

Brigid, James, this is a great opportunity to study, to travel, to experience academic life at the number one university in the world. In a life of sliding doors, you can consider that your doors have well and truly slid!

Everyone in this room wishes you all the best.

James Maccarrone & Brigid O’Farrell, 2018 Scholars

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ALUMNI EVENTS 2018 // 15 AUGUST, PERTH

1993); and from the Chairman of ARSA in Queensland, David Hamill (Queensland & Queen’s 1979).

4 SEPTEMBER, HOBART

Left to right: Michael Elias, Robert Ferrito, and David Rose

Perth-based Scholars gathered to farewell Western Australia’s newest Scholar, Robert Ferritto. Seven Scholars met at Galileo Restaurant in Perth. It was a casual and very enjoyable evening during which attendees reminisced about their time in Oxford.

18 AUGUST, BRISBANE This year’s dinner was held, for the first time, at the Moreton Club. The Moreton Club is one of Brisbane’s hidden gems - a women’s club, founded in 1924, located in a sandstone house overlooking the city.

The dinner honoured our two new Scholars, Elizabeth Hamilton (Griffith University, Medicine) and Damian Maher (UQ, English), who spoke about their plans for the future. We were also treated to entertaining speeches from recently returned Scholars, Harriet Horsfall (Queensland & St Catherine’s 2016) and James Haw (Australia-atLarge & St Antony’s 2016); from one of our elder statesmen, Colin Apelt (Queensland & Balliol 1954); from the Australian Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, Marnie Hughes-Warrington (Tasmania & Merton

Left to right: Jess Radford, Rufus Black, Damian Murphy, Tony van de Vusse, Bruce Cole, Henry West, Elle Leane and Alastair Christie.

Rhodes Scholars in Hobart gathered for a dinner to farewell Tasmania’s 2018 Scholar Henry West. Henry will be reading for the DPhil in Medical Sciences at Balliol. Henry completed his medical training at the University of Tasmania, where he developed a strong interest in preventing cardiovascular disease. His research at Oxford will focus on developing new imaging tools for examining blood vessels, enabling early detection of the disease. The group was also pleased to welcome Professor Rufus Black who earlier this year commenced as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tasmania. Rufus spoke about his vision for the university and some of the steps that need to be taken to improve educational opportunities throughout Tasmania.

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ALUMNI NOTES // OBITUARIES Vale Graham Francis Bond (1937 – 2018) Graham Bond (Queensland & Balliol 1961) represented Australia in gymnastics at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and studied at the University of Queensland (BE Mining, First Class Honours 1959). In 1960 he represented Australia at the Rome Olympics. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford where he read PPE. It was through PPE that Graham developed a long-lasting interest in economics, particularly in the gap between rich and poor. Graham made many lifelong friends in Britain, including people from Canada, Uganda, Singapore and France. His friends included a French girl whom he met whilst visiting an Australian friend. They kept on meeting each other and after finishing their final exams Monique Nalder Béliard, (Somerville 1960) and Graham were married in London in September 1963 and sailed to Australia.

In 1964 Graham was team captain for the Australian Gymnastics Team for the Tokyo Olympics and in Australia, he and Monique had their first child. His PhD on Mine Ventilation Networks led him to consultancies in Australia. In 1969, Graham, Monique and their 3 children went to England and Graham worked with PA Consultants in the UK. Life was interesting at work - Graham always enjoyed solving problems especially those which needed mathematics - and at home there were interesting trips, making furniture for the children and visiting Monique’s relations in France, Italy and Switzerland.

In 1975 Graham suggested returning to Australia to spend some time with his parents. In 1976, 2 adults, 3 children, 15 books and several maps and visas set off to Australia via Munich to Austria, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. They had some tricky moments but Graham’s calm attitude and the open friendliness of the children (aged, 7, 9 & 12) gained them warm welcomes almost everywhere.

Back in Brisbane, Graham joined QCOM, a local computer company ably lead by Roger and Tessa Worthington and they spent many years solving problems, building IT programs and developing as the industry itself developed. 10 acres of land in the Sunshine coast hinterland, fondly called 'Bondage', gave Graham and Monique a great deal of satisfying physical work to do as they cleared lantana and planted local native timber and wildlife habitat trees. Graham enjoyed surprising his friends with novelties such as photovoltaic cells and composting toilets and Monique’s students loved the wallabies, sugar gliders and the Milky Way. But age caught up with Bondy and Bondage was sold in 2011. That meant more focus on the choir Songlines. Graham and Monique both enjoyed singing at various gigs such as Sorry Day, rallies for refugees and Stop Domestic Violence Week.

In his last days both at the hospital and even more at home, Graham liked to sing with any of his family and friends who were there. On 17 August 2018, as family members welcomed in the dawn with a favourite song, Graham quietly left this world.

Written by Graham’s wife Monique Bond

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Vale Peter John Wetherall (1956 - 2018) The Rhodes Scholar community was greatly saddened by the recent passing of Peter Wetherall (Queensland & Balliol 1978) at the age of just 62.

Peter was one of nature’s true gentlemen, a kind and considerate person who instinctively listened to and respected others. Behind his understated and self-effacing nature lay a formidable intellect, able to get to the heart of complex issues with laser precision and explain them to the layperson in simple terms. He was loved and admired by those who knew him, which shone through in a memorial service for him at the Athenaeum Club in Melbourne.

opened an opportunity in London with British financial firm Hoare Govett and subsequently McIntosh, where he stayed until returning to Australia to take up the position of Head of Research. In his eight years with McIntosh he became the most highly respected resources sector analyst in the country, ranked #1 by BHP. The entrepreneurship bug eventually got hold of him and in 1995 he founded Wallara Asset Management which enjoyed great success for nearly 20 years, at one point having more than $4bn of assets under management. He was also a Director of the Australian United Investment Company for 17 years.

In the finest tradition of Rhodes Scholars, he had a deep commitment to public service and the community which informed his second career after Wallara. In 2013 he joined the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust to take charge of its investments, which he did astutely. He also served as a Councillor of Graduate House at the University of Melbourne, a director of the charity Royal District Nursing Service and a member of the Investment Committees of the Geelong Grammar Foundation and the Royal Australian College of Surgeons. Upon his passing he established the Wetherall Family Foundation.

Peter was a generous donor to the recapitalisation campaign for the Rhodes Trust in recent years, which has secured the future of Australia’s nine annual Rhodes scholarships.

He was a fitness and outdoors enthusiast who greatly enjoyed bike riding challenges, rowing and riding horses in the Victorian high country.

These personal qualities were the foundation for a stellar career in finance that he enjoyed after gaining a Bachelor of Engineering in Mining Engineering at University of Queensland with First Class Honours and a University Medal, and PPE at Balliol where he majored in economics with a particular expertise in econometrics. His combined knowledge of mining and economics

Peter will be mourned and missed by all who knew him, especially his partner Annie, children Harry, Olivia and Victoria, former wife Deborah, and siblings David and Cecilia. Vale a good and gentle person who gave a lot to others and was a shining example of the values of kindness and decency.

Written by Peter’s good friend John Wylie (Queensland & Balliol 1983).

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NEWS FROM YOUR FELLOW SCHOLARS Jaynie Anderson (Rhodes Visiting Fellow & St Hugh’s 1970)

Senate to continue his relentless quest to preserve the Renaissance past. In this first biography Morelli’s relationship with successive directors of the National Gallery of London, Eastlake, Boxall and Burton, is revealed as a game of power politics as to whom should get the best picture. The remarkable women he loved included Clementina Frizzoni, Laura Acton and the Empress Victoria. He never married. At his death he bequeathed his collection to the Accademia Carrara, at Bergamo, his beloved adopted city, that of his mother, Ursula Zavaritt.

Carolyn Evans (Victoria & Exeter 1995)

My new book is about Giovanni Morelli. Morelli is known for his invention of the Morellian method, a scientific way to attribute Renaissance paintings. He was born to Swiss Protestant parents at Verona in 1816, educated at Aarau in Switzerland and studied medicine at the University of Munich.

He returned to Italy in the 1840s to participate in the wars and politics of the Risorgimento, a soldier in the Cinque Giornate at Milan (1848), a diplomat at the Diet of Frankfurt, active in the Defence of Venice with Manin, leading the city guard for Bergamo (1859) until the last battle on the glaciers of the Stelvio (1866). Morelli was elected four times to the Chamber of Deputies in the first democratically elected governments of Italy from 1860-1870. As a politician he devoted his energy to inventing his famous method as a diagnostic instrument to preserve the patrimony of Italy after the ravages of war in the Risorgimento. The method was allied with the developing science of conservation. In 1873 he was elected to the

After nearly twenty happy years at the wonderful University of Melbourne, I am heading up to Queensland as the new Vice-Chancellor of Griffith University. Griffith is a terrific, innovative university with an impressive history of interdisciplinary research excellence and social justice. I am excited by the opportunities at Griffith and look forward to meeting with the Queensland Rhodes community in 2019.

Richard Cogswell (Tasmania & St Peter’s 1974)

time to teach specialists in training, and my role takes me across the country to our network hospitals including Dubbo, Bathurst and Alice Springs. Beyond teaching, training and clinical duties, I have developed an interest in workplace wellbeing and doctors’ welfare. Our “BPTOK” programme to support doctors in training has attracted international attention, featured in The New York Times, and is part of an ongoing pilot project to change the culture around the workplace in medicine. My wife Kristina (NIH/OxCam, Christchurch, 2005) runs a busy research lab in hypoxia, sleep and cancer at the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney. Our son Aidan is four years old.

Robert O’Neill (Victoria & Brasenose 1961)

My three year appointment as President of the NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal expires next March. That prompted some serious thinking about whether to retire or not. I have decided to retire which means that I am not asking for renewal of my appointment and I am also resigning from the NSW District Court.

It’s a decision to embrace retirement as the next stage of my life. The MHRT position has been stimulating and engaging. It’s been a great appointment to complete my life in the full time workforce.

I still keep a number of voluntary roles and I will see what else might appear.

Imre Hunyor (New South Wales & Magdalen 2005) I am now a Cardiologist and Network Director of Physician Training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. My primary sub-specialty is cardiac imaging with a focus on MRI and CT. This has allowed me to keep in touch with my former DPhil supervisor, Stefan Neubauer. I am fortunate to have protected

It is just over fifty-one years since Bob O’Neill returned from a year of service in the Vietnam War. The fiftieth anniversary stimulated several members of Bob’s former battalion, 5 RAR, to write short memoirs, intended mainly for their own family records. Bob, having been asked to check them against his own memory of people and events of 1966-67, was in turn motivated to start work on a full-sized book on that year, written by a team of some thirty battalion members who could write well and whose memories were still keen. The text has now been completed and soon it will begin the publication process. The title will be “Paving the

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Way”, edited by Ron Boxall and Bob O’Neill, and it should be on sale in early 2019.

Elsina Wainwright (Queensland & Christ Church 1994)

The book will give a wide spectrum of perspectives on what it was like to participate in that war. The chapters have been written by individual soldiers, ranging from national servicemen and volunteers, through to company commanders and others, including Bob who was the battalion’s intelligence officer.

Bob is also preparing to receive a special award from the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia on 13 November 2018 to mark the fortieth anniversary of his election to the Academy. Sally and Bob are both enjoying life in the Blue Mountains, especially the cut and thrust of intellectual life in Blackheath, also known as the Balmain of the Mountains!

After ten years in New York, my husband, three children and I have moved to Sydney. It is good to be back in Australia! In addition, I was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Australia Day honours this year, for 'significant service to international affairs, through Australian defence, foreign policy and conflict prevention studies, as an analyst and academic’.

The Editor welcomes any personal or professional updates you’d like to share with your fellow Scholars. Send your pictures and news about careers, family, awards and appointments, travel, etc. to Gillian Fullilove at gillian.fullilove@rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk

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The Australian Rhodes Review (ARR) is jointly published by the Association of Rhodes Scholars in Australia Inc (ARSA) and Rhodes Scholarships in Australia Pty Ltd (RSA).

The Editor of the ARR is Gillian Fullilove (gillian.fulilove@rhodeshouse.ox.ac.ak).

The ARR is published three time a year and distributed free of charge to the community of Rhodes Scholars in Australia.

The material published in the ARR is supplied by numerous contributors and published in good faith. ARSA, RSA and the Editor do not make any representation, or assume any responsibility, in relation to the accuracy or completeness of the information supplied. Any views or opinions expressed in this material are the solely the views or opinions of the relevant contributor.

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