The Graduate Union Newsletter July 2017
Contents
GU Collegiate
GU Collegiate
Resident News
4 Christmas Karaoke Party
28 Julia Marks - awarded the Frank Pinkerton Scholarship
5 Christmas In July Lunches 6 August Monthly Luncheon with Tony Pooley 7 Coming Monthly Luncheons 8 Roaring Twenties Fundraising Gala 9 John Cain Foundation Monthly Lunch
Features 10
Professor Profiles Bob Stimson - Honorary Professor Geography and Resource Management, The University of Melbourne
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Graduate Pathway David Brill AM - The unsung heroes, the devastated and the forgotten, everyone's story is seen, heard and remembered.
Review 15 Monthly Luncheon David Beauchamp 18 March Women's Forum 19 2017 Annual General Meeting
We'd like your instruments! Graduate House Residents Music Nights
JULY
Italian Conversation Dinner
6.00pm
Come along to dine while learning to speak Italian with an experienced teacher. Members $15, non-Members $20.
Members News 29 What do past Chairs of Council do in their spare time?
Past GU President Accounting Hall of Fame
Academic and Professional Development Meetings 30 May 2017 Listings
Wed
5th, 12th, 19th, 26th
JULY
32 Innovation Tax on sugars and fats could keep us healthy 33 Extracurricular A new generation of altruists
Bridge Nights
7.20pm for 7.30pm
Join in a game or learn to play the card game Bridge. Enjoy a shared platter for supper, as well as tea and coffee. Members $2, non-Members $5.
Tue 11th
JULY
Other Sections
Special Morning Breakfast
7.30am to 8.30am
Non-resident Members are welcome to join Resident Members for a hearty breakfast. Free for Resident Members, non-resident Members $20.
Wed 19th
JULY
Women’s Forum
10.00am for 10.30am
Join the discussion on 'The role of discipline' and stay for lunch if desired. Forum is free. Lunch is at Member and non-Member prices.
34 Discovering Melbourne 35 Feedback and Prize Winner 36 Funding to refurbish our place of gathering
Graduate House News 26 Seen at Graduate House The 481 Boys 27 Update: Roaring Twenties Fundraising Gala
Tues 4 , 18th th
Rare organ calls Victorian church home
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Fri 21st
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Christmas Karaoke Party
mas
Christ
e k o i r a K Party
6.30pm till late
Non-members are welcome to join Resident Members to enjoy a night of great food great Christmas themed dinner and Karaoke music. As this is a popular event, please RSVP by 17th July for our catering purposes. Free for Resident Members, non-resident Members $25, non-Members $35.
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Merry
Christmas
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July
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Monthly Luncheon
2nd August
Tony Pooley
The Shame of the Risk Profession: Bernoulli and Boole must be turning in their graves
COMING
Monthly Luncheons
First Wednesday of the Month
Tony is a valued consultant on corporate and safety risk management by some of the world’s largest corporations including BHP Billiton, Exxon-Mobil, Rio Tinto and Shell. After a career in the design and project management of large petroleum and chemical facilities, he sold his equity in a design engineering company in 1992, to found Australia’s first quantitative risk consultancy, Qest Consulting, and sold it to Australian engineering firm GHD, in 2005. He went on to become a member of the executive committee at Newcrest Mining for two years. Tony has undertaken various advisory and author roles for industry, and local and federal government departments in risk and process safety, in some cases reporting directly to industry CEO’s and Ministers. He has held an Associate Professor role on risk management at UniSA for the last seven years, created SQRA, the first experience-based quantification methodology that was adopted as the leading standard for the mining industry, and co-authored ‘Risk Bandits’, a critique of Board, Executive and the risk professional’s progress to date.
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Wednesday 6th September
Dr Stefan Arndt Can trees ‘learn’ to be more stress tolerant in a future climate?
Wednesday 4th October
Mrs Val Oldfield No beating about the bush.
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DiamondJubilee 60th Year
The
Graduate Union presents
Wednesday 19th July, 2017
ROARING THE
At the luncheon, we will be exploring innovative solutions to long term
· FUNDRAISING GALA ·
unemployment, including solutions to
Saturday, 2 September, 2017 - 7.00PM nd
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at RACV City Club, 501 Bourke Street, Melbourne CBD Three Course Meal and Drinks ‘Select’ - Australia’s premier showband John Deeks (Channel 7) as MC 1926 vintage Delage motor vehicle for photographs (in Lobby) Mr Paul Caine (Caine Real Estate) as Auctioneer Door Prizes and a Raffle Silent Auction Live Auction Tables of 10
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problems confronting disadvantaged groups like ex-prisoners, paroles, refugees and others for whom English is not a first language. When:
Wednesday 19th July; 12.30pm – 2.00pm
Where:
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Cost:
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FEATURE PROFESSOR PROFILES
Bob Stimson: Honorary Professor Geography and
Resource Management, The University of Melbourne
Professor Bob Stimson is the author of 49 books and monographs and more than 400 book chapters, journal articles and scientific papers. Bob’s research expertise and experience spans numerous fields in which he has published. These include regional economic development, urban and regional planning, human spatial behaviour, locational analysis, housing studies and housing policy including seniors housing, urban quality of life, spatial decision support systems and survey research methods. Bob has undertaken consulting and research for various federal, state and local government agencies across Australia and for AusAid and the World Bank. He was the Director of The Brisbane Plan which formulated a comprehensive strategy for the development, planning and management of the city up to 2011. Bob was the Convenor of the ARC Research Network in Spatially Integrated Social Science. From 2011 to mid-2015 he was Director of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network, a National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project, run out of The University of Melbourne. What influenced you to select the area of human geography? I was extremely lucky to go to school in the country in Armidale in northern New South Wales which had a university and a
teachers college. This was back in the early 1950s and there were absolutely wonderful teachers in both the primary and high school. I was taught geography by someone very famous, Mal Logan who ended up as Vice-Chancellor of Monash University. He became an outstanding geographer and leader in the field. He really kindled my interest in the subject, and when I finished high school with first class honours I came fourth in the state in geography. So I went to university and did a double major in geography. So that’s how it all started. What were the biggest ideas that you learned during your university time? When I went to The University of New England in 1960, it had a very dynamic geography department. The university was small. There was a big emphasis in the geography program on fieldwork and observation, collection of data, developing information and databases, and doing analysis. At that time, geography was starting to go through worldwide what was called the qualitative revolution which came out of parts of the UK and US, and some of the lecturers I had at New England as an undergraduate had quite a deal of experience through study leave in the US, and a number of them came from the UK. We were introduced to analytical approaches including qualitative modelling, and there was a lot of theory on urban and regional structures. It was a challenging but extremely interesting curriculum, and combining that with some
Professor Stimson receiving his Fellow of the Regional Science Association award, Sweden, 2010
studies in economics, geology and economic history, it was a very good basis for then moving on to become a professional geographer. What is analytical human geography? The reason why many of us use the term 'analytical human geography' is that reflects what we grew up with in our training and early academic careers when the discipline was going through this quantitative revolution, embracing scientific methodologies, measurement analysis, modelling using quantitative approaches. Very unfortunately, in my view, during the last two to three decades the discipline of geography - like many social sciences - went through two major shifts: one was a big interest in Marxism; and then more recently, post modernism. I find both of those dead alleys, being approaches that largely reject scientific paradigms for conducting investigation. Human geography these days in most
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university departments, those very few geography departments that remain intact - are dominated by various ‘isms’ as a result of those movements destroying the scientific basis of the human side of the discipline. From the early 1970s I branched out to become heavily involved in regional science which epitomised that quantitative analytical approach to the study of spatial phenomena, focusing on the way things are distributed across a space in a non-homogenous way across space and over time. So, when you bring both spatial differentiation and the time together in the investigation of social, economic and environmental phenomena you start to get better insights into what has happened. After you finished at university, what did you get up to? Initially I went high school teaching because most of us in those days went to university on either Commonwealth or state teachers college scholarships. I taught for a few years in the private system, first at a school in Orange, and then I moved to Melbourne to Trinity College where I taught geography. While I was at Trinity Grammar School I started an external postgraduate degree through The University of New England called the Bachelor of Letters, and that was two years of part time study with a thesis. I did my thesis on the patterns of post-war European immigration settlement in Melbourne, published that work and it received a bit of attention. In 1966 I was offered a position at Melbourne University as a Senior Tutor in Economic Geography and after 18 months, I started to look around for an ongoing academic position. I had a wonderful boss in the Department of Economic Geography at Melbourne University called
Molly Bayne, a wonderful woman who took me under her wing and facilitated me getting access to some resources and to pursue research. There used to be a big academic talkfest every year where people from across most of the disciplines used to get together at a big conference, The Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) Congress. It so happened that in 1967 the ANZAAS congress was held at Melbourne University. One of the great things about ANZSAAS was that all the disciplines participated in the conferences. I went to a public lecture that was given by an ecologist, Bill Williams, who was at the CSIRO in Canberra, who was talking about classificatory methods that botanists use and it was a fascinating talk. I went and had a talk to him afterwards and I said, I think I can use some of your approaches in the research I am doing and he said, well let’s talk. He told me to bring my data set to Canberra and we’ll put it through the CSIRO computer. Molly Bayne gave me the funding I needed and I went to Canberra and we ran the data. It was a new approach being used in terms of classificatory schemes and was starting to be used in developing social economic typologies across cities in Australia. At that time, as well at Melbourne University in the Economics and Commerce Faculty, what is now the Melbourne Institute was being established. There was fascinating work going on under the leadership of Ronald Henderson, the foundation Director. They were running the big Australian Poverty study which was a huge survey based in Melbourne, and they were
also doing all the research that led to the development of Medibank (later re-introduced as Medicare) Ronald Henderson was an incredibly dynamic scholar and the Institute was unique and it’s still going as one of the great research institutes of the social sciences in Australia. Biggest projects? I finished at The University of Melbourne at the start of 1968 and I moved to a lectureship in Geography at the new Flinders University in South Australia. I soon began to receive funding from what is now the Australian Research Council (ARC). Due to the flexible and innovative nature of the School of Social Sciences at Flinders, I started to interact with colleagues in psychology and economics, and I became interested in using survey research methods. I was interested in the process of human decision-making in terms of location decision making and the activities that people undertook. This was a new field that was developing called 'behavioural geography', and I become involved in that. I did my PhD at Flinders and got funding for the research which was based on a large scale sample survey data set for Adelaide, investigating the residential location decision choice process of households. Over the next three decades I was involved in teams of social science researchers investigating a wide range of applied issues. At Flinders in 1969 we established the Centre for Applied Social and Survey Research. Then in the early 1980s I went to Canberra as Director of the Australian Institute of Urban Studies, undertaking a number of national research projects. After a five-year stint as Head of the School of Management
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at what became The University of Canberra I was asked to direct The Brisbane Plan which produced a 20-year plan for the development and management of Brisbane in 1990/91. I stayed on in Brisbane first at QUT and then at The University of Queensland in professorial roles, including being the leader of the Queensland operation of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute funded by the Commonwealth and State governments. Later, I was to lead a number of large projects on urban and regional development, all with ARC funding. The research projects we ran covered a wide range of topics including housing, regional economic development, and quality of urban life. From the 1980s I also became heavily involved in collaboration with fellow regional scientists from the US, UK and Europe and Asia in regional economic development. Urban quality of life in Melbourne – are we doing things right? No. We can always do things better but it’s a vexed question. I got interested in quality of life research with some of my collaborators at UQ and the University of Michigan. We did two major studies of quality of urban life in Queensland in the late 1990s. Quality of urban life is a multifaceted thing, but in general all the evidence from survey research shows that there are very high levels of satisfaction in Australian cities. That’s not even across a particular city. I dispute the popular notion that there are big problems with our cities and their quality of life. Sure, there’s always room for improvement and innovation, but in general the overall quality of life in our cities is perceived to be good by people. I’ve just finished a major study
into quality of urban life with collaborators at the University of Hong Kong where we got funding from the research council there who undertake a major study, and we’ve done some comparative analysis with quality of urban life in western cities in Australia and the US. It’s interesting that some of the measures of quality of life in Hong Kong are considerably lower than they are in cities like Brisbane, Detroit, etc. But some other aspects of dimensions of quality of life are rated more highly. In terms of the urbanisation phenomenon of the contemporary world, the outstanding feature is the emergence of these mega cities in Asia. Unfortunately, there’s not much in the way of systematic empirical studies into things like quality of life in those cities. Is there really a housing crisis? There’s only a housing crisis in parts of Sydney and Melbourne. Other cities in Australia don’t face that. Actually, housing is still affordable in the fringe areas of Sydney and Melbourne. I’m sceptical about a lot of the stuff that’s around in the media and put forward in public policy pronunciations about what should or might be done about housing affordability. In general, it’s very difficult to intervene in these things. State governments have done some very silly things over time. One was to sell off most of the public housing in Australia, but that started back in the 1980s. And policies like first home owners schemes subsidising entry to home ownership actually achieve very little, generally having the impact of driving up demands and prices. The debate on negative gearing is somewhat ill-informed, and I would not touch negative gearing as a means of improving housing
affordability. Housing markets are very complex and they’re not homogenous across the nation, nor within a city. Affordability is really only a problem in Sydney and Melbourne, particularly Sydney. In the end, not a lot can be done. There is also a lot of talk about foreign investment, but when you look at where it is concentrated in housing it’s going largely into inner city areas and the upper market suburbs. Foreign investors aren’t buying up affordable housing, they’re purchasing in the more top ends of the market. Housing that is affordable to lower income people has always been located on the fringes of the cities and it’s always going to continue to be. Many of the gripes about housing affordability are from younger persons and households wanting to enter the market in the inner city areas for lifestyle reasons, and housing will never be very affordable in those high land value areas. A lot of government policy has exacerbated the housing affordability issue. For example, between 25% - 40% of the cost of new housing is attributable to state government and local government imposed developer levies. That wasn’t always the case. There’s a very strong case for getting rid of those and replacing them with a universal land tax which is an additional levy on property rates. A lot of the housing affordability issues could be addressed through both the easing of restriction on land zoned for urban development and through major reform of our convoluted and inefficient taxation system.
GRADUATE PATHWAY
The unsung heroes, the devastated and the forgotten, filmmaker David Brill AM makes sure everyone's story is seen, heard and remembered In 2017 David Brill received an Order of Australia (AM) for his work as a filmmaker with some of Australia's biggest broadcasters. Brill's footage of major historic moments has been shared around the world.
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midst the flames and panic, people terrified for their homes and lives, a young ABC filmmaker, David Brill, at times stopped filming and put down his camera to help people save their belongings from their homes that were quickly being engulfed by flames. It was 1967 and Southern Tasmania was alight. David Brill had been sent to cover the bushfires, but he felt compelled to help the people who were losing everything. “I went inside to help bring out books, paintings and other things just to make myself feel a bit better, but when that story went around the world, I realised the power of television, the power of journalism, the power of good documentary filmmaking and that sent me on my way,” he says. Due to the power of his footage, the film was syndicated worldwide and brought aid and expertise into Tasmania. “That’s when I realised how powerful it was, and I thought, you can really make a difference, doing this type of work and that’s what has really driven me up until today” he says. Hailing from Tasmania, David, 72, prefers to do humanitarian stories, explaining that if you see people in difficult situations on the TV news, people can relate to it. He says it’s the people that he cares about when making films.
David Brill was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in 2017
It’s about getting the message out there. He remembers the refugee camps in Sudan (Darfur), some of the biggest in the world that no one could enter. “All these wonderful people that had lost everything, living in a refugee camp, and I promise you there’s nothing worse than a refugee camp,” he says. “People who had small farms and who had lost them during the civil war, then ended up in these refugee camps. These are very dignified people and they were stuck there and they had been forgotten about because the news moves on. There were thousands and thousands of people, so eventually I managed to get into the camps and made a documentary called, ‘The Faces of Darfur’ for SBS’s Dateline.” The program was subsequently shown
on CNN four or five times around the world, expressing that these people should not be forgotten, and that we shouldn’t forget what is going on in other parts of the world. The stories that David Brill has captured are a part of his life. He recalls each story, encounter and meeting in vivid detail, and although interviewed by phone, his sincerity echoes through the receiver. Brill was present during some of the most pivotal moments in history: the 1975 Fall of Saigon; the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall; the 1983 Australian victory of the America’s Cup (“that was a great moment, Australians defeating Americans at their own game,” he says); the fall of the Soviet Union and the war in the Baltics.
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it helped to shorten the war by about three years, saving hundreds of lives by exposing the lie. He’s a real American hero,” says Brill. “There are some great Australians doing wonderful work around the world – aid workers, nurses, doctors and others that we don’t hear much about and I think it’s my job to get their valuable work and caring acknowledged through the power of television”.
David Brill in Afghanistan, 2005
Brill and reporter in Vietnam, 1975
What has been the most inspirational for Brill are the people he has met and filmed, like the young Vietnamese girl who, during the Vietnam war had lost her leg. “I was on the outskirts of Saigon and this little girl was brought in to be fitted with an artificial leg - her leg was blown off when she was three or four in crossfire and she had no one to play with. Her parents had both been killed in the war and she had to be carried around on her grandmother’s back,” he says. “She only had one leg and when she was seven they were bringing her into this hospital and we happened to be there”. “She was the most beautiful child that I had ever seen. There was no expression on her face, but once they put this makeshift leg on her made from bits of old wood and she held onto the rails and started to walk,
it was the first time in her life that she had her own independence and her face lit up a bit and it was very, very powerful and moving,” says Brill. “When that story went to air on Four Corners with everything else that we shot on that trip, people commented about that little girl: what are we doing in Vietnam, what a disastrous war. This little girl was this one example of thousands of people getting injured, killed in war. That and the Tasmanian bushfires were two of the most important stories I had done at that time”. Brill cites Daniel Ellsberg as one of the great human beings that he has met, Ellsberg of course being the military analyst behind the Pentagon Papers that outed the Nixon administration as having sent more than half a million troops to Vietnam, to a war that Ellsberg believed was unwinnable. Ellsberg had secretly photocopied the report detailing military activity in Vietnam and later gave a copy to The New York Times. “He could have gone to jail for the rest of his life but by saying that there were more Americans being killed in the war than the Nixon administration was letting on,
In 2017, Brill was acknowledged for his humanitarian work and received an Order of Australia (AM). Brill acknowledges that it is not just he who has done this work, for there are many cinematographers doing similar work as we speak. “I accepted the award not only for myself but also for my colleagues” he says. Looking back on Brill’s career, he has covered every major conflict from the Fall of Saigon through to Iraq and Afghanistan. When he was 70, Brill was embedded with an American battalion in Afghanistan and he could see the same pattern happening as had happened in Vietnam all those years ago - the suffering and death of innocent people. He looks back now and realises the momentous history that he has seen and covered over the last 50 years. What David Brill likes to do now is give talks to schools and universities about the history that he has witnessed and he hopes that we can learn from our mistakes. David Brill has won 6 United Nations Peace Awards, a Special Award for his Fall of Saigon footage; he was accredited to the Australian Cinematographers Society in 2015 having been inducted into their Hall of Fame in 2008. David was a video journalist at SBS’s ‘Dateline’ programme from 2003 to 2014.
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REVIEW
Monthly Luncheon with David Beauchamp The 19th Century Notables of Leicester Street: The engineer, the inventor, the academic, his brother, the industrialist and the soprano The Young Alexander Kennedy Smith Rented 'Summerhill Terrace', 114 Leicester Street from 1868 to 1879 An established man, A.K Smith was a major in the Victorian Volunteer Regiment, an office bearer in the Royal Society, a Melbourne City Councillor for 15 years and Mayor for two years. He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1876 and remained there until his death in 1881. In 1875, he helped establish the now-defunct Victorian Bowling Club at the northern end of University Square. In 1853 the City of Melbourne Gas and Coke Company selected A.K Smith from a list of 64 applicants from the UK and Europe, to build and manage Melbourne’s first gasworks. After signing his contract on 21st September, 1853, Smith immediately ordered all the necessary components to build the gasworks; these together with 1300 tons of coal to make the gas, took 12 ships to transport to Melbourne. With this completed, Smith left England for Melbourne on the propeller assisted sailing ship The Croesus. The journey took three months because the engine of the ship kept breaking down and could not be used when the ship was becalmed in the doldrums. On the same ship, explained Mr Beauchamp, was the first French consul for Victoria, Count de Chabrillian and his new wife, Celeste who had attracted the Count’s attention when she was a courtesan in Paris. They married and set sail for Melbourne. Unfortunately, and unbeknown to Celeste, her highly
David Beauchamp at the June Monthly Luncheon
scandalous memoirs, which she had written when she thought the Count was not going to marry her because of family opposition, had been published shortly before they left for Melbourne and, due to the slow trip to Australia her memoirs arrived before she did and consequently she was not acceptable in Melbourne's polite society. On 1st December, 1854, the foundation stone was laid for the gasworks. The band of the 40th Regiment, marching in a procession to mark the occasion, on the order of Governor Hotham, was suddenly withdrawn from the parade and sent to Ballarat to help put down the Eureka Rebellion. Then in October 1855, the topping out ceremony of the chimney to the gasworks was celebrated with a small champagne breakfast held for the directors of the company and friends on top of the 60-metre-high chimney. By December 1855 the gasworks was completed but disaster struck at the ceremony on 17th December when Governor Hotham, who had come to light the first fire to the coke ovens, was drenched in a sudden storm. Most unfortunately, he developed pneumonia and died on New Year's Eve, just before the supply of gas started on New Year's Day, 1856.
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By 1859 Smith's contract was complete and he left the gas company to set up as a civil and consulting engineer with his own foundry at 41 Leicester Street, later moving to 54-56 Leicester Street. Smith designed gasworks at Ballarat, Castlemaine, Bendigo and Newcastle with his foundry providing the necessary components. He reported on and prepared plans and specifications for other gasworks in Victoria, New South Wales, China, New Zealand and Japan and in addition he consulted on water supply and railway schemes. The Inventor, Louis Philip Brennan Leicester Street from 1871 to 1880 By the time Mr Brennan was 19, he had already made several inventions, attracting the attention of A.K. Smith who employed him as an apprentice in his factory in Leicester Street where he worked from 1871 to 1880. Brennan was behind several inventions, including the world's first (at the time) fly-by-wire missile. In 1874, while Brennan was operating a belt-driven planning machine he observed that only one side of the belt was transmitting power to the shaft. He saw that if a belt was around a pulley on a shaft it would be possible to transmit power to the shaft by pulling on the end of the belt. Brennan reasoned that this system could be used to propel a vessel that contained a drum, wound with wire that was connected to a propeller shaft with the other end of the wire connected to a stationary winch. As the winch wound in the wire, the propeller shaft would rotate, driving the vessel forward. The only vehicle Brennan could think of that would require driving for
a limited distance and didn't have to make a return journey, was a torpedo that could be used for the defence of harbours. He ventured to construct a crude model after taking out a patent on the idea, and took the model to engineering lecturer William Kernot - a near neighbour of A.K Smith - to obtain his advice on how the torpedo would work if made to a larger scale. It was after the discovery of gold in Victoria when there was concern that a Russian ship could enter Port Philip Bay and plunder Victoria's rich hoard of gold. Brennan's steerable torpedo would be the ideal weapon and was an attractive proposition for the government, who at A.K Smith's request, provided the sum of £500 to allow the invention to have a thoroughly practical trial. Construction of a full-scale torpedo started at Smith's foundry in March, 1878. On 13th October, 1886 Brennan declared, "The improved Brennan fish torpedo is complete and fit for trial." A trial held on 26th October was a complete success. The torpedo was fired in rough weather at a small target towed at a speed of 17 knots. The torpedo launched at 20 knots and directed by Brennan, struck the target at the range of about 1.6 km. The British government then agreed to purchase the torpedo for the sum of £110,000, £500 of which was sent to William Kernot for his assistance in developing the torpedo. The torpedo went into full production in 1887 and was installed at seven torpedo stations, four in the United Kingdom, two in Malta and the last one in Hong Kong. This torpedo station is now a museum of Coastal Defence and contains a replica of the torpedo. Brennan then worked on a monorail train and a helicopter,
both stabilised by gyroscopes. Unfortunately for Brennan, none of these were a commercial success. Brennan used a large part of his fortune trying to sell these inventions, but found no buyers. The Academic, William Kernot Rented 110 Leicester Street from 1872 to 1879 Mr Kernot attended The University of Melbourne at the tender age of 15 and ventured to become the university's first graduate of engineering. After graduating Mr Kernot found it difficult to gain employment, and after a long delay he obtained a position in the Department of Mines where he was employed checking mining leases. In 1868 he was appointed as a part time lecturer and later in 1883 became the first Professor of Engineering at The University of Melbourne. Kernot also engaged in consulting work which included reporting on construction failures, including the collapse, under test load, of a Monier Arch bridge at Bendigo designed by John Monash. In 1882 he introduced electric light to Melbourne through the New Australian Electric Company, being Chairman from 1882 to 1900. In the late 1880s he successfully campaigned to have the Moorabool Railway viaduct reduced from a double track railway to a single track because of his concern that it was under-designed. The viaduct was later strengthened with additional piers and the trusses changed to plated girders. Other interests including cycling he claimed the record for a pennyfarthing journey to Geelong. Kernot was also a ballooning enthusiast and owner of a steampowered car that he used to drive in student processions disguised as a locomotive.
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In 1880 he moved to a large, comfortable house he had built in Parkville, where he lived, unwed, with other members of his family until his death in 1909. The Industrialist, Mephan Ferguson 116 Leicester Street In 1856, at age 13, Mephan Ferguson started work as an apprentice to John Price whose Ballarat firm produced rocking cradles, ripple boxes, pumps, tanks, barrows and cages for miners. The firm later went on to fabricate metal bridge girders with Mephan Ferguson supervising the erection of the bridges at various sites in Victoria. In 1874, he was the resident engineer for the construction of a road bridge over the Leigh River at Shelford. It was documented that on the weekends he would walk from the bridge site 40 km to Geelong to see his fiancée Agnes Shand, who he married in 1875. Shortly afterwards, together with his new bride's father and his brother-in-law, Mr Ferguson bought the bridge girder making plant from John Price and they were successful in tendering to make the girders for three bridges in Melbourne and Geelong. When his father-in-law died, the name of the firm was changed to Mephan Ferguson Proprietary Limited. As well as bridge girders, the firm manufactured riveted wrought iron pipes, which were used for Melbourne's water supply, by other Victorian water trusts and for the Chaffey irrigation schemes around Mildura. In 1856, when opening his desk drawer, he observed the dovetail joints that were used to join the timber of the drawer. Lo and behold, his idea of the lock bar joint and the next morning a joint was made in steel and when tested, proved to be 100 percent
efficient. The idea was quickly patented and machines were designed and manufactured in his factory to make lock bar pipes. To make a pipe, steel plate was cut to size, the edges upset by a series of rollers to give the dovetail shape, the plate was bent into a half cylinder and then two half cylinders were assembled and lock bars threaded along the edges of the cylinder before being closed by the application of force from a 1200 ton hydraulic ram. The newfound advantages of the lock bar pipe enabled the firm to win, against overseas tenderers, the contract for the supply of pipes to the Coolgardie goldfields water supply scheme. This contract required 563km of 760mm diameter pipe to take the water from a dam built in the Darling Ranges near Perth to the goldfields at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. The patent rights were sold to the Carnegie Trust in the USA who produced over a million metres of lock bar pipes. Some lengths of pipe are still in use in Melbourne’s water supply. After Mephan Ferguson's death in 1919, his sons ran the firm until they died, and it was sold in 1952 to Tubemakers of Australia Ltd. The Soprano, Amy Castles 234 Leicester Street Amy Castles, for a short time in the late 1890s, lived with her grandmother at 234 Leicester Street. Amy was born in Carlton in 1880 but spent most of her girlhood in Bendigo where her vocal ability first came to public attention. She was touted by the Catholic Press to follow in Nellie Melba’s footsteps - musically, but not morally. The Catholic Press regarded Melba as ‘a Protestant tart’. After a series of concerts, which raised
several thousand pounds, Amy left for Europe in September 1899 to take lessons from Mathilde Marchesi, Melba’s old teacher. Marchesi thought Amy's voice was unsuitable for opera, but after lessons with Jacque Bouhy she made her debut at Queens Hall in London in November 1901. She made a successful tour of Australia in 1902. Her concert at the Exhibition Buildings attracted an audience of 20,000. In 1912 she secured a position in the Vienna Hofopera, appearing seven times. The Vienna critics found her voice small and sweet and not suited to heavy operatic roles. Amy left Vienna just before World War I broke out and after giving a few concerts in America she returned to Australia, to sing in the 1919 - 1920 JC Williamson opera season. After 1920, she gave few concerts and died without much public notice, in November 1951. To quote Jeff Brownrigg, the author of A New Melba; The Tragedy of Amy Castles, she did not achieve any sort of greatness in her 1899 and 1902 performances, but rather, showed potential. An important part of her tragedy was that she became very rich before she developed a solid technique. Once her career had been launched she stopped being Amy Castles, the promising, good-natured Bendigo girl, and became Amy Castles, the promising prima donna. And that is how she stayed.
Thank you for your intriguing talk, David.
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Women's Forum Review
The Graduate Union 2017 Annual General Meeting and Dinner
Does beauty really lie in the eye of the beholder?
To commence the evening, the President of The Graduate Union, Dr Ken V Loughnan AO welcomed attendees to the 105th Annual General Meeting of The Graduate Union of The University of Melbourne.
Wednesday 17th May
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What does the phrase mean? The person who is being looked at is the “beheld”. So it is suggesting that people aren’t beautiful or ugly in themselves, rather their beauty or ugliness is all in the mind of the person looking at them (beholding them). But who has the power to decide what is beautiful and what's not? Beauty is subjective, for what one person loves, another loathes. Sometimes the idea of beauty, precludes inner beauty. It is overshadowed when everything else seems more important. This can result in self-harm, self-mutilation to create 'beauty'. In some cultures, e.g, in Iran, 90% of people have nose jobs, change the colour of their skin and are never happy with what they have. So what defines beauty - is it the face or is it within the soul? Some people are considered not beautiful inside or out, and is that external judgement? For some, inner beauty is more important than appearance. Beauty can be enjoyed in many ways. For example gardens and art. There are so many kinds of beauty that are matched to the environment. There is also individual beauty versas abstract value. For some, symmetry and balance is beauty. Beauty can come from the soul, e.g., writers and artists have ethics, courage and thoughts of doing the right thing from good influence.
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Different people respond differently - as when a painting can be beautiful to some. Plastic surgery patients think otherwise. While some procedures are necessary to repair injuries, others may be deemed unnecessary especially for the sake of vanity and for being self-centred. Some people want to stay young forever.
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Then there is the philosophical argument of whether there is a beauty that you can compare. For instance, at a scenic lookout, are all seeing the same thing?
Graffiti and street art are beauty to some. However, street art is different to graffiti. Is graffiti just the act of vandalism and how will this shape the urban environment? Some may argue that it is not beautiful for a contemporary building and is tasteless in architecture.
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It was discovered that it takes 8 milliseconds for the human brain to respond to what we see. With online dating, we see faces, we reject certain images, based on superficial beauty. We have a preconception about race and skin colour which means we don't get into deeper knowledge.
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Conclusion - is beauty a generated concept, do we need beauty to uplift us? Beauty is in our bodies and its ability to repair. An 80 year old person can have a beautiful brain and spirit. Some things are beautiful to everyone, e.g., nature, parks, etc. Let's just leave beauty to individual decision. It is after all, in the eye of the beholder.
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The awards of the evening were announced first, starting with the recipient of the 2017 Research Scholarship Award, Resident Member, Milena Nadgorny who is undertaking her PhD on 3D printing of functional materials at The University of Melbourne. The funds from the $3,000 scholarship will be used for Milena's travel expenses to access research facilities at The University of Washington, USA and for the purchase of 3D-printing equipment and consumables. Milena explained in her presentation that 3D printing technology allows for translating virtual design only imagined to an actual solid, physical 3D object. There are many advantages to these technologies, from the ability to customise the design, to decreasing the amount of waste and production time. The objective of Milena's PhD research is to synthesise the process and produce functional objects. Unlike commercially available benign plastics, the interest lies in performing some chemical, catalytical, or physical functions. They will be focusing on the field of soft robots and green chemistry. “Our lab specialises in the function of smart polymers, we then perform the characterisation of those materials, process them and
3D print them. We are interested in exploring the new areas where this technology can be applied,” she said. Last year, Milena's research led her to successfully synthesise and print some catalytic devices which are capable of degrading environmental pollutants, in particular 4-nitrophenol, a byproduct of the pharmaceutical industry. Her research into the area saw the team employing 3D printing technology to fabricate microporous membranes, successfully degrading 96 percent of nitrophenol within an hour, without signs of degradation to the catalyst. This is also the case for soft robots, which over time and with overuse can fall prey to damage. Future work will be in collaboration with The University of Washington with the hope of developing the new generation of 3D printable materials for tissue engineering and to fabricate some materials with enhanced mechanical performances. “I would like to thank you very much for the scholarship which is a very valuable resource for me to travel to Seattle to proceed with my collaborative research,” Milena said. 2017 saw the establishment of The Rhys Watson Medal, generously initiated by Chair of Council, Cr Rhys Watson. Cr Watson engaged noted sculptor Michael Meszaros OAM to create a medal for the recipient, as well as generously donating a $1,000 cash prize. The Medal was awarded to Resident Member, Parisa Shiran,
Milena Nadgorny receiving her award from President, Dr Ken V Loughnan AO
PhD candidate at the Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne. The Graduate House Bursary awards were then given to Melissa Kennedy (Master of Laws, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne) (in absentia), Jim Peereboom (Doctor of Medicine, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne), Muhammad Sufiyan (Master of Engineering (Electrical), The University of Melbourne and Sebastian Teo (Master of Architecture, RMIT University). A Research Acknowledgment Award was given to Mr Shuntaro Iizuka (PhD Candidate, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne) (in absentia) and a Coursework Acknowledgment Award was given to Ying Barnett
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(Master of Business Administration, The University of Melbourne). The President made his way to the podium to open the meeting. He acknowledged the Elders, families and descendents of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation who are custodians of these lands, acknowledged that the land on which we meet is a place of age old ceremonies of celebration, initiation and renewal, and that the local aboriginal people have had and continue to have a unique role in the life of these lands. The 105th Annual General Meeting was officially opened at 5:45pm. The President noted that this was his second Annual General Meeting, and that he is now halfway through his term as President of the Association. He expressed his enjoyment in being associated with Council and its subcommittees, as well as with the Executive team and staff of The Graduate Union. He said that while he has many other associations, he is pleased to have been asked to be President of The Graduate Union. The President noted that 2016 had been a very progressive year, Council being very committed to nurturing a vibrant association, one which is showing great leadership and stewardship. “I see this as an organisation with a great heart, the people are so friendly, the membership that I have met at various events. I have met a lot of the Residents to get a feel of what they do and what their needs are that we can best meet for our Members. "I’ve spent a lot of time meeting Members outside of this country, to spend some time with them to update them on what we’re doing and to make them feel they are still very much part of The Graduate Union family.”
He said that he has also put emphasis on the positioning of The Graduate Union within our local community here, within Australia and globally as one that people want to aspire to and that new graduates and others would like to come and join. The President expressed his enthusiasm to develop the relationship between the Association and The University of Melbourne and noted that he has met with the Chancellor and had a good discussion about the role the Association plays in supporting the University as well as others. The President expressed that the facilities at Graduate House provide a family atmosphere that many other colleges fail to deliver, and that he frequently shares his thoughts on the facilities with others that he meets. In 2016, noted the President, many eminent individuals visited Graduate House including High Commissioners and Ambassadors to and for Australia. The President concluded his address by thanking the Membership for their support of the Association, and encouraged the Membership to be active with the Association, coming along to the luncheons and other events. “Think about the future of The Graduate Union. How do we want this organisation to look in the coming years? What can we do to support The Graduate Union by way of our Annual Appeal, by way of our significant fundraising that we’ve been having?” Chair of Council, Cr Rhys Watson approached the podium for the Chair’s Report. He began by thanking the Members for their strong support during the recent elections, noting that he is truly humbled by the opportunity to again serve the Membership as Chair for another term. He noted that 2017 marks
loans and guard against business shocks. The collegiate Master Plan provides a basis for meeting the future needs and aspirations of Members and graduate students as we see a high demand for convenient and supportive collegiate experiences, with over 20,000 graduates now enrolled at The University of Melbourne - this figure suggesting that there are more graduate students enrolled than undergraduates.
Muhammad Sufiyan, Sebastian Teo, the President and Jim Peereboom
Parisa Shiran and Chair, Cr Rhys Watson
the Diamond Jubilee (60 years) of the purchase of the Gladstone Terraces. Today, he said, we are building on the vision of our founders and the opportunities of the present as we plan for the future to welcome a new generation of graduates. He was pleased to report that 2016 was a successful year of growth, having seen increased surpluses in the last two years, and by growing these surpluses it is vital that the Association provides funds for improved facilities, reduce existing
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The Chair noted that student accommodation has increased by 10 percent through the acquisition of 13 apartments, on Level 7 at 50 Barry Street, Carlton. This marked a strategic move by the college which increased the Association’s facilities, the project now running a positive cashflow that will contribute to the surplus of the Association. Cr Watson mentioned the planning application lodged with Melbourne City Council for the residential development behind Gladstone Terrace (mentioned below). The Association has gone to great lengths with the planning application to ensure that the heritage aspects of the building will be honoured and maintained. The development of this building has been the vision of the Association for many years, noted Cr Watson. That the college be developed, thereby increasing accommodation that responds to a strong demand and importantly, to accumulate a critical mass of accommodation enabling a stronger economic standing which will be delivered to the Members. He noted the Association’s response to the Melbourne Metro Rail tunnel plans. The tunnel will run along Grattan Street, its progress having been closely monitored by the Association with some success where original plans intended the tunnel to run under the Terraces, now to run
along Grattan Street, minimising disruption to the Association’s buildings. Communication has continued with the City of Melbourne regarding the development of University Square. Strengthening the culture of philanthropy continues to be a priority of the Association, as how the Association can best assist in improving the college and facilities for the benefit of Members and our community. Improved systems and resources have supported a successful year of annual giving. In 2016, The Graduate House Society was launched, with several bequests noted, as well as intentions. Miss Barbara Funder's bequest has enabled plans for The Barbara Funder Lounge at 222 Leicester Street. Barbara’s legacy will also be honoured via the trusteeship - The William Berry and Barbara Funder Postgraduate College Trust. Cr Watson thanked Council, CEO and Head of College, Dr Kerry Bennett and staff for their commitment, work and welcoming experiences provided to all who visit Graduate House. Dr Kerry Bennett then commenced her report, discussing the Association’s progress in comparison with the second strategic plan 2016-2018 against each of the key priority areas: • innovative influential membership Dr Bennett noted that the key result areas are that Members are connected locally and worldwide to the networks of influence and innovation for the benefit of society. Over 100 collegiate events were held at Graduate House in 2016, 1,425 attendees, 23,429 delegates, an increase of 9 percent from 2015, 139 convenors, occupancy
increased 98.4 percent (a 12-month percentage average). • benefaction Council is seeking to drive advancement through a leadership model and to have engagement of influential networks. Major funds have been secured from bequests, donations and other endowment sources. • planned and achieved major projects G-House and G-Union major projects are ready to be initiated, and Dr Bennett thanked those who have donated to the Association as they continue the long tradition of giving to ensure that Graduate House continues to thrive. Dr Bennett encouraged Members to give generously for the Annual Appeal to support funding for new carpet and furniture within the Philip Law Members dining room. Philanthropic endeavours are increasing through increased resources pertaining to this area, including graphic designers, advancement officer and suitable IT infrastructure and through the design and implementation of a capital fundraising campaign to raise $50 million for the development of the building behind the terraces. The Graduate House Society is also being developed for funds rejuvenation. The Graduate Union 'Fund Life Long Learning' crowdfunding site has also been launched and is currently in a beta testing environment. Dr Bennett encouraged resident Members to load projects to fund residency, research, and other academic related expenses. The Association also seeks to post its currently offered scholarships and bursaries to raise more for the current funds allocated.
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Progress has also been made in relation to the 50-year blueprint to ensure that Graduate House expands and meets the market demand and expectations and offers measurable benefits resulting from these plans. The William Berry Wing Refurbishment has progressed positively, along with the completion of the new Reception desk and front door, and the acquisition of 13 new bedsit apartments at 50 Barry Street, Carlton which have been refurbished to suit Residents, the apartments now fully booked. As per the 50-year blueprint, the Association is working in strategic plan cycles of 3-4 years, Master Plan cycles of 10 years and a 50-year blueprint. Currently the Association is in the second year of the second strategic plan, and in the second year of the two tenyear master plans that are being developed. January 2016 saw 22,885 postgraduate students enrolled at The University of Melbourne and 7,718 enrolled at RMIT. When compared to historical data, these figures suggest that the number of postgraduate students has increased over the years, passing the number of undergraduate students. It is therefore in the Association’s best interests to support this ever-growing market in a collegial environment. The G-Union master plan will see the continued development of an online ‘interact’ site which will see further development once activities related to the G-House Master Plan have concluded. • effective responsive stewardship Productive relationships are key to the Association, along with ethical leadership, accountability and transparency. A Council that
is representative of Members is also key to effective responsive stewardship, and positive relationships with Melbourne City Council as well as Melbourne Metro Rail to allay any foreseeable disruption due to the 5-year works during the development of the new Metro Tunnel along Grattan Street. Establishing relationships with other not-for-profits and charities such as Oaktree, Variety The Children’s Charity, Graduate Women Victoria and the National Federation of Graduate Women in Australia, will also be key for the Association. Dr Bennett extended her thanks to the staff, highlighting their hard work and generosity with the Oaktree lunch which saw staff donate more money combined than the general public. Cr David Cowie, Chair of the Finance and Audit subcommittee was invited to the podium to submit the financial report for the year ended 31st December, 2016. Cr Cowie acknowledged auditor Sam Claringbold and his team from JTP Assurance and Kay Gulenc, the Association’s external accountant of 10 years. Cr Cowie referred to some of the Association’s highlights including the increase in revenue, indicating that catering and accommodation are the main revenue earners, and that from historical data it is evident that these two business units have increased each year. Accommodation increased in particular because of the strong utilisation of the accommodation facility, in particular for January, a time where traditionally occupancy has been lower due to the university holidays. Catering revenue has also increased yearly, reflecting the above-par offerings of Graduate House. The main expense types of the organisation begin with the largest - employee expenses - which have
increased yearly, a conscious effort made by Council to ensure staff resources to drive the growth of the college and to assist with alleviating a workload build-up on some staff. Catering expenses also increased in line with the increase in accommodation and function activities. Interest and bank fees were an expense type which has decreased by $200,000 yearly, reflecting a re-negotiation of the banking facilities in the previous financial year. 2016 saw an increased surplus, reflecting a robust financial position. Cash equivalence shows a decrease; however this is a conscious effort due to the fact that minimal interest is earned for surplus funds. 2016 saw a new account opened with Bank Australia, the facility taken on to fund the acquisition of the new Barry Street accommodation. Cr Cowie expressed his pleasure that the Association has a relationship with two banks, National Australia Bank and Bank Australia with which to pursue its various financial objectives. The borrowings should be seen in the overall equity of the Association, reflecting a small increase yearly from the surplus.
Ms Kudeviita has had a major historical involvement with The Graduate Union, including her participation with the William Berry Postgraduate Trust, French lunchtime groups and more. Mr Myers was appointed the 22nd Chancellor of The University of Melbourne in January 2017. Professor Anne Steinemann and Professor Stephen Peterson (in absentia) were appointed as Honorary College Fellows. Professor Steinemann is a Professor of Civil Engineering and Chair of Sustainable Cities Melbourne at The University of Melbourne and is internationally recognised for her research in engineering and sustainability, including indoor air quality, product emissions and exposure assessment and drought management, indicators and
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1,600 senior government officials from 54 countries, as well as officials from both international development agencies and nongovernment organisations. During his time at Harvard University, Professor Peterson also taught public financial management in the Graduate program of the Kennedy School of Government. He was a resident advisor for Kenya and Ethiopia for eight and twelve years respectively. In Ethiopia, he directed the reform of budgeting, accounting, disbursements, multi-year planning and financial information systems.
Professor Stephen Peterson developed and directed Harvard University's Executive Education Program in Public Financial Management from 1986 to 2010. The Executive Education Program trained over
Before the close of the Annual General Meeting a question and answer session was held and the date of the 2018 Annual General Meeting was announced as 31st May, 2018.
From MAPP (Master of Applied Positive Psychology) to APP (Applying it) in the business world Some roles that her firm has helped Jo Fisher is Managing Director of Jo Fisher Executive Group, comprising JFE Search, FlexExecutives, JF Career Transitions, and Spectrum Leadership Advisory. The Jo Fisher Group is an international Australian-owned leadership advisory and global search firm, with Australian locations in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra, and 23 international offices.
The Returning Officer of The Graduate Union, Mr Ron Ritchie was invited to the podium to speak about the results of the 2017 Council elections. Five valid candidates were nominated, 234 envelopes were received with 213 valid ballot papers. Mr Ritchie declared the following candidates elected: Rhys Watson, Molina Asthana and The Hon Justice Tony Pagone, all for a term up to 2020. Two Honorary Life Membership Awards were presented - to Ms Heather Kudeviita and to the Chancellor of The University of Melbourne, Mr Allan Myers AC QC (in absentia).
information systems. Professor Steinemann serves as adviser to governments and industries around the world, and has directed more than $24 million in competitive research funding. Her work has resulted in new federal and state legislation, agency policies, and industry practices. Professor Steinemann has received the highest teaching awards at college, university, and national levels. She has published over 55 peer-reviewed journal articles and two textbooks: Microeconomics for Public Decisions and Exposure Analysis.
Jo Fisher speaking at the 2017 Annual General Meeting Dinner
The woman behind it all is Jo Fisher, an entrepreneur and expert in leadership acquisition, talent development, career coaching, and impactful leadership strategies and practice. Her focus is on assisting clients to select and ultimately appoint contemporary leaders to senior positions.
appoint include CEO of Asia Link Business, Vice-Chancellor of La Trobe University and The University of Western Sydney, CEO of Oxfam Australia, major health services, MacKillop Family Services and a wide variety of senior executive appointments. One of the most critical roles currently being worked on is the inaugural agency, Family Safety Victoria which is being established for the prevention of family violence in Victoria. How did Ms Fisher come to be drawn to the Executive search? She admits that she didn’t have a background in Human Resources, adding that her career pathway wasn’t particularly well planned. “Like many things in
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our lives, it just kind of happened. Opportunities occurred and some incredible challenges were put before me and there was a point in time where I realised that my earlier career, which involved working mainly with machines and computers, wasn’t as interesting to me as working with people,” she said. Going back earlier, following school she says that she (thankfully) followed the advice of the school career counsellor, who told her that she would make a great bookkeeper. She followed this advice and commenced a finance and accounting certificate and was then an intern in the credit control department of OTC (Overseas Telecommunications Commission). “It was great training in cashflow management, and three years of that really served me well and still serves me well today in a small business where cashflow is really important.” During the late 1970s, Jo Fisher could see that even at that time there were very few women in leadership roles and while it didn’t especially worry her, she was quite ambitious for her family, and wondered what she could do differently other than “underlining surnames and following on 90-day overdue accounts”. The newest growth area was the emerging technology sector. Keeping her finger on the pulse of job economy, Fisher enrolled in a part-time computer programming course and became a programmer, juggling punch cards and “playing with zeroes and ones” [binary code]. She was transferred to the computer department within OTC and learned about data integrity and privacy and the benefits of investing in the very best in IT infrastructure.
“I was one of the few women in IT and it didn’t especially concern me, but I wish there were more. I developed a reputation in the integration of business and technology over time and the internet was just starting to be applied in everyday business.” She started in an area called EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), which morphed into e-business and e-commerce. It led her to work with the leadership of hospitals, government departments and transport companies and she realised that the more advanced technology became, that even despite that technology or with that technology, the real difference was always going to be business and the leadership in the business. She came to Victoria through the invitation of Monash University to set up a new research and consulting centre, The Monash Centre for e-commerce, in 1995 and decided to do an MBA to match her work experience with management theory and management research to get a deeper understanding of organisational development. She did that part time while she was taking care of her family as well as other business commitments. “I really admire people who commence Masters and more whilst juggling all these things because at times [for me] it just felt totally overwhelming, and I didn’t know how I was ever going to finish it,” she said. After completing the work at Monash Centre for e-commerce, she joined some friends in a technology consulting business, built it up and sold it, pre 'tech-wreck'. “It also gave me a time to take some time out of a career that had been full on and reflect on at that stage what I really wanted to do. What was I good at,
what did I love and how could I bring all those together?” “I had been focused on the technology sector, outside interests had led me to start a charity for homeless kids and I had also spent a lot of time with friends who had vineyards in the Hunter Valley and re-established a new event called the ‘Lovedale Long Lunch’. I realised that one of my true loves was bringing people together for a common purpose and to bring the very best people together for the very best organisational outcomes,” said Fisher. “All those years I’ve been head hunted myself over time by executive search consultants and I kind of thought - here, I’ve got this space, what can I do, what do I really love, and I succumbed to the invitation from the executive search firm to join an international search firm. It seemed, then, like a natural progression.” What she learned, says Fisher, was that while she loved it, travelling the world and dealing with very senior appointments, it was a very male dominated industry and that in fact, she believed that search consultants play a role and that they can influence the shortlist, as it is their job. “I felt there weren’t enough women coming through on the shortlists in those times, and that I’d like to do something about it,” said Fisher, deciding that it was high time to start her own ‘next generation executive’ search firm. “I started on a laptop in a tiny rented office and my first engagements were actually in these sectors that I loved - education, healthcare and government. And these are our specialisations today.” She was one of the few female owners in this type of business in Australia and New Zealand and because, she says, part of
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her dream was to ensure more women were considered for senior positions, she did focus on that - if that individual, regardless of gender, was the best person for the role. Fisher does emphasise that gender diversity should be at 50/50 on any shortlist. “I’m really proud today, 15 years later, to say that of about 1500 - 1600 of appointments that the firm has done, over 48 percent of those have been women, who have moved into senior executive and CEO roles,” she said. This led her to an exploration in positive leadership, and later she came across the founder of Positive Psychology, Professor Martin Seligman. Positive psychology, explained Fisher, is the focus on the strengths of individuals and groups to thrive. At the individual level, positive psychology focuses on talents and individual traits that contribute to wellbeing, contentment and satisfaction. At the organisational level, positive organisational psychology is about what makes an organisation flourish through motivating teams and individuals. Traditional leadership approaches focus just on identifying and solving problems that prevent organisations from reaching optimal performance, but positive psychology puts a new lens on leadership, explains Fisher, and leaders engage in an emphasis on what each person in the organisation might do to flourish, themselves. “I started to believe that this was going to be the absolute future of what the younger generations will look forward to or expect from leadership, that they’re going to follow and if leaders could always make a positive impact on organisations it was going to be extremely important for us as a firm to make sure they were going to be positive leaders,” said Fisher.
Looking around the world for studies in this area she found that The University of Melbourne was the only university in Australia that she felt had the foresight to bring Seligman’s logic of positive psychology from The University of Pennsylvania to Australia. Fisher was in the second cohort of parttime Masters studies, starting in early 2014 and says that it was the most fantastic experience. With the requirement of a research project, Fisher could weave in all the research, practices and principles learned along the way, and her research project ended up with a focus on developing a new model that she called ‘positive leadership’ or ‘positive impact recruitment’. As Fisher’s clients were mostly hiring managers and organisations that were still applying traditional methods of selection which seemed to be unchanged over decades, she felt that this could be something that could assist every step of the recruitment process, whether an organisation is recruiting for a graduate or a mid-level manager or a senior leader. “We all know that digital technologies and social media are used in online recruitment and new developments. They simply enable reach to broader audiences, but person to person contact in every step of the way and relationships and communication can influence the interest in the first instance, the attraction and ultimately the decisions to select and for the candidate to accept the offer,” she says. She says they’ve seen all sorts of things in their business where advertisements were focussing on the organisation only, selection panels were strictly taking a very structured process to ten questions of every candidate. They had seen unsuccessful candidates not
necessarily treated well and a whole raft of things that seemed to be very last century. The concept of how one would apply positive psychology into all those areas through things like focussing on strengths, a focus on asking appreciative inquiry-related questions, having insights into the organisation itself for how to onboard a new executive anywhere in the organisation with a positive impact, was very important to Fisher’s team - and what she ultimately developed into this model. “The field of organisational psychology still offers a compelling proposition at the first stage of leadership entry into an organisation. It’s the recruitment and selection stage where one can conceptualise and develop new positive practices to assist in appointing the right leaders and ultimately to create a positive impact in the organisation,” says Fisher. “This is a time when organisations could take a step back and review and overhaul recruitment and selection practices. I still think in many companies and business there’s not a consideration that it’s a two-way process, especially with young people who have had the wonderful benefit of the positive education movement which was initially taken up in independent schools, and now is being applied in public school systems as well. Those younger people, our employees of the future, will expect really what the concept of leadership embraces.” Jo Fisher's MAPP degree has facilitated a new model, it has helped her to help her clients and it’s a hallmark of her firm, explains Fisher, as a result of those studies.
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Seen at Graduate House – the 481 Boys "Who are the 481 Boys?" you may ask. Well, to answer your question, the 481 Boys were studentship holders who were given a hostel placement at 481 St Kilda Road.
Failure meant that studentship was suspended and had no place in a hostel. Some made good their failure and some went on to primary teaching. Almost all the boys came from government high schools, many came from farms and most were the first in their family to complete Year 12 and go to university. Some worked in the Victorian Education Department until retirement as teachers or principals. Some went on to non-government schools and some went on to tertiary education. Many completed higher degrees and five played VFL (Victorian Football League) football. Four became ministers of religion. Some changed career pathways and at least five have been awarded OAMs. The 481 Boys has their first reunion in 2008 to mark 50 years since the closure of the hostel as a male Education Department hostel.
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The hostel at 481 St Kilda Road operated as a male hostel from 1955 to 1958. All residents from that time have been referred to as the 481 Boys. The 113 boys who lived at the St Kilda Road residence from 1955 to 1958, were enrolled in either Arts, Science or Commerce along with two Agricultural Science students. The Education Department insisted that the choice of subjects were relevant to secondary teaching.
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In November 2016, the Boys met at Graduate House where the idea of two luncheons per year gained widespread support. David Jensz, one of the Boys, says that, it is only possible to have an indepth talk to a different small group of boys each time. "We have plenty to talk about and a lot of catching up to do," Mr Jensz said. "We talk about all the usual things: families, travel, football, careers and so on." "We also talk about the remarkable building additions at The University of Melbourne, how fortunate we were to enrol, how similar we all were - very few had parents who had completed year 12, World War II was still very recent in the 1950s, TV started in 1956 when we were university students, and we had very few possessions - in fact, most Boys came to the hostel with one suitcase and a pair of football boots tied to the handle." Mr Jensz said that many of the Boys had never caught a tram or suburban train before enrolling at university, but he says that deep down they are still the same. "I am reminded of the saying, 'you can take the boy out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of the boy.'" But at the end of it all, it is not the hostel or hostel life that is remarkable, but rather the experiences had within the hostel and the relationships formed with the other boys. "Our lives were changed by the opportunities that were presented to us. The hostel just happened to be the place where we lived and got to meet each other. We would have been very lonely country boys in a big city if we had to find private board. University College life was too expensive for almost all of us."
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The Gala will be held at the RACV City Club in Bourke Street, Melbourne on Saturday, 2nd September, 2017. The Gala will celebrate the 60th Diamond Jubilee anniversary of The Graduate Union. The Gala also aims to raise funds for The Graduate Union's proposed 15-storey residential development at the corner of
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60th Year
Cr Vincent Mirabelli and staff members Natasha Sedman, Mary Ellen Hill and Carolynn Walsh have been organising the arrangements for the Gala.
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Many activities are being planned for the evening which incorporates a sit-down dinner, a live showband, a silent and live auction, door prizes and a raffle. Sponsorship of the Fundraising Gala is welcome. If you know anyone who would be interested in sponsorship, please do get in touch at admingh@ graduatehouse.com.au
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Three Course Meal and Drinks ‘Select’ - Australia’s premier showband John Deeks (Channel 7) as MC 1926 vintage Delage motor vehicle for photographs (in Lobby) Mr Paul Caine (Caine Real Estate) as Auctioneer Door Prizes and a Raffle Silent Auction Live Auction Tables of 10
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Rare organ calls Victorian church home One of the world's only two remaining Hamlin instruments in the world, a church organ, is homed at St Paul's Anglican Chruch in Clunes. St Paul's mechanical action organ was built in 1860 for private use by Hamlin and Son of London and found its way to the Daylesford Methodist Church, Victoria. The organ was later acquired for St Paul's by the then Vicar, Reverend Dewhurst. The Anglican Parish of Springmount will hold it's inaugural Four Seasons Fine Music Festival, presenting a new initiative by the Anglican Parish. Musicians will play an extensive range of western, European and Indian musical instruments, including the pipe organ of St Paul's Church.
January 2018 will see the Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festival from 12-21 January holding a moveable feast of music, presenting 24 one-hour recitals in the beautiful heritage buildings of Ballarat which were created following the discovery of gold in the mid 19th Century. Audiences will experience the first Australian performance of 'the monster of baroque sacred music', the extraordinary and magnificent Mass written by Heinrich Biber, a Bohemian composer. Performing artists include Trio Leonardo from Venice, Martin Setchell and Douglas Mews, The Australian Chinese Ensemble, Stefan Cassomenos and many other artists. The festival continues to provide social functions, a festival
St Paul's Anglican Church is home to one of only two remaining Hamlin instruments - a church organ
breakfast, lunch and dinner, a meal at a winery and much more, including a day trip to Castlemaine. www.ballarat.com/organs.html
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RESIDENT NEWS
MEMBERS NEWS
What do past Chairs of Council do in their spare time? Mr David Sparks was Chair of Council of The Graduate Union from 2010-2013.
Julia Marks was awarded the Frank Pinkerton
Scholarship for Water Law and Natural Resource Management for her essay on the topic.
Where are you right now? I am at home (staying out of trouble).
Julia's dissertation looked at trans-boundary water law principles, at the conflict, how water can be used from upstream to downstream water users, at increased population growth and its effect on fresh water resources globally.
What is the 150? The 150 is the milestone of 150 donations of blood from when I started to do so during my 20s. Not long ago. Four times per year for whole blood.
"Part of my writing looked at how do we reconcile all of these challenges for fresh water," said Julia.
You too can request an appointment to give blood with the Australian Red Cross.
"Sustainable development to me is actually looking at intra and inter generational equality."
Visit www.donateblood.com.au/ for more information
"I think we’re going to have to really need to stop using so much water, it’s a precious commodity, it’s called 'blue gold' and we’re going to maybe not have to waste so much, recycle, and actually just really think about what we use and what we don’t have to use and stop being such a disposable society." Julia says that she is determined to get many more awards. "I work very hard and it’s nice to get some sort of acknowledgement for that." she said. "It just proves that I can do it and that I want to do it and I’m here at the best law school in Australia and that's an accomplishment in itself."
David Sparks gives blood for the 150th time
Julia Marks shows her Frank Pinkerton Scholarship for Water Law and Natural Resource Management
She plans to finish her Masters of Environmental Law and look abroad to Oxford, Cambridge or Stanford universities and continue work in this area. "If there’s a consultancy position in the future, I'd use my skills to problem-solve and put that towards a particular situation that needs some sort of clarity within the legal regime," she said.
We'd like your instruments! As reported in our May Newsletter, Graduate House Resident Members have started Music Nights at Graduate House inviting those who may be musically inclined or those who are simply interested in trying their hand at music. They are looking for new instruments from guitars, to maracas, or anything bigger from pianos to glockenspiels! If you have any instruments that you'd like to donate, or know anyone who would be interested in donating, please do contact us or drop by Reception at Graduate House!
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Past GU President Accounting Hall of Fame Member Past GU President, Sir Alexander Fitzgerald OBE (from 1961-1965) is in the Australian Accounting Hall of Fame, of which former GU councillor, Dr Phillip Cobbin is Director. Held at Graduate House on 15th March, the Australian Accounting Hall of Fame dinner and awards evening saw the induction of four new members: Mr John Neil Bishop AO, Mr Peter Brownell, Professor George Foster and Mr Warren McGregor. Annie Dolan, Engagement Coordinator at the Department of Accounting said that she felt the evening was hugely successful, forwarding a letter of thanks from the Hall of Fame Directors to Graduate House. More than 100 guests from government, academia and the accounting industry came together to honour and celebrate the lifetime achievements of the new inductees. www.graduatehouse.com.au | ABN 55610 664 963 | Incorporated Association Registration No. A0023234B | 29
Academic and Professional Development Meetings
Academic and Professional Development Meetings
The following groups from The University of Melbourne have convened meetings, workshops and seminars at Graduate House in May 2017 Advancement Office - Advancement Workshop 5th May 8 attendees
Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) - Board Meeting 14th May 12 attendees
Department of Finance Lunch Meeting 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th May 20 attendees
Department of Infrastructure Engineering CDMPS International Advisory Committee Meeting 16th May 14 attendees
Particulate Fluids Processing Centre - PFPC Planning workshop 23rd May 50 attendees
Research, Innovation and Commercialisation - Network of Schools, Team Professional Development Day, Principals Visit, Professional Certificate in Positive Education and Psychology, Palliative Care 1st, 4th, 10th, 15th, 16th, 26th, 27th May 256 attendees
School of Population and Global Health (MSPGH), PRISM CRE - Prism Cre Steering Group Meeting 2017 11th May 13 attendee
481 Boys Reunion Lunch
Catholic Education Melbourne - Dinner, Forum and Seminar 11th, 12th May 129 attendees
David Jensz Buffet Lunch Reunion 22nd May 22 attendees
Environment Protection Authority (EPA) Victoria - Assessments Directorate Planning Session 31st May 7 attendees
John Cain Foundation - Luncheon Event 3rd, 17th May 130 attendees
Lunch Meeting
UoM Commercial - Graduate Certificate in Clinical Teaching: Standard group day 3rd May 30 attendees
University Services - Business Improvement Planning Day 8th May 9 attendees
The patronage of organisation Members in charitable, not-for-profit, government and professional development sectors is acknowledged, as is that of our many Members who organise functions at Graduate House.
Carlton Rotary - Lunch, Dinner, Board and Heritage Cluster Meetings, District 9800 Foundation Committee 1st, 2nd, 9th, 10th, 16th, 17th, 23rd, 30th May 286 attendees
Lunch Meeting
Modern Greek Teachers Association of Victoria (MGTAV) - Conference Secretary 3rd, 28th May 44 attendees
Order of St. John 8th May 8 attendees
Organisation Development Australia (ODA) 16th, 31st May 26 attendees
Peer Support Peer Support Implementation workshop 25th May 14 attendees
Phoenix Australia - Centre for PostTrauamtic Mental Health - Board Meeting 10th May 9 attendees
Retired Veterinarians Lunch 10th May 27 attendees
Rushall Consulting Group Mastery in Deep Facilitation 17th, 18th May 19 attendees
School Library Association of Victoria Primary School Libraries and Interviews 29th May 69 attendees
Selection Partners (SCLAA) 4th May 8 attendees
Slavery Links 10th May 4 attendees
Social Education Victoria (SEV) Annual General Meeting 17th May 21 attendees
Turkish Teachers Association of Victoria (TTAV) - Turkish Language workshop 10th, 20th, 31st May 43 attendees
The Graduate Union Collegiate Events and Governance Meetings 2nd, 3rd, 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 31st May 518 attendees
Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL) - ANZAPPL Soiree 18th May 66 attendees
Australian Society for Music Education (ASME) - Victorian Chapter 10th May 9 attendees
Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) 16th, 23rd May 52 attendees
Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) 4th May 25 attendees
Australian Asian Association (AAA) 8th May 6 attendees
Australian Centre for Heart Health CVD Rehabilitation and Prevention 29th, 30th, 31st May 81 attendees
Australian Italian Lawyers Association 17th May 80 attendees
UNSW Canberra at ADFA Effective Writing for Defence 30th, 31st May 30 attendees
Australian School of Applied Management (ASAM) - Women & Leadership Australia 2nd, 9th, 16th, 19th May 80 attendees
Carlton - Parkville Probus Club Inc 9h May 70 attendees
Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) - Specialist Teacher Professional Learning 19th May 44 attendees
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Marilyn Cobain - Victorian Fellows Lunch 4th May 12 attendees
Melba Group - Lunch meeting 26th May 16 attendees
Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) - Education sub-committee 11th, 18th May 16 attendees
Slavery Links
Victorian Fellows Lunch
Victorian College of Health Psychologist
VJM Consulting
Victorian College of Health Psychologist Therapy Dogs: Why + How 31st May 30 attendees VJM Consulting - Vincent Mirabelli 12th May 15 attendees
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Innovation
Tax on sugar and fats could keep us healthy
Australia could save $3.4 billion in healthcare costs by introducing a package of taxes on sugar, salt, saturated fats and sugary drinks, while subsidising fruits and vegetables, the Centre of Health Policy at The University of Melbourne modelling shows. The sugar tax alone would result in 1.2 additional years of healthy life per 100 Australians, while a combination of taxes and subsidies would add 2.1 years using the same measure. The researchers' model was based on Australia's population in 2010. Lead researcher Dr Linda Cobiac said taxes on salt, saturated fats and sugary drinks contributed to the health gain. “Few other public health interventions could deliver such health gains on average across the whole population,” Dr Cobiac said. Dr Cobiac said that while many Western countries are proposing or implementing taxes to curb diet-related disease, policymakers have had little information on the cost effectiveness of combining various taxes and subsidies.
“Our modelling shows Australia can achieve maximum health impact for less than one per cent extra impact on household budgets,” Dr Blakely said. “Critics often say taxes on unhealthy food make life tougher for low socio-economic households, but we’ve demonstrated that the right structuring of incentives means the financial impact on households is negligible, while their health improves.” Dr Blakely said while taxes on foods high in sugar, salt and saturated fat generated the largest health gains, the benefits from a tax on sugary drinks alone were still substantial. “It is a good first policy step to make, and is supported by groups such as the Medical Colleges of Australia.” The $3.4 billion saving in healthcare cost would apply to the remaining lifetimes of all Australians alive in 2010.
Co-author, Professor Tony Blakely said the research team also experimented with different combinations of taxes and subsidies to ensure minimum financial pain to households.
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Extracurricular
A new generation of altruists
A rise in individualism has helped create altruistic mindsets, shows new research from Germany. In his book Freedom Rising, Dr Ronald Inglehart, political scientist at The University of Michigan, stresses the idea that growing individualism ultimately leads to prosocial behaviour. An emancipative attitude towards various kinds of individuality is growing while intolerance towards discrimination and human rights violation is also on the rise. New generations of altruists are ready to disinterestedly defend the rights of others, participate in charity, work, and to volunteer. These results match data from the most recent World Value Work Survey which indicated that 18.3 percent of females surveyed felt that it is important to them to do something for the good of society. 24.1 percent of those up to 29 years of age felt this was very much like them. Only 10.8 percent of males, however, felt that it was important to them to do something for the good of society, and only 9.3 percent of those up to 29 years of age felt this was very much like them. More data and cross values can be explored on the website www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSOnline.jsp Professor Dr Christian Welzel, Chief Research Fellow in the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research (HSE and Leuphana University of Lueneburg), teamed up with researchers from The University of Lausanne to conduct a study showing the connection between emancipative values and prosocial behaviour.
Conducting further studies with the sixth wave of World Values Survey respondents showed that the relationship between prosocial behaviour and emancipative values. It is with increased wealth and security that emancipative and secular values gain particular importance. Respondents were given several choices in different situations that required a contribution to be made towards a common cause or that required volunteer work. It was confirmed that those with emancipative values are inclined to make a more serious contribution to charity and social development. One's preparedness to make a donation is a clear indicator of altruism, the researchers noted. And in the current situation, altruism demonstrates a connection to emancipative values. Overall, Professor Welzel's hypothesis on so-called positive individualism was confirmed. The conclusions refute the idea that individual values foster egoistical behaviour. At a certain stage in the transition from collectivism to individualism, those with individualistic values arise, and these values focus exclusively on personal gains such as material wealth, career advancement, etc. But as for increased economic wealth, individual value systems are changing and moving towards human rights defence, freedom for self-determination, environmental protection and helping others.
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Discovering Melbourne We are very proud to have such a disparate and varied membership. Graduate Union Members are all over Australia and the world. This month we present to you the latest Melbourne gems that should be explored, whether you are temporarily passing through the world's most livable city, or you reside here.
Footscray Finds 56 Paisley St, Footscray 3rd Sunday of the month Until 17th December The saying goes that one man's trash is another man's treasure, so why not try your luck at the Footscray Finds market?
Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park
Acoffee
Williams Rd, South Yarra
If you're looking for a cafe that was once a garage, now painted white with a space outside, some pastries, matcha tea (sparking and with milk), beans roasted on-site and some very skilled baristas, Acoffee in Collingwood is where you need to go.
Accessible only by punt boat, the 3.2 hectares of the Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park is located on the Yarra River, just 3km from the city.
30 Sackville Street, Collingwood
St Kilda's Winter Garden Ice Rink Jacka Blvd, St Kilda Until 12th July
St Kilda's foreshore will see Map 57, an arts The sculpture park is festival precinct that an island delight filled will be host to bars, with artworks and other culturally intriguing items, food stalls, carnival Find everything from rides, a Spiegeltent and a native flora and fauna. vintage clothing, locally sparkling outdoor ice rink designed and made goods Learn more about Herring for adults and kids alike. Island at www.parkweb. to homewares, vinyl records and locally grown vic.gov.au/explore/parks/ The rink will be open every day of the festival, herring-island fresh produce. and over the July school The market also features holidays. Don't worry if live music and food trucks you have never skated for when hunger strikes. before, just hire a penguin skating aid to lean on, of course! map57.com/what-s-on/ st-kilda-s-winter-gardenice-skating
FEEDBACK A great diversity of food and cuisine. The lunches are filling and very satisfying. The staff are always friendly and approachable. It is always a joy to have lunch at Graduate House. James Henshall I visit once every two to three months, I find the customer service excellent. Food and beverage is good value for money. Everything is great.
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The lucky feedback-giver for May is Barry Dance who won a bottle of Emeri De Bortoli Chardonnay Pinot Noir Your feedback is important Submit a Dining Room Feedback Form to be in the Monthly Draw AND to be in the running for the Year-End Prize of a $500 Coles Myer Gift Voucher
Remembrance Day Poppies Thank you to Members and friends who have picked up some yarn to assist us with our poppies project. We are pleased to announce that we have 58 poppies to date. So, craft-minded members, if you are interested, please collect some yarn from Reception at Graduate House.
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