The Graduate Union Newsletter — September 2016 —
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September 2016 N ewsletter
He for She Walk
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Academic and Professional Development Meetings
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Puzzles
GU Collegiate September Monthly Luncheon with Arthur Bolkas October Monthly Luncheon with Kay Dunkley November Monthly Luncheon with Ross McMullin College Table with Professor Jane Davidson
Listings for July 2016
Discovering Melbourne
Stories at Graduate House Rhodes Scholars’ Victoria Annual Farewell Dinner
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Features Professor Profiles: Stephen Peterson
The Grand-Daughter of William E F Berry
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Reviews
Fundraising News
August Monthly Luncheon
Photos from: The Graduate House Winter Ball 2016
July Women’s Forum
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Asia Pacific Logistics Federation Resident and Member News Excerpts from the Ages Resident Research: Pablo Sanz Bayón
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Feedback
Matteo Vaccar5o Incisa: The Art of Law A Recital of Betty Gercés, Soprano
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Innovation As Seen on TV Extracurricular Abracadabra?
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Give a flower. Get a smile.
Official Launch 9:30am Tuesday 23rd August Graduate House Precinct
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GU Collegiate
We invite you, Members and Non-Members, to attend the coming events.
SEPTEMBER I TA L I A N C O N V E R S AT I O N D I N N E R
6:00pm
Tu e s d a y, 6 t h , 2 0 t h Come along to dine while learning to speak Italian with an experienced teacher. Members $15, Non-Members $20. M O N T H LY LU N C H E O N
12:00 midday for 12:30pm
We d n e s d a y, 7 t h Join Mr Arthur Bolkas for our September Monthly Luncheon with his topic: “Imprisonment - a Professional and Personal Perspective” Resident Members $10, Non-Resident Members $30, General Public $40, Concession $35. BRIDGE NIGHTS
7:20pm for 7:30pm
We d n e s d a y, 7 t h , 1 4 t h , 2 1 s t , 2 8 t h Join 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. RESIDENTS’ MEET AND GREET
Fr i d a y, 9 t h Join us in welcoming new and returning Resident members to Graduate House over drinks and dinner. Free for Resident Members. Non-Resident Members $17. S P E C I A L M O R N I N G B R E A K FA S T
7:30am to 8:30am
Tu e s d a y, 1 3 t h Non-resident members are welcome to join Resident Members for a hearty breakfast. Free for Resident Members, Non-Resident Members $15. C O L L E G E TA B L E D I S C U S S I O N VCA and MCM
12:00midday for 12:30pm
Fr i d a y, 1 6 t h Join us for an interesting discussion over lunch guided by Professor Jane Davidson. Members $12, Loyalty Card Holders $15, Non-Resident Members $18. www.graduatehouse.com.au | ABN: 55610 664 963 | Incorporated Association Registration No. A0023234B
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WOMEN’S FORUM
10:00am for 10:30am
We d n e s d a y, 2 1 s t The topic for September is “Life is an Interesting Journey.” Join the ladies for the discussion and stay for lunch if desired. Forum is Free. Lunch is at Member and Non-Member Prices.
OCTOBER Highlight C O L L E G E TA B L E D I S C U S S I O N Construction
12:00midday for 12:30pm
Fr i d a y, 2 1 s t Join us for lunch discussion, guided by Professor Ron Wakefield, The Future of the Construction Industry. Members $12, Loyalty Card Holders $15, Non-Resident Members $18.
NOVEMBER Highlight R E M E M B R A N C E D AY
12:00midday for 12:30pm
Fr i d a y, 1 1 t h Join us for lunch discussion, guided by Ross McMullin, an award-winning biographer and an entertaining speaker with talk about his book “Pompey Elliott” Resident Members $10, Non-Resident Members $30, General Public $40, Concession $35.
Reminder
Kindly note that the November Luncheon is on a Friday and NOT Wednesday. This is to coincide with Rememberance Day on the 11th November 2016. Following a minute’s silence at the 11th minute of the 11th hour, on this 11th day of the 11th month, we invite you to join us in a singalong around the piano.
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Monthly Luncheon
Arthur Bolkas September 7th
A consultant criminologist, freelance writer and speaker, Arthur is an advocate of early intervention, preventative measures, restorative practices, and a whole-of-community response towards oenders.
When 12:00 noon for 12.30pm RSVP by Monday 5th September
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Arthur Bolkas Topic “Imprisonment - A Professional and Personal Perspective”
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Released from prison in 1983, Arthur has experience as a taxi driver, men’s group facilitator, youth worker, church pastor, university lecturer, and been a presenter in schools for the past sixteen years. He has also worked with ‘at-risk’ youth in the community, and extensively among adult and youth offenders to assist their reintegration to the community. A consultant criminologist and freelance writer/speaker, Arthur has featured in the general media on prison reform and youth issues. He is an advocate of early intervention/preventative measures, restorative practices, and a whole-of-community response towards offenders. A graduate of Melbourne University (MA Criminology) and Winston Churchill Memorial Fellow, Arthur is a fan of AFL side Carlton, good movies/ documentaries/music, keeping fit and, especially, his teenage sons Demitri and Daniel.
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aised on welfare in a Greek migrant family, Arthur managed to excel at school. A popular student, successful athlete, head prefect and dux of his final year, Arthur’s future looked promising. However a few years into an Arts/Law degree his life was a mess. Seeking fulfillment in a ‘jet-set’ lifestyle, Arthur had many negative experiences, including drug addiction and imprisonment, but ultimately managed to overcome them.
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Monthly Luncheon
Kay Dunkley October 5th
When Wednesday 5th October 12:00 noon for 12.30pm RSVP by Monday 3rd October Where Graduate House
Cost $10 Resident Members $30 Non-Resident Members $40 General Public $35 Concession
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Kay has a particular interest in the health and well-being of health professionals. This interest has evolved over many years working with health professionals and in particular pharmacists and doctors. After forging a career based in hospital pharmacy, Kay moved on to roles providing services to health professionals. These roles have included working for the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (Victorian Branch), the Victorian Drug Usage Advisory Committee, the Victorian Medicines Advisory Committee and the Victorian Therapeutics Advisory Group. Currently Kay is employed as the Executive Officer of the Pharmacists’ Support Service and the AMA Victoria Doctor Well-Being Coordinator. At AMA Victoria Kay established and now coordinates the Peer Support Service and also the Peer Visitor Program which matches elderly isolated doctors with volunteer visitors who are medical students or doctors. In addition Kay is currently working with a colleague to establish the AMA Victoria Doctor in Training Mentoring Program, linking early career doctors with experienced doctors. Kay continues to work in clinical pharmacy practice and is accredited to perform medication reviews with a particular interest in care of the elderly.
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Monthly Luncheon
Ross McMullin November 11th Please Note This event is on a Friday instead of the usual Wednesday Rememberance Day Ross is an acclaimed historian, an awardwinning biographer and an entertaining speaker. His anecdotal presentations about the remarkable Pompey Elliott have enthralled hundreds of audiences.
When Friday 11th November 12:00 noon for 12.30pm RSVP by Wednesday 9th November Where Graduate House
Cost $10 Resident Members $30 Non-Resident Members $40 General Public $35 Concession
Monstrous a Travesty: Chris Watson and the World’s First National Labour Government. His most recent book, Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation, was awarded the
Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History and the National Cultural Award.
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Dr McMullin’s main research interests are Australia’s role in World War I and Australian political history. His biography of Pompey Elliott won awards for biography and literature. His biography Will Dyson: Australia’s Radical Genius was commended by the judges of the National Biography Award. He wrote the ALP centenary history The Light on the Hill, together with another political history So
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The Graduate Union Presents
College Tables
Professor Jane Davidson will be leading the discussion
Friday 16th September 12 noon for 12:30pm Usual Dining Room Prices Apply
College Tables are informal collegiate lunch-time discussions on a ‘grand challenge’ issue in a graduate school field
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JANE DAVIDSON Jane has worked as an opera singer and music theatre director. With her academic career beginning in 1991, she is now the Professor of Creative and Performing Arts (Music), Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, The University of Melbourne.
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Jane will share her knowledge on how emotions were performed and expressed in pre-modern dramatic, literary, artistic and musical performances. Jane’s research projects explore how music was used historically and is used today for emotional regulation from personal through to collective ceremonial activities, and how emotional aect can be achieved through historically informed opera production practices.
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FEATURES
Professor Profiles Stephen Peterson
School of Government, The University of Melbourne
Image: angela n, Harvard / FlickrCC Mid-way through his undergraduate degree, Professor Stephen Peterson discovered what kind of issues he wanted to look at. They weren’t, however, related to the field that he was then in, engineering. He felt economics addressed bigger questions than being a mechanical engineer did. “I just felt I gravitated from science to economics and there were some more interesting questions,” he says. Peterson went to Berkeley (University of California) in 1971, and it was there, he explained, where the free speech and anti-war movement in the United States started in 1964. “And it was, when I was there, arguably one of, if not the best universities in the US and the world. It had more Nobel Prize winners than any three other universities in the world. Berkeley was an incredible experience.” In his third year, after completing his BA, he did a year abroad at the London School of Economics where he studied epistemology and economics. It was here where Peterson was introduced to the thinking of Karl Popper, the renowned social and political philosopher, and in essence, a self-professed critical-rationalist, and dedicated opponent of conventionalism and relativism in science and in human affairs. “I think what he raised is basically the uncertainty of our knowledge. He says we never
know truth, we have degrees of testability. I think that phrase has pretty much stuck with me most of my life,” says Peterson. As he works in the very applied field – public financial management – he is sceptical of pure academics who hold rigid views about what is truth and what is not. He also believe that policy makers in this field hold rigid views often under the rubric ‘international best practice’. “The world is complicated. The world is messy and we can make statements of what’s plausible, that a creates b, but we can rarely make statements of what’s causal, maybe a directly creates b.” “Unfortunately, especially in my field, there’s the assumption that there’s one path, but in fact there are many paths. So it gave me a healthy scepticism of the academy and its pontificators – not that the pontificators aren’t important, but if you deal with a subject that deals with the world, the world is messy and solutions must perforce be contextual and not perfect.” Peterson entered the world of academia at Harvard’s Institute for International Development (HIID) where he was then asked to advise on reforming public financial systems in Kenya and later Ethiopia. For the 25 years he was at Harvard, 12 years were spent in Ethiopia and 8 years in Kenya inbetween teaching graduate students at Harvard,
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and over 1,500 senior government officials in an executive education program in Public Financial Management (PFM) – which Peterson developed and directed. “There are enormous challenges in field work,” says Peterson. “You’re trying to reform a government. It’s a lot of stress, a lot of money is involved. If government finances go wrong, you’re easy to blame because you’re a foreigner. But Ethiopia did support good finances and that’s why the reform worked. That’s why I stayed 12 years – we actually did something.” Peterson directed the 12 year, $35 million project to reform Ethiopia’s public financial management system, a comprehensive financial reform of budgeting, accounting, disbursements, multi-year planning, and financial information systems. This reform has facilitated Ethiopia to become now the fastest growing country in the world. (Today, Ethiopia is the fastest growing economy in the world at 9.3 percent and averaged an impressive growth of 10.8 percent between 2003/04-2013/14 compared to the regional average of 5.0 percent according to World Bank data.) The reform facilitated foreign aid agencies to use country financial systems and ramp up their aid to Ethiopia, which is now the largest recipient of World Bank and UK assistance in Africa. The World Bank judged Ethiopia’s PFM reform as the best in Africa over the past decade and Ethiopia is rated to presently have the third best PFM system on the continent. When Peterson arrived in Ethiopia in 1996 the per capita income was under $100 per person with a population of around 65 million. “Huge change. Now it’s just massive. They often talk about the fast growing countries as Asia being the Asian tigers, and in Africa they call them the Cheetahs. And Ethiopia is one of the Cheetahs,” says Peterson. A former President of Harvard (an economist), Stephen’s boss, once opined that there are three things a country needs to do to grow: be open to the world economy, to have the rule of law – to respect contracts so private business can work as can government, and have sustainable public finances. And this is what Peterson and his team achieved. They helped the Ethiopian government put in sustainable finances. Peterson, however, made the point that the key to reform is also government commitment.
The success of the reform was not due to Steve Peterson and Harvard University, he explained, but he feels they gave them sensible advice. A project which at its height had a staff of 38 does not change a country twice the size of Texas. Government has to change it, not foreigners, and they did. And they showed discipline not only in the financial system, they’ve shown discipline in their macroeconomic management. It’s an incredible success story. No country in the world is going at 9.3 percent, he suggests. What goes through your mind when you are in the middle of reforming a government’s public financial system? Initially, explains Peterson, it took a year or two to realise that Ethiopia is not Kenya. “And that’s often a challenge for foreign technical assistance advisors: if you work in country x and then country y, you assume what works in x works in y, this was apples and mangoes, very different countries,” explains Peterson. “You have to accept that. Also, never forget you’re a guest. Never put on a sense of ownership … I think when it comes to advising in a foreign country there’s a lot of assumptions there, and the hubris that can creep in, but you need to say I’m a guest, I’ve only been here a year or two, do I really know what can work and not work? You need to always have humility and continue to learn.” After all, this was an authoritarian government with deep discipline having just emerged from a brutal 17 year civil war with a ruthless regime backed by Soviet and Cuban military support. Governments make their mistakes, and there were things that Peterson thought didn’t make sense but his job is not judge and jury. He was an advisor and at the end of the day it’s their government. “Part of it was their side, they wanted it, part of it was our side, we had very good training materials, we trained 72,00 people, they learned it, and they did it,” he says. “[But] I think I had an appreciation and respect for the depth of that culture, and I think sadly, and it applies too often, I think it’s hard for foreigners to work in foreign cultures. Even working in Australia, there are still ways and byways for things that they do here. I think you have to always be mindful of that cultural context but the other side is I learned to appreciate the strengths and not just focus on the weaknesses.”
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This is what for 25 years Peterson was teaching at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. The graduate and executive training programs involved students who already had five or six years worth of experience required for the Masters course. One thing that he stressed to the students was that you have to pay your dues. “At 25 or 31 you don’t advise a minister of finance. It takes years to understand how governments work. It takes time to learn the profession. You need to have some good mentors. I often say there are no experts, there are individuals with different degrees of experience and the humility to apply there. I was in Ethiopia for 12 years and I was still learning. It’s a real challenge,” he admits. This is where academia differs from policy advising. Peterson outlines a typical scenario where the minister of finance calls him into his office wanting advice. He needs to make a decision and it has to be today or in the next few days. Saying that you need to study it for a while is not really an option. It can be problematic, but the minister needs to act usually immediately. “Policy advising is not easy because you do have to understand the time constraints, the political rationale, restraints of what the decision is, but you also have to do something that’s kind of sensible. A good amount of policy advising – again it’s coming back to understanding the context – the other side is that it takes time to be a trusted advisor. I was in the Ethiopian government for 12 years, and they trusted me. I made my mistakes, everybody does, but there was a degree of trust,” he says. Peterson has advised heads of state, including Yasser Arafat the Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority; he served for eight years as the advisor to Kenya’s Ministry of Finance and Planning as well as sector ministries in agriculture; he directly advised Meles Zenawi, former Prime Minister of Ethiopia; and advised Paul Kagami, President of Rwanda who requested him to implement a comprehensive reform of public financial management along the lines of the Ethiopian reform. He has also had a plethora of advisory assignments, from the World Bank, USAID, US Treasury, UNDP, and various governments worldwide. The advising process naturally raises many questions, the main one is usually where is the issue coming from? Peterson refers to one specific reform that was not moving to a more
sophisticated form of bookkeeping – single to double entry. Peterson met with the Minister of Finance who said that if it takes ten years it was imperative for Ethiopia to move to double entry. Such a reform is nevertheless a big leap for a government. “My accounting advisor who was with me in the meeting told the Minister said the government can’t do it. They’re not trained. They have on average tenth grade educations. And just using an example, my first question is – which agency is telling them to do this?” This request was completely out of left field,” he says, “Who wants this and why? It’s a serious reform and then the whole question is, can we do it? And sometimes you do have to say, Minister I’d like to think about it and discuss it with my other advisors and I’ll get back to you within a few days.” Two years later they successfully did the reform with the assistance of Peterson’s project and it is one of the key reasons the reform was rated a success. “The real question, because you never have perfect information, is to what extent do you say well that’s the way that you have to go. Again coming back to this you have hunches and you have experiences but if it’s a new situation, how do you tailor your response to a new situation? Why are they doing this?” As Peterson is in an applied field, gathering intel requires various assessments. These are a point of departure, and certain indicators of performance for a financial system. But applying your own judgement to determine what your priorities are is also part of the process. You draw upon a variety of inputs and sources of information on a particular country’s financial system. “You have to filter them, put several together, and come up with a picture,” he says. “Teaching government officials in Executive Education, is very useful because you start to see how they think about it, the gaps in their thinking, the gaps in my thinking.” Part of the gap, he explains, is the notion of recognising what exists: do they really know what their system is? Before you throw the baby out with the bath water, understand what the bathwater looks like. Many assessments demonstrate that what the government wants and what the government needs are two different things and what the international development agency (we’re talking about developing countries) suggests are a different story. They often don’t match.
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“Governments want the shiny new car. Fixing up the old car? Not interested. There was an interesting statement by one official of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) who opined that in Africa, the systems are basically good, they’re just not executed, so why change the systems? Make sure they know how to use them, make sure they know what exists – recognise and then execute what exists. If they can’t execute a simple system, how are they going to execute a complicated system they’re never seen?” Failure in public reform, explains Peterson, occurs when there is no commitment by the governments to reform their systems. Foreigners can’t change systems, governments change systems. Many of these reforms are driven by foreign aid – the multilaterals and the bilaterals – who give money to developing countries and often make reform of public financial systems a condition of aid. That works up to a point. But if governments are not serious about it, they will play games with it, and there is no reform, but they go through the motions. It’s a lot of talk, no walk. In Ethiopia, government commitment was the crucial reason for its success. Peterson recently completed a book on the 12-year reform he managed in Ethiopia, where he came up with a framework called COPS: Context, Ownership, Purpose and Strategy. The context is what exists and which cannot be changed and shapes the reform. The three things you can change are the ownership of the reform, the purpose and the strategy. Peterson argues in his book (Public Finance and Economic Growth in Developing Countries: Lessons from Ethiopia’s Reforms, Routledge 2015), that success depends on government ownership. Purpose is the distinction between public financial administration (PFA) versus public financial management (PFM) – simply put, get the basics in first before putting in advanced systems. He then believes that there are four types of reform: recognise, improve, change and sustain. “You can do a lot by looking at what exists – which I call recognise. A lot of the time, governments don’t fully recognise what they have. You don’t need to reform everything. Understand what exists and maybe improve it, and then you sustain it – meaning you train people on how to do it and you execute it,” he says. One reason why many financial reforms in developing countries fail is that they focus on
a strategy of change which is risky, complicated and takes years. He wrote the book to express something that had not yet been clearly said. “I felt I wanted to say something, and I felt this is a field that really doesn’t get it,” he says. “A lot of these reforms – and not just from my assessment – fail. It’s not really about reform it’s just the aid game. I think I wanted to present something that was quite rare.” “I was part of it but the big story was not me. And this was the best reform in Africa, in 20 years. I think that story should be known and I think the reason it isn’t known is that the major development agencies – the IMF and the World Bank – were excluded from the reform by the government. The government did not want them in the driver’s seat. And it wasn’t that they wanted Harvard or USAID in the driver’s seat, they wanted to be in the driver’s seat, and that is precisely the way it should work.” Large institutions, he says, rarely learn. They have certain ways that they approach problems that are a one-size-fits-all, and that is not helpful in crafting reforms that must be contextual to succeed. Peterson has over 30 years of experience within his field, and has invaluable advice for graduates. “Keep learning, regularly read a journal and serious newspaper, and don’t assume you get all of your information on the internet,” he says. Finding a mentor is also important, as well as listening to people who have been around. Manners are extremely important professionally and personally. Listen to elders, and talk to people in your field. “One of the highest rated undergraduate courses at Harvard required a student to interview a professor about their profession and professional path. Everyone wants to talk about what they did, and this course allowed students to connect with eminent scholars, and it was a real win-win. It connected the older to the younger and how they’re thinking. And I think it’s important that both sides have to learn,” he says. But one of the best pieces of advice that he himself ever received: don’t believe your own CV. Be clear about what you know and what you don’t know. In the words of Karl Popper, ‘Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.’
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REVIEWS
The Monthly Luncheon Wednesday, August 3rd
Dr Kerry Bennett How is digital dexterity changing marketing? The speaker for the August Monthly Luncheon had been advertised as Professor John Roberts. A professor of marketing at the University of New South Wales, with a joint appointment at London Business School. He was to lead the discussion on how is digital dexterity changing marketing? He was, however, unable to attend. For a brief time, we were unsure as to whether this treasured monthly event would see to its timely tradition – the 1st Wednesday of every month. We were very fortunate that Dr Kerry Bennett, CEO and Head of College offered her time and expertise to replace Professor John Roberts. Dr Bennett’s background is in neuroscience. It was through this that she addressed this presentation, creating a new perspective with which to understand ‘digital dexterity’. All humans have digital dexterity, Dr Bennett explained, as we are able to perform a range of dexterous activities. This is wholly due to the human brain. In particular, she explained, we have a huge grey cortex, and that grey cortex is curved all around our white matter, which then controls our fingers. “We now have the ability to use our brains to control prostheses, we can think and therefore do precision grips for amputees,” she said. “It’s just extraordinary, the leaps and bounds in our mind’s ability to control digital dexterity.” With this in mind, Dr Bennet explained, our fingers move over our devices, and we are able to select, drag, expand and so on, on these extraordinarily complex instruments. But on the other hand, what Professor Roberts was perhaps getting to was how we have to respond to this digital age – how we can use this extraordinary range of marketing avenues as well as the digital dexterity of humans to get across our messages. “We come into this world, nevertheless having to use our brain – and in fact having to use many of the parts that we use for digital comprehension in the physical sense,” said Dr Bennett. “We have to see, we have to cognate in some way
– be that subconsciously or consciously – and then we have to act and choose a motor action. And so when we come to marketing that’s what you’re doing – as a marketer you’re providing options for the consumers to make a decision of some sort.” GU Union Master Plan The Internet has radically changed the theory and practice of marketing, consumer behaviour and financial models. If we look to consumer behaviour on the internet, we see that, for example, from 2008-2015, there has been an extraordinary increase in global internet (through whichever device, e.g. computer, mobile, tablet etc) users, prompting therefore companies to look towards developing digital marketing strategies to engage with these users. Data have shown that today more than $60 million is spent on advertising online, including mobile devices. “What this then demonstrates is that we need to look at our service options, and what we’re offering,” explained Dr Bennett. The advent of various digital media platforms – from social media, to cloud based services (the ‘cloud’ is simply marketing speak for remote servers) - means that users are simply inundated with a plethora of opportunities to connect with people, brands and companies. Different consumer groups behave differently, particularly when looking at usage by generation. Data from Dimension Data’s Global Contact Centre Benchmarking Report 2015, showed that in a contact centre environment, the most popular contact channels differed according to generation: baby boomers for instance prefer phone, Generation Y, online. Nielsen data shows that Australians spend 45 percent of their time on smartphones, 39 percent on Personal Computer (PC) and 18 percent on their tablets. Statistics from the IAB Australia and Nielsen Mobile Ratings Report revealed Australian smartphone owners
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spent 34 hours and 55 minutes during the month of August engaging with digital content – averaging more than one hour per day. This usage was characterised by short frequent sessions. Social media platforms and ensuring that the websites are mobile responsive should be a basic inclusion for any digital strategy. Omnipresence is key. What these data ultimately suggest is that it would be remiss to focus only marketing efforts on one particular channel, particularly when the Membership of the Graduate Union is so varied. “We can’t just create content only for one platform,” said Dr Bennett. “In order to ensure that we are reaching our full membership, engaging with and therefore recruiting new members, a great part of our marketing mix needs to incorporate digital aspects to show what we deliver as a graduate membership organisation. That’s how we need to look at it to stay in business.” “If we did not have these platforms, I can tell you, in approximately two years no one would be booking for accommodation here.” You must have graphic designers, you must have content producers, and you must have IT and digital designers, who must develop user-friendly functionality and visually appealing digital designs – all with the main intention of creating a marketing package that aims to recruit members, engage with those within and outside of the Membership, and have a clear voice in a world that is oversaturated with content. “Unless we’re ready for this, we will lose our bookings because we won’t be there.” Marketing to our Members Until such time as we are no longer required to produce print, we will continue to do so. “We won’t change. There are many organisations out there that will only accept new members via email. I think that’s discriminatory. I do not uphold that at all. I think we must act for our Members. And those Members are from different countries, different age groups, different disciplines with different capabilities in this digital era,” said Dr Bennett. For many years the Graduate Union has had a printed monthly newsletter, which will continue to exist in print. The newsletter also provides a base from which to generate digital
content: from long-form articles, blog posts are created, then to social media posts. This is the basic composition of a content marketing strategy, and the complexity and variety of a strategy depends on a campaign, organisational requirements and desired outcomes – it’s about goals. Utilising these multiple touchpoints is being digitally dexterous – which in a digital era, is inevitable. Utilising multiple customer touchpoints – from a simple phone call to a tweet – a brand or organisation is simply casting a wider, more relevant net. Not to do so would be remiss. The digital world gives many choices for providing services, especially within the educational sector. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS) for instance, have provided an easily accessible means for those wanting to learn to do so with great ease and affordably. These kinds of benefits are imperative for the membership and the master plan. As referred to earlier, due to the varied nature of the Graduate Union membership (from age to discipline) it is therefore imperative in creating member benefits to address this through the Graduate Union master plan. “We can be developing services that can support people throughout their graduate pathways. So we’re redefining graduate as being not that young person who has just graduated, but a person who has graduated and then we’re helping them throughout their whole life,” said Dr Bennett. “More than 23,000 organisation members come through Graduate House every year for professional development courses … We need to up the ante on what we’re giving for education, or support for education as per our purposes.” “In terms of the opportunities which would be facilitated by getting onto platforms to help with marketing, those platforms also offer service opportunities, so we can more readily do and match mentee to mentor, coach with participant, new graduate to employment unit, and so on,” she said. Although it is essential to stay relevant in a digital era, it does not mean that the Graduate Union will let go of its founders and history. This not changing, said Dr Bennett. “We will continue to honour those who established the organisation. "
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REVIEWS
Women’s Forum Review Wednesday, 13 th July, 2016 “The value of conversation” The following are salient points discussed at this forum. 1 Conversation is an art or verbal ballet. Timing is important, let the other people speak and then you will get a turn. Ask good and relevant opened ended questions. Ask questions that start with “how and what”. How was your day? Active listening is imperative, that means you are engaged in the discussion both in physical and verbal cues. Look the person in the eye when speaking to them, appear approachable and remember to smile. Always following basic rules of etiquette and don’t be rude to the person you are talking too. Be genuine, demonstrate that you are really interested in what the other person has to say. Find something you have in common with the other person. Talking about something that you both have knowledge of and enjoy. But don’t over share or say too much information that you or your listener will find embarrassing or awkward. 2 How one learns to converse? Observation of other adults and family engaged in a conversation is a good place to start. Find someone that you believe is a good communicator and watch how they conduct a conversation. Compulsory formal situations such as weddings and functions that you have to go to can be a great opportunity to meet and talk to new people. Also you can practise on family and friends and ask for their help. 3 How to get started? Some ideas for conversation starters. Introduce yourself and exchange names. For example: Hi, my name is Olivia. What is your name? Then use their name throughout the conversation. Or if they are a long standing friend, reminisce about a good past event that you both remember. Think about what you know about the person? Talk about things you know you both have in common, such as kids, similar employment or
have the same interests, for instance. Ask questions about their home life. What suburb do they live in? Do they like living there? Reasons that you are meeting this person now. What brought you here? How do you know the person having the party? 4 Face to face conversation. This includes both conscious and unconscious, non-verbal facial expressions, gestures, eye contact, posture, and tone of voice. This type of communication can speak the loudest. These signals through our body language will ‘read’ instantly and instinctively by the other person. A huge part of their judgement of us will come from our body language. However, this is less common today when using social media such as Twitter and Facebook conversations. 5 Brief casual conversations with people. Maybe start a conversation with the person you ordered your morning coffee from. Please, thank you and good day are always great to add as you will immediately stand out and be noticed by the person who took your coffee order. Lots of people do not use these simple words, but they are still very necessary for polite conversations. 6 People who can converse with anyone, anytime and always are welcoming and approachable. These people know the art of a good flowing conversation, without awkward pauses and have a genuine interest in the other person. They ask question about the other person rather than talk about themselves. They are very good at listening, saying things like “What do you mean by that?” or “What happened next?” They give compliments when appropriate. “You look smart today” or “I like your new hair cut”. Spontaneous clever, witty or humorous conversations is not an easy skill to develop so watch the other person to monitor whether you hit the right note. And they know that body language is very important to seem approachable and a successful dynamic communicator.
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RESIDENT AND MEMBER NEWS
Excerpts from the ages
The following poem is from | The Melbourne Graduate, Vol. I, No.2, November 1950, page 73 Lines addressed to a Melbourne graduate who wrote home from eggless England imploring a description of the fresh new-laid egg. So then, I write: beginning first With boiled, done gently, not to burst; So friendly, in wintry land, Its ivory warmth within the hand Before the tap of silver spoon Beats out a cheerful breakfast tune Upon the shell, and lifts the lid— And lo! The yolk, no longer hid: A throw of pepper—dash of salt— And here’s a feast without a fault. And, second, poached: the centre bright Behind albumen’s veiling white, While parsley’s green and cayenne’s red, Combined, adorn it on its bed Of toast, with butter running through: Does this bring appetite to you?
Bestows astringent flavours that Preserve the whole from too much fat. But if exotic tasted demand A less domesticated brand, The hard-boiled egg with curried mask Is all a jaded tongue can ask: The velvet globe, disguised with spice And served on mounds of snowy rice, With rolls of bacon sweetly browned— A choicer dish can not be found. Or so you’d think ... but quickly pall The eggs that come at housewife’s call: However varied, soon the cry Is raised, ‘Why can’t we have lamb’s fry? ‘Tomatoes, brains, the cheaper fish, ‘Or any other breakfast dish? ‘Produce what food you will, we beg, ‘Except that everlasting egg!’ —M.B.
The third is fried, beloved of man. Slipped to the smoking frying pan, There leaved in fat until it turns From clear to thick, when golden burns And curling edge, with sizzling song, Announce that breakfast won’t be long. Already cooked, the rashers wait In streaky promise on the plate; The egg, united to them, lies— A beauteous sight for feasting eyes. Next, lovelier still, the scrambled sort. With liberal butter richly wrought, And creamy milk, the mixture grows To glory that assails the nose: Delicious bacon, crisped to curls, (The swine transmuted into pearls). www.graduatehouse.com.au | ABN: 55610 664 963 | Incorporated Association Registration No. A0023234B
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Resident Research: Pablo Sanz Bayón Visiting Researcher at Melbourne Law School & Lecturer at Law School of Comillas Pontifical University (Madrid, Spain) Words, Pablo Sanz Bayón During my doctoral research period, I realised that one of the key aspects of my thesis was to deal with different legal traditions and perspectives. For this reason, as part of my postdoctoral studies, I wished to carry out a short research stay at Melbourne Law School, during June and July 2016. It has been an extraordinary opportunity for me to connect with world class Australian and other scholars from different legal traditions, backgrounds and jurisdictions. It is a challenging task to comprehend other legal systems because as legal academics our academic upbringing has strongly been focused on our home country´s domestic laws. For this reason I believe that interacting at an academic level with other scholars is the best way to develop a multi-jurisdictional understanding of different legal systems, such as the Common Law system, and which ultimately enriches scholarship and our contribution to academic discourse. Furthermore, this is complemented by a thorough study of the sources of the law, which I have strived to study on my own, and which allowed me to take as much advantage as I could from the feedback of the Australian academics. In this sense, it has been a great honour and a privilege for me to do a short research stay at this institution.
research in China, where the legal system and market differs significantly from the European, American and Australian. More specifically, I focused on the issue of corporate disputes in closely-held corporations, which are becoming increasingly important in practice and are more commonly manifesting in global corporate litigation. The so called corporate deadlock refers to the circumstances where severe conflicts occur amongst the shareholders and directors of a company and where none of them wishes to compromise, resulting in a deadlock. As a result, the managers and the decision-making authority of the company (i.e. shareholders´ meeting and the board of directors) confront each other and no decision is made in accordance with the statutory procedures. Such a situation may further lead to the company being unable to carry out normal operations and even collapse or be forced to declare bankruptcy. This research intends to determine whether there are concepts within the Common Law system, and particularly in the Australian context, which could be integrated into
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European private law. The aim is to fill a gap that has not been sufficiently dealt with, neither through academic scholarship nor through company case law in Europe (and mostly in Civil corporate law jurisdictions).
of close corporations can benefit from a critical study of current corporate law and a greater understanding of the bylaws and contractual possibilities and remedies for corporate disputes through this comparative approach.
Furthermore, little work has been done on its implications for corporate disputes in close corporations and the analysis of contractual mechanisms for their prevention and remedy. It is a complex legal issue relevant to those close corporations which by their structure and functioning are likely to suffer internal disputes that are difficult to resolve if their bylaws or shareholder´s agreements do not provide clauses for effective remedies.
My research concludes by pointing out unresolved conflict areas which have been identified in order to justify legal reforms in the EU Corporate Law framework (with special focus on the European Private Company, which has been proposed by EU institutions in order to promote access to the Single Market for Small and Medium Enterprises).
The legal relevance of this research and stay at Melbourne Law School was motivated, on the one hand, through a study of the case law concerning corporate disputes under the Common Law, and in particular, looking at similar issues in Australia. More commonly, scholarship has focused on these issues in connection with the United States and Britain, but less has been looked at in connection with Australia. It also covers an area insufficiently focused on by Commercial Law doctrine in EU Corporate Law. Moreover, those who hold the status of directors, shareholders, stakeholders, corporate lawyers and other interested parties in the field
The findings have been structured by following a critical and constructive approach, seeking legal alternatives to prevent corporate disputes, keeping in mind an ethical approach in line with the corporate governance guidelines for balancing solutions between shareholders and directors. Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to the Graduate Union, since this is one of the best ways to take part in Melbourne´s exciting student and academic life. Along with the rich intellectual culture offered by the University, the diversity of residents in the Graduate House promotes its vibrancy and dynamism. It has been a privilege for me to undertake a research visit at the University of Melbourne and become a member of The Graduate Union.
Matteo Vaccaro Incisa The Art of Law Coming from a family of lawyers, judges and diplomats who would talk about legal issues at the dinner table, Matteo Vaccaro-Incisa was perhaps born to be in the field of law.
Settlement. “I then started practising as a lawyer between Florence and Milan and a few months later I got my first charge as a university lecturer in France,” he says.
He began his undergraduate degree in law and economics at Bocconi University in Milan and proceeded to undertake a Master of Science in Law. During that time, he also spent two years in Los Angeles, part of which was as a student at UCLA. “That was the first step then I started practicing as a lawyer,” he says.
“From that moment on I just kept on splitting my time between an academic path and a lawyer path, both progressively revolving around the field of international law.” From there, he was awarded his dual PhD in Geneva and Milan, magna cum laude.
After a year and a half, he then went to Geneva to do a Masters in International Dispute
Becoming involved in the field of international investment law – a particularly significant
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environment to be in – was a professional turning point. Even more so, the moment when he got his first client, not derived from the law firm.
Knowledge of languages, although not only this, can help carve a niche for yourself that makes you unique enough to be desired in certain specific cases or fields.
“That was of course a pretty good moment having your first case that comes out from your own work,” he says.
Generally speaking, Incisa works and researches in international arbitration, his role coming into play most of the time if there are interpretive or jurisdictional issues. For example, in cases where one of the two contesting parties wants to go to court instead of arbitration, or when a party is exercising some guerrilla tactics.
He attributes organisation as key to being successful. “The key of my work is always organisation. If you’re talking about
“So this is where my role is,” he says. “And jurisdictional issues are certainly one of the main issues that you have,” he says. “Occasionally it’s about the parties refusing to cooperate in good faith and then of course the problems that ensue due to this,” he says. As a lawyer, there has been a time where two years went by without a day of holiday. He acknowledges that he was definitely privileged to have had the cases that he did, but he says he was tired.
international law, the key is first of all truly liking what you do – at least being within a field of study that you truly like. International law is possibly the most competitive field of law, because it’s predominantly in English, thus you’re basically competing with hordes of professionals from all over the world. Do not do law just because nothing else comes to your mind. Some limited time off study to figure out what you want may be better than being sucked up in a life-long vortex of events you have no passion for,” he suggests. “With international law you need to have a predisposition, or at least by studying law to spur you to have the predisposition, to study languages as well. I speak five and I think it has been key for me to get my first case. It was connected to the Balkans region, and – at the time especially – I could juggle Serbian decently and this ignited a chain of events that ultimately brought positive results.”
So when he received an offer as an assistant professor in a very prestigious university in Paris, his split between academia and law practice veered towards academia. “I was selected for that and I reversed my path: instead of being 80 percent lawyer and 20 percent academic, it became 80 percent academic and 20 percent lawyer,” he says. His academic path has now led him to Melbourne for three months to work on a draft of his book (commissioned by Cambridge University Press) on the international investment law policy and practice of China and South East Asia. In September he’ll return to Paris at IESEG Business School as the director of a new program, the Master of International Business Law. “It’s a new Master so for some time I think my effort will be devoted to put this program into place – possibly, a proper place,” he says. His position will be certainly fitting, considering the advice that he is able to share with those about to embark upon their legal careers. Law, he says, needs to be a passion and not a replacement of the lack of passion for anything
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else. Otherwise you are not only wasting your time, but the time of the people that will work with you in the future because you will always be a drag for the team – because nowadays it’s quite uncommon for lawyers to work solo on any major issue. Another thing, he says, is that even an international law degree with honours if coupled with the knowledge solely of English may not guarantee best placement. The field is extremely competitive so you need to have a plus every time. “Luckily there is no one-size-fits-all recipe. It’s either the plus of true passion, or of knowing many languages, or that you can play golf with the client. But there needs to be something, not just the super student that has studied for years, passed with flying colours and then they think that they will be the ideal candidate” he says.
“I remember myself when I was a student, I would open a book and when I would read certain names I would simply skip them and only get the main information,” he says. But he was being perhaps a little impetuous. Sometimes it happens that those names that you skip so quickly are actually very important names in the field and those people could very well be within the building – such as if you are at Melbourne Law School, for example. “You might want to double check those names and whether you can try and get a contact because these books are written by human beings,” he says. “That’s what undergrads perhaps don’t quite see yet – they’re not just books. They’re actually written by someone and that someone may be there and actually glad to be reached out to.”
A Recital of Betty Garcés, Soprano CEO and Head of College Dr Kerry Bennett along with Councillor Mary Kelleher, attended the recital of Betty Garcés, soprano after being invited by Honorary Member Clemencia FereroUcros, Ambassador of the Republic of Colombia to Australia.
musical scholarships, Figueroa travelled the world composing, conducting and playing piano. In 1962 he conducted the Symphonic Orchestra of el Valle del Cauca. He now teaches piano at the conservatorium in Cali. Roig founded the National Opera in Havana in 1938, and was a Cuban musician, composer, musical director and founder of several orchestras. Villa-Lobos was once described as ‘the single most significant creative figure in 20th century Brazilian art music’.
Betty Garcés, Dr Kerry Bennett and Cr Mary Kelleher Held on the National Day of Colombia, July 23rd at Melba Hall, University of Melbourne, Garcés sang a variety of operas from around Europe as well as some from South American composers including Luis Carlos Figueroa (Colombia), Heitor Villa-Lobos (Brazil), and Gonzalo Roig (Cuba).
“Her voice was akin to tiny droplets,” said Dr Bennett of Garcés. “Her voice was very unique and I’m so excited to have heard her sing some well-known European pieces, but more importantly she shared her heritage with us through the South American composers. It was truly remarkable.” The event was organised by The Plan of Promotion of Colombia and the Embassy of The Republic of Colombia.
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Innovation
As Seen On TV
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After watching overstylised food on television, have you ever felt like eating that exact same thing? Whether you have been conscious of it or not, it may well be likely that TV can influence your appetite.
Dr. Amanda Bruce and researchers from the University of Kansas Medical Center and University of Missouri-Kansas City then studied the children’s brain activity while watching food and non-food commercials and undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
Researchers have studied the brain activity of children after watching food commercials and found that the commercials influence children’s food choices and brain activity.
“For brain analyses, our primary focus was on the brain region most active during reward valuation, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex,” said Dr. Bruce
Twenty-three children, 8-14 years old, rated 60 food items on how healthy or tasty they were.
During the brain scan, children were asked whether they wanted to eat the food items that were shown immediately after the commercials.
The researchers found that, overall, the children’s decisions were driven by tastiness rather than healthfulness. However, taste was even more important to the children after watching food commercials compared with non-food commercials; faster decision times (i.e., how quickly the children decided whether they wanted to eat the food item shown) also were observed after watching food commercials. Additionally, the ventromedial prefrontal cortices of the children were significantly more active after watching food commercials.
The results of this study show that watching food commercials may change the way children value taste, increasing the potential for children to make faster, more impulsive food choices. Dr Bruce said that food marketing may systematically alter the psychological and neurobiological mechanisms of children’s food decisions. Magic trick: Tompkins ML, Woods AT and Aimola Davies AM (2016) The Phantom Vanish Magic Trick: Investigating the Disappearance of a Nonexistent Object in a Dynamic Scene. Front. Psychol. 7:950. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00950
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Extracurricular Abracadabra?
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Can humans be tricked into seeing something that doesn’t exist? Researchers from Oxford University developed their own magic tricks to find out: 1 in 3 people could be convinced, by a magician, that they had just seen an object disappear – even if that object never existed in the first place.
“We think what may be happening is that people are effectively confusing their expectations with a true sensory experience. They expect to see another video with a crayon or a coin, for example, and this expectation is so vivid that it can actually be mistaken for a real object,” said Tompkins.
Led by Matthew Tompkins, the study saw 420 volunteers watching a series of five silent videos, each showing part of a magic act. Immediately afterwards they were asked to describe what they had seen and rate how surprising, impossible and magical it had been.
He said that much of sleight of hand magic is about misdirecting people about the location of an object, and there is a growing body of psychological research about how magicians cause our minds to override the input of our senses.
In the first four videos the magician would do something with an object, but the third video deliberately showed a non-magical action. This was to check that people could distinguish whether something was or was not a magic trick and that they were not seeing a trick simply because they expected one. The first, second and fourth videos showed magic tricks.
“We wanted to go further and see whether magicians’ misdirection techniques could be used to induce the misperception of ‘phantom’ objects - could a magician make us ‘see’ something that was never there,” he added.
The volunteers were then split into five groups, each of which saw a series of video with a different object - a coin, a ball, a poker chip, a silk handkerchief or a crayon. In the fifth video, the magician mimed making an object disappear. However, no object was ever shown in that video. Yet 32 percent of people were convinced they had seen something disappear. 11 percent of them even named the non-existent object.
“The science of magic is a fascinating area, and there are important practical applications. For example, our work builds upon previous studies that have shown how eyewitness testimony can vary from the facts. In understanding how people can be fooled, we can gain better understanding of how our minds construct our conscious experiences.” Bruce A S, Pruitt S W, Ha Oh-Ryeong, Cherry B C , Smith TR, Bruce JM, and Lim SL (2016) The Influence of Televised Food Commercials on Children’s Food Choices: Evidence from Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Activations,” The Journal of Paediatrics .doi:10.1016/j. jpeds.2016.06.067
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Academic and Professional Development Meetings
The following groups from The University of Melbourne have convened meetings, workshops and seminars at Graduate House in July 2016 Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering - Meeting of Industry Advisory Group Chairs 12th July 24 attendees
Department of Finance Lunch Meeting 22th, 29th July 10 attendees
Indigenous Eye Health MSPGH Roundtable on the new MBS items 25th July 33 attendees
Indigenous Health Equity Unit - Inaugural First 1000 Days Community Governance Committee Meeting 25th July 14 attendees
Melbourne School of Engineering Thinking about our Future Workspace 11th July 40 attendees
MSPGH - The Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program 14th, 15th July 50 attendees
Research, Innovation and Commercialisation SC in Criminology (SOM) 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th July 85 attendees
Research, Innovation and Commercialisation Network of Schools 26th, 27th, 28th July 170 attendees
Research, Innovation and Commercialisation Adult Palliative Care 13th, 14th, 15th July 105 attendees
UoM Commercial Indonesian Language Refresher Program 5th, 6th, 7th July 45 attendees
UoM Commercial Graduate Certificate in Clinical Teaching 13th July 24 attendees
Vice-Chancellor’s Office - Carlton Connect Initiative Program Control Committee 26th July 8 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. Thank you for your patronage. Australian Asian Association (AAA) 11th July 6 attendees
Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER) 20th July 15 attendees
Australian Food Hygiene Services (AFHS) 1st July 26 attendees
Australian School of Applied Management (ASAM) 11th, 12th , 22nd July 80 attendees
Carlton-Parkville Probus Club Inc 12th, July 60 attendees
Carlton Rotary - District 9800, Changeover Dinner, Lunch and Board Meetings 8th, 12th, 19th, 25th, 26th July 275 attendees
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Academic and Professional Development Meetings Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Inception Workshop 20th, 21st July 85 attendees
DCA Advisors Pty Ltd Meeting 27th July 12 attendees
Environment Protection Authority (EPA) Victoria 29th July 33 attendees
Family Business Institute Institute Foundation Member Training (Module 1) 29th, 30th July 30 attendees
Hong Kong Trade Development Council 19th July 50 attendees
Family Dinner Function
James and Anne Mulholland Family Gathering 11th July 15 attendees
John Cain - The JC Foundation Lunch 6th July 40 attendees
Lunch Meeting
Melba Group 29th July 18 attendees
Modern Greek Teachers Association of Victoria (MGTAV) 5th, 18th, 26th July 17 attendees
MosaicLab 21st July 5 attendees
Order of St. John Evening Meeting 4th July 8 attendees
Organisation Development Australia (ODA) - A Perfect Storm 26th July 20 attendees
Programmed Electrical Technologies 21st July 30 attendees
Retired Veterinarians Lunch 20th July 24 attendees
Lunch
Rhodes Scholars’ Association Victoria 20th July 40 attendees
School Library Association of Victoria 19th July 25 attendees
Social Education Victoria (SEV) Committee Meeting 20th July 12 attendees
Social Work Department Writing Group 5th July 8 attendees
The Graduate Union Collegiate Events and Governance Meetings 5th, 6th, 12th, 13th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 22nd, 26th, 27th July 232 attendees
Turkish Teachers Association of Victoria (TTAV) - Turkish Language Workshop 7th July 10 attendees
Uniseed Management Pty Ltd Committee Meeting 14th July 13 attendees
Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) 22nd July 43 attendees
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Puzzles
Mind benders for our Members
Sudoku Sudoku is an 81 square grid comprising of nine square blocks, each with nine cells. To complete this puzzle, all blank cells must be filled with a number between and including 1 and 9. Each number can only appear once in each nine celled block, row and column.
Last edition’s results
Kakuro Use the numbers 1 to 9 to fill the empty cells so that the sum of each horizontal block equals the clue on its left, and the sum of each vertical block equals the clue on top. Each number can only be used once per row/column.
Last edition’s results
Please note that there might be more answer combinations possible.
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Cryptic Crossword Clues Across 1. After bad scare finish climb again (8) 6. Request time off from job (3) 9. Stop in booth (5) 10. Drink pints, drink repeatedly (4,3) 11. They fly although they are powerless to do so (7) 12. A devil from France, I conclude (5) 13. Vocalist making some records in Germany (6) 15. Girl with land in South America first off (6) 19. Rush in with a stethoscope (5) 21. Soldier in uniform (7) 23. Eminent performer in some art form! (7) 24. Stone and silver devoured (5) 25. Sheep to drive home (3) 26. Little bird sitting comfortably (8)
Clues Down 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 14. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 22.
Joy has broken toenail (7) Crack only found outside civic centre (5) Unmask former partner with model (6) Old fuel may make you miserable (7) Conscious of a town in Herts (5) Require sound massage (5) American taking a long time in customs (6) Football team always getting 100 (7) Criminal getting in under house (7) Pilots remain at sea (6) Good accommodation for newlyweds? (6) Greek poet’s pigeon? (5) Small crew for engine driver (5) A girl in distress, something sought by knights (5)
Last Edition’s Answers Cryptic crossword Across: 1. Cuba 3. Abnormal 9. Proverb 10. Larva 11. Amman 12. Ordain 14. Nutmeg 16. Action 19. Rialto 21. Eatin 24. Askew 25. Beetles 26. Attorney 27. Barn Down: 1. Captains 2. Broom 4. Baboon 5. Ogled 6. Martini 7. Lear 8. Seance 13. Inunison 15. Thicket 17. Clever 18. Gobble 20. Lower 22. Tulsa 23. Papa
Brainteaser Riddle Answer: 833 apples. Step 1: First you make 3 trips of 1,000 apples 333 miles. You are left with 2,001 apples and 667 miles to go. Step 2: Next make 2 trips of 1,000 apples 500 miles. You are left with 1,000 apples and 167 miles to go (you have to leave an apple behind). Step 3: Finally, you travel the last 167 miles with one load of 1,000 apples and are left with 833 apples in Bananaville.
Brainteaser Riddle A fast food restaurant sells chicken in orders of 6, 9 and 20. What is the largest number of pieces of chicken you cannot order from this restaurant? Answer in the next issue. www.graduatehouse.com.au | ABN: 55610 664 963 | Incorporated Association Registration No. A0023234B
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FEATURES
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 though the world’s most livable city, or you reside here.
Australian Education, 27th August
ACMI Studio 1 As part of this year’s Writers’ Festival, Victoria University is supporting ‘Australian Education’, a session analysing the future of public education. Will the Gonski model remain? Education experts Sara Glover and Richard Teese discuss where we’re headed.
Mile End Bagels
14 Johnston St, Fitzroy Ah, bagel and schmear. When united, fewer things create such beautiful music, but a freshly baked bagel with cream cheese thickly spread on top, a layer of lox over it, and sprinkled with dill creates an unmatchable melifluous symphony. Try Mile End bagels in Fitzroy for your own euphonious experience through food!
Mine Escape
Various locations For thrillseekers and mind-bending puzzle devotees, you could have finally met your match through Mine Escape. Three willing participants are locked in a room with 70 minutes to solve the designated mystery, ultimately (hopefully!) escaping from the voluntary incarceration. www.escaperoom.com.au/
Sisters’ Market
Brunswick Town Hall, 233 Sydney Road In over 60 stalls you can peruse locally handmade wares from homegrown designers. Sisters’ Market, by - you guessed it - two sisters, is on at Brunswick Town Hall every Saturday, until December. If you have any recommendations for places or events of interest for our Members and Residents, email publications@graduatehouse.com.au
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STORIES AROUND GRADUATE HOUSE
Rhodes Scholars’ Victoria Annual Farewell Dinner Words, Graham Craig Rhodes Scholars’ Victoria held their Annual Farewell Dinner at Graduate House on Wednesday 20th July 2016. The event was hosted by Graham Craig (South Africa-at-Large and Brasenose 1974), a Graduate House member and Victorian Secretary of the Australian Rhodes Scholars’ Association. The dinner was held to celebrate the award of the 2016 Rhodes Scholarship for Victoria to Matt Pierri and to wish him well in going up to Oxford in September
presented for immediate consideration in a tutorial, about studies more generally, and the wider issues that were pressing upon the world.’ Ken Hayne concluded, ‘The lessons that we learn in Oxford are lessons that stay with us for life. They are lessons that have echoed and reechoed louder for me as the years have passed’. Matt Pierri (Victoria and Lincoln 2016) in his response spoke about his plans for Oxford, ‘In Pursuit of Progressive Public Policy and Practical Public Systems’. Matt related that he had spent six months in rehabilitation a few years ago and had positive experiences and also witnessed areas that could be better coordinated. His aim is to better understand the implementation of improved health systems.
Clare Harding (New Zealand and Merto 1999), Deputy Chair of the Victorian Selectors, welcomed Matt and his family, Senior Scholars and guests, including Carolyn Evans (Victoria and Exeter 1995), Secretary of the Victorian Selectors, and Evelyn Chan (Victoria and Hertford 2011) who was recently appointed to the selection panel. Clare noted that selection for 2017 was underway and candidates should be encouraged to apply. The Honourable Ken Hayne (Victoria and Exeter 1968), former High Court Justice, delivered the keynote address entitled “Echoes Rhodes Scholars’ Annual Farewell Dinner - 20th July 2016; of Oxford or ‘Why?’’’. In his Front Row: Matt Pierri and Ken Hayne; address, Ken Hayne observed ‘For Second Row: Clare Harding, Carolyn Evans, Evelyn Chan many of us coming up to Oxford, and Vinay Menon the chief challenge we faced was the challenge to think: to think more deeply Vinay Menon (Australia-at-Large and about issues in our studies and about issues in Magdalen 2012), as the most recently returned society. That challenge came most directly and Scholar, encouraged Matt ‘to make the most of insistently as the tutor sat listening to an essay the magic of Oxford and to squeeze as much and then interrupted with that devastating enjoyment, enrichment and self-development monosyllabic question, “Why?” So we learned out of it as you can’. to think, to think more deeply about the issue www.graduatehouse.com.au | ABN: 55610 664 963 | Incorporated Association Registration No. A0023234B
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The grand-daughter of William E F Berry The grand-daughter of William E F Berry, Kudeviita and Preston eventually made contact visited Graduate House in early August, to with each other after Preston discovered she learn more about the legacy of her grandfather. was coming to The University of Melbourne for a conference entitled ‘Performing Berry and his father before him founded the Climates’. Preston is an Assistant Professor Graduate Union, bought the famous Leicester of Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies Street terraces and bought the land on which at The University of Toronto. the main building sits today. “I got off the tram, and walked to the corner and saw the building, and I thought that must be the place that I’ve heard about all my life,” Preston said. “I was pretty moved,” she said of her reaction when she first saw the building. “It’s interesting to see the institution continue and to know that somebody put a lot of work into something and that it was his legacy,” she said. “Then I got the email from Heather and was very excited to do this!”
Virginia (Ginny) Preston and Heather Kudeviita
“I know he really wanted a place for graduate students to live, I think my grandparents (from my mother’s side) even stayed in it before my parents met,” recalled Preston.
“The family has had a connection since his day,” says Member Heather Kudeviita, who has stayed “I’ve always said that he was one of the most in touch with the family, and is a trustee of the honest, and honourable men I’ve ever met,” said Kudeviita. William Berry Postgraduate College Trust.
Fundraising News We had a great response to this year’s Annual We shall also be launching the Graduate House Appeal. Society – a bequest society. The Graduate House Society has been formed to recognise those who To thank our donors we will be hosting a major have chosen to remember The Graduate Union ‘Founders and Benefactors’ Day to take the time and Graduate House in their will. to sit and talk with Members, and get an idea of how they feel about the Assoication, borrowing All who make such a bequest are invited to some of their collective intelligence to help become members. progress our commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals. Julian Burnside QC will address the crowd, as well as two Resident speakers. High tea will be served.
Thank You.
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The Graduate House Winter Ball 2016 A Winter Palace It was lovely walking into the ball and seeing everyone dressed up under the fairy lights. A big thank you to Elizabeth Biggs who made it the classiest of cocktail hours with her magical harp playing. – Julia Melanson, Ball Committee Member
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Asia Pacific Logistics Federation The Asia Pacific Logistics Federation held a networking and informational event at Graduate House in conjunction with the Hong Kong Asian Business Association, the Hong Kong Trade and Development Council, and the Supply Chain and Logistics Association. The joint meeting of the members from these associations came together along with international speakers with the objective of providing information on the developments happening in Hong Kong and also from a global perspective around supply chains, risk management and also the collaboration and networking requirements that they facilitate.
through the Asia-Pacific region to undertake supply and logistics management and is also certified in Australia as a professional logistician. He runs his own boutique consulting company, Insync Supply Chain Management, as well. The current progression of the Asia Pacific Logistics Federation is certainly on track, said Mr Rogers. “The objectives are ongoing and the KPIs that meet those objectives are on track, and coinciding with those objectives of course is further development – of bringing other countries into the Asia-Pac region,” he said.
The facilities and amenities of Graduate House, allowed for better networking, explained David Rogers, Chairperson of the APLF. “Parking was not an issue, and because of the amenities it provides opportunities for networking through the bistro, along with the catering requirements for our functions,” he said. “Given that Graduate House is pretty central to the CBD, it was accessible by Image: taro, P6079024 / FlickrCC participants.” The engagement and the endorsement of India, Korea and Taiwan in joining the federation is Mr Rogers currently one highlight of many that Mr Rogers recalls. represents two The geographic region with emerging countries bodies. He is within the APAC region will provide significant the Chairman opportunities for collaboration; networking of the APLF and business growth for Australian companies which covers 18 as well as cross border/ cross country countries across opportunities. the Asia Pacific region and is Mr Rogers began as committee member of also a director the SCLAA and then progressed to become of the SCLAA, its Chairman. Networking and collaboration The Hong Kong Trade through the APAC region, growing the Development Council association and then becoming Chairman of David Rogers and the Hong Kong Asian the Asia Pacific Logistics Federation was the Business Association (the two are affiliated) next step for him in broadening his business try to promote their business opportunities skills and supply chain networks. and the incentives to their members that the Hong Kong government offers to companies to invest and deal with companies in Hong Kong. “The APLF will continue to grow, and provide significant contribution for all facets of business,” Mr Rogers said. “Supply chains are David holds a Master of Business, a Graduate an integral part of businesses and business is Diploma in Transport and Distribution, and a in effect part of a system of connections and Diploma of Project Management. He is certified relationships across the whole value chain.” www.graduatehouse.com.au | ABN: 55610 664 963 | Incorporated Association Registration No. A0023234B
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Some APDM Feedback This “Christmas in July� lunch today was superb. Great turkey and chicken, smoked salmon and the wonderful berry fruits and pavlova - Delightful!! Darren Room, Member We always look forward to our meal here, and only rarely are disappointed.
John Johnson, Life Member
Having been absent for several months following injuries from a near death fall, it was a pleasure to return to the dining room. The welcome I got from Basma and Nelson was sensational. John Hasker, Member It was delightful to see varieties of vegetable dishes on menu. Graduate House is promoting healthy food, without reducing its taste. Great for gluten free and vegans. Resident Member The organising part was very well managed and easy. Rosie was very responsive to our needs and did all possible to accommodate such. The space was perfect and the food was good. The catering staff accommodated quickly and efficiently. Garry Hamilton, Environment Protection Authority Organising our function at Graduate House was great as always. The event booking form is very easy to use and covers pretty much everything. The room was great and the food was received well. Our last event had some beautiful sate chicken sticks and rice and the comments were that this was the favorite. As always the staff at Graduate House were great. Marwa looked after us throughout the day and was fantastic and very thorough. The communication between this lady and Rosie is apparent. Jasmin Boys, Indigenous Eye Health It was an excellent process in organising a function at Graduate House. The function room and spaces were exactly what we needed. The food, both in terms of quality and quantity, was excellent and not too much wastage, which is very impressive. The staff were wonderful, extremely attentive and very responsive. Makes it easy to run a workshop with such professional event staff. Mandy Hopkins, CSIRO NESP ESCC Hub The organising part was easy. I would run all of my events there if I had the chance. The staff are so helpful and make my work easy. I am in constant contact with Rosie who makes sure I am on track with what I need to communicate regarding catering etc. The function room and spaces were perfect and the food, quality and quantity wise, was fantastic. As always, the staff were exceptionally helpful in the lead up to our event, during the event and following our event. If all venues I work with ran as well as Graduate House I would be very happy. Kerrie Borrie , ACHPER Victorian Branch
The lucky feedback-giver for July is John Hasker who won a bottle of Emeri De Botoli Chardonnay Pinot Noir. Your feedback is important Submit a Dining Room Feedback Form to be in the monthly draw and in the running for the year-end prize of a $500 Coles Myers Gift Voucher. www.graduatehouse.com.au | ABN: 55610 664 963 | Incorporated Association Registration No. A0023234B
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