The Graduate Union Newsletter - April
2015
Welcome to the April 2015 Newsletter This Issue:
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Donor Thank You Luncheon
April Monthly Luncheon - Loretta Sullivan and Alberta Hornsby College Table - Marketing with Dr Jing (Jill) Lei
Twilight Lecture Review GU Tastings Review March Monthly Luncheon review Women’s Forum
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At Graduate House
Academic and Professional Development Meetings
Upcoming GU Collegiate
GU Open Day and Free Influenza Day
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Free Lectures at The University of Melbourne
Resident News University Sector News Puzzles
Celebratory Dinner at The Kelvin Club Donate for the Future of Graduates
Major General Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld AM OBE KStJ President of The Graduate Union, is delighted to announce our special guest for the
DonorThank You Luncheon
The Hon Ted Baillieu Sunday, 16th August 2015 This is an invitation-only function to acknowledge our generous donors.
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Upcoming Events We invite you, Members and non-members, to attend.
April M O N T H LY LU N C H E O N
Wednesday
1/04/2015 L orett a Su l livan and A lb er t a Hor n s by o n C a p t a i n C o o k a n d t h e G u u g u Yi m i t h i r r E n d e av o u r R i v e r 1 7 7 0 Tr u e S t o r y. 12:00midday for 12:30pm Resident Members
$10
No n - r e s i d e n t Members Concession
$30
General Public
$40
We a r e d e l i g h t e d a n d h o n o u r e d t o w e l c o m e t h e P r e s i d e n t o f t h e Vi c t o r i a n Me m b e r s C a p t a i n C o o k S o c i e t y, M r Te d T i e r n e y a n d E d i t o r M s C a r o l i n e Hu m p h r e y s a t t h e Mo n t h l y Lu n c h e o n o n t h e 1 s t o f Ap r i l 2 0 1 5 .
$35
BRIDGE NIGHTS
I TA L IA N C O N V E R S AT I O N DINNER
F R I DAY D R I N K S AND DINNER
Wednesdays
Tuesdays
Friday
1, 8,15, 22, 29/04/2015
7,21/04/2015
10/04/2015
C ome join others to play or learn to play the card game Bridge.
Come along to dine while l e a r n i n g t o s p e a k It a l i a n with an experienced t e a c h e r.
An ideal convivial endof-week wind-down, come along with colleagues for drinks and/or a meal.
7:20pm for 7.30pm
6:00pm
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Cost of $5 covers a s h a r e d p l a t t e r f o r s u p p e r, as well as tea and coffee.
Members
$15
No n - m e m b e r s
$22
Concession
$20
Drinks and dinner at our ver y reasonable bar and dining room prices. S e e Daily Menu on our website.
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F R E E I N F LU E N Z A DAY
T H E G R A D UAT E U N I O N O P E N H O U S E DAY
S P E C IA L M O R N I N G B R E A K FA S T
Monday
Monday
Tuesday
13/04/2015
13/04/2015
14/04/2015
Free flu vaccinations are available for all Me m b e r s , a s w e l l a s f o r n o n - member university students and staf f.
G r a d u a t e Ho u s e i s o p e n f o r t o u r s o f o u r f a c i l i t y. Bring friends and show off this Carlton gem. Stay for lunch if desired.
No n - r e s i d e n t m e m b e r s are welcome to join R e s i d e n t Me m b e r s f o r breakfast.
10.00am to 4:00pm
10.00am to 4:00pm
7:30am to 8:30am
Lunch is at dining room prices.
Lunch is at dining room prices.
No n - r e s i d e n t Members
WO M E N ’ S F O RU M
C O L L E G E TA B L E DISCUSSIONS Marketing
R E S I D E N T S’ MEET AND GREET
Wednesday
Friday
Tuesday
15/04/2015
17/04/2015
28/04/2015
Jo i n t h e d i s c u s s i o n o n Raising the Public Profile o f Wo r t hy Wo m e n a n d stay for lunch if desired.
Jo i n D r Ji n g Ji l l L e i to discuss ‘The tricks used in the marketing of f o o d .’ .
Jo i n u s i n w e l c o m i n g new and returning residents to Graduate Ho u s e o v e r d r i n k s a n d dinner as we share our collegial approach.
10:00am for 10:30am
12:00midday for 12:30pm
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Forum is free. Lunch is at dining room prices.
Lunch is at dining room prices.
Resident members No n - r e s i d e n t Members
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Fr e e $15
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The
Monthly Luncheon with
Loretta Sullivan and Alberta Hornsby Captain Cook and the Guugu Yimithirr Endeavour River 1770, the True Story. 12:00 noon for 12.30pm
April 1st Resident Members Non-Resident Members General Public Concession
$10 $30 $40 $35 ABN 5561066496
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Loretta Sullivan and Alberta Hornsby
Captain Cook and the Guugu Yimithirr - Endeavour River 1770, the True Story. Loretta Sullivan is the current President of the Cooktown Re-enactment Association. Having been involved with the association since 1974, Loretta was also the organiser of the Re-enactment performance and their associated activities, the Re-enactment Ball (10 yrs) and Re-enactment commemorative stamp cover (10 years). She was shortlisted as a finalist in the Queensland Reconciliation Awards 2013 and has successfully obtained grants to finance the Cooktown Re-enactment Association’s activities. In November 2011, she went to Brisbane to lobby the State Government for support of their history and gained an audience with Governor Penelope Wensley. She wrote a booklet about Cook’s stay at the Endeavour River in 1770 “Historical Endeavours”. Loretta obtained the support of Cook Shire Council to erect the statue of the Little Old Man who instigated the first recorded reconciliation in Australian history. Alberta is the Deputy Chair of the UMI Arts Centre, the peak Indigenous arts and cultural organisation for Far North Queensland. Alberta prepares workshops for the Department of Education and TAFE and is involved in the Uncle and Aunties Program in the Cooktown School. Since 2007, she has been involved with the Cooktown Re-enactment Association which has been instrumental in presenting a production of the historical landing of the ship Endeavour in 1770. Alberta joined the Association because she wanted to have some influence in changing the content of the presentation by including a more accurate account of the Aboriginal side of the Captain Cook story. Researching the Endeavour Journals helped to develop a historical account from both the European and Aboriginal perspectives, especially the contact between Endeavour’s crew and the Endeavour River Aborigines. They all believed that the recognition of the Aboriginal perspective of this historic event was very important to the reconciliation process and also served as an aid to dispel any myths surrounding the Cook Story. ABN 5561066496
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Graduate House presents
College Tables Marketing
College Tables are informal collegial lunch-time discussions on a ‘grand challenge’ issue in a graduate school field. The Graduate House College Table discussion on Friday, 17th April 2015 will be led by Dr Jing (Jill) Lei, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management and Marketing, The University of Melbourne. Join us for lunch as Dr Lei leads discussion on research in the field of Marketing.
12 noon for 12:30PM
at
Graduate
Usual Dining Room prices apply
April 17th 2015
House
Book online at www.graduatehouse.com.au, by phone 9347 3428, through email to admingh@graduatehouse.com.au or at the venue, 220 Leicester Street, Carlton.
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Dr Jing (Jill) Lei Jing (Jill) Lei is Senior Lecturer in the faculty of Business and Economics at University of Melbourne. She completed her Ph.D. in marketing at School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, Netherlands. Her main research interests are in the areas of brand and line extension evaluations, the effect of negative information on brands, and food consumption. She has published her research in journals such as Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Service Research, Marketing Letters, and other outlets. At the College Table in April, Dr Lei will lead discussion on the interesting and quite scientific ‘tricks’ that food creators and sellers use to make us select their wares, eat more, stay longer and feel quite happy (indeed convinced) that we have chosen and eaten the healthier options (that may turn out not to be so healthy at all).
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February Twilight Lecture review Thursday, 26th February 2015 Health, Happiness and Wellbeing The Rotary Club of Carlton, which meets here every Tuesday, joined with The Graduate Union to welcome Professor Lea Elizabeth Waters as the first presenter in our four part series of Health, Happiness and Wellbeing Twilight Lectures. Lea began her lecture by outlining the high percentage (26%) of youth in Australia who have mental illness. Acknowledging the critical importance of treatment approaches for the management of these illnesses, she pointed also to the need for preventative approaches whereby youth are equipped with ‘psychological toolkits’. In moving to defining ‘positive psychology’ (PP), Lea outlined the two-factor theory for mental health. One factor, the ‘absence of illness’ does not equate with the second factor which is the ‘presence of health’. With treatment approaches, the emphasis is on the first step of removing such negative states as depression, anxiety, insecurity, addiction and violence. If successful, these approaches move the person from a negative to a neutral state. The second step to mental health is the systematic and strategic installation of such positive states as hope, optimism, empathy, courage and gratitude. If successful, these positive psychology approaches move the person from a neutral state to a positive state. Referring to a cartoon by Randy Glasbergen with a doctor saying to a patient, “You have a rare condition called ‘good health’. Frankly, I’m not sure how to treat it”, Lea indicated that 95% of the research and practice of psychology is focused on the first step from negative to neutral. She estimates that the profession of psychology places only 5% of its academic and practice emphasis on the second step from neutral to positive mental health. Positive psychology has its roots in the 1950s. Abraham Maslow, a New York based psychologist known for ‘hierarchy of needs’, used the words ‘Toward a Positive Psychology’ as the title for his last chapter in the 1954 book Motivation and Personality and urged more attention by psychologists to what could be in terms of a person’s potentialities, virtues and achievable aspirations. Professor Waters defined PP as ‘a relatively new branch of psychology that conducts scientific inquiry into the factors that help individuals,
communities and organisations thrive by building on their strengths and virtues’ (Peterson, 2008). It is applied under a heliotrophic (‘facing the sun’) model that is growth-based, solutions focused, proactive and with change being created by focusing on strengths. PP differs from the traditional model which is deficit-based, problem-focused, reactive and with a fixing-up approach. Lea then spoke about a study with one of her PhD students, Reuben Rusk, which was published in the Journal of Positive Psychology in 2013 and entitled Tracing the size, reach, impact and breadth of positive psychology. The aim of this study was to assess quantitatively the growth and significance of the field. Over 1.7 million documents from 1992 to 2010 in 700 PsycINFO® journals covering the fields of psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, management, business, public health and sport science were analysed. Using semantic and bibliographic methods, the titles, key words and abstracts were searched to find over 200 PP-associated words (as shown in a ‘wordle’ which has larger-sized fonts for the more commonly found words). The results indicated that PP was one of the fastest growing fields of enquiry and that it was increasingly interdisciplinary, with citations being evident in the fields of neuroscience, experimental psychology, education and organisation behaviour. Over
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18,000 documents were identified as belonging to Professor Waters concluded her Twilight Lecture PP, with 2,300 published in 2011 - a rise of more by showing examples of how the high level science than 400% from the 1992 numbers. of PP is being applied in schools and playing a video produced by Jody Takos, a teacher who had Lea heads up the Centre for Positive Psychology at been involved with the successful PP initiative at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The Castlemaine Secondary College (120 kilometres University of Melbourne. Established in 2013 with north-west of Melbourne). Lea also invited the the generous support of John Higgins, this centre is audience (and all Members of the Association) one of just a handful worldwide and offers a Master to participate in an online study on gratitude of Applied Positive Psychology, a Professional released by Leonie Abbott who is undertaking Certificate in Education (Positive Education) as a Masters of Applied Psychology at The well as a ‘breadth subject’ for undergraduates of all University of Melbourne. Go to: http://sgiz.mobi/ disciplines across the University. s3/5f75dba18650 to participate in the survey. The Centre has established partnerships with over 100 government schools (through the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development) and nine independent and Catholic schools, as well as with such charities as Berry Street, the Lighthouse Foundation and the Reach Foundation. The team at this Centre works to build the science of PP into education using what Lea refers to as the S3 approach - students, schools, systems. This involves the provision of intensive workshops at all levels for school leaders, teachers and students so that the principles and language of PP are embedded and underpin pedagogy, approaches to teaching and learning, behavioural management and pastoral care. Practical activities - used also on an every day basis in the Centre of PP - include ‘gratitude graffiti boards’, ‘sugar cubes’ (pockets on a board into which anonymous ‘sweet notes’ are placed), ‘random acts of kindness’ campaigns, email-free days, mindfulness sessions, ‘free-hug’ forums, ‘what are you grateful for’ surveys, positive ‘good news only’ social media sites and ‘getting sent to the principal’s office for good behaviour’. In a later study of the 18,000 documents mentioned previously, Lea and her colleagues researched the key actions to be undertaken to improve mental wellbeing. Looking at over 20,000 terms they found 3,466 of interest which were then mapped using cluster analysis into five domains of positive functioning: Attention and Awareness (‘see it’), Emotions (‘feel it’), Comprehension and Coping (‘grasp it’), Goals and Habits (‘use it’) and Virtues and Happiness (‘share it’). Underpinning these domains were themes of ‘persistence’ and ‘resilience’ for success in applying the see, feel, grasp, use and share it model.
In answering a question on the effectiveness of PP, Lea explained that there were very few clinical studies in this field and that, on a one-to-one basis, results were promising. Much research was to be undertaken to describe and measure the effects of PP for groups. On a second question relating to the approaches to take should a person be seen to be moving from positive to neutral to negative states, Lea pointed to the ramping up of positive psychology techniques while also applying more traditional psychology approaches to address the particular mental illness. To a third question on the application of PP in legal firms, Lea pointed to the high incidence of depression in law students and their subsequent entry into a competitive career with systemic structural obstacles to mental wellbeing. She envisaged branching into corporate PP programmes following approximately five years of developing and testing the effectiveness of positive psychology in the education sector. In speaking to the Carlton Connect Initiative, Professor Waters agreed that there was tremendous potential for applied research collaborations between the education sector and those sectors dealing with family welfare, the juvenile justice system, foster care, economic security, etc. In response to a question on the difference between ‘positive psychology’ and self-help pop-culture, Lea explained that psychology has long been classed as a science in which effectiveness is tested under the highly robust, controlled and stringent requirements of the international research (and review) community. The Graduate Union and the Rotary Club of Carlton thank Professor Waters for a wonderful presentation and for her generosity of time also in speaking afterwards with audience members in the Phillip Law Members’ Lounge.
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GU Tastings Review Graduate House’s GU Tastings on Thursday, 26th February was another well received event. Together with the Rotary Club of Carlton, representatives from boutique wine and food providers generously provided their time and wares for the benefit of the Health, Happiness and Wellbeing audience. Daintree Chocolates and Prancing Horse were here for their second GU Tastings, having also participated in September 2014. Rockford Wines and Di Giorgio Family Wines also returned, having had tasting tables in July 2014. First time tasting providers were Prickly Moses with handcrafted beer products and McIvoer Estate. All have indicated to Graduate House that such events not only provide exposure and promotion for their own products, but also give opportunities for regional Australia to be supported and showcased internationally. The many Resident Members who are from all over the world and who attended GU Tastings, certainly enjoyed the new and extremely delicious taste sensations, and will no doubt be excellent ambassadors for our primary industries. DiGiorgio Family Wines encouraged all tasters at their table to enter a lucky draw. Drawn by a Rotary Club member, the winner of the very generous hamper was Shirley Ho. Congratulations! Graduate House thanks the following providers:
2015 Twilight Lectures Health, Happiness and Wellbeing May 14th
Peter Jensen - Lessons in Happiness from the Third World. Peter will talk about his book on the quest for the elusive, endlessly debated state of happiness, inspired by the realisation that he had found an uncharted course through the happiness maze, shifting him from despair to joy.
July 16th
Reverend Dr Francis Macnab AM OM PhD DSc DD MA FBPsS FAPS FAICD (to be confirmed) - Founding the Cairnmillar Institute. Reverend Macnab has published more than 25 books and is an internationally renowned public speaker. He will speak on the establishment of a unique centre in Australia for the psychological treatment and prevention of emotional and psychological difficulties.
September 24th
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March Monthly Luncheon review Wednesday, 4th March 2015 Leadership, Community Building, Justice and Capital Punishment
Bethia (Beth) Wilson AM began by acknowledging the Traditional Custodians of the land that we meet on and paid her respects to their Elders, past and present. On her talk about Leadership, Community Building, Justice and Capital Punishment, Beth said that the building of communities is our most important task. Each of us belong to a variety of different communities. Our community may, for example, be determined geographically by where we live (e.g., by suburb) or by our professional focus (e.g., as lawyers or doctors). Alternatively, or concurrently, we may identify with a community according to language, ethnic background, family and/or culture. We belong to many communities and Australia is blessed by being home to a great diversity of people from all over the world. Pointing, by way of example, to Edith Joyce Morgan OAM (1919–2004), a social and economic justice activist, she indicated the critical nature of compassion when building communities and the importance of not just doing what we are supposed to do in a mechanistic non-humanistic manner. On the question of how we unite diversity to ensure that we can continue to live in a community governed by principles that respect justice and liberty, Beth gave the example of a young woman who was recognised at the Benalla Nursing Awards night. Sitting next to Beth at the awards ceremony was the Director of Nursing who was deeply touched by this particular recipient’s recognition. Some years earlier this Director had seen the potential in this young woman, then a cleaning lady, and had used her leadership skills to foster her entry into and completion of a nursing course. The community benefited also because this young professional was committed to contributing to her region which, like all other small country towns, had great difficulty in attracting (and retaining) qualified health professionals. Another key factor for community building and good leadership is the ability to use the richness of diversity of perspectives and differences of opinion on key social issues to evolve and to
achieve unity in this diversity. To illustrate this point she spoke to capital punishment, a topic that was receiving much media attention and public comment in relation to Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, in Indonesia. On the 3rd of February 1967, Ronald Joseph Ryan was hanged at Pentridge Prison while thousands of people, led by church leaders, Barry Jones and the ALP (Australian Labor Party), lawyers and ordinary Australians protested outside the grim prison walls. With a long criminal history, Ryan had been found guilty of shooting and killing prison officer George Hodson during an escape from Pentridge Prison in 1965. The then Premier, Sir Henry Bolte indicated strongly that he wanted this hanging. He had recently seen convicted murderer Ronald Tait’s death sentence commuted because of insanity; and appeared determined to have an execution during his time in power stating to a newspaper editor “The harder you campaign, the more you tighten the noose around Ryan’s neck.” Ryan’s legacy is that he was the last person executed in Australia. Leaders stepped up then and are stepping up now to build communities
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that support strongly a civil libertarian approach. The current Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott, though condemning the crime and respecting the judicial and legal system in Indonesia, has stated firmly that Australia does not support capital punishment. While not trying to exonerate the use and trafficking of drugs by the Bali Nine duo who were awaiting execution in Indonesia, Beth was reminded of a song penned by Cold Chisel’s Don Walker on the 1986 execution of two drug mules in Malaysia: Chambers said to Barlow in their last night on death row. Come on brother, take my hand and don’t you cry, we are in a foreign land and it’s time to die. Come light we’ll walk the hall, we’ll stand and we will fall. We’ll hang like broken dolls and it will be done. I can hear your mother call and it’s long way home. Then Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, in describing the execution as ‘barbaric’, not only showed a different leadership position to that of Bolte but also illustrated the sharp turn around of the Australian community’s sentiment in just under a decade. In 2005, this unity through diversity was illustrated by the in-government Liberal Party being joined by Amnesty International and the Holy See in their 2005 pleas for clemency for Australian drug trafficker Nguyen Tuong Van who was executed in Singapore. As a lawyer, Dr Wilson expressed the view that a very important purpose in criminal law is to offer and achieve rehabilitation. In the case of Chan and Sukumaran, there appeared to be no doubt that they had remorse for their crimes and that they had rehabilitated - Chan through his religious leadership and Sukumaran through his art teaching. While acknowledging the right for Indonesia not to recognise this rehabilitation, Beth pointed to the difficulty for managers of Bali’s Kerobokan Prison in continuing to try to run a prison where rehabilitation does not result in the death penalty being commuted to life imprisonment. What incentive is there for good behaviour if there is no potential to stave off execution? In 1849, the great Russian writer Dostoyevsky was sentenced to be shot for his involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle, a secret society of liberal utopians who also met as a literary discussion group. He writes on the feelings of a condemned man awaiting execution and standing before the firing squad before his last minute reprieve by Tsar Nicholos I; and describes the extraordinary distress caused in the long term and of his inability to ever recover.
In concluding her presentation, Beth expressed fortune at being able to live in a country where the overwhelming majority do not support capital punishment and where our leaders can state this forcefully and with conviction. She also extended her hope that the Australian and international communities would continue to provide a diverse voice to our leaders and that this voice would continue to be heard and acted upon. In response to a question on why Indonesia is pushing to save their nationals from execution in other countries, Beth indicated that many countries show differences between what they do domestically and what they do outside their own countries; and that this difference in behaviour may well be underpinned by political motives. To a question on the role of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in alerting their Indonesian counterparts of the Bali Nine, Beth indicated that the AFP appeared to have acted in accordance with their roles and at a time when the death penalty was not visibly implemented in Indonesia, adding that the mules rather than cartel leaders are being caught and punished. To a question on the media frenzy and tax payer expenses on this particular issue, rather than on important local matters such as domestic violence and the detention of refugees, Beth agreed that Australia has a long way to go in evolving to address these issues and welcomed continued and repeated refocus by the community to ensure that leaders listen and respond accordingly. While feeling unable to give ‘the perfect answer’ on why medical practitioners charge whatever they like to Medicare, Beth suggested inviting Dr Sally Cockburn, also known as Dr Feelgood, to speak on the monopolies enjoyed by the powerful medical and surgical professional representative bodies. Responding to a question on prevention, Beth said that there is much work to be done in teaching youth to make sensible choices; and reinforced her message that, as a community, we must work together strategically and compassionately to halt the current alarming drug scourge. In his closing address, Cr Keith Ryall thanked Beth for a presentation that evoked thought and emotion. He informed the audience that he had been on the selection panel for Dr Wilson‘s 2001 Distinguished Alumni Award from Monash University for her contribution to research, public administration and ethical practice in the areas of law and health. As evidenced by her luncheon talk, this was for very good reason!
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The Women’s Forum Review The following are salient points discussed at the Competition versus Cooperation forum on the 18th February. Competition implies that there will be winners and losers. Co-operation usually involves a combined effort to provide a mutually acceptable outcome. Unfortunately, competition has become an integral part of our society and most young people learn from a very early age to compete with each other for attention. Any teacher knows well the difficulty of spreading attention when the brighter children are usually the first with hands up when questions are asked. How do we give others time to process ideas and how do we give them the confidence needed to risk offering a response which may be wrong? In so many areas of endeavour throughout life, circumstances produce competitive responses (e.g., sporting events, leadership positions, promotions in the workplace, etc.). Other factors which produce competitive responses (albeit unwittingly) are position in a family with one or more siblings, parental expectations, previous performance, cultural norms, etc. Sometimes a person who has produced a very commendable performance is expected to do even better next time which can result in unrealistic expectations of future potential or the difficulty of someone being promoted to their level of incompetence! In the retail world, most of us are aware that the big supermarket chains can often squeeze out small local businesses who cannot compete with the huge volume of trade which is the norm for the big players. In the world of professional sport, the huge monetary gains earned by top players can be a temptation to hang in till they are defeated by someone younger and fitter or perhaps even to resort to drugs or cheating to maintain the top ranking. From a more positive perspective however, there is evidence in some fields where people who have realised that co-operative effort can benefit all parties (e.g., research projects where scientists are prepared to share findings to achieve faster results; libraries that have agreements to share stock through inter-library loans; educational institutions that have joint specialist courses and, of course, those rare situations where as Association encourages its members to accept that opportunity carries the responsibility of supporting others less fortunate. Perhaps the most effective way in which society can counter the negatives of competition is to teach the young skills and techniques of negotiation, and the value of compromise. A notice which one of our members saw recently urged viewers to aim for progress rather than perfection. Another reminded us that “people are NOT equal, therefore no-one needs to feel inferior or inadequate. We all have our own strengths. All we need is encouragement to develop and use them.
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Resident News “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is the little extra.” - Jimmy Johnson Screening of “Lessons in Dissent”
On Tuesday, 10th March 2015 we had the privilege of attending the first Australian screening of Lessons in Dissent, a kaleidoscopic, visceral documentary that charts the rise of Hong Kong’s youth activists, particularly 15 year-old Joshua Wong and 17 year-old Ma Jai. Set in 2012, the documentary brings awareness of the democratic movement during the anti-National Education campaign and the Legislative Council elections. Sponsorship for the screening and facilities came from the Screen and Cultural Studies Program, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne, with support from the Research Unit in Public Cultures. Graduate House is proud of the contributions of residents Wong Shiau Ching and Tsui Wai Kin to the social media and poster publicity, and Ai Vy Oerstroem Moeller who helped out with the logistics on the day of screening. Thank you to those residents who attended the screening to show support for fellow college residents. Applications for the Graduate House Scholarship and Bursaries close on Thursday, 2nd April 2015. If you have not submitted your application, there is still time. See Reception for details. Every resident is eligible so please put in your submission for support.
The Graduate House Student Group (GHSG) 2015 Committee and Social Mixer events The GHSG is an association of residents and other members that organises events to enrich college life and foster community and networking among our very international student body (e.g., movies, excursions, social mixers, etc.). Our college community consists of friends from every continent, studying pretty much every field, and speaking dozens of languages, and our group tries to facilitate social events that reflect this awesome diversity and help everyone to feel welcome. Some events are on our facebook page: https://www. facebook.com/groups/graduatehouseresidents/ and our email is ghstudentsgroup@gmail.com. We plan to host Monthly Social Mixer Events on every second-last Friday of each month, with a different theme/activity each time. Keep watch at the notice boards and the facebook page (Graduate House Residents’ Social Events) for details over the coming months. Candice Tan
Abraham Arief
Bernice Carrick
Tessa Satherley
Co-President
Co-President
Meet your 2015 GHSG committee members David Allinson Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
General Committee
Wai Kin Tsui
Liliana Bray
Oliver Lovell
Tracey Lin
Dennis Danipog
Nicolas Wang
Roberta Grant
Riyan Stephan
Graphic Design
Publicity
Enviro/Justice
Events
The Graduate Union Resident’s Handbook is available for download at: https://www. graduatehouse.com.au/accommodation/ resident-handbook/. Events
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University Sector News Stories that may be of interest to our Members
Easy as Pi
March 14, 2015 was a particularly special day for the mathematically enthused. Those who opt for the style of dates where the month is represented before the day - and have a penchant for noticing the little math coincidences in the universe - will have taken delight is knowing that 3/14 is Pi to two decimal places, 3.14. If you include the year - this year - then that gives 3/14/15, which is Pi to four decimal places, 3.1415. This happens only once a century. If you are not satisfied by that, then take your celebrations a step further (as they did at the New York Museum of Mathematics) by focusing your attention on 9:26am or pm, adding three more digits to Pi, 3.1415926. If you waited a further 53 seconds you got 3.141592653 Pi to nine decimal places. That’s probably the best time and date approximation to Pi you can get with your typical time piece. If you happened to be in Chicago then you would have celebrated with other Pi-ians by running a Pi-K race of 3.14 miles. If not, then you may have enjoyed a worldwide appreciation of pies, with some bakeries advertising their baked goods at $3.14. But why do we celebrate this ever-continuing strand of numbers? Do Pi or the digits of Pi ever really enter the day-to-day world?
in the programming of your smartphone, used in digitally decoding multichannel, gigahertz signals while you casually chat with your friend about the local weather and politics. Pi even appears in the field equations of Albert Einstein’s general relativity. Which is perhaps more relevant considering that March 14 is also Einstein’s birthday. When you read reports about tests of Einstein’s general relativity, Pi is more than likely behind the equations governing these mind-blowing phenomena. For those interested in learning more, take a look at some of the original technical papers on Pi that have appeared over the past 120 years in the American Mathematical Monthly. While many of these articles are targeted to mathematical researchers, quite a few are readable by those with relatively modest mathematical training. For those who are number-impaired or simply prefer words, it is enough just to know – for this year’s Pi Day – that Pi = 3.141592653. For more information on this day of celebration: http://theconversation.com/prepared-forpi-day-this-year-its-a-once-in-a-centurycelebration-38576
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Farewell to Terry Pratchett Not many writers can create a world so vivid, manic and entertaining as Discworld by Terry Pratchett. The bestselling author, Alzheimer’s disease research funding campaigner and all round enigmatic figure has died aged 66. He was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease eight years ago. Discworld is by far Pratchett’s most famous creation. A world made of a flat disc, sitting upon the backs of four gigantic elephants, who are standing on the top of an enormous turtle, spinning through the universe. Forty of Pratchett’s novels were set in this marvellous place that is unlike any fantasy world before or since. Discworld is a place in which magic is natural and therefore the natural way to deal with life and its problems. Science is no more then a mild disturbance or incredulous profanity to the inhabitants of Discworld, who either treat it with disdain or ignore it entirely. The inhabitants of Discworld vary from barely competent wizards, who inhabit a university where the most important event is lunch, to the strange young men who experiment with crazy stuff, like electricity and a clockwork data analyser driven by ants. Helen Gavin, the Director of Graduate Education and University of Huddersfield, puts it best when she said: “The differing experiences of each of the inhabitants that we follow through the books are, by turns,
hilarious, poignant or thought provoking, but never, ever boring. What the words reveal is not just something about the fictitious world and its characters, but that the author has a warm and affectionate sense of humour, a great wit and an understanding of humankind rivalling some of the greatest philosophers. It was also clear that he loved and respected women, as well as championing the downtrodden, the disenfranchised and, of course, the downright silly.” Death was also a character of Discworld. He rode upon his horse Binky and only ever spoke in capitals. Once he even took on an apprentice, who married Death’s daughter. Pratchett saw Alzheimer’s as a challenge to take head on. Upon being diagnosed, he began campaigning for research funding and became an advocate for dying on his own terms, Pratchett will be missed by all those who delved into his worlds, the wacky twists and turns of his stories and waited eagerly for the next issue. It is perhaps most fitting that Pratchett’s twitter page posted a message from Discworld’s Death upon his passing: “AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.” For more information go to: http://theconversation.com/farewell-terrypr at c h e tt - a - p s y c h o l o g i c a l - an a l y s i s - of discworld-38757
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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
Addition Kakuro Name: ________________________ Class: ___________ 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 block!
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.
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NB: There might be more answer combinations possible! Please note that there might be more answer combinations possible.
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Cryptic Crossword
Across 1. 4. 6. 8. 9. 10. 11. 13. 16. 17. 19. 20. 21. 22.
Observe confused car beetle (9) Sounds like a beverage for the golf course (3) Viper illusion conceals danger (5) Deduce from pain ferocity (5) Unclear theory obscures planet (5) Taxi omnibus reveals expression (5) Actors for additional items? (6) Discovered pitiless drunk indoors (6) Stories contained in pasta lesson (5) Team leader requests chores (5) Found midi omits a manner of speaking (5) Sounds like very much to distribute (5) Finish in seven days (3) Holidays on cat visa perhaps (9)
Down 1. Madcap rice impulse, essentially (7) 2. Big in popular genre (5) 3. Sounds like an illuminating way to set down (6) 4. Merit in various depots (7) 5. Real army reveals warning (5) 7. Rails at whirling ropes (7) 10. Confusion is a mean loss of memory (7) 12. All diet adjustments corresponded (7) 14. Indicates concealed grade not estimated (7) 15. Tomato microbe contained something minute (6) 16. Furniture item and data set (5) 18. Colossal volley produces fusillade (5)
Last edition’s results Across: 1. Enter 3. Planets 6. Average 8. Items 10. Tee 11. Obstinate 12. Cloudy 14. Tandem 18. Nostalgia 20. Ten 21. Pound 22. Evening 23. Onerous 24. Joker
Down: 1. Elastic 2. Theme 3. Please 4. Alibi 5. Emerald 7. Avoid 9. See 13. Obscure 15. Adage 16. Manager 17. Agrees 18. Nip 19. Audio 20. Think
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Meet at our centrally located facility before and after free Public Lectures held at various locations around The University of Melbourne. These lectures are usually held in the middle of the day or early evening (to suit city workers and students after their regular lectures). See http://events. unimelb.edu.au/all/free-public-lecture and share notice of these lectures across your networks. Non-members are welcome also to meet, dine or refresh here at Graduate House.
Friday, 6th March 4th April
12.00pm Margaret Lawrence - 5.00pm Gallery, 40 Dodds Street, Southbank
Faculty Title or School Faculty of Exhibition: Object as VCA and Score MCM
Thursday, 2nd April
1.00pm - YHM Rm, L1, Sidney 2.00pm Myer Asia Centre, 748 Swanston Street
Australia India Institute
Date
Saturday, 4th - 28th April
Time
Venue
12.00pm City Library, City of Faculty of Melbourne, 253 Flinders VCA and Lane MCM
Speakers Exhibition
Tiffin Talk - The Modi Government: An Early Assessment of its Policies and Impact
Professor Amitabh Mattoo
Exhibition: Halfway There
Exhibition
Bookings and Enquiries Enquiries ml-gallery@unimelb.edu.au Call 03 9035 9400 Enquiries aii-rsvp@unimelb.edu.au Call
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Wednesday, 6.00pm - Lecture Theatre G08, Australia 8th April 9.00pm Melbourne Law School, India 185 Pelham Street Institute 6.00pm - Margaret Lawrence 8.00pm Gallery, 40 Dodds Street, Southbank
Friday, 10th April
9.15am - MacMahon Ball Faculty of 5.00pm Theatre, Room 107, Arts Old Arts Building, The University of Melbourne
Teaching and Learning Australia: rethinking the archive in the Australian Humanities
Symposium
1.00pm - Melba Hall, Melbourne Faculty of 2.00pm Conservatorium of VCA and Music, Gate 12, Royal MCM Parade, Parkville, The University of Melbourne
Free Lunch Hour Concerts
Neil McLaren (Baroque Flute)
8.00pm - Bennetts Lane Jazz Faculty of 10.00pm Club, 25 Bennetts Lane, VCA and Melbourne MCM
Jazz and Improvisation Small Ensemble Series at Bennetts Lane
Tuesday, 14th April
Exhibition: The nature of Exhibition Blankness
Saturday, 18th April
Melbourne Law School
2.00pm - Melba Hall, Melbourne Faculty of 3.00pm Conservatorium of VCA and Music, Gate 12, Royal MCM Parade, Parkville, The University of Melbourne
03 90357538
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Performance - An ensemble based series featuring emerging contemporary improvisers performing original compositions and arrangements.
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The First Century of the Magna Carta: the diffusion of texts and their use and citation by litigants, lawyers and justices, 1215-1315
Professor Paul Brand
Enquiries law-events@unimelb.edu. au
MCM New Music Ensemble: A Birtwistle Portrait
Conductor Elliott Gyger
Admission at the door: $10 Full / $8 Concession Wednesday, 6.30pm - Derham Lecture 15th April 7.30pm Theatre, Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton
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Thursday, 9th April - 9th May
Monday, 13th April
Faculty of VCA and MCM
Film Screening: Indian Mr Anupam Sharma Cinema - Dil Chahta Hai
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Date Monday, 20th April
Time
Venue
Faculty or School
Title
1.00pm - Melba Hall, Melbourne Faculty of 2.00pm Conservatorium of VCA and Music, Gate 12, Royal MCM Parade, Parkville, The University of Melbourne
Free Lunch Hour Concerts: Melbourne Conservatorium Chamber Brass
Monday, 20th - 24th April
12.00pm Southbank Campus, Faculty of VCA and MCM, 234 St Kilda Road, Southbank
Wilin Week 2015
Tuesday, 21st April
8.00pm - Bennetts Lane Jazz Faculty of 10.00pm Club, 25 Bennetts Lane, VCA and Melbourne MCM
Faculty of VCA and MCM
Jazz and Improvisation Small Ensemble Series at Bennetts Lane
Speakers Joel Brennan - Trumpet William Day - Trumpet Roman Ponomariov French Horn Don Immel - Trombone Mike Szabo - Bass Trombone Performance - Annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural diversity Performance
Admission at the door: $10 Full / $8 Concession
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Enquiries wilin-centre@unimelb. edu.au Call
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Wednesday, 1.00pm - Davis Auditorium, 22nd April 2.00pm Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1g Royal Parade, Parkville
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
From NK cells to Innate Lymphoid cells: function and therapeutic applications
Wednesday, 6.00pm - Jackson’s & Co, 201 8.30pm Mair Street, Ballarat, 22nd April Victoria
Office of Admissions
Meet Melbourne Ballarat The University of Melbourne will meet students, teachers and parents in Ballarat to talk about courses, career outcomes and Melbourne degrees
Enquiries lcarlton@unimelb.edu.au
5.30pm - Woodward Conference Faculty of 7.00pm Centre, L10, Melbourne Arts Law School, 185 Pelham Street Carlton VIC 3010
Religion in the war zone: Dr Nasir Butrous Driver of conflict, force of Dr Denis Dragovic peace? Dr Raihan Ismail Professor Jonathan Spencer
Enquiries lsanders@unimelb.edu.au
9.30am - University College, 1.00pm Recreation Centre, 40 College Crescent, Parkville
Is our Democracy Working? University College Annual Forum
Enquiries admin@unicol.unimelb. edu.au
Thursday, 23rd April
Friday, 24th April
Monday, 27th April
Tuesday, 28th April
University College
Enquiries falcone@wehi.edu.au Call
Dr Simon Longstaff
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1.00pm - Melba Hall, Melbourne Faculty of 2.00pm Conservatorium of VCA and Music, Gate 12, Royal MCM Parade, Parkville, The University of Melbourne
Free Lunch Hour Concerts: The Sound of Silence
6.00pm - Rural Health Academic 8.30pm Centre (TBC), 49 Graham Street, Shepparton, Victoria
Meet Melbourne Shepparton
Wednesday, 6.00pm29th April 7.00pm
Professor Eric Vivier
Office of Admissions
Physics South-L105 Faculty of (Hercus Theatre), Arts Spencer Road, Parkville
03 9345 2555
13MELB (136352)
03 90356909
03 9347 3533
Sally-Anne Russell (mezzo soprano), ​ Nicholas Dinopoulos (base-baritone) and Andrea Katz (piano)
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The University of Melbourne will meet students, teachers and parents in Shepparton to talk about courses, career outcomes and Melbourne degrees
Enquiries agrinton@unimelb.edu.au
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We would have become Roman: From Arminius to Herman the German
Professor Kai Brodersen Enquiries jacksonb@unimelb.edu.au
Wednesday, 6.00pm - Albury Entertainment Office of 29th April 8.30pm Centre, Swift St, Albury, Admissions New South Wales
Meet Melbourne Albury
The University of Melbourne will meet students, teachers and parents in Albury to talk about courses, career outcomes and Melbourne degrees
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Wednesday, 9.00am - Melbourne Convention 29th - 30th 4.30pm and Exhibition Centre, 2 April Clarendon Street, South Wharf
Future of Work: People, Place, Technology 2015
Conference
Enquiries info@worlplaceleadership. com.au
Faculty of Business and Economics
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Academic and Professional Development Meetings Thank you for your patronage The following groups from The University of Melbourne have convened meetings, workshops and seminars at Graduate House. Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Department of Infrastructure Engineering
Faculty of Business and Economics
27th February 35 attendees
20th February 30 attendees
19th February 8 attendees
11th, 12th, 16th, 19th, 23rd February 68 attendees
Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
Melbourne Graduate School of Education MERI Planning Day
The University of Melbourne Graduate Student Association
Trinity College Foundation Studies
2nd February 55 attendees
24th February 17 attendees
9th February 20 attendees
9th February 20 attendees
Trinity College Foundation Studies
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
UoM Commercial - GPSL, Communications and Engagement, Thermography, UMNOS’ 14, Graduate Certificate in Curriculum Leadership, Palliative Care
2nd February 5 attendees
17th February 9 attendees
6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 25th, 26th, 27th February 305 attendees
The patronage of organisation Members in charitable, not-for-profit, government and professional development sectors is acknowledged, as is that of our many individual Members who organise functions. We look forward to welcoming you again soon.
Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Association (AFMLTA)
Alfred Hospital Resident and Graduates Association
Australian Asian Association of Victoria (AAA)
Australian Film Base (AFB) 4-month Film School
14th February 16 attendees
16th February 16 attendees
2nd February 6 attendees
2nd, 17th, 24th February 15 attendees each day
Career Education Association of Victoria (CEAV) Training
CRC for Spatial Information CRCSI Strategy Workshop
David Percival (Rotary) Mentor training
Great Holidays Pty Ltd
17th, 18th February 69 attendees
24 th February 24 attendees
10th , 17th February 40 attendees
11th February 17 attendees
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Academic and Professional Development Meetings
Honours Accounting Student Society (HASS)
Melba Group
Modern Greek Teachers Association of Victoria (MGTAV)
Modern Language Teachers’ Association of Victoria
23rd February 10 attendees
27th February 18 attendees
19th, 26th February 40 attendees
19th February 20 attendees
Organisation Development Australia (ODA)
Peer Support Australia Implementation Workshop
Probus Club Inc Carlton Parkville
Rotary Club of Carlton Lunch and Board Meetings, D9800 and Heritage Cluster
24th February 20 attendees
24th, 25th February 20 attendees
10th February 70 attendees
3rd,10th,17 th,18th,24th,25th February 145 attendees
Strucomp Pty Ltd Research, Innovation and Commercialisation Innovation
Safeguarding Events - Tall Buildings Short Course
Social Work Department Writing Group
Strucomp P/L “TechnoLab™ Mechanics Series of HomeLab
13th February 6 attendees
26th February 30 attendees
17th February 8 attendees
12th February 50 attendees
Supply Chain and Logistics Association Australia (SCLAA)
The Graduate Union GU Collegiate and Governance Meetings.
Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) VCCC Board Meeting
Western and Central Melbourne Integrated Cancer Service (WCMICS)
18th ,19th February 6 attendees each day
3rd, 4th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 16th, 17 th, 18 th, 23rd, 25th, 26th 408 attendees
12th February 15 attendees
11th February 47 attendees
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At Graduate House Faculty of Architecture Group Reunion
Kindergarten Teachers Educational Tour
Architecture graduates at the reunion lunch
Kindergarten teachers enjoying dinner in the dining room
Organised once again by Life Member David Eyres (seated second from left in top picture), the group of ‘old friends’ who have been meeting regularly since graduation in the 1950s came together on the 20th of February, 2015 for another reunion. The friends have kept in touch over the years and are from the Faculty of Architecture. They are now in diverse roles, with some in retirement and others having gone on to pursue other interests like music and social work. It was a pleasure seeing them again and we look forward to their next reunion in 2016.
A warm welcome to the group who dined here on the 11th February. Organised by Great Holidays Pty Ltd, the kindergarten teachers were visiting education centres across Australia. They enjoyed great food and wine in a pleasant and welcoming atmosphere. We hope that much was learnt from our wonderful system here and look forward to welcoming you all back on your next tours. David Wilson hosts Bangladesh delegates
Melba Group Reunion
The Melba Group came for lunch on the 27th February. With focus on bringing about social and cultural change for women, the members of this influential group of women will be working with our Graduate House Women’s Forum to generate discussion and workshops on the ‘how to’ of identifying and nominating women for major awards (e.g., for Australia Day Awards).
On the 24th February, Life Member Dr David Wilson hosted a delegation from Bangladesh which is visiting The University of Melbourne on a Discussion and Campus Tour. The delegates are from the Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) in the Ministry of Planning of the Government of Bangladesh. Among the group was Mr Md Shahid Ullah Khandaker (Secretary in Charge, IMED), Mr Md Sefaul Alam (Director General, Communication and Local Government Sector, IMED), Mr Md Faruque Hossain (Director General, CPTU,
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IMED), Mr Kazi Jahangir Alam (Director General, Education and Social Sector, IMED), Mr Md Siddiqur Rahman (Director General, Agriculture, Rural Development and Research Sector, IMED) and Mr Mohammad Mukhlesur Rahman Sarker (Director and Deputy Secretary, Prime Minister’s Office). Thank you for your feedback Oh dear you (Kitchen staff) prepared special non-onion vegetarian food even though I forgot to ask for it for my vegetarian friend. - Olive Hamilton Everything is fantastic. I always have the best experience every time I dine here. - Kash Wadhwa Fabulous. Friendly. It’s like family. -Dr David Wilson
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Celebratory Dinner at The Kelvin Club A joint dinner was held on Monday 16th March, 2015 to celebrate the establishment of a reciprocal relationship between The Graduate Union of The University of Melbourne and The Kelvin Club. To mark the occasion, The President of The Graduate Union, Major General Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld AM OBE KStJ gave a presentation on Medicine at the Extremes. The ‘extremes’ referred both to the ‘cutting edge of research and technology’ and the ‘practice of medicine and surgery in conflict zones’. John Dall’Amico with Professor Rosenfeld explained the unique development at Rhys Watson Monash University of a ‘bionic eye’ involving implants at the back of the brain in the vision area (occipital lobe) which will receive and process signals wirelessly from cameras on the blind person’s glasses. He pointed to the urgent need for major and continuing funding from government and industry to progress such Australian medical technology initiatives and to boost a wide range of local sectors, including the manufacturing industry.
Speaking on the other extreme, Jeffrey spoke to the honour of having served in Rwanda, East Timor and a number of other war zones to deliver medical and surgical care in conditions that tested the flexibility and ingenuity of highly dedicated and skilled practitioners.
The Spode Blue Room Collection Traditions Series - this special plate illustrates the three stages of the relationship between fox and lion.
The Graduate Union extends its gratitude to the Kelvin Club for hosting this dinner function and thanks, in particular, Mr John Dall’Amico, President of the Kelvin Club and Mr Kevin Silberberg, immediate pastTreasurer, for inviting our Members to this auspicious event. The Chair of Council, Mr Rhys Watson, concluded the proceedings by giving a vote of thanks and the gift of a Spode Plate of Aesops Fable The Lion and the Fox to mark the occasion of the strategic alliance.
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Taking thanks for granted Following on from the Twilight Lecture by Professor Lea Elizabeth Waters, we suggest that you participate in her current research project which is being undertaken in collaboration with The University of Birmingham. Should you not use computers, please feel free to give us a call - we may be able to assist by typing in your answers on our computers here. The research study is entitled Taking Thanks for Granted? The aim of the study is to investigate the understanding Australian adults have about gratitude. It is anticipated that the survey will take 10 minutes of your time. The research is being conducted by Professor Lea Waters, at The University of Melbourne, together with Dr Liz Gulliford and Dr Blaire Morgan from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. Click or copy this link to begin the survey - http://sgiz.mobi/s3/5f75dba18650 The researchers are very happy for you to circulate this link amongst your friends, relatives and colleagues. They hope to reach a wide range of Australian adults across all demographics. The research team at the Centre for Positive Education have thanked Graduate House and all our Members in advance for taking the time to consider participating and assisting them with this research.
Thank you for your response A Notice from The Graduate Union for ‘Register for email Notices and Publications’ was sent out recently to all members. In the Notice, we asked if you would like to receive The Graduate Union notices, publications and other documents by email. The response has been tremendous and we are very grateful for all members who have taken the time to provide us with updated email addresses, contact numbers and their choices of which documents they would like to receive by post and which by email as attachments. Some forms were returned to us without a name. So if you are still not receiving any Publications as you have indicated (e.g., our monthly Newsletters are usually sent out to members by post and email before the end of each month), please contact us at (03) 9347 3428 or send an email to publications@ graduatehouse.com.au.
Special General Meeting Please be reminded of the Special General Meeting of The Graduate Union of The University of Melbourne Incorporated (“The Graduate Union”) which will be held on Tuesday, 31st March, 2015 from 5.30pm to 6.30pm at Graduate House, 220 Leicester Street, Carlton, Victoria, 3053. At this special General Meeting, members of the Association will consider, and if they see fit, approve amendments to Rule 54.3 to add a retrospectivity clause. Kindly inform us if you would like to stay for dinner after the meeting so that we can cater appropriately. Please call us on (03) 9347 3428 or send an email to admingh@graduatehouse.com.au to book.
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