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Autumn Ordinary Meeting 2019Friday 22 March 2019 The University Club of Western Australia

Cover: Conrad Hogg (106th Guild President) and Doug McGhie (Warden) Convocation Day 2019 All photos by Manny Tamayo Photography

AgendaThe Autumn Ordinary Meeting of the Convocation of The University of Western Australia, 6.30pm, Friday 22 March 2019, The University Club of Western Australia

1. Welcome

2. Apologies

3. Minutes of the Spring Ordinary Meeting held on Friday 21 September 2018

4. Amendments and motion of acceptance of minutes

5. Business arising from the minutes

6. Correspondence

7. Results of Convocation Elections for Warden, Deputy Warden, Members of the Council of Convocation and one Member to Senate

8. Vice-Chancellor’s Report

9. Guild President’s Report

10. Warden’s Report

11. Convocation Officer’s Report

12. Other Business

13. Keynote Address: 100 years of Rowing at UWA – Traditions and New Horizons

14. Q & A session

Supper

Complimentary canapés and drinks until 9.30pm

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Minutes

Spring Ordinary Meeting21 September 2018

The Second Ordinary Meeting of Convocation was held on Friday 21 September 2018 commencing at 6:30pm in University Club of WA.

The meeting was attended by the following graduates and guests.Ian Abbott, Chacko Abraham, Thankam Abraham, Raoul Abrutat, Rudy Agostini, Angelina Agostini, Kent Anderson, Melanie Ariyaratne, Ruth Arnel, Diana Atkinson, Ahmad Bagbag, Rachima Bannerman, Bruce Barblett, Mary Basley, Wayne Beaumont, Evalyn Beaumont, Greg Benjamin, Jill Benn, Marilyn Bennet-Chambers, Aileen Bennett, Danielle Berry, Peter Bibby, Peter Bibby, Peter Bibby, Simon Biggs, Warwick Boardman, Robert Boggs, Astrid Boggs, Maureen Boland, Peter Brearley, Justin Brockett, Jean Brodie-Hall, Bradley Buckland, Stuart Bunt, Lesley Cala, Lesley Cala, Maria Calabro, Blair Campbell, Bruce Campbell, Bruce Campbell, Bruce Campbell, Geri Campbell, Cindy Campbell, Maria Carvalho, Renate Chandler, Kok-Foo Chang, Tshung Hui Chang, Daniel Chegwidden, Tat Meng Chow, Laurence Coleman, Malcolm Collier, John Collingridge, Mary Conroy, Hilary Cook, Helen Cripps, Kevin Crombie, Devon Cuneo, Norma Curnow, Jocelyn Curnow, Brett Davies, Simon Dawkins, John Day, Lynne De Peras, Christiane Demesa, Christopher Denby, Brian Devine, Ian Duckham, Anne Dunne, Nola Earnshaw, Greta Edwards, Mark Edwards, Johanne Eldridge, Mark Elliott, Angela Evangelinou-Yiannakis, Jim Everett, Jocelyn Everett, Peter Farr, Arthur Ferres, Elizabeth Feutrill, Marie Finucane, Keith Forbes, Dawn Freshwater, Mog Gadsdon, Michaele Gardiner, Chantelle Gaskell, Kathie Gates, Agi Gedeon, Tim Gibbney, Joel Gilman, Paul Gordon, Susan Graham-Taylor, Barry Green, Helen Green, Jenny Gregory, Jim Gunson, Anne Gunson, Maria Harries, Jennifer Harris, Jennifer Harris, Nicholas Hasluck, Stephen Hastings, Susan Hastings, Patricia Hatch, Patricia Hatch, Patricia Hatch, Patricia Hatch, Dorothy Hatch, Melissa Hetherington, Jo Hiller, Wendy Hillier, Jennifer Hole, Janet Holman, Walter Horeb, Ruari Jack Hughes, Ruari Jack Hughes, Ruari Jack Hughes, Maureen Humpage, Gary Jeneson, Warren Kerr, Chneoh Hooi Khor, Susan King, Nelly Kleyn, Joanna Knowles, Max Kousins, Dean Laslett, Eric Lawson, Jill Lawson, Megan Lee, Minglong Li, Jiwei Li, Lilie Lilie, Ian Lindsay, Yuyi Liu, Freda Livingston, Poh Loh, Frances Lutze, Richard Lyon, Sandra-Lee Mackey, Robert MacMath, Anne Maughan, Rose McAleer, Thomas McCleery, Carolyn McCleery, Doug McGhie, Lynne McGuigan, Lyn McKeaveney, John Melville-Jones, Ken Michael, Nikolaos Millios, Eve Morrissey, Dianne Moxham, John

Murphy, Tony Natale, Ekta Nathoo, Ekta Nathoo, Ekta Nathoo, Ainalem Nega, Lai Yu Newell, Nee Nee Ong, James Paparo, Terry Parks, Juanita Perez, Anne Pickett, Theresa Plunkett-Hill, Joan Pope, John Quealy, Dan Quirante, Kaye Regan, Alex Reid, Trevor Ridgwell, Jim Rowlands, Johan Salim, Mona Salim, Suellen Sanzone, Richard Scarff, Richard Scarff, Richard Scarff, Jennifer Searcy, Enid Sedgwick, Susan Sharpe, Philip Shields, Hilary Silbert, Hilary Silbert, Brian Sova, Rosemary Spark, Louise Sparrow, Louise Sparrow, Louise Sparrow, Cornelia Staats, Jonathan Strauss, Tony Stroud, Pat Stroud, Shane Stuart, Denise Sullivan, Penny Sutherland, Kang Tam, Ernie Tan, Joel Tan, Cathy Tang, John Taplin, Tony Tate, Tony Tate, Ray Tauss, Ray Tauss, Ray Tauss, Ethan Taylor, Tracy Taylor, Brenda Tournier, Pauline Tremlett, Sheila Walker, Ian Warner, Elizabeth Wetherell, John Willox, Anne Willox, Georgina Wilson, Jing Zhi Wong, Edit Wood, Paulina Wroblewski, Madeline Wu, Zhisheng Xie, Allen Yeow, and Mark Zhang

Cathy Tang and guest arriving at the meeting

Convocation members Zhisheng Xie, Paul Gordon and Convocation Councillor Brett Davies

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The following members of Convocation asked that their apologies be recorded.Hugo Acosta Martinez, Ralph Addis, Diana Adler, Kenneth Ahmat, Rida Ahmed, Fiona Allan, Lyneve Amoore, Maureen Anderson, Carlo Andreacchio, Michael Andrews, Paola Anselmi, Paul Appleton, Max Aravena-Roman, Isabel Arevalo-Vigne, Patrick Armstrong, Francis Arndt, Brendan Arrowsmith, Maki Aruga, Ajanthy Arulpragasam, Diane Atkinson, Rosemary Atwell, Koya Ayonrinde, Vivien Bainbridge, Deborah Baker, Paul Baker, Sue Bant, Nicolas Baranowski, Annette Barbetti, May Quin Barker, Shelley Barker, Cynthia Barrett, Michael Bartosiak, Malcolm Basell, Peter Batchelor, Estie Bav, Jason Beard, Tully Bennett, Haia Ber, Rodney Beresford, Andrew Berryman, Brian Betts, Enzo Biagioni-Froudist, Morgan Biggs, Mas Tasha Binte Abdul Malek, Rowena Birrell, Roger Blackett, Anne Blanchard, Dan Blue, Lynda Blum, William Blumer, Amy Blundell, June Boddy, Luke Bone, Kathleen Bonus, Angharad Booth, Jessica Boughton, Elyse Bourgault Du Coudray, Deborah Bowen-Smith, Rebecca Bowles, Sue Boyd, Amanda Bracewell, Diana Bradbury, Felicity Bradshaw, Anne Brearley, Ian Brebner, Robert Bredemeyer, John Bremner, Anthony Bright, Errol Broome, Nike Browning, Don Buchanan, Dianne Budd, Paul Bumbak, Rick Bunn, Sebastian Bunney, Peter Burke, Peter Burke, Joe Butorac, Brian Byrne, John Caddy, David Cairns, Liza Campbell, Alison Carlin, Elodie Caro, Rachel Carpenter, Mary Carr, Georgia Carragher, John Carrigg, Diane Carroll, Joan Carroll, Craig Carter, George Cash, Rachel Catterson, Sonia Cattley, Robert Cavanagh, Karyn Chan, John Chater, Mun Cheang, Xinyi Chen, Anne Chester, Michael Chester, Victor Cheung, Terence Chia, Virginia Christie, Tianlun Chu, Chew Chua, Bryna Chuah, David Churchill, Sylvia Churchill, Megan Clark, Milton Clark, Alan Clarke, Graeme Clarke, Linda Clayton, Lynette Clayton, Harold Clough, Douglas Clyde, Harvey Coates, Rosemary Coates, Greg Cockram, Samuel Cohen-Cooke, Simone Collins, Tim Colmer, Alfio Contarino, Nils Convert, Gregory Cook, Danica Cook, Mathew Cooper, Roderick Cooper, Tony Cooper, Peter Copley, Steve Coppens, Vida Corbett, Rochelle Cornell, Diana Corston, Phyllis Costello, Stephen Costley, George Costopoulos, Margot Cox, Terry Craig, Jane Crawford, Julie Crews, Keith Croker, Malcolm Crosbie, Joanne Cruickshank, Adrienne Cullity, Penelope Cuthbert, Ivana D’Acunto, Matthew Davey, Dean Davidson, Richard Davies, John Davis, Judith Davis, Judith Davis, Steve Davison, Christine Davy, Reginald Dawson, David de Hoog, Geoffrey Dean, John Dean, Bernice Dent, Natasha Dewani, Mike Dilworth, Amelia Dixon-Pugh, Diane Downham, Elizabeth Dowson, Jacqueline Doyle, George Drew, Elle Drummond, Judith Drummond, Jamie Drury, Alexia Drygan, Cleo Drygan, Paul Duncan, Tom Durkin, Wayne Duthie, Timothy Dymond, Katrise Eager, Rod Eagleton, Linda Earl, Peter Eastlake, Gary Eddy, Basil Edwardes, Cyril Edwards, Hartley Edwards, Adrian Egginton, George Eichinski, Sue Ellery, Bruce Elliott, Maurice Ellvey, Laura Emery, Henry Esbenshade, Judy Esmond, Ben Evans, Ernest Fardin, Adele Farina, Richard Farrell, Gus Ferguson, Lynette Fernandes, Renae Fernandez,

Carlo Fini, Michael Firth, Franz Fischer, Chris Fisher, Monica Flattery, John Fletcher, Sandra Fletcher, Margaret Floyd, Louise Flux, Chris Forlin, Paul Fox, Nathan Francis, Rina Fu, Shih Ching Fu, Elizabeth Furlong, Geoff Gallop, Michael Ganon, Brent Gardner, Carrie Gardner, Witold Generowicz, Rohan Gengatharen, Sean Geoghegan, Cal Gerard, Nick Gerrard, Hanneka Gerritsen, Marina Gerzic, Leisa Gibbons, Zhane Gibson, Lynton Giles, Cliff Gillam, John Gladstones, Maureen Glancy, Diana Glenn, Brian Goddard, John Godfrey, Mayford Godfrey, Kevin Goh, Barbara Good, Felicity Gooding, Kamulsen Gowrea, Lloyd Graham, Christian Grainger, Dieter Grant-Frost, Cliff Green, David Greenhill, Pamela Gregor, Peter Gregson, Judith Griffin, Emily Gunson, Claire Hadley, Silvana Ham, Kim Hames, Alec Hand, Helen Hankey, Chris Harkness, Joan Harlow, Graham Harmsworth, John Harriott, Arthur Harris, Max Harris, Reinhold Hart, Nadya Haryanto, Dennis Haskell, Alan Hawkins, Scott Hawkins, Kerry Hawley, Charity Haynes, Peter Healy, Milanna Heberle, Frank Hedges, Terry Heenan, Trevor Height, Pat Henry, Ricardo Herrera Ayala, Keith Hester, Geoffrey Hewett, Greg Higham, Tom Higham, Barbara Hill, Kerry Hill, Murray Hill, Marcus Hitch, Mal Hodsdon, William Hoff, Gary Hoffman, Donald Hogben, Joyce Hogben, Janet Holmes à Court, Peter Hopwood, Jo Horgan, Hugh Houston, Bette Howell, Zhiwen Huang, Robert Hughes, Terence Hunt, Zoe Hyde, Peter Hyman, Ali Ismail, Anne Ismail, Ungku Ismail, Elliott Jackson, Deborah Jackson-Porteous, Verghese Jacob, Brian Janes, Ian Janes, Douglas Janney, Gregory Jarosch, Dianne Jarvis, Bradley Johnson, Brian Johnson, Brian Johnson, Don Johnson, Doris Johnson, Henry Johnston, Liz Johnstone, Barry Jones, Darrell Jones, Evan Jones, Janice Jones, Maxwell Jones, Patricia Jones, Patricia Kailis, Peter Kalmund, Jansje Karajas, John Karajas, Bill Kean, Anne Keith-Fraser, Dave Kelly, Jim Kemp, Irene Kempa, Tom Kendall, Lorelei Kerr, Jonathan Khoo, George Kingsley, Melinda Kinnane, Peter Klinken, Joseph Kong, Julia Kovesi, Valerie Krantz, Edward Kucharski, Rajendra Kurup, Graham Ladyman, Mable Lam, Christopher Lancucki, Louis Landau, Rona Landquist, Bruce Langford, Jenny Larner, Des Lascelles, Adrian Lau, Dillon Lau, Ian Laurance, Lisa Le Faucheur, Steven Lee, Will Lee, Christian Lemnell, Kenneth Leung, Steve Lieblich, Janice Lim, Arvid Linde, Daryl Lindsay, Antony Lo, Michael

Graduates reviewing the meeting minutes.


Lochore, Miriam Lochore, Owen Loneragan, Virginia Longley, Jan Lord, Neville Loudon, Tony Lourensen, Robin Lovegrove, Nicola Lucano, Dorothy Lucks, Steve Lukan, Tara Lukan, Waverley Lynch, Angus MacDonald, Catherine MacDonald, Malcolm Macmillan, Helen Maddocks, Jack Mah, Tom Maher, Jasmina Malkoc, Althea Malligan, John Malone, Stephanie Maltman, Stephen Malyniak, Thomas Man, Uday Manchanda, Roy Manchester, Clive Mariano, Bill Marmion, Loisette Marsh, Gordon Marshall, Peter Marshall, Glenda Martinick, Audrey Martins, Chris Massey, Katherine Massey, Danielle Masson, Josephine Masters, Julie Matheson, Joyce Matson, Trevor Mazzucchelli, Narelle McAuliffe, Ian McCall, Bruce McCallum, Wendy McCallum, Damien McCann, Gordon McColl, Moira McDermont, Hayden McGrath, Michael McGuire, Douglas McInnes, Nancy McKenzie, Sharon McKerrow, Kate McMurtrie, Jacqueline McNally, George McRae, Connor McShane, Tim Mead, Arpad Mencshelyi, Geetha Mendis, Rose Michael, Benita Milicich, Virginia Miller, John Millett, Katherine Mills, Robyne Millward, Conor Mines, Michael Mischin, Darryn Mitchell, Peta Monley, Jessica Moore, Michele Moore, Greg Moriarty, Patricia Mulcahy, Bruce Mullan, Paul Mullins, Peter Munro, Joe Murphy, Madeleine Murphy, Peter Murphy, Denise Murray, Malcolm Murray, Charmaine Myers, Caitlin Nagle, Elena Nattrass, Chris Neretlis, Charlse Newman, Joshua Ngai Mun Ng, Kenneth Ng, Krystal Ng, Aik Chern Ng, Kim Guan Ng, My-Hanh Nguyen, Shiah Nguyen, John Nicholas, Patricia Nixon, Pat Nottle, Christine O’Brien, Liam O’Bryan, Ellen O’Connor, Ilse O’Ferrall, Ban-Ban Ong, Chow-Loo Ong, Chuan Ong, Nicole Ong, Angeline Ong, Charlotte Openshaw, Emma O’Shaughnessy, Lucy O’Sullivan, Roger Overmeire, Daniel Ow, Justine Oxley, Marjan Oxley, Bardia Paki, Kerry Paki, Silvano Palladino, Sally Pamberger, Stacey Papa, Dina Papas, Rod Parker, Serena Parker, Merle Parkes, Trevor Parry, Brian Partridge, Kim Paterson, Michael Paterson, Alistair Peacock, Chris Peacock, Ian Peacock, Anna Pembroke, Steven Pereira, Stan Perron, Rayma Pervan, Zeke Pervan, Gabriela Pestell, Beverley Pether, Michael Pether, Diana Phang, Charm Phillips, Stephen Phillips, Ray Piesse, Bernadette Pilkington, Margaret Pinchback, Jeffrey Pinkham, Conrad Pires, Terry Pitsikas, Bill Plozza, Barbara Plummer, Julian Polain, Tony Poli, Fiona Poole, William Poole, Ian Porter, Anthony Postle, Mark Pownall, Cheryl Praeger, Christina Pranata, Daryl Pranata, Neville Pringle, Janet Pritchard, Aylene Quartermaine, Donalda Ramsden, Lyndsay Randall, Peter Randell, Gaetano Rando, Sally Rankin, Kristie Read, Terry Redman, Don Reid, Dennis Reynolds, Ronald Richards, Grace Richardson, John Rickard, Ann Rigg, Noreen Riordan, Norm Roberts, Della Robinson, Jamie Robinson, Kerry Rollo, Mary Rose, Mary Roskams, Gwyneth Rothols, Robin Routley, Gesa Ruge, Jeffrey Russell, David Ryan, Henry Ryan, David Sadler, Mihaela Safta, Barry Saker, Jenny Sales, Brian Salisbury, Robin Salter, Bill Sands, Michael Schaper, Deryck Schreuder, Michelle Schwager, Diana Scott, John Scott, Tony Scott, Virginia Scott, Amanda Seabrook, Margaret Seares, Roger Seares, Peter Searle, Leah Segal, John Seotis, Nicole Seyler, Khilna Shah, Duncan Shearwood, Helen Shilkin-

Reinhold, Zarrin Siddiqui, Darren Simmons, Genevieve Simpson, Su Sirr, Richard Sisson, Stephanie Slanzi, Yiing Sleight, Marielle Sloss, Melanie Sloss, Peter Smedley, Michael Smith, Peter Smith, Philip Smith, Rodney Smith, David Snowdon, Alberta So, Esther Sohn, Hamid Sohrabi, Coralie Solomon, Marcus Solomon, Jayantha Somasundaram, Alexander Song, Dino Spagnoli, Maurie Sparkman, Laurence Spencer, Stephen Spiers, Pat Spillman, Paul St John, Judith Stephens, Deborah Stephenson, Michelle Stephenson, Ric Stern, Damien Stevens, Sandra Stevenson, Jan Stewart, Ra Stewart, Trevor Still, Pauline Stone, Peter Strickland, Marina Sucur, Murray Swain, Matthew Swinbourn, Melissa Symonds, David Synnott, Monika Szalai, Stella Tagbo, Simon Taheri, Megan Talmage, Adam Tan, James Tan, Jason Tan, Lee Tan, Richard Tan, Ankang Tang, Anqiang Tang, Noel Taylor, Roger Taylor, Michael Teare-Williams, Irianto Tedja, Nadia Tedja, Kai Jie Teoh, Diana Teplyj, Adrian Thomas, David Thomas, Jeremy Thomas, May Thomas, Sally Thomas, Roger Thompson, Neville Threlfall, Julia Thurloe, Ray Thurloe, Stephen Tilinger, Daina Timermanis, Catherine Tiong, Simon Tomkins, Wendy Tomlin, Geoff Totterdell, David Tout, Malcolm Treadgold, Domenic Trimboli, Mathew Trinca, Kathy Troup, Charles Tucak, Gillian Tucak, Michael Tuke, Gyula Turchanyi, Clinton Turner, Leisa Turner, David Turpin, Nikolas Unger, Prague Unger, Susan Unger, Grace Utting, Jonathan Utting, Michael van Koesveld, John Vann, Richard Vaughan, Marika Vicziany, Eva Vlahov, Van-Van Vu, Petar Vujovic, Brendan Waddell, Diana Wald, Jim Wall, Elizabeth Waller, Brian Walsh, Lionel Ward, Lisa Ward, Robin Warren, Ken Watson, Peter Wearne, Cara Webling, Maxwell Weedon, Cornelis Wegman, Pelham Weir, Jason Wells, Martin West, Patricia Weston, Ryan Whiddett, Kevin White, Phyl Wilkin, Aston Williams, Janet Williams, Ken Williams, Brian Willis, Rod Willox, Sean Wilson, Caroline Winwood, John Wolfe, Wendy Wolfe, Christopher Wong, Desmond Wong, Jian-Ning Wong, Shu-Ning Wong, Vanessa Wong, William Wong, Rebecca Wood, Graham Wood, Colin Woods, Mary Wright, Robert Wright, Ben Wyatt, Jeannette Wyber, John Yates, Mary Ann Yeats, John Yiannakis, Soon Min Yong, David Young, Michael Yung, Shahnaz Zeinali, Kehan Zhu, Vera Zirojevic and Ann Zuber

Ms Juanita Perez, Convocation Officer as Executive Officer


1. WELCOME

In opening the Spring Ordinary Meeting for 2018, the Warden of Convocation, Dr Doug McGhie, welcomed the following guests:• Former Chancellor and former Governor Dr Ken Michael

AC CitWA• Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dawn Freshwater;• Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Simon Biggs;• The 2018 Guild President Megan Lee;• The Deputy Warden of Convocation, Dr Joan Pope OAM; • The Immediate Past Warden, Adjunct Professor Warren

Kerr AM• Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Community & Engagement)

Professor Kent Anderson; • Members of the UWA Senate; • Members of Convocation Council; and • all the members of Convocation, including their guests

and friends.

The Warden then formally declared the meeting open at 6.34pm.

2. APOLOGIES

The Warden noted apologies from:• Chancellor, The Hon. Robert French AC• Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Professor David Sadler;• Acting Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor

Tim Colmer• and over 800 other members of Convocation.

3. MINUTES OF THE AUTUMN ORDINARY MEETING 2018

A copy of the minutes of the Autumn Ordinary Meeting 2018 held on Friday, the 23rd March 2018 appeared at Attachment A of the Spring Ordinary Meeting 2018 booklet.

4. AMENDMENTS AND MOTION OF ACCEPTANCE OF MINUTES

No amendments required to the minutes. The motion to accept the minutes of the Autumn Ordinary Meeting held on Friday, the 23rd March 2018 was proposed by Dr Joan Pope OAM and seconded by Mrs Pauline Tremlett. The motion was carried.

5. BUSINESS ARISING

The Warden reported that in keeping with previous feedback that the opportunity to view the Agenda papers prior the meeting is valued by our members, the Council has continued this process and the agenda papers have been available online through a link that was provided in the email reminder sent out in the last week.

Q&AFollowing the last Ordinary Meeting, the Convocation Council received many positive comments regarding the Q&A session at the end of the meeting. Consequently, another Q&A session was included in the agenda of the meeting. The Warden said that given the very special topic to be addressed by the guest speaker, two questions would be taken immediately after

Warden of Convocation, Dr Doug McGhie welcomes all to the meeting


that talk. Recognising the challenge of time and the breadth of the panel and a special request from the Vice-Chancellor, questions would be called for ‘on notice’ for this meeting. A very solid contribution of questions was received, and from these, 11 questions have been chosen to be addressed by the panel in the Q and A session.

6. CORRESPONDENCE

The Warden reported that Convocation receives regular correspondence, and the emails and letters received since the last Ordinary Meeting have covered a very broad field. The Warden has responded to these emails and letters individually, and will also provide an overview of the important topics in his report for this meeting. The Warden thanked all members of Convocation who took the time to contact him and Convocation Council in that period. There was one fairly contentious issue with the graduate email; there was a lot of correspondence on that, and the responses were well received.

7. VICE-CHANCELLOR’S REPORT

The Warden next invited Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dawn Freshwater, to present her report. A copy of the text of the Vice-Chancellor’s report appeared at Attachment B of the Spring Ordinary Meeting Booklet.

The Vice-Chancellor took her report as read and began with some updated information since her written report.

Professor Freshwater spoke to her slide presentation.

2018 Open DayThe Vice-Chancellor said that Open Day this year was very exciting in many ways. One was that an autonomous vehicle was moving throughout the campus during that day and gathered quite a lot of support and media interest. Open Day was important for the University in terms of how the University

managed to create a very vital and active student hub in the middle of the oval. There was a great turnout for that day.

Australia Update: Raising the Standard of Living Forum The Australia Update: Raising the Standard of Living Forum was held on Tuesday 4th September 2018. It was a one-day public forum presenting a series of public discussions on the emerging political and economic challenges facing Australia. The event was supported by the UWA Public Policy Institute, the UWA Business School, Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Education.

Presenters include Philip Gaetjens (Secretary to the Australian Treasury), Jennifer Hewett (Australian Financial Review), John Simon (Reserve Bank of Australia), Mark Barnaba (Chairman of the UWA Business School Board and Fortescue Metals Group Ltd FMG) and Peter van Onselen (ABC anchor, UWA).

The Australia-US relationship in the Indo-Pacific EraOn 27 August 2018, Australia’s Ambassador to the United States, The Hon Joe Hockey, joined the Perth USAsia Centre for a private roundtable luncheon under the Chatham House Rule which focused on “The Australia-US relationship in the Indo-Pacific Era” and how they cooperate under the framework of an alliance with an emphasis on their shared strategic and economic interests in the Indo-Pacific region. The luncheon was moderated by the Governor of Western Australia and former Australian Ambassador to the United States, The Hon. Kim Beazley AC.

MTP ConnectThe MTP Connect initiative is a state government initiative, together with the University of Western Australia and the MedTech Pharma Company, to deliver and lead the life science innovation hub across this state. The University is leading all the universities and bringing together all the work that is happening across life sciences, including what is happening

Professor Simon Biggs (Sr Deputy Vice-Chancellor), Ms Jill Benn, (University Librarian), Professor Kent Anderson (DVC Community & Engagement) and Professor Dawn Freshwater (Vice-Chancellor)

Vice-Chancellor Professor Freshwater delivers her report


in the hospitals, with the Marshall Centre and various other initiatives, under one umbrella to look at how the University might lift the ambition around its life science research and its application for improving lives.

E-Zone A ground breaking ceremony was held to mark the day that work commenced to build the engineering zone, the e-zone student hub, which will be a very lively and vibrant building.

GO8 meetingA GO8 meeting was held in Melbourne on 20 September. At the meeting, the new Education Minister, Dan Tehan, talked about higher education and his involvement in that.

The Vice-Chancellor commented that it was very difficult when you are ‘going through’ several Ministers to really get some traction in terms of policy change, and to have to educate them, ironically, on education and particularly around the funding model.

At the moment the University has a freeze on the number of places and the amount of funding until 2019. They had a conversation about that with the Minister. The Vice-Chancellor said that it is going to take the Minister quite some time to understand that, and that means a little bit more uncertainty for the University.

State – Skilled Migration SchemeThe State government has announced a move to attract more international students to UWA through a change to some of the occupational skills list. The University saw a downturn through the changes to that skills list from 23% to 18% interest where that particular 5% growth that would normally happen in this state directly went to Tasmania and Adelaide. The Vice-Chancellor highlighted that the policy shift will make it easier to recruit and attract international students. The Vice-Chancellor said that there was a direct correlation from the work the University did with BankWest.

Go8 Econometrics ReportThe group of 8 (G08) commissioned London Economics, who had also done a piece of work for the Russell Group Universities in the UK, to look at the economic contribution and impact of the eight universities to the nation. The methodology was the same as that which was used in the UK. The Vice-Chancellor offered to make that report available to anyone who would be interested in looking at that report.

The Vice-Chancellor has presented the outcomes of that report for UWA to the Committee for Perth, and will also be presenting this report to the Chamber of Commerce.

The Vice-Chancellor pointed out that UWA is the only university in the G08 universities in the State of Western

Australia. Some states have more than one university, but as a group of 8 universities, the contribution to the nation’s economy, beyond research and teaching, such as tourism, goods, services, and all sorts of other additional items, was $66.4 billion in one year; and in that year, UWA contributed $4.5 billion to this state, which is quite a substantial contribution.

Premier Science AwardsProfessor David Blair was inducted into the WA Science Hall of Fame for his key role in the discovery of gravitational waves.

Dr Melissa O’Donnell was awarded Woodside Early Career Scientist of the Year.

PhD student Arman Siahvashi was joint winner of ExxonMobil Student Scientist of the Year.

Fields Medal Professor Akshay Venkatesh, is the second only Australian to have been awarded one of the world’s most prestigious mathematical awards, the Fields Medal. The Vice-Chancellor said that this is really significant and exciting as there are only two universities in Australia that have a Nobel Laureate and a Fields medallist, and this university is one of them.

The Vice-Chancellor further added that the other thing that is very exciting about this is that it is mathematics, just at the time when we are really focused on STEM, on really wanting to work with schools and ensuring that students understand the importance of maths and its application to the future of work. The University is delighted that Professor Venkatesh is going to do some presentations for us at the University.

Eureka AwardProfessor Wendy Erber, Dean of Medicine, and her team won the Eureka Award for the work that she has been doing on identifying single cells that are cancerous through leukaemia and the impact that it is going to have on diagnostics.

Aurora AwardThe Aurora Award for indigenous international overseas study has also been won by UWA.

FundingThe Vice-Chancellor acknowledged the work done through research grants in the last six months. The University was awarded $17 million of funding through the ARC Centre of Excellence scheme. The Vice-Chancellor said that as the research funding across the nation is shrinking, there is a smaller amount of funding available through the research councils for us to apply for grants. This year UWA won 33% share of that funding - the national average was 19%. She also said that though that is a fantastic achievement for the University, the pot is smaller, so actually even though the


University won more and higher awards, it is actually less funding, and that is likely to continue over time.

Media ActivityIn Quarter 2, 2018, 1281 media items mentioned UWA in state and national media (748 in the press and 533 in broadcast). • Highest quarterly return since Q2, 2016• Health and Medicine, Science, and Arts and Humanities

receive stronger coverage.• There were concentrated efforts to increase social media

to engage with students and the community, these videos include:• May the 4th be with you – a Star Trek video which

attracted a huge amount of interest from young people• 2018 FIFA World Cup video – viewed over 25,000 times,

and • West Cost Fever, the netball team sponsored by UWA,

that were in the finals this year.

Vision 2030The Vice-Chancellor met with Warden Dr Doug McGhie, Deputy Warden Dr Joan Pope OAM and Immediate Past Warden Adjunct Professor Warren Kerr AM, to talk about the Convocation submission to the consultation process for the Vision 2030. They looked at that submission in detail, but importantly, they talked about how Convocation could be more engaged as part of that vision over the next decade. The Vice-Chancellor acknowledged that of those 55 submissions, many of them were from teams. There were hundreds and hundreds of people working together to bring together some fantastic submissions and innovative ideas for the future vision for the University, and many of them came from students, alumni, Convocation, industry and government perspectives.

The Vice-Chancellor highlighted a number of key findings:• The need to be multi-disciplinary and structure ourselves

to support this • Importance of place – our unique WA context• A growing importance of social responsibility• Need for transformation of infrastructure• Continued learning in a changing workforce, particularly

digitisation• Need for greater engagement with industry, community,

government• Appetite for change and transformation

The Vice-Chancellor pointed out the importance of the need for greater engagement with industry to drive employability and relevance. The Vice-Chancellor, Dr McGhie, Dr Pope and Adjunct Professor Kerr met and had a very in-depth conversation around the role of Convocation because there is an opportunity for Convocation to be engaged in supporting work-integrated learning, internships and

industry-connected placements across our many thousands of Convocation members.

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Professor David Sadler will be leading this initiative and will be working closely with the Warden and the team.

The Vice-Chancellor is intending to present the strategy to Senate by October 2018 as a draft white paper and then finalised at the end of the year. The Strategic Plan will then be presented to Senate for approval at the Senate Strategic Retreat in March 2019. The Vice-Chancellor intends to launch the Strategic Vision Plan in April 2019.

Alumni Attitudinal SurveyDeputy Vice-Chancellor (Community and Engagement) Professor Kent Anderson, who is leading this work, will be attending the Convocation Council meeting on 3rd of October to discuss the outcomes of this survey. The Vice-Chancellor encouraged the attendees to raise any question they may have about the survey.

Convocation members at the Ordinary Meeting

Guild President Ms Megan Lee delivers her report


8. GUILD PRESIDENT’S REPORT

The Warden invited the Guild President, Ms Megan Lee, to present her report to Convocation.

Ms Lee commenced by saying that her term is shortly drawing to a close with only two more months until she completes her term as the 105th UWA Student Guild President, and as the University looks forward towards what university education looks like, so does the Guild. Ms Lee said 2018 has been a massive year for the Student Guild. They have been working hard towards achieving against their strategic goals as set by Immediate Past Guild President, Nevin Jayawardena. The student representatives, all of which volunteer their time to this fantastic organisation, have been working incredibly hard in order to deliver some key achievements for students.

Ms Lee spoke to her report, a copy of which was provided at Attachment C of the 2018 Spring Ordinary Meeting agenda booklet. The same report was also illustrated through PowerPoint presentation slides at the meeting.

Ms Lee then said that a few things not captured in her report include a series of the academic policy changes that she had not earlier mentioned as well – which were all spearheaded by the newly elected 2019 Guild President and the current Education Council President, Conrad Hogg. She also said that Mr Hogg will, through the Women’s Department, progress to establish a mobile text messaging service to ensure that students can get from A to B around campus safety.

Group of 8 Student Leaders’ ConferenceMs Lee said that she had the pleasure of attending the Group of 8 Student Leaders’ Conference. This was a project spearheaded by her predecessor, Nevin Jayawardena, but she had the utmost pleasure of seeing that project come through to fruition where she met student leaders from across the country, sat down with members of the executive of all of the Group of 8 universities to discuss how they could improve higher education and how the Group of 8 could be a sector leading organisation, championing change in the higher education sector for the betterment of the student experience.

Guild Student ServicesMoving forward the Guild Council is looking into their engagement with students and better communication with students and continuing to improve their services, such as their commercial area with opening new outlets in the refectory through to improving services for welfare support, expanding services such as the Food Pantry and most importantly, further discussions over her next two months as Guild President with Convocation on how students can benefit from the wealth of knowledge and experience from Convocation. Everything from work experience for students

which is much needed through to donations and support to students through the Food Pantry and other services.

ChallengesA huge challenge for the Guild has been pushing for the prioritisation of safety initiatives as well as improving the educational experience at UWA which she is very thankful for the support of the Warden of Convocation and the Convocation Council who often give her suggestions on ways that she could improve the way that the Guild engages with the University, the way that the Guild engages with graduates, and what lessons can be learnt from years past.

A final challenge that the Guild has been working with the University and Convocation with is improving the attractiveness of studying at UWA. The Guild prides itself on being one of the best student organisations in the country with the highest student engagement, the highest student membership and the highest level of service, especially with the level of funding that they receive as a smaller situation, and a lot of these suggestions and ideas are definitely being followed through in the University’s 2030 Vision planning.

Ms Lee thanked Convocation and looks forward to seeing how the Guild will move forward as she passes on all of her hard work over the past 12 months to the 2019 Guild Council. Ms Lee said that she hopes that the relationship between the Guild and Convocation will continue to grow stronger.

Warden Dr Doug McGhie delivers the Warden’s report

9. WARDEN’S REPORT

The Warden, Dr Doug McGhie, spoke to his report. A copy of the Warden’s Report appeared at Attachment D of the Spring Ordinary Meeting agenda booklet.

Rather than go through his report in detail, the Warden just briefly highlighted a number of important developments that Convocation Council has addressed since the last Ordinary Meeting.


Statute ChangesAs a result of the change in the UWA Act, the University is going through a fairly solid change in its governing statutes. The introduction of a single University statute has proved challenging to Council and members of the Governance Committee. This statute will cover all aspects, including Convocation. Convocation is contributing to its component of the single statute. The Governance Committee representatives are working with the University Secretary.

The Warden said that to this end, the Council has been fortunate to be able to call on support from two very well qualified members who are experts in the field. Greg Calcutt AM and Patrick Tremlett, ex State Solicitor’s Office, offered to help pro bono. This has really taken a heavy load and concern away from Council. Council found the benefit of what we have within Convocation in that the network is powerful, the network really can bring great skills to bear. The Warden added that it is a work in progress, but both of those give a great example of where the Convocation network can bring to bear what is very, very useful for this University.

Graduation CeremoniesConvocation retains a valuable role in graduation ceremonies. In the July graduation ceremonies, the Warden’s Welcome speech was shared between the Warden and Deputy Warden as well as two Councillors. The Warden said that he, the Deputy Warden and several Councillors had the pleasure of participating and look forward to the thirteen December graduation ceremonies.

Annual Convocation Awards CeremonyThe 2018 Convocation Awards ceremony was excellent, well attended and a very happy occasion at the attractive Watersports Complex. Nearly 30 scholarships, awards and prizes were presented. The Warden said that everyone who shared that night was absolutely overwhelmed with the joy and the intelligence of what was available to them that night. PhD candidate and 2017 Convocation Postgraduate Research Travel Award recipient, Ben McAllister, gave a talk on black holes. It was a fun talk, very well done by Ben on the night.

Access to screens on Campus / Connect, Communicate and CelebrateTwo Ordinary Meetings ago Tom Murrell was the guest speaker and challenged Convocation to connect, communicate and celebrate. The Warden said that Council is progressing well. There is more to do on all fronts and he had hoped to unveil, for tonight, the new University Club Screen that will display Convocations activities, events and achievements. The Warden said to watch that space, very soon.

The Warden reported that information on UWA graduations that was used in our green paper submitted to the developing of the Vice-Chancellor’s 2030 strategic plan highlights that

there are many more recent and young graduates than from the early days. Convocation must connect, communicate and celebrate with all of them if it is to succeed in the long term.

Open DayConvocation Councillors participated in the UWA Open Day this year. The Warden said that it was good to be there and it was a very positive day all around.

Finance CommitteeReview of finances and financial management is being conducted by Convocation Council’s Finance Committee. Convocation’s statutory activities such as the Ordinary Meetings are funded by the University. Convocation receives discretionary support through the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Community and Engagement), this is to be recast around the library and other activities. The Council also has its own reserves and contributions as well.

Library MembershipDiscount membership of the library has been available to subscribing members for many years; some are annual but others are lifetime subscribers. It was a significant issue but requests to limit our financial promotion have driven it down. The University wishes now to make that benefit available to all graduates. Convocation is negotiating compensation for loss of subscriptions associated with the attractive benefit. Once concluded the equivalent benefit will be free to all graduates. It can add broader value to the University and we hope to have that finalised so that the new library membership arrangement can be in place for 2019. This is a wonderful extension of a Convocation initiative and benefit to all graduates.

Decommissioning of the Graduate Lifetime EmailFor many years, Convocation has been providing a free, permanent email address for all UWA graduands and graduates. However, in response to strong and consistent expert advice from UWA information technology specialists that the securities concern was real and it was not appropriate to continue with lifetime email as it had been run, the decision was made to decommission the lifetime email address. Some users suggested other options, these were passed to the University, and the response was the same. The Warden said that, again, it was a good initiative taken by Convocation in the past, and it was appropriate to go with the times when the advice was that it could no longer be sustained.

The Convocation QuestionThe Warden said that the name of Convocation is often presented to him as a difficulty, yet the basis is sound, and Convocation has been around for 105 years and is very much a part of the University. The Warden shared his thoughts on other ways of looking at it and presenting ourselves ‘cause we


all have work, family, location and other distractions, where Con – the prefix con-, does mean “with”’; Vocation – a person’s employment, occupation, or profession. The Latin word Convocare means “calling together”. The Warden put forward his approach where our members join Convocation when they are qualified “with profession”; not just meeting, but more calling together over time.

Current Convocation logo

Warden’s suggested concept

Strategic Challenges for Convocation and CouncilThe Warden reported that there are several real challenges for Convocation and Council, particularly around the Vision 2030 paper, and he is delighted to be involved in the process with the Vice-Chancellor and the Executive; he said it is important that Convocation is involved. Convocation’s and Council’s challenges are:• To support the University;• To support and enhance the UWA student experience;• To support UWA’s graduates;• To be relevant to UWA students and graduates;• To add value through all of the above.

The Warden said to do that, Convocation has got to be known and not be hidden. It is about the network of friends and colleagues that can do so much for the students and their experience, if enlisted, Convocation can perform in all of those situations.

Warden’s Ride to Conquer CancerThe Warden will take part in the Perkins Institute of Medical Research’s 200km Ride to Conquer Cancer on October 13 and 14 to raise funds for Cancer Council, Motor Neurone Disease Research and Youth Mental Health Foundation.

Warden Dr Doug McGhie

ThanksDr McGhie said that being Warden of Convocation is a demanding and exciting role but there are many who help to make it possible. He thanked the Convocation Council and co-opted members; Chairs and leaders; External member contributors Greg Calcutt AM and Patrick Tremlett; Convocation Officer – Ms Juanita Perez, with support from Ms Melissa Hetherington; and especially to Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Community and Engagement) Professor Kent Anderson with whom he has had the pleasure of working very closely with. This meeting will be Professor Anderson’s last Convocation Ordinary Meeting as he is not seeking to renew his employment contract with the University.

10. CONVOCATION OFFICER’S REPORT

The Convocation Officer’s report appeared as Attachment E of the Spring Ordinary Meeting 2018 booklet. This report contains a list of graduates whose whereabouts have become unknown since the last Ordinary Meeting. Those attending the meeting were asked to review the list and to notify the Convocation Officer, Ms Juanita Perez, if the contacts details of any graduates listed in this report were known to them.

11. AUDIT REPORT

The independent Audit Report appeared as Attachment F of the Spring Ordinary Meeting 2018 booklet. The Audit Report has been considered and endorsed by Convocation Council on behalf of the members of Convocation. The audit


report is without any qualifications and demonstrates that Convocation is in a healthy financial state and able to pay its debts when they fall due.

On behalf of the members of Convocation, the Warden commended the work of the former Honorary Treasurer, Dr Brett Davies and the Convocation Officer Juanita Perez for their contribution to this excellent outcome.

12. OTHER BUSINESS

Presentation of Convocation Medals

Jiwei LiIn 2017, Convocation joined with the Student Guild to recognise an outstanding volunteer from the Student Guild with the inaugural award of the Convocation Medal.

This year, the Outstanding Student Volunteer through Guild Volunteering is Jiwei Li, whose citation was read by the Warden.

Convocation Annual ElectionsConvocation Annual Elections are approaching. The current office holders of these honorary positions complete their term in March 2019 and all are eligible for re-election.• Warden of Convocation• Deputy Warden of Convocation• Seven Members of the Council of Convocation• One Member of Senate Elected by Convocation

Nominations for the positions open on Wednesday, 7 November 2018 and close at 12.00 noon on Wednesday, 5 December 2018.

The Electoral Roll will close at 12.00 noon Wednesday, 5 December 2018.

50th ReunionThe Warden reminded all that the annual 50 Year Anniversary Reunion luncheon this year for the graduates of 1968, will be held in the Old Ref in Hackett Cafe on Saturday 20th October. All graduates of 1968 and those who were at UWA at this time were invited to attend.

The Warden called for assistance to locate some graduates of 1969 for whom the University has no current contact but who we wish to invite to their 50 year reunion. They are listed on page 58 of the agenda booklet.

The annual 50th Reunion is an initiative by Convocation which commenced in 1985 with the current Deputy Warden.

(L-R) Deputy Warden Dr Joan Pope OAM, Ms Patricia Stroud and Warden Dr Doug McGhie

Patricia StroudThe Convocation Medal is periodically awarded by the Convocation Council to individuals who have distinguished themselves by their service to UWA.

Deputy Warden read the citation for Patricia Stroud. The Warden, Dr Doug McGhie presented the Convocation Medal to Patricia Stroud for her outstanding commitment and contribution to the theatre since 1976.

Ms Jiwei Li presented the Convocation Medal by Warden Dr Doug McGhie


Armistice Day Celebrations The Cultural Precinct in conjunction with Convocation and the UWA Historical Society is arranging an Exhibition of Photos in the Colonnade Gallery here at the Club, commemorating the Centenary of the Armistice of the Great War. It opens on Friday 9th November and will be up for several months. It is curated by recent graduate and new Convocation member Holly Langford-Smith, with the assistance of Dr Joan Pope, UWA Archivist Maria Carvalho and Guild Archivist Melissa Hetherington.

Dr Anna Gray AM, former Director of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, will present a High Tea Talk on 24th November on the Art of War, featuring Streeton and Lambert.

The Honour Board, noting the members of Senate, Staff, Convocation and Students who served in the Great War has been restored and corrected and will be relocated in the upper Foyer of Winthrop Hall . To be unveiled on the late afternoon of 11th November

It is hoped that a Memorial Plaque organised by the UWA Historical Society with a grant from Department of Veteran Affairs through the Hon. Julie Bishop, will also be dedicated the same afternoon.

13. Keynote Speaker

The Warden then introduced the guest speaker for the evening, Ms Jill Benn, the University Librarian at The University of Western Australia, who delivered her address on Reinvention of the Library in the Digital Age.

14. Q & A SESSION

Ms Jill Benn, University Librarian

The Q & A Panel

The Warden opened the Q&A session. Questions presented were received on notice. Due to time constraints, 30 minutes have been allocated to this session. 11 questions across a broad spectrum were selected by the Warden and shown on the screen for all to read.

(verbatim)

Question 1: James Rowlands to the Vice-Chancellor: “Will UWA, hitherto a champion of all that is most precious in our Perth Community, make clear, now, to Convocation and the people of Western Australia what its intentions are for the priceless riverside land and view to the south of the recently built Forrest Hall and whether it is prepared for public opposition to any further encroachment?”

Response:Vice-Chancellor: “When we originally talked about the development of Forrest Hall and the donation to the scholarships for the University to the Forrest Research Foundation there was always a design by the architect that involved two parts to a building and that was looked at through the Senate about 2014, 2013 probably, two parts to the building at that stage. And what was developed at the time was one part of the building with a possibility of developing further, there were a further eight rooms that were going to be developed, fondly called the Eastern Bloc, that weren’t actually developed during this process.

So we’re still in a position where we’ve got of course Forrest Hall One now complete. There is still on the table the work that the original architect put together. I’m sure many of you will be aware of course that sadly Carrie Hill died recently, a very great loss to this state, the architect who put together the design for Forrest Hall as a whole and that does account for two parts to that building.


So where we’re at at the moment is we have Forrest Hall built. There was scope for extending Forrest Hall into more bedrooms and more rooms for scholars and that is currently continuing to be looked at and of course decisions as they go through any process have to require planning as they always do and when any planning goes forward then there’s consultation with the community. So that’s as much as I can say about that at the moment because that’s as far as the conversation has gone.”

Question 2:Benjamin Fincham-de Groot to the Guild President and Vice-Chancellor: “In light of the anniversary of the release of the AHRC Change the Course Report, what steps has the University of Western Australia taken to reduce sexual assault on campus; to improve the process through which students have historically struggled to report sexual assault by other students; and has the University tried to address the rape culture present in our campus culture, or just left that to the Student Guild?”

Response:Guild President: “So just by way of background the Australian Human Rights Commission Change the Course report came out of earlier work by the National Union of Students which was a survey of students regarding sexual assault and harassment on campus and their ability to engage with their education safely. This was then obviously on a smaller scale and then was picked up by Universities Australia and the AHRC to do a nationwide survey into this issue as well and it was very telling, I suppose, of particularly – the biggest problem is that most students don’t know where to go if something like that happens to them. They don’t know where to get support from, they don’t know if their university can do anything about it and they just don’t really know where to start if something like that happens.

In terms of what we’ve done as a Guild, as - out of the review of orientation in 2013 we have significantly overhauled all of our event management processes, the way that we manage clubs and societies and the way that we manage all student-run initiatives and events. This includes a series of trainings, student leadership training sessions that we require all clubs to take. It’s only prescriptive that one person from their executive takes it but we find that we’re having to put on more sessions as every single member of a club that is on that club committee will attend those sessions. That covers everything from preventing sexual violence at events, the responsible management of alcohol and how to run events safely and inclusively.

We also provide special training to our student representatives. That was a new initiative I started this year that key student leaders were getting disclosure training so that they could appropriately support students who were

seeking that support and didn’t know where to go. We’ve been working with the University on improving lighting on campus as well as Security Services as I mentioned earlier, like the text message service as well as working with UWA Security to increase and reform the training that Security Guards offer so that it’s a bit more inclusive of all the different kinds of students they might encounter, as well as working with the University on developing a UWA-specific ‘Respectful Behaviour Unit’ tying into all the University policies that set the expectations of what it means to be a UWA student and the behaviour that this institution expects of our students.

And we also launched the Be a Better Human campaign which was developed by the Flinders University and their student union in collaboration - it’s an educational campaign and challenges people to re-evaluate their conceptions of, for example, what is sexual assault and harassment, what is inappropriate conduct, what is rape culture, those kinds of things that women’s offices for decades at the Guild and other student organisations have been trying to make some ground on. So we’ve launched that as well as a number of different services like the Ask for Angela program in our tavern where if a student is feeling unsafe they can go to any of the bar staff or security staff and ask for Angela and someone will assist them to get home safely. So that’s a number of things that we’re doing.

We’re looking at actually stealing an idea from the libraries. The libraries have a Please Assist Me service or PAM and we’re looking at doing PAM at events so you can text PAM and someone with mental health emergency training will come and find you at an event and support you so it’s a little bit more I guess catered to what might be happening to that student as opposed to just you know getting them home in a taxi safely as well. So those are some of the things that the Guild is doing that we have direct control over obviously ‘cause clubs and societies and student culture is our business. It’s what we do best and we’re always trying to improve it where we can.”

Vice-Chancellor: “Megan’s done an excellent job. I would just say that before the Change the Course report came out the University pulled together with the President of the Student Guild and the colleges who are represented in this work as well, the colleges, the Student Guild and a group of our own staff working together in advance of the Change the Course report coming out, a piece of work which really was very thorough. And out of the Respect. Now. Always campaign the Universities Australia of course have committed to a number of reporting actions on an annual basis. We have just passed the 12-month deadline and reported on that but more importantly actually I think what Megan’s pointing to are a number of things.


And Megan just spoke about the GO8 advocacy group earlier. Having the GO8 student advocacy group is really important, more now than it has been in the past. The students are facing significantly different and additional pressures to those that they have in the past. Megan spoke about mental health, I know the question was about sexual assault but these things are actually all bound up. There’s a whole set of things that really we have to work together on. I have to commend the Student Guild on working so collaboratively and collegiately with the University and the colleges on this particular initiative.

I would just take issue with the question and you know we’ve just had a fantastic presentation from our librarian who reminded us that it’s very important to look at facts and evidence, we’re a university after all. I’m not sure that we could really say that there is a rape culture present on our campus so I’m just going to pose back to Benjamin, who’s not here, I understand, he’s in Queensland, I think that’s the case – Offshore, so I just would put back and you know I’m sure Megan would have something to say about this but I’m not just going to let that go unchecked.”

Question 3:Anthony Postle to the Vice-Chancellor and Guest Speaker: “I am dubious about relying solely on a digital library, given that the user is, by-and-large, completely at the mercy of a three-pin-plug. Therefore, what do you intend to do with the actual books? Will they be retained or disposed of in a Nazi-style book-burning or shredding as occurred at the UQ Biological Sciences Library some years ago?”

Response:University Librarian: “Well I mean I think you know I’ve covered it. I mean I can’t really imagine relying solely on a digital library either and certainly the University hasn’t burnt or shredded any books. But I think what’s important – I think one of the things we have to recognise is there are treasures to be found through the digitisation of our collections. You know there’s a great story in the US from a student at a university who accessed ProQuest historical newspapers so he was looking through some newspapers that had been digitised. And through the development of an algorithm he established that Walt Whitman had written a number of articles under a pseudonym and he was able to do that because those newspapers were in digital format and you know he was able to develop an algorithm based on his writing. So I think you know what we have to recognise is that the digital library affords us many opportunities that a print library cannot. I mean it does mean we still need to be respectful of our special print books as I’ve talked about but we do also need to recognise what the future holds and what the opportunities are.”

Vice-Chancellor: “Doug, can I just add to that? I just think one of the things I might say in addition to that is of course as soon as we start to digitise and make not just books but artefacts more broadly available. We’re actually expanding their access and enhancing the opportunity for people who’ve never had opportunities and who haven’t had the privileged opportunity to go through education like we have, to access those materials and so you know I can understand that there are concerns from the person who’s put the question together but actually this is also about really being aligned with our mission and vision as a university.”

Question 4:Jessica Moore (general): “How does UWA plan to promote a balanced view to its students, particularly with respect to external guest speakers presenting at UWA, that may have differing views to that of a traditionally left wing Guild agenda? Universities are meant to equip students on how to view and critique information, not funnel and filter only certain positions on a topic and issue.”

Response:Vice-Chancellor: “Now there’s a lot we could say about this so I’ll start by – where I ended, really, which was last evening with Dan Tehan. Dan Tehan, the new Minister for Education, made a comment yesterday when he was interviewed on 2GB by Alan Jones around freedom of speech. And it’s one of the things that he raised with the Group of 8 Vice Chancellors last evening and his concern is that there is a concern about a sort of US phenomena infiltrating Australian universities. We had quite a heated debate about that last evening in terms of freedom of speech. I would just remind us that the role of the University is not the same as the role of the academics within the University. In other words what I’m really saying there is freedom of speech is not the same as academic freedom.

Now we’ve had a wonderful opportunity presented to us in the University by recent events for calling of an extraordinary Academic Board where we were able to really have a very

Young graduates taking interest in the future of the University


thought-provoking and provocative debate amongst our academics around the notion of freedom of speech, the role of the University in that regard and academic freedom and the role of academics in that regard and to that end we’ve agreed that we will as a university take a lead for the nation on developing a statement not simply mimicking the Chicago statement or indeed mimicking the Oxford statement or any other statement that’s been developed, but really working together.

And Megan, who unfortunately has been quite unwell for the last three weeks and she did a great job here tonight given that she’s had quite a serious cough and cold and a chest infection, was not able to attend that Academic Board but was very well represented by the Student Guild. And what we’ve decided to do is pull together a working group to really pull information around a statement for the University in terms of our position on this and we’re sharing that currently with Universities Australia and the GO8 as we go through this process.

Now in addition we’re very fortunate to have a very engaged Chancellor in this regard so if you read The Australian you will have heard that this week he was in Darwin and he gave a speech at the Austin Asche Oration and he gave a speech on freedom of speech. And he used some interesting case law and that was condensed and put into The Australian this week and we have actually circulated a copy of his speech so he’s also very engaged in this and has quite interesting views in this regard. So from a university point of view what it’s – and I think we have to think about the opportunity that we have here for us to really work together again, through Convocation, through the Student Guild and through our alumni and through our national standing, to really take a lead in terms of determining how we go forward because it’s not just this university that is having challenges around a number of issues related to freedom of expression, academic freedom and a whole range of other contentious challenges, one of which is this. What happens as has happened in the US when in order to have somebody speak on campus the security that’s required brings forward a bill of $3m.

And one of the questions that’s been raised this week is you know who pays the cost? And it was one of the questions we were asking so there are – this is a very complex issue, a very complex issue. And not one that we can get right every time and not one that we can always understand the complexity of what’s happening even within our own classrooms when people are engaged in lectures let alone outside on the campus and beyond so I’m sure Megan will have some things to say about that and the Student Guild have been heavily involved in working with us through the extraordinary Academic Board process.”

Guild President: “Yeah so I suppose – just to touch on my traditionally left wing agenda I suppose I always see the role as – of the Guild is that every student has the right to feel safe and respected. Where any speaker that is to come to this university may seek to harm our students the Guild will always be there to stand up for them, to speak for them, to amplify their voices and their concerns. When it comes to I guess the Guild’s position on these things the Guild encourages freedom of speech, we very much you know we’ve investigated some principles of free speech, engaging with Academic Board and the University on this topic because we are a – internationally recognised research-led institution. The Guild is made up of those fantastic students that are you know the future of you know not only Australia but this world. They are very smart people, they – I guess the Guild’s position on the most recent issue was you know as a result of these students synthesising that information and deciding it was archaic and outdated and that it would not be appropriate to have that at this university.

But definitely moving forward there needs to be a wider discussion about where this university stands in terms of finding the balance between encouraging speech like encouraging the freedom of speech, the discussion of ideas where it is respectful and where it is constructive. I think the most important thing is that there should always be something good that comes out of those debates, there always should be a way that we altogether move forward from those discussions and those debates and we learn something new and we challenge our own thoughts and ideas. And that’s definitely the Guild’s position on that and we are very excited to work closely with the University and the Vice Chancellor mentioned that I was represented very well by – who is thankfully the next Guild President so I’m sure that those conversations will be very productive moving forward.”

Question 5:Ray Tauss to the Warden: “Until this meeting members have been able to raise questions in advance or from the floor. One of these ways is at present barred. Convocation general meetings for several years have sustained a magnificent attendance of hundreds of members despite many previous

Guild President Ms Megan Lee responding to a question on notice


years of managing to draw only a few score. This relatively recent enthusiasm by Convocation members represents deep commitment. That commitment is honoured in the information-packed Reports by Guild and staff, and the stimulation of hearing from guest-speakers who have covered a world of insight, challenge, and humour. Is it really the Warden’s intention to allow no spontaneous questions at the end of Reports, no questions of the Guild President, and no questions of panel members? How is the Warden proposing to cover the half-year gap between hearing and asking?”

“At present the Warden requires questions sent in advance but I presume some will be questions on matters of fact known to the University. Many members of Convocation have a range of research skills and vast areas of knowledge. Volunteer Convocation members would therefore be able to conduct research for the Warden between meetings and thereby draft reports or otherwise present to the Warden such facts as will facilitate the Warden’s answering of questions provided on notice. Is it the Warden’s intention to now seek from the many members of Convocation who attend meetings as volunteers, a more substantial contribution as information researchers?”

Response:Warden: “Ray, thanks for the question. The question is about ‘questions on notice’ as opposed to the ability to question at any time and Ray, I’ll thank you for your commendation really of the quality of the meetings that I held as ordinary meetings and what goes into them. Certainly in terms of this process it is the intent to have no spontaneous questions but I will certainly be around, I’m sure the other panellists will be around for a while afterwards but the half year gap is the interesting one. If you look at what we covered in strategy earlier we recognise the value of the network we have out there and I think it’s important that we become better as Convocation, Convocation Council in tapping into that network for various issues. We talk about pulling together small panels on various things and that’s exactly the way to go about it so I commend you, Ray, for asking the question and certainly it is well and truly in mind.

And that’s pretty well also what was covered in your second question about the background research. Well we’ve mentioned that we were struggling with statute review in terms of the team that we had on Council but we had access to great members of Convocation who we could call on and they were really able to add to our armoury in terms of addressing that sort of thing. So yes, we’re aware of it, we’re conscious of time on a night like this. I know we – my phone tells me we’ve got six minutes left so I’ll keep moving so we can have some other questions but yes, very conscious of that.”

Question 6:Joan Pope to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Kent Anderson: “UWA is lacking a centre where its heritage can be displayed. Could Shenton House (formerly the Crawley Park Farm Homestead) be allocated for such a purpose?”

Response:Deputy Vice-Chancellor: “So it’s addressed to me but we have the Vice Chancellor here as well so I’ll start off and then if I leave anything out the Vice Chancellor can step in. First, thank you, Joan, very much for the question. Of course Shenton House is currently occupied and so you know there are people in Shenton House and also you’ll recall from the last Ordinary Meeting where on a campus master plan looking at how the entire campus and indeed all of the assets of the University are used. But I do have to thank you for showing me that our heritage is displayed across the campus already. Indeed you took me through the displays in the Irwin Street building. We heard earlier about how Winthrop Hall is used for displays and if you go into the Refectory the photos that are exhibited there as well. So there is an idea of distributing it, having such a broad campus and having that access. You know another that pops to mind is the School of Anatomy’s building and how they’ve got their history and their heritage displayed throughout it. So I’m going to pause to say there’s a plan going on, I’m going to pause to say there’s people already in Shenton House but I’m going to thank you for showing me where all of that heritage is already displayed in a distributed manner.”

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Community and Engagement) Professor Kent Anderson responds to a question from Deputy Warden Dr Joan Pope OAM


Question 7:Pauline Tremlett to the Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor: “Given past experience, can the Vice Chancellor assure Convocation, that it’s excellent marketing, PR & allegiance building concept of a [email protected] email, recently shut down, will not be re-introduced under the Alumni office banner?”

Response:Deputy Vice-Chancellor: “But actually if I may I might handball this over to you, Warden, one, it was a Warden email or it was a Convocation email and I think you’ve already addressed it in your comments.”

Warden: “Certainly in terms of what I understand there’s no move to take it elsewhere so that’s the answer I would give.”

Question 8:Peter Gilletto to the Vice-Chancellor and Guild President: “A lot of our funding comes from overseas students whose parents would not be happy to see UWA campus turned into a place that fosters socialism. Why do we continue to allow the Social or Alternative to dominate the campus? (with a very illiberal agenda)”

Response:Vice-Chancellor: “I’ll start with that first point talking as I did earlier about evidence so let me just start with that first point where it says a lot of our funding come from overseas students. So this university has actually one of the lowest numbers of overseas students, international students and it’s certainly at the bottom of the Group of 8 in that regard and in Western Australia we are trending very much below the national average and we continue to trend down and we saw a decrease again this year in Western Australia in our international students so I think I just want to be clear about the numbers. So in this university we have around 19 to 20% international students at any one time. There are universities in Australia that are upwards of 38 to 40% international students.

If you’re interested to know, that 19 to 20%, when you break it down it actually is not dominated which is often the case in many universities though about particular cohort of students from China, so I think let’s just put that in context because actually for us a lot of our funding does not come from our overseas students. And that’s one of the things for us that is a struggle because for many other universities they are able to generate a lot more income from international students which they reinvest into research because as you know research is not funded fully through the government. So let me just put that in the context because I don’t think we can accept the premise of the question.

So those overseas students’ parents would not be happy to see UWA campus turned into a place that fosters socialism. Well I can’t speak for the parents actually but what I can speak for is our own comments earlier around the importance of having a campus that is very well balanced in terms of its acceptance of freedom of expression, freedom of speech and at the same time ensuring that we protect for example privacy of individuals, confidentiality, all the things that Megan talked about. So I think that’s what we’re trying to work on at the moment and to move within that space. Megan, I don’t know if you want to address this.”

Guild President: “The only thing I probably would add is that in terms of – we have 187 affiliated societies, one of them is the UWA Socialist Alternative Club as well as UWA Liberal Club, UWA Labor Club but actually the largest club on campus is the Multicultural Students’ Union. It is the largest club and the most active club, closely followed by the Electronic Music Appreciation Society. So in term of the Socialist Alternative Club dominating the clubs, I tried to do a little bit of research. As far as I’m aware they have not actually applied for any student services and amenities fees funding through the Guild, the Guild does provide close to a million dollars of club funding to our student-led clubs and societies, that is you know their own money that they pay for the student services and amenities fee, 50% of which the Guild gets. And they – from my memory they haven’t applied for very much if any this year so just to make a comment on that particular club or those students dominating campus it would actually see that our campus is a very multicultural campus with MSU being the largest club.”

Question 9:On the Medical School to the Warden, Vice-Chancellor and Guild President: “The Post published an article ‘Stressed students slam new UWA medical course’ (28/7/2018:3,38). From the article’s report on a survey of most of the new student cohort in the Medical School we learn of immense dissatisfaction. Four percent of students said they believed it was adequately preparing them to become doctors. Six academics called for a meeting and faculty members voted 145 to 1 to bring in an independent expert to conduct an urgent review of the curriculum. 1. Was Convocation aware of the student dissatisfaction?2. Was there any approach to Convocation from students or

from a professional association such as WAAMA, or from UWA staff, and if so what was Convocation’s response?

3. On behalf of the student cohort did Convocation make any representation to the Guild, or to a professional or academic association within or outside the University?”

Response:Warden: “Yes, we were because Megan reported at one of the meetings that she was aware of it and certainly that was about as far as we went so there was no approach to Convocation


to do anything about it and I know that there has been strong work within the University to look at just that issue so it’s not really the sort of thing that Convocation can easily deal with.”

Closing remarksAs Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Kent Anderson will be leaving UWA at the end of the year, the Warden invited Professor Anderson to give a closing remark.

Professor Anderson’s remarks (verbatim)

“Thank you very much, Doug, but thank you, friends. Thank you, graduates. Just four quick points, the first one is when I first came onto this beautiful spot where we are right now I was actually first met at the boatshed by Dr Richard Walley, Whadjuk elder, who took me onto this beautiful country and we walked all the way down to Pelican Point and it really gave me the initial appreciation. But since that time at least four times a year and more likely six times a year I’ve enhanced that local knowledge with Lady Jean Brodie-Hall and – Lady Jean’s there in the back, she’s now ducking a little bit – but Lady Jean and I have taken a certain bit of the campus on each of those and I’ve been able to see the campus through her eyes and bring that legacy onto the executive through the opportunities provided by that campus plan that the Vice-Chancellor mentioned.

Third thing I do want to mention is thank you to Doug and to Warren for the friendship that they’ve shown and the leadership that they’ve shown as Wardens but the friendship to me personally. And the fourth and final one is thank you to this collection. Convocation of course is a meeting and it’s a wonderful meeting of people and I’ll just end with a great story. Last night I was doing the reading at Evensong up in the chapel in St George’s and someone came up to me and I have

to confess I didn’t recognise the face immediately and they said “oh Kent, how are you doing? I you know I remember from the Convocation Ordinary meeting” that we met. That’s what Convocation’s about, that meeting of people in this collection together so thank you, graduates, thank you, Warden.”

ConclusionWarden of Convocation thanked all his colleagues on Convocation Council for the support they have given to him. He said that together the Council accepts the many challenges and great times presented to them as they represent the members of Convocation.

He reminded all that elections for the Council will soon approach with various positions becoming vacant and encouraged those that wish to be involved to please nominate for a position and support their Convocation.

The Warden thanked the Convocation Officer Juanita Perez for her wonderful assistance and hard work. He also thanked her for all her advice and guidance, and for coordinating all the arrangements for this Ordinary Meeting.

The Warden also thanked the University’s Events Activations team for their assistance in organising this meeting.

The Warden acknowledged Mr Manny Tamayo of Manny Tamayo Photography for delivering his impeccable services. Mr Tamayo is a UWA MBA graduate and provides all the photography for Convocation events at “mates rates” as his contribution to Convocation.

There being no further business, the Warden declared the Spring Ordinary Meeting of Convocation for 2017 closed at 8.34 pm.

(L-R) Immediate Past Warden Adjunct Professor Warren Kerr AM, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Community and Engagement) Professor Kent Anderson and Warden Dr Doug McGhie


INTRODUCTION

It is a pleasure to provide my report to the Autumn Ordinary Meeting of Convocation for 2019. I look forward to a productive year and working towards the implementation of the University’s Strategic Vision, UWA 2030.

UNIVERSITY UPDATES

UWA’s Strategic Vision 20302018 saw the University commence work on building the next decadal Strategic Vision, UWA2030. Following a wide consultation process with the university community we have arrived at a comprehensive suite of documents to guide our future direction commencing with the Strategic Plan to 2025. I would like to thank Convocation members for their contribution to this process.

Freedom of Expression Working Group (FEWG)Convocation members will recall that last year UWA established a Freedom of Expression Working Group, convened by Professor Colin MacLeod, to consult widely across the University community and make recommendation to Senate concerning UWA’s policy position with respect to freedom of expression. The Working Group has conducted a number of consultations to obtain the input of Convocation Council and Convocation members, and also to hear the views of academics, professional staff, student leaders and the student body. The Working Group’s initial report and recommendations are to be submitted in coming weeks, thank you to Convocation for their contribution to this process.

Forrest Hall 2Work on the Forest Hall development is progressing. Development Approval was received on 23 November 2018 to complete the project with a mixed 65 room short stay accommodation facility, additional scholar rooms and office space. The facility, abutting and to the south west of the original Forrest Hall building will provide much needed accommodation for university visitors, festival and academic conference attendees. UWA’s Strategic Resources Committee (SRC) received an update on the project on 11 February 2019 and have asked for some refinements to documents prior to considering final approval. UWA has appointed Creating Communities to work with the university and the local community to understand their concerns with opportunities to input to some design elements of the development. Outcomes of consultation will be shared with SRC and Senate to inform their decision making. Creating Communities will also work with the community, university and the FH warden to build a shared understanding of the broader Forrest Research Foundation initiative, its objectives, impacts on the world of knowledge and deeper engagement with the City and its surrounds.

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

RankingsThe University of Western Australia has been ranked first in WA in the subjects of Business & Economics, Social Sciences, and Education in the global Times Higher Education World University Rankings by subject, released in late October. As well as being first in Western Australia, UWA is now ranked seventh in Australia and 75th in the world in the subject of Education, up from 79th last year. These subject rankings follow the release of the overall 2019 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, in which UWA was the highest-ranked university in Western Australia and 7th in the nation.

The University of Western Australia has been named among the top 100 in the world in the U.S. News ranking of 1,250 universities around the globe. The U.S. News Best Global Universities Rankings are based on 13 indicators that measure the academic research performance and global and regional reputations of universities in 75 countries.

The International Student Barometer results were released late last year which showed a significant improvement in the UWA’s students’ reported satisfaction. The results taken from 996 UWA student survey respondents, showed high levels of satisfaction across all four indicators – arrival satisfaction,

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Australian Industry and Defence Network of WA awardThe University has been recognised for its defence research collaboration at the annual Australian Industry and Defence Network of WA awards. As part of an industry collaboration with Maritime Pumps Australia, UWA was the research collaborator, winning the Industry Collaboration Award for developing a WA base to manufacture marine pumps for defence navy vessels.

Welcome CeremonyOur Welcome Ceremony was held on 18 February and kicked off this year’s O-Week followed by a program of orientation activities across several weeks. This format has been designed to promote a positive student experience and participation on campus.

Official Launch of UWA IQXWe will officially launch IQX, our innovation and co-working space, on Monday, 18 March. The event will provide us with the opportunity to host guests from industry and government, alongside our researchers, staff and students and entrepreneurs.

New staff orientationThe University will hold a revitalised staff orientation program on Monday 18 March at the UniClub. These orientation sessions are designed to formally welcome our new staff members to the University, and it helps them become familiar with important services and resources available.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Australian Research Council fundingIn November 2018 our researchers were awarded $13.65 million in Federal Government funding for 34 research projects ranging from a project to investigate the safety, efficiency and environmental impact of fracking to developing a new measure of autistic traits in adults and improving the social and economic outcomes for children of mothers in prison.

Federal FundingResearchers at The University of Western Australia have received $10.8 million in Federal Government funding to tackle issues ranging from new life support systems for preterm babies, to respiratory diseases in children and how genetic background influences the development of mesothelioma.

UWA was successful in receiving 12 project grants out of a total of 682 grants Australia-wide, through the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and announced in December by Federal Minister for Aged Care and Indigenous Health, Ken Wyatt.

learning satisfaction, support satisfaction and living satisfaction. The survey also found 80 per cent of students reported that they would recommend UWA, up from 76 per cent in 2017.

The Graduate Outcomes Survey results were released on 22 January which showed an unfavorable decline in employment outcomes for undergraduate students due to the UWA course model’s focus on articulation into postgraduate qualifications and a decline in employment rate of the state with 3 out of 5 WA universities in the bottom of the table.

ENGAGEMENT

Duke of York visitThe Duke of York visited the University on Friday, 23 November. The Duke was briefed by Professor Peter Quinn from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) on UWA’s involvement with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, to build the world’s biggest radio telescope in Western Australia and southern Africa. The Duke also unveiled a foundation plaque for UWA’s Ezone Student Hub and met with UWA engineering students on the day. The event attracted pre and post media engagement with a focus on our leading work in STEM.

Centre for Long Subsea TiebacksA new Centre launched in late November will drive research into new subsea engineering technologies for offshore oil and gas production and maintain Western Australia’s competitiveness in the LNG market. In partnership with Chevron and Woodside Energy, the Centre for Long Subsea Tiebacks will enhance the State’s global reputation in deep water energy production.

Data Fusion ProjectsA new four-year $3.6 million research partnership between The University of Western Australia (UWA) and Rio Tinto Iron Ore will lead to improved efficiency in geological modelling, through innovative data science solutions.

Perth FestivalCelebrating 66 years as Australia’s longest-running arts festival, the Perth Festival program commenced on Friday 8 February by transforming Perth’s beloved Kings Park for Boorna Waanginy: The Trees Speak. The Lotterywest Films under the stars series continues up to April 7 and features at outdoor venues including UWA Somerville.

Inquiry into Sleep Health Awareness in AustraliaOn 29 January the University hosted a public hearing into Sleep Health Awareness. The parliamentary committee met with researchers from UWA and contributed to the discussion focused on the prevalence of sleep disorders and the impact of poor sleep on the community and workforce productivity.


UWA Student Guild

GUILD PRESIDENT REPORT

Conrad Hogg, 106th Guild President

Introduction The Student Guild and the Convocation of Graduates at the University of Western Australia have long shared a special relationship. Together, we scaffold the journey of UWA students from enrollment to after graduation and work together to link current and past students. This has led to brilliant collaborations such as grants and awards to help UWA students to succeed on an international stage, and opportunities for graduates to engage with current students, enriching campus life. I hope that this relationship continues for many years to come, and I thank the Convocation for their contributions to the student experience. I would also like to thank the Warden of Convocation, and the Convocation Council for the opportunity to present a report at this meeting. It is a great pleasure, and a privilege to work with the Convocation in my role as Guild President. I am very grateful of how welcome the council has made me feel, and I look forward to working closely with Convocation this year.

The Council

President: Conrad Hogg Vice President: Joseph Chan

General Secretary: Adhish Kastha Chair of Guild Council: Patricia Paguio

Education Council President: Lincoln Aspinall Societies Council President: Hinako Shiraishi Public Affairs Council President: Nitin Narula

Postgraduate Students’ Association President: Alexander Tan Welfare Officer: Madeleine Hedderwick

International Students’ Department President: Khairunnisa Shahrin Women’s Affairs Officer: Brehany Shanahan

Environment Officer: Clarice Antero Sports Representative: Daniel Kuzich

Pride Officers: Martha McKinley & Saskia Mason Residential Students’ Department President: Luke Thomas WA Student Aboriginal Association Chair: Brianne Yarran

Access Officers: Lauren Espinoza & Mike Anderson Ethnocultural Convenor & Ordinary Guild Councilor: Saleem Al Odeh

Immediate Past President: Megan Lee

Ordinary Guild Councilors: Ben Perry

Bradan Sonnendecker Fang Ke Jade Wu

Callum Lindsay Neve Staltari Olivia Bartlett Raaghav Raj Scott Harney Shahid Khan

Five Female Indigenous students graduate in MedicineFive Indigenous women were among 206 students to graduate as doctors at a ceremony in Winthrop Hall. Tamisha King, Adriane Houghton, Heather Kessaris and Kelly Langford were awarded a Doctor of Medicine and Shauna Hill was awarded a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery.

Beazley medallistBeazley medallist Pooja Ramesh has accepted to come to UWA. She’ll be studying a Bachelor of Philosophy (Honours) with a direct pathway to medicine.

Australia Day Honours ListThe University of Western Australia congratulates 21 of its graduates and five staff members who were recognised in this year’s Australia Day Honours List.

Higher Education Academy Associate Professor Lynette Fernandes, UWA School of Biomedical Sciences, has received a Senior Fellowship to Advance Higher Education Academy. She has demonstrated a record of effectiveness in teaching and learning, organisation, leadership and management.

Professor Natalie Skead, Dean and Head of UWA Law School, and Ms Jill Benn, University Librarian, have both achieved the status of Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).

Australian Academy of the Humanities Head of School of Social Sciences, Professor Jane Balme, has been elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities, which is the highest honour for achievement in the humanities in Australia.

AFL Commission THE AFL has appointed Professor Helen Milroy, UWA Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health, to the AFL Commission, making her the League’s first indigenous commissioner.

Dawn FreshwaterVice-Chancellor

Innovator of the Year AwardsThe UWA research team of the Noisy Guts project, headed by Nobel Prize laureate Professor Barry Marshall, has won a top honour in the Innovator of the Year Awards. The awards, issued by the State Government, acknowledge and reward exceptional Western Australians who have developed an outstanding innovative product, technology or service.

New Colombo Plan Scholar Jack Collard was appointed a New Colombo Plan scholar and Indonesia Fellow. This is the second year the program is appointing an Indigenous Fellow but the first time that it has been awarded to someone who is also a location Fellow.

Fulbright ScholarshipsThree UWA graduates have been awarded Fulbright scholarships for 2019, joining a prestigious global group that includes Nobel Laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners. Joshua Dunne completed a Bachelor of Philosophy with Honours in Political Science and International Relations at UWA and is currently working as a Study Abroad Assistant in UWA’s Global Learning Office.

Dr Taryn Foster, a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, will work on an idea to upscale coral restoration at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco from July next year. Holly Ransom, who completed a Bachelor of Law and Arts at UWA, majoring in Economics, was awarded a Fulbright Anne Wexler Scholarship.

John Monash ScholarshipsFour graduates from The University of Western Australia are among 18 young Australians to be awarded prestigious John Monash Scholarships for 2019 at a ceremony held at the Sydney Opera House. Engineering science graduate Michaela Taylor-Williams was named Woodside John Monash Scholar while medicine/arts graduate Georgia Walker was named Helen and Michael Gannon John Monash Scholar. Zoe Bush was named Zelman Cowen John Monash Scholar and Ashlee Uren Commonwealth Bank of Australia John Monash Scholar – both are law/arts graduates from UWA.

Australian Medical Association Gold MedalDr Catherine Nguyen, 24, was awarded the gold medal in recognition of achieving the highest aggregate mark for all core units over the four years of the Doctor of Medicine course. Dr Nguyen entered the UWA medical program through Broadway UWA which is designed to give disadvantaged students the support they need to transition from high school to a university education.


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The Guild and Convocation As I mentioned briefly in my opening, the Guild and Convocation share a special relationship. I have the privilege of attending and reporting to the Convocation Council each month with the Postgraduate Students’ Association President, Alexander Tan (an office bearer of the Guild). This opportunity to participate is somewhat unique, and in my view is a concrete manifestation of linking current and past students of the university. Our two bodies also work together in several other ways. A valued example of this is the Postgraduate Students’ Association Travel Awards, which both Convocation and the Guild contributes to allow postgraduate students to attend conferences in their field of study, adding a lot of value to these students’ degrees. I am also keen to pursue a program that links graduates and current students as mentor and mentee to help these students to develop connections and transferrable skills in industry.

105th Guild President Megan Lee, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Kent Anderson planting a tree to commemorate Convocation Day. March 2018.

2019 Strategic Priorities In 2017 the Guild create its Strategic Plan 2018 – 2021. This plan has allowed us to bring out common foci from year to year. The plan sets about to achieve our vision of providing UWA

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Students with the best possible student experience throughout their degree, and to be the leading student-run organization internationally. We intend to do this by improving student support at UWA, increasing engagement within the student body, continuing to represent the student voice, and providing better spaces on campus. Some of the key priorities for 2019 are summarized below: Improving Student Support

• Expanding the capabilities of Student Assist by moving it to a new space in the Guild Village.

• Rehousing the food pantry to a larger space to so that it can offer more students non-perishable food items and sanitary products. We will also add a refrigerator and freezer to allow the food pantry to take donations of fresh and frozen food.

• Working with the UWA Student Experience portfolio to create a mental health strategy at UWA to bring together services in a coordinated fashion.

• Raising awareness for sleep disorders with PJ day. • Working with UWA Colleges to improve support mechanisms on college row.

Increasing Engagement

• Increasing the amount of dynamic video content in Guild social media communications. • Extensive publication of student publications, including Pelican, Lighthouse (for

international students), Damsel (for female-identifying and non-binary students), and Outspoken (for LGBT+ identifying students).

• Review of communications and transparency of Guild processes to students through the Communications and Transparency Working Group.

• Weekly updates on social media by video to all UWA Students from the President. • More contact with and support for the Albany Students’ Association.

Representing the Student Voice

• Expanding the class representative system that was developed by the Guild’s education portfolio in 2019. This will better enable students to provide ongoing and constructive feedback to academics to improve the quality of teaching and learning.

• Starting an ethnocultural collective to represent and support students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds at UWA.

• Establish an election culture working group to review the inclusivity of Guild Elections, with the view of making them more accessible to the student body.

• Working with the university to reform assessment processes to make them fairer for students.

• More support for discipline specific clubs to better represent students in those disciplines.

Better Spaces on Campus

• Developing and opening a ‘Guild Members Longue’ as a common space for students to relax.

• Opening 6 new food and beverage outlets in the Refectory. • Working towards opening a ‘mini-mart’ at UWA to give students and staff access to

shops on campus. • Developing new spaces for Guild Departments in the Guild Village Precinct. • Housing more clubs and societies in club rooms to allow them to better engage their

members. • New staging and lighting for the Tavern.

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105th Guild President Megan Lee and the Guild’s Managing Director Tony Goodman opening the new refectory space. May 2018.

Conclusion It is a pleasure to serve as the 106th President of the UWA Student Guild, and I am glad to be able to work with convocation. It is a busy year ahead for the Guild and we look forward to continuing to strengthen the relationship with Convocation. If there is ever any way that we can be of service, or if you have any questions, please contact me at [email protected]. All the best

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The 106th Guild Council about to embark on the Guild Retreat to plan for 2019. November 2018.

p.s. you can become an Associate member too! For just $9.99* a month, members of the community can get access to student prices on campus! Membership includes 10% off the RRP of Food and 25% off RRP for coffee at all Guild-run outlets. Better yet, every dollar made on food and drink goes straight into student services! You can find out more about how to become an Associate Member and what that means for you on the Guild website and in the Guild Regulations. All the best, 106th Guild Council www.uwastudentguild.com

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The survey found room for improving the student experience and welcomed Convocation’s cooperation in addressing the issues in graduate engagement. We are well placed to jointly support the University and our members in this process.

Our powerful and personal network of members is the key. There are many vehicles which can effectively access to that network. They include the faculty, sporting, arts and shared interest groups and clubs that operate with and around the University. Many of us are members of more than one, even attaching to several. Some of the larger clubs have noted a relatively poor connection with the University, but with Convocation facilitation that can change for the better. By better activating Convocation as the link to the University’s graduates, as it was always intended to be, graduate connections can be enhanced.

While clubs and societies may have a particular focus in their name, their memberships are invariably diverse and powerful, especially in Western Australian society and business, where the maximum impact can be made on student life. International networks can also open many doors and in partnership with the University’s Alumni Relations team Convocation aims to make a difference.

I see a strong and essential partnership developing between Convocation, its Council and the team at Alumni Relations.

The recent acceptance by Senate that the term Alumni should only apply to graduates of the University appreciates the strength of connection of Convocation’s members to the University. The word ‘alumni’ is only to be used for graduates of this university who have a degree conferred by the UWA Senate.

Relevant to the regular Ordinary Meetings is the featured Q&A session. Each meeting the Vice Chancellor, along with the Guild President, Guest Speaker and Warden have taken questions from the floor or, at the last meeting, on notice. If the Chancellor is able to attend, he usually joins the Q&A panel. This is a great opportunity for the panel and members to share and clarify but it regularly raises the question of respect, time spent on questions, language and response. This meeting we propose to have questions on notice and some from the floor, as both are supported by members.

As Warden I was able to participate in and support the discussions between the University and a local newspaper after the last Spring Ordinary Meeting held in September 2018. Some of that resulted from language used in one of the questions, not the excellent responses from the Vice Chancellor and Guild President. I was pleased when the end result was a retraction from the paper.

Also flowing from the Spring Ordinary Meeting has been an active discussion of the location and the development of

Introduction

Since the Spring Ordinary Meeting of Convocation held in September last year, there have been many significant issues confronting the University. The Vice-Chancellor’s report for this meeting covers many of these for the University and the students’ perspective is presented by Mr Conrad Hogg, the 106th President of the Student Guild.

The following report covers Convocation’s activities and initiatives

Chancellor

Chancellor Robert French is a ready source of advice and support for Council and his contribution is always valued and appreciated.

Vice-Chancellor

Firstly, a sincere congratulations to Professor Freshwater, our Vice Chancellor, on her appointment as Chair of the Go8 Group, a fine illustration of the status of UWA and our executive.

The development of the new 2030 Strategic Plan continues with drafts of the strategies developing and our interaction with the VC’s office and those of other Deputy Vice Chancellors. Late in 2018 Convocation produced a White Paper for the University Executive and that drew the request for detail on how Convocation and its members can help improve the student experience.

The 2017 Alumni Attitudinal Survey Was sent to more than 57,000 graduates and had a response rate of fifteen percent.

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the two stages of Forrest Hall. As Warden I have received many comments. Appreciating the size and diversity of Convocation’s membership it is appropriate for Convocation to be a vehicle for presenting and receiving information on that issue, and the discussion around it.

A Convocation sponsored Open Day at Forrest Hall is planned for the near future and will enable the sharing of information and I am sure promote further discussion. Convocation, and your Council, are not the decision makers, but the body can certainly influence and we have been invited to the table.

Convocation’s role in relation to Statute changes

We continue to work with the University to amend and update the statutes that relate to Convocation. When complete there will be just one statute covering all parts of the University. We have met several times with the University Secretary’s office, and are comfortable with the process for review, appreciating that it will take longer the initially anticipated. Ms Deirdre de Souza has left the University Secretary’s position at the end of 2018, but the work with her and Ms Emma Bright has been positive throughout.

Retiring chair of the Governance Committee, Dr Susan King has provided wonderful leadership on this issue and task. Members Greg Calcutt AM and Patrick Tremlett, both retired experts from the State Solicitor’s Office, are working in the background to complete review and drafting work pro bono within the available time frame. It remains a daunting task and we gratefully appreciate this assistance.

Full details of the proposed changes of Statutes will be available on the Convocation website at www.convocation.uwa.edu.au when they have been sufficiently developed.

Graduation ceremonies

Convocation continues with its important role at all graduations, with the Warden or representative welcoming all graduates to Convocation as new members. We supported twelve ceremonies in December 2018, with Deputy Warden Dr Joan Pope OAM and several other Councillors acting in the Warden’s role when I was unavailable.

I am delighted to announce that in mid-February 2019 I joined the academic procession for the Welcome Ceremony for new students. This is a wonderful initiative and I thank Vice-Chancellor Professor Dawn Freshwater for allowing us access to the students at the Welcome on the day they arrive, as well as at Graduation, the day they depart and join our ranks. The ceremony went well and my welcome speech was well received.

Dr Doug McGhie delivering a his welcome speech at the February 2019 Welcome Ceremony for new students

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New and continuing students participated in the Welcome Ceremony


Centenary of the Armistice

November 11, 2018 was a very special day, 100 years after the Armistice. Convocation Council collaborated with the UWA Historical Society (UWAHS), the Cultural Precinct and the Advancement Office to ensure the day was appropriately recognised.

The corrected and refurbished Honour Board was rededicated by the University Chaplain in its new position on the stairway of the foyer of Winthrop Hall, supported by a splendid performance by the members of the UWA Choral Society.

The University Regiment provided excellent advice on protocol and a very professional presence

The board is easy to view up the stairs from the Foyer of Winthrop Hall

UWA Choral Society gave a splendid performance to commemorate the Centenary of the Armistice - L’Homme Armée conducted by Kristin Bowtell

Deputy Warden of Convocation Dr Joan Pope OAM and UWA Historical Society member Mr Roy Stall place a wreath of remembrance at the commemorative pavement stone

Left: A commemorative pavement stone, supported by the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, was placed in the lawn of Whitfeld Court, overseen by members of the University Regiment. Convocation laid a wreath of remembrance with the plaque at a sombre ceremony on the day. Convocation’s Councillors have also been prominent with the UWAHS in the preparation and display in the University Club Gallery of the Armistice Photographic Exhibition that is open until April 2019. This exhibition provides a storyboard of past students, staff and graduates and is an excellent example of members of Convocation promoting and preserving the history of the University.


Masonic Hall Innovation Space

The redeveloped Masonic Hall, now the Innovation Quarter Exchange (IQX), will have been officially opened on the Monday of the week of this Ordinary Meeting. Convocation will have been recognised for its significant contribution, and will have a permanent display at the entry to the Convocation Board Room.

Connect, Communicate and, Celebrate

In my last report to the membership I stated that Convocation should be prominent in everyday university life so staff and students know what Convocation can offer them. We are now actively involved in staff and student orientation, great steps.

In 2017, guest speaker Tom Murrrell challenged Convocation to establish and maintain communication with its graduate members using contemporary media and Convocation’s LinkedIn page is expanding its influence and I have enjoyed making occasional posts. We are doing well, but it is all done by volunteers, so not always as rapidly as we might wish. I used a figure in my last report that showed the number of graduates in the last decade is about 60,000, many more than in the preceding decades. However, many in the network have interacted with several decades and are part of a far wider network. The three decades that span my time at UWA cover nearly 60,000 graduates, so old is not necessarily bad. We do know people.

Communication with our members is critical, and this has been more difficult than needs be, given some of the rules of engagement between Convocation, Council and the University over the years. Convocation enjoyed an excellent working relationship with Professor Kent Anderson as Deputy Vice Chancellor Community and Engagement. Convocation extends its very best wishes for his future and looks forward to building a similarly positive relationship with the new Deputy Vice Chancellor Global Partnerships, once appointed.

Convocation embraces the ideal of partnership with the University, always seeking a stronger relationship and a fuller appreciation of the value of the energetic and dedicated graduates serving in a voluntary capacity. Convocation’s Council and the University must be committed to a sustained, smooth and efficient working relationship.

Recently we have established the active Convocation screen in the University Club, illustrating the broad activities, involvement and contribution of Convocation at the University. This screen will tell the story of Convocation and introduce the people who help make it happen, your Council.

In terms of celebrations there is none better than Convocation’s annual awards ceremony where nearly thirty awards were presented in 2019 that recognised and supported undergraduate excellence, postgraduate research student travel, sporting excellence and accommodation for a student from regional Western Australia. That evening was alive with the excitement of excellence. Convocation appreciates the involvement and contribution of UWA Student Services, the University Research Committee, the Postgraduate Students’ Association, UWA Sport, and private donors such as Emeritus Professor Bryant Stokes AM.

Better ConnectionsMembers for whom we do not have email addresses can assist the communication process by forwarding those to Convocation, particularly as we progress towards electronic elections in the near future.

The Bike Ride for Convocation, Cancer, MND and Young Lives

The ride was completed successfully last October, and I must acknowledge the amazing support given by Prof Kent Anderson, who has since stepped down from the position of DVC Community and Engagement. Kent allowed me to start and provided the funds to fight Cancer.

Thereafter the challenge was to raise some extra dollars for the other two causes and I was pretty successful, with another $5,000 collected. My aim was for $1 per member of Convocation, and I fell well short of that. As an experiment it showed that our best responses for support of a cause come from those closest to us, with all but two donations coming from personal friends and colleagues, many of them in Convocation, but also family, sporting friends and so on.

The shirt I wore throughout the ride paid tribute to the Perkins Institute, my mother (MND) and son (Young Lives Matter). It was a moving and at times tough weekend, but great causes.

Convocation screen in the University Club, illustrating the broad activities, involvement and contribution of Convocation at the University


My personal thanks go to all who supported me through coordination by Alumni Relations (thanks very much Simone Yule), donations or cheers and encouragement along the road, none more vocal than my wife Jill.

The strength of Convocation’s network lies in close connections, and they overlap across the whole 150,000 or so members. If we can build that then another ride might just raise over $50,000, or we can support our students and graduates into the workforce.

Australia Day Honours

At the end of January, Convocation Council was delighted when the following graduates and other members of the UWA community were recognised for their achievements in the Australia Day Honours List.

The following members of Convocation were recognised for their contribution to Australia:

Appointed as a Companion of the Order of Australia:• Mr Stan Perron AC (DLitt 2009)*• Emeritus Professor Patrick Troy AC (BE 1960)*• The Honourable Justice Michelle Gordon AC (BJuris 1986,

LLB 1987)

Warden Dr Doug McGhie’s ride jersey

Appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia:• Mr Michael Fitzpatrick AO (BE 1975, DLitt 2009)• Mr John Atkins AO (Bjuris 1977, LLB 1978)• Mr Anthony Nutt AO (BA 1983)

Appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia:• Professor Tara Brabazon AM (BA 1991, MA 1994)• Dr Graham Ford AM (BComm 1973, MBBS 1985)• The Honourable Barry House AM (BEc 1975)• Dr Patricia Woolley AM (BSc 1955)• Mrs Felicity Bradshaw AM (BSC 1960, MSc 1985)• Dr Paul Vogel AM (BSc 1974, PhD 1977)• Professor Dr David Forbes AM (MBBS1973)• Professor Jeffrey Hamdorf AM (MBBS 1986, PhD 1999)• Dr Erin Lalor AM (PhD 1997)• Professor Julie Steele AM (BPEd 1983)

Awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia:• Mrs Georgia Efford OAM (BA 1961)• Mr Ian Lindsay OAM (BEd 1960, MEd 1967, BMus 1967)• Dr Harry Pearson OAM (BSc 1955, BEd 1959)• Mr David Miller OAM (LLB 1974)• Mr Maurice Swanson OAM (MPH 1998)• Dr Jill Wilson OAM (PhD 1984)• Mr Bevan Lee OAM (BSc 1972, GradDipEd 1973)• Mr Cyrus Meher-Homji OAM (BMus 1988, MA 1995)

*Deceased

Convocation’s Honours Committee continues its active role in nominating and supporting nominations for our UWA graduates and this encourages an increasing number of nominations for those worthy of recognition being sent through to the Honours Secretariat in Canberra. In recent rounds Western Australia has not won its fair or per capita share and there are many deserving members of Convocation who can and should be nominated. Convocation Council is hopeful that an increasing number of UWA graduates will be included in future Honours announcements. Members of Convocation who are aware of worthy graduates are encouraged to contact the Council through the Convocation Officer so that confidential nominations may be progressed.

Members are also encouraged to nominate worthy members for internal honours such as Honorary Degrees, the Chancellor’s Medal, the Convocation Medal, the Philippa Maddern Award, Guild Volunteer and others.


Convocation Council

This report highlights some of the many issues considered by Convocation Council, and the Statutory requirements of Convocation. We continue to be particularly effective with our existing awards, scholarships and events, but are shifting towards appointing project managers with small support teams for other targets. We have maintained the conventional committees for the following:• Awards Committee chaired by Ms Nee Nee Ong;• Governance Committee chaired by Dr Susan King; and• Honours Committee chaired by Adjunct Professor

Warren Kerr AM

Events and other engagement projects are more easily covered by one or two councillors taking charge and calling for assistance from within or outside Council as required. The main events remain:• our Ordinary Meetings, where Ms Juanita Perez takes

the central role and assistance from UWA staff including Uniprint and Brand Marketing and Recruitment is critical. Councillors help in various ways;

• the Annual Awards Ceremony, with Ms Perez central to the organisation, with Chair Ms Nee Nee Ong and the Awards Committee completing great work, and outside supporters assisting with the selection process;

• Convocation Day, where the Warden is assisted by several councillors, the Guild and University Grounds staff. Emeritus Professor Jenny Gregory AM will have completed the 2019 celebration just before this Ordinary Meeting;

• 50th Anniversary of Graduation where Deputy Warden Dr Joan Pope OAM and Mrs Pauline Tremlett have been central to all recent celebrations and Mr Ric Stern, Mr Graham Harmsworth and Dr Brett Davies have accepted the challenge for the reunion of graduates from 1969;

• A very successful 2018 Senate Dinner was organised by Councillors Dr Angela Evangelinou-Yiannakis, Ms Devon Cuneo and Dr Julie Crews.

Other projects have been championed by Councillors or small teams:• Treasurer, Ms Julie Matheson;• Discontinuing the Lifetime email due to security issues,

Mr Gary Pennefather;• Fundraising projects, Clinical Professor Lesley Cala and

Adjunct Professor, Dr Brett Davies;• Freedom of Expression Working Group, Dr Angela

Evangelinou-Yianakkis as lead and Councillors who have participated;

• Live display screens in the University Club and UWA Sports to promote Convocation’s identity and activities, Warden and Immediate Past Warden;

• A page of promotion of and stories about Convocation in each edition of the University Club News, Uniview

magazine and the bi-monthly Alumni Connect, Dr Joan Pope OAM, Mr Jim Paparo;

• Updating the web site is a work in progress, Assistant Convocation Officer, Ms Melissa Hetherington and Mr Graham Harmsworth.

The members of Convocation Council are as listed and pictured below. Those who have completed their terms on Council in 2019 are indicated with an asterisk. Some of these are stepping down. Others who have completed their terms have renominated and the results of elections will be known on the night.

*Dr Doug McGhie Warden of Convocation (2017-2018) Council Member (2013-2016)

*Dr Joan Pope OAM Deputy Warden of Convocation (2016-2018) Deputy Warden (1985) Warden (1986-1988) Council Member (1984)

*Adjunct Professor Warren Kerr AM Elected member of Senate (2015-2019) Immediate Past Warden of Convocation (2017-2019) Warden of Convocation (2013-2017) Council Member (2010-2013)

*Dr Mark Andrich Council Member (2016-2019)

Clinical Professor Lesley Cala Council Member (2010-2020)

Dr Julie Crews Council Member (2017-2020)


Ms Devon Cuneo Council Member (2011-2021)

Adjunct Professor Dr Brett Davies Council Member (2016-2020)

Dr Angela Evangelinou-Yiannakis Council Member (2017-2020)

*Dr Libby Feutrill Council Member (2016-2019)

*Dr Agi Gedeon Council Member (2015-2019)

Emeritus Professor Jenny Gregory AM Council Member (2018-2021)

Mr Jeffrey Gunningham Council Member (2017-2020)

Mr Graham Harmsworth Council Member (2015-2017; 2018-2021)

*Dr Susan King Council Member (2013-2019)

Dr Raj Kurup Council Member (2017-2021)

*Councillor Julie Matheson Council Member (2016-2019)

*Ms Nee Nee Ong Council Member (2016-2019)

Mr James Paparo Council Member (2012-2017; 2018-2021)

Mr Gary Pennefather Council Member (2017-2020)


Dr Fran Pesich Council Member (2010-2014; 2018-2021)

Mr Ric Stern Council Member (2018-2021)

*Mr Jonathan Strauss Council Member (2011-2019)

Mr Tony Tate AM Council Member (2017-2020)

Mr Simon Dawkins Elected member of Senate (2010-2021) Immediate Past Warden (2011) Warden (2010) Council Member (2005-2010)

Pauline Tremlett Senate (1996-1998) Deputy Warden (1991-1994) Council Member 1987-1991; 1995-2017) Co-opted Member (2017-2019)

Rubyna Mher Co-opted Member (2018-2019)

Mrs Pauline Tremlett was co-opted to help the Council with the 50th Anniversary lunch and has been excellent contributor yet again. Our youngest co-optee was Ms Rubyna Mher, representing our younger members and learning the ropes with Convocation and Council.

Thanks

In conclusion, I wish to thank all members of Convocation Council who have contributed to the successful delivery of our roles and functions during the past year.

Since the last Ordinary Meeting, recognising the challenges on our volunteer Councillors and one full time employee, we continued to employ Ms Melissa Hetherington as an Assistant to our Convocation Officer, as well as part time Guild Archivist. She will continue her excellent work for us late in March, once she has completed her study obligations.

Finally, I must commend the splendid support we have all received from the Convocation Officer Ms Juanita Perez, with her excellent Convocation corporate knowledge, adherence to our statutory obligations and untiring efforts to action the results of our deliberations.

Dr Doug McGhieWarden of Convocation


Decades ago many hundreds of Convocation Members contributed a ‘Life’ donation to receive regular newsletters and the journal ‘CRAWLEY’. Neither this category, nor our ‘Crawley’ exist these days. But Council wished to thank them on Convocation Day

CONVOCATION DAY 2019


Convocation Day celebrations


Convocation Officer’s reportThe following is a list of graduates whose current whereabouts have become unknown since the Spring Ordinary Meeting of Convocation on 21 September 2018. Graduates are listed according to the Faculty from which they obtained their latest degree, along with their year of graduation.

Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts2007 Ali R. Bolouri2006 Linya Bu1999 Michael C. Jones1997 Melisa A. Loftus2007 Ann M. Mangano2005 Stuart E. McGowan2013 Ana Maria M. Velasco Munoz2010 Marina Zivkovic

Arts1999 Toby N. Adams2004 Shannon D. Akers1992 Megan J. Arrowsmith1974 Colin I. Bates1989 Phillip A. Chambers1986 Catherine R. Chapple2005 Lise Cooper2002 Lisa Corser1992 Brigit A. Cosgrove1989 Mark J. Davies2008 Candice L. Devenish1975 Susan E. Finlay-Jones2007 Kassie J. Gadeke1988 Kevin G. Gaitskell1990 Katherine M. Galvin1987 Leonora I. Gordon-Sinclair1986 Julie A. Gough1981 Maxine J. Graham2005 Thomas G. Harlow1953 Sarah E. Landy (Marshall)1991 Sacha L. Laurin (Dent)1986 Michelle A. Ledger1984 Monika Lukic1996 Matthew A. Malcolm2004 Sarah S. McCoy1995 Karl Mullin1995 Patrick T. Murphy2003 Fionnuala A. Nugent1971 Aileen T. O’Rourke1958 Alfred R. Owczarek1995 Agostina Rigoli2006 Zak Ritchie1993 Bronwen C. Robertson2006 Caela R. Rooney2004 Emily C. Rossen

1978 Ann V. Sandover1976 John W. Smithwick1977 Georgina M. Solomon (Broun)1981 Bruce H. Tame1977 Ilona J. Versluis2001 Kerry Walker2005 Clinton J. Warner1995 Terri E. Whisker Grasset

(Whisker)2004 Scott D. Williams1969 David I. Wilson1999 Bernd Windhofer1994 Tracey A. Wood (Hurley)

Arts, Business, Law and Education – Business1988 James L. Malone

Arts, Business, Law and Education – Law2017 Safiyya Khan

Board of Studies – Bachelor of Commerce2016 Courtney C. Kelley

Business School2005 Khader Abdullatif1997 Glenn A. Bailey2007 Benjamin L. Baker2008 Conor J. Blainey2006 Jamie A. Blanchard1990 Melody C. Browne1980 Paul F. Collings1996 Rebecca L. Couston1993 Mike P. Dagostino1999 Astrid M. Dahl1999 Giulia d’Amico2009 Katherine L. Dumbrell1999 James J. Egan2015 Julian L. Faraone1991 Wayne L. Ferrell1991 Brendon R. Fischer1973 Peter S. French2003 Andrew O. Gill1999 Gregory P. Graham2007 Laura J. Gregson

2006 Ryan W. Gruenthal2006 Xiao X. Guo1997 Bianca L. Haines1997 Matthew W. Halliday2005 Simon A. Hatfull2008 Joel B. Hernaman1989 Jamie Hodgkinson1998 Weiguo Hou2003 Anshuang Hu2003 Steven J. Iremonger2005 Lucas K. Joynt1988 Steven J. Ker2011 Thomas W. Knowles1973 William B. Lee2006 Celina Leng1995 Angela K. Lewis1997 Wai Cheong Lim1992 Patrick J. Lyons2006 Simon N. Martin2006 John K. Mavromatis2009 James P. Mawhinney2007 Michael A. McNamara2007 Georgina L. Montagu2007 Clint A. Morgan1978 Anil V. Narayan2005 Francesca L. Nolan2007 Roy Nusantara Putra2011 Chean C. Ooi2008 Terrance P. Paioff1989 Andrew Palmer2003 Graham M. Pearson2005 Cuong M. Pham1982 Lorena G. Preo2008 Rebecca A. Riley1977 Anthony J. Robb2004 Christopher A. Ryan1993 Debra-Ann M. Slocombe2003 Adam J. Sullivan1998 Henry Tedjakusuma1994 George A. Tennent1996 Michael J. Thanos1987 Douglas J. Upton2006 Adam J. Wood2008 Irina V. Zaitsev2008 Xu Zhou


Education2006 Candice L. Betts1977 Daina M. Bruers2015 Lucas F. Collins1986 Bill M. Crawley2004 Rosanne C. de Silva1984 Paul J. Fitzpatrick2002 Alison Hewson1964 Lynette G. Hurry (Hymus)1989 Matthew P. Lanigan1975 Warwick J. Maxted1987 Andrew L. Patterson2001 Rebecca L. Payne (Crane)1986 Elizabeth M. Viner

Engineering, Computing and Mathematics2009 Peter J. Alexander2013 Sarjono T. Antoneus2010 Evan D. Barter2006 Rhys A. Bevilaqua1988 David Billi2001 Nigel R. Chamberlain2005 Saurabh Das1981 Ronald P. Dielesen2004 Andre M. d’Sanges1999 Michael O. Elliott1991 Stephen G. Fischer1982 Clinton J. Giraudo1989 Benny Hadisurjo2010 Darren M. Hassan2000 Shane A. Kale1981 Yuk-Ming Lai1999 Mark B. Lister2008 Jin Liu1997 Christopher J. Maslen1999 Zoran Nedeljkovic2006 Rimonde Nguyen2007 Preben E. Nielsen1997 Daniel K. Oi2003 Jamie P. Ong2005 Campbell T. Paterson2012 James D. Phillips2007 Piotr H. Puchala1994 Walter C. Sun2002 Jane M. Thomson1996 Simon L. Welfare2003 Matthew J. Wright

Graduate Research School2015 Vipul Agarwal1986 Zahoor Aslam1981 John M. Bailey2000 Timothy P. Brown1987 Brian Fergusson1980 Christopher F. Foo1989 Andrew B. Hughes1986 Wannachan Korawis

(Chirachint)1997 David E. Lavallee2008 Jacqueline P. McGlade2000 Glenn I. Moore1978 Brian P. Oldfield1988 Rodney J. Peakall1965 Arjun P. Purohit2006 Sarula Sart1996 Yu Sheng1997 Peter J. Thompson1997 Neil N. Watkins1979 Gek K. Yim

Law1992 Naysa N. Cox (Crump)2002 Babita B. Deol (Kaur)1998 Porscha Fermanis2005 Miranda C. Harrison2006 Jordan A. Johnston2007 Ganesh Saminathan2004 Rosaline L. Tan

Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences1982 Mark A. Bartsch2005 Tony P. Caccetta1986 Lee C. Costello1972 Ivor Epstein1981 Kurt M. Fischer1996 Geoffrey L. Hawking2016 Katie L. Jagger1976 Blanche H. Khaw2011 Seng Chye C. Lee2007 Ashleigh O’Mahony2006 Morgan D. Prince1989 Eardley Rozario1981 Jill A. Schneider1981 Tini Sutedja2013 David A. Turton2000 Marshall R. Watson

Science1965 John E. Alderson1981 Simon J. Aylward2003 Ryan J. Backhouse1996 Kylie A. Banfield1996 Bryce C. Banfield (Lawrence)1989 Alistair Barkhouse1990 Paul S. Beros2006 Jodie E. Bowling2004 Christopher Bray2002 Michelle M. Britten2005 Steven G. Davis1970 Frank R. De Hoog2001 James S. Dods1997 Silvana G. Fidalgo1989 Vivienne F. Garden1998 Michael J. Gartrell1998 Nicholas P. Gill2007 Katherine M. Hafekost2004 Nadine A. Hof2003 Rebekah Honey1976 Susan R. Hudd1985 Daniel S. Hugo1972 Joyce Ieraci2009 Robyn M. Jilley1978 Dawson N. Johns2007 Lauren P. Kerr1990 Gregory D. Lawrence1995 Yeu H. Lee2004 Maria F. Locsin2008 Joanna Mander1980 Carlo A. Margio1992 Steven A. Mcleod2009 Navjot Navjot Kaur2000 Steven K. Oxenburgh1991 James R. Peart1996 Denis D. Penna1986 John W. Robson1994 Justine M. Ryan1990 Andrew J. Sanders1990 Andrew R. Slade1977 Jill Tilly1994 Adam B. Walker1990 Jennifer R. Wellstead1962 Margaret A. Wilson (Harris)1998 Tzu-Wei M. Yu


Anthony Best Reginald Birch Daniel Boss Noel Bryan Russell Burgess John Campbell Kim Chee Simplicius Cheong Mary Chui Kathleen Cockerell Susan Constantine Michael Croker Graham Douglas Robin Evans Sandra Ferguson Kerry Foster Stacy Gallagher John Garrett Patricia Gerritsen Denise Gillies (Remnant)Leonard Goodall Christine Gould (Rodgers)Jean Gray Lynette Green Susanna Grey-Smith Gertrud Grotegoed Emil Haberfield Petar Hadji-Ristic

Graduates of 1968 reconnecting and celebrating at their 50th Anniversary Reunion Luncheon last year

2019 50th Anniversary Reunion Luncheon50th Anniversary Luncheon

Convocation is again organising the annual reunion luncheon for graduates who are celebrating the 50th anniversary of their graduation from UWA.

This function has become very popular and all graduates are welcome.

The Convocation Council arranges the function but would welcome volunteers from among the 1969 graduates to join an organising committee and assist. Please forward your name and phone number to the Convocation Office at [email protected] or (+61 8) 6488 1336.

Help make this milestone an enjoyable celebration of your academic achievements.

We are still trying to trace some ‘lost graduates’ listed below. Anyone knowing the present address of any of these graduates is requested to pass the information to the Convocation Officer. Please note that names in brackets are maiden names.

Architecture, Landscape and Visual ArtsDouglas Ransom

ArtsDavid Addenbrooke John Anderson Susan Atkins Judith Barrett (Brechin)


Pamela Hainsworth (Minchin)Margaret Hallett Daniel Hancock Gregory Harper Patrick Harrington Leo Hassam Winsome Hatcher Florence Haycock James Hewitt Bernard Higgs Linda Hogg Beverley Hood Richard Hook Jan Ingleton Theo James Gillian Johnston (Forbes)Ian Johnston Stephanie Keating (Fisher)Margaret Le Breton (Jackson)Peter Le Breton Judith MacWilliam Aileen Maguire Jennifer Marsh (Loverock)Audrey Mitchell Richard Nagle Sarah Nelson Ivy Ng Henry Nicholls Peter O’Sullivan (Cullen)John Perry Jacqueline Prior (Wickham)Sally Pullin (Halbert)Margaret Quin-Conroy Abdul Razak bin Muhammad Elizabeth Richardson (Barclay)Mary Rossiter Dahlia Routman Jenny Rushton Maureen Ryder Jane Sax Jack Shamoon Anders Sievers Diana Silver David Smith Timothy Stafford Francis Sykes Lay Tan Nguyen-Thi Thuy Barbara Tyler Alan Watt Michael Weir Felicity Wellington Poh Wong Poh Ling (Leong)John Zloich

Business SchoolIan Baster Lynette Birch Stephanie Campbell Michael Carter Guan Chor Kenneth Clarke Bryan Cooper Tran Dang Nguyen Davis Valaiporn Eksangsri Josephine Fernandez Penelope Gibson (Ferrier)Choon Ho Jeannine Kitson Soo Kok Somchart Komate Jonathan Nelson Thi Ngoc Anh Nguyen Chun Pang Evgeniy Poroch Christopher Somas Ronald Van Santen Seow Wang Thye Wong Julian Wright Mee Yuen

EducationLeslie Banyard Andre Baronie John Boon Michael Bromilow Margaret Carroll Siew Chan Owen Cook Peter Dunnell Kay Fandry (Davies)Caroline Gillies Grant Glinski Wendy Griffiths Brian Haines Walter Hall Errol Hammond William Hannon Peter Harmsworth Patricia Harrison (Philson)Trevor Harwood Sharon Hopkinson Ronald Hu Terrence Jackson Willie Karmelita Wee Kwok Anthony Lembo Susan Lorrimar (Odgers)

Brian Martin Trevor Miller Robert Miller Bernard Nohan Alice O’Loughlin Pamela Piper Robin Porteous Alexander Pouw-Bray Peter Richards Bethwyn Roberton (Smith)Christine Rutter Margaret Sherwood Frances Sillitto (Andre)Robert Stephen Ernie Stringer Keith Taylor Susan Walker George White Mohammed Yasin

Engineering, Computing and MathematicsBarry Chia Kevin Colledge David Coulter Lyn Metcalf Valentine Ng Kwee-Chim Peh Rodney Perry Peter Schoonens Laurence Seddon Warren Smith Frank Tung Tea-Kruy Ung Raymond Watkins Richard Winslade

Graduate Research SchoolLee Brotherson Edgar Campbell Andrew Hamilton Patricia Hansen Aloysius Ho Howard Jones Lesley Le Souef (Searle)Rodney Mahon Leslie Mutton Richard Pepper Kanhaya Purohit David Sang Peter Sellick Hefazat Siddiqui Bernard Tang Donald Taylor Trevor White


LawRosemarie Solomon Sol Taubman Zbigniew Umbras Anthony Wainwright

Medicine, Dentistry and Health SciencesKwong-Shing Chang Tommy Chung Brian Davidson Beverleigh Fitch John Good Susan Jordan Robert Lawson-Smith Gerald Milner Francis Newton Kenneth Parker Rasiah Rajagopalan Robin Readhead-Taylor Matthew Yung

ScienceTerence Anderson Bernard Ardagh Yvonne Atkinson Timothy Barber James Battye Christopher Benson Kerry Bradshaw Stephen Bye Helen Carter Siew-Ching Chang (Wee)Errol Cocks Michael Danielson Robert Dekker John Di Renzo Lutz Engelhardt Monica Fletcher John Franklyn Dennis Gillespie Roderick Graham Michael Gray Jennifer Greenham Alan Habgood John Hall Susanne Harris Trevor Hedges Cheng Hoffman (Cheah)John Hudson Judith Hudson (Wilkins)Charalambos Karathanasis Patrick Ko Eric Ko Chok Fai Antony Kubicki

Elke Kuuse (Tawist)Shui-Lung Lee Leonie Lee Pui Lee Suang Lek Kenneth Mann Ian McDonald Ian Miller Anthony Miranda Astley Molyneux Teng Ng David Nicholls Judith Paterson (Ottaway)Craig Pearson Ann Peters See Poon Christopher Prince Murray Ray James Ridley David Robertson Diane Robinson Juris Rungis Joanne Samson (Patman)Paul Stocker Seng-Yeang Tan Richard Tinkler Christopher Tomney Bee Wee Peter Whittle Lloyd Williams Voon Yeong


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