A marriage of engineers and human movement specialists is not asstrange as it might seem, for like any machine, the body is subject to

wear and tear and friction.Professor Gwidon Stachowiak from the Department of Mechanical and Materials

Engineering and Dr David Lloyd from the Department of Human Movement andExercise Science, are working closely on one of the major health’s problems afflictingmillions of people across the world.

The challenge absorbing these researchers is osteoarthritis, a debilitatingcondition that is very costly both in human and financial terms. Australia has up to twomillion osteoarthritis sufferers, a condition that costs the nation approximately $9

billion annually, which includes bothdirect and indirect costs. It isestimated that in the next 20 yearsthe number of osteoarthritissufferers in Australia will increaseto about 3 million.

“Everything that man makeswears out eventually as a resultof wear and tear. Systemsbuilt by nature are alsosubjected to the same wearand tear mechanisms. Partof my research has beenthe study of wear andlubrication mechanisms

occurring in joints and theirrelationship to osteoarthritis,”

says Professor GwidonStachowiak, who has made this

area – tribology – his specialty.Professor Stachowiak and his

UWA Research Associate, Dr PawelPodsiadlo, have been developing the

radiography system that is able to detectvery small changes (undetectable to the eye)

occurring in the bone structure of people in

Battling osteoarthritis:a two-pronged attack

danger of developing osteoarthritis.The early detection of the condition isvital for effective remedial intervention.As the X-ray images for such analysismust be taken in exactly the sameposition, Prof. Stachowiak’s team hasdesigned and UWA technicians, DennisBrown, Ian Hamilton and Derek Goadfrom Mechanical and MaterialsEngineering, have built a rig that holdsthe joint while it is being X-rayed. Therig is an Australian first and is already inuse at the Perth Radiological Clinic inSubiaco.

Often the legacy of a sporting injuryor accident, osteoarthritis in the kneejoint – if undetected – can result in lossof function and mobility; the need fordrugs that have side-effects; and eventhe need for a complete kneereplacement. The loss of mobilitycaused by osteoarthritis reduces the

LEFT: Computer images from David Lloyd’slaboratory of the mechanics of legs and knees.

INSET: This computerised image is the reading of apatient’s walking pattern or gait.

RIGHT: Dr Pawel Podsiadlo in the rig that holds the jointwhile it is being X-rayed.

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newsUWA19 November 2001

Volume 20 Number 18

The University of Western AustraliaCelebrating 90 years of achievement 1911-2001

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Professor Deryck SchreuderVice-Chancellor and Presidentvc@acs.uwa.edu.au

America has wrapped itself in the flag - the StarSpangled Banner dominates images of the US

following the September 11 tragedy, and now thewar in Afghanistan.

Individual Americans commonly not only wave but actuallywear the flag, which has become a feature of US fashion andpublic style.

America has always had a more overt sense of itsnationalism. We are also a ‘nation of migrants’, a newsociety of conquest and immigration in the New World, yetour culture has evolved very differently.

Contrast the way we have celebrated Federation — the firstcentury of Australian nationhood — compared to the waysin which the US constantly evokes The Republic.

How do we account for this difference? How do we explainto the world - let alone to each other as citizens - how theAustralian experience has produced the nation we are?

These questions are prompted by the fabulous exhibitionthat was opened in our Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on theevening of Friday November 2 by the Premier, Geoff Gallop,and entitled “Federation - Australian Art and Society 1901 -2001'.

Originally developed as an exhibition in the National Galleryof Australia by the then curator of Australian art, JohnMcDonald, it was also designed to be a touring exhibition toall major cities in the country.

Federation has now come to us in the West … and really isa remarkable exhibition. The major themes of our modernnation are represented in the diverse pictorial and sculpturalart in the selection.

There is sheer pleasure to be gained from just walking theexhibition and relishing each work. (We have about 130 ofthe original items, for some could not travel, and others areno longer on loan. Included are three works from our ownUWA collection.)

But there is more to it than that. Rather than being achronological narrative, with all the dangers of ‘triumphalistprogress’, the exhibition groups the work around six bigthemes which challenge us to reflect on the Australianexperience, the successes and the disasters, the joys and thepains, the glories and the shames: ‘Beginnings’, ‘The Land’,

‘Cities and Suburbs’, ‘Boom and Bust’, ‘Patriotic Duty’, ‘AtEase’ and ‘Encounters’.

It also has a seventh feature, ‘Designing the AustralianExperience’, which presents popular objects of commercialdesign which reflect fascinatingly on our evolving interestsand popular tastes.

A superb catalogue accompanies the Exhibition (and includesthe works not brought to WA), with a subtle and challengingtext by curator McDonald who aims to offer history yet alsochallenge us all as Australians. Given the nature of the worldat the moment and of the new century ahead for our newnation, rarely can there have been a more timely event thanFederation in our Gallery.

The Exhibition will be with us until 27 January 2002. Don’tmiss it!

*

The fact that Federation is in our LWAG is not only a matterof pride and national recognition of UWA, but anappropriate reminder of our service to the State in thebroadest sense of education.

The Federation Exhibition will indeed be followed at theLWAG by another remarkable exhibition, this time curatedby our own Director, John Barrett-Lennard. Under the titleof Deep Water - Aqua - Profunda, it takes the form of a multi-media installation by Lyndall Jones, which earlier representedAustralia at the world’s major visual arts festival, the VeniceBienniale.

Last week, we also launched the program of the PerthInternational Arts Festival for 2002, nearing its 50thanniversary as a remarkable UWA creative service to thepeople of WA. That will begin on Australia Day 2002 andrun until 17 February 2002. I hope that I shall meet many ofyou at Festival events.

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The arts have a remarkable way of revealing a society, bothits interests and its spirit. Both Federation and the Festivalenrich our lives, and also help to define who we are as acommunity.

That is a worthy association for a University.

Federationin WA

VCariousthoughts …At last —

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When, earlier this year, Emma Croagerwatched James Fitzpatrick receive his award

as Young Australian of the Year from Prime MinisterJohn Howard, she shared the pride of all at UWA.

As a PhD student at this university, Dr Croager hadtutored James and other first year medical students; now sheherself has become a State finalist in the science andtechnology category for the Young Australian of the YearAwards for 2002. The winner will be announced onNovember 22.

Dr Croager, a Healy Postdoctoral Fellow, is working in anarea of science that is still in its infancy, but there are greatexpectations for stem cell research. Australian researchersare among the world leaders in this area, and in the UWAbiochemistry laboratory of leading scientist, AssociateProfessor George Yeoh, Dr Croager is advancing thisresearch in relation to liver cancer.

An ageing population and spiralling Hepatitis C cases dueto intravenous drug use means that Australia faces a steadyincrease in patients suffering from liver disease. Add to thisthe chronic shortage of suitable donor livers and the factthat even well-matched transplanted livers may be rejected,and it’s easy to see why attention is now focussing ondeveloping alternative therapies.

“The liver is an amazing organ,” explains Dr Croager. “Ifyou remove two-thirds of it, it will actually regenerate asadult liver cells divide to replace those removed. It is theonly organ in the body to do this.”

However when the liver is damaged and hepatocytes (theprimary liver cell) can no longer divide, another type of cellswings into action, proliferating uncontrollably to cause atumour. Understanding the mechanisms of both the positiveand negative cells is the challenge facing Dr Croager andother researchers around the world.

Dr Croager is particularly interested in exploring thepossibilities of producing a bank of liver cells. “If you could

Awards stem from research

Dr Croager at work in her laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry

remove healthy cells from a patient and grow them inculture in an artificial environment, there would be no fearof rejection when they were replaced in the patient.However, liver cells are very hard to grow in culture, so westill have a long way to go before this therapy would beavailable.

“Another alternative is to use fetal stem cells to makeadult hepatocytes, but we still don’t know the signals thatprompt a stem cell to grow into an adult liver cell.”

Dr Croager has collected more than a few prizes duringher studies at UWA, including the Lady James Prize forNatural Sciences, the Swan Brewery Honours Prize and theJ.W.H Lugg Medal for Biochemistry.

She was also awarded a fellowship from the InternationalUnion Against Cancer last year, and spent three monthsworking on hepatocyte isolation techniques at the Universityof Washington in Seattle. She brought some valuable newtechniques back to WA, and hopes to gain moreinternational experience after completing her currentfellowship (with the support of the Healy Foundation).

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Superlative sparky

Darren Murphy (pictured below) from theUniversity’s electrical workshop has been

named the best Electrical Apprentice inAustralia.

Late last year, Darren began his rise to fame bybecoming the best third year apprentice employed byElectrical Group Training.

In August this year he was named the WesternAustralian Electrical Apprentice of the Year, winning atrip to Adelaide to compete in the national awards. InOctober, after an intensive week of observation,interviews and a presentation, Darren was selected asthe National Clipsal Electrical Apprentice of the Year,winning a trophy and a holiday in South East Asia.Candidates were selected on their electrical knowledge,leadership skills and community and sporting interests.

Darren is Captain of the first grade rugby side forPerth Bayswater, coaches under-15 rugby and playstouch rugby ‘just for fun’. In addition to hisapprenticeship studies (completed in June), he studied atThe College of Electrical Training in high voltageswitching, estimating and tendering, computer skills,leading hand skills and programming logical controllers.

He has also received the National Siemens IndustrialElectrical Apprenticeof the Year Award,winning a trip toGermany to visit theWorld ElectricalTrade Fair in 2002.

Later this month,Darren will travel toSydney to competefor the NationalElectrical and Commu-nications AssociationApprentice of theYear.

person’s physical activity levels, which increases thepotential for obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

There seems to be a link between gait patterns (walkingand running) and knee osteoarthritis.

“If we know loading of the knee joint in gait leads to kneeosteoarthritis, we can intervene and modify gait, improvethe strength of muscles around the knee, and thus slow oreven avoid the onset of osteoarthritis, and perhaps theeventual need for knee replacement,” explains Dr Lloyd.

Dr Lloyd with his Research Associate, Dr Thor Besierand PhD student, Daina Sturnieks are measuring the loadingof the knee’s articular surfaces in gait using a newinternational award winning computer model. Kneefunctional status, physical activity levels, knee strength andfamily history are also recorded.

A National Health and Medical Research Council granthas supported the first two years of this importantresearch. The first results obtained are very promising. Theresearchers, working closely with Perth clinicians Dr KenMaguire of Perth Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Centreand Dr Stephen Davis of Perth Radiological Clinic, arehoping to track the current cohort of 180 participants, agedbetween 35 and 45, over a decade.

Many of the participants have had part of the meniscusremoved from a knee as a result of an accident, but nonecurrently shows the signs of osteoarthritis.

The participants’ knee joints are regularly X-rayed, using aspecial rig that holds the limb steady and the images areanalysed. Software specially developed by ProfessorStachowiak’s engineering team is a world first and is used toanalyse the X-ray images and detect subtle changes occurring.

In the long run Professor Stachowiak hopes to develop asystem for an early detection of osteoarthritis that could beused across the country. X-ray images taken in any part ofthe country could be sent via Internet to an image processingfacility and the diagnosis sent back a few minutes later.

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Osteoarthritisresearch

“Oh give me your pity… I’m on a committee”

The University has established a Working Partyto examine the committee structure and the

functioning of committees within the University,particularly as they relate to the workloads of bothacademic and general staff.

This is one of the efficiency reviews being undertaken in2001-2002 to ensure that the decision-making processesand structures of the University are responsive and efficient.

Details of the review and its terms of reference, as wellas some draft guidelines for committees, are on the Web athttp://www.acs.uwa.edu.au/reg/COMMITTEEREVIEWS/REVIEWCOMMITTEEINDEX.htm.

Processed full length radiogram fromProfessor Stachowiak’s laboratory

“If we know loading of the knee joint in gaitleads to knee osteoarthritis, we can intervene… improve the strength of muscles around theknee, and thus slow or even avoid the onset ofosteoarthritis, and perhaps the eventual need

for knee replacement.”

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 19 NOVEMBER 2001

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A program for the management of rivers around Australia has its source at the Albany campus

of UWA.The Albany-based Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource

Management (NRM) was awarded a national contract by Land& Water Australia to provide advice on education and trainingin river management across the country.

The Centre, delivered its first report to the NationalRivers Consortium late last month.

“It’s a great thing for the NRM Centre to be involvedwith,” said Randall Jasper, the development manager for theAlbany centre.

Tenders for the provision of advice on a nationalframework came from all over Australia. The Albany team ismade up of Mr Jasper, Professor Marcus Blacklow, fromUWA’s plant sciences group, who is the interim director ofthe NRM Centre, Associate Professor Peter Davis fromZoology, Luke Pen from the Water and Rivers Commission,and Gael Bell from the State Department of Agriculture.

They will complete their investigations and report by theend of December.

“The NRM Centre would love to be chosen to provide

Protecting our riversstarts in Albany

LEFT: A model of Albany’s historicPost Office building, undergoingrefurbishment to become the newhome for the Albany Centre. Themodel, constructed in 1983 by BertMoor, has captured the attention ofVisitors’ Centre co-ordinator TerryLarder and volunteer FredaLivingston. The model will be ondisplay in the Visitors’ Centre untilmid-December.

INSET: Randall Jasper,Development Manager for theAlbany Centre

some of the training,” Mr Jasper said. “The program willpossibly be let out to several different providers.”

The National Rivers Consortium includes policy makers,river managers and scientists, and co-ordinates and providesleadership in river restoration and protection, through sharingand enhancing the skills and knowledge of its members.

It needs a framework for two types of training andeducation: a graduate diploma in river management, forpeople with tertiary qualifications, and a practical training inon-ground river management and restoration for membersof the community.

Using the advice of the NRM Centre, the National RiversConsortium will probably run some pilot courses next year.

“As a new centre, it is very encouraging to get some runson the board,” Professor Blacklow said. “This projectcomplements the Torbay Project funded by the NationalRivers Consortium for restoration and management of theTorbay catchment in WA.

“The centre aims to make substantial contributionsthrough research and training for the resolution andmanagement of natural resource issues. We’re off to a goodstart,” he said.

A professor of organic chemistry coming toUWA from California is part of a ‘reverse

brain-drain’ costing the Australian Research Councilmore than $15 million.

The Federal Government has provided funds for theARC’s Federation Fellowships, bringing home six Australianresearchers currently holding some of the world’s mostprestigious research posts in the USA, Europe and Asia.The fellowships will also retain a further eight of our bestresearchers already working here.

The Fellows will each receive $1.25 million over fiveyears, making the scheme the most prestigious and richestpublicly-funded research Fellowship ever offered in Australia

and one of the richest in the world.Professor Tadeusz Molinski left Australia in 1989 for the

University California at Davis, building an internationalreputation in the chemistry of marine natural products. Hisscientific contributions include the discovery of biologicallyactive compounds from marine organisms.

He works at the interface of organic chemistry andmedical chemistry and is particularly interested in naturalcompounds that kill cancer cells.

He will start his five-year term at UWA next year butwill visit the University in December, as a guest of the headof the Department of Chemistry, Professor Sue Berners-Price.

Bringing the brainforce home

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 19 NOVEMBER 2001

BERNDT MUSEUM OFANTHROPOLOGY

The Berndt Museum of Anthropologywas formally established by the UniversitySenate in 1976 to house the collections ofRonald M. and Catherine H. Berndt, aswell as other materials then held in theDepartment of Anthropology.

Dr John E. Stanton was appointed thefirst Curator in 1980, and has overseenthe development of the Museum into aninstitution internationally recognised forthe excellence of its collections (especiallyits contemporary and historical Australianmaterials) and for its linkages withAboriginal communities, particularly in thearea of cultural maintenance.

Although the Museum is still housed inthe Social Sciences Building, Universityplans to relocate the Museum to thenorth-west corner of the campus willprovide essential additional facilities forresearch and storage, as well as forexhibitions.Dr John Stanton, Curator

PERTH INTERNATIONALARTS FESTIVAL

“I say to you people of Perth, don’t letthese men and women down by listeningto carping critics who would have youproduce the moon, preferably on a pieceof home-made cheese; keep up yourstandards and seek the best that isavailable to you where it may be found;but don’t allow the Festival to become theexclusive preserve of the ultra highbrowswho might be tempted to forget that it isprimarily a festival for the people ofPerth.”

This was Professor Fred Alexander, thefounder of the Festival of Perth (now thePerth International Arts Festival — PIAF),in 1953.

For nearly 50 years, the University hashonoured Professor Alexander’s visionand now PIAF, a centre of excellencewithin the University, is not only thepremier cultural event in the state but oneof the nation’s most highly regardedinternational arts festivals.

PIAF is working towards achieving itsmission by its 50th anniversary in 2003:to have offered every West Australian anopportunity to experience a Festival event

UWA EXTENSIONUWA Extension has been offering

stimulating and life-changing learningexperiences for more than 70 years, mostnotably in Summer School, its flagshipprogram, out of which today’s PerthFestival originated.

The many and varied activities of UWAExtension continue throughout the yearfor all those who wish to enrich their livesor broaden their horizons. Coursesoffered by UWA Extension range fromthe everyday to the esoteric: languages,philosophy, laughter, music, business,investment, painting, speaking, dancing andsinging.

— Kim Roberts, Director

UWA PRESSFast approaching its 50th Anniversary

in 2004, UWA Press, our award-winningpublishing house, specialises in topicalbooks for the Western Australiancommunity, and contributes to a livelydiscussion of the environment, history andculture of WA and beyond.

Salinity problems in our wheatbelt, thepost-war migrant experience,

Our Universityreaching out through

Community Relations

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 19 NOVEMBER 2001

commemorating the Holocaust inAustralia, Aboriginal women on missionstations in the Kimberley, the building ofthe Duyfken replica, and the life of WA’smost famous engineer C Y O’Connor, arethe focus of some of the books written byWestern Australians and published thisyear by our own UWA Press.

— Dr Jenny Gregory, Director

PUBLIC AFFAIRSAn integral part of gaining widespread

support required to sustain any institutionis its place in society.

With the statutory and moralrequirements of openness, accountabilityand scrutiny, universities are no differentin that they need to be seen by thecommunity as of value; accessible; goodneighbours; and fulfilling their reason forbeing.

Facilitating the community’sunderstanding and awareness of the highquality teaching and learning and researchbeing carried out by dedicated UWAacademic and professional staff is the roleof Public Affairs.

Public Affairs can add value by:

Over the ninety years that UWA has been an institution in Perth, hundreds of thousandsof West Australians have had contact with the University, without ever being a student orworking here.

Seeing a film in the Somerville Auditorium, attending a wedding in the Sunken Garden,going to a summer school (now UWA Extension) class, playing sport or dancing the nightaway at a ball in Winthrop Hall …

Other contact has been made through staff participating in community activities anddiscussions and through the news media: a UWA expert commenting on a controversialissue on television; a scientist explaining her recent discovery in the pages of a newspaper;a historian talking about his new book on radio …

Recognising the value of this wide-ranging activity, the University brought all thisoutreach together in 1997, under the banner of Community Relations. It lured the formerHead of the Department of Music, Associate Professor Margaret Seares, back to thecampus to oversee the University’s relationship with the community and implementstrategies for development.

The importance the University places on Community Relations is reflected in Dr Seares’executive position as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Community and Development).

She is responsible for seven different areas of activity where the community and theUniversity come together and where Dr Seares and teams work to ensure those meetingsare the best possible experiences for all concerned and work to mutual advantage.

They are Public Affairs, Office of Development, including the Visitors’ Centre, LawrenceWilson Art Gallery, UWA Extension, UWA Press, and Convocation (WA GraduatesAssociation) and Berndt Museum of Anthropology.

maximising opportunities for positivemedia exposure; managing negativeexposure; facilitating access for mediaadvice and assistance; building a networkof specialist commentators; and assistingstaff liaise with media.

—Colin Campbell-Fraser, Director

OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENTThe Office of Development and Alumni

Relations was established in 1998 tostrengthen ties with the communitythrough the development of relationshipswith graduates, alumni and the externalcorporate world.

Through the Hackett Foundation, theOffice of Development is building a“second endowment” to continue thetradition established by the originalHackett bequest, the University’s firstendowment. Working with CommunityRelations, the Office of Developmentprovides creative ways for individuals andorganisations to join with the University

to ensure the State and the nation remainat the forefront of the “knowledgerevolution”.

— Peter Leunig, Director

CONVOCATION (UWA GRADUATES’

ASSOCIATION)Convocation, the UWA Graduates

Association (UWAGA) has moved itsoffice to the corner of Broadway andStirling Highway. The UWAGA is sharingfacilities with the Office of Development.This reflects the collaboration betweenthe UWAGA and the Office ofDevelopment in a number of initiativesincluding establishment of the VisitorsInformation Centre and reunions forgraduates, to name just a few. Graduatesare always welcome to call by.

— Dr Suzanne Baker, Warden

LAWRENCE WILSONART GALLERY

The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery hasa dual function in the University, acting asa centre for research and scholarship inthe visual arts and visual culture, and as amajor centre for community outreach.

The Gallery’s research encompassesboth the UWA Art Collection (a majorpublic collection of Australian art, startedin 1927, and built through extensivedonations and occasional bequests), and awide ranging program looking at bothcontemporary and historical art and ideas.The collection comprises more than 2000

artworks and containsexamples from leadingAustralian and internationalartists acquired throughdonations, purchases andbequests.

—John Barrett-Lennard,Director

Staff of The Office ofDevelopment in their newpremises

Pro Vice-Chancellor, Associate ProfessorMargaret Seares has the last wordon community relations —see back page.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 19 NOVEMBER 2001

A UWA Professor of French ruffled some religious

feathers recently with his GordonAthol Anderson Memorial Lectureat the University of New England.

Associate Professor AndrewHunwick made some surprising andcontroversial comparisons of the viewsof the Resurrection of Jesus Christfrom a 20th century Anglican Bishopand an 18th century atheist.

Comparing Baron d’Holbach, theatheist who lived and wrote in France,and Bishop John Selby Spong,the former Bishop of NewJersey, now lecturing atHarvard, Professor Hunwickfound that their views had asurprising amount in common.

“This is despite the fact thatd’Holbach sought to free people fromwhat he saw as the harmful influence ofeverything pertaining to Christianity andSpong unequivocally calls people to Jesusand to God,” Professor Hunwick said.

He said D’Holbach’s atheist viewscould still enrage Christians today. Hewrote that he hoped a time wouldcome when “humanity will no longer beterrorised by priests and religion willbe supplanted by the triumph of reasonand nature.

“Christians do not for a momentdoubt the resurrection, and their beliefin this respect is rock-solid. They aretaught to sacrifice reason, judgment andgood sense on the altar of faith…”d’Holbach wrote.

Professor Hunwick points out that,although for different reasons, BishopSpong also asks people to question theResurrection.

“He asks for a critical and boldexamination of contradictions –traditional notions that just don’t makeany sense — in doctrine he sees asoutdated and limiting,” ProfessorHunwick said.

“He retains a heartfelt wish forpeople to think again about the Bibleand he writes: ‘The Bible never says in

a simplistic way that Jesus is God. Jesusprays to God in the gospels. He is nottalking to himself. Jesus dies on thecross. It makes no sense to say thatthe holy God died.’”

Spong points to the writings of St

The Frenchprofessor,the atheist

and thebishop

Associate Professor AndrewHunwick … quietly enjoys alittle controversy

Paul which indicate that, after his death,Jesus was raised into God’s presence.“It was not a flesh and blood body fit toinhabit this earth,” writes Spong.

“Bishop Spong says he is notimpressed with what passes for adulteducation in most churches. ‘Many anadult Bible class is little more than thepooling of ignorance’ he writes, a viewthat co-incides surprisingly with that ofd’Holbach,” Professor Hunwick said.

The Anderson Memorial Lecturehonours Professor Gordon Anderson

who held a personal chair inMusic at the University ofNew England until he died in1981. Professor Hunwick’swork as a commentator onmusic and also on biblical

translation and interpretation ofScriptures as well as his research intothe French language made him an idealcandidate for the lecture, which hasalways covered a broad range of topicson music and texts.

“Many an adult Bible class is little

more than the pooling of ignorance”

The Federation exhibition comes alive onTuesdays at lunchtime at the Lawrence WilsonArt Gallery.

Tomorrow (November 20), Tony Cooke, formersecretary of Unions WA, will talk about changes in Australian working life,within the context of the exhibition.

Next week, historian Tom Stannage uses Federation as a backdrop to hisreflections on Australia’s cultural and political transformations.

tuesdays live are free and start at 1pm. The gallery is offering free guided toursof the exhibition on Fridays at 1pm until December 14.

tuesdayslive

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 19 NOVEMBER 2001

A second-year Commercestudent has topped the

State with an award from nationalchartered accounting firmPricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

The PricewaterhouseCoopersAward for Outstanding Innovation,Leadership and Commercialism offersscholarships of $1000 to the bestaccounting students at each of WA’sfour public universities.

Lisa Soh is UWA’s winner and wasnamed the overall winner and collecteda further $2000 and was also offeredpaid vacation employment. Rather thanrewarding students for high marks inspecific subjects, PwC has identifiedinnovation, leadership and commer-cialism as the non-technical skills asparamount to their business.

Nick Henry, Partner at PwC said:“The attributes of commercialism,leadership and innovation are held inhigh esteem within PricewaterhouseCoopers, and are a critical part of ourcorporate values and ongoing success.Our award has been designed toacknowledge and reward those whocan consciously recognise the linkbetween their university studies andtheir application to the wider world atan early stage of their studies. “

The selection criteria for the awardrequired that students show innovationby developing creative solutions andtranslating them into practical results;leadership by being courageous inconveying a vision which inspires andmotivates others; and commercialismby demonstrating an understanding ofthe business environment in order toseize an opportunity.

Students were also expected to havea consistently above average perfor-mance in their chosen field of study.

Lisa Soh was also one of three UWAcommerce students who won threeout of five undergraduate accountingawards, for students from all publicuniversities.

The Institute of CharteredAccountants CA Achiever program is anaward of paid work experience with achartered accounting firm, made to thetop first year commerce studentsstudying the core accounting unit ateach of WA’s four public universities.

Lisa Soh, Tim Malloch and TinaZhou were all successful CA Achieversfrom UWA, taking out three of the fiveplacements available.

The first year financial accountinglecturers, Ann Tarca and Paul Coram(recently recognised as Australia’s topaccounting lecturer) were very pleasedto see UWA students highly rankedagainst their peers from otheruniversities.

“The placements confirm that theUWA Commerce degree in Accountingand Finance continues to attract thetop students” Ms Tarca said.

The object of the CA Achiever is toprovide commerce undergraduatestudents with vocational experience ina chartered accounting environment, tocontribute to their understanding ofthe profession and assist in their choiceof a suitable career path.

It also provides chartered accoun-ting employers with access to outstandingcommerce undergraduates to help in thegraduate recruitment process.

Lisa Soh, high achieving student,receives her CA Achievers award

“ ..we reward those who can consciously recognise

the link between their university studies and their

application to the wider world …”

CA Achiever aims to motivatestudents to achieve outstanding resultsin their first semester of their first yearaccounting subject. It was introduced inVictoria last year and became a nationalinitiative this year

Tim and Lisa will be working withBentleys MRI and Tina with BDOChartered Accountants and Advisers,over the summer break. HorwathPerth-Partnership also offeredplacements, which went to twostudents from Edith Cowan and Curtinuniversities.

The CA Achiever Program will berunning again next year.

Successfulaccountantscoming up

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 19 NOVEMBER 2001

Professor Kathy Haaland, oneof the world’s leading clinical

neuropsychologists, has beenadvising UWA’s Department ofPsychology on their new course inneuropsychology.

“I like what I see,” said ProfessorHaaland, Professor of Psychiatry andNeurology, Vice-Chair for Research inPsychiatry at the University of NewMexico’s School of Medicine, andDirector of Psychology Research forthe Veterans’ Affairs Medical Centre.

“I’ve been looking at the newprogram, seeing how it could beimproved and talking to the students,”said Professor Haaland, spending a fewweeks at UWA under theDistinguished Visitors scheme.

“There’s such a good integration ofresearch and clinical work here. And onealways enriches the other. So far, I’mimpressed with the system in thisdepartment There is a great deal ofemphasis on research rather than formalcourse work, even for theundergraduates.“I think this approachimproves their ability to understand thepatients that they will see when theygraduate and are practising,” she said.

The area of clinical neuropsychologyhas a strong interest in how the braincontrols behaviour.

“The clinical side comes in ourwork in hospitals,” Professor Haaland

explained. “If a patient has a significantnumber of cognitive complaints (loss ofmemory is the most common) , theyare referred to a clinicalneuropsychologist.

“We will assess their attention,spatial, memory and language skills toidentify the problem The advantage wehave over a neurologist is that we lookat a broader range of possibilities. Wehave a normative base with which wecan compare patients. For example, if a70-year-old patient complains ofmemory loss, we can compare her/himwith other normal 70-year-olds and seeif the cognitive changes are simply partof the aging process.

“It is extremely reassuring forpeople to be told that their loss ofmemory is normal, that they are notsuffering from Alzheimer’s,” she said.

For the past 20 years, ProfessorHaaland has been involved withveterans and has worked especiallywith patients who have sufferedstrokes or have Parkinson’s disease.She is most interested in how the braincontrols complex movements and thecognitive aspect of that.

While at UWA, she has consultedwith Associate Professor GaryThickbroom and Dr Michelle Byrnes atthe Centre for Neuromuscular andNeurological Disorders, aboutpotential research collaboration.

Professor Kathy Haaland …impressed bythe emphasis on research in the PsychologyDepartment

Newprogram

gets the nodfrom USexpert

Leading West Australian poetand author John Kinsella has

signed a ground-breakingagreement with the Universitycovering his extensive manuscriptarchive.

The agreement includes the transferof copyright in a selection of ProfessorKinsella’s work. It is believed to be thefirst time that a contemporaryAustralian author has assignedcopyright to a university library in thisway. Proceeds from the futurepublication of this material will be usedto benefit the research collections inthe UWA Library.

John Kinsella is the author of morethan twenty books and has won manyawards and prizes for his work. He is aFellow of Churchill College, CambridgeUniversity, and the Richard L ThomasProfessor of Creative Writing atKenyon College, Ohio. He is co-editorof the British literary journal Stand, andInternational Editor of the Americanliterary journal The Kenyon Review.

Dr Toby Burrows, the principallibrarian from the Scholars’ Centre,

Author signsover hiswords

said that Professor Kinsella, a nativeof WA and a graduate and sometimestaff member of UWA, had alreadygiven the University a lot of hismanuscripts.

“But he felt quite strongly that hewanted to do more than that, and hecame up with the idea of signing overthe copyright to us, so if there’s anyincome to be earned, it comes to us,”Dr Burrows said.

Professor Kinsella spent part of lastyear and most of this year in theEnglish Department and is alsoinvolved with the local l iterarymagazine Westerly.

His manuscripts are housed in theScholars’ Centre in the UniversityLibrary. A Web guide to the collectionis available at: http://findaid.library.uwa.edu.au/dynaweb/findaid/kinsella3

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 19 NOVEMBER 2001

Western Australians have enjoyed a visual arts feastduring 2001, with first Monet and then Rodin

attracting record attendances at the Art Gallery of WesternAustralia, and now a high-profile touring exhibition of thenation’s major art works expected to do the same at UWA’sLawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901 – 2001, a NationalGallery of Australia Travelling Exhibition, was opened by the Premier,Dr Geoff Gallop, and will be on display at the UWA gallery until theend of January 2002.

Curator of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, John Barrett-Lennard, said that a lot of behind-the-scenes work and research hadgone into mounting this outstanding event in Australia’s culturalhistory. He is confident the exhibition will provide a pleasurable andinformative summer activity for families, individual and students.

Two of the paintings in the exhibition (which will tour the nationfor more than a year) are from the University’s collection: The PieEaters by Yosl Bergner (1940) and Woman Pilot (Mitty Lee Brown) byAdelaide Perry (1931).

The list of participating artists features many distinguishednames, including Tom Roberts, Frederick McCubbin, Arthur Boyd,Sidney Nolan, Margaret Preston, Russell Drysdale, William Dobell,Grace Cossington Smith and Max Dupain. Among the contemporaryartists are Gordon Bennett, William Yang, Margaret Dodd, CharlesBlackman, Jimmy Pike and Tracey Moffat.

A mosaic of the past century, Federation aims to reflect thediversity of Australia’s art, culture and social life through 150 worksthat include paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture and decorativearts. The exhibition charts the nation’s course through the twentiethcentury, showing how we became the people we are today. There isa strong narrative thread to the exhibition which looks at Australia’sexperience of war, its love of sport, its times of prosperity andhardship.

The gallery is open Tuesday to Friday 11am – 5pm, and onSunday 12noon – 5pm.

Premieropenshigh profileexhibition

by Trea Wiltshire

Two different imagesof Australian women(LEFT) MargaretPreston’sThe Flapper(BELOW) RussellDrysdale’s TheDrover’s Wife

It was easy to locate the newlyappointed United States

Ambassador to Australia, JThomas Scheiffer, and his familyon campus during their recentvisit.

An entourage of slow-moving whitecars accompanied by numerous suitedmen and women with communicationearpieces proceeding from the Vice-Chancellery to the Dolphin Theatreclearly marked the spot.

Following a courtesy meeting withActing Vice-Chancellor Professor AlanRobson, the Ambassador delivered apresentation to more than 200 staff andstudents in the Dolphin Theatre. DrDavid Denemark from the Department

New US Ambassadorpays UWA a visit

of Political Science introducedthe ambassador.

In his free public lectureentitled “A Look at the BushAdministration: An Insider’sPerspective”, which hedescribed as ‘a chat’, AmbassadorScheiffer detailed his businessbackground and his long-standingfriendship with US President Bush.

He took up his post in Australia inJuly this year. He said the tragic eventsof September 11, 2001 had touched allUS citizens and expressed thanks forthe empathy shown by Australians andtheir governments to the traumaexperienced by his country and itspeople.

Anti war protestors outside the DolphinTheatre

Question time proved lively withimpassioned statements from someaudience members regarding US foreignpolicy in general, and particularly thatconcerning the Middle East andIndonesia.

A small number of people handedout anti war leaflets to those attendingthe lecture.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 19 NOVEMBER 2001

... the last word

At a recent Senate meeting there wasconsiderable discussion about UWA’s role with

and commitment to the community, and the role ofcommunity service as part of the ‘core business’ ofthe institution.

The discussion somewhat implied that regardingcommunity service as a core function of the University is arelatively recent phenomenon. However, if we go back toour founding Act of 1911 we can see, through theprominent role given to Convocation in Universitygovernance, the desire to embed links with the communityinto the overall operation of the University. Section 17 (d)allows Convocation to embrace “representatives of certaincommercial, industrial, scientific and educational societies,institutions or associations” as well as graduates of theinstitution. The fact that Convocation is listed, with Senate,staff and students as one of the basic pillars of the Universitydemonstrates the importance that was given by the foundingfathers to our graduate and community links.

Community relations are further explored in Section 5 ofthe University’s Strategic Plan, headed ‘Community Service’:

“UWA has a unique relationship with the WAcommunity, being the first University in the State withtraditionally close ties to the local community. It has … a

prominent role in the cultural life of the community by suchmeans as the Summer School and other University Extensionactivities, the Perth International Arts Festival, the fine musicand theatre facilities, the Art Gallery, and so on … TheUniversity recognises, however, that it must continue topublicise and build upon its achievements in the community sothat its value to the society on which its future depends is fullyappreciated. The University is committed to making a greatereffort to ensure continuing community support. This includescommunicating more effectively with the general public,politicians, industry and commerce, schools and professionalbodies and so on, and involving University people at everylevel in this process.”

It is this emphasis on promoting the value of theUniversity to the community that is the more recentphenomenon, rather than the recognition of communityservice within the core of the University’s functions per se.It does not need Einstein to deduce that the acceleratingdecline of government funding to all Australian universitiesmeans that, if we are to maintain and develop our currentstandards, we have to seek support elsewhere.

But support these days very rarely comes unfettered nordoes it come easily. For example, a number of reports havedemonstrated that West Australians are amongst the leastgenerous in the nation, per capita, when it comes tophilanthropic giving. And if we wondered why our Victoriancounterparts seem to do so well in attracting philanthropicsupport, it’s because around 80 per cent of Australia’s publictrusts and foundations can only be accessed by institutionsand individuals resident in Victoria.

Beyond philanthropy, corporate support these days is verymuch tied to partnerships, rather than the old sponsorshipmode. Even if there were more corporate head offices inPerth, our approaches would still need to demonstrate whatwe can do to service a partnership as well as what we wouldlike from the partnership, and this would involve departmentsand centres as much as central administration.

None of these problems – except the legislativerestrictions on trusts and foundations – is insurmountable.However, all will be more easily achieved if UWA is seen tobe a major community player. This is why our communityoutreach activities are so important, because through themwe can be seen to be giving back to the community.

The more we can bring people onto the campus, themore we can cement those wider community links and in sodoing fulfil both the aspirations of our founders and theneeds of our current operating environment.See centre spread for Community Relations feature.

Cementingthe links

to securethe future

EDITOR/WRITERLindy Brophy

Tel.: 9380 2436 Fax: 9380 1192 Email: lindy.brophy@uwa.edu.au

EDITOR-IN-CHIEFColin Campbell-Fraser

Tel.: 9380 2889 Fax: 9380 1020 Email: cam@acs.uwa.edu.au

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LIFT-OUT19 NOVEMBER 2001 Volume 20 Number 18

CAMPUS DIARY • RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS • CLASSIFIED ADS • NOTICES • REDUNDANT EQUIPMENT

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Telephone: 9380 3029Facsimile: 9380 1162

Email: joanna.thompson@uwa.edu.auinfoUWAnews

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The Western Waagyls,UWA’s team in the

National Indigenous HigherEducation Games, havebrought home gold.

In only their second year in the competition, UWA’s team of 11 indigenousstudents won the Grand Champion Trophy from 12 other teams representinguniversities around the country.

In a two-day competition at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, thestudents won 14 and drew one of their 16 first-round games in netball,volleyball, basketball and touch football (all mixed teams).

The following day they progressed to the grand finals in touch andbasketball, winning the basketball by blitzing the University of Sydney 34 to 22.

The students also competed in traditional games and UWA’s AndreaLockyer won that section, being awarded a traditional trophy, a woomera.

Their cumulative wins made the Western Waagyls the overall winners,which means that the games will be held at UWA next year.

Three of the students, Steven Torres-Carne, Rowena Hamlet and KurtisLeslie, also represented UWA in the recent Australian University Games.

Homestate Mining, the UWA Guild and the Aboriginal AdvancementCouncil sponsored the Waagyl’s successful tour.

WesternWaagylswin

Review of the Efficiency and Effectiveness ofCommittees in the University of Western Australia —

Call for SubmissionsCommittee work is like a soft chair- easy to get into but hard to get out of (K.J. Shively)

Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything (J.K. Galbraith).The committee: a group that takes minutes and wastes hours (Anon.)

These aphorisms conjure familiar images of the many committees involved in theadministration, management and governance of the University and the meetings that areinevitably associated with them.

The University has established a Working Party to examine the committee structure andthe functioning of committees within the University, particularly as they relate to theworkloads of both academic and general staff. This is one of the efficiency reviews beingundertaken by the University in 2001-2002 to ensure that the decision-making processes andstructures of the University are responsive and efficient.

Details of the review and its terms of reference, as well as some draft guidelines forcommittees, are on the Web at http://www.acs.uwa.edu.au/reg/COMMITTEEREVIEWS/REVIEWCOMMITTEEINDEX.htm.

The Working Party is keen to receive submissions, comments, suggestions (and evenpertinent aphorisms) from staff on any aspect of this important issue. These can be sent toSato Juniper, c/- Student Services (sjuniper@admin.uwa.edu.au). Or, if you wish yourresponse to be confidential, please note this in your submission and send it to the Chair ofthe Working Party, Dennis Haskell c/- Secretariat Services (dhaskell@cyllene.uwa.edu.au).

BACK: Steve Torres-Carne, Rowena Hamlet, MelissaMay, Chad Creighton, Daniel Hunt (with the trophy),Dezreena Hoelker, Kurtis Leslie Terry MorichFRONT: Andrea Lockyer, Kate Hall, Emma Hunt

CAMPUS19 November to 3 DecemberDiary

DEADLINE DATE PUBLICATIONWednesday Monday

November 21 December 3

UWAnewsCopy deadline for the next issue

Tuesday 20 NovemberHISTORY SEMINAR‘Western desert missionaries, theircollaborators and critics’, Ian Duckham.4.30pm, PSA Lounge.

LAWRENCE WILSON ARTGALLERY TALKTony Cooke on the art of work inFederation. Tony was until recently theSecretary of Unions WA and is about totake up a position at Curtin University.He is a well-known public figure in WAand a skilfull commentator on publicissues that affect working Australians. Inthe context of Federation, Tony will talkabout some of the changes for workingAustralians over recent decades. 1pm,LWAG.

Thursday 22NovemberWABCAP SEMINAR‘Osteoclast activity in bone disorders’,J iake Xu. 7.45am, WAIMR MeetingRoom, Ground Floor, B Block, SCGH.

Saturday 24NovemberPERTH MEDIEVAL ANDRENAISSANCE GROUPEND-OF-YEAR PARTYTo be held at 440 Gui l ford Rd,Bayswater, starting at 7pm. Spit roast,salads, rolls and butter, platters of freshfruit provided for dinner, followed byconvivial entertainment. Cost: $25 perperson, payment to Talia Marsh, C/-Dept. of English. Enquiries to CharlesAcland on 9423 9428.

Sunday 25 NovemberADESTE HUMANIORESEXTRAVAGANZAThis is your life, Nero. 5.30pm, SunkenGarden, UWA. $20 per person/$50 perfamily. Contact Dr Judith Maitland, ext.2162, or emai l jmait la@cyl lene.uwa.edu.au.

Tuesday 27 NovemberHISTORY SEMINAR‘Mary Wollstonecraft’s understanding ofmadness’, Paul Laffey. 4.30pm, PSALounge.

LAWRENCE WILSON ARTGALLERY TALK‘Suspect images of a mist procession’,Tom Stannage. 1pm, LWAG.

Wednesday 28NovemberAUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIESTEACHING COMMITTEEVISITING SCHOLARPRESENTATION‘The changing roles of those who teachin higher education’, Dr Gary Poole,AUTC Visiting Scholar. 4 to 6pm,Geography Lecture Theatre 1.

Friday 30 NovemberCLIMA SEMINAR‘Lupin resistance to aphids’, Dr OwainEdwards; ‘Close encounters withPhomopsis Blight on lupins’, Dr ManishaShankar. 4pm, CLIMA Seminar Room.

ADVANCED NOTICE

Monday 3 DecemberINSTITUTE OF ADVANCEDSTUDIES/GENOMICS, SOCIETYAND HUMAN HEALTHPROGRAMME FORUM‘The genetic revolution—navigating theminefield. The political, social and healthimpl icat ions. ’ Speakers includeArchbishop Peter Carnley, ProfessorBob Williamson and Professor RogerShort. This forum heralds the launch of‘New frontiers in medicine’, the secondtheme in the Genomics, Society andHuman Health Programme. BurswoodTheatre. For information, please contactAnne Same on 9489 7885 orannes@ichr.uwa.edu.au.

HUMAN MOVEMENT ANDEXERCISE SCIENCE LECTUREProfessor James Sal l is is a worldauthority in health promotion andexercise psychology from San DiegoState University. He has an internationalreputation in supportive environmentsfor phsyical activity. 1 to 2pm, HMESLecture Theatre.

Tuesday 4 DecemberLAWRENCE WILSON ARTGALLERY TALK‘The settler and the suburb. Fashion andfutures’ , Patrick Beale, Head ofArchitecture and Fine Arts. In thecontext of the exhibition Federation,Patrick will discuss his interest in thecomplex ways that settler cultures relateto place. 1pm, LWAG.

It’s finally happened. The Winthrop Hall Undercrofthas been refurbished.

Suffering from years of hard use, the Undercroft had adangerous floor and a ceiling festooned with exposed cabletrays and piping.

For several years repairs and refurbishment had beendelayed while various plans were discussed. The trigger foraction this year was the postponement of the paving aroundthe reflection pond.

Consulting with Kevin Hamersley at University Theatres,architect Jean-Marie Gobet (working with UWA’s Office ofFacilities Management) planned a simple but sophisticateddesign for the new work – subdued for exams, yet easilyconverted into a stylish function space. The Heritage Councilwas advised and with their blessing obtained, the design wasput into effect.

Working to a very tight deadline, the old carpet wasstripped out; the concrete floor was cut for new expansionjoints and in-floor ducting installed; ramps were constructedat the exit doors; the ceiling repainted throughout; the lightswere rebuilt and emergency lighting installed; all walls andcolumns painted; the wrought iron balustrade repainted andfinally, the new carpet put down.

This time carpet-tiles were laid rather than broadloom, tosimplify repairs to stains and damage. And the work wascompleted in time for the first of the annual examinations.

The work is a testament to the skills and expertise of theteam from the Maintenance Workshop, and judging from themany positive comments on the new look, they can be proudof their achievement.

New lookdown under

Before …

and after

UWA OLIVE OIL

SHOWCASE

DINNER 2001

Want to learn more about olive oil? You, your

family, colleagues and friends are invited to

participate in the ultimate olive event of the year.

The UWA Olive Oil Showcase Dinner 2001

will be held on Friday November 30 2001 at

University House from 6.30 to 10pm. Cost per

person, which includes GST, is $55. During the

evening producers will talk about their olive oils and

Extra Virgin Olive Oils from the 2001 season will be

available for tasting. Producers of prize-winning

Extra Virgin Olive Oils will receive ribbons and

certificates that were awarded at the 2001 Perth

Royal Agricultural Show.

The dinner menu, with influences of the

Mediterranean, includes Anti-pasta, Turkish Bread,

Crossini sticks; Aubergine Moussaka; Roast Lamb

Marinated in Olive Oil, Rosemary, Garlic and Lemon

Juice; Potatoes from the Oven; Traditional Greek

Salad with Lemon and Olive Oil and Green Garden

Salad with olive oil and wine vinegar; and selection

of sweets– Fresh Fruit Salad and Cream, Chocolate

Mousse or Creme Caramel. Non-alcoholic, alcoholic

and hot beverages will be served during the dinner.

Contact: Professor Stan Kailis – Plant Sciences

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The campus can be a very big place for tiny legs. When these little ones from thechild care centre on Parkway took a stroll around the grounds, they needed a drinkand a rest and what better place to pause than the reflection pond, where they alsomet the family of 11 ducklings living in Whitfeld Court.

ProfessorKailistending toolive treeson campus.

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