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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 8 OCTOBER 2001

VCariousthoughts …

Who can ever forget Tuesday 11 September2001?

The tragic events in America will mark our lives for alltime. Indeed I suspect we shall all be able to recall the exactmoment when we first heard of the terrible news.

Just as I can still vividly recollect when I learned of theassassination of President Kennedy, so now I will alsoremember the moment – as I left the opening nightperformance of Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro” at HisMajesty’s – how two elderly ladies suddenly said as wedescended in the lift to the Cloisters car park, “New Yorkhas been attacked…”

I was soon home in front of the CNN TV images whichprovided those first horrendous pictures of the towersaflame. Then falling in ruins. It is all now part of ourcollective consciousness. As I write, the world anxiouslyawaits the American counter-response to terrorism.

A vast amount has been written about the meaning ofthat day which changed the world. Here is merely a smallcomment from the perspective of our University.

It was most important that we marked the tragedy as aninstitution. Graduation on the next day, Wednesday,provided the appropriate formal occasion when we couldpublicly express our sorrow and then stand in silence beforethe playing of the national anthem. The following day aninter-faith prayer service was held in the Murdoch LectureTheatre at which I read opening words of deep sympathy,support for our American students (over 150 currently atUWA) as well as support for our Islamic community whounfairly begin to feel the target of hostile comment.

Our International Centre has also greatly assisted incontacting any students from the USA with offers ofpractical support. They have also helped my office and theDevelopment division in preparing a letter of support to besent to our graduates in the USA itself.

Some of those graduates indeed work in Manhattan, evena few in the WT Towers. We have heard of miraculousescapes from the buildings, but there are deep concerns forothers. (It seems there are over 15,000 Australians in NewYork, mostly in the finance industry.)

A global integration of markets and economies hasbecome a defining feature of our age. The American tragedyand global crisis of security has shown us all how closely theworld is also now integrated in terms of public cultures andpublic awareness of events. The ‘global village’ has become areality beyond a catchy slogan.

Universities are also now critical to that internationalisingprocess and our understanding of it. Suddenly scholars wereneeded on the media to provide commentary on the events,

analysis of the options for the governments of the world,and historical background on key societies and nations – notleast Afghanistan.

More broadly, it has been repeatedly remarked that anunstable world environment desperately needs a combi-nation of education, prosperity and mutual understandingbetween cultures if an enduring global stability is ever to beachieved.

At that educational level, for all of us at UWA, it simplyreinforces our commitment to internationalisation in all ourprograms and indeed in our outlook in all we do.

A positive element, as we ponder the awful news, hasbeen the very international activities on campus this pastsemester. In particular, the IAS cross-disciplinary programshave given us wonderful connections with criticalinternational issues in research: Professor Chris Leaver fromOxford has led fascinating discussions on GM plants andfoods (plus advisory discussions on the commercialisation ofresearch) … Professor Nadia Rosenthal from Harvard andthe new EU gene research centre in Italy, has brought thestem cell debate into vivid and accessible publicpresentations … while Dr Joanna Innes of SomervilleCollege, Oxford, has not only shared her work in earlymodern European studies but contributed significantly toour own equal opportunity discussions in relation to genderand inclusivity.

Reaching outwards from UWA into the wider world ofhigher education institutions, our new InternationalisationCommittee has just completed a major in-depth analysis ofour global operations. New, focussed strategies aredeveloping.

The language of internationalisation is, I find, naturallytalked on our campus. We are an exceptionally wellconnected and internationally trained community ofscholars. We are also a strongly multicultural society.

In the week of the 11th of September 2001 that is apowerful statement of hope.

The day thatchanged our world

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

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… and forensic scientists at UWA are well placedto help solve crimes in both WA and south eastAsia.

“We have all the expertise here … I’d love to see thisUniversity’s forensic skills used to solve ‘cold cases’. It’sjust a matter of applying the science to crimeinvestigation,” said Robin Napper, the new director ofresearch and development at the Forensic Science Unit.

Mr Napper, a former police officer in the UK for morethan 30 years, has been on secondment to the NSW policeforce for two years, tointroduce forensically-drivenpolicing. He has also lecturedextensively around the world,in the UK, to the FBI in theUSA, and Interpol in France.

His investigative skills arenow bringing together theforensic experts at UWA, at a time when the StateGovernment has just committed $22 million to ensureadequate resources to effectively link WA to the NationalDNA Database and to utilise DNA as a crime investigationtool.

“Professor George Stewart, Professor Win Bailey andDr Ian Dadour have some great ideas for the future offorensic science. It’s the way the law is going. It’scompletely changed policing in the UK and it will starthappening here too. There is nobody doing this kind ofwork in south east Asia and it would be good to see theUniversity become involved in this arena”

“There is a great demand for forensic teaching and Ihope to be able to market the forensic potential of thisUniversity in south east Asia and wherever else it’sneeded,” Mr Napper said.

“There is nothing to stop the University working as anindependent source to solve cold cases, crimes that werenever solved. It’s staggering how many cold cases havebeen solved in the UK since forensically-driven policing wasintroduced,” he said.

Mr Napper helped to set up UK’s National CrimeFaculty (NCF) in 1995, the same year that a national DNAdatabase was established.

“Until the NCF, there were 53 police forces alloperating independently in the UK, with nobody sharingexpertise, information or experience. So we set up acentre for best practice and hundreds of forensic expertscame tumbling out of the woodwork!

“We were able to bring together all the best resourcesfor crime solving, coupled with the new DNA register.”

Mr Napper said the biggestproblem he faced inintroducing forensically-driven policing to NSW wasthe lack of DNA legislation.

“Despite that, I was part ofthe team which managed tosolve the rape of the elderly

woman in Wee Waa within ten days, thanks to usingDNA,” he said.

“DNA can be used to help identify recidivism too. Thereis strong empirical evidence that it is not, as was previouslybelieved, ten per cent of the population that commits 90per cent of the crime; DNA has helped us prove that it’sonly five per cent.”

Teleforensics is an area that Mr Napper would like tosee introduced at UWA.

“”When a crime is committed, say way out in the bush,the police can take a video camera to the scene and relay itin real time to forensic experts who can then guide theofficers at the scene regarding taking forensic evidence.

“With the advanced telecommunications facilities atCTEC, the University is brilliantly set up to run this kind ofoperation. And all the experts are here together on thecampus, in biology, pathology, zoology, geology, botany,chemistry and so on.

“Good forensics, together with victimology (the victim’sbackground), accounts for the solving of 75 per cent ofcrimes.”

Forensic science is changing the face of policing allover the world …

Forensic science is changing the face of policing allover the world …

“There is nothing to stop the

University working as an independent

source to solve cold cases — crimes

that were never solved.

Robin Napper: the new faceof forensic science at UWA

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 8 OCTOBER 2001

The future of legumes in ouragricultural industry has

become more than just apossibility, with CLIMA steppingout on its own.

CLIMA, the Centre for Legumes inMediterranean Agriculture, based inthe Faculty for Agriculture, had beenoperating as a federal government-funded co-operative research centreuntil June last year.

With that funding drying up, thecentre recently restructured andcelebrated its commercial launch with$4 million of industry funding, $3million from the Grains Research andDevelopment Corporation (GRDC).

CLIMA also has significant ‘in kind’contributions from its four partners,the Western Australian Departmentof Agriculture, University of WesternAustralia, CSIRO and MurdochUniversity.

CLIMA’s Dr Nancy Longnecker with Executive Dean of Agriculture, Professor Bob Lindner at the industry consultation workshop

About 60 researchers, growers,processors, marketers and other keystakeholders attended an industryconsultation workshop to launch thenew centre. Chairman of the CLIMAIndustry Advisory Group, TrevorFlugge, told the gathering that croprotations were vital for WA’sMediterranean soil types.

“Improving rotations is one of thebest ways of improving wheat quality,and pasture and grain legumes have agreat role to play in this,” Mr Fluggesaid.

“Up to a third of wheat harvestedin WA has quality below what themarket prefers. Developing suitablelegume crops and pastures forrotations is one of the best ways tolift this quality,” he said.

CLIMA’s director, ProfessorKadambot Siddique, said that, as wellas being essential to cereal croprotations, pulses were a productiveand stable cash crop in their ownright.

Open for business

CLIMA’s new receptionist has aunique assistant — read about GregMadson on page 11.

“Chickpea prices, for example,haven’t dropped below $300 a tonnesince early 1990’s, field peas havehovered around $250 per tonne formore than a decade and lupins aredelivering similar prices to wheat.

“Similarly, there are excitingopportunities in the use of novelpasture legumes to boost animalproduction and in strategicmanagement of herbicide resistanceon farms,” Professor Siddique said.

“The only thing holding legumesback is how far behind barley andwheat we are with yield stability,disease and pest resistance and weedmanagement.

“Under CLIMA’s grain and pasturelegume programs, we’ll target specificareas of legume research and continueto develop viable options for farmingsystems,” he said.

“… CLIMA will be one

of the most powerful

groups in legume science

in the world…”

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Fields of lupins, chickpeas and field peas dottingWestern Australia’s traditional wheatbelt marks

a revolutionary change in our cereal-basedagriculture.

And the man overseeing theresearch into this paradigmshift in the state’sagricultural patterns isProfessor KadambotSiddique, the new Directorof the Centre for Legumesin Mediterranean Agri-culture (CLIMA) at UWA.

Although his appoint-ment as director isrecent, ProfessorSiddique has beenworking with CLIMAfor about nine years.His experience incrop physiology,production agro-nomy, germplasmd e v e l o p m e n t ,breeding, quality im-provement and marketresearch is extensive andcommitted.

He has recently been awardedthe 2001 Urrbrae Memorial Award, adistinguished prize for an outstanding contribution to thescience or practice of Australian agriculture.

During Professor Siddique’s 20 years in agriculture, hehas earned an international reputation as a leader in his fieldof crop physiology, production agronomy, breeding anddevelopment of pulse and cereal crops. He has worked onvarious international projects between Australia and Syria,India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal and Turkey.

After leading the Pulse Productivity and IndustryDevelopment Program for the Western AustralianDepartment of Agriculture, Professor Siddique now headsup CLIMA, as it sheds its Commonwealth governmentfunding and becomes a commercially-viable researchcentre.

He aims to target yield stability, disease and pestresistance, quality improvement and weed management ingrain and pasture legumes, to make them competitive withcereal crops.

It is this sort of innovative research that has won theUrrbrae award, which will be presented in Adelaide onNovember 2. The award is a memorial to the students ofUrrbrae Agricultural High School who served in WWII. (The

Award-winning scientistwith innovative answers

name Urrbrae comes from the family whose bequestfounded the school.)

As director of CLIMA, one of ProfessorSiddique’s primary tasks now is toattract funding from the agriculturalindustry and related areas.

“With this sort of funding, ratherthan CRC funding, you tend to lose alittle flexibility but I see it as achallenge rather than a dis-advantage,” he said.

“We have established a newstructure, with an industryadvisory group, two programsrunning concurrently (grainlegumes and pasture legumes)and fortnightly seminars. I haveensured there is space here atUWA for key people from theother partner institutions whenthey need to work here, forexample, when they aresupervising postgraduatework.

“It is a unique structurewith no parallel that I knowof. If I can oil this machine

and keep it running smoothly,CLIMA will be one of the most

powerful groups in legume science in the world.”CLIMA employs about 40 people, half of them located at

UWA. Professor Siddique has an extensive network ofagricultural researchers, industry people, Australian growersand exporters and overseas growers and importers.Professor Siddique is also a member of the Grains Researchand Development Corporation (GRDC) WA panel. SoCLIMA’s net is spread wide to ensure that the centre willattain the excellence to which Professor Siddique aspires.

While at the Western Australian Department ofAgriculture, he was behind in setting up four pulse growers’groups: in Merredin, Mingenew, Pingrup and Esperance.

Two years ago, he led a group of legume growers on afact-finding tour to Dubai and India where they looked atboth the farming and importing of pulses. One of his teammembers recently took a similar group to Canada toexamine the industry there.

Professor Siddique said there were excellent humanconsumption markets overseas for chickpeas, field pea andother pulses grown in Australia. CLIMA has also beeninvolved in developing new species of pasture legumes forthe animal industry, which he says is looking veryprosperous in Australia.

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Fairozah Abdul-Wahid’s thesisexamines and discusses globa-lisation, the emergence of globalcities and their impacts on localcommunities. She returned hometo Singapore for six weeks’ fieldwork.

“I used various techniques of dataacquisition (observation, interviews,textual analysis) with people fromdifferent realms of society,” Fairozahsaid. “ I explored the notion of kampung,which means village, in Malay, and itsclose links to the notion of community. Ilooked at whether the kampung spirit iskept alive amidst rapid urban develop-ment and Singapore’s strive to embraceglobal city statues in the 21st century.”

Geographymakes the

link

More than 20 young honours studentshave travelled the world this year,enhancing the sum of knowledge thatlinks the social and physical sciences.Geography, says senior lecturer Dr IanEliot (pictured above), is and always hasbeen that important link. He and therest of the staff of the Department ofGeography feel so strongly about thevalue of that link that every year theyhelp to fund around 20 honoursstudents to spread their wings aroundthe globe.This year, their research took them fromChina in the north to Narrogin in thesouth, from South Africa in the west toSamoa in the east, and many parts inbetween.Dr Eliot, the department’s honourssupervisor, said their work and theipresentations had been of a particularlyhigh standard this year.

From localparkland todistant cities

A reconnaissance trip to Krueger National Park was more like winning araffle than conducting field work for Marcela Alvarez. Her project involvesinvestigating and identifying bush encroachment in the park and the role thatfire has had in influencing this phenomenon.

“Bush encroachment is an ecological process where a grass-dominated communitychanges into one dominated by woody plant species,” Marcela explained.

“My trip was mainly for reconnaissance because my data had previouslybeen gathered by Dr Andrew Kennedy, a research fellow in the

department. As well as getting familiar with the vegetation, we gotvery familiar with the wildlife!”

Marcela and her field assistant hired a car to drive through thepark and found the animals were familiar with cars and happily letthemselves be watched in their native habitats.

SINGAPORE

SOUTH AFRICA

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Brad Palmer’s project took him to afishing village in Samoa to compile acatalogue of the common fish andother species caught in the area.

“My honours research involvesanalysing a data set of catch figures for anentire year from the village, whichparticipated in the year-long monitoringprogram as part of the South PacificBiodiveristy Conservation Program(SPBCP),” Brad said.

“My first week in Samoa was spentassisting at a workshop teachingConservation Area Support Officersfrom other conservation areas in the

A national park closer to home wasthe site for Kristy Winn’s project,looking at salt water intrusion inKakadu National Park.

“Although it is a natural process, it’sbecome a major coastal managementproblem with respect to the preservationof freshwater wetlands,” Kristy said.

“Evidence of salt water intrusion hasbeen associated with tidal creekextension and subsequent mangroveencroach-ment, Melaleuca dieback andthe disappearance of water birds.”Her project was to help understand theprocess of tidal creek extension and tooffer insight into managing the salt waterintrusion.

SPBCP about terrestrial indicators ofbiodiversity. This included two days fieldwork in the fishing village of Uafato so Iwas able to befriend the people whowould be helping me later on.

“The next week was spent in thecapital Apia, researching localcommunity-based fisheries managementprograms. From there I went to live inUafato to study the fishing methods,interview local fishermen, compile thespecies catalogue and generally relax inthe unreal village setting.”

SAMOA

Dimity Smith is another studentwho went home for her field work.She made a study of saltlakes inPerenjori, where she grew up.

“From afar salt lakes can give theimpression of vast and lifeless wastelandsbut on closer inspection they reveal agreat diversity of organisms includinginvertebrates and microalgae, many ofwhich are endemic. There is growinginterest in preserving these environ-ments as they house great biological and

genetic diversity. They also representsources of largely unexploredbiochemical resources,” Dimity said.

“My project focuses on identifying thetypes of microalgae that live on thebenthos of several ephemeral salt lakesand how these communities change overspace and time. Previous biologicalstudies on salt lakes in the area havebeen limited and focused mainly oninvertebrate communities, which makesmy study rather unique.”

KAKADUNATIONAL PARK

Other projects included: development of rice agriculture in Jianxi Province, China; the impact nativetitle has had on regional development in WA; crime in Joondalup; a case study of rural youth projects,carried out in Narrogin, reconstruction of fire frequency on Rottnest Island, habitat selection bywading birds in the Alligator Rivers region of northern Australia and parkland and infrastructuremanagement in the City of Stirling.

PERENJORI

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 8 OCTOBER 2001

The Centre for Oil and GasEngineering is a prime

example of university-industrycollaboration — but this rela-tionship usually hinges onresearch. A recent project at theCentre has taken the partnershipinto another sphere — teaching.

Simon Hall, a senior piping engineerwith Transfield Worley, is completinghis Master of Oil and Gas Engineering.His project was to design and build aflange testing rig for use in the oil andgas industry.

The project was paid for andsupervised by Woodside Energy, withDr Michael Hamblin, a Woodside seniormechanical engineer and a graduate ofUWA, overseeing the project.

Mr Hall was co-supervised byAssociate Professor Terry Edwards,from the Centre for Oil and GasEngineering, who said the project was aunique example of academic-industrycollaboration in a teaching program.

“The Head of the Department ofMechanical and Materials Engineering,Professor Mark Bush, and the DeputyVice-Chancellor, Professor AlanRobson, have been very keen to keepan eye on this project and ensure itssuccess,” Professor Edwards said.

Mr Hall and Dr Hamblindemonstrated the rig to Woodside andothers in the industry, who along withother students at UWA, will have theopportunity to use it.

In the field, flanges don’t always lineup perfectly: technicians and pipe fitters

T he annual CampusChallenge for high school

students is proving a challengefor its organisers.

Joint co-ordinator Rachel Schmitt,from the Prospective Students Office,is currently contacting academics towoo them into giving up some time inJanuary for the five-day camp.

Need a summerchallenge?

“We have always offered fantasticactivities (including windsurfing, sailingand abseiling) and they will be offeredagain this year, but we are trying toincrease the academic content,” she said.

“But it’s hard to entice lecturersback from their holidays to run asession or two for a group of highschool students.”

Most of the 30-or-so studentscome from rural areas to get a taste ofcampus life and some help with careerand study decisions.

“The same staff seem to helpevery year and they do a great jobbut it would be good to get somenew people involved in the program,”Rachel said.

“Science and engineering lendthemselves to hands-on activities butthe arts subjects are more difficult toshowcase.”

The students live in at StCatherine’s College and Head ofCollege, Yvonne Rate, is one of theorganisers of the Challenge, alongwith Julie Peterkin from UWA Sport.

If you can help with CampusChallenge, please call Rachel on 93807311 or email her on rschmitt@admin.uwa.edu.au

Industryhelps

studentto helpindustr

may force the fit, it could be assembledin a distorted way, it could have uneventorques on the bolts, all of whichcompromise the safety and reliability ofthe join, and when internally pressurisedit has a higher probability of leaking, withpossibly disastrous consequences.

Simon Hall explained the project:“Methods for estimating when leakagefrom piping flanges occurs are stillunreliable, nearly 100 years after thefirst piping flanges were designed.

“There has been much researchworldwide into leakage from pipingflanges as leakages in petrochemicalplants can cause major safety concerns.As they have also been identified as acontributor to green house gasemissions, efforts have been especiallyprominent over the past six years.

“Woodside has funded thisparticular project as they have a generalinterest in the problems associatedwith piping flanges and in training pipefitters to install flange sets correctly.

“Aside from providing a chassis tobe able to mount piping flanges, the rigis able to apply hydrostatic pressure toa piping spool and test for leakageunder the action of bending momentand axial load. Other stresses can bemeasured via strain gauges.”

Dr Hamblin said Mr Hall’s designexperience from industry resulted in avery useable rig, which provided anideal teaching and testing platform.

“I firmly believe that exposure ofstudents to relevant industryproblems wil l provide a morepractically aware work force toindustry,” he said. “And, on the otherhand, involvement by Woodside inthis sort of project enhances ourengineering skills base.”

Professor Edwards said the rigwould be used for training purposes byboth the University and the oil and gasindustry. Ben Matthews, a mechanicalengineering student, will perform flangetesting with the rig next year as part ofhis honours work.

Need a summerchallenge?

Simon Hall (left) and MichaelHamblin demonstrate the rig’scapabilities

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 8 OCTOBER 2001

A golden spinning dancer who seems to be floating on air is

the new image for the PerthInternational Arts Festival (PIAF)2002.

A unique collaboration of localartists has created a poster for theFestival that captures the air theme, thethird of the Millennium Celebration

Festival 2002gets itsfirstairing

Festivals representing the fourelements, water, earth, air and fire.

Dancer Danielle Micich, who saysshe was inspired by the textiles she iswearing (created by Anne Farren)was photographed by Ashley dePrazer. This image was combinedwith a photograph of a cloud-filledsky by Richard Woldendorp and the

Festival ’s graphic art ist , Just ineCapelle, brought the images together,added text and colour, and createdthe poster.

It was unveiled recently at thelaunch of what is being called theFestival of Festivals: PIAF is beingreshaped as the southern hemisphere’sversion of the world’s leading multi-artsfestival in Edinburgh.

This reshaping takes the form ofwhat PIAF calls a “critical mass of minifestivals”.

New additions for this festivalinclude the Fremantle International JazzFestival, to be run over the extendedlong weekend in January. It is beingbrought together by Perth’s doyen ofjazz, Helen Matthews.

Another new element is WA’s firstopera fest, the Mandurah Opera andSong Festival. It’s designed to be acelebration of food, wine and song,with 100-minute intervals for enjoyingthe food and wine.

The Celestial City is a new conceptfor the city’s cultural centre, whichPIAF will flood with light and fill withvisual art, theatre, dance, performanceart, street art, music, literature and filmevery night of the festival.

The University will again host thePerth International Chamber MusicFestival, with 15 of the world’s finestyoung classical musicians ‘resident’ inWinthrop Hall over eight days. Thismini festival offers both classical andcontemporary music, master classes,pre-concert talks and late nightconcerts in the Sunken Garden.

The world’s geographically biggestfringe festival will take performancesfrom Broome to Albany, fromKalgoorlie to Exmouth, with, in thetradition of fringe festivals, lots ofcomedy.

Details of the program will bereleased over the next six weeks and,closer to the performances, there willbe discount tickets available for UWAstaff.

The University is PIAF’s foundingpartner, with the 50th anniversary ofthe festival that started at UWA beingcelebrated next season (2003). Theother partners are the City of Perthand the Lotteries Commission of WA.

UWAnews is planning a specialfestival edition in December.

FestivalDirector,SeànDorran

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 8 OCTOBER 2001

Computer Science lecturer DrMarion Cottingham epito-

mised the spirit of Shed Your CarDay at UWA.

A devotee of public transport, shewas left in the lurch when her local busservice to the campus wasdiscontinued. She was determined notto drive but cycling all the way wasasking a bit much.

So Dr Cottingham acquired a bikewith an electric motor and has recentlystarted cruising to the campus withoutcausing pollution.

Shed Your Car was promoted allover the world and, locally, theUniversity and Subiaco railway stationhosted breakfasts for commuters whowalked, cycled or used public transport.

Shed v.t. totake off, leavebehind; n. garage-like domestic structure

(FROM TOP) Sambanistas spread theword; Dr Marion Cottingham on herelectric bike; and raffle winner GarethBriggs with his new bike

UWA’s Shed Your Car Day wassponsored by the Guild EnvironmentDepartment.

As well as breakfast, they providedinformation on cycling and publictransport, entertainment, in the form ofthe outrageous drumming band,Sambanistas, and raffled a hybrid bike(won by engineering/commerce studentGareth Briggs).

Guild Catering, the Co-opBookshop and UWA Sports Centre alldonated prizes which were given outon the UWA-sponsored Subiacoshuttle bus throughout the day.

Car use in Perth is growing, withmore than 75 per cent of trips in themetropolitan area made by car. About65 per cent of the 40,000 trips to andfrom UWA each day are made by car.

Information from the GuildEnvironment Department says that ifthe car continues to be the mostpopular form of transport to and fromcampus, another 1700 car bays, at acost of about $25 million, will soon beneeded to cater for growing numbersof staff and students.

A maritime boundaries expert at UWA said he warned the

Federal Government four years agothat they were setting their mari-time boundaries too close to shore.

Dr Viv Forbes (pictured), also theUniversity’s map curator, said theTampa saga had proved that hisconcerns were correct.

“The boundary is just 39 nauticalmiles off Christmas Island, which makesit easy for people smugglers to anchorjust outside the zone, then duck inunder cover of darkness, reachingshore before daylight, discharging theirsad cargo, then getting awayundetected,” Dr Forbes said.

“If the boundary was mid-waybetween Christmas Island and Java,where it should be, it would be 94nautical miles off-shore. That wouldmake it harder for the smugglers to getclose without being spotted. There ismore chance of our patrols appre-hending them,” he said.

Maritime expertrecommendstampering withboundaries

Dr Forbes said it was not too late tohave the boundaries changed becausethe 1997 treaty on seabed boundariesand exclusive economic zones betweenAustralia and Indonesia is yet to beendorsed by Federal Parliament.

Recently, Dr Forbes has beenconcentrating on maritime problems inother areas. He has just publishedConflict and Cooperation in ManagingMaritime Space in Semi-Enclosed Seas(published by Singapore UniversityPress).

Semi-enclosed seas around Australiainclude the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea,Torres Strait and, further off-shore, theStraits of Malacca and Singapore.

Dr Forbes said the aim of his bookwas to develop a framework to explainthe impact of conflict resolution as ameans of managing the marinecommons. The book also includes anevaluation of selected cases of disputeresolution over territorial claims andborder discrepancies.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 8 OCTOBER 2001

Trinity, with its distinctive purple and goldcolours, is the new identity for thecombined Kingswood and St Columbacolleges.

The University residential colleges combined 18 monthsago and it has taken the past five months to arrive at a namefor the new college.

Head of College, Alec O’Connell, said the name Trinityrepresented a spiritual symbol and a union between three keyelements. They are the union of St Columba and Kingswood,the Uniting Church in Australia and The University of WA.

To avoid confusion with the Catholic secondary school,the word college will not appear as part of the formal name.

The new college’s motto, ‘Friendship. Learning. Growth.’is another link with the Trinity concept of three being one.

The new crest has symbolic representation from the twoprevious colleges, as well as symbols associated with the

Three become one

Greg Madson is reviving aUWA tradition that started

in the Faculty of Economics morethan 50 years ago.

Mr Madson is the new receptionistfor the Co-operative Research Centreon Dryland Salinity and the Centre forLegumes in Mediterranean Agriculture(CLIMA).

He is blind and brings his guide dog,Pollock, to work with him each day inthe Faculty of Agriculture. It was in the1950s that economics lecturer ArnoldCook brought the first guide dog intoAustralia. He had gone to England onsabbatical and brought a guide dog backto Perth with him.

Mr Madson’s guide dog sits underhis desk out of sight of visitors toCLIMA and the CRC. Only a signrequesting that visitors announcethemselves verbally gives an indicationthat anything might be different.

His appointment, through theUniversity’s Workforce Diversity

Strategy, is being facilitated by EdgeEmployment, which helps to ease

people with disabilities into theworkforce.

The employment service,the Faculty of Agricultureand Mr Madson himselfhave worked outstrategies for sorting mail,answering phone queries,booking meeting roomsand greeting anddirecting guests.

Centresets

sightson

diversity

University and the Uniting Church.Mr O’Connell said the college’s goal was to provide the

family experience for its vastly diverse residents. They includestudents from all over WA, Australia and from 26 othercountries. The residents attend all five of Perth’s universities,not just UWA.

The amalgamation of the colleges has resulted in more varietyof accommodation and services. The modern new dining roomhas its own Cappuccino Café. And one of the previous dininghalls is now an in-house sports centre.

The new name and crest will take effect from the start of2002.

“My computer has a screen readerwhich speaks the text on the screen. Ihave a scanner which reads typedenvelopes and messages and they arethen spoken through the computer,”Mr Madson said.

He has a mail sorter with braillelabels, then he delivers the mail to thestaff’s boxes using a grid pattern (egPhil Cocks might be A1, KadambotSiddique, C4).

Jason Mar, from Edge Employment,said that easing Mr Madson into his newjob was not just a matter of working outhow he could performs tasks but alsoeducating the other staff to take intoaccount his visual impairment.

“I don’t really like the term visualimpairment,” Mr Madson said. “Itsounds as though you’re ugly, ratherthan blind!”

This is first time he has donereceptionist work, after spending thelast eight years training with theparalympic cycling team. He is alsopresident of an advocacy group, BlindCitizens of WA.

UWA Diversity Officer MalcolmFialho said Mr Madson’s appointmentwas an excellent example of adepartment displaying flexibility in theselection process, encouraging greaterworkforce diversity.

“Professors Phil Cocks andKadambot Siddique and administrativeofficer Sue Dodimead have shown greatleadership in casting their recruitment netas widely as possible,” Mr Fialho said.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 8 OCTOBER 2001

Life-long Earth Science addicts like myself averthat geology is the most relevant and engrossing

subject for human beings to study. Why? Bad question, since it allows me to launch into the

topic with the enthusiasm of a fanatic: good question,because it gives me the chance to preach to theunconverted and perhaps introduce some of you to asubject which will change your perceptions of this planet ofours.

Geology is ubiquitous. It shapes the world we see: evenour city streets. It links space and time. Concerts in theQuarry Amphitheatre take on another dimension when onerealises one is sitting inside an ancient sand dune, and a strollon the rippled sandstones at Kalbarri, criss-crossed by trailsof animals dead for 440 million years, lets us step back intime in our imagination.

Geology answers the questions: “What is the Earth madeof?” and “Why is it here?”. What could be more relevant forhumans, who are tiny life forms derived from and dependanton this ball of rock, water and gas flying through Space atthirty kilometres a second? Geology takes us through thedevelopment of life, from the earliest living things which lefttheir three-and-a-half billion-year-old fossils in the rocks

here in Western Australia. It helps to answer the questions:“Why are humans here?” and “Where did we come from?”

These days geology isn’t just about rocks. The holisticEarth Systems approach now taught considers all parts ofthe Earth - the biosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere aswell as the lithosphere - and how they interact. Links withother sciences, such as chemistry, physics, botany andzoology, are wide-ranging. For example, our understandingof plant and animal diversity is assisted by knowledge of thelocal rocks and resultant soils of an area, and on acontinental scale, we can appreciate how the ancientmovements of crustal plates over the face of the Earth havesplit populations or affected migration patterns.

Not so obvious is the relationship to Arts subjects, likehistory and politics, but early settlements were linked toareas rich in natural resources: good soils for farming arerelated to the underlying rocks, and in early civilisations theavailability of stone for tools or the presence of ores wereimportant in the siting of their centres of population. ManyEuropean cities owe their position and origins to an easily-defended rock outcrop: most notable Nordlingen inGermany, which sits within the circle of a huge meteoritecrater!

Lands have been invaded and colonised because ofgeological factors. Think about the Spaniards causing havocin South America in their search for gold, and otherexamples of economics-driven imperialism.

Wars have been fought over rocks and minerals.Remember the Gulf War? Fought over oil reserves. EastTimor politics? Don’t forget the oil in the Timor Sea. Warsthemselves can be won or lost because of geological factors,like mountain ranges blocking an advance, or rocky plateauxputting paid to trench warfare. Powerful nations grew to bepowerful by exploiting natural resources. Civilisation itself isbased on geological materials: no glass-and-concreteskyscrapers without minerals, no rapid transport orcomputers, no synthetic fabrics or plastic, no bathrooms ortelevision.

Although these are all perfectly good reasons for beinginterested in geology, there are two far more importantones. Firstly, unlike the subjective fields of Art andLiterature, geology is objective. A rock is the way it is notbecause an arbiter has decided so, it just is. There are nogood rocks or bad ones, none fashionable or unfashionable,and a geologist is not bound by other people’s perceptionsor dogma. Theories come and go as we constantly try toimprove our knowledge of the Earth, but we work with realthings that can be seen and tested by others.

Secondly, and perhaps most importantly for me,geological materials are aesthetically supremely satisfying. Onwhatever scale, from the revelations of the microscopicworld, to continent-sized sweeping structures, the shapesand colours of geology are a constant delight. If you saw theUWA Access Exhibition, “Geo•Images”, at the LawrenceWilson Art Gallery, you would know what I mean.

Ontheserocks,we buildour lives

Jenny BevanCurator

Edward de Courcy ClarkeGeological Museum

... the last word

LIFT-OUT8 OCTOBER 2001 Volume 20 Number 15

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

Compiled by Joanna Thompson

Telephone: 9380 3029Facsimile: 9380 1162

Email: joanna.thompson@uwa.edu.auinfoUWAnews

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ALTERNATIVE ENERGYDEVELOPMENT BOARD

Prof M. Norton ,Mechanical and Mat-erials Engineering andMs J. Sikorska, (left)external: ‘Detectingadverse flow con-ditions in pumps bymonitoring theireffects on mechanicalseal acoustics emis-sions’ — $31,510

AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE ANDTECHNOLOGY ORGANISATIONDr P. Hammond, Physics: ‘Characterisationof highly excited atomic neutral states bydetection of fluorescence and metastableatoms’ — $4330 (2001).

AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCILLINKAGEProf R. Gilkes, Soil Science and PlantNutrition and Dr I. Mackinnon, external:‘Chemically active mesoporous materials fromkaolin clays’ — $136,633.

COUNCIL OF GRAIN GROWERORGANISATIONS LTD

Prof R. Lindner, (right) Agricultural andResource Eco-nomics:‘An economicinvestigation ofexpected futurechanges in global andnational canola mar-kets, and impact onbreeding prioritiesand strategies in theWestern Region’ — $130,909 (2000-01).

EXPORT GRAINS CENTRE LTD ANDCOUNCIL OF GRAIN GROWERSORGANISATIONS LTD

A/Prof W. Cowling, Plant Science: ‘Strategicinvestment in canola breeding at UWA—enhancement of doubled haploid and molecularmarker capacity’ — $171,000 (2001).

GRAPE AND WINE RESEARCHCOUNCIL

Prof K. Sivasithamparam and Mr B.Killigrew, Soil Science and Plant Nutritionand Dr E. Scott, external: ‘Behaviour ofinfective propagules of Plasmopara viticola(casual agent of downy mildew on grapevines)under Western Australian conditions’ —$27,630 (2001).

IMMUNAID PTY LTD

Dr M. Beilharz, Microbiology: ‘Immuno-regulation of murine aids’ — $260,550(2001)

The University will be part of the final chapter in a research project to

document an important time in Greekhistory.

Professor John Melville-Jones (pictured) has beenselected as a senior research fellow by theAlexander S Onassis Foundation in Athens to makea study of the medieval remains of the city ofThessalonica.

It was during this time (1423 to 1430) that the Byzantine Greek despotwho ruled Thessalonica handed it over to the Venetians, in the hope that theirnaval strength could save the city from being overrun by the advancingOttoman Turks.

“The events of these years, ending with a siege which saw Thessalonica andthe northern part of Greece become Turkish for nearly 500 years, areextensively documented in Venetian papers and by contemporary Byzantinehistorians,” Professor Melville-Jones said.

The final history should please everybody.“The documents will be published in two volumes, the first presenting the

Venetian point of view and the second the Greek one,” he said.Professor Melville-Jones will take up his fellowship in January.

History has morethan one pointof view

MERIWA

A/Prof M. Dentith, Geology andGeophysics and Dr B. Goleby, external:‘Upper crustal structure of the LavertonTectonic zone adjacent to major gold depositsfrom seismic reflection profiling’ — $215,000(2001).

RURALINDUSTRIESRESEARCH &DEVELOPMENTCORP.

Dr M. Ewing,CLIMA: ‘Seedproduction limitssulla and purpleclover as fodders’ —$184,525 (2001-03).

RESEARCH GRANTS& CONTRACTS

will feature in each issue of UWAnews

WA HEALTH PROMOTIONFOUNDATION

A/Prof C. Bower, Centre for Child HealthResearch, A/Prof E. Elliott, A/Prof E.Haan and Dr A. Morris, external: ‘FetalAlcohol Syndrome in Australia’ — $139,725(2001-03).

WATER AUTHORITY OF WA

Dr G. Kendrick, Botany: ‘Ploom3: Benthichabitat mapping’ — $10,423 (2001).

CAMPUS8 to 22 October

DiaryTuesday 9 OctoberLAWRENCE WILSON ARTGALLERY TALKBrenda Croft on Across ’. In the

context of the exhibition Across,Brenda, an artist and curator at the ArtGallery of Western Australia, will talkabout the diversity of indigenous artspractice in WA. 1pm, LWAG.

PERTH MEDIEVAL ANDRENAISSANCE GROUPSEMINARMaterial Girls? Wherefore the Dominan twelfth- and thirteenth-centuryOccitania’, Jennifer Smith, History.7.30pm, Postgraduate Lounge, HackettHall.

Wednesday 10OctoberNSTITUTE OF ADVANCED

STUDIES SEMINARLinkages between gender, culture andreligion with reference to Muslimwomen living in Australia’, Dr SaminaYasmeen, Political Science. 1pm, IAS.

GEOGRAPHY SEMINARPliocene vegetation and climate

history in the Northern Sand Plains’,Professor John Dodson. 1pm,Geography Lecture Theatre 1.

ANATOMY AND HUMANBIOLOGY SEMINARFish & Chips’, SymbioticA ResearchGroup. 1pm, Room 1.81, Anatomy andHuman Biology.

HISTORY SEMINARMonastic gardens’, Lea Macneil. 1pm,Room 1.46, History.

CHEMISTRY SEMINARA microstructural investigation ofGibbsite crystallisation in Bayeriquors’, Travis Baroni. 12 noon, WhiteLecture Theatre.

CENTRE FOR WATERRESEARCH/ENVIRONMENTALDYNAMICS SEMINARSpatial and temporal characteristics ofaline springs: Sea of Galilee, Israel’, Dr

Alon Rimmer, Kinneret LimnologicalLaboratory, Israel Oceanographic andLimnological Research Ltd. 4pm,Blakers Lecture Theatre, MathematicsBuilding.

Thursday 11 OctoberDEPARTMENT OF PUBLICHEALTHDuty to care: preventable physicalllness in people with mental illness’,aunch by Minister for Health, the Hon.Bob Kucera MLA APM. 9.15am,Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. RSVP toMarion Ager, x 1697 or emailmager@dph.uwa.edu.au.

FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT‘The Devil’s Trill’, Daniel Kossov(violin) and Mark Coughlan (piano).1.10pm, Octagon Theatre.

INSTITUTE OF ADVANCEDSTUDIES SEMINAR/REIDORATION‘Parliament meetings and civil society’,Dr Judith Brett, La Trobe University.6.30pm, LWAG.

Friday 12 OctoberMICROBIOLOGY SEMINAR‘Infection of dendritic cells by murinecytomegalovirus induces functionalparalysis’, Daniel Andrews. 9am,Seminar Room 1.1, First Floor, L Block,QEIIMC.

ASIAN STUDIES SEMINAR‘Marriage business and migrant womenin Japan’, Tomoko Nakamatsu. 1pm,G.25 Seminar Room, Social SciencesBuilding.

BIOCHEMISTRY SEMINAR‘Metabolic interactions betweensymbiotic parners in N2-fixing legumenodules’, Prof David Day. 1pm,Simmonds Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 andSaturday 13 OctoberUNIVERSITY MUSIC SOCIETY‘Striking it Rich’, Defying GravityPercussion Ensemble, Mark Coughlan(piano) and Richard John (piano). 8pmat the Octagon Theatre (both nights).

Monday 15 OctoberPERTH MEDIEVAL ANDRENAISSANCE GROUPSEMINAR‘Dante and medieval romance:Francesco da Rimini’, E/Prof John Scott,Italian Studies. 1pm, PostgraduateLounge, Hackett Hall.

PERSPECTIVE IN CHILDHEALTH SEMINAR‘Evolution, development andtranscription: where the three riversmeet’, Dr Stephen Jane, Walter andEliza Hall Institute of Medical Research,Melbourne. 3.30pm, TVW Institute forChild Health Research Seminar Room.Metered parking available in HamiltonRd.

Tuesday 16 OctoberLAWRENCE WILSON ARTGALLERY TALK‘Wide Open: Tom Gibbons: “RandomLandscapes”. Tom will discuss theideas behind his work, including hisdeliberate imitation of late nineteenth-and early twentieth-centuryphotographic technique and hiscritique of the picturesque. 1pm,LWAG.

SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANTNUTRITION SEMINAR‘Lucerne, manganese and bauxiteresidue vegetation. A tale of life, love,football and pretty colours’, MarkGherardi. 4pm, Agriculture LectureTheatre.

HISTORY SEMINAR‘Gender and state: Singapore’swomen’s magazines’, Wendy Chew.4pm for 4.30pm, PSA Lounge.

Wednesday 17OctoberGEOGRAPHY SEMINAR‘Australia’s engagement with Indonesia:threads of significance’, Elizabeth Scott.1pm, Geography Lecture Theatre 1.

ANATOMY AND HUMANBIOLOGY SEMINAR‘Evolution and inequality’, A/Prof JimChisholm. 1pm, Room 1.81, Anatomyand Human Biology.

CENTRE FOR WATERRESEARCH/ENVIRONMENTALDYNAMICS SEMINAR‘Experiments on improving theefficiency of rural water stores insemi-arid WA’, Matthew Hipsey,CWR. 4pm, Blakers LectureTheatre, Mathematics Building.

PATHOLOGY SEMINAR‘Inborne resistance to encephalitogenicflaviviruses in mice’, Dr NadiaUrosevic, Microbiology. 4.30pm,Pathology Conference Room, G14,Ground Floor, M Block, QEIIMC.

CHEMISTRY SEMINAR‘A study into teaching and learningcomputational chemistry’, MareeBaddock. 12 noon, White LectureTheatre.

Thursday 18 OctoberFREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT‘Sublime Serenade’, WAIM ChamberWinds and Peter Moore (Director).1.10pm, Winthrop Hall.

18 to 20 and 24 to27 OctoberTHEATRE STUDIES/ENGLISHPLAY‘John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore.8pm, Dolphin Theatre. $15 full/$10conc.

Friday 19 OctoberMICROBIOLOGY SEMINAR‘Retro transposon clustering in the verte-brate genome’, Lee Smith. 9am, SeminarRoom 1.1, First Floor, L Block, QEIIMC.

ASIAN STUDIES SEMINAR‘Confusions and contradictions infemale education’, Lyn Parker. 1pm,G.25 Seminar Room, Social SciencesBuilding.

CIVIL AND RESOURCEENGINEERING SEMINAR‘Non-classical boundary valueproblems in elasticity’, Dr S. Galybin.3.45pm, Rm E151, First Floor, CivilEngineering Building.

CLIMA SEMINAR‘Advantages of outcrossing cloverspecies in a pasture conflicting withPBR legislation’, Dr Sarita Bennett(4pm); ‘Economic and environmentalbenefits of serradella based pasture forlow rainfall, highly acidic soils’, MarkLang (4.30pm). CLIMA Seminar Room.

Monday 22 OctoberUWA PRESS LAUNCH‘Tim Flannery launches The Salinity Crisis:Landscapes, Communities and Politics byQuentin Beresford, Hugo Bekle, HarryPhillips and Jane Mulcock and publishedby UWA Press. 12 noon, TheConstitutional Centre, Parliament Place,Havelock St, West Perth. If attending,rsvp to 9380 3187.

ADVANCE NOTICE

Wednesday 24OctoberPERTH MEDIEVAL ANDRENAISSANCE GROUPSEMINAR‘Power with glory, but at a price: thevoices of the Castrati’, Dr Des Gurry,Paediatrics. 7.30pm, PostgraduateLounge, Hackett Hall.

FRIENDS OF THE UWALIBRARY‘SymbioticA: a new venture forcollaborative art and science’, ProfMiranda Grounds. 7.30pm for 8pm,Seminar Room 1.81, First Floor,Anatomy and Human Biology.Members are free; non-members, goldcoin donation. For further information,phone 9380 2356.

Thursday 25 OctoberINSTITUTE OF ADVANCEDSTUDIES SEMINAR‘A look at the Bush administration: aninsider’s perspective’, His ExcellencyTom Schieffer, US Ambassador toAustralia. 3pm, Geography LectureTheatre 2.

CENTRE FOR STAFF DEVELOPMENT

What’s on NextPlaces are available in the followingworkshop due to close within the nextmonth. Further details are available on theCSD Web page: http://www.csd.uwa.edu.au/programme/ or by contacting CSD on ext.1504 or csdoffice@csd.uwa.edu.au.

• Winning Research Grants• How the University Works: HumanResources Issues

• Supervising Postgraduate Students• Applying for Discovery Projects: Criticaland Peer Review of Applications

Duty to Care:Preventable

physical illnessin people withmental illness

This unique study has examinedthe health experience of240,000 Western Australianswho have used mental health

services during 1980–98, and who represent about 8% of thepopulation. Using anonymous data, their hospital admission rates, cancerincidence rates and death rates have been examined. Comprehensiveresearch of this nature has never been possible before anywhere in theworld.

The results reveal that this marginalised group has high rates of all majorillnesses that require hospitalisation (such as heart and respiratorydiseases, HIV and hepatitis) and are more likely to die prematurely fromthese illnesses. The research has highlighted a number of deficiencies inthe delivery of health services for people with mental illness.

The Minister for Health, Hon Bob Kucera MLA APM, will launch thereports. A short presentation of the key findings will be delivered byProfessor D’Arcy Holman and Professor Assen Jablensky and amental health consumer perspective will be included.

We invite you to come along on Thursday 11 October at9.15am at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery RSVP to MarionAger, 9380 1697 or email: mager@dph.uwa.edu.au

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October 22 is OCTOBER 10

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SHENTON PARK/DAGLISH, modern andlight 3 bed, 2 bath house, double carport,storage, private retic. courtyards. Walk toShenton College, train and bus to UWA. Longlease, $255 p/w. Phone Nancy on 9386 8643.

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THREE-BEDROOM HOUSE wanted to rentby academic and family for 3 to 6 months fromJan 2002. A strong preference to be within thecatchment areas of Nedlands or RosaliePrimary Schools. Contact Michael atmpburton@agric.uwa.edu.au.

VISITING SWEDISH PROFESSOR wanting torent fully-equipped house close to UWAduring October and November. Call LarsChristersson on 9382 4948.

ESSENTIAL OILSWORKSHOPSWalpole, 10 NovemberToodyay 13 November

Demonstrations of steam distillationprocess for lavender and nativepeppermint, oil analysis and muchmore. Cost: $175. Contact SandraMaynard at the Centre for LandRehabilitation.

Email sandra.maynard@uwa.edu.au orcall ext 3827.

Works by some of Perth’s best artists will go under the hammerat the Cullity Gallery to aid a seriously injured artist and

UWA graduate.Dr Drewfus Gates, who studied — and later taught — physics at UWA, is a

self-taught artist who has become a renowned portrait artist.Hanging in the Vice-Chancellery (pictured) is his portrait of former Vice-

Chancellor Professor Fay Gale. At the time of his accident, Dr Gates was part-way through a portrait of former Chancellor, Justice Geoffrey Kennedy, for theUniversity.

Dr Gates was badly burnt when caught in a spinifex fire a few weeks agowhile painting near the remote Patjarr Aboriginal community in the state’s farnorth. He has received severe burns to more than a third of his body.

Artist colleagues D’hange Yammanee and Gareth Gorman have arranged theauction to assist Dr Gates, his artist wife Chelinay and their four young children.Mr Gorman said the response from artists was immediate and generous, withpledges coming in from Marcus Beilby, Murray Gill, glass artist ElizabethMavrick, Ian D’ Souza, Joanna Lefroy-Capelle, Leon Pericles, WimBoissivain, aboriginal artists from the Patjarr community, Tony Windberg,Tania Ferrier, Rebecca Cool, Camilla Loveridge, photographer BobLitchfield and many more.

He said he was most appreciative of assistance from Patrick Beale, head of theSchool of Architecture and Fine Arts, who has arranged for the auction to takeplace in the Cullity Gallery, in the building in which Dr Gates has taught paintingduring University Extension Summer Schools.

The auction is on Sunday October 21 at 2pm, with viewing from 12 noon.Any other donations should be forwarded to:

D’hange and Aura YammaneePhone 9275 4580 or 0411 025 004 or 041 3017 870

email: artdimen@git.com.auor Gareth Gorman on 0417 186 440

email: garethw@iinet.net.au

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