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Kay Schaffer on the Olympics andeveryday life

ADELAIDEANVol 8 No 17 OCTOBER 4, 1999N E W S F R O M T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F A D E L A I D E

2 The Vice-Chancellor on buildings,trees and identity3 David Wilkinson: setting the scene

for better rural health5INSIDE

Celebrating

125years1874-1999

Top Asian businessman opens our new buildingLEADING Asian businessman DrCheong Choong Kong presented abright picture of the career prospects ofengineers and mathematicians as heopened Adelaide University’s newEngineering and Mathematics Buildinglate last month.Dr Cheong, the 1998 Fortune AsianBusinessman of the Year and ChiefExecutive Officer of SingaporeAirlines, said he was veryimpressed with the $8.4 millionbuilding.A mathematics graduate of Adel-aide University under the ColomboPlan, Dr Cheong also praised theUniversity’s approach in joiningengineering and mathematics in theone Faculty.“This is a good marriage—of pureand applied, theory and practice,yin and yang,” Dr Cheong said.He added that the combination ofthe two disciplines had beensuccessful in his company, with theengineer ’s “pragmatism and hisdisciplined, rational approach tosolving problems” complemented bythe “creative flair of the puremathematician”.In fact, he said that engineers andmathematics honours graduateswere “by far the largest group in thetop management echelon” ofSingapore Airlines—that is, the 20

most senior people.Dr Cheong spoke fondly of his yearsstudying in Adelaide and, after hisspeech, he renewed friendships withsome of his former teachers andstudent colleagues.The Vice-Chancellor, ProfessorMary O’Kane, said the new buildingprovided a much-needed extra 2600square metres of space for theFaculty of Engineering, Computerand Mathematical Sciences.She said that space was tight allover the North Terrace campus, butthe Faculty had a pressing need forextra space, thanks to a significantand sustained increase in studentnumbers, particularly in numbers ofinternational students.“I would like to thank theUniversity community forunderstanding that this buildinghad to go first in what we hope willbe a major upgrading of the NorthTerrace campus,” Professor O’Kanesaid.She also thanked the manyUniversity staff members who hadhad a direct involvement in thedevelopment of the building.The building is part of a $40 millionredevelopment of the lower level ofthe North Terrace campus.

—David Washington

Dr Cheong and the Vice-Chancellor at the opening of the new building. Photo: David Washington.

A NEW KIT being developed byAdelaide University researchers willbe distributed to 50,000 workplacesaround Australia to promote thebenefits of combining breast-feeding and paid work.

Figures show that about 27% ofAustralian women return towork within the first 12 monthsof their baby’s life. Finding waysof combining breastfeeding andpaid work is likely to be an issuefor these women.A contract to develop and distrib-ute the breastfeeding informationkit has been awarded to AdelaideUniversity’s Department of PublicHealth, in conjunction with theUniversity’s commercial arm,Luminis Pty Ltd, by theCommonwealth Department ofHealth & Aged Care.The kit will inform employersand workplaces of:• the benefits of supportingfemale employers who wish tocontinue breastfeeding theirbabies on returning to paid work• the various workplace practicesthat support the continuation ofbreastfeeding among femaleemployees.The kit will also inform womenthat:

• they can continue to breastfeedon returning to paid work frommaternity leave• there are benefits to themselvesand to their babies in continuingto breastfeed on return to paidwork, especially in the first sixmonths of their baby’s life• there are steps they can take tomaximise their success at combin-ing breastfeeding and paid work.Workplaces to be targeted includemedium to large workplaceswhich employ women of child-bearing age, particularly womenfrom low socio-economic anddiverse cultural backgrounds.The Project Manager is Ms EllenMcIntyre, who recently completeda PhD at Adelaide Universitydealing with the development of abreastfeeding-friendly environ-ment. She has been involved withtwo other national breastfeedingprojects in the past two years (theFamily Breastfeeding EducationProject and the CommunityHealth Professional breastfeedingeducation kit).“Exclusive breastfeeding is vitalfor the first six months of a baby’slife, with continued breastfeedingdesirable over the next two yearsand beyond. The aim of ourproject is to make this possible

even when a mother returns topaid work,” Ms McIntyre said.“If babies aren’t being cared forat the workplace, mothers willusually need to express theirbreastmilk twice within an eight-hour working day. This couldtake about 30 minutes each time.“There are a range of otheroptions available to mothers, andwith the right support from theiremployers and workplaces theycan maintain the all-importantbreastfeeding relationship withtheir baby.”Other members of the projectteam are Dr Dino Pisaniello andDr Richie Gun, also from theDepartment of Public Health, andMr David Frith from theEmployers’ Chamber of Commerceand Industry. Dr Pisaniello andDr Gun both have extensiveexpertise collaborating withindustry in the field of occupa-tional and environmental health,while Mr Frith will be able toliaise effectively with a wide rangeof employer organisations.For further information contactMs McIntyre on (08) 8303 3562or email: <emcintyre@ medicine.adelaide.edu.au>.

—David Ellis

Breastfeeding kit to support mothers at work

Photo: Brenton Edwards.

The modern Olympic Games wereborn at the turn of the last century:Athens 1896. After a hiatus of some1,500 years, the French Baron Pierrede Coubertin revived the Games andwith them his dream of unitinghumankind through an internationalfestival dedicated to athleticgreatness. For Coubertin the modernGames would become a semi-religious festival of order, nobility,and taste, a periodic testament tohumanity’s loftiest ideals. Yetbeneath the lofty ideals he espousedlay anxious motives rooted in Frenchnationalism and a desire for renewedinternational leadership, militaryprowess, and masculine fitness.Thus, although we think of it as arecent phenomenon, the Games havebeen a cauldron of political intrigue,international conflict, and less thannoble competition—from the outset.Still there is no other event to matchthe drama, spectacle, and pageantryof the Games or the moments ofelation when the world unites tocheer on the winning Olympian. Weforget the sordid intrigue as we gearup for the marathon hours oftelevision coverage over seventeendays every four years. Images andmemories from the Games remainetched in our collective minds. Wecarry the dramatic moments with usas intimate aspects of our ownexperience.Think of:Betty Cuthbert ascending the dais forthe third time to collect gold at the1956 Melbourne Olympics.

The clenched fists ofTommie Smith andJohn Carlos raised in aBlack Power salute inthe 1968 Games inMexico City.The masked faces of Palestiniangunmen moments before thekidnapping of members of the Israeliteam at Munich in 1972.The breathtaking gold winningperformance of the diminutive OlgaKorbut, first of the prepubescentgymnasts at the 1972 Games.The glitter of the seven gold medalsdraped across the lithe body ofswimmer Mark Spitz at the MunichGames.The torturous torchbearing gait ofMohammed Ali as he mounted thesteps at the 1996 Atlanta Games.Susie O’Neill and Kieran Perkinscollecting gold at Atlanta andannouncing Australia’s supremacy inthe pool.Everyone of us in our everyday lives,whether we be sports fans or not, isaffected by the Games. Who canavoid the constant barrage ofOlympic-inspired advertisingcampaigns in the daily press, ontelevision and at the theatres, and ina myriad of promotional campaigns?In Sydney a huge clock tower loomsabove Darling Harbor, counting downthe days, hours and minutes to theopening of the Millennial Games. Itseems that every minute of publictime is marked by the Games. Issues raised in the media attach

themselves to theOlympics in ways thatspark, fuse, and meldwith larger culturalcurrents such as:discussions of national

ideals and international competition,the concepts of “fair play” and “elite”sport; decisions about who gets toplay and who doesn’t; the recognitionof racial, ethnic, sexual, and gendereddifferences and their effects; theproblems associated with drug useand its regulation; the managementof terror and the lure of spectacle;judgements concerning proper andimproper behavior, dress andembodiment; changing concepts ofthe “fit” body (not to be confused withthe “healthy” body); as well as theimprint of transglobal media and theflow of forces beyond localgeographies and spaces. Each ofthese reaches far beyond the call ofthe Games to sportsmen and womenand their fans.Sidonie Smith (UMich) and I havejust completed editing a volume ofessays on the cultural politics of theGames. We called upon writers toconsider various moments in thehistory of the Olympic Games andthrough these moments to ponder thelarger, complex struggles over theshifting meanings of masculinity,femininity, ethnicity, race, andembodiedness associated with thespectacle of athletic nationalism andthe everyday life of the Olympics. The Olympics at the Millennium:Performances, Politics and the Gamesis not a book about sport per se or

about remarkable athletes and theirperformances. Rather, the eighteenessays, half of which are written byAustralians, blur the boundariesbetween sport and other forms ofpublic culture. The essays touchupon a number of significant andcontested cultural issues as theyintersect with the OlympicMovement. On an international levelthey consider the uneven andunequal entry of female, workingclass and indigenous athletes intoGames competition and the difficultissues of funding and sponsorship aswell as the clean and dirty sides ofthe Olympic ideal. This includes thecomparative international effects ofEqual Opportunity legislation onwomen but not athletes from otherminorities, the sexploitation of bodiesfor sponsorship, the tawdry practicesof Olympic Bid Committees and thebloody all-or-nothing competitionbehind the ideals of “fair play.” On the national level they take up theissues of cultural diversity andnational identity. In regard to theSydney Games this includes theintersection of the Games with thedebates on the Republic (where, withsome irony, John Howard, an avowedmonarchist, has usurped the Queen’sprerogative of opening the Games,claiming that honor to himself) andreconciliation (where the Sydney BidCommittee shamelessly pressedAboriginal dancers and lobbyists intoservice to win the bid but declined tonominate any Aboriginal represen-tatives on the SOCOG board).

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ADELAIDEAN

byAssociate Professor

Kay SchafferSocial Inquiry

C O M M E N T A R Y

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THE OLYMPICS AND EVERYDAY LIFE

Adelaide, in the mid forties to earlyfifties was a veritable trove ofmulticulturalism. Like the word ornot, it best describes the mantling ofa monocultured city with thetrappings of many others.For a late adolescent, conformist asonly a medical student can be, thestimulus from this heady mix oflargely European yeast amongst theflour of establishment andconservatism was transforming. Theserious business of absorbing therites, rituals and reactionaryresponses of conventional medicinewas forever modified.Saint Mark’s College in North Adel-aide was the stable haven for thosemale students from Western Australiawhose parents or resources were ableto subsidise entry. The Master,Archibald Grenfell Price, a merry,generous, Pickwickian personality, did

his utmost to fashion the college on hisrecollections of the beloved Oxfordwherein he had spent his postgraduatedays. We did our best to conform.Gowns at dinner, Latin grace from thehigh table, a readily fudged Gate Book,the calling of one’s colleagues by theirsurnames and the avoidance of theopposite sex on the premises except bysubterfuge or sanction were all part ofthis slightly anachronistic but nownostalgic parody.

The mould was modified by thesubstantial presence of youngAustralian ex-servicemen newlyreturned from the rigours andprivations of war with that healthydisregard for regulation from whichwe liberally borrowed, being thusmore rapidly projected by propinquityand example into a maturity whichmight have been otherwise delayed.

Outside of College, outside of thecommitment to new vocabularies,understandings and clinicalexperiences, there was the literaryand artistic world of Adelaide whichitself was undergoing rapid andexciting transformation. MaryMartin, the charmingly enigmaticand calmly caring host to bibliophiles,held court at Alma Chambers. MaxHarris was soon to join her, for a longtime still defiantly applying causticsalve to the wounds wrought by theangry penguin. Colin Ballantyne andhis coterie, the Dutkiewicz brothers—

always clad in black—Frances RoyThompson dwelling and painting inthe scout hall at Norwood, except onthose occasions when the troop werein occupation, John Bray, the ChiefJustice, in baggy khaki shortsdeclaiming his own verses in theSturt Arcade hotel of a Saturdaymorning, are all part of thatwonderful mix of music, painting,reading, talking and dicovery whosethreads are for me parts of the richneon tapestry of intellectualindebtedness which I can only recountat Proustian length.

Of the University itself I have equallywarm memories. They are tinged bythe inevitable regrets which theestrangement of the medical courseimposes on its students. Thisisolation is only now being rectifiedby the development of the graduatecourse which brings into the foldthose who have had some experienceof life other than the seamlesstransition from academic distinctionat school into the cloister of theclinical school. The solid propriety ofthe University was lightened for meby friends such as Don Dunston, theMedlins, Edgar Castle, Max Harrisand the ineffable David Barnes.As travel, postgraduate experienceand exposure to teachersaccumulated in England and theUnited States I came to realise thatthose who had been trained inAdelaide had been privileged withthe instruction and experience equalto that of the leading medical schoolsof the world.Each campus in Australia has its ownparticular endowment of charismaand evocation—even the most recentand the more utilitarian. Within theirconfines are captured the solidity ofscholasticism, the ephemeral mists ofhope and frustration, the warmth ofcamaraderie and the wonderfulstimulus of growth. Adelaide holds allof these for me, to my eternalgratitude.

Le temps retrouvé

Alex Cohen AO is clinical Professor ofMedicine in the University of WesternAustralia. A consultant general physicianand endocrinologist, he has worked andresearched in UK hospitals, Oxford andHarvard universities. Formerly President ofthe Royal Australian College of Physicians,he is currently Chancellor of UWA. For overforty years married to the Irish actor, thelate Adele Cohen, he has three children—only one of them medically inclined.

F R O M N E A R A N D FA RCelebrating

125years

Alex Cohen

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OCTOBER 4, 1999 PAGE 3

Round the treeWhen the design and building workscommenced on the lower level site ofthe North Terrace campus it seemedlikely that the tree would have to go.This sort of thing happens withbuilding developments—but it is stillsad.

I do not think I was the only one whowas pleased when we were told thatthe tree could stay, tucked up close toone of the new buildings.

The tree not only stayed, but now hasupgraded status. It is no longer simplya nice campus tree, but rather afeature tree that can be viewed frommany different angles and heights asone uses the glass-walled staircase ofour fine new Engineering andMathematics Building. Going up thestairs is like climbing into an adultversion of a tree-house. It seemsappropriate that those supposedlynoisy, rough, bad boys and girls of theacademic world, the engineers (theinhabitants of the upper storeys),should have a tree-house to tumble inand out of.

The tree has emerged from the identitycrisis caused by the uncertainty aboutits future, confident that it will now beappreciated more than ever.Appreciated not just for its size andmagnificence, but because it revealspreviously hidden, intimate detailssuch as the lichen decorating the upperside of several of its branches.

As we approach the millennium thereseems to be a rush of identity crises.Australia is in the grip of a largeidentity crisis indeed, as we debate ourconstitution and whether we will be arepublic, and anticipate the upcomingcentenary of federation. More recentlyand more worryingly, our status androle in the region is undergoing change,a situation brought on by the events inEast Timor and Indonesia.

Yet there has not been much explicitdebate about the role of universities inthe national identity. It seems to methat if Australia is to have a futurethat is more knowledge intensive,institutions that generate and transmitthis knowledge must becomeincreasingly pivotal. Surely we shouldbe clever about using our own greatintellectual resources to have inputinto the wider debate about the futureof our country. We must work to makesure, not only that our universities areretained with upgraded status, butthat they are valued increasingly as acentral and renewing feature ofAustralian life. We must reveal thehitherto (somewhat) hiddencharacteristics of universities, andmake sure that they enlighten thedebate on and development of ournational identity. We must make surethat universities are well integratedwith and transparent to the otherstructures that are important inshaping Australia’s future. And wemust make sure that the discussion weencourage is well worth having.

MARY O’KANE

Students make a success of ShowCOMPETING at the Royal AdelaideShow is all about preparation,presentation and performance—notonly for the animals but also for thepeople who are willing to put in theeffort to enter against some of the topexhibits in the country.For fourteen Roseworthy and WaiteCampus students the lure of theShow this year was also a chance tolearn more about the dairy industryand to interact with some of theleading stud producers.Strong competition from Victorianentrants pipped some of SouthAustralia’s best at the post thisyear, and over 20 exhibitors were inmost classes. Nine cattle weretaken to the show from Roseworthy,including four heifers.With encouragement and supportfrom Jersey breeder, show expertand contract lecturer Mr PhilHentschke, the Roseworthy DairyTeam took out one third place andthree fourths in a fantastic effort inthe cow in milk age classes. However the biggest test of know-ledge and skill was demonstratedwhen Tiffany Munro, Team Captainof the Roseworthy Dairy Team, wonthe Junior Judging Competition,part of a prestigious nationalcompetition. Her prize included$450 to go towards her educationand a trip to the National JuniorJudging Finals at the BrisbaneRoyal Show in August next year.A further $100 was given to her byMr Hentschke who put it up as anincentive for Roseworthy studentsto enter. Kate Dowler and BelindaTelfer came fourth and fifthrespectively.In other successes at the show,Caroline Allen took out a fourth in

the Merino Ram Judgingcompetition, and Kathryn Muellercame fourth and Tiffany Munrocame fifth in the Dairy CattleHandler class.The students also won the BestStall competition in the cattlepavilion, a competition which isjudged daily for the duration of theshow assessing overall presentationand cleanliness of the cattle and theexhibit area.With cattle at the Show from theWednesday before the event beganuntil the Show finished eleven dayslater, the students were responsiblefor not only the welfare of theircattle but were also rostered on towork in the Exhibition Dairy tohelp milk other competitors’ cows.Months of hard work obviously paidoff and the students should be

congratulated for their efforts.Show Tour GuidesTwenty-two other students werealso involved in taking pre-bookedtours of secondary school studentsthrough the show. As ambassadors from theUniversity of Adelaide’s Rose-worthy and Waite Campuses, theywere required to work closely withthe schools to educate the studentsabout sheep, cattle and pigproduction and other aspects of theagricultural industry.Coordinated by the Associate Dean(External Relations) Mr PhilipStott, the tour leaders volunteeredto be involved and were valuablepromoters of tertiary educationopportunities and careers in theindustry.

—Elizabeth Burns

Adelaide University’s successful show team. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Burns.

Noah’s Flood storyrevisited in lectureSCIENTIFIC evidence supporting the Biblical story of“Noah’s Flood” will be presented at a public lecture in theUniversity of Adelaide on 21 October.

Organised by the Geological Society of Australia, thelecture will be delivered by Dr Walter C Pitman ofthe Lamond-Doherty Earth Observatory in NewYork.

Dr Pitman is co-author (with colleague Dr Bill Ryan)of Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific DiscoveriesAbout the Event That Changed History (Simon &Schuster 1998).

In his lecture, Dr Pitman will describe how he andDr Ryan teamed up with oceanographers fromBulgaria, Russia and Turkey to explore the BlackSea.

Their investigations led them to conclude that, some7,600 years ago, the Black Sea was an inland body offresh water lying below sea level.

Geological evidence suggests that theMediterranean flooded with great force into what isnow the Black Sea, causing a near-immediate rise inshorelines.

The lecture will take place in the Union Hall at7.30pm (tickets, all $5, will be available at the door).

Adelaide is ‘wired up’THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE will be among theparticipants in a three-day information technologyexhibition in Adelaide from 15-17 October.

Wiredup 99—to be held at Wayville Showgrounds—willfeature more than 160 booths and exhibitionsshowcasing the latest ideas in IT and tele-communications.It is part of the national Online Australia activities, aCommonwealth Government initiative run by theNational Office for The Information Economy.Graham Brookman, who is coordinating theUniversity’s involvement, said the exhibition offered animportant opportunity to reach potential mature-agestudents. “Our stand will promote IT, science and engineeringcourses, in particular,” he said.“We will provide information on the study options—andthe careers—available in the areas of informationtechnology and computer science.”The exhibition program also includes seminars withlocal and overseas speakers. A highlight will be a day-long forum on electronic commerce on Friday, 15October. More information is available on the Wiredup web site:<http://www.wiredup.com.au/files/information.html>

—John Drislane

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Beer hobby proves to be a champion successMIXING the grape and the grain issupposed to be an unwise idea fordrinkers. For two wine scientists at theUniversity of Adelaide, however, ithas proved to be a fruitful move.Dr Chris Ford and Dr Harry Teicherfrom the Department of Horticulture,Viticulture and Oenology havebranched into beer-brewing in theirspare time—with impressive results. At the recent State Amateur BrewersShow of South Australia, Dr Ford’sale won first prize in the Strong Alesection.Dr Teicher’s entry was runner-up inthe Australian Lager category.The two brews will be among thoserepresenting South Australia at theNational Amateur BrewersChampionships in Canberra from 27-28 November.

Dr Teicher, a Visiting ResearchFellow from Denmark, took up home-brewing only this year becausehe missed the taste of Europeanbeers.“Chris gave me a recipe and lent methe equipment,” he said.“I made a mistake with the brew, so itended up tasting different thanplanned.“As a wine scientist, I suppose I maybe more aware than other people howmicro-organisms can get in and spoila beer, but I don’t really approach itin a scientific way.”Dr Ford, who has been the WaiteCampus home brew champion for thepast two years, said brewing wasstrictly a hobby for him. “You don’t want to get too scientificabout it or it starts to feel like work,”he said.

—John Drislane

WITH recent calls for rethinking ournational policy towards Asia, a forumat Adelaide University on 15 Octobercomes at an appropriate time.

Organised by the Centre for AsianStudies and ARCHSS, andchaired by Professor PurnendraJain, the seminar will evaluateChina’s efforts over five decades inregard to Democracy and HumanRights.The key speaker is Professor WJFJenner, head of Asian Studies andProfessor of Chinese at AustralianNational University, who haswritten widely on the problemsand progress of contemporaryChina. Another guest speaker isDr Ann Kent from theContemporary China Centre atANU, who has written two bookson Human Rights in the PRC. Also on the program are AdelaideUniversity’s Christopher Findlayfrom the Chinese EconomiesResearch Centre, Greg O’Learyand Felix Patrikeeff from Politics,and Carney Fisher from theCentre for Asian Studies.Traditional images of China havevaried greatly, Dr Fisher says—from the romantic empire ofMarco Polo and the land ofphilosophers in Voltaire, to the

tinsel terror of Fu Manchu. The establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949did not bring an end to thissuccession of vastly differentpictures—as China underwent astartling transformation from thedrab Maoist era of the 1960s torampant capitalism, “aiming tobecome the world’s biggestmarket, an El Dorado forbusinessmen and carpet-baggers alike”.“Yet, despite the colossal effortsand suffering of the last fiftyyears, China still presents inmany quarters a power whosestability is by no means secureand whose future remainsuncertain,” Dr Carney says.“China’s sheer size guarantees itslasting importance. Its immensepopulation ensures its being adominant player on the worldstage. Its proximity to Australiademands that it be understood asdeeply as possible in our society.”“50 Years of the People’s Republicof China”. Friday 15 October,1.30-4.30pm. Council Room, Level7, Hughes Building. RSVP by 8October to Michelle Matthews,8303 5815, email <michelle.matthews@adelaide.edu.au>.

China at 50: a Reckoning Top Malaysian student awardFINAL-YEAR medical student Mr Michael Jiew has won the Merdeka Award for mostoutstanding Malaysian student at the University of Adelaide.

The award recognises high academic achievement as well as contribution to academicand community life and to strengthening relationships between Australia and Malaysia. Merdeka Awards are presented annually by the Australia Malaysia Business Council toan outstanding student at each of Adelaide’s three universities and TAFE. Special merit award winners from Adelaide University were: Jason Cheong Tze Yeen(Dental Surgery), Chee Meng Lee (Electrical and Electronic Engineering), MohamedFadhil Abdullah (Design Studies), Hawa Yaakub (Chemical Engineering), Sylvia Daim(Science) and Matthew Lee Ping Soon (Commerce).

Nail biting final to Adelaide footy teamCONGRATULATIONS to Adelaide University’s Football Club, the Blacks, which scored aone-point victory in a nail-biting SA Amateur League grand final against the GoodwoodSaints at Adelaide Oval.More than 3000 spectators watched Adelaide Uni’s hard-fought win on Friday, 17September—the first grand final in the league’s history to be played at night underlights. The night was marred by bad weather, with hail about an hour before thegame and constant drizzle throughout.Despite a poor start in the first quarter, the Blacks clawed their way back to be up byfour points at half time. The lead swapped again in the third quarter, and then 18minutes into the final term the Blacks kicked another goal to lock the scores at 5.12apiece.With only three minutes to spare, a Saints player rushed the ball through, puttingAdelaide Uni in the lead by one point. “There we stayed for the last three minutes ofheart-attack frenzy,” described the club’s secretary and head of the School ofCommerce, Dr Fred Bloch.The final scores: 5.13 (43) to 5.12 (42). For more information check the Blacks’website at <http://www.commerce.adelaide.edu.au/blacks/>.

Chris Ford and Harry Teicher. Photo: John Drislane.

ADELAIDEAN OCTOBER 4, 1999 PAGE 5

SOUTH AUSTRALIA’S first Professor ofRural Health, Whyalla-based Dr DavidWilkinson, says people’s access to healthservices should not be determined bywhere they happen to live.

“Locational disadvantage is the majorissue in rural health. “There’s plenty of statistical evidencethat people who live in the countrydon’t do as well as those who live inthe city, and in some cases—such asinjuries and mental health—they doparticularly badly.“If you have a major accident in themiddle of the Eyre Peninsula, you’remiles away from sophisticated traumaservices.“If you have the accident in Adelaide,you can be in a treatment centrewithin 15 minutes. “Our challenge is to help solve theseproblems and ensure equity of accessto services.“It means putting in place theresources, processes and systems thatgive rural South Australians theopportunity to be as healthy as theycan.”Professor Wilkinson came to Whyallafrom South Africa in February to headthe South Australian Centre for Ruraland Remote Health.The Centre is a partnership betweenthe University of Adelaide, theUniversity of South Australia, and the

State and Commonwealth Govern-ments. During his 10 years in South Africa,the English-born doctor established areputation as an expert in publichealth and epidemiology.As a specialist scientist with the SouthAfrican Medical Research Council, hismajor interest was infectious diseases,particularly tuberculosis, HIV/AIDSand sexually transmitted diseases.His most successful—and acclaimed—initiative was a community-based TBtreatment service he developed in theHlabisa district.Previously, TB patients had been keptin hospital for up to six months toensure they complied with theirtreatment program.Dr Wilkinson ended the need for thiscostly practice by setting up a networkof volunteer supervisors.The network included clergy, retiredteachers and storekeepers whosupervised the administration of drugsto TB sufferers and then signedtreatment cards to verify compliance.“It created quite a stir because it wasvery much against the way thingswere being done at the time,” DrWilkinson said.“We published a lot of work and builtup a large research program around it.“It is now widely accepted thatcommunity based treatment, outside

hospitals and sanitoriums, is a veryeffective TB management method. “In a district with a population of250,000 we were treating 1,200 TBsufferers a year under the program.”During his time in Africa, DrWilkinson also documented the impactof the HIV/AIDS epidemic on a singledistrict hospital. (Increased demandfor services was compounded by aninfection level of 30% among hospitalstaff.)In the field of prevention, he developeda treatment strategy for sexuallytransmitted diseases.Dr Wilkinson says he enjoys thechallenge of building up neworganisations.“In Africa, I was responsibleessentially for rebuilding two hospitalsand starting a research unit fromscratch.“I have strong foundations to build onat Whyalla.“We have a large, thriving centre (16full-time-equivalent staff) with somevery good people in position.”The Centre for Rural and RemoteHealth concentrates on four mainactivities: undergraduate and postgra-duate education and training (includingrural placements); research; servicedelivery; and public health education.New family practices have alreadybeen established at Minlaton,

Maitland, Roxby Downs and Whyalla.The Centre is carrying out extensiveresearch into the health needs andpriorities of rural communities as wellas conducting studies into majorissues such as youth suicide andmental health.On the academic front, it recentlycelebrated the enrolment of the firstthree PhD students at the Universityof South Australia’s Whyalla campus.Staff had further reason to celebratelast month when Oxford UniversityPress awarded the Centre the contractto write Australia’s first text book onrural health. The Centre will undertake the work,in collaboration with severaluniversity departments around thecountry, over the next year.On 14 October, Dr Wilkinson will beamong the invited speakers at a video-conference seminar entitled “YouthSuicide Prevention - Issues andStrategies for Rural Communities.” Based at the Radisson Playford Hotelin North Terrace, Adelaide, theconference has been organised by theAustralian College of Health andService Executive (SA branch). It willhave video links to the Barossa Valley,Berri, Kangaroo Island, MountGambier, Murray Bridge, PortAugusta, Port Lincoln, Port Pirie andthe Northern Territory.

—John Drislane

Setting the scene for better rural health

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PAPUA NEW GUINEAN broadcasterWilliam Mairi had never used acomputer before he came to Adelaide.But by the time he’d left, thanks toan intensive training course atUniversity Radio 5UV he could notonly navigate a computer with ease,he could also use state-of-the-artcomputer technology to record, editand broadcast material.Mr Mairi’s eight-week training coursewas one of the latest in a series ofhighly successful training ventures for5UV. During last month’s AdultLearners Week (5-11 September), thestation received an award for “Out-standing Provider” of training. Theaward, supported by the AustralianNational Training Authority,recognises the important contributionmade by 5UV to adult learning.For Mr Mairi, the equipment andexpertise at 5UV was just what heneeded to learn about computer-driven radio production.Mr Mairi presents a show on thegovernment-owned FM100 musicstation in Port Moresby and has yearsof radio and television experience.But in PNG, radio stations are onlyjust starting to experiment withcomputer-based broadcasting.“I had absolutely no idea aboutcomputers,” Mr Mairi said.“Couldn’t even open a file–I didn’teven know what a file was! I wasjust very confused about thetechnology. Two weeks after being inAdelaide, I’d learnt the basics. Iknow what a computer is now and Iknow what I can do with it.“It gives me a lot more confidence asa broadcaster. I’m beginning to pickup so much, a few tricks here andthere. Now I know when I get backto Port Moresby, that’s it—I want touse computers.”

As part of his training, Mr Mairipresented three live-to-air programson 5UV and also produced a numberof sponsorship announcements,which are still being played on thestation even though he’s returnedhome to Port Moresby.Through 5UV’s contacts with otherAdelaide radio stations, Mr Mairiwas also able to spend some time at5AN and 5AD.Mr Mairi was one of four Papua NewGuineans to come to Adelaide fortraining in a range of fields,organised through TAFE andsponsored by AusAID.5UV’s Training Coordinator MsNicky Page said the trainingprogram for Mr Mairi was a goodexample of what 5UV could achieve.“Progressively over the last five years we’ve strengthened in the areaof training so that we’ve becomeknown as a training organisation aswell as broadcasting operation,”

Ms Page said.“We not only train volunteers withinthe station but we also train clientsfrom outside 5UV on a contract basis.This has been given a major boostsince we became a RegisteredTraining Organisation, which meanswe can provide accredited training.“Bill Mairi came to our station with alot of experience already, and so whatwe’ve been able to do for him isprovide some specific work-focusedtraining. It’s been a joy to work withhim, and the fact that we were award-ed the contract to provide his trainingis a strong recognition of 5UV as atraining provider for the radioindustry.“If we add to this the recent AdultLearners Week radio awardpresented to 5UV, we’re beginning tosee a much wider understanding andappreciation of the quality level oftraining this station provides.”

—David Ellis

5UV training’s continuing success

William Mairi at work in the 5UV studio. Photo: David Ellis

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On the local level they explore the diverse ways in which everyday life becomesinflected with the culture, economics, and politics of all those processes involved inbidding for, planning, and staging the Games. In Australia this involves adiscussion of the immense public investment in the Games ($28 million bid, $3billion to run, $854 million in sponsorship, or $51.8 million per projected medal) andthe effects of this diversion of public, corporate and donor money away from suchactivities as art exhibitions, book fairs, conferences, orchestras, opera, ballet andtheatre companies, arts organisations, non-profit agencies, public sport, health,leisure and recreation facilities and the like.

On a personal level, taking such athletes as Dawn Fraser, Kieren Perkins, JaneFleming and the Golden Girls of calendar fame as examples, we juxtapose athleticideals against the pragmatic needs of training and the lure of celebrity. Takentogether the text explores the interpenetrating of the realm of sport and otherrealms of everyday life. And it teases out the play of identity as variously embodiedathletes take to the fields, the courts, and the arenas.

By addressing the cultural issues which reverberate around the phenomenon of theGames, we call attention to a more complex sense of why and how the Olympicsmatter to all of us—not only, or even primarily, sports fans—as we approach the newmillennium.

—Associate Professor Kay SchafferSocial Inquiry

C O M M E N T A R YTHE OLYMPICS AND EVERYDAY LIFE

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New CEO for Tissue Growth & Repair centre appointedDR LEANNA READ has taken up the position of ChiefExecutive Officer of the Cooperative Research Centrefor Tissue Growth and Repair.

Dr Read, until recently the inaugural director ofthe Child Health Research Institute, took over this month from Dr John Ballard, who hasbeen Director of the CRC since its inception in1991.Dr Ballard will now concentrate on his role asManaging Director of GroPep, the commercial armof the CRC.Dr Read’s research interests are in the area of milkgrowth factors and she has a particular interest intheir clinical application in the biotechnologyindustry.She serves on several boards, including theFederal Government Industry Research andDevelopment (IR&D) Board. She is chair of theIR&D Board Start Committee and its BiologicalCommittee.The Chairman of the CRC, Dr Bill McCoy, said Dr

Read brought to the position a wealth ofexperience in both fundamental biomedicalresearch and the commercialisation of science.He said she would continue to foster thecooperative links between the CRC partners andbuild on the strengths of the centre.The CRC for Tissue Growth and Repair bringstogether partners from the University of Adelaide,the Child Health Research Institute, the DairyResearch and Development Corporation, CSIRO,GroPep Pty Ltd and Flinders University.The centre’s research is primarily focused onstrategies to use growth factors in variousapplications, including for the treatment of gutdamage, healing chronic wounds and reducingscarring during wound repair.The role of novel growth factors in the metabolismand growth of animals is also being studied,particularly in relation to the pig and aquacultureindustries.

—David Washington Dr Leanna Read

DR MARTIN LAMBERT has been awarded aninternationally prestigious medal by the Institution ofCivil Engineers in the UK.

Dr Lambert, a senior lecturer in hydraulics andwater engineering in Adelaide University’sDepartment of Civil & EnvironmentalEngineering, travelled to London last month toreceive the George Stephenson Medal.Named after the famous British engineer whoinvented the steam train in the 1820s, the annualmedal is one of two medals awarded to the authorsof the best papers published in the Institution’sseven journals.Dr Lambert and his research colleague at theUniversity of Ulster, Dr Robert Myers, receivedthe Stephenson medal for their co-authored paper.Their paper presents a new method for modellingthe flow of water in natural channels withfloodplains, taking into account the varying speedsof water flow in the main channel and thefloodplain. Because it deals with the issue ofwater turbulence, this method has the potential tomore accurately predict flood levels for riverchannels compared with traditional methods.

Dr Lambert is also well known for his work intothe detection of leaks in water pipe systems withDr Angus Simpson, and for his work with the CRCfor Water Quality & Treatment into blue-greenalgae.“The medal is a great honour, I’m really pleasedabout it,” Dr Lambert said.“I feel a bit humble because you join the long listof engineers who’ve won this medal since the1880s, and there are some very esteemed namesattached to that list. I guess it’s pleasing to knowthat a group of your peers has judged your work tobe significant, and I’m glad that our collaborativework has been recognised in this way.”Dr Lambert thanked the Department of Civil &Environmental Engineering for supporting his tripto London. Dr Lambert and his wife attended theannual President’s Reception at the Institution ofCivil Engineers in Westminster, where DrLambert and Dr Myers were presented with theirmedals.Dr Lambert previously won a prize in 1997 for hisresearch in this area.

—David Ellis

Stephenson medal to Adelaide man

Martin Lambert. Photo: David Ellis.

BEFORE writer Geoffrey Dutton died latelast year, he left not only the legacy of hisown fifty published books, but also anoutstanding contribution to Australia’scontemporary cultural identity.

He had not only been active in writingboth fiction and non-fiction, but hadalso helped in the foundation of theframeworks which would help newAustralian writers and artists toemerge. He had assisted in theestablishment of the Adelaide Festivalof Arts in 1960 and Writer’s Week, andserved on the Commonwealth Literaryfund and its replacement, theLiterature Board of the AustraliaCouncil. With Brian Stonier, helaunched Sun Books specialising inpublishing Australian paperbacks,which was eventually integrated intoMacmillan. He was the editor of theAustralian literary supplement andthe Australian Literary Quarterly.As well as his contribution to thecause of Australian literature, DonaldHorne credits Geoffrey Dutton in TheComing Republic with instigating themodern republican movement with anarticle he published in 1963 in Nation,while he was a lecturer at theUniversity of Adelaide. At DonaldHorne’s invitation almost 30 yearslater, in 1990, he joined the inauguralcommittee of the AustralianRepublican Movement.Geoffrey Dutton’s literary output wasprodigious. His biographies includeEdward John Eyre, Colonel Light,Russell Drysdale, Patrick White andWalt Whitman; his historical studiesexamine squatters and the first yearsof the Federation; his studies ofcontemporary Australian life unravelthe myth of the beach and therepresentation of Aborigines in

Australian paintings. He publishednovels and collections of short stories,but his true literary vocation was as apoet. His first monograph, NightFlight and Sunrise, was published in1944 when he was just 22 years old.His last poem, the 7500 word epic“New York Nowhere”, was begunaround 50 years later and completedjust four months before his death inOctober 1998. At present it isavailable in limited editions withoriginal John Olsen etchings but it isplanned to published a more afford-able paperback this year.Geoffrey Dutton began his Arts Degreeat the University of Adelaide in 1940and this was the year he also began toseriously establish his literary career.With Max Harris, then in third year,and a few friends, he established anarts magazine called Angry Penguins,and as well as Dutton and Harris, thefirst contributors included Arthur Boyd,John Perceval and Sidney Nolan. Aftera period with the RAAF during the warand then as a student at MagdalenCollege, Oxford, Geoffrey Duttonreturned to the University of Adelaideas a lecturer in English in 1956.Geoffrey Dutton’s life centred aroundAnlaby, his family’s grand homesteadsituated in the rolling hills betweenKapunda and Eudunda. Begun as awattle and daub shack in 1839 by hisgreat-grandfather, Anlaby grew to apeak size of 640 square kilometresaround the end of last century, andwas the first Merino and Clydesdalestud in South Australia. Although thestation had already begun to shrinkwhen Geoffrey was born there inAugust 1922, the homestead itself hadgrown to 21 spacious rooms, and wassurrounded by 40 acres of roses,terraced lawns and conservatories.

When Geoffrey lived at Anlaby as anadult in the 1960s and 1970s, hewould wander down every morning ataround 5 o’clock to “The Folly”, hisunusual writing retreat. The Follywas a curious three storey towerwhich still stands over anunderground water tank, and thesedays is home to a bee hive. From timeto time Geoffrey would invite guests tovisit Anlaby and some of those whobecame household names includePatrick White, Barry Humphries,Sidney Nolan and Robert Hughes.It is possible to visit Anlaby onweekends and even stay in thecarefully restored guest and staffhouses, and experience not just theDutton heritage but also the fantastic

hospitality of the present owners,Hans and Gill Albers. This inspiredcouple have been working tirelessly torecreate Anlaby’s unique past, all thetime skilfully combining it with theirown remarkable taste. When GeoffreyDutton returned to Anlaby last yearafter a long absence he was moved tofind it bringing back a stream ofmemories. After his death in October,as per his last wishes, some of hisashes were spread on the roses—thereused to be 6000 of them in the massivegarden. The admission and B&B ratesare minimal; Hans and Gill Albers canbe contacted on (08) 8566 2465.

—John Emerson,PhD candidate,

Centre for European Studies

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Geoffrey Dutton: an outstanding literary legacy

TWO RECENT Adelaide Universitygraduates are among the handful ofAustralians awarded this year’s BritishChevening Scholarships.

Awarded by the British Council, thescholarships offer outstanding grad-uates and young professionals theopportunity to study at Britishuniversities.Adelaide University graduates MsGabrielle McIntyre and Mr AlexanderSmith were two of those chosen forthis year’s scholarships.Ms McIntyre completed a Bachelor ofArts and a Law degree with Honoursin 1997. Her thesis dealt with theissue of presumption of innocence.Since graduation Ms McIntyre hasbeen working as a tutor, teachingevidence law at Adelaide University’sLaw School. She also worked for a lawfirm for 18 months and until recentlywas employed with the CrownSolicitor ’s office. The CheveningScholarship enables her to study atCambridge University, where she isnow undertaking coursework inevidence law and jurisprudence.“Studying overseas has always been abit of a dream, but I never thought itwould become a reality,” said MsMcIntyre.She said her work at Cambridge wouldbe an extension of her long-runninginterest in the historical developmentand modern application of the rules ofevidence.“It’s a bit radical in that it challengesthe view of the leading evidentiary

scholars about the operation of basicrules and what they mean in the trialprocess. It’s based on the presumptionof innocence and burden of proof,showing how they are quite distinctprinciples which are commonlymisinterpreted as being one and thesame. This work will form the basisfor a project which I hope will becomea PhD at some stage,” she said.Ms McIntyre said the CheveningScholarship had given her a greatopportunity.“We’re extremely lucky, I think, the factthat somebody else has recognised ourpotential, our passion and energy forsomething. So it’s really important thatwe go to the UK and make the most ofthat opportunity, and that we put some-thing back when we return to Australia.I want to do the best I can,” she said.Mr Smith agreed that the CheveningScholarship offered a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Thanks to theScholarship, he will study for aMasters degree at EdinburghUniversity, looking at the cultural andpolitical apsects of the self-determination movement in Scotland.Mr Smith completed a Bachelor of Artswith Honours in Anthropology, also in1997. His thesis dealt with native titleand the Mabo legislation. A formerpresident of the Young Liberals inSouth Australia, Mr Smith has workedfor the Federal Member for Sturt, MrChristopher Pyne, and for the Environ-ment Minister, Senator Robert Hill.“I decided on Edinburgh because Iwant to look at Scottish nationalism,”

Mr Smith said.“I’m particularly interested in theaftermath of the creation of theScottish parliament in the UK, andhow this changes the political realitiesfor mainstream institutions in Britain.A very important part of this iswhether or not the Scots feelempowered by the new parliament.“That kind of research can haveapplications more widely as well.Earlier this year there was an Inuit-managed territory created in Canada,we’ve seen the Timorese vote forindependence, and we have the ongoingdebate of self-determination in

Australia for Aboriginal people. Iexpect that in the next 30 to 40 yearswe’re going to have to address questionsof self-government in particular regionsin Australia for Aboriginal people. So Isee this research having a muchbroader application.”Both Ms McIntyre and Mr Smithencouraged other graduates to apply forthe British Chevening Scholarships.For more information about these orother scholarships, contact the BritishCouncil on (02) 9326 2022. Studentscan also contact the StudentInformation Office on 8303 5697.

—David Ellis

Gabrielle McIntyre and Alexander Smith. Photo: David Ellis

It’s off to UK for our scholarships winners

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Farewell concert for LeskesA FAREWELL CONCERT will begiven by violinist Beryl Kimber andpianist Clemens Leske, who havemoved to Sydney after teaching at theElder Conservatorium for acombined total of 83 years.

Family and professional commit-ments prompted the Leskes tomove from their North Adelaidehome of 31 years. At the time oftheir departure they were toobusy to prepare a final concert.However, since settling in Sydneythey have accepted the ElderConservatorium’s invitation toreturn with their son Clemens jnr,also a pianist, to give a specialfarewell recital.The concert will be held onSunday 10 October in Elder Hallat 2.30pm.The program, which was carefullyselected by the Leskes, includessome of the great chamber musicrepertoire. The concert will openwith the first movement of theTrio in B flat by Schubert, whichthey will perform with Adelaide’sleading cellist Janis Laurs. Otherworks include the Sonata in Amajor by César Franck and the

Paganini Variations for twopianos by Lutoslawski.

After the concert a specialreception will be held on theGoodman Crescent lawns directly

in front of Elder Hall. Ticketsfrom BASS outlets. Adult $25, con-cession $20 (concert & reception),or $18/$15 (concert only).

—Alison Beare

Clemens Leske, Beryl Kimber and Clemens Leske jnr. Photo courtesy of the Leskes.

Bachtober beginswith stringsTHE ANNUAL Bach Festival (5-8 October 1999) hasbecome a traditional part of the concert calendar atthe Elder Conservatorium since it was founded byviolinist Beryl Kimber more than 20 years ago.After she retired last year the staff were keen tocontinue the Festival and Peter Tanfield, leaderof the Australian String Quartet, accepted theposition as Honorary Coordinator.This year the duration of the Festival has beenreduced to four concerts. The repertoire is alittle different from previous years with theemphasis on Bach’s chamber music.Highlights include a performance of the Concertoin D minor for two violins with the violinistsfrom the Australian String Quartet, PeterTanfield and James Cuddeford, as soloists,Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 3 & 5 andOrchestral Suites Nos. 1 & 3.The Festival opens on Tuesday 5 October andwill run until Friday 8 October. The concertswill be held each day in Elder Hall at 1.10pm.Admission is $2 and tickets are available at thedoor from 12.30 pm.Detailed programs are available from the ElderConservatorium and foyer of Elder Hall.

—Alison Beare

CONCERT 5 of the 1999 Elder Conservatorium Concert Serieswill feature the award-winning Elder Conservatorium WindEnsemble conducted by Robert Hower in a program of“Contemporary Classics”.

The diverse program includes some of this century’s finestAmerican music for symphonic band, the work ofAustralian-born Percy Grainger, the Australian premiere ofa work by William Kraft, and features the “Star WarsTrilogy” by John Williams in a soul-stirring finale.“Star Wars” brought to international prominence thetalents of John Williams, one of the most gifted composersfor film and television. The five themes gathered in theTrilogy are composed as free standing compositions thataccompany large cinematic segments, and are some of thebest known film music performed today.Robert Hower is a graduate of the Eastman School of Musicin New York and in his wide-ranging freelance career as atrombone player, he has backed or played with musicianssuch as Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Allen, Frank Sinatra, BetteMidler and the Adelaide and Sydney Symphony Orchestras.The Elder Conservatorium Wind Ensemble has developed areputation as one of Australia’s finest wind bands, winningthe Open A Grade Concert band division of the NationalBand Championships 13 times between 1981 and 1995.

Contemporary ClassicsTHE ADELAIDE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC hassponsored three forthcoming public events in theElder Conservatorium School of Performing Arts.

The sponsorship provides $1,500 for the ClassicalMusic Awards, with the finals scheduled for 19November, and $1500 for the Concerto Com-petition winner’s performance on 6 November.Both events are included in the Elder Halllunchtime and evening concert series.A further $4500 will support the production of

Monteverdi’s opera Orfeo by the Vocal Studiesdepartment in 2000.Chairman of the Adelaide Chamber OrchestraInc, Mr Philip Pledge, said his organisation wasdelighted to sponsor the Conservarorium events.“They reflect the aims and objectives of ourorganisation, which we have followed over thepast two decades—that is, providing oppor-tunities to assist and foster Adaide’s talentedyoung artists in their musical careers.”

Sponsorship for Conservatorium events

ELDER CONSERVATORIUM student jazzensembles will perform at the Governor HindmarshHotel on Sunday 10 October.

Four ensembles are featured, opening with thejazz choir “Kind of Blue”, directed by JulianFerraretto. This swinging group of 13 vocalistsis backed by a driving rhythm section.Two small ensembles directed by Erik Applegateform the middle section of the evening’sentertainment, both presenting diverse programsincluding jazz standards and contemporary tunes.The first includes a front line of voice, tenor saxand guitar, while the second combines violin andguitar in a unique sound.

The culmination of the evening is the high-energy big band directed by Jeff Alkire.Jazz ensembles from the Elder Conservatoriumhave performed throughout Australia and in theUS to high acclaim, and former students are nowgaining recognition not only on the Adelaide jazzscene, but also in events such as the NationalJazz Awards at the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz.

Elder Con presents ‘Jazz at the Gov’

Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, 59 Port Road, Hindmarsh.Sunday 10 October at 7.30pm. $10 ($7 concession);tickets at the door. Further information: Erik Applegate,8303 5138.

Saturday 16 October at 8.00 pm in Elder Hall. All University ofAdelaide staff can save $5.00 by presenting the Special Offer voucherprinted exclusively in the Adelaidean to BASS at the Adelaide Festival Centre.

B u l l e t i n B o a r d

12noon Child Health ResearchInstitute Seminar: Function of HumanImmunoglobulin Genes in TranslocusMice by Dr Ian Nicholson (CHRI).Seminar Room, 7th Floor, RiegerBuilding, WCH. Light refreshments.

1.10pm Law Seminar Series -Intention in Law & Philosophy:Intention and self-control by ProfessorMichael Smith (ANU). Room 216,Ligertwood Building.

1.10pm Student Workshop: Learndeep relaxation by Mark O’Donoghue.Counselling Centre, Ground Floor,Horace Lamb Building.

1.10pm Elder ConservatoriumBach Festival: Trio Sonata in G majorBWV1039 - Ben Dollman & DominicGlynn - Violin, Zöe Barry - Cello, LesleyLewis - Harpsichord. Suite No 1 in Cmajor BWV1066 - Proteus Ensemble. $2at the door. Elder Hall.

3.15pm Anthropology Seminar:Haka Fracas: Dialectics of Identity in aMaori Dance by Dr David Murray. Room722, 7th Floor, Napier Building.

7.30pm Australian Federation ofUniversity Women - SA Inc GeneralMeeting: Issues in education for womenfrom a political perspective by SenatorNatasha Stott Despoja. $1.00 donation.North Dining Room, Union Building.Dinner in The Equinox prior to meetingat 6.00pm - bookings Suzette 8379 8552.

10.10am Electrical & ElectronicEngineering Seminar: Smart Phone:Inactive Group Audio with Complemen-tary Control by Dr Tim Moors(Communications Division, DSTO).Lecture Room S112, Engineering South.

1.00pm Biochemistry Seminar:Developmental Control of Gene LocusActivation in Myeloid differentiation byDr C Bonifer (University of Leeds).Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Darling Bldg.

1.10pm Genetics Seminar: Title tobe announced, by Dr Sharon Orford.Seminar Room, Ground Floor, Fisher.

1.10pm Geology & GeophysicsSeminar: The enigma of a late glacialdesert lake in the Flinders Ranges, SouthAustralia by Professor Martin Williams(Geographical & Environmental Studies).Mawson Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor,Mawson Laboratories.

1.10pm Elder ConservatoriumBach Festival: Concerto in D minor for2 violins. Sonata No 2 in A major.Brandenburg Concerto No 3. SoloistsPeter Tanfield and James Cuddeford withthe Proteus Ensemble. Admission $2 atthe door. Elder Hall.

4.00pm Physiology Seminar:Career Skills in Science by Drs Pat Buckley& Mike Nordstrom (Physiology).Seminar Room N416-417, Level 4,Medical School North. Refreshmentsserved afterwards.

4.10pm Environmental BiologySeminar: Why be monogamous? Nosleeping around in sleepy lizards byMichael Bull (Flinders University).Benham Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor,Benham Laboratories.

12.05pm Psychology Seminar:Personality and post-traumatic stress

disorder by Lisa Chantler (Postgraduatestructured program). Room 527, HughesBuilding.

1.00pm Adelaide UniversitySkindiving Club: Jeremy Gramp(Dragon Search) will talk aboutSeadragons and how we can get involvedwith the Dragon Search database. WPRogers Room, Level 5, Union Building.Drinks and nibbles provided.

1.00pm Biochemistry Seminar:Isoform sorting of structural proteins andthe creation of intracellular compartmentsby Professor Peter Gunning (NewChildren’s Hospital, Westmead). SeminarRoom, 1st Floor, Darling Building.

1.10pm Elder ConservatoriumBach Festival: Gamba Sonata No 1 in Gmajor - Niall Brown - Cello, Isabelle Trüb- Piano. Suite No 3 in D major - ProteusEnsemble. Admission $2 at the door.Elder Hall.

6.00pm Centre for InterculturalStudies & Multicultural EducationSeminar: Global Health Challenges: AMulticultural Viewpoint by Dr RobertKim-Farley (World Health Organisation)and Ms Han Ju Kim-Farley (Public HealthConsultant, Indonesia). Room 102, Level1, Napier Building. Refreshments 5.30pmin Napier Foyer. Enquiries Mariusz 83035788.

6.30pm Australian Institute ofInternational Affairs Seminar:Forestalling Bourgeois Democracy: TheChinese Communist Party and its UnitedFront Work by Dr Gerry Groot (AsianStudies). Union Cinema, Level 5, UnionHouse.

10.00am Social Inquiry Seminar:Future of Trade Unions as SocialMovements: Issues of Representation,Organisation and Democracy by SonjaMezinec (P/G, Labour Studies). SeminarRoom, 3rd Floor, 10 Pulteney Street.

11.30am Social Inquiry Seminar:Indigenous knowledge and science: onefor all and all for one by Ali Ben Kahn(P/G, Women’s Studies). Seminar Room,3rd Floor, 10 Pulteney Street.

1.00pm Biochemistry Seminar:Muscle Mice: From TranscriptionalMechanisms to Myopathies by Dr EdnaHardeman (Children’s Medical ResearchInstitute, Westmead, Sydney). SeminarRoom, 1st Floor, Darling Building.

1.10pm Elder ConservatoriumBach Festival: Fantasia in G major -Christa Rumsey - Organ. Prelude andFugue in E flat minor, Chromatic Fantasyand Fugue in D minor - Kristian Chong -Piano. Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in Dmajor - Elder Conservatorium ChamberOrchestra. Admission $2 at the door.Elder Hall.

2.00pm Electrical & ElectronicEngineering Seminar: HighRobustness and Reliability of Fuzzy LogicBased Position Estimation for SensorlessSwitched Reluctance Motor Drives byAdrian Cheok (National University ofSingapore). Willoughby Room EM 324,Engineering Building.

2.00pm Social Inquiry Seminar:Minimum Wages and Employment forYoung Workers in Australia by Grant

Belchamber (Economist, ACTU).Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, 10 Pulteney St.

4.00pm Economics Seminar:Does International Trade SynchronizeBusiness Cycles? by Dr Heather Anderson(Monash University). Eric Russell RoomLG14, Napier Building.

4.00pm Obstetrics & Gynae-cology Seminar: Sexual transmission ofHIV by Dr Alison Quayle (Brigham andWomen’s Hospital, Harvard MedicalSchool, Harvard). Seminar Room, 6thFloor, Medical School North.

5.30pm Health PsychologySeminar: Wound healing: Psychology ofpostoperative recovery by Professor JohnWeinman (Guy’s Hospital, London).Room 50, Level 2, Eleanor HarraldBuilding, RAH.

2.30pm Elder ConservatoriumConcert: Farewell Concert for BerylKimber & Clemens Leske. Concert willfeature: Beryl Kimber - Violin, ClemensLeske - Piano, Clemens Leske jnr - Pianoand Janis Laurs - Cello. Works bySchubert, Franck, Liszt, Schumann andLutoslawski. Tickets from BASS 131 246.Elder Hall.

12noon Plant Science Seminar:Title to be advised, by Dr Glen McDonald(Plant Science). Charles HawkerConference Centre, Waite Campus.

1.00pm Microbiology & Immun-ology Seminar: Dancing with cytotoxicT cells by Dr Andreas Suhrbier(Queensland Institute of MedicalResearch, Brisbane). DepartmentalLibrary, 5th Floor, Medical School South.

1.10pm Law Seminar Series -Intention in Law & Philosophy:Discrimination law, intention and theother by Professor Margaret Thornton (LaTrobe University). Room 216, LigertwoodBuilding.

1.10pm Geographical &Environmental Studies Seminar:Information, understanding and wisdom:the case of flooding and dryland salinisa-tion in the Upper Southeast of SouthAustralia by Dr Derek Smith and MaxFoale (Geographical & EnvironmentalStudies). Room 104, EnvironmentalStudies Building.

4.00pm Soil & Water Seminar:Arbuscular mycorrhiza community andDNA probe for two species by ZaidaAntoniolli (Soil & Water). Room 301,Prescott Building, Waite Campus.

12.30pm General PracticePresentation: By Dr David Petchell.Seminar Room, Level 2, Eleanor HarraldBuilding, RAH. Bring your lunch.

1.00pm Social Inquiry Seminar:Embodying Strangers by Dr Sara Ahmed

(Institute for Women’s Studies, Universityof Lancaster). Seminar Room, 3rd Floor,10 Pulteney Street.

1.10pm Horticulture, Viticulture& Oenology Seminar: Wine making inthe Middle Ages by Dr Lynn Martin(History). Plant Research CentreAuditorium, Waite Campus.

1.10pm Genetics Seminar: PhDupdates by Sonia Donati and AlyssaHarley. Seminar Room, Ground Floor,Fisher Building.

1.30pm European StudiesSeminar: Count Mörner in Australia byJane Mitta. Room 723, Hughes Building.

4.00pm Physiology Seminar:Potentiation by acidosis of the hypoxia-evoked secretion of catecholamines from pheochromocytoma cells by DrMichael Roberts (Physiology). SeminarRoom N416-417, Level 4, Medical SchoolNorth.

4.10pm Environmental BiologySeminar: Structural and functionaldiversity in mycorrhizas by Andrew Smith(Environmental Biology). BenhamLecture Theatre, Ground Floor, BenhamLaboratories.

12.05pm Psychology Seminar:Support issues for people with anintellectual disability by Mary Sutherland(Postgraduate structured program).Room 527, Hughes Building.

7.45pm Field Geology Club BrianDaily Memorial Lecture: GreatAustralian Bight - The Nullarbor Cliffs of Yesterday by Dr Yvonne Bone (Geology& Geophysics). Mawson Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, MawsonLaboratories.

10.00am Social Inquiry Seminar:Time and Type A personality: life on thecardiac ward by Eileen Willis (P/G,Labour Studies). Seminar Room, 3rdFloor, 10 Pulteney Street.

11.30am Social Inquiry Seminar:Ficto criticism and women writers inAustralia by Ros Prosser (P/G, Women’sStudies). Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, 10Pulteney Street.

1.10pm Elder ConservatoriumLunch Hour Concert: Carolyn Lam -Violin, Stefan Ammer - Piano. Works byBeethoven and Ravel. Admission $2 at thedoor. Elder Hall.

1.30pm Asian Studies/ARCHSSForum: 50 Years of the People’s Republicof China: Towards Democracy andHuman Rights. Council Room, Level 7,Hughes Building. 4.30pm Close. RSVPby 8 October with Michelle Matthews,8303 5815, email: <michelle.matthews@adelaide.edu.au>. Enquiries: ProfPurnendra Jain, 8303 4688, email:<purnendra.jain@adelaide.edu.au>.

2.00pm Social Inquiry Seminar:Unions at Work: the challenge for unionsto create a fair and just society - Report ofthe 1999 ACTU overseas delegation byGreg Combet (Assistant Secretary,ACTU). Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, 10Pulteney Street.

4.00pm Obstetrics & Gynae-cology Seminar: The role of theseminal plasma in mammalianreproduction by Dr Kelton Tremellen(Lyell McEwin Health Service). SeminarRoom, 6th Floor, Medical School North.

TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER

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Bank Account forSalary Payments

The University is in the process ofimplementing a new HumanResource/Payroll System whichwill become effective later thisyear.

Direct credit of net salaries intobank accounts has been availablefor over 10 years and is a moreefficient and secure method ofpayment than issuing cheques.Salary deposits can be accessedprior to 9am on the pay day,whereby financial institutionsrequire a three day clearance oncheques. Provided correct bank/building society/credit unionaccount details are supplied to thePayroll Office the salary paymentscannot be lost or depositedincorrectly.

In order to facilitate effectivechange over to the new system, theUniversity has adopted a newpolicy that all employees willrequire an account with aBank/Credit Union/BuildingSociety for direct credits of salary.

Departmental Managers andFinance Officers are asked toensure that new staff (especiallycasual staff) complete a BANKCREDIT AUTHORITY form,available on the Web at:<http://www.adelaide.edu.au/HR/forms.htm>, when theycommence duty to ensure thatthere are no delays in salarypayments to staff in their area.

Should you have any queriescontact Doris Riffel phone 83036378) or Karen Jenkins (83036256), Project Endeavour Office.

STEVE DAYSHGeneral Manager, Human Resources

DAVID CARVERFinancial Controller

Australian SkepticsEureka Prize forCritical Thinking

The Australian Museum hasinvited the University to nominatecandidates for the AustralianSkeptics Eureka Prize for CriticalThinking to be awarded in 2000.

This Prize, which has a value of$10,000, is awarded for work by ascholar that “investigatesbeliefs/values/ understandingsthat owe little or nothing to thescientific method”.

PLEASE NOTE: the Universityhas just been informed that thisaward is no longer restricted tothose under 35 years of age.

Past winners and finalists havebeen drawn from a range ofdisciplines and have submittedwork spanning hypnosis,commercial forecasting, evidence-based medicine, media influence,risk perception, the course ofevolution and challenges toscientific method itself.

Contact Peter Franklin, Office ofthe Deputy Vice-Chancellor(Research), ext 33242 or theirFaculty Office by 31 October.

The Stephen Colethe Elder Prize forExcellence inTeaching 1999

The Stephen Cole the Elder Prizesfor Excellence in Teaching recogniseand reward outstanding teaching.The prizes are awarded annually toacademic staff whose teaching isregarded by students and academiccolleagues as being of excellentquality.

Applications are invited for the1999 Stephen Cole the ElderPrizes for Excellence in Teachingat the University of Adelaide. TheStephen Cole the Elder Prizes forExcellence in Teaching will com-prise three prizes for undergrad-uate teaching, one of which will beawarded to an applicant in thefirst five years of their teachingcareer, and one for postgraduateteaching. Each prize will consistof a monetary award of $5,000and a certificate presented at thecommemoration ceremonies. Theprize money is to be used by thewinners to help them with thefurther development of theirteaching activities.

Each winner will be required toagree with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) onappropriate form of disseminationof their achievements in teaching(which might include a seminar,an article for the Adelaideanand/or a web-page article).Candidates with at least two years’service to the University in ateaching position are eligible fornomination by their students andacademic colleagues. Teachinggroups may also be nominated.

Nominations will be consideredby a selection committeeconvened by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) andconsisting of student andacademic staff representatives.

Nominations are now sought forThe Stephen Cole the Elder Prizesfor Excellence in Teaching for1999. Guidelines and nominationforms can be obtained from MarieReitano, Office of the DeputyVice-Chancellor (Education),Room G04, Mitchell Building, tel:35511, fax: 35150, email:<marie.reitano@adelaide.edu.au>or downloaded from the DeputyVice-Chancellor’s web-site:<http://www.adelaide.edu.au/DVC/quality/stephen_cole_prize.html>.

Nominations must reach theOffice of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) byMonday 29 November 1999.

S I T U A T I O N SV A C A N T

NOTICE TO APPLICANTS: Applicants for all positions shouldretain the relevant reference number and watch the “Notice toApplicants” column in the Adelaidean for advice about the fillingof the position.

The University notifies applicants that the following vacancies forHigher Education Officers (HEO) with the reference numbers asstated have been filled and thanks them for their interest: 3062HEO3, Agronomy & Farming Systems; 2761 HEO6, Faculty ofHealth Sciences; 3817 HEO4, Chemistry; 4358 HEO2,Environmental Biology; 3357 HEO2, Barr Smith Library; 4447HEO3, Genetics; 2370 HEO4, School of Law.

EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION

HUMAN RESOURCES DEADLINES FOR ADELAIDEAN

For the Adelaidean of 18 October 1999, advertising paper workmust be received in Human Resources by 1 October 1999.

For the Adelaidean of 1 November 1999, advertising paper workmust be received in Human Resources by 15 October 1999.

G E N E R A LN O T I C E S

For further information about the following vacancies please refer toHuman Resources’ Web page at <http://www.adelaide.edu.au/HR/advpos.htm> or the contact person named in the advertisement.

Please note that applications, in duplicate, addressing theselection criteria and quoting the relevant reference number shouldinclude names and full addresses of three referees. The address forapplications is C/- the Department or Officer named in theadvertisement. Selection criteria and applicable dutystatements may be obtained from the contact officer namedin the advertisement.

Applications for the following vacancies are not restricted tomembers of the University.

LECTURERS LEVEL B (Ref: 1371/7130)SENIOR LECTURER LEVEL C (Ref: 1385)(Three tenurable positions)

School of Economics

Salary $48,435 - $57,518/$59,332 - $68,415

The three positions are available from 1 February 2000. Furtherinformation including the selection criteria may be obtained fromElizabeth Geddes, School Manager, School of Economics, telephone:(08) 8303 4499, fax: (08) 8223 1460 or email:elizabeth.geddes@adelaide.edu.au

Applications close 19 November 1999.

STUDENT SERVICES LEADERSHIP ROLESSalary: HEO 8 - 10 $48,000 to $60,000 depending on relevant experience and/or qualifications.

• Manager, Student Centre*

• Manager, Student Support Services*

• Manager, Student Recruitment Branch

• Student Interests Adviser

• Manager, Administrative Services Branch

• Manager, Student Services Policy Branch

*These positions are for a fixed-term of eighteen months and theremaining positions are continuing. Applicants should specify whichposition(s) they wish to apply for in their application.

Duty statements and selection criteria are available from Rowan AshbyConsulting, telephone: 8331 3763, fax: 8331 3658 or email:Rowan.Ashby@hotboot.com.au

Applications close 8 October 1999.

IT & T SUPPORT OFFICER(Ref: 7156)Graduate School of Management and School of Commerce

Salary HEO 5/6: $31,803 - $41,959

This continuing position is available immediately. Further informationincluding the duty statement and selection criteria may be obtainedfrom Jade O’Donohue, telephone: 8303 5525; email:jodonohue@gsm.adelaide.edu.au

Applications close 8 October 1999.

Coloured campus mapsCampus maps are due for their annual update.

Please check your department’s listing on the relevant NorthTerrace, Waite, Roseworthy or Thebarton Campus maps.

Provide a photocopy of the appropriate portion of the map andindex, clearly highlighting the proposed corrections and alterations.

Please forward this information to Brenton Kalz, Property ServicesBranch.

The deadline for correction submissions is Friday 12 November1999.

200 Faces Club:fundraisingmembershipThe 200 Faces Club is a groupof people who independentlyfundraise for the AustralianCraniofacial Foundation.

Each individual member pays a$10 joining fee and then makesa commitment to raise at least$100 during the year.

Membership for social clubs is$30 and the many companieswho have joined offer theirsupport by raising moneyorganising such things as casualdays, staff BBQs or other eventsinvolving employees.

Shandelle Woods the 200 FacesClub coordinator is a formerpatient of the unit and knowsthrough firsthand experiencethe vital work done by thededicated team.

For more information pleasecall Shandelle on 8267 4128.

This is a great way to encourageteam spirit, have fun and at thesame time support a worth-while world recognised charity.

Interested inCricket?AUCC desperately requires aperson (student, academic oranyone) as Practice andRegistration Coordinator.

AUCC competes in the AGrade SACA competition andfields 7 teams.

The successful applicant willattend cricket practice at theUniversity Oval on Tuesdaysand Thursdays between 5.00pmand 7.30pm and coordinatepractices and registration of allplayers.

Access to a computer would beof assistance, as would somecricket knowledge orexperience. The position ispaid.

Enquiries to the Secretary, GregHowe, 8212 488 wk or email:<greg@daenkeodonovan.com.au>.

Missed thedeadline?For all the latest news see theonline bulletin boards at<http://online.adelaide.edu.au>available to staff and students ofthe University.

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LINCOLN COLLEGE(AFFILIATED WITH THE UNIVERSITY OFADELAIDE)

Applications are invited from suitably qualified womenand men for the positions in the College in 2000 of:

Residential Tutor(s)Lincoln College is a residential college for tertiary students located inparkland 15 minutes walk from the University of Adelaide and theUniversity of South Australia. It operates under the auspices of theUniting Church. The College community includes both local,interstate and international students from some twenty countries.

Residential tutors should be willing to provide academic assistance,intellectual leadership and pastoral support to the resident membersof the College. Applicants should be mature, academically able,enthusiastic people willing to play a leadership role in College life.They should be committed to the goals of collegiate living and havean understanding of the problems and needs of students living awayfrom home. Significant training is provided.

The position of Residential Tutor is part-time and is thereforeparticularly suited to junior members of academic staff, post-graduate students or senior undergraduates with a demonstratedrecord of leadership and academic success.

Remuneration is by way of substantial rebates on residential fees.Applications should be lodged by 15 October 1999. The Collegereserves the right not to appoint or to appoint by invitation.

For further information or application forms contact the College on(08) 8290 6000 or write to: The Principal, Lincoln College, 45Brougham Place, North Adelaide, SA 5006 or email: <p_gunn@lincoln.college.adelaide.edu.au>.

ASIAN STUDIES/ARCHSS FORUM

50 Years of the People’s Republic of China:Towards Democracy and Human Rights

The Centre for Asian Studies in conjunction with ARCHSS cordiallyinvite you to attend this public forum on Friday 15 October 199,1.30pm - 4.30pm, Council Room, Level 7, Hughes Building.

The forum will be chaired by Professor Purnendra Jain and speakerswill include: Professor Mary O’Kane (Vice-Chancellor); ProfessorBill Jenner (Head of Asian Studies, ANU); Associate ProfessorChristopher Findlay (Director, Chinese Economies Research Centre);Dr Carney Fisher (Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies); Dr Greg O’Leary(Senior Lecturer, Politics); Dr Ann Ken (Contemporary ChinaCentre, ANU); and Dr Felix Patrikeeff (Lecturer, Politics).

Enquiries to: Professor Purnendra Jain, Asian Studies, tel 8303 4688or email: <purnendra.jain@adelaide.edu.au>.

Please RSVP by Friday 8 October 1999 to Michelle Matthews, AsianStudies, tel 8303 5815, email: <michelle.mattthews@adelaide.edu.au>.

Amnesty International BBQAmnesty International Australia, University ofAdelaide Group, is holding a Fund RaisingBBQ on 6 October 1999, 12-2pm on the BarrSmith Lawns. Proceeds will assist East TimorHuman Rights Campaign. Details from:Christopher Wainwright, tel 8297 2048.

Review of South Australian Centre of Economic StudiesThe University of Adelaide and The Flinders University of South Australia are to conduct a review of theSouth Australian Centre for Economic Studies, a centre owned jointly by the two Universities.

The Terms of Reference are to review the Centre with regard to the following issues:

1. The extent to which the Strategic Plan and objectives of the Centre tie into and complement the Strategic Plans of its two “owner” Universities.

2. The extent to which the Strategic Plan and objectives of the Centre are being fulfilled including:• the relevance, quality and balance of research versus consulting within the Centre;• the balance between local and non-local business;• the balance between industry and government business.

3. The standing of the Centre in the academic and business communities and with Government.4. Stakeholder relationships including:

• the relationship between the Centre and the Schools of Economics at the Flinders University and the University of Adelaide, and their respective Faculties;

• the possibility of participation by the University of South Australia;• the relationship with the South Australian Government.

5. The financial relationships between the Centre and the Universities and whether these are appropriate.6. The Centre’s constitution, mission statement and managerial structure including:

• the role of Director;• the reporting relationships;• the composition of the Centre’s committees.

7. Future strategic directions and opportunities for the Centre.

The members of the Review Panel are: Professor Keith Hancock (Convener), Honorary Research Fellow,Department of Economics, The University of Adelaide; Dr Barry Hughes, Consultant Economist (formerChief Economist, Credit Suisse First Boston & Professor of Economics, University of Newcastle); and MsJune Roach, CEO, SA Lotteries Commission.

Submissions are being invited from members of the University for consideration by the Review Panel.Interested members are asked to address the specific issues as stated in the Terms of Reference andindicate if they wish to meet with the Review Panel during its on-campus visit in early November.Submissions need to be sent to the secretary of the Review (Eliza Chui, Manager, Research Policy, TheUniversity of Adelaide) by Friday, 15 October 1999.

Lecture: The Beauty Therapist, TheMechanic, The Geoscientist and The Librarian:Speaker: Associate Professor Rosemary Hunter(University of Melbourne). 5.00pm - 7.00pm, 20October 1999, University of SA Brookman Hall, CityEast Campus. Light refreshments after presentation.RSVP for catering purposes to: EO Unit, UniSA, tel8302 1758, fax 8302 1500.

Research Branch UpdateCSIRO DIVISION OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND THEUNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE: Collaborative Grants Program2000: Closing date extended until: 22 October 1999. Guidelines andapplication proforma are available on the Research Branch web site:<http://www.adelaide.edu.au/RB>. Enquiries: Daniela De Nichilo,Ph: 8303 5051; Fax: 8303 3700 email: <daniela.denichilo@adelaide.edu.au>.

1999 Research Management Conference: Adelaide will behost to the first, multi-sectoral Research Management Conferencefrom 24 - 26 November 1999. While this conference will be of greatinterest to research administrators working within universities,research administrators from hospitals and research institutes, CRC’s,government, CSIRO and other agencies will also benefit from theprogram. Issues will address research policy, funding,commercialisation and collaboration, research management,regulations and probity, and career development. It will also see thelaunch of a professional society of research administrators forAustralasia. Details: Conference Web Site at:<www.hartleymgt.com.au/urmc> or Janet Dibb-Smith ext 35551;<janet.dibbsmith@adelaide.edu.au>.

Statistical Consulting GroupWe regret to announce that the Statistical Consulting Group willcease to take new clients from the end of September 1999 untilfurther notice. Existing clients will continue to be provided with aservice until the end of November.

This has been caused by a number of factors, including:

• the decreasing central subsidy for the service;• the longterm and continuing sick leave of our full-time

consultant, Phil Leppard;• the imminent departure of Professor Richard Jarrett, who

leaves in December to join CSIRO in Melbourne; and• the amalgamation of the Department of Statistics into the

Department of Applied Mathematics.

It is not expected that the ‘Statistics in the Workplace’ course will beprovided next year.

The Group has done over $1.2m in consulting work since 1991, bothwithin and outside the University. It has been involved in manyacademic research projects throughout the University, and a numberof large projects with the administrative areas, including the StaffSurvey, the Student Survey and an extensive study of the FairwayScheme. We have enjoyed our association with many colleagues, andhope that the service might be re-introduced at a later date.

RICHARD JARRETHead, Department of Statistics

WHAT’S ON ATUrrbrae House HistoricPrecinct, Waite Campus

GUIDED TOURS: 1st Sundayof every month. Waite Arbor-etum: 11am, cost $2. UrrbraeHouse Historic Precinct: 2pm,cost $4. 4 October (LabourDay): Urrbrae House will beopen all day with exhibitions inevery room plus afternoon teasin the Dining Room.

EXHIBITIONS: BronzeSculpture (Liquid MetalStudios): Tues-Sun, 10am-4pmuntil 15 October.

On the Surface (Textile art byPainted Ladies): 11am-4pmdaily until 15 October.

Student Evaluation of TeachingThe Advisory Centre for University Education (ACUE) provides aservice to all University teaching staff who wish to evaluate theirteaching. This service is known as Student Evaluation of Teaching(SET). Staffing wishing to use SET for the first time should contactthe Evaluation Service Office, ext 33496/ 33023, for a copy of thepackage. The SET package contains a User Manual, appropriateevaluation request forms, and some information concerningapplications for promotion and tenure. The service is free of chargeand is available to all teaching staff of the University.

Due to high demand for SET questionnaires, and to the fact that the Evaluation Service is currently staffed by one full-timeperson only, please send your evaluation request forms to the ACUEat least four weeks prior to the planned date of your evaluation. Itis ACUE policy that all requests are placed in a queue determinedstrictly by date of receipt. Requests which do not allow sufficient leadtime may not be processed. We recognise that occasionally therewill be circumstances where a staff member will need to request anevaluation service but cannot give the required minimum notice. Inthese cases a service will be provided within 5 working days and apriority fee of $75 charged.

BOOKSALE The Barr Smith Library will be holding its half-yearly sale of‘pre-loved’ books in the Ira Raymond Room on Tuesday, 12October 1999 from 9.00am - 5.00pm.

Musicological Society ofAustralia SA Chapter, Inc inassociation with the ElderConservatorium, School ofPerforming Artsinvites postgraduate studentsinvolved in music research toapply for the inaugural

The Naomi CummingPostgraduateMusicology PrizeRequirement: A 25 minutepaper to be presented at theMSA SA Chapter PostgraduateMusicology Seminar Day onSaturday, 4 December 1999.Brochures and applicationsfrom the Elder ConservatoriumOffice or the Performing ArtsLibrary or from, ChristopherWainwright, 8297 2048.Applications close: Friday 8October 1999.

Research Grants & Fellowships

The following is a list of grant, fellow-ship and other research fundingschemes currently available forapplication. A detailed electronicversion of this listing (Update:Research), together with guidelines andapplication forms for some of themajor schemes, are available at:<http://www.adelaide.edu.au/RB/>.For hard copy application forms andguidelines contact the ResearchBranch, ext 35137; or email<renae.minerds@adelaide.edu.au>.Sponsored Programs InformationNetwork (SPIN): SPIN Australia - Adatabase containing current andcomprehensive information on over 2,600government and private fundingopportunities. The SPIN web site is accessiblevia the Research Branch web site.

National Institute of Mental Health, USA- Pathological Gambling: Basic, Clinicaland Services - Research Grants:Internal closing date: 5 October 1999. Website: <http://www.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-98-106.html>.

National Cancer Institute / NationalInstitute on Aging, USA - DiagnosticImaging and Guided Therapy inProstate Cancer (Phased InnovationAward): Internal closing date: 6 October1999. Web site: <http://www.grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-99-015.html>.

Criminology Research Council -Research Grants: Internal closing dates: 8October 1999.

Garnett Passe and Rodney WilliamsMemorial Foundation Awards for 2000· Senior/Principle Research

Fellowship· Overseas Research Fellowship· Project GrantsInternal closing date: 8 October 1999

University of New South Wales - ViceChancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship

Program: Internal closing date: 8 October1999. Web site: <http://www.ro.unsw.edu.au/develop/vcpdf.htm>.

Australian Rotary Health ResearchFund - Research into the Preventionand/or Treatment of Malaria: Internalclosing date: 15 October 1999. Web site:<http://www.rotarnet.com.au>.

AMRAD Corporation Ltd - 2000 PostDoctoral Awards: Internal closing date: 15October 1999.

RITE - Research Institute of InnovativeTechnology for the Earth - GlobalEnvironment Research Proposals 2000:Internal closing date: 15 October 1999.

University College of London, MenziesCentre for Australian Studies:Australian Bicentennial FellowshipsScheme: Internal closing date: 15 October1999. Web site: <http://www.austudies.org/menzies/>.

Brain Foundation NSW - 1999Parkinson’s Research Grants: Internalclosing date: 22 October 1999.

CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition /University of Adelaide - CollaborativeGrants Program 2000: Extended closingdate: 22 October 1999.

Dairy Research and DevelopmentCorporation - General Training andDevelopment: Internal closing dates: 22October 1999 & 20 March 2000

Ian Potter Foundation - The SunderlandAward: Internal closing date: 22 October1999

The Royal Society of Victoria - Medalfor Scientific Research 1999: Internalclosing date: 22 October 1999

BHP - Community Trust and CommunitySupport Programs: Internal closing date:25 October 1999. Web site: <http://www.bhp.com.au/>.

Sir Mark Mitchell Research Foundation- Research Projects 2000: Internalclosing date: 25 October 1999.

Schoarships

Unless otherwise stated, informationand applications are available from theStudent Information Office, Level 4,Wills Building, or call ext 33044/35697/35271. Lodge all applicationswith the Student Information Officeunless otherwise stated.Adelaide Summer Research Scholar-ships: Available for students to undertake aresearch project for six weeks during the1999/2000 summer vacation at the Universityof Adelaide. They are to encourage advancedundergraduate students to consider under-taking postgraduate study leading to a careerinvolving research. Value: $900 + allowancefor interstate students. Applications availableon request or from the website at <http://www.adelaide.edu.au/GSSO>. Closing: 15October (Student Centre)

Australian Biological Resources Study -Postgraduate Research Scholarship:Offered to fund taxonomic research in areaswhich contribute to the understanding ofAustralia’s biological diversity; provide asound biosystematic foundation for ecologicalresearch and monitoring in significantecosystems, particularly in aquatic habitats(both marine and freshwater); soil & forests;have a high conservation status; are ofeconomic significance; provide insight crucialto the understanding of world flora andfauna. Closing: 25 October (Student Centre)

Commonwealth Scholarship &Fellowship Plan - UK Awards 2000:Open to Australian students wishing toundertake postgraduate study in the UKcommencing in the 2000 academic year.Closing: 22 October (Student Centre)

Diana Medlin Scholarship: Offersfinancial support for up to one year of full-time study for a student re-entering tertiaryeducation at honours (or equivalent) levelafter a break of three or more years sincecompletion of his or her undergraduatequalification, and who intends to proceed to aresearch degree. Value: $16,135pa (tax free).

Closing: 31 October (Student Centre)

Fujitsu Asia Pacific ScholarshipProgram: The scholarship aims to providepostgraduate education and cross-culturalmanagement training. Scholars will attend a15-month Japan-focussed MBA or China-focussed MBA, or the four month JAIMSIntercultural Management Program. Closing:25 October (NSW)

George Murray Scholarship: Open toAdelaide graduates to undertake further post-graduate study or postdoctoral research inapproved unis or other institutions outsideAustralia. Postdoctoral candidates must holda PhD awarded by Adelaide Uni or expect tosubmit a thesis for PhD by 31 October 1999.Closing: 31 October (Student Centre)

Grains Research & Development Corp:Open for Undergraduate Honours Scholar-ships and Research Industry Scholarships for2000. Applications available on request or viathe GRDC web page: <http:www.grdc.com.au/ grdc/info-paper/index.html>. Closing:22 October (Student Centre)

Land & Water Resources R & DCPostgraduate Research Scholarships2000: Value: $23,000pa to supportpostgraduate research in areas of naturalresource management; and legal research.Closing: 22 October (Student Centre)

Nancy Mills PhD Scholarship: Awardedto a graduate in agriculture or relatedresource sciences who is eligible to enrol forPhD at a Victorian university. Value:$20,500pa + $2,000pa travel. Closing: 18October (Vic)

Vintage Cellars Retail ManagementScholarship: Open to enrolled full-timehonours students majoring in winemarketing, to encourage further studies andresearch in liquor retail management. Value:$8000pa. Selection based on academicachievement, technical knowledge andcommunication skills, and interest andpotential in pursing further studies & researchin liquor retail management. Closing: 31October (Student Centre)

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A N D O T H E R F U N D I N G S C H E M E S

R E S E A R C H A N D S C H O L A R S H I P S

L U M I N I S S N A P S H O T SLuminis Pty Ltd is the CommercialCompany for the University ofAdelaide

Breastfeeding in the WorkplaceThe University’s Department of PublicHealth, in conjunction with our BusinessDevelopment Manager, Mr Andrew Cecilhave been successful in winning a FederalGovernment contract to develop anddistribute material for the Government’sinitiative on combining breastfeeding andpaid employment.

Under the management of Dr EllenMcIntyre, the project will produce aninformation kit to be distributed to over50,000 workplaces nationally. Her projectteam includes representatives from the StateDepartment of Health and the SAEmployers Chamber of Commerce andIndustry.

Bresagen FloatThis is a milestone for Luminis and theUniversity of Adelaide as it represents theirfirst float of a spin-off enterprise into apublic company. On Tuesday 21 September,Bresagen Ltd was listed on the AustralianStock Exchange with a market value inexcess of $30,000,000.

Peter Hart, Luminis’ MD and a member ofthe Board of Bresagen reports theimportance of the float in terms of researchfunding for Professor Peter Rathgen and theDepartment of Biochemistry.

“Over the next three years Bresagen willprovide over $6,000,000 for their researchinto stem cells and their potential forproviding a path towards finding a cure forsome of society’s most debilitatingdiseases,” he said.

Capability Seminar for InsuranceLoss AdjustersRecently the Engineering Departments gavea powerful presentation on their capabilitiesin providing consulting and testing servicesto the monthly meeting of the AustralianInstitute for Chartered Loss Adjusters.

The Insurance Industry often needs expertadvice on technical matters in insuranceclaims, and the Engineering Departmentsare often called upon for this.

Five groups presented at the dinnermeeting, illustrating their presentationswith graphic images of product orcomponent failures. The 30-plus LossAdjusters present were kept interested forover one and a half hours, and were thengiven binders filled with detailedinformation on the capabilities of EngTest,ChemEngTest, MechEngTest, ElecEngTestand the Centre for Electron Microscopy andMicrostructure Analysis.

The purpose of the presentation was two-fold. Firstly, as some of the Loss Assessorspresent were already using the testingservices, this was an opportunity to remindthem of the breadth and depth of ourexpert services. Secondly the CapabilitySeminar was an opportunity to promote theservices to those who were unaware of whatis available through the University ofAdelaide.

DSTO VisitOn Thursday 16 September over seventyacademic staff from the University of

Adelaide’s Science and Engineeringdepartments spent a productive morning atthe Defence Science and TechnologyOrganisation, Salisbury in dialogue withtheir peers in defence and aerospace. Theforum was based around a joint exhibitionof posters.

Professor Ian Young and Dr Alastair Blake,with the DSTO’s acting Director Dr TonyBedford welcomed the gathering ofscientists, each reinforcing the initiative ofdeveloping more open dialogue betweenresearchers of both institutions.

“The real benefits for Adelaide Universitywill come from the DSTO contracting ourresearchers to assist in their work, andfuture joint collaborative projects whichmight develop,” Professor Young said.

From DSTO’s perspective Dr Bedford high-lighted the value in Adelaide graduatesapplying for positions there, but did stressthat only those with first class honoursdegrees usually made it to the interviewstage.

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Dr Tony Parker, Head of the Department ofElectrical and Electronic Engineering givinghis address. DSTO—Show & Tell