newsUWA30 July 2001

Volume 20 Number 10

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

by Lindy Brophy

Juvenile diabetes, one of Western society’s majorchild health problems, has attracted combined

international funding of $3 million, for a col-laborative team at UWA.

Hypoglycaemia (dangerously low blood sugar levels) inchildren is the central focus for the five-year researchprogram, extending across five University departments andPrincess Margaret Hospital.

The team leader is Dr Tim Jones, Head of theDepartment of Endocrinology and Diabetes at PrincessMargaret Hospital. He is co-ordinating the major researchinto hypoglycaemia and how to prevent it in juvenile andadolescent diabetes.

Juvenile diabetes is alsoknown as Type 1 diabetes and is

quite different from Type 2 diabetes, which is contractedlater in life and is easier to treat. Type 1 diabetes, acondition characterised by the loss of the ability to makeinsulin, is an incurable, life-long disease that is affectingmore children and babies every year. Until the discovery ofinsulin, being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes used to bethe equivalent of receiving a death sentence.

It is still a serious illness. If while treated with insulinblood sugar is allowed to drop too low (hypoglycaemia), thiscan cause irreparable brain damage. If instead blood sugar iskept too high (hyperglycaemia) for several years, it canresult in complications such as blindness, cardiovascular

diseases and kidney failure.It is a complicated disease.

$3 million fordiabetes research

Continued on page 6Exercise, so good for most children,can become disastrous for children

with diabetes

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 30 JULY 2001

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

VCariousthoughts …

Here is a shocker of a question which even fierceCornelia Francis is unlikely to put to the

sweating contestants on The Weakest Link!

What do the following recent events have in common – theUWA campus in July, the violent images from the G8 forumin Italy, the Federal Treasurer’s bold statement about tradeliberalisation, the Opposition Leader’s comprehensive visionof a Knowledge Nation, and the ABC public lecture by theDeputy Director of the World Bank analysing globalisationand education?

Beginning at the easy end, Professor Mamphela Ramphele(former VC of the University of Cape Town and now incharge of global education at the World Bank) arguedpowerfully that while no society could hold back‘globalisation’, it had the opportunity to influence its impactprovided it had the capacity – not only political butintellectual. Kim Beazley has put forward a great challengefor Australia to commit itself to an investment in education(and research) as a basis for long-term nationaldevelopment. Peter Costello has, as Treasurer, set outstarkly the public policy choices we face economically inaddressing globalisation, and from the G8 Forum we vividlysee played out the divisive drama over globalisation andinternational inequality of peoples.

As to UWA … our campus calm is deceptive, in the sensethat over July we have been hosts to exciting majorconferences, both in sciences and arts, which have broughttogether scholars from across the nation and the world.

I had the good fortune to be involved in the official launchingand plenary addresses of several such internationalconferences at UWA. These scholarly meetings reinforcethe profound sense that knowledge is an internationalphenomena. And that for the advancement of ourresearchers, for the work of our post-graduate students,and for the ‘scholarship of discovery’ which informs ourteaching and learning, we vitally need to be involved in thatglobal network of scholars, academics, research centres andworld-class universities where new knowledge ‘happens’.Not to be involved is now to commit a kind of intellectualsuicide. This is why we put such considerable resourcesbehind study leaves, travel and research grants, special fundsfor the hosting of conferences and the support for thepublication of scholarly journals, quite apart from resourcingthe UWA Press and the Institute of Advanced Studies.

Such scholarly commitment and funding is the UWA way ofrecognising not only the inherently international nature oftop class research, but more than that: the growinginterdependence of nations and economies, societies andcultures. Universities play an increasingly critical role in

empowering their communities to deal with the challengesand threats, opportunities and imperatives of a globalisingera in human history.

UWA already has a great ‘network’ of internationalconnections through individual scholars, research teams andfaculty linkages overseas.

But this new era poses new challenges for the adequacy ofthose informal sets of connections.

Most immediately, the new quality agency will soon be askingus to detail the ways in which we assure an internationallevel of performance in the University. Our conferences, ouruse of external reviewers and examiners, our publications inmajor journals will all point in the right direction. But theywill be no substitute for ‘strategic partnerships’ withsignificant research-led universities of global standing –where we can directly compare performance and enhanceperformance. Equally, as research becomes painfully costly,so a capacity to access other research cultures will becritical for our small national research environment. An easyinterchange of our staff, and our students, will also be vital ingiving the kind of global and cross-cultural experience thatwill shape the ethos of the best Australian campuses in thisnew millennium.

Developing such a network of formal connections, leading tosome form of global alliance-network, is a bold step for allgood universities. Our strength has so often been ‘local’ inresourcing, support and growth. But the dynamic universityof the new globalised era will, I believe, work naturallyacross national boundaries.

Now that our internal re-structuring into new Schools andFaculties begins to become a positive reality, turning ourAcademic Profile into a bold new configuration of disciplines,we can advance our internationalisation strategy, in terms ofour global role and networks.

The challenge for UWA – and Australia – is to build thestrongest of international linkages.

orWeakest link

Strongest Linkages?

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 30 JULY 2001

UWA news 3

Western Australia is set to become aworld leader in community

participation in the development of humangenome research.

Genomics, Society and Human Health, anambitious 18-month project, sponsored by theInstitute of Advanced Studies, is a hugeprofessional and community education program,designed to explore every avenue of genomicresearch and involve the public in its development.

Academics from 17 departments and centres atUWA are involved, as well as postgraduate studentsand the health industry.

Speakers from across the country and around theworld will address the myriad of issues involved ingenetic research, on a scale unprecedented in this state.

There will be many public events, workshops, lecturesand opportunities for the community at large to becomeinvolved in this research which will have such a huge impacton humankind.

Chair of the program council, Professor D’Arcy Holman,said the program was an important developmental process,bringing together the scientific and biomedical disciplineswith law and humanities groups in shared learning and thejoint creation of a foundation for excellence in humangenome research.

“The project will also create and strengthen national andinternational networks for this research,” Professor Holmansaid.

“But most importantly, we aim to engage the people ofWA, to raise public awareness of the benefits and concerns,to break down academic elitism and to empower educators,journalists, politicians and consumers with knowledge sothey can participate in the future directions of genomics inrelation to society and human health.

“Perth can’t be the world leader in genetic technologybut we can be world leaders in informing our community. Iwould like to see the people of WA the best informed in theworld about the human genome project and all itsramifications,” he said.

A major project on which Professor Holman has beenworking, the linkage system for medical records, providesthe perfect base for population-based genome research.

“But before we move ahead with that, the people of WAmust understand what’s happening so we can have their co-operation.

“There is some research thatcan’t be done in a laboratory. It can only be done in acommunity and I feel that WA could easily become a worldleader in community-based genome research.”

Genomics Society and Human Health will be launched onAugust 14 by the Governor, Lieutenant General JohnSanderson, at the Octagon Theatre.

Professor Grant Sutherland, an award-winning moleculargeneticist from Adelaide will present the opening lecture:The Human Genome Project: Progress and Prospects.

Described as a ‘gene detective’ Professor Sutherland’swork in unravelling genetic codes won him a place in thegroup of 42 scientists from around the world who formedthe Human Genome Organisation in 1998.

Some of the anticipated benefits of genome researchinclude improved diagnosis of disease, earlier detection ofgenetic predisposition to disease, new energy sources,environmental monitoring to detect pollutants, migrationstudies of different population groups based on femalegenetic inheritance, DNA forensics, disease-, insect- anddrought-resistant crops and healthier, more productive farmanimals.

The benefits are as wide-ranging as are the people fromUWA who are involved in this big project: fromanthropology, biochemistry, computer science, law,medicine, microbiology, philosophy, pathology,pharmacology, psychiatry, psychology, anatomy and humanbiology.

THE NEXT BIG BANG …

the humangenomeproject

Chair of the program council,Professor D’Arcy Holman and

program co-ordinator Anne Same

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 30 JULY 2001

Don’t think ‘rocks’ when you go to see the new exhibition

at the Lawrence Wilson ArtGallery.

Although Geo.Images is a collectionof photographic studies on a geologicaltheme, you’ll be amazed at the imagesyou see before you.

A collection of big beautifulcolourful prints that evoke feelings ofspeed or serenity, space or intimacy,have been put together by Jenny Bevan,curator of the E.de C. Clarke GeologyMuseum, from images supplied bygeologists.

They are not straightforwardpictures of mineral groups or

landscapes. Instead they are close-ups or unusual shots which can stand ontheir artistic merits and are not immediately recognisable as geological material.They include images of areas from hundreds of kilometres wide to just 20microns (a few thousandths of a millimetre).

“It’s not meant to be a geological exhibition, but a collection of fabulousevocative images, that will doubly surprise you when you read the labels, “ saidMrs Bevan.

The thirty or so images she has prepared, as part of the gallery’s art accessprogram, range from the hugely magnified surface of a fossilised pollen grain toa piece of Mars: an igneous rock, which fell in Egypt, after being knocked off thesurface of Mars and into an Earth-crossing orbit by an earlier impact.

Geo.Images is the second access exhibition this year, the first being The Art ofthe Christian Icon, presented by the Department of Classics and Ancient History.

Dr Stephanie Green, the gallery’s co-ordinator of the access program, says itis designed to build on the working relationships between the gallery and theUniversity’s departments and centres.

“Calls for proposals for next year’s access exhibitions have already gone outand I urge anybody who is thinking of submitting a proposal to come and talkto me,” Dr Green said.

The Gallery pays installation and labelling costs and helps with publicity,while the departments or centres supply the art (framed or otherwise) readyto exhibit. The gallery aims to present three access exhibitions each year. Thethird for this year will be The Eye Within, photographs by Chris Parry from theLions Eye Institute.

Last year, the gallery collaborated with the Department of Physics on astunning exhibition of images based on gravity called Gravitate.

Geo.Images is on display until September 30.

Rock intothe galleryfor thisone

Jenny Bevan,curator of theE.de C. Clarke

Geology Museumand curator ofthe exhibition,

Geo.Images

Deputy chair of the programcouncil, anthropologist Dr BeverleyMcNamara, said that, with huge medicaland scientific advances, there needed tobe a social perspective.

“The ethical and legal issues arehugely important. What do theseadvances mean for society as whole?Even the scientists say the greatestchallenge lies in the social area. We candeal in some ways more easily with theexplosion of scientific knowledge. Buthow about the big existential questionsabout what it means to be human?”

Dr McNamara’s role, and the role ofthe other humanities experts, is tocontribute to the ethical appraisal ofthe genome project.

Issues such as fairness in the use ofgenetic information by insurers,employers, courts, schools, adoptionagencies, law enforcement and themilitary, and others will be addressed.

Question such as ‘What is normaland what is a disability or disorder andwho decides? Are disabilities diseases?Does searching for a cure demean thelives of individuals presently affected bydisabilities?’ will be canvassed widelyand the involvement of the public inthese discussions is stronglyencouraged.

Institute ofAdvancedStudies’Terri-annWhite

Deputy chairof theprogramcouncil, DrBeverleyMcNamara

Continued from page 3

the human genomeproject

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 30 JULY 2001

UWA news 5

M aria Osman, one of theUniversity’s joint Equity

Managers, has been chosen to be afamily ambassador for WesternAustralia.

The new Labor government’sFamilyOne Ambassadors’ Scheme isaimed at encouraging business,government and community organi-sations to adopt family-friendly practicesand to ensure that children and familiesare valued in our community.

The 10 ambassadors, all high profileindividuals in the community, willpromote those practices and corporatesocial responsibility in their ownworkplaces as well as in the widercommunity.

Ms Osman is a champion of ‘workand family’, her own employment withthe University a brilliant role model.

“When I started this job, it was full-time and I had an 18-month-olddaughter. After six months, I went toFay Gale (then Vice-Chancellor) andtold her it was too much for me,” MsOsman said.

“She asked me what she could do toget me to stay … and I started job-sharing in 1990.”

Maria Osman and Sandy McKnightare the most senior job-sharing pair inthe higher education sector in Australia.They are constantly referred to, held upas models and quizzed and questionedabout their work by other universitiesand employers in other sectors acrossthe country.

They believe they are also thelongest-serving equity managers in anAustralian university.

“The benefits of job-sharingare outstanding: to the job,the University and both ofour lives,” Ms Osman said.

“We believe that we havedone a better job between usthan one person alone couldhave done. We each broughtdifferent experiences, expertiseand ideas to the position,enriching it much more thaneither one of us could have donealone. And neither of us has burntout, as can happen so easily in worklike ours,” she said.

Despite the benefits of job sharingand allowing flexibility for familyresponsibilities, Ms Osman says there

are still some managers within theUniversity who don’t support ‘workand famiy’.

“In the last 10 years the Universityhas achieved a home-based workpolicy, a 42/52 or 48/58 workingweeks combination, flexible hours,and a re-entry program for womenreturning from maternity leave.

“When I first came here, therewas no paternity leave and no paidmaternity leave for general staff. Wefeel we’ve made great advances.

“But we still need to work on theculture, to help managers andemployers to see that the ‘work andfamily’ package is a positive thing, nota negative.”

Ms Osman said some of thepractices across the University couldbe seen as discriminatory and couldeven be breaking the law.

“The percentage of both menand women who combine workwith family responsibilities isgrowing, and we must besupportive. Anecdotal evidencepoints to people leaving their

employment if they are notsupported,” she said.

“The biggest equity challenge forthe beginning of this century is findinga ‘work and life’ balance. Equitymanagers are there to supportpeople in this important role.”

Ms Osman said the Equity booklet,A Guide to Work and Family at theUniversity of Western Australia, was agood working model to which all staffcould refer.

Her role as a FamilyOne ambassadordovetails perfectly with her work at theUniversity and her other voluntary and

community work.Other ambassadors include

Dixie Marshall, a televisionpresenter and mother;Warwick Hemsley, themanaging director of Peet &Co, chair of Kids Help Line(WA) and the Australia DayCouncil and a father of three;Tony Cooke, immediate past

secretary of Unions WA, a fatherand an advocate for more family-friendly workplace practices; andRichard Muirhead, CEO of theTourism Commission and fatherof a young family.

Maria Osman and daughter Ruby, now 13.

EquityManager

livesher

work

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 30 JULY 2001

Several aspects of the researchare being covered by theDepartment of Endocrinology andDiabetes at PMH, the Depart-ments of Psychology, RespiratoryMedicine, Human Movement andExercise Science, and Pathology.

The big picture includesproblems with awareness of hypoglycaemia, what happens tothe brain as a result of hypoglycaemic episodes, and howboth exercise and sleep can trigger episodes ofhypoglycaemia and what to do to prevent them.

“Diabetes is notoriously difficult to treat. It’s extremelyhard to attain the perfect balance in the blood sugar (knownas euglycaemia). If it is not treated adequately, diabetes willresult in devastating long-term complications of blindnessand kidney failure. If it is not treated at all with daily insulininjections, diabetics die,” Dr Tim Jones said.

His team has received joint funding from the NationalHealth and Medical Research Council and the JuvenileDiabetes Foundation (US) of about $2.7 million. This adds toprevious funding for the group from the Juvenile DiabetesFoundation, of $300,000.

Under the wing of the Telethon Institute of Child HealthResearch, the team includes Dr Elizabeth Davis, a paediatricendocrinologist at PMH who is working closely with DrJones, researching the optimal clinical management of youngpeople who have diabetes to prevent them from becominghypoglycaemic.

Sleep expert Dr Stephen Stick from Princess MargaretHospital is studying the risks arising from possiblehypoglycaemic episodes occurring during sleep in youngpeople with diabetes.

And Dr Paul Fournier, a biochemist and exercisephysiologist from the Department of Human Movement andExercise Science, is currently investigating the mechanismsunderlying blood sugar response to physical activity in diabetes.

“Our research program has had a long and productiverecord in the investigation of the problem of hypoglycaemia.

“What we are currently investigating is the criticalquestion of long term effects of severe hypoglycaemia in theyoung child,” Dr Jones said.

“This program will result in a unique combination of theclinical research strengths of the paediatric diabetology team

in WA and the skills and facilities of a talentedinterdisciplinary team of scientists.

“Our aim is to allow the combined forces to tackle thisdifficult question together.”

Dr Elizabeth Davis will focus part of her research on thebody’s protective mechanism against hypoglycaemia.

“Diabetes causes the body to lose some of its naturalprotection against hypoglycaemia. We don’t know why butwe’ll be trying to find out. Also, if you’ve had diabetes forsome years, you tend to lose the ability to detect the onsetof a hypoglycaemic episode. It seems that you lose not onlythe protective mechanism but also the warning signs such astingly fingers and sweating,” Dr Davis said.

“We will be looking at strategies to improve thatawareness in young people with diabetes,” she said.

Dr Stephen Stick, the Head of the Department ofRespiratory Medicine at PMH, says that about 40 per cent ofchildren with diabetes have hypoglycaemic episodes duringtheir sleep.

“This is potentially dangerous because we know that, whileyou’re asleep, your natural ‘fight or flight’ responses are notworking,” Dr Stick said.

“When you’re awake, those responses make you sweaty,pale or hungry when a hypoglycaemic episode is coming on,so you can do something about it. But when you’re asleep,there’s no way you can know, except by monitoring theblood sugar levels of a person with diabetes, during sleep.”

Dr Stick said that nocturnal seizures and sudden death

The Rutter triplets: Annie, Rachel and Lisa, all with juvenilediabetes, are testing an insulin pump, worn continuously, whichmay help to overcome problems with large isolated doses.

The big approach toa major problem

“Diabetes is notoriously difficult totreat. If it is not treated

adequately, diabetes will result indevastating long-term

complications …”

Head of the researchteam, Dr Tim Joneswith Dr ElizabethDavis and Dr StephenStick at PMH

juvenilediabetesresearchcontinued from page 1

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UWA news 7

A fascinating link, and one of potentially majorimportance, between diabetes and memory,

is part of two diabetes research projects.At the same time as the major investigation into

juvenile diabetes, Associate Professor David Bruce andDr Tim Davis, from the Department of GeriatricMedicine at Fremantle Hospital, are co-ordinating a$315,000 Australian Research Council study into the linkbetween diabetes and dementia.

The project will examine whether people withdiabetes show a higher risk of developing dementia inlater life.

Dr Jonathan Foster, senior lecturer in the Departmentof Psychology, is involved in both projects.

“The parts of the brain that are susceptible to changesin blood sugar levels may well be the same parts that areconnected with memory,” Dr Foster said.

“This is something we wish to investigate in detail inthese projects. Alongside the project which focuses onchildren and adolescents, this will investigate the possibleconnection between diabetes and dementia in the elderly.

“When a diabetic person self-administers insulin butomits to regulate his/her diet appropriately then theirblood sugar levels can drop too low and they mayexperience an episode of altered consciousness and evencoma.

“After the hypoglycaemic episode, they often don’tremember what happened. Part of our research aims tofind out if the loss of memory is temporary or if it’scumulative and long-term,” he said.

The study is being conducted with the co-operation ofthe Fremantle Diabetes Study Cohort, a research projectthat has been going for the most of the past decade,surveying diabetes care, complications and management inan aging, multi-ethnic group.

Dr Bruce said the research team started a program ofscreening for cognitive problems early this year.

“There may be a link between cognitive function andhypoglycaemia,” he said. “Anybody in our study groupwhose screening shows abnormalities will undergo furthertesting and we will then be able to look at the links.”

Can diabeteslead to dementia?

Dr Tim Davis (left) and Associate Professor David Bruce …their long-term diabetes study includes a link with dementia.

could occur during sleep amongchildren with diabetes.

His part of the researchproject involves identifying therisks of hypoglycaemic episodesduring sleep and looking atstrategies to monitor them.

The brain, and links betweenhypoglycaemia and memory loss,

is the subject of Dr Jonathan Foster’s research. He is asenior lecturer in Psychology.

Dr Foster said that this project was bringing together peoplewho would not normally be involved in diabetes research.

“To date hypoglycaemia has been a neglected side of thediabetes equation. The onus previously has been to treatdiabetes with insulin to preventhyperglycaemia - or blood sugarlevels that are too high - which canalso have damaging effects. But ifblood sugar levels consequentlydrop too low, the brain could beaffected. And that’s what I aim tofind out: is it affected and, if so, isthe effect specific to memory, and isit acute or chronic?”

Exercise for children with diabetes is a very tricky area.Dr Paul Fournier explains: “Blood sugar is the main fuel forthe brain. But it is also an important fuel for muscles. Whenyou exercise, your muscles use this fuel at higher rates, sochildren with diabetes run a higher risk of becominghypoglycaemic. For instance, during exercise, your bloodsugar level can decrease from normal to dangerously lowlevels within less than 10 minutes,” Dr Fournier said.“Parents try to prevent this by ensuring their children eatbefore they exercise, but, as you can imagine, this is oftenvery difficult to achieve.

“It is difficult to predict the response of blood sugar tophysical activity. For example, during bursts of high intensityexercise, blood sugar levels can actually go up rather thandecreasing.

“We don’t fully understand why this is the case. Thematter is made even more complicated when exercise ofmoderate intensity is combined with several episodes ofhigh intensity exercise. This is the condition typical of mostteam sports. Imagine a child with diabetes playing football,who jogs around for a while, then suddenly does anintensive sprint and leaps for a mark. What will be theresponse of this kid’s blood sugar level. Will it go up ordown? Nobody knows.

“It is our goal to explore systematically the differentfactors affecting blood sugar response to physical activity inchildren with diabetes in order to amass the knowledge togenerate improved guidelines for these children, theirparents and clinicians.”

Dr Tim Jones concludes: “The group hopes to be able todevise strategies that will lessen the impact of hypoglycaemiain diabetes treatment. It is anticipated that this in turn willcontribute to the preven-tion of diabetes complications aswell as reducing the burden of the disease.”

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 30 JULY 2001

I njuries, both accidentaland intentional, account for 15

per cent of deaths and disabilitiesworldwide.

Within the next 20 years, that isexpected to rise to 20 per cent, with athird of these injuries caused on theroads. Injury continues to be a nationalhealth priority for Australia, based onthe profound impact of injuries onsociety.

As part of UWA’s move towardsbecoming a world leader in injuryresearch, the Road Accident PreventionResearch Unit (RAPRU) has expandedits focus to incorporate all injuries, onand off the roads, and is now the InjuryResearch Centre (IRC).

In recognition of its leading role inroad safety research, RAPRU was madea World Health Organisationcollaborating centre in 1996, and thatcollaboration is also extended to thenew centre.

Under its new director, AssociateProfessor Mark Stevenson, anepidemiologist who has recentlyworked with World HealthOrganisation in China, the centre isalready branching out, with a new bookon sports injuries and their cost to thestate, an evaluation of isolation fencingfor swimming pools in WA, andresearch into hip fractures in the elderly.

The Centre is also branching outgeographically, with public healthprojects in China and Vietnam.

UNICEF is supporting the IRC todevelop a child accident preventionplan for China.

Professor MarkStevenson explained thatin underdevelopedcountries, most deathswere from communicable diseases.But, as they developed, there wasmore road trauma and more accidents.

“China is going through such atransition. In the poorer areas in thewest, illnesses like diarrhoea still claimchildren’s lives. But in the east, in thebig cities, accidents are the majorcause of children’s deaths. In Vietnam,it is much the same. Injuries become anenormous problem as a countrydevelops.”

He said the Centre would take thecultures of China and Vietnam intoaccount while developing a plan forthem.

“For example, we are not going toadvocate taking the Chinese off theirbicycles because bicycle transport is abig part of their culture — eventhough many of them are injured bycollisions with cars now.”

Professor Stevenson hasrestructured the centre, whichemploys 10 staff. The University willsupport the Centre to employ anepidemiologist to work in China andhe hopes the Royal Automobile Club(RAC) will fund the employment of atraffic engineer.

About 80 per cent of the Centre’sresearch will still focus on roadtrauma. The Raine Foundation recentlysponsored a road safety expert fromthe United States to work with theCentre on graduated driver training

programs and other road safety issues.Dr Alan Williams also presented twopublic lectures.

“Australia’s new system of graduateddriver training and licensing is a startbut it doesn’t go far enough,” ProfessorStevenson said. “Other countries, likethe US, the UK and Canada go furtherand subsequently have fewer seriousaccidents among young drivers.”

He said that each year in WA, therewere 112 serious injuries among firstyear drivers.

“That doesn’t include the littlecrashes and minor injuries that happenall the time.”

He would like to see zero toleranceof alcohol among first year driversinstead of the current allowable 0.02per cent blood alcohol limit.

Alongside the Injury ResearchCentre, the University supports thespinal injury research team in theDepartment of Anatomy and HumanBiology, sports injury research in theDepartment of Human Movement andExercise Science, and research intoyoung drivers by the Department ofPsychology and the Crime ResearchCentre.

The IRC is part of UWA’sDepartment of Public Health andreceives financial support from theHealth Department of WA, the RoadSafety Council, Department ofTransport and the RAC.

Taking injuryresearch off road

Associate Professor MarkStevenson … taking UWA’sinjury expertise to the world

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 30 JULY 2001

If any conference was going toaddress the ‘big picture’, the

international gathering ofphysicists earlier this month wouldbe the one.

The fourth Edoardo AmaldiConference on Gravitational Waveswas held at UWA where 250 scientistsand astrophysicists from around theworld discussed the birth of theuniverse and the nature of time andspace.

Their 200 scientific papers coveredgravity wave issues from the earliestmoments of creation up to the present

day, including theories about blackholes, solutions to Einstein’s equationsand the performance of high powerlasers.

The conference, presented by theGravity Discovery Centre Foundationand UWA, featured a schools lectureby Professor David Blair and one of theresearchers with the gravity group,David Coward; and two free publiclectures: one on pulsars, the other onJoseph Weber, the man who firstrealised the possibilities of lasers andpioneered the concept of gravitationalwave detectors.

Some novel short talks were held inthe Octagon Theatre and delegateswere timed with sparklers. They couldonly talk for the time it took for asparkler to burn out.

While research into gravity wavesand black holes may seem esoteric,Professor Blair said that there werealready spin-offs for UWA.

Royalties were now coming infollowing the development of asapphire clock in the Department ofPhysics that was so accurate it lostonly one second every ten millionyears.

Black holes lit by sparklers

Dr Ju Li demonstrates howsome of the speakers at theconference were timed

Technology that revolutionised the study of cell physiology will keepUWA staff and students at the cutting edge of research in their field.

The Lotteries Commission of WA has recently funded a second ‘patch-clamp’ set-up forDr Livia Hool’s laboratory in the Department of Physiology. The $100,000 piece ofequipment has the highest available resolution and accuracy for studying cell membranesand has had a profound impact on cell membrane research around the world.

The equipment allows a tiny piece or patch to be taken from the membrane of acell while the cell is held or clamped in a particular voltage.

“If we want to remain competitive, we absolutely need to use this technique,” saidDr Hool, an NHMRC Peter Doherty postdoctoral fellow.

She learned how to use the technique while completing her PhD at Sydney’s RoyalNorth Shore Hospital several years ago, and will teach honours and PhD students howto use the set-up.

Dr Hool said the use of the technique, developed by Nobel Prize winners BertSakmann and Erwin Neher, had revealed the mechanism behind a range of diseases.

“But we still need to know more about both normal and abnormal cells beforespecific treatments can be designed for a range of conditions from cystic fibrosis tocardiovascular disease,” she said.

This is the fifth patch-clamp set-up at UWA. There are three in the Department ofPharmacology, one in Zoology and another in Physiology, but Dr Hool said theUniversity needed more.“It’s used in most research institutions in the United Statesand Europe but Australian institutions have been slow to acquire the set-ups,” she said.

Another stepup in medical

research

Dr Livia Hoolwith equipmentto isolate cells forinvestigation withthe patch-clampset-up

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 30 JULY 2001

A commercial canola breedingcompany, with UWA as a

partner, was described as “a bravenew world in terms of howuniversities go about research .”

Executive Dean of Agriculture,Professor Bob Lindner, director of theboard of the new company, CanolaBreeders WA P/L (CBWA) said theunique partnership betweenresearchers and growers effectivelymarked the re-emergence of plantbreeding at UWA.

“It is the first time the Faculty ofAgriculture has been involved in such acompany structure,” he said.

The other two partners in the$6 million project are the ExportGrains Centre and the Council of GrainGrower Organisations.

As the only canola breedingcompany in the state, CBWA willoperate commercially andcompetitively to develop and introducevarieties of canola that add value to allstages of the production chain and arethe first choice of growers in WA,eastern Australia and in suitable

environments overseas.Associate Professor Wallace

Cowling, the principal research scientistfor the new company, said it was thefirst time growers had beenrepresented on the board of a plantbreeding company.

“It makes a lot of sense because itcreates strong formal links betweenthose who do the research and thosewho invest and benefit,” he said.

Professor Cowling is a former lupinbreeder and has considerable expertiseacross the plant breeding and pathologydisciplines, and enjoys the challenge ofbreeding canola varieties resistant toblackleg disease, the major diseaseinhibitor to canola production acrosssouthern Australia.

“One of CBWA’s first goals is toproduce a canola variety adaptable toWA’s low rainfall conditions to replacecurrent varieties, such as Karoo, whichis grown across more than 70 per centof the wheatbelt, despite the fact it hasinadequate oil and yield,” he said.

The project manager for thecompany is Dr Jane Gibbs.

Canolaresearch goescommercial

CBWA’s Executive Director, Dr John Hamblin, Chairman of the Board, Michael Doherty,Director, Professor Bob Lindner and EGC Chairman and Board member David Crawford atthe launch of the new company

Tony Pierce1919-2001

O n Sunday June 24 amemorial service was

held at St George’s Cathedralin thanksgiving for the life ofCanon Tony Pierce, a friend ofthe University for many years.

The service focused on his life asan Anglican priest, particularly in theperiod 1956-1969, when after beingchaplain of Magdalene College,Cambridge, he became Warden ofWollaston College, which had beenestablished to train men for theministry.

Wollaston College closed in 1969,after there was a sharp decline in thenumber of men seeking to train aspriests. Tony was offered a parish,but decided not to follow that option,coming instead to UWA.

He had previously had somecontact with the University,lecturing on the early history of theChristian Church for theDepartment of Classics and AncientHistory. From 1970 until hisretirement in 1984 he held a varietyof administrative positions here,being Secretary to the PhDCommittee and the ScholarshipsCommittee, Officer in Charge of theResearch Section and Secretary tothe Faculties of Agriculture andEconomics and Commerce.

He also served as UniversityChaplain for the Anglican Churchfrom 1981 to 1984, and as Sub-Warden of St George’s Collegefrom 1981 to 1985.

In these positions, Tony’s energyand organisational ability (developedduring the second World War, whenhe rose to the rank of LieutenantColonel in the British Army) wereused for the benefit of all those withwhom he came into contact. At StGeorge’s College and in the offices ofthe Central Administration, many ofthe practices which he instituted arestill in place.

Associate ProfessorJohn Melville-Jones

HEAD DEPARTMENT CLASSICSAND ANCIENT HISTORY

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The first account of integrity is misleading sinceadherence to one’s already established moral code, values orcommitments may sometimes indicate a lack of integrityrather than its presence. Integrity is integral to our livesacross time; in constituting who we are, and in connectingdisparate parts or stages in one’s life and self. It is in part theprocess of mediating between one’s active commitments inthe context of ever-changing values, desires and maturation.As such, integrity is at the core of self-reflection andconsiderations about the course one’s life should take.

Integrity is (arguably) a virtue having to do with the wayin which a person is disposed to handle, and handles, variousaspects of self-conflict, and how successful they are. Whatconstitutes success is often unclear to the personthemselves or to others. This difficulty in actually being ableto accurately attribute integrity to oneself or others isreflected in the complexity of the notion of integrity.

It would be wrong to automatically judge the person whois deeply conflicted—whose commitments and values leadsthem into many dilemmas about how they ought to act—aslacking the virtue of integrity. They lack the virtue only ifthey are disposed to mishandle conflicts of value, desire,commitment, and principle. Sometimes even corecommitments may clash. But overriding one suchcommitment in favour of another need not undermine one’sintegrity. On the contrary, it may even enhance it. The fewerdecisions of this sort that one must make the better off andluckier one may be. But it happens, and so-called“unconditional commitments” may be violated withoutnecessarily relinquishing integrity.

Integrity is not an all or nothing thing. Integrity must beable to frequently, though perhaps not always, survive a levelof inauthenticity, self-deception and mixed motive. We seemto demand or project more or less absolute authenticity,lack of self-deception, and pure motives of those we wouldregard as paradigms of integrity—like Gandhi or MartinLuther King Jr. But as new biographical information reveals,the fact that such people also had feet of clay, that they werein some ways remarkably less than they were projected tobe, need not refute the claim that they had, and frequentlyacted with, integrity.

Being mistaken in one’s moral views may well have abearing on the question of one’s integrity. Being morallymistaken may on occasion preserve one’s integrity. So wecan acknowledge that the Pope, though morally mistaken onmatters, is nevertheless a man of integrity. However,‘Sometimes it is hard to imagine how someone could careabout what principles they act on, be un-self-deceived,sincere, critically reflective, nonhypocritical, concerned withmore than their own comfort, and get things morally sowrong.’5

It is almost always a mistake, and a grievous one, toattribute integrity to those who ‘get things so morally

wrong’ by supposing that they are simply morally mistaken inthe alleged principles and ideals they uphold at the grossexpense of others. It is likely that some combination ofhypocrisy, self-deceit, weakness-of-will, cowardice, greed,and rationalisation are involved.

The lack of integrity of war criminals and ordinarypeople alike is rooted in these features and not alternativemoral principles as they would have others and themselvesbelieve. The inclination to believe that a person believesthemselves to be acting morally (and are not self-deceivedand so on) despite the fact they are getting things so wrongshould be rejected. Don’t believe stories about so-calledvirtuous Nazis. It does however seem abundantly evidentthat many quite good and ordinary people would be amongthe ranks of the Nazis if placed in those circumstances.

It is important to keep in mind that people generallyexhibit integrity in certain aspects of their lives, at certaintimes, but not others. Few, if any, are capable of exhibitingintegrity across the spectrum of activities and aspects inone’s life where integrity is relevant. To with the moral orintellectual dimension of one’s life may deliver a high level ofintegrity in these areas only at the high price of diminishing itin others—for example, in one’s emotional life.

This sketch is indicative of the complexity of the notionof integrity. It also helps show why allegedly paradigm casesof integrity are not necessarily the most central orilluminating ones. In fact, they rarely are. Contrast theparadigmatic case of refusing to take a bribe with thegenerally more problematic one of whether to divorce.Relatively few people are offered bribes (though bribescome in various guises), and of those that are, even fewerare presented with a real dilemma.

There is of course much more to say about. But for nowI’ll tell you what I think it is that Yeats thinks “of all thingsknown” “is the most difficult”. Holly Golightly knows, and sodoes Socrates. What is most difficult is to see it and tell itlike it is. It is to “include in one’s definition of water a littleduckweed or a few fish.” It is to ‘know thyself.” It is to haveintegrity— to have an honest heart—and to exult in it.

Michael Levine is joint author of a new book on self-knowledgeand integrity, with Damian Cox (University of Queensland) andMarguerite LaCaze (University of Tasmania)

1 W B Yeats & T Sturge Moore: Their Correspondence 1901-1937, ed.Ursula Bridge (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1953), p.69.

2 Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (London: Penguin Books, 1958), p.77.3 W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats (New York: Macmillan, 1956).4 Cf., The American Heritage Dictionary5 Chesire Calhoun, “Standing for Something.” Journal of Philosophy XCII,

1995, pp. 235-260, 249n20.

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Philosophers have tended to interpret Socrates quiteliterally and so mistakenly about all knowledge beingrecollection. But given a more congenial interpretation, whathe says is absolutely right and insightful.

Although Yeats claims his friend’s work has come tonothing, he does not think his friend’s work worthless. Hethinks his friend deserves to succeed on merit—and so aquick reading of Yeats’s poem suggests he is talking aboutmeritocracy and bemoaning the fact that his friend’s workhad gone unrewarded even if not unrecognized.

I do not think Yeats is concerned with the notion of ameritocracy or justice in thepoem. He is concerned withintegrity. And he knows that self-deception, hypocrisy andambivalence are all impedimentsto integrity.

My attempt to understandintegrity is undertaken with theconviction that there is a dearthof integrity, with profoundramifications in our lives.

What then is integrity? It isoften taken to be [1] “anuncompromising adherence to acode of moral, artistic, or othervalues. Alternatively it is describedas [2] utter sincerity, honesty, andcandour; avoidance of deception,expediency, artificiality, orshallowness of any kind.”4

What is it that Yeats thinks “of all thingsknown” “is the most difficult?” What is the

“triumph” that he is talking about?I will tell you what I think he means at the end of the

column. But one can take heart from the fact that Socratesthought that all knowledge was recollection—that you couldnever teach anybody anything that they didn’t already know.

TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HASCOME TO NOTHINGW.B. Yeats3

Now all the truth is out,Be secret and take defeatFrom any brazen throat,For how can you compete,Being honour bred, with oneWho, were it proved he lies,Were neither shamed in his ownNor in his neighbours’ eyes?Bred to a harder thingThan Triumph, turn awayAnd like a laughing stringWhereon mad fingers playAmid a place of stone,Be secret and exult,Because of all things knownThat is most difficult.

I try always to keep my philosophy within suchclassifications of thought as will keep it to suchexperience as seems a natural life. I prefer toinclude in my definition of water a little duckweedor a few fish. I have never met that poor nakedcreature H2O.W.B. Yeats1

Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore; I’d ratherhave cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn’t being pious. Just practical.Cancer may cool you, but the other’s sure to. Oh, screw it, cookie—hand memy guitar and I’ll sing you a fada in the most perfect Portuguese.Holly Golightly2

Professor Michael LevineDepartment of Philosophy

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Duckweed and Fish or … what do Socrates, W.B. Yeats and Holly Golightly

have in common?

LIFT-OUT30 JULY 2001 Volume 20 Number 10

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Australians spend twice as much on marijuana as they do on wine!Professor Ken Clements (pictured below), Director of the Economic

Research Centre, said that, during the 1990s, Australia became one of theworld’s biggest users of the illegal drug.

In that decade, marijuana consumption in Australia grew at an averageannual rate of two per cent while the consumption of alcohol fell by one percent.

“But surprisingly little is known about the economics of the marijuanamarket and its interaction with closely-related products, such as alcoholicbeverages,” said Professor Clements.

He and Dr Xueyan Zhao from the University of Adelaide, are conducting athree-year research project, supported by the ARC, to clarify whether thepopularity of marijuana was due to its ‘forbidden fruit’ status or the fact that itwas cheaper than alcohol because it attracted no taxes.

“We also want to know whether policies that discourage drinking – such asrandom breath testing and aminimum drinking age – have hadthe unintended effect of shiftingdemand from alcohol to marijuana,”he said.

The partners are also interestedin exploring the impact of legalisingthe drug, on both drinking andmarijuana use. Research indicatesthat more than one-third of theadult population in Australia hastried marijuana, and half nowsupports legalisation.

S an Roque Reservoir’slivelihood is threatened by

blue-green algae.The lake in Argentina is both a

major drinking water supply and atourist attraction but it has notbeen able to fulfil its potential forthe past few years.

UWA’s Centre for WaterResearch has won a contract todevelop management strategies toimprove the water quality of SanRoque Reservoir, and environ-mental scientist Dr Jason Antenuccihas recently visited Argentina and

International lake doctorsinstalled monitoring equipment.

The CWR has internationallyrecognised expertise and experi-ence designing lake destratificationsystems. If initial computermodelling confirms the expectedbenefits to San Roque Reserve, theCentre will design a system to beinstalled later this year.

The San Roque contract(US$244,000 from the CordobaState Government) closely followsthe awarding of two other majorinternational contracts the threetotalling almost US$1 million.

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What do youcrave?

There is a factual base for those bizarre stories of pregnant womeneating ice cream with pickles at midnight.

Many women experience some cravings or aversions duringpregnancy. UWA researchers say it is normal and could be inresponse to the body’s needs. But they could also be influenced byculture, in particular, society’s norms, family traditions and personalbeliefs.

A research team is investigating both the foods and non-foods thatwomen crave and avoid during pregnancy, the cultural attitudesinfluencing eating habits and relationships to health.

The scientists, from the Department of Anatomy and Human Biology,are seeking women of European cultural background who have beenpregnant some time in the past two years and are willing to sharetheir experiences.

If you can help or know somebody who could, please calleither of the following researchers: Fiona D’Souza (93803490; fdsouza@anhb. uwa.edu.au), Dr Jan Meyer (9380 2966;jmeyer@anhb.uwa.edu.au) or Associate Professor LincSchmitt (9380 3298; linc@anhb.uwa.edu.au).

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King Edward Memorial Hospital, PrincessMargaret Hospital and UWA arepartners in three projects involving drugtransfer into breast milk.

The first is the use of nicotine patches toquit smoking. Breastfeeding mothers whowant to give up smoking are needed andnicotine patches will be supplied, free ofcharge. The patches are to be used indecreasing strengths for about tenweeks.

Volunteers for this research project willbe asked to collect breast milk samples,at home, on four separate days. They willneed to visit KEMH on five occasions,four short visits of 15 minutes and onelonger visit of approximately an hour.

The second study is into the effect ofnasal decongestant pseudoephedrine inmilk production. Volunteers would needto spend about six hours at the KEMHBreast Feeding Centre on each of twoseparate days. Breast milk productionwill be measured prior to and aftertaking a single 30mg dose ofpseudoephedrine.

The third project is specifically forbreastfeeding mothers who are alreadytaking metformin for diabetes orpolycystic ovarian syndrome. Volunteerswill be asked to spend between six andeight hours on one day only at theKEMH Breast Feeding Centre. Breastmilk and blood samples will be collectedat regular intervals after the morningdose of metformin.

If you know any breastfeedingmothers who might be interested inhelping out with this research,please call Judy Kristensen in theDepartment of Pharmacy, KEMH,on 9340 2723.

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A new guide to Australian literary manuscripts has made it easier to access thenation’s treasures.

The major new resource for Australian literary studies and research is theresult of a collaborative project led by UWA, involving six major libraries, andfunded by the ARC.

The initial version of the web-based guide (on the above address) providesdetailed information about 85 collections from a total of 65 authors. Theyrange from the great writers of earlier generations, such as Miles Franklin andKenneth Slessor, to contemporary authors including Elizabeth Jolley, JohnKinsella and David Malouf.

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