Spring Ordinary Meeting 2018Friday 21 September 2018

University Club of Western Australia

Photo credits

Cover photo by Jason Thomas, Cinematographer

Images throughout the booklet by Manny Tamayo Photography and UWA image stock

AgendaThe Spring Ordinary Meeting of Convocation of The University of Western Australia, 6:30pm, Friday, 21 September 2018, The University Club of Western Australia

1. Welcome

2. Apologies

3. Minutes of the Autumn Ordinary Meeting held on Friday 23 March 2018

4. Amendments and motion of acceptance of minutes

5. Business arising from the minutes

6. Correspondence

7. Vice-Chancellor’s Report

8. Guild President’s Report

9. Warden’s Report

10. Convocation Officer’s Report

11. Audit Report

12. Other business

13. Keynote Speaker

14. Q & A session

Keynote speaker

Ms Jill Benn, University Librarian: ‘Reinvention of the Library in the Digital Age’

Supper

Complimentary canapés and drinks until 9.30pm

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Autumn Ordinary Meeting23 March 2018

The Autumn Ordinary Meeting of Convocation was held on

Friday 23 March 2018 commencing at 6:30 p.m. in University

Club of WA.

The meeting was attended by the following graduates and guests:Con Abbott, Thankam Abraham, Chacko Abraham, Gregory

Acciaioli, Kent Anderson, Paul Appleton, Helen Appleton,

Ruth Arnel, Ahmad Bagbag, Rachima Bannerman, Nicolas

Baranowski, Bruce Barblett, Lynette Barker, Irwin Barrett-

Lennard, Mary Basley, Gabor Bedo, Greg Benjamin, Marilyn

Bennet-Chambers, Sam Bennett, Rose Benson, Danielle Berry,

Simon Biggs, Dom Blanke, June Boddy, Erica Bonsall, Diana

Boudville, David Boudville, Jane Boxall, Jean Brodie-Hall,

John Bunday, Annette Bunday, Stuart Bunt, Peter Burke, Joan

Burke, Maria Calabro, Brian Carew-Hopkins, David Carlson, Ian

Carr, Maria Carvalho, Renate Chandler, Kok-Foo Chang, Daniel

Chegwidden, Terence Chia, Robin Chinnery, Robert Chivers,

Tat Meng Chow, Curtis Clark, Curtis Clarke, Mary Conroy, Paul

Conti, Patrick Cornish, Jo Cornish, Phyllis Costello, Joanne

Cruickshank, Devon Cuneo, Norma Curnow, Jocelyn Curnow,

Juanita Curtis, Shirley Daffen, Duc Thi Dau, Brett Davies,

Timothy Dawe, Simon Dawkins, Eve Day, Paul Dearlove, Ema

Denby de Braganza, Di Dixon, Anthea Downs, Anne Dunne, T

Dymond, Julie Easton, Tony Ednie-Brown, Mark Elliott, Gary

Ellis, Angela Evangelinou-Yiannakis, Jocelyn Everett, Jim

Everett, Peter Farr, Arthur Ferres, Libby Feutrill, Annette Finn,

Ann Firth, Elysia Fitzgerald, Louise Flavelle, Alan Flavelle,

Keith Forbes, Chris Forlin, Robert French, Valerie French,

Dawn Freshwater, Mog Gadsdon, Michaele Gardiner, Chantelle

Gaskell, Kathie Gates, Agi Gedeon, Marina Gerzic, Allan Green,

Jenny Gregory, Ross Gregory, Jeff Gunningham, Anne Gunson,

Jim Gunson, Jack Hallam, Gil Hardwick, Chris Harkness,

James Harper, Vanessa Harvey, Dennis Haskell, Patricia

Hatch, Nannan He, Ricki Hewitt, Wendy Hillier, Mary Hind,

Harold Hochstadt, Susan Hoddinott, Alexander Holm, Reza

Honarmand, Maureen Humpage, Peters Ibekwe, Bruce James,

Helen James, Neil Jarvis, Gary Jeneson, Julia Johnson, Debra

Judge, Kevin Kenneally, Ivan Kennedy, Warren Kerr, Chneoh

Hooi Khor, Fiona Kibblewhite, Susan King, Nelly Kleyn, Leith

Landauer, Louisa Lawrance, Cecile Leach, Brian Leach, Megan

Lee, Dina Lewis, Ian Lindsay, Richard Lyon, Ros MacKinlay,

Robert MacMath, Damien Macpherson, Althea Malligan,

Terence Malligan, Felicity Marel, Jude Marinoni, Wayne

Marron, Simon Marshall, Julie Matheson, Anne Maughan,

Rose McAleer, Bruce McCallum, Wendy McCallum, Doug

McGhie, Lynne McGuigan, Lidia McMullan, John Melville-Jones,

MinutesArpad Mencshelyi, Mary Mencshelyi, Rubyna Mher, Nelly

Mher, Anne Millar, Nikolaos Millios, Marri Milton, Eric Moxham,

Dianne Moxham, Antonia Naarstig, Lai Yu Newell, David

Nicholson, Sandy Nicholson, Victor Nicoli, Kathryn Norris,

Nee Nee Ong, Chuan Ong, Angeline Ong, Margaret Owen, Jim

Paparo, Elizabeth Pasquini, Ian Passmore, Lawrence Peh, Gary

Pennefather, Cheryl Penson, Kanthi Perera, Juanita Perez,

Fran Pesich, Anne Pickett, Denese Playford, Theresa Plunkett-

Hill, Joan Pope, Alan Porter, Kaye Regan, Lance Risbey,

Sandra Roe, Kerry Ross, Claudia Ruiz, David Sadler, Johan

Salim, Rosemary Sandover, Taiwo Sanusi, Richard Scarff,

Richard Schiefler, Jennifer Searcy, Enid Sedgwick, Shu, Zarrin

Siddiqui, Hilary Silbert, Roger Simms, Trish Simms, Brian

Sova, Ric Stern, Sandra Stevenson, Jonathan Strauss, Penny

Sutherland, Ernie Tan, Emily Tan, Cathy Tang, Tangea Tansley,

Tony Tate, Ray Tauss, Jane Thompson, Ray Thurloe, Julia

Thurloe, Brenda Tournier, Pauline Tremlett, Charles Tucak,

Gillian Tucak, David Turpin, Jonathan Utting, Grace Utting, Ian

Warner, David Watkins, Jim Williams, Georgina Wilson, Edit

Wood, Paulina Wroblewski, Zhisheng Xie, Allen Yeow, John

Yiannakis, David Young, Don Young, Leith Young, Joanna Zaliki

Knowles, Qingtao Zeng

The following members of Convocation asked that their apologies be recorded.Martha Aarts, Ian Abbott, Hugo Acosta Martinez, Richard

Adams, Diana Adler, Marcus Adonis, Elisa Adriasola, Jo

Agnew, James Ahern, Steven Ahern, Kenneth Ahmat, Michael

Albany, Muhammad Randy Evan Aldianto, Azizah Algreiby,

Jan Allchurch, Mohammed Alreesh, Racquel Alza, David

Ambrose, Lyneve Amoore, Caroline Anderson, Craig Anderson,

Daniel Anderson, Emily Anderson, Maureen Anderson,

Monica Anderson, Hazel Anderson, Sheila Andersson,

Brooke Anderton, Carlo Andreacchio, Michael Andrews, Mark

Andrich, Christie-Rochelle Annice, Amrith Anthony, Richard

Anthony, Tania Anthony, Anne Appleton, Max Aravena-Roman,

Catherine Archer, Gemma Archer, Isabel Arevalo-Vigne, Mary

Aris, Pooya Arjomandnia, Frances Arndt, Francis Arndt, Lizzy

Arnold, Geetanjali Arora, Julia Ashton, Mel Ashton, Rosemary

Atwell, Koya Ayonrinde, Julian Bahr, Lily Bailey, Lauren Bailey,

Ian Bain, Vivien Bainbridge, Loretta Baldassar, Mary Baljic,

Joshua Bamford, Norainie Bargholz, May Quin Barker, Cynthia

Barrett, Luke Bartley, Michael Bartosiak, Chris Basinski, Bruce

Baskerville, Andrew Bath, Susan Bath, Douglas Bathgate, Lisa

Bayakly, Lyn Beazley, Lisa Beckley, Margaret Behrndt, Julian

Bell, Leita Bell, Tom Bellas, Matteo Bellingeri, Jack Bendat,

Anna Benjamin, Aileen Bennett, Eleanor Bennett, Haia Ber,

Andrew Berryman, Brian Betts, Enzo Biagioni-Froudist,

Suzanne Biddles, Bill Biggs, Eugenio Bini, Wendy Birman, Sam

Birman, Barrie Blackburn, Roger Blackett, Allan Blair, Carl

Blair, Peter Blake, Aurore Blanchard-Scott, Jane Blanckensee,

Antoine Bloemen, William Blumer, Warwick Boardman, Ron

Bodycoat, Jeffrey Boersma, Astrid Boggs, Arthur Bogoias,

Maureen Boland, Luke Bone, Ern Bong, Angharad Booth,

Jason Boron, Jessica Boughton, Ramiz Boulos, Elyse

Bourgault Du Coudray, Valerie Bourke, Noel Bourke, Anthony

Bovell, Bernard Bowen, Trent Bowen, Geoff Bower, Ronald

Bower, Donald Bowes, Heather Boyd, Sue Boyd, Roy Boyd, Lee

Boyett, Diana Bradbury, Felicity Bradshaw, John Braybrooke,

John Brearley, John Bremner, Anthony Bright, Ted Brindal,

David Brooks, Errol Broome, Julie Brown, Robert Brown,

Wendy Brown, Douglas Brown, Ross Bryant, Don Buchanan,

Bi Buckeridge, Lauren Buckley, Helen Budge, Morag Budiselik, Getting ready... set... go.

Caption: (L-R) Shirley Daffen with Bruce and Helen James. Bruce served as Warden, and elected Senate member in the mid-1980s.

The Banquet Hall soon to be filled to capacity

Elisabeth Budjak, Paul Bumbak, Anna Burchfield, Peter Burke,

Donald Burnett, Helen Buttfield, Kimberley Bycro§, Brian

Byrne, John Byrne, Jan Cain, David Cairns, Lesley Cala, Greg

Calcutt, Mary Cameron, Krystie Camisa, Colin Campbell-

Fraser, Amy Camplin, Amelia Capozzi, Geraldine Capp,

Mitchell Carey, Alison Carlin, Joan Carney, Mary Carr, Georgia

Carragher, John Carrigg, Anne Carter, Craig Carter, Tina Carter,

Annette Castley, Rachel Catterson, Sonia Cattley, Robert

Cavanagh, Florence Cawley, Tara Celenza, Jan Chadwick,

Nicole Chalmer, Karyn Chan, Tshung Hui Chang, Mun Cheang,

Frederick Chee, Angel Chen, Katherine Cheng, Bill Chesnutt,

Michael Chester, Eric Chidlow, Wei Chieng, Graeme Chinnery,

Catherine Choate, Janice Chong, Ace Choo, Habibullah Amin

Chowdhury, Lee Christensen, Virginia Christie, Chew Chua,

Davina Chung, Rosie Circosta, Romolo Cirillo, Melita Cirillo,

Milton Clark, Catherine Clarke, Graeme Clarke, James Clarke,

Linda Clayton, Lynette Clayton, Mark Cli§on, Peter Cli§on,

Douglas Clyde, Michael Coates, Rosemary Coates, Alex Cohen,

Helena Coleman, Malcolm Collier, Claire Collins, Hugh Collins,

Paul Collins, Simone Collins, Geoff Combes, Arthur Conacher,

Danica Cook, Diane Cook, Geoff Cook, Gregory Cook, Hilary

Cook, Philip Cooke, Erin Cooley, Mathew Cooper, Roderick

Cooper, Tony Cooper, Michael Cooper, Vida Corbett, Gayle

Corbould, Jeremy Cordina, Diana Corston, Stephen Costley,

Margot Cox, Carolyn Craggs, Terry Craig, Jane Crawford, Peter

Crayden, Julie Crews, Liz Criddle, Cristian Crisan, Susan Croker,

Malcolm Crosbie, Gary Crouch, Ann Cullity, John Curtis, Chloe

Czerwiec, Peter Dallimore, Raymond Dallin, Barry Daniel,

Heidi Daniel, Bruce Darby, Ash Dashlooty, Giuliana D'Aulerio,

Laura Davey, Matthew Davey, David Davidson, Peter Davies,

Diana Davies, Richard Davies, John Davis, Judith Davis, Alisha

Davis, Neal Davis, Melissa Davis-Cotgreave, Steve Davison,

Christine Davy, Reginald Dawson, Alan Day, Julie de Jong,

Phillip de la Hunty, Deirdre de Souza, John Deacon, John

Dean, Richard Dermody, James Devenish, Edward Devereux,

Brian Devine, Mick Devine, Tony Devitt, Natasha Dewani, Julie

Dickinson, Mollie Dinham, Cheu Diong, Amelia Dixon-Pugh,

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Oh, Doina Olaru, Bobbie Oliver, Marius Olivier, Hannipoula

Olsen, Alexander O'Neil, Christine O'Neil, Graeme O'Neil,

Ban-Ban Ong, Chow-Loo Ong, Amanda Ormerod, Shannon

O'Rourke, Alan Osborne, Ann Osborne, David Osborne, Jamie

O'Shea, Lucy O'Sullivan, Simon O'Sullivan, Trevor O'Sullivan,

Roger Overmeire, Sean Ow, Robyn Owens, Justine Oxley,

Megan Packer, Ronald Packer, Michael Page, Amrik Pala,

Zehra Palejwala, John Palfrey, Lance Palmer, Sally Pamberger,

John Pannell, Stacey Papa, Wayne Parker, Kevin Parker, Merle

Parkes, Brian Partridge, Kim Paterson, Mary-Anne Paton, Annie

Patrick, Leigh Patterson, Georgie Paulik-White, Lynette Payne,

Trevor Payne, Alistair Peacock, Chris Peacock, Ian Peacock,

(L-R) Anna Miller, Ric Stern and Juanita Perez (Convocation Officer)

Jane Peacock, Lara Peake, Robert Pearse, Brian Pegrum,

Bronwyn Peirce, Anna Pembroke, Rowley Pennock, Jennifer

Penton, Steven Pereira, Nicholas Peres, Robert Perriam, Stan

Perron, Fintan Persse, Zeke Pervan, Gabriela Pestell, Shirley

Peter, Daphne Peters, Diana Phang, Charm Phillips, Leslie

Phillips, Paula Phillips, Haydn Pickersgill, Rebecca Pierluigi,

Franco Pirajno, Conrad Pires, Terry Pitsikas, Cameron Platell,

Geoff Playford, Greg Poche, Julian Polain, Fiona Poole,

William Poole, Sam Popovski, Natasha Porter, Anthony

Postle, Susette Pow, Deidre Powell, Frederick Powell, Amy

Powell, Cheryl Praeger, Christina Pranata, Daryl Pranata,

Anna Presser, Melissa Price, Paula Prichard, Christine Prince,

Neville Pringle, Douglas Purser, Vinnie Pushpalingam, Leslie

Pyke, Janet Pyke, Zohaib Qazi, Aylene Quartermaine, John

Quealy, Pat Quilty, Bostang Radjagukguk, Lida Rahdon, Tanya

Ramakrishnan, Dexter Ramsay, Donalda Ramsden, Alan

Randell, Gaetano Rando, Lee Ranford, Jenny Rankin, Sally

Rankin, Colin Raston, Susanne Reeve, Bruce Rego, Lauren

Reid, Robin Reid, Desmond Reid, Graciela Rhodes, John

Ricciardo, Tobias Richards, Grace Richardson, Bernard Richter,

Christopher Ridings, Gianni Ripani, John Ripp, Barry Robbins,

Anne Roberg, N'Gadie Roberts, Jeanette Robertson, Joan

Robins, Bruce Robins, Peter Robinson, Anthony Robinson,

Brian Robinson, Della Robinson, Ellen Roe, Sam Rogers,

Benjamin Leonard, Emilio Leoni, William Leslie, Alfred

Leung, Jessica Lewandowsky, Steve Lieblich, Rosalind Lilley,

Janice Lim, Bernadette Lin, Arvid Linde, Laureen Lindsay,

Freda Livingston, Michael Lochore, Miriam Lochore, Bill

Loneragan, Kevin Long, Virginia Longley, Isaac Lorca Diez,

Jan Lord, Linda Low, Andrew Lu, Nicola Lucano, Roberto

Lujan Rocha, Steve Lukan, Susan Lyne, Aileen Lynn, Robert

Lynn, Merilyn Ma, Angus MacDonald, Catherine MacDonald,

Maureen MacDuff, Gary Mack, Jill Mack, Sandra-Lee Mackey,

Elizabeth MacKinnon, Alexander MacKinnon, Clive Macknay,

Wilma Macknay, Gemma Maclean, Cara MacNish, Andrew

MacNish, Alannah MacTiernan, Richard MacWilliam, Alex

Ma§ei, Ross Magno, Peter Maguire, Jack Mah, Stephanie Main,

Arthur Makin, Farai Makwiranzou, Kunal Malhotra, Ella Malita,

Jasmina Malkoc, Andrew Mallaby, John Malone, Stephanie

Maltman, Uday Manchanda, Roy Manchester, Bruce Manning,

Damian Mansfield, Anthony Marrion, Michael Marsh, Victor

Marsh, Margaret Marshall, Gordon Marshall, Mary Marshall,

Graeme Martin, Gregory Martin, Glenda Martinick, Audrey

Martins, Ian Martlew, Chris Massey, Natalie Mast, Paul Masten,

Josephine Masters, Anne Masters, Pam Mathews, Joyce

Matson, Kim Matulich, Lydia Maurice, Suzanne May, Zdenek

Mazanec, Brenda Mazzucchelli, Richard Mazzucchelli, Trevor

Mazzucchelli, Elsie McAdam, Damien McCann, Thomas

McCleery, James McClements, Bruce McClintock, Denzil

McCotter, Janine McCrum, Ian McCulloch, Moira McDermont,

Rosemary McGlashan, Peter McGowan, Fiona McGregor,

Luke McGuiness, Michael McGuire, Sharon McKerrow, Carryn

McLean, Douglas McLean, Glen McLeod, Patrick McManus,

Gaye McMath, Jan McMillan, Nola McPherson, George McRae,

Connor McShane, Shirley McWhirter, Bob McWilliam, Tim

Mead, David Meager, Janice Meakin, Rebecca Meakin, Edward

Medina, Amin Mher, Bowen Mi, Pip Micalizzi, David Michael,

Ken Michael, Tony Michell, Ian Middlemas, Bruce Middleton,

Joan Miles, Barbara Miller, John Miller, Moya Miller, Virginia

Miller, John Millett, Katherine Mills, Robyne Millward, Jill

Milroy, Mark Minissale, Ann Minister, Amy Miranda, Michael

Mischin, Darryn Mitchell, Alice Moala, Christabel Moffat,

Ali Mohammadi, Khwaja Mohiuddin, Richard Mollett, John

Moncrieff, Malcolm Monley, Peta Monley, Christopher Moore,

Michele Moore, Peter Moran, Kevin Morgan, Patricia Morgan,

Sidy Morin - Ka, Sarah Morris Adams, Dewi Moseley, Peter

Muhling, Patricia Mulcahy, Airen Mulligan, Paul Mullins, Terence

Mulroney, Ashleigh Murch, Daniel Murphy, Joe Murphy, Peter

Murphy, Brendan Murphy, Douglas Murray, Malcolm Murray,

Dino Muscara, Hemalakshmi Nathoo, Ainalem Nega, Chris

Neretlis, Ian Newnham, Harriet Newson, Aik Chern Ng, Andre

Ng, Joshua Ngai Mun Ng, Kenneth Ng, Danny Nguyen, Shiah

Nguyen, John Nicholas, Bob Nicholson, Eugenie Nicolandis,

Jennifer Nicolao, Patricia Nieuwenhuis, Cassandra Nixon,

Patricia Nixon, Peter Nolin, Pauline Norman, Eliza Noske, Pat

Nottle, Lucy Oborn, Christine O'Brien, Shiela Ocao, Francoise

Ode-Berryman, Richard O'Donnell, Peter O'Donoghue, John

O'Donohue, Amanda O'Donovan, Cathy O'Donovan, Stephen

Clare Greasley, Alan Green, Edward Green, Peter Green,

David Greenhill, Alison Gregg, James Gregg, Pamela Gregor,

John Kipling Grieve, Bill Griffiths, David Griffiths, Charlie

Gunningham, Jeremy Ha, Amy Hadassin, Syd Hall, Lois Hall,

Silvana Ham, John Hammond, Tim Hammond, Jean Hamory,

Gabor Hamory, Alec Hand, Peter Hannay, Stephanie Hanrahan,

Pauline Hansen, Michael Happ, Jayde Harding, Justine

Harding, Elizabeth Harding, Julia Harding, Joan Harlow,

Graham Harmsworth, John Harriott, Arthur Harris, Max

Harris, Ross Harrison, Reinhold Hart, Bruce Hartley, Lee Hartz,

Dominic Harvey, Jeromy Harvey, Nicholas Hasluck, Hasanah

Hasni, Garry Hawkes, David Hawks, Kerry Hawley, Shan He,

Frank Hedges, Terry Heenan, Trevor Height, Rudolf Heitz,

Alexis Hemsley, Warwick Hemsley, Michael Henderson, Kate

Henning, Pat Henry, Marion Hercock, Bill Heseltine, Quentin

Hess, Kenneth Hews-Taylor, Rie Heymans, Kerry Hill, Murray

Hill, Shelley Hill, Michaela Hill, Jo Hiller, Neville Hills, Marcus

Hitch, Kenneth Ho, Nick Hodges, Edward Hodgson, Anne

Hodgson-Goodman, Gary Hoffman, Donald Hogben, Joyce

Hogben, Jennifer Hole, Patrick Holland, Lyn Hollingsworth,

Beverley Hollyock, Janet Holmes à Court, John Holsgrove,

Sean Hood, Margaret Hooton, Alistair Hopkins, Steve Hopper,

Peter Hopwood, David Hough, Tracey Hough, Kamariani

Houlis, Leslie House, Tony Howarth, Bette Howell, Mar Hube,

Robert Hughes, Peter Humphreys, Meredith Hunter, Peter

Huston, David Huynh, Du Huynh, Zoe Hyde, Peter Hyman,

Ken Ilett, Alan Imerito, Anis Inayat-Hussain, Tim Inglis, Peter

Ingram, Angelina Ingrilli, Anne Ismail, Ungku Ismail, Theodora

Issa, Bill Isted, Benjamin Jackson, Emma Jackson, Deborah

Jackson-Porteous, William James, Adrian Jameson, Elliot

Jameson, Ian Janes, Douglas Janney, Stephen Jarrett, Dianne

Jarvis, John Jeffreys, Jegaluckshumy Jegasothy, Jeanette

Jensen, Catherine Jepp, Don Johnson, Rob Johnson,

Sue Johnson, Doris Johnson, Brooke Jones, Evan Jones,

Maxwell Jones, Patricia Jones, Jacqui Joseph-Bowen,

Bianca Jovanovic, Cheyne Jowett, Patrick Joyce, Petrice

Judge, Patricia Kailis, Martin Kalkhoven, Peter Kalmund,

Anthony Kane, Chaebin Kang, Jansje Karajas, John Karajas,

Kapila Karunaratna, Brian Kazakoff, Bill Kean, Odette Keely,

Anne Keith-Fraser, Dave Kelly, Jim Kemp, Irene Kempa,

Garry Kennedy, Trudi Kennedy, Ania Kestner, Umneea Khan,

Kenneth Khoo, Isabelle Khoo, Robert Kibblewhite, Tony

Kierath, Susan Kiernan, Michael Kile, Ivan King, Penelope King,

George Kingsley, Nin Kirkham, Dain Kirwan, Peter Klinken,

Ian Kneebone, Jan Knight, Tim Koh, Genevieve Konig, Julia

Kovesi, Vijay Kumar, Julie Kuruckchi, Rajendra Kurup, Tilak

Kuruppuarachchi, Kim Kyle, Bernardine Lambert, Heather

Lamont, Rona Landquist, William Langa, Bruce Langford,

David Langridge, Josephine Langridge, Terry Larder, Adrian

Larking, Jenny Larner, Adrian Lau, Ian Laurance, Roger Lavell,

Brian Law, Jill Lawson, Eric Lawson, Eric Le Page, Sheila

Lea, Verona Lea, Geoff Leach, John Leahy, Trevor Leaver,

Michael Ledger, Maria Lee, Ken Lee, Jacinta Lee, Kay Lee,

Will Lee, Melissa Leigh, John Leishman, Christian Lemnell,

Beverle  Dodd, Andriu Dodson, Catherine Domahidy, Neil

Donaldson, Nadia Donatelli, Christine Donis, Craig Donovan,

Edmund Doogue, Adriana Douglas, Elizabeth Dowson,

Jacqueline Doyle, James Doyle, George Drew, John Driscoll,

Judith Drummond, Alexia Drygan, Ralph D'Sanges, David

Dun, Paul Duncan, Lachlan Dunjey, Tom Durkin, Timothy

Dymond, Katrise Eager, Rod Eagleton, Peter Eastlake, Rod

Eddington, Ryan Edgecombe, Natasha Alya Edmett, Colin

Edwards, Mark Edwards, Mary Edwards, Peter Edwards, Valerie

Edwards, Cyril Edwards, Mike Eggett, Johanne Eldridge, Petra

Elias, Sue Ellery, Maurice Ellvey, Laura Emery, Terri Emslie,

Daniel Eng, Richard Engel, Margaret Erneste, Judi Errey, Henry

Esbenshade, Vanessa Evangelista, David Evans, Frieda Evans,

Tony Ewing, John Eyres, Donna Faragher, Eduardo Farate,

Maria (Jes) Farate, Richard Farrar, Rosemarie Farthing, Eman

Fath El Bab, Kingsley Faulkner, Ben Feng, Wendy Fenton, Gus

Ferguson, Lynette Fernandes, Charmaine Fernandez, John

Ferreirinho, John Ferrell, Devid Ferri, Bruno Fiannaca, Gavin

Fielding, Cletus Fimmel, Carlo Fini, Marco Fiorentini, Michael

Firth, Franz Fischer, Brian Fitzgerald, Carol Fitzpatrick, John

Flecker, Simon Fleming, Janet Fletcher, Margaret Floyd,

Roselia Fogliani, Vivian Forbes, David Formby, Nicola Forrest,

Peter Forrestal, Alan Forsyth, Robin Foulds, Celine Fournier,

Lindsay France, Kirsty Freeman, Simon French, Therese

Frichot, Elizabeth Frith, Dick Frith, Shih Ching Fu, Duncan

Furphy, Margaret Furphy, Frederick Gall, Paul Galloway, Joe

Galvans, Rebecca Gambie, Sathyanarayana Ganganahalli,

Shanti Gangatharan, Brent Gardner, Carrie Gardner, Jane

Gardner, Anthony Gartrell, Sally Gatt, Lynn Gattorna, Jason

Gavranic, Hannes Gebauer, Rohan Gengatharen, Sean

Geoghegan, Elizabeth Gerner, Nick Gerrard, Luke Gibson, Erin

Gi§akis, Lynton Giles, Rhona Giles, Wendy Giles, Peter Gilet,

Robert Ginbey, Darren Ginnelly, Maureen Glancy, Donald

Glassford, Diana Glenn, Monique Gliozzi, Jean-Marie Gobet,

Brian Goddard, Joanne Godfrey, John Godfrey, Mayford

Godfrey, Margaret Goldswain, Barbara Good, Felicity Gooding,

Sue Gordon, Alexander Gorrie, Kelly Gough, Daniel Gouvignon,

Kamulsen Gowrea, Janine Goyder, Richard Goyder, Andrew

Graebner, Lloyd Graham, Christian Grainger, Tony Granich,

Anna Gray,

Many are regular attendees. (L-R) Edith Wood, Charles and Gillian Tucak

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The Warden thanked all the members of Convocation who

took the time to contact him and Convocation Council in

that period, as the Council value members’ views on issues

important to Convocation.

(Back Row L-R) Professor Kent Anderson (DVC Community & Engagement), Dr Doug McGhie (Warden), Professor Simon Biggs, Adjunct Professor Warren Kerr AM (Immediate Past Warden and Senate) and Professor David Sadler; (Front Row L-R) Dr Joan Pope OAM (Deputy Warden), Professor Dawn Freshwater (Vice-Chancellor) and Hilary Silbert (retiring Senate member).

6. Results of Convocation Elections for Warden, Deputy Warden, members of the Council of Convocation and one member of Senate

Each year elections are held for the position of Warden,

Deputy Warden and seven members of the 21 member Council

of Convocation. This year an election was also held for one

member of Senate.

To ensure the utmost probity in the conduct of these

elections, during 2013 Convocation Council took the

decision to outsource the conduct of these elections. This

year Convocation Council determined to continue with the

appointment of CorpVote to undertake the election process.

The Convocation Officer has oversight of all these

arrangements and therefore the Warden invited Ms Juanita

Perez to announce the results of the 2018 Elections.

The Convocation Officer reported that the Warden and Deputy

Warden are elected for one year terms and each member of

Council is elected for a three year term.

Nominations for these positions were invited during

November and December last year and a postal ballot of all

• Deputy Warden of Convocation, Dr Joan Pope OAM;

• Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Simon Biggs;

• Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Professor David Sadler;

• Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Community & Engagement)

Professor Kent Anderson;

• Members of the UWA Senate;

• Members of Convocation Council; and

• all the members of Convocation, including their guests

and friends.

The Warden then declared the meeting open at 6.30pm.

2. Apologies

The Warden noted apologies from former Chancellor & former

Governor Dr Ken Michael AC CitWA, former Chancellor, Clinical

Professor Alex Cohen AO CitWA, and over 900 other members

of Convocation. The Warden asked that if anyone wished to

convey any additional apologies, they could provide these

to the Convocation Officer, Ms Juanita Perez who will record

the details.

3. Minutes of the Spring Ordinary Meeting 2017

A copy of the minutes of the Spring Ordinary Meeting 2017 held

on Friday, 15 September 2017 appeared at Attachment A of

the Autumn Ordinary Meeting 2018 booklet.

A motion to accept the minutes of the Spring Ordinary Meeting

2017 held on Friday, the 15 September 2017 was proposed

by Dr Joan Pope OAM and seconded by Dr Brett Davies. The

motion was carried.

4. Business Arising

The Warden reported that the Convocation Council has

continued to make the agenda papers available online and a

link to this documentation was provided in the meeting email

reminder sent to members.

Q&A SessionThe Convocation Council also received many positive

comments regarding the Q&A session at the end of the

meeting. Consequently, another Q&A session has been

included in the agenda for this meeting.

5. Correspondence

The Warden reported that the Convocation office receives

much correspondence on many matters, both as emails and

letters and they are largely addressed by the Convocation

Officer and himself as Warden.

Andrew Watson, David Watson, Ken Watson, Meryl Watts,

Cara Webling, Maxwell Weedon, Pelham Weir, Jason Wells,

Frank Welten, Yee Sang Welten, Fitzwilliam Wentworth, Martin

West, Patricia Weston, Ryan Whiddett, Kevin White, Xanthe

White, Camille Whitehead, Suzanne Wicks, Christopher Wijns,

Fiona Wildy, Helen Wildy, Phyl Wilkin, Barry Wilkins, John

Wilkins, Anne Williams, Janet Williams, Ken Williams, Claire

Williamson, Alexander Williamson, Anthea Williamson, John

Williamson, Alwena Willis, Brian Willis, Deidre Willmott, John

Willox, Rod Willox, Anne Willox, Kate Wilmot, Peter Wilmot,

Albert Wilson, John Wilson, Katrin Wilson, Robyn Wilson, Steve

Wilson, Danielle Winzenried, Josephine Wittorff, Wieslaw

Wojtowicz, John Wolfe, Dianne Lyn Wolfer, Michael Wong,

Rina Wong, Vanessa Wong, William Wong, Eric Wood, Fiona

Wood, Ashleigh Workman, Paul Wovodich, Peter Wreford,

Diam Wright, Helen Wright, Robert Wright, Ben Wyatt,

Jeannette Wyber, Jinchao Yang, Pauline Yarwood, Mary Ann

Yeats, Michael Yoo, John Yorath, Keith Young, Fiona Young,

Mary Young, Zoe Yujnovich, Panlop Zeephongsekul, Graham

Zemunik, Mark Zhang, Lianpeng Zheng, Yunyue Zhou

Ms Juanita Perez Convocation Officer as Secretary

Convocation asked members to support the recent PROSH fundraising paper. … (L-R) 2018 PROSH Director Jacob Colangelo and Megan Lee (2018 Guild President).

1. Welcome

In opening the Autumn Ordinary Meeting for 2018, the

Warden of Convocation, Dr Doug McGhie, welcomed the

following guests:

• Chancellor, The Hon. Robert French AC CitWA

• Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dawn Freshwater;

• 2018 Guild President Megan Lee;

Robert Rogers, Enid Rose, Robin Routley, Graeme Roy, John

Royce, Geoffrey Rudeforth, Gesa Ruge, Tony Ruse, Jeffrey

Russell, Eliza Ryan, Carol Ryan, Nancy Ryan, David Ryan,

Margaret Sadler, Mihaela Sa§a, Barry Saker, Lindsay Saleeba,

Robin Salter, Diana Salvaris, Orestes Santos, Melvyn Sargent,

Saliba Sassine, Lynette Savage, Vincenzo Savini, Laurie Sawle,

Jane Scanlon, Denisse Scasserra, Eugene Schlusser, Deryck

Schreuder, Michelle Schwager, Andrea Giovina Sciubba,

Virginia Scott, John Scott, Jackie Scurlock, Amanda Seabrook,

Pamela Seaman, Margaret Seares, Roger Seares, Peter Seet

Pee Heng, Leah Segal, Brendan Selby, John Seotis, Ingrid

Shack, Susan Sharpe, Duncan Shearwood, Helen Shilkin-

Reinhold, Douglas Short, Jeanette Shorto, Jenny Shub, Marie

Therese Sicouri, Abu Siddique, Kadambot Siddique, Stuart

Silbert, Catherine Simcock, Viti Simmons, Genevieve Simpson,

Mindy Simpson, Su Sirr, Richard Sisson, Stephanie Slanzi, Yiing

Sleight, Melanie Sloss, Peter Smedley, Ben Smith, Geoff Smith,

Michael Smith, Patricia Smith, Peter Smith, Philip Smith,

Geoffrey Smith, Alberta So, Nicholas Sokolich, Jayantha

Somasundaram, Tamas Somosy, Elaine Soumanis, Maurie

Sparkman, Louise Sparrow, Robin Spence, Caroline Spencer,

Laurence Spencer, Pat Spillman, Amy Springer, Cornelia

Staats, Conway Stacey, Scilla Stack, Karl Staer, Gerrit Stafford,

Jenni Stallwood, Fiona Stanley, Jan Star, Susan Starcken,

Rodney Steed, Judith Stephens, Vivien Stern, Damien Stevens,

Mark Stickells, Leonie Still, Trevor Still, John Stone, Libby

Stone, Pauline Stone, Peter Strickland, Pat Stroud, Jan Stuart,

Angelika Sturman, Keryn Sturrock, Marina Sucur, Paulus Sui,

Bob Sullivan, Denise Sullivan, Jeanette Sumerling, Julian

Summers, Youqi Sun, Kylie Sutherlin, Aaron Svagelj, Murray

Swain, Lynette Swarbrick, Pam Sweeney, Kylie Sydney, Melissa

Symonds, David Synnott, Monika Szalai, Yola Szymakowski,

Dawn Tabet, Stella Tagbo, Andrew Taggart, Simon Taheri, Sally

Talbot, Kartik Tamil Selvan, Alexander Tan, Evan Taplin, Francis

Tay, Jeannette Taylor, Lorraine Taylor, Roger Taylor, Michael

Teare-Williams, Chantalia Tedja, Nadia Tedja, Ryan Teh, Lisa

Telford, Barbara Temperton, John Templeman, Christopher

Theunissen, Audrina Thien, Visnupriya Thirumurthy, Adrian

Thomas, Elizabeth Thomas, Ray Thompson, Beth Thompson,

Justine Thomson, Jawahir Thontowi, Neville Threlfall, Gene

Tilbrook, Daina Timermanis, Victoria Toal, Linda Tompkins,

Jamie Tonus, Geoff Totterdell, Sandy Toussaint, Mary

Townsend, Paul Townsend, Malcolm Treadgold, Alan True,

Jill True, Daniel Tschorn, David Tunley, Gyula Turchanyi,

Leisa Turner, Fay Uhe, Chumith Ukwattage Don Siriwardana,

Stanislav Ulrich, Susan Unger, John Urquhart, Paul Vajda,

Rhys Vallance, Micheline Van Der Beken, Damon Van Der

Linde, Agatha van der Schaaf, Nicholas Van Der Sluys, Jaimie

van Emmerloot, Kay Van Norton Poche, Diana van Straalen,

John Vann, Kevin Varvell, Richard Vaughan, Vij Vijayasekaran,

Tony Virili, Charlie Viska, Eva Vlahov, Erin Vlajsavljevich,

John Vodanovic, Margaret von Perger, Freddie von Schmidt,

Van-Van Vu, Ron Waddy, Alan Wade, Rosalie Wadley, Sheila

Walker, Elizabeth Waller, Amy Ward, Lisa Ward, Robin Warren,

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Safety around campus

The University, through Universities Australia, has generated

our own action plans and activities, protocols as a result of

responding to those agendas surrounding safety on campus.

This is a continued issue for the University. The University is

keeping it live in terms of how we manage this going forward

to the way we collaborate and consult with others.

The executives are working towards making sure that the

colleges, the Student Guild and the stakeholders, come

together to create a holistic approach to managing safety

on campus for all involved. This continues to be work that is

being done collaboratively with the student body. They are

looking at a whole range of initiatives put in place – they are

testing them out and taking feedback on them as they are

being implemented and developed. The University has a new,

improved capture and reporting system. This has resulted in

an increase in the number of incidents reported. The Vice-

Chancellor feels that this might be an indication that the

systems are improved.

Government Funding

On the 22 December, the University received a diktat from the

Federal Minister around the way in which they were going to

make changes to the funding regime. This is still being pushed

through Parliament, but there are some significant challenges,

and for this university, it relates to the way in which our

courses are structured because we have government funding

through our CSB places that goes all the way through our cycle

to a master’s program.

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Professor David Sadler

will deal with how to address some of those challenges in

response to government reform whilst enhancing our existing

course structure and maximising its potential for the future.

Other Engagement Activities with Government

• A ‘Science meets Parliament’ event was held recently

where many of the University’s researchers spent time

talking to Ministers around their research and how it is

changing lives and improving society.

• Minister Alannah MacTiernan was in Albany at the Wave

Energy facility that UWA has opened in Albany as a result of

government funding.

• A new group of academics are working on an agricultural

facility that will be supported by the state as well.

Perth Festival

The University of Western Australia is the founder of the

Perth Festival. This year the Perth Festival was able to attract

450,000 people to events in the city, the Somerville Theatre,

and to the Writers’ Week. Many of those experiences that

have been happening on campus raise the profile of the

University and activate the campus in different ways. The Vice-

Chancellor added that it was an absolute pleasure to see that

participation has gone up from 400,000 last year, and it was a

great outcome for all of those involved.

Strategic Vision for 2030

The University will be embarking on a process for the Strategic

Vision for 2030. It will be a process that runs for about 12 to 15

months. The University will be focusing on a 10-year horizon

with a view to looking at the megatrends in our sector, and

in society, and then to have the strategic plan endorsed by

Senate in 2025.

The Vice-Chancellor said that it is important to start a

process well in advance, and it is more important than ever

in her view, because of the really challenging and changing

external economic, social and political environment. This

includes some of the changes to the higher education

sector reform and funding - it refers to the ways in which the

sector and society in general is being disrupted through the

development of digitalisation and technology and those

advances leading to challenges around the future of work. This

is really important because so much of what the University

does is around focusing on future employment. The business

environment is less and less predictable, not just for this

sector, but for many sectors.

The process will engage with all of the University’s

stakeholders - the students, the academic staff, the industry

partners, the government, and Convocation. The process

will involve setting up a whole range of opportunities for

engagement where people can submit their thoughts, their

papers, and their ideas.

The Vice-Chancellor will receive ideas, thoughts, submissions

from Convocation and they will be considered in the same way

that all other submissions will be, and they will be contributing

to the whole thinking that the Executive is doing. The

Executive will pull the strategy together for presentation to the

Senate which will happen next March.

• to Peter Robinson for bringing great knowledge of

Convocation’s history and for insight to the operations of

the University; and

• to Zohaib Qazi for youth and enthusiasm and showing

us that the young graduates are keen to serve with

Convocation.

7. Vice-Chancellor’s Report

The Warden next invited the Vice-Chancellor, Professor

Dawn Freshwater, to present her report to Convocation. A

copy of the text of the Vice-Chancellor’s report appeared at

Attachment B of the Autumn Ordinary Meeting 2018 Booklet.

The Vice-Chancellor took her report as read. In addition to her

report, the Vice-Chancellor reported on the following:

Chancellor

The new Chancellor, The Hon. Robert French AC CitWA, was

officially installed on 1 February 2018. The event was a great

celebration and very well attended.

New Appointments

• Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Simon Biggs;

• Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Professor David Sadler;

• Pro Vice-Chancellor Education, Dr Peter Dean; and

• Director of Campus Management, Mr Trevor Humphries

Summer School

At the last Ordinary Meeting of Convocation, the Vice-

Chancellor reported that they have been working considerably

behind the scenes to develop a summer school at UWA. The

Vice-Chancellor reported that 1,300 students took part in that

summer school despite the fact that it was quite late by the

time that they were able to advertise, and she looks forward to

a growing number next summer. Much of the education units

that were on offer during the summer were revitalised and so it

has been a wonderful exercise for the University as well as for

those students.

Welcome Festival

The students enjoyed an enhanced orientation experience

this year. There has been a significant change in the format

of the student orientation program from that which has

been running since 2000. There was a flag ceremony for

every international student’s country that was represented.

Information sessions were provided for parents at the Octagon

Theatre, and over 300 parents attended those sessions. A

procession was also conducted and the Vice-Chancellor was

delighted to say that she is looking at how Convocation can be

involved in this festival, having run this one pilot this year.

members of Convocation for whom we have postal addresses

was conducted during February and March this year, closing

on Tuesday 13 March.

Because the UWA Statutes pertaining to Convocation were

dra§ed before email was invented, we are required to use

a postal voting process. Hopefully when the Statutes are

revised we will be able to use a more efficient election process.

Ms Perez then announced the results of the 2018 Convocation

Elections:

Convocation Elected Senator (re-elected 3 year term)

Mr Simon Dawkins

Warden of Convocation (re-elected unopposed)

Dr Doug McGhie

Deputy Warden of Convocation (re-elected unopposed)

• Dr Joan Pope OAM

Convocation Councillors (elected unopposed)

• Ms Devon Cuneo

• Emeritus Professor Jenny Gregory AM

• Mr Graham Harmsworth

• Dr Raj Kurup

• Mr James Paparo

• Dr Fran Pesich

• Mr Ric Stern

The Warden thanked retiring Senators Ms Hilary Silbert and

Mr Quang Ly for their services on Senate.

The Warden then paid tribute to the following members of

Convocation Council who completed their terms.

These include:

• Mr Paul Appleton

• Mr Garry Hawkes

• Mr Zohaib Quazi

• Mr Peter Robinson

• Ms Dianna Salvaris

On behalf of Convocation Council, the Warden expressed

thanks for their contribution over the time they have been

on Council,

• to Paul Appleton who has stood down a§er 16 years

on Council and has contributed his great knowledge

and commitment to the history of Convocation and its

relationship with the University;

• to Garry Hawkes for his excellent contributions to matters

around governance and elections;

• to Dianna Salvaris for active involvement and committee

chairing with engagement and seeking benefits for our

members;

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Guild Activities to date

Welfare Department

The Welfare Department headed up by Phoebe Ho

have launched a number of new initiatives including the

international student welfare packages that contain essential

information for students for where to get academic support

through to sexual health and mental wellbeing. The packs are

available in English and in Mandarin to ensure that students

are definitely receiving and understanding all the information

that they need to know.

Access Department

The Access Department has developed a campus accessibility

application in collaboration with Guild Volunteering and a

club called Coders For Causes that shows students all the

accessible routes around campus and levels of accessibility

for each building, and where all the resource rooms around

campus are. They also ran an accessible club carnival for

students who struggle to participate in the regular club

carnival because of the large crowds, the loud music and the

crowded spaces.

Education

The Guild has been working hard to ensure that notices

for students sitting supplementary exams went from three

days to two weeks. They have also introduced a trial of the

Class Representative System which is also in place at other

universities like Leeds and Auckland, in which each unit has a

representative who relays constructive feedback back to the

unit coordinator, ensuring timely and effective feedback but

also empowering students to engage in their education.

Ms Lee has also been working closely with the Deputy Vice-

Chancellor Education, Professor David Sadler, to develop

a new education strategy to ensure an engaging university

experience. This includes ensuring that students have

impeccable and interactive digital support, and a smart

campus that allows students to tailor their learning spaces to

what they require. This initiative aims to ensure that students

are engaging meaningfully and effectively when they have

face-to-face time with their academics.

Exams

The Guild has also been working with the University towards

some changes to the exam timetable which, currently, aside

from being wildly unpopular, posed some safety risks for

students in the later darker winter months.

Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO)

The Guild has just released the start of their campaign against

the MYEFO proposed funding changes as well as some of the

proposed legislative changes that will see changes to the

HECS repayment threshold that will disadvantage students

and dissuade students from seeking a higher education.

8. Guild President’s Report

The Warden then invited the Guild President, Ms Megan Lee,

to present her report to Convocation. Ms Lee took her report

as read, a copy of which was provided at Attachment C of the

Autumn Ordinary Meeting 2018 agenda booklet.

The Guild President first gave a brief introduction about

her background and herself as the 105th iteration of Guild

President. Ms Lee is a first-year post graduate law student

and a proud member of Convocation a§er completing her

undergraduate degree in Political Science.

The Guild

The Guild President then gave a brief summary of what the

Guild is and what the Guild does.

The Guild’s vision is to provide UWA students with the best

possible student experience throughout their degree and

to be the leading student-run organisation internationally.

The Guild is benchmarked as one of the best in the country

and they are now aiming for an international standard. Their

mission uniquely outlined in statutes is to foster all that

tenders to the advancement of learning and the ennoblement

of life. This is achieved through their amazing student

representatives and the staff who put in so much effort

towards ensuring that students leave UWA with more than just

a degree.

The Guild aims to provide means of social interaction between

students at the University through their student departments

and over 187 student-run clubs and societies who ran over

1,200 events for students in 2017. Also to provide, conduct,

facilitate or manage educational, cultural, sporting, welfare

and commercial facilities or activities for the direct or indirect

benefit for students at the University. The Guild runs nearly all

of the commercial outlets on campus, and with a new $1.7m

upgrade to the Refectory which will ensure that students have

healthy, affordable meal options across a wide taste of foods

and drinks. Through their professional and independent

welfare services provided through Student Assist, they can

help support students as well. They also aim to further the

common interests of students at the University.

The Guild is legally recognised as the conduit between the

University and students at every level from small university

committees through to the UWA Senate. Ms Lee and Mr Peter

Watson, the Postgraduate Student Association President,

are the two student representatives on UWA Senate which

is very unique as many other student union or student guild

presidents are not as fortunate to have that opportunity.

The Guild President puts her foot down, tree planting for 2018 Convocation Day.

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With the important focus:

• To support the University and the Vice-Chancellor

Statute Changes

Convocation has begun its contribution to Statute changes,

working with the University Secretary, Ms Deirdre de Souza, to

amend and update the statutes that relate to Convocation.

• Working with the University Secretary Ms Deirdre de Souza

• All statutes will be collapsed to a single statute

• Convocation will not have regulations so key items will be

defined in the statute

• Current roles seen as appropriate

• Simplify, some changes

• Maintain interest through the website

The many statutes of the previous Act will be brought

together in just one multi-faceted statute under the new Act.

Convocation’s Governance Committee, led very ably by Dr

Susan King, is progressing its contribution.

The working group and the University intend to simplify and

clarify operations where possible. One important amendment

will replace the costly postal voting arrangements with an

electronic system for all Convocation elections.

The Warden expressed thanks to Dr Susan King for her time

and efforts.

Graduation Ceremonies

The Warden and a few of the other Convocation Councillors

have just had the pleasure of participation in the 12

graduation ceremonies held for March 2018.

The Warden pointed out that in many cases, that is the first

real contact that the students, then becoming graduates,

have with Convocation, as they leave the University. It is

appropriate because they then become members but it is

important that they are aware of it.

The introductory speeches to Convocation by both the

Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor were excellent and

Convocation was very well positioned in that situation.

Convocation welcome and encourage at the graduation, the

bringing together and sharing of stories because there are so

many wonderful stories of student time and achievements

subsequently to tell.

Convocation Day Celebration

Convocation Council celebrates Convocation Day on the

anniversary of the first meeting of Convocation which was

held on 4 March 1913. Convocation and the University have

a very long and strong history. The annual tree planting to

celebrate Convocation Day is fitting for a University known for

Food Pantry

The Guild has launched a food pantry in their residential

student spaces to ensure that students do not go hungry. The

pantry also includes other everyday essentials for students

who cannot afford them.

Safety on Campus

The Guild has been working on the safety on campus action

plan and ensuring that the University and the Guild are

fulfilling the recommendations that came out of the Human

Rights Commission report into sexual assault and harassment

on campus.

PROSH

PROSH is in its 87th year this year. Ms Lee stated that this year

she has seen the highest number of student participation in

the past five years that she has been at university. Ms Lee said

that students forewent a ‘sleep-in’ to sell their PROSH papers

to raise money for four charities.

Partnership with the University

Ms Lee has been working with members of the University

Executive to ensure that there is a University Guild action

plan for 2018 which will focus on the principles of governance,

communication and consultation between the student body

and the University to ensure that they are indeed working in

partnership for this year.

Guild Council Alumni

Ms Lee called for Convocation members who were also

members of Guild Council or involved in Guild Council to

please get in touch with the Guild. The Guild would like to

provide members with updates on what the students are

doing, and send invitations to Guild Council reunions. Contact

details: alumni@guild.uwa.edu.au

9 . Warden’s Report

The Warden, Dr Doug McGhie, took his report as read. A copy

of the Warden’s Report appeared at Attachment D of the

Autumn Ordinary Meeting agenda booklet.

Rather than going through his report in detail, the Warden

briefly highlighted a number of important developments that

Convocation Council has addressed on behalf of Convocation,

since the last Ordinary Meeting.

Convocation’s Roles

The roles remain as:

• Representation

• Engagement

• Promotion

• Contribution

• Govern ance

• Awards - Convocation Council is doing well in providing

Faculty and Postgraduate Awards.

• Honours – Convocation Council is active in recognition of

honours but Western Australia is not doing well enough

compared to other states in terms of its recognition of

its people who deserve honours. The Warden feels that

Convocation members are in the best position to make

recommendations. Convocation members know wonderful

people who have done wonderful things, and the chance

is there to elevate the status of both the University and

the state.

• Engagement – The Warden said that it is well and truly

recognised that Convocation has a wonderful engagement

with the older cohort. The challenge is for Convocation

also to engage with the younger members. For that to

happen, it is an access issue, it is being seen, doing,

working with them, helping them and having prominence

on campus.

• Promotion – Convocation members may be able to

support the University by better presenting university

graduates and their achievements a§er student life.

• Our network - Convocation network is enormous and

very good, it can encourage volunteering, mentoring,

placements, employment and the like. It may be something

that can be done and that should be done for the

University.

50 Year Reunion

Before concluding his report, the Warden drew attention to

the final item in his written report, the work that Convocation

undertakes each year to organise a reunion luncheon

for graduates to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their

graduation from UWA. This function goes from strength to

strength each year with the 2017 reunion for the graduates

of 1967 being one of the best that anyone has attended.

However, to improve on this excellent outcome for this year,

assistance is sought from Convocation members to provide

information on 1968 graduates with whom we are unable to

locate. A list of the 1968 graduates with whom we have lost

contact with are contained on page 48 of the agenda booklet.

The Warden called upon the attendees to forward any

information regarding the whereabouts of these graduates to

Dr Joan Pope and Mrs Pauline Tremlett via the contact details

listed on page 48.

This year the reunion luncheon will be held in Hackett Café

(old Ref) at noon on Saturday, 20 October, 2018.

10. Convocation Officer’s Report

The Convocation Officer’s report appeared as Attachment E

of the Autumn Ordinary Meeting 2018 booklet. This report

contains a list of graduates whose whereabouts have become

unknown since the last Ordinary Meeting. Those attending

its beautiful grounds, and it cements Convocation’s strong

relationship with the Student Guild.

Convocation Day has been held in partnership with the UWA

Student Guild in which a tree planting ceremony is held every

year. The Warden said that it has been a great pleasure in

recent years to see the Guild Presidents planting a tree within

the grounds of the University. To celebrate Convocation Day

in 2017, Vice-Chancellor Professor Dawn Freshwater planted

a tree with Guild President Nevin Jayawardena, and this year

Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Kent Anderson planted a

tree with Guild President Megan Lee.

Megan Lee (Guild President) and Professor Kent Anderson (DVC Community and Engagement) planting the first of what will become a line of White Jacaranda trees along Saw Promenade, Convocation Day 2018.

The Warden said that this year is a wonderful step because

Convocation has been promised by University Campus

Management, an avenue of trees alongside Saw Promenade

and James Oval that could be named ‘Convocation

Walk’. Currently the UWA map does not have anything

that recognises Convocation - so that would be a first. It is

important that Convocation develops that sense of place and

identity on campus’.

Masonic Hall

At the Spring Ordinary Meeting last year, it was noted that

Convocation had made a contribution to the Masonic Hall. The

Warden reported that the site was progressing well. The site is

important because it is the western entry to the University and

is a prominent location, and Convocation will be prominent

within in terms of the naming rights of the boardroom at the

Masonic Hall known as the Innovation Quarter (IQX). The

Warden thinks there will be opportunities for Convocation to

do prominent things in that location in the future alongside

the University.

Call to Arms

The Warden has met with members of the University Executive

and received challenges for Convocation to continue its

excellent voluntary work and to do more:

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going gathering for a Chronicle of Convocation, have benefited

from her knowledge of the photographic holdings, attention

to detail and her obliging and friendly attitude.

Born in Portugal in 1960 Maria at the age of two, migrated

to Mozambique to join her father who had migrated a year

and a half previously. Soon the family migrated to Rhodesia

[Zimbabwe] to improve economic conditions. Maria graduated

with a Rhodesian Certificate of Education with a distinction

in history in 1976, and the equivalent of year 10 studies in

Portuguese. Joining the firm of Dunn and Bradstreet she

became Supervisor of the Hire Purchase Information section.

However by the end of 1977, due to the escalating civil

war in Rhodesia, the family migrated once more, this time

to Australia.

She was employed in the micrographics industry both in the

private and public sectors, becoming the Technical Control

Officer at the State Microfilm Bureau. During this period she

undertook part time studies at Murdoch University, graduating

BA [1994].

When the State Microfilm Bureau was discontinued in

1996 she transferred to the State Records Office and took

up the role of Archives Assistant and Coordinator of the

Government Agencies Microfilm Program. This provided her

with an opportunity to expand her interest for research and

preservation of history. Her delight in working with archives

persuaded Maria to formalise her “hands-on” experience

with a theoretical foundation in part time studies at Curtin

University graduating with a Diploma in Recordkeeping and

Archives [ 2002 ].

Maria continued as archives assistant at the State Records

Office and in 2004 she was a finalist in the Early Career awards.

In 2005, a secondment position arose at UWA. 6 months later

to her delight and surprise she was appointed University

Archivist. Maria regarded this as an opportunity to preserve

and promote the history of UWA.

Maria is a member of several professional associations:

the Australian Society or Archivists [ASA] : their deputy

Representative to the State Records Advisory Council [SRAC]

which group. She is a Member of the Australasian Universities

Records and Archivists [AURA] and Associate member of

the Records and Information Management Professional

Australasia [RIMPA] makes recommendation to the State

Records Commission [SRC] and Member of the ASA University

Special Interest group [UniSig], previously holding the position

of Convenor of this.

She is a member of the Archives Reference Group for “Expert

Nation” an ARC 3 year funded project which is compiling

the meeting were asked to review the list and to notify the

Convocation Officer, Ms Juanita Perez, if the contacts details

of any graduates listed in this report were known to them.

11. Other Business

Convocation Medal

The Convocation Medal was presented to Ms Maria Carvalho.

Ms Carvalho was being recognised for her significant and

sustained contribution to the University since 2005. The

Warden invited the newly re-elected Deputy Warden of the

Convocation, Dr Joan Pope OAM to deliver the citation for Ms

Maria Carvalho.

Citation for Convocation Medallist

The Convocation Medal was presented to Ms Maria Carvalho by the Warden Dr Doug McGhie.

Ms Maria Carvalho in her role as University Archivist, has

been of significant assistance to many Convocation projects.

Many members of Council over the past decade and a half

have valued her willing and rapid response to enquiries

for accurate, well-sourced information. In particular, those

who have volunteered for the background preparations for

Graduate Reunions, University Anniversaries, The ‘UWATCH’

Theatre collection, historical articles for UNIVIEW and the on-

12. Keynote Speaker

The Warden then introduced the guest speaker for the

evening, Mr Patrick Cornish, who gave a talk on ‘UWA:

Launchpad for a Storyteller’.

Patrick Cornish held the audience with his presentation.

13. Q & A Session

The Warden opened the Q&A session by inviting all those

who wished to ask questions to wait for the microphone

(as the session was being recorded), to stand and state

their name for attribution in the minutes, and to keep their

questions brief and to the point so that in the time available

as many members of Convocation as possible could have the

opportunity to ask questions.

(This section is verbatim so attendees are not misquoted.)

Question 1: Robert Chivers

I was interested in the mentioning of the 2020 and the 2030

strategy plans. I’m interested to know what were the major

outcomes that were met and also the major variations that

weren’t met, keeping in mind that they’re long-term plans so it

would be differences to be noted.

Robert Chivers, the first of many speakers from the floor.

Response: Vice-Chancellor

Are you talking about the 2020 plan? So – thank you so the

2020 plan was developed in 2014 and it was running to 2020

an on-line biographical database of Australian University

WWI staff and students. The objective is to capture their

involvement in the war, its impact on their lives once they

returned to Australia. It is a collaborative project involving the

Australian War Memorial, The National Archives of Australia

[NAA] and the Universities of Melbourne, Queensland,

Adelaide, Tasmania and UWA.

Maria has been ex officio on the UWA Historical Society

committee since its inception a decade ago.

For the University Centenary she contributed to several

publications; created an Archives on–line exhibition,

researched and provided a wide range of material for the

designer of Luminous Night which transformed the Crawley

campus into a walk-through phantasmagorical history of UWA.

Her normal duties are to assist and contribute to the

compilation of Faculty and School histories and anniversaries

and Reunion Displays and Exhibitions; Academic Research,

Graduate Research, Corporate day-to-day needs, and

background information on Bequests to the University.

Back in 1998, Giles Auty, via the Weekend Australian, posed

the question, “The University of Western Australia boasts the

loveliest campus and buildings of any Australian University

...what blessed breed of people get to work in a place as this?”

Maria said she wanted to reply with “I am happy to be a

member of that blessed breed!”.

As a proud member of the Convocation of the University of

Western Australia she is a deserving recipient of tonight’s

Convocation Medal.

Armistice Day

The Warden provided a brief notice to advise that a function

to lay a memorial plaque that recognises students and staff

who gave their time and lives to fighting in the war is planned

for the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day on 11 November

this year. The Warden gave our thanks to the UWA Historical

Society for acknowledging this important day and support

coming from any other directions as well.

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in. The same would be the case in education. Of course we’re

looking at ways of improving the quality of our teaching and

we’re measured externally and we’re working against a set

of rankings there and including performance metrics set by

the government and employability is an example where we’re

also looking at improving how we measure our achievements

against graduate destination. That’s – they’re just a couple of

examples so they’re achievements.

Where are there gaps? There’s always things that we could do

better so can we improve more in student education and the

student experience? Of course we can and that’s what some of

the projects have been around.

Question 2: Wayne Marron

I moved to Perth from Bunbury in 1963 to study here. By luck

I own a penthouse over in Crawley 23 floors up and I have an

Iots view of what’s happening to the Carnaby cockatoo. I didn’t

think I’d be a bird lover but I’ve become that. And I attended

my first Convocation meeting about two years ago, I believe,

and two questions were ruled out of order or nearly that by

the Chancellor, not the Chairman and I didn’t ask my question.

But I’ve gathered my courage and I’m going to ask one now.

Wayne Marron asks a question of the panel.

I want to ask how is it that someone who had nothing in ’63

ended up with 86 acres in Oakford and devoted 3ha of that

to the waterbirds of the southwest of Western Australia and

I have 41 of them living there in their development that’s

about to happen and how is it that the University of Western

Australia who was given by Hackett the land over where the

MacGillivray Oval is and could just plant the odd banksia and

and that’s a five-year strategy that is measured on an annual

basis and the set of KPIs, the key performance indicators, that

we report against in that annual review are some of which

we have to report externally to the Auditor General and some

of which we have to report to the Commonwealth. So there

are sets of indicators that we’re working against including

in education, things like quality measures and in research,

number of research grants including a whole set of measures

around our operations, campus management, things like

equity in student recruitment and diversity and staff base,

there’s a whole set of indicators that we use. Many of those

as I say are driven externally but we also add to those as a

set of indicators each year and so as we go through the plan

of course we set a target and work to a set of indicators five

years out.

Annually as they’re measured and monitored and reported

against we note any gap in the variation but we also modify

them because five years is a long time, of course so we have

to modify them on an annual basis and we do that through a

whole set of other – scanning the environment and horizon

scanning but also taking account of any changes in legislation

or regulation or in terms of the external market forces. So

there’s a bit of a complicated algorithm that goes on here in

terms of assessing performance against those KPIs but we

set them quite ambitiously over a five-year period and then

through an annual review in our faculties and in our divisions

we look at ourselves against – and one example is in my report

so it refers to rankings.

Now many of us would have a view on rankings and we can

see them as you know both positive and negative in terms

of the way in which we refer to them nevertheless they are

important in today’s environment and so we work out, we’re

looking at an improvement on rankings in all areas and that’s

one of the things that we measure ourselves against. So we

would expect to see an improvement across all areas and if

we haven’t then we do an analysis in terms of what that might

be telling us and how to work with that. Does that answer your

question? Okay, sorry.

Robert Chivers: Thanks for explaining the process but I was

interested in some of the key achievements if you like and

some of the key variations, examples of those ones from the

layman’s point of view.

Vice-Chancellor: Yes so key achievements would be in

research, for example, in the rankings but also this year we

secured the – so of $33m of research grants available, for

example through the NHMRC which is the Medical Research

Council, we secured $27m of that $33m that was available

nationally. Now I use that as an example because we set

ourselves a target of improving the amount and the quality of

our research but also the quantity of research grants coming

project in Albany. Is this in conjunction with Carnegie Wave

Energy and if not why not?

Response: Vice-Chancellor

Yes, it’s a great question, thank you and I'm really pleased that

you want to know a bit more about that. It is in conjunction

with Carnegie and we’ve been working with them in

partnership on this for over 12 months now but as importantly

it’s in conjunction with other universities in the state. It brings

such a vibrancy to our existing campus and of course it adds

value to the community down there and as I mentioned the

Minister was there today. And there’s quite an expansion

program going on down there as a result of this particular

project so I hope that answers your question.

Question 4: Brett Davies

My question’s to the Chancellor. You were involved in Guild

politics, you were involved in Convocation Council but now

you’re our leader as the Chancellor. Now that you're Chancellor

have your views changed about our university at all?

Brett Davies during question time.

the Carnaby would be able to eat? Now if you read the recent

news – excuse my loquaciousness but I have that – if you read

the news in recent times the banksias from King’s Park have

disappeared because of a wildfire that was set by some guy

and I saw when I first got there hundreds of mothers taking

their fledglings to the little crop of banksias and taught them

how to crack the nuts. I saw only one mother go there this year

and she flew over and she went away.

The banksia is disappearing and the Carnaby is disappearing.

Now I know the learned justice and I’ve read his history

with one set of Aboriginals of this country but the Carnaby

cockatoo is a grand original so I ask is it possible that over in

these housing developments that you’re insisting on that you

could set aside – in my case I did 5ha out of 86. I’ll take three

out of – hectares only of banksia. I ask further, if Convocation

will consider this I will leave my email with the young lady

outside and I will send all the research that you need if you

consider making this decision.

Response: Vice-Chancellor

So at the moment there’s actually no plans to do anything

with that land and in fact there’s – it’s been – we’ve already run

over the time of any applications and I think I made that point

at the meeting last year and nothing further has been done

or developed in that regard and so there’s no progress at all,

nothing has been lodged, no application’s been lodged and

there’s no plan to do anything at the moment with that land.

So what I would say is that in the fantastic new developments

that we’re working on on campus one of them includes the

new School of Indigenous Studies which is – the palette is of

the Noongar colours and of course we’ve done a huge amount

to protect the trees that are part of that area and we will be

putting in some new trees and flora and fauna and so what

we’re doing at the moment is we’re working very closely as the

Chancellor said on – with our stakeholders including many

of our Noongar elders who are advising us on the ways in

which we think about the development of our – not just our

campus infrastructure but the development of our campus

master plan.

That work has – is ongoing, we’re just scoping that work for

the whole of the campus but the School of Indigenous Studies

would be a really good example of where we’ve taken account

of all of that you know referring back to heritage and to culture

and thinking about ways in which we can plant some of the

indigenous trees and to grow that environment further than

we have perhaps done in the past. So there’s one example and

I'm sure there’ll be many more as we go through the process of

developing the campus master plan.

Question 3: Ruth Arnel

My name’s Ruth Arnel and I have a question for the Vice-

Chancellor. In your report you mentioned the wave energy

Ruth Arnel making an enquiry.

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What I haven’t changed, the view that I still take, and

because it’s there in the statute, is that Convocation is part

of the University and that I think that we can have a much

stronger engagement than historically with Convocation

and that’s already happening both with Dawn and with

myself and you can see the consultation processes that are

going on and Convocation being brought in as Dawn has

already mentioned, strategic planning process. So we’re

not for example looking at a strategic plan which pops out

of the black box and that’s important for the Senate, that’s

important for Convocation. So that’s a view which has perhaps

evolved, developed but certainly I think Convocation is – it’s

statutorily part of the University, it’s a very important network

for all us and so I support it.

Question 5: Tim Dawes:

I’m Tim Dawe. I have a question for Patrick Cornish, in fact

twofold question. In doing your literature studies which writer

did you study? And the second part is, is there anyone you can

nominate as one of your mentors in journalism?

Tim Dawes, a former Deputy Warden of Convocation.

Response: Patrick Cornish:

Writers – you mean studying – have long have you all got? Are

you here ‘til midnight? Authors, I learnt as probably a journalist

should as a generalist bits and pieces from different writers

so on his or her day, Jane Austen for example, but among the

things I learnt in my honours year here was the name of Patrick

White and I’d hardly heard of him – I certainly hadn’t heard of

him when I was at school in England but I remember being

struck by how innovative Patrick White was – occasionally

difficult but I’ll just give you one example. Coming from a

background where you did not start a sentence with the word

but Patrick White, the whole sentence would read but, he

Response: Chancellor

Well I can’t really remember what they were. You’re quite right,

I was involved with the Guild Council. In fact somewhere in the

back of that – of your papers there’s a book of the Council – a

photograph of the Council in 1967 which I appear as Guild

Treasurer looking extremely youthful. And subsequently

because I did a science degree and then I did law I think it

was while I was still a law student that I actually joined – got

elected to the Standing Statutes Committee as it was then

called of Convocation. And Convocation was then very much

a body in search of a mission and in fact Bob Nicholson set

up an appallingly named committee called a Stimulative

Subcommittee which conjured up images of a dead frog which

you’re trying to prod with you know an electric current. And I

remember looking at some of the history, actually, at the time

‘cause I thought there was much more engagement possible

between Convocation and the Guild.

Historically, post-war, you’ve got a lot of people doing second

degrees and some very talented people like Nugget – the

young Nugget Coombes and they were getting Guild of

undergraduate members onto Convocation because – and

they were electing Convocation – sort of students onto the

Senate, in fact more – or younger people onto the Senate.

And when Wolf did his Royal Commission he said there were

complaints that there were not enough respectable bishops

and that sort of person so I did try – I actually wrote a big piece

for Pelican suggesting that there was an overlooked power

axis here. In fact I remember trying to put a honey trap at the

beginning of the article by not looking like an apologist for

Convocation so I quoted a bit of poetry from Felicia Hemans’

about Italy, the Home of the Arts where glory's faded smile

sheds lingering light o'er many a mouldering pile. And that was

probably a reference to the age range of the Standing Statutes

Committee at that time.

The Chancellor, Robert French AC, responding to a question during the “Q&A” session.

names on the honour board from the 1920s which was in Irwin

Street and is now to be restored – there’s a big crack down

the centre of the jarrah piece – so many of the names that you

have recounted from the Claremont Teachers’ College work

of course were also students here at the University, perhaps

doing one or two units – not here but in Irwin Street and your

book has already been marked by several people who are

going to be working on a photographic display. The difficulty

for us, we want to make a pictorial display and finding

photographs of everyone is tasking us so you have several in

your book, we’ve collared them, I tell you, but if anyone else

has any photographs or knows family of great-uncles and

great-grandfathers and things please let us know. I commend

your work on that immensely, thanks, Neville.

Question 7: Freda Livingston

Freda Livingston probably addressing Vice-Chancellor. I would

just like to know if the University has a strategy to address

the declining numbers or enrolments of local students?

Thank you.

Long-time Convocation volunteer, Freda Livingston.

Response: Vice-Chancellor

Thank you, yes, very happy to answer that question. So as

you have indicated there is – and this year alone coming

out of the schools in our state we’ve had a 3% reduction of

students just coming out of school so there’s obviously less

students available in terms of looking at the numbers that

we would normally pull into enrolments from our state-wide

schools into our university and that’s just one area that we’re

looking at so I’m going to focus on your question which is the

local area, not the national, international markets that we’re

looking at.

So we have a schools engagement strategy which is one part

of what we’re doing, Freda, and it’s – mainly sits in the domain

of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, David Sadler, and the Deputy

Vice-Chancellor, Kent Anderson, with this and in fact we had

a meeting about this earlier today. We’ve got a strategy of

working very closely with our schools and not about the you

was imitating the way someone is talking so that’s just one

example and really, Tim, I can’t go through them all.

Mentor, I’ve had people who picked me up, who actually

although I claim to have taken John Kay’s counsel to shut up

a little bit in fact I didn’t shut up immediately, I was – went

back to UK and still could talk a bit but I again listened to bits

and pieces and eventually got old enough to thank people in

time. It’s all very well thanking people when they’re gone but

I learnt – and if I could just say about obituaries, I would love

to compile a book of obituaries of UWA people. I have – I don’t

know how many of them – my wife by the way should have

credit for this marvellous selection of photos that she did so

thank you very much, Jo, but she has helped me with a book

on obituaries and there is a copy outside – Philippa Madden

is in there, by the way, I was so taken by her story that that’s

why I’ve singled it out but yeah, I’ve just carried on and I think

obituaries compared with most of the rubbish that a journalist

writes in a lifetime, obituaries actually matter. They’re sort of

history and so on, so whoever pointed me towards that aspect

gets my vote. Thank you very much.

Question 6: Neville Green

I asked for the microphone ‘cause many people like me

need to have someone speak on a loud microphone. The

question is you previously referred to the Armistice Day which

is now Remembrance Day and the honour board for I take it

graduates of this university that served in – well world war

one? Second world war?

Historian, Neville Green, asks a question.

Response: Deputy Warden Joan Pope:

Neville, your book called Soldier Teachers, Teacher Soldiers is

very much in our mind at the moment because so many of the

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and seeing someone who is their peer, someone is you

know a – their future self but not that far off telling them why

they enjoyed their time here at UWA and of course are most

engaged students – there are over 4,000 of them involved in

clubs and societies – are the ones that are really making the

most of their time here at UWA. So we’re you know from a

Guild perspective I think that’s probably the most important

thing, is peer to peer engagement because that’s why I came

to UWA and you know it’s the courses and all that kind of – the

offerings and stuff that’s – they’re all very important but I think

it’s that personal connection that needs to come from the

University.

Question 9: Ray Tauss:

Thank you, Warden. Warden, if your name appeared on the

slide I would have a question for you about Convocation so

maybe that opportunity will occur this evening. My question is

for the Vice-Chancellor and it is again about the wave energy

project. Is it true that the onshore interface with the wave

energy product is incapable of handling the energy product

and if so what was the University’s role in scoping the wave

energy project?

Ray Tauss, framer of many a question over the years.

Response: Vice-Chancellor

Yeah. I mean I may seek some input from Simon here who’s

– but my response would be to the first point, is it true

that the onshore – offshore product is – no, that’s not my

understanding so in fact when I spoke to Christof Gelden

who’s our oceans engineer who’s leading this project in Albany

only earlier today that was not the message I was getting so

I’m not sure if there’s been some miscommunication around

the offshore product or not but maybe – I mean maybe I’ve

misunderstood quite.

That’s not true of the wave energy facility so of course – I

mean one of the things that the University, we’re very proud

of is the work that we are doing in energy and renewables and

the work that we’re doing through LNG and wave energy is

know at the Year 11, Year 12, going in very early to do some

engagement work with them on helping them to think about

their career strategy but also engagement with them in

different ways.

One of the things that in fact David’s been involved is what’s

known as a children’s university and ways in bringing younger

children onto campus to engage in some of the activities on

campus and we’ve been talking to such institutions as SciTech

about that so it’s not just about us going about, it’s what

about – what we’re doing to come in at an early age. And then

obviously we’ve got a strategy that’s now being led by our

new Chief Marketing Officer, Owen Davies, in terms of really

working our – not just in terms of our marketing but working

our social media – it’s something that Patrick spoke about

earlier in terms of the online and digital. It is a way in which

we reach young people but getting the message out there

about the value of the course, the particular structure that

we offer with cycle 2 - cycle 1, cycle 2, cycle 3 being building

mechanisms for future careers and really ensuring that we’re

clear about what we offer. So there’s a lot of things going on,

that just summarises one or two things but the short answer

would be yes, there is a strategy.

Question 8: Warden

I wonder if I could take a follow-up to that to you, Megan, in

terms of the assembled group we have here tonight represents

many generations of graduates from this university. From the

Guild what would you like? From this – in terms of what can

we do, all of us, about student experience and just making

life better on the University, with the University for you as a

student passing through?

Response: Guild President

Thank you, Warden. So for me when I first was contemplating

what university I was going to go to I told my mother I’m going

to be doing Fine Arts and she said Finance, that’s fantastic.

No, no, Fine Arts, Mum. Oh okay, you’re still doing Law later,

though, right? And the main reason I was interested in coming

to UWA was because I could get not only depth of learning

through postgraduate study but breadth of learning through

the undergraduate degree. Myself, I’ve been working a lot

with the Future Students team about how we can engage

with students. You know being relatively young myself even

I struggle to you know engage with 17-year-olds but how

do we tell students why UWA’s a fantastic place to be and

a big part of that which we’re very grateful for particularly

in the Future Students team is our amazing campus culture

largely facilitated by the Guild and the clubs that the Guild is

affiliated with.

So we have been sending Guild representatives out on their

school outreach program to have – engage students to talk

about why they like UWA and I think it’s that word of mouth

alongside our Australian flag, our university flag and our state

flag and the Aboriginal flag? Thank you.

Response: Vice-Chancellor

Thank you for the question. Can I just say that I don’t have

all the power here with regards to the flag policy so I would

just like to correct that point because the flag policy of the

University is also a policy that goes to Senate and it actually

went to Senate in December. So the flag policy’s being revised

and it has gone to Senate and we had a discussion about it

at Senate in December so just to be aware that with those

sorts of policies, because they are obviously as you’ve really

quite rightly pointed out the gateway to the University and it is

important that we think about this carefully and in fact we are

also – there is part of a federal policy that means when there

is – something happens in Parliament in Government, when

they fly a flag at half-mast we are also behest of that and we

have to fly at half-mast so it’s not all quite within the remit of

the Vice Chancellor.

Having said that we actually put a new flag pole up last year.

The Deputy Vice-Chancellor Community Engagement was

part of developing the new policy around the flag poles and

yes, you’re right to note that we have had the five flags flying.

Now we had a discussion about this at Senate. Kent, you

might want to just – this is something that sits right within

your area, you might just want to respond very briefly about

where we’re at with the changes to the flag policy and what’s

happening next.

So the reason I’m saying that is because the meeting was in

December of Senate and the next meeting of Senate isn’t ‘til

next month so there’s been a gap between the process going

to Senate and it then going back in April.

Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Kent Anderson: Thank you

and thank you for the question. Yes, the University historically

– or not historically but for the last few years has had three

flag poles at the front of the campus and it’s increased to

five flag poles at the front of the campus. Three of those flag

poles are very specific with the flags that must be flown all of

the time, the national flag, the state flag and the Aboriginal

flag. Two of the flag poles are open. What the policy does

specify is that certain times of the year different flags should

be flown at those, for example during NAIDOC Week the

Torres Strait Islanders’ flag is flown and during Pride Week

the LGBTIQA rainbow flag is flown. We have an open space.

We also need flags for visiting foreign dignitaries when they’re

here so hopefully you were here for the Honorary Doctorate

of the Irish President, that would be another example where

we would have flags available to fly for that so it is open, it is

flexible. What is key is that the three flags must be flown, the

other two are open and right now they’re being filled by those.

Other flags can be suggested.

a part of that through our Oceans Institute so I think we just

have to make sure that we’re consistently communicating the

positive value of what we’re doing down there.

Question 10: Mog Gadsdon

It’s in regard to the flags at the front of our university. It’s the

gateway to our university and well seen from the approach

from Winthrop Avenue and along Stirling Highway. There are

five flags there, the Australian flag, the University flag, the

state flag, the Aboriginal flag and the rainbow flag. This last

one has evolved from being a flag of peace that was displayed

around the world in many countries since the ‘60s, Europe,

America and Australia, of course. But I understand that our

university is supportive of this gay community, this rainbow

flag has – when it’s cited now is usually associated or only

associated with the gay community and I support that the

University is with them and their flag as many other flags are

entitled to be flown.

Mog Gadsdon, one of the recent group who celebrated a 50th Anniversary of her graduation from UWA.

However I understand from the UWA flag policy of 2016 that

a flag at your behest can be flown at certain – on certain

occasions and for say the gay community there are certain

days that are recognised internationally, HIV/AIDS Day for

instance and even here UWA Pride Week. But recently the

rainbow flag at the front of our university has been flying

continuously for months and I wonder why that is so? So can

I please ask for an explanation? I believe you are the person

who says this is possible and I think this situation is not

working as it should. Has it had proper approval? Has it been

granted, this minority group flag, to be flown continuously

and what can be – we expect in the future with this flag flying

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we’re poorer because we’re not celebrating all those odd,

unexpected, almost serendipitous sort of things that swing

around a university campus like –

Response: Warden

Okay and thanks for the comment and I think it was addressed

in two ways in this evening’s proceedings. One, I mentioned

at the graduation ceremony that certainly we as Convocation

encouraged the stories of what the graduates achieve a§er

and that’s exactly what you’re talking about, and Patrick in his

address went very much down the path of saying yes, there

are stories to tell, there are the extraordinary and what we

might term the ordinary but it – in the end they all turn into

pretty extraordinary when you bother to go and have a look at

them. And so yes, the challenge is there through Convocation,

for the University and so on and I think that probably covers

what you’re asking us. We recognise the challenge universally

here. And I think two more questions, one, the lady in the

middle and two there and we’ll then call it an evening and

thank the panel.

Question 12: Fiona Kibblewhite:

Hi there, my name is Fiona Kibblewhite, I graduated in ’85 from

UWA. My question is directed to Megan. Do you feel that the

cost of being a student is getting more difficult because it’s

well documented you know how much the rising cost of living

in Perth etc so I’d just like you to share any of your experiences

because it must be quite interesting in your position.

Fiona Kibblewhite raises a question of concern for current students.

Response: Guild President

Thank you, thank you for that question. The short answer

is yes, being a student is difficult and particularly as the

student body at UWA continues to diversify and the number

of low SES students, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Question 11: Gil Hardwick

My name’s Gil Hardwick. I’d like to address the point raised

earlier about UWA still hitting below its weight and I’d like to

– not saying that UWA doesn’t hit below its weight but there’s

not enough emphasis on where it is. I was first here in the

1980s, my father-in-law opened the door for Deng Xiaoping

in China and we met here and my son, Graeme, graduated in

Geology a§er growing up, coming back between Australia and

China, maintaining that close relationship all the time. And

when he was Wongai President for the 50th anniversary year

he didn’t bother – no offence against the Guild but he didn’t

bother with the Guild, he just went and networked straight

out with the companies and got his jobs. Before I came in

here I’d grown up out in the bush, I spoke Aboriginal language,

I’d already been through Law before I came here, it was that

recognition of me as a person that put the idea in my head as

a bush kid of actually coming to university.

Gil Hardwick’s heartfelt comments.

So what I’m saying is the influences on this place and the

way so many different people move through this place, a

far bigger, a far more complex – there are far more deeper

stories and really engaging stories that are the reality of this

place but when we come back on campus it’s like this sort

of sinking back into a sort of postgraduate – post-secondary

sort of trivial thing and the real recognition until they get

invited to lunch by the Chinese Students’ Association, the

lunch with Bob Hawke who’s highly regarded in China,

nobody knows about it. We go back out into our public life

and nobody knows, nobody seems to think about it. When

we talk – while we’re talking about Aboriginal reconciliation

the sheer numbers of graduates who’ve been through law

with Aboriginal names who already preceded this whole

reconciliation thing have been there all the time in 250 years

of Australian history are not being told and I’m arguing that

they feel prepared and they feel engaged in their university

experience. Students are very time-poor and I think a lot

of - there’s a misconception that students are lazy but that’s

not true, students work very hard, not only in their studies

but in you know sometimes three, four, five jobs as well as

everything else that they do.

Question 13: Ivan Kennedy

Ivan Kennedy, a former student of the late Lex Parker at this

university. Yeah, my question is fairly general and I thought

tonight we heard very well from Mr Cornish, our speaker, of

how emotion plays an important role in seeking wisdom but I

would like to know from the Vice-Chancellor or the Chancellor

what the University is doing about ensuring the primacy of

reason over emotion as far as society is concerned.

Ian Kennedy rounds off the “Q&A” session.

Response: Vice-Chancellor

And I'm still feeling the emotion of it. But you know actually

the other thing that’s happening of course is it’s percolating

through me in the context of the questions that I’m getting

and in the context of being in the privileged position of

leading this institution through its next strategy and working it

through in terms of bringing forward the history, the heritage,

the emotion that’s connected that and taking it forward in a

way that’s thoughtful, considered, deliberative, conscious, all

of those things that of course lend themselves to the rational

side of our minds. Now we all know that the le§ brain and

the right brain cope quite admirably living in the same head

for most people so from my perspective, actually, and I talk

here as somebody who has mental health in my background,

bringing those two things together has never been more of an

imperative.

So one of the things that the strategy has to do for the future

and Megan has really articulated this better than I ever

could, is bringing together the social and the technological

together so that they actually work in harmony. We cannot

have a generation of graduates coming out of university who

are digitally literate, technologically literate, able to code

you know this is happening at such an early age and they’re

developing an app at the age of 10 or whatever it is. Fantastic

students, students from culturally and linguistically diverse

backgrounds increases we have noticed that it has become

significantly harder for students to engage and participate

in the full university experience so to speak. We run a

professional support service called Student Assist where our

caseworkers assist students with academic, financial and

welfare concerns, their caseload has increased from 800 in

2016 to 1,200 last year. The number of students requiring

financial assistance from the Guild which is what we provide,

we do a student loan scheme, emergency loans, long-term

loans as well as grants has massively increased and that

budget is continually growing every year.

The National Union of Students did a national survey into

student wellbeing and student housing and affordability. Over

80% of students cited financial concerns as a reason why they

withdrew from their studies at university. Many students do

not live with their parents. I think you know I myself come from

a very safe financial background. Whilst my parent – I am a first

generation Australian, my parents worked very hard to make

sure that I was supported through my time at university and

continue to support me through that time at university. I only

make minimum wage as Guild President and that’s definitely

– I wouldn’t be able to live off that. But the fact is that many

students are making minimum wage, they are working

multiple jobs, they are studying full-time and on top of that

you know they’re expected to volunteer and intern and have

a social life and you know potentially be a carer for someone

in their family and we do note that those – the number of

students experiencing those difficulties and those burdens

is increasing and our students are citing a lot of financial

concerns as well as mental health and wellbeing concerns as

reasons why they either do not enjoy their time at university or

have to fully discontinue from their studies at university.

Chancellor: And even when they are – if they’re continuing

with their studies, as I understand it the Guild has a concern

that they’re not able to get onto the campus and have the kind

of interaction that Patrick was talking about before.

Guild President: Yes

Chancellor: And hence the pressure for online lectures

and so forth.

Guild President: Yes, we know that students want the

flexibility in their learning but also that doesn’t mean

necessarily though that they want to do away with face-to-

face with their academics, they want to when they are on

campus have the most engaging and enriching experience

so they feel like they’re getting you know what they’re paying

for – rather, what they’re accruing debt for but also to have

that flexibility when it comes to learning content and ensuring

that they’re getting that content delivered to them in the most

effective digital way so that when they come onto campus

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(L-R) Terence Chia, Marina Gerzic and Duc Thi Dau

As this marks the end of his first year as Warden of

Convocation, it was very important that he thanked his

colleagues on Convocation Council for the support they

have given over the past year. The Warden said that it has

been a privilege and a pleasure to undertake this role of

Warden, and added that it is not without its challenges and

time commitments, it does demand -but it was worth doing.

The Warden remarked further that he thinks the breadth

and depth of questions, the discussion, the speakers at this

meeting is well and truly illustrative that Convocation has a

huge role to play with the University in doing some wonderful

things for some great people who are graduates and for those

who are coming through as students and future graduates.

The Warden thanked the wonderful assistance provided by

the diligent, diplomatic, hardworking Convocation Off icer

Juanita Perez. He thanked her for all her advice and guidance

over the past year, and for coordinating all the arrangements

for this Ordinary Meeting.

The Warden thanked the various University teams who help to

organise this meeting.

The Warden also thanked Manny Tamayo Photography for his

services at this meeting and at all past Convocation events.

Manny, an MBA graduate of UWA provides all the photography

for Convocation events at “mates rates” as his contribution to

Convocation.

The Warden also thanked all for attending the meeting and

declared the Autumn Ordinary Meeting of Convocation for

2018 closed at 8.37 pm.

Convocation Councillors and members mingle and follow up the questions of the evening.

skills, they’re all needed but it needs to be applied in the

context of humanity, in the context of society and the context

of people and in the context of human interaction and that

was one of the things that Patrick said so I’m still in that reverie

and my response to you is that it’s going to be so important

that we continue to tell the story of how the rational side of

our histories and futures align with the emotional side of our

histories and futures because that’s what storytelling does, it

brings them together.

End of Q&A Session

Conclusion

All ages enjoyed the outdoor supper at the UWA Club (L-R) Mary and Arpad Mencshelyi

(L-R) Ian Car r with Angeline and Chuan Ong

Introduction

It is a pleasure to provide my report to the Spring Ordinary

Meeting of Convocation for 2018. It has been a productive

year so far and the remainder of the year promises to be

equally busy and successful as we move closer to setting the

University’s Strategic Vision to 2030.

UWA’s Strategic Vision 2030

Consultation on the UWA Strategic Vision 2030 was off icially

launched at the All Staff Forum on 20 April. The full suite of

Green Papers was released for input and consultation with

this initial phase closing on 29 June 2018. This consultation

period was extremely successful with 55 formal submissions

of which the majority were group submissions. The University

community embraced the use of appreciative inquiry and this

has resulted in useful, relevant, high quality feedback.

The Executive Strategic Retreat took place on 2 and 3 August

and provided an opportunity to further delve into strategic

priorities and options for the University.

Convocation will continue to be updated at subsequent

meetings. Academic Recruitment

Academic Recruitment

To date, the Be Inspired campaign has generated 584

expressions of interest (EOI) via the online ‘Be Inspired‘

campaign site with a mix of local, national and international

candidates. Out of the total, 499 are external and 85 internal,

with a fairly even spread across the faculties, and 79 have

applied for the positions advertised this year. To date, there

have been a total of 497 applicants, of which 418 are in

addition to previous EOIs, for all positions advertised, all

coming from a variety of locations including Australia (38%),

Europe (13%), Asia (9%) and the UK & Ireland (6%). The

remaining 34% is made up of small percentages distributed

across the globe.

Executive and Senior Leadership Staff ing changesDeputy Vice-Chancellor Research

A§ er many years of dedicated service to UWA, Professor

Robyn Owens has made the decision to retire at the end of

her current term, in November 2019. Robyn’s contribution to

the University has been immeasurable, having performed

numerous roles, most recently observing two terms as the

Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research.

Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Community & Engagement

Professor Kent Anderson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Community

and Engagement has elected not to seek an extension to his

current term, and return to his family in Canberra. Kent will

finish at UWA on 31 December 2018, following four years of

energy and commitment.

Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research

I am also pleased to advise that following a competitive

Expression of Interest process for the Pro Vice- Chancellor

Research, Professor Tim Colmer has been successful

for the role and will commence his six- month term on

Monday 6 August.

Director Appointments

Appointments to the position of Director in Human Resources

and Strategy, Planning and Performance have recently been

made, with both positions to be filled in October 2018.

Significant Events and Announcements

Rankings

The University has cemented its place among the world’s

top universities with nine subject areas ranked in the top 50

globally, according to the 2018 Academic Ranking of World

Universities. UWA was ranked first in Australia in four subject

areas: Marine/Ocean Engineering, Agricultural Sciences,

Environmental Science & Engineering and Biological Sciences.

Other subject areas ranked in the world’s top 50 included

Mining and Mineral Engineering (5), Oceanography (24),

Ecology (29), Clinical Medicine (39) and Public Health (48).

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Young Lives Matter Foundation

The Young Lives Matter Foundation was launched on 18 May

by Member for Curtin and Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon

Julie Bishop. The Foundation is based out of UWA and will

support research to identify trigger points for youth suicide

and help predict when a person is at high risk. The Foundation

will bring together medical professionals, mathematicians and

data analysts.

Go8 Student Advocacy Group

The student organisations of the Group of Eight (Go8)

Universities established a Go8 Student Advocacy Group with a

view to having greater impact on the higher education sector

and a stronger relationships with the national group of the

universities and students which they represent. UWA Guild

attended a Go8 Student Advocacy Group event in Sydney

from 15-17 July. The student representatives that make up

the group have identified a framework and set of issues that

they wish to meaningfully engage with the Go8 to develop

initiatives that aim to address and explore these topics.

Worldwide Universities Network

The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) partnered with

UWA to hold its Annual General Meeting and associated

workshops in Perth from 20 – 25 May 2018.

Over the week WA played host to a globally significant

gathering of world university leaders, further enhancing the

State and the University’s global reputation as a knowledge

and research leader.

The conference program included a dynamic mix of

workshops and events with representatives from 23

universities, spanning 13 countries across six continents

collaborating to drive international research and translation of

this research, with a focus on four globally significant themes:

• Responding to Climate Change

• Public Health (Non-Communicable Disease)

• Global Higher Education and Research

• Understanding Cultures

The event was an opportunity to showcase Perth and Western

Australia to academic leaders from across the globe and

highlight how we are contributing to major international

challenges, including the United Nations’ Sustainable

Development Goals.

Public Policy Institute

In May the UWA Public Policy Institute (PPI) was launched, a

new initiative for UWA to share its world- class research and

expertise with decision makers and community leaders to

help shape the future of society. Through the Institute the

goal is to position UWA as a trusted partner for those seeking

In the overall rankings UWA’s position remains consistent,

with a minor movement from 91 to 93. Taking into account

the timing of movement of HiCi’s and UWA’s recent Fields

Medal recipient, which will not have been awarded in time to

factor into the ARWU rankings, this represents a steady result

for the University and an anticipated significant leap up the

rankings in 2019.

ARC Funding success

UWA will work in partnership with Curtin University as part of

a new ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre that will

aim to use data science to transform asset maintenance for

Australia’s resources sector.

Announced by the Federal Government in early August, the

new centre was awarded $3.9million in ARC funding and will

see us working with industry partners Alcoa, BHP and Roy Hill

to develop employees that have analytic skills in data science,

needed for jobs of the future in the resources sector. Planning

for the new ARC Training Centre for Transforming Maintenance

through Data Science has commenced.

ARC Centre of Excellence for Geotechnical Science

and Engineering

UWA’s Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems is partnering

with the University of Newcastle and the University of

Wollongong in a project aiming to pioneer new science-based

tools for optimising transport infrastructure by developing

cheaper, safer and cleaner energy solutions, to meet with

the ever increasing demand on transportation and the need

to reduce environmental impacts. The Centre for Excellence

was awarded $17.3 million in funding through the ARC Centre

of Excellence scheme, and has leveraged this contribution

to obtain an additional $74.4 million from other sources and

industry partners, including UWA.

Western Australia Life Sciences Precinct

In early July UWA was announced as the lead university in the

new Western Australian Life Sciences Precinct which will bring

together researchers and industry partners to generate new

business opportunities in medicine, health, agriculture and

biodiversity. UWA will partner with the State Government and

MTP Connect in this initiative to grow Western Australia’s life

sciences and will run educational programs to support start-

ups and provide business development, innovation, health

translation, investment attraction advice and boost local

research capability.

New Colombo Plan Mobility Program

The University has been awarded nearly $1m as part of the

Federal Government’s New Colombo Plan Mobility Program;

this will support 160 students and 15 projects, demonstrating

our continued commitment to Indo-Pacific engagement.

Media Analysis (April- June 2018)

In quarter 2, 2018 there were 1281 media items that mentioned

UWA in state and national media (748 in the press and 533 in

broadcast), representing an increase on the same quarter in

2017 (1133 items) and the highest rate since Q2, 2016. Positive

stories that had a strong feature in the media included UWA

research into physical activity in children, the announcement

of the new UWA-led Wave Energy Centre in Albany and

research into rates of high blood pressure. Overall the areas

of health and medicine, science and arts and humanities

received the most amount of media coverage.

Acknowledgements and Achievements

On 2 May UWA alumnus and former Deputy Prime Minister

Hon Kim Beazley was officially sworn in as WA’s 33rd Governor.

Governor Beazley will be a strong advocate for Education

in our State and we look forward to engaging with him in

this capacity.

In August, Professor Akshay Venkatesh, believed to be one of

UWA’s youngest graduates, was awarded one of the world’s

most prestigious mathematical awards – the Fields Medal.

Eighteen graduates and three staff members of the University

were recognised in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

Professor Romola Bucks and Professor Johanna Badcock

were admitted as Fellows of the Association for Psychological

Science in recognition of their contributions to the science.

Dawn Freshwater

Vice-Chancellor

evidence-based ideas, working with Government, industry,

NGOs and the community sector to find solutions to current

and emerging issues.

In the region of 200 responses have been received following

the launch. These have included opportunities to: work

with local and State Government areas on governance

training; work on thought leadership projects focused on the

economic development of the State; connect our expertise

in health areas to policy decision makers; provide an outside

perspective to the Scottish Exchequer on policy reform; and

others which UWA PPI is now following up on. To date, 17

projects are in development.

Engagement

UWA Open Day

UWA Open day was held on Sunday 12 August and was a

great success with a range of activities which showcased the

diverse experiences available to students. An estimated 18,740

– 20,824 people attended, and 3,134 recruitment leads were

generated. Since its launch in June 2018 the Open Day website

has received over 44,000 unique views – up almost 10,000

from the same period last year.

Significant acknowledgement goes to staff, student and

volunteers, who invested passion, commitment and time into

planning for and making the day a success.

Respect. Now. Always.

1 August 2018 represented 12 months since the release of

the report into sexual assault and harassment at Australian

universities. This provided UWA with an opportunity to

communicate to staff and students progress made against

the report’s findings, highlight further actions to be taken

and reinforce our commitment to maintaining a safe and

supportive environment for students and staff.

Media Engagement

International Star Wars Day (May the 4th) is celebrated far

and wide and this year we decided to engage in this pop-

culture movement. To mark the day we created a video that

shows BB-8, a new UWA student, exploring the UWA campus,

bumping into current students and other Star Wars characters

– showcasing our beautiful university and amazing facilities.

The reception of this video surpassed all expectations

and through Facebook it reached 500,407 people and was

shared over 3,200 times; it was also viewed over 30,000 times

on YouTube.

The 2018 FIFA World Cup kicked off in mid-June and we

marked this with a short video featuring some of the

University’s diverse international cohort. The video has been

viewed over 25,000 times.

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2018 has been a massive year for the UWA

Student Guild in regard to achieving our

strategic goals and expanding our impact across

the University. Every President’s term has its ups

and downs but this year on a whole has seen the

Guild move from strength to strength.

The student representatives, almost all of which

volunteer their time and the incredible Guild

staff have worked tirelessly this year to ensure

the Guild is achieving real wins for students. It

has been an honour to lead such a passionate

and tireless group of student advocates.

I’d like the extend my sincerest thanks to the

Warden of Convocation, the Convocation

Council and the UWA graduate community,

of which I am also a proud member, for their

support of myself and the Guild during my term.

As always it means a great deal to know that

the wider UWA community has a keen interest in

and support for the current student body.

If anyone has any questions or comments about

this report, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Best wishes,

Megan Lee

105th UWA Student Guild Presidentpresident@guild.uwa.edu.au.

ORDINARY MEETING

UWA STUDENT GUILD

CONVOCATIONREPORT TO

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The UWA Student Guild’s pivot object is to further the student body’s ‘ennoblement of life’ whilst at

University. The Guild’s aim is to be regarded as the sector leading independent student-run organisation.

We are regarded as the national standard for our management structure, leadership capabilities and service

delivery, especially in the areas of student welfare, clubs and societies and events.

Statistics in the following areas:

BACKGROUND

STUDENT REPRESENTATION

• Guild Representatives on over 45 University Committees including the UWA Senate

SUPPORT SERVICES

• 1275 student assist cases to date • 52 new cases this year

OPPORTUNITIES TO GET INVOLVED

• Over 187 student clubs.• Over 100 student volunteering opportunities• 18,523 hours dedicated to clubs and volunteering in 2018

FOOD & DRINK

• 1233 coffees made at Quobba Gnarning Café in one day – it’s 3rd highest sales day!• Vittoria Coffee, new Refectory, new Tavern Menu!

INFORMATION & ADVICE

• 14,500 diaries issued• 97% of students are Guild Members.

GUILD COUNCIL

GUILD EXECUTIVE

EDUCATION COUNCILDEPARTMENTS

Faculty Societies• Students of Natural and

Agricultural Science• Architectural, Landscape and

Visual Arts Students’ Association• Arts Union• Blackstone Society• University Dental Students’

Society• Economics and Commerce

Students’ Society• Education UnioN• Health Science Societ• Music Students’ Society• Science Union• University Engineers Club• Western Australian Medical

Students’ Society

• Access• Albany• Environment• Ethnocultural• Indigenous• International• Mature-Aged• Postgraduate• Pride• Residential• Sports• Welfare• Women’s

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVESTRUCTURE

SUB-COUNCILS

157 Clubs & Societies

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PROGRESS ON STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

1. BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS

2. OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

We have been working or nurturing relationships with the University, State Government, Federal Government, National Student Organisations and other student organisations globally.

Multiple student representatives have had many meaningful meetings with State Government ministers on issues relating to our portfolios and the activities of the Guild as key stakeholders.

In addition, as Guild President I have had the opportunity to establish relationships with Federal Ministers and other key government stakeholders such as the Group of Eight. I was a member of the inaugural Go8 Student Leaders Conference and have successfully worked with the University to host the next Go8 Student Conference at UWA.

The Guild spaces are always evolving to meet students needs and desires. This year the Guild opened the new Refectory Space.

The $1.7M space features a range of seating to meet every need, powered desks, extra wifi access points, expanded outdoor seating arrangements, new fitting and furnishings and a new student kitchen. We anticipate that the new outlets will be occupying the space by the end of the year. In addition to the space, we completely remodelled the Refectory and Tavern shared kitchen to allow for a new Tavern menu.

This is part of the wider Guild Masterplan Review. Our service provision is continually

growing, and we’re starting to branch out into the rest of the Guild Village Precinct. The vision is that highly relevant and in-demand commercial spaces will feature along the ground floor of the precinct. We will have a revamped Guild Village Café and Student Centre, with a lot of our services such as Student Assist, Guild Departments and Pelican moving along the top floors of the Guild Village.

This will allow for greater visibility and accessibility of the services and brands.

3. STUDENT REPRESENTATION

We pride ourselves on having active and involved student representatives embedded into the University governance structures. Spanning from the University Senate to the Faculty and School, student representatives actively engage with the decision making processes of the University.

My predecessor signed the Partnership between UWA and the Guild which established that both organisations respect each others efforts and work together in order to better the student experience at UWA. We are the second institution in Australia to have such a Partnership agreement.

This year, with the Prof. David Sadler the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education), the Guild signed the Action Plan. It sits under the Partnership agreement as a set of agreed goals that the University and the Guild will work in tandem to achieve, in the spirit of the Partnership.

The 2018 Action Plan focuses on establishing a university wide approach toward embedding student representation in governance structures, a commitment to better lighting and safety on campus and considerable work towards improving the university’s digital experience.

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2018 STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

RESIDENTIAL

Inter-College Community Cup

Women’s Week Screening of the Hunting Ground

Battle of the Bands

Welcome Back Tav show

College vs FacSoc Frisbee Match

SECRETARY

Orientation Action Plan

WELFARE

Food Pantry fund raising

Budgeting Workshop

Cooking Masterclass

Sustainable Fashion Clothes Swap or Shop

Mental health Week

My Health Record Campaign

Monthly Welfare Charity

Positive Affirmation Coffee Cups and

Positive Vibes Board

VP

New Guild Website tender

MASA Events

SOC

CCZ Online meeting space booking

EFTPOS Machine Hire

Club Merchandise in the Second Hand

Bookshop

PRESIDENT

Action Plan – student representation governance, safety on campus and student

digital experience

ENVIRONMENT

Guild Gardens collaboration with WASC to introduce more Indigenous plants and edibles.

Enviro Week featuring meatless Monday, keep cup event, zero waste workshop

and Tree-via night

Fossil Free UWA campaign and bike ride event

Guild Sustainability Plan

ACCESS

Access Week Art Exhibition

Volunteering fair and Accessible Club Carnival

PRIDE

Department Camp

Love Simon Movie Night

PSA

Women in research events

Postscript

PUBLIC AFFAIRS COUNCIL

Variety Concert club collaboration

Social Justice Week

Language Week

Faith Week

EDUCATION

Mandatory lecture capture and downloads commencing

semester 2

Expanded Class Representative System

Best Units Guide

Teaching Awards

Changes to the Assessment Policy to allow for extended supplementary exam notice

days and review of scaling to a criterion-based

assessment model

MAIN CHALLENGES

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Every presidency has its ups and downs, but it has been a

positive year for the student representatives on a whole.

The main challenges we face are in the Education space

– with the reduction of active teaching weeks from 13

to 12 and the ongoing debate regarding the University’s

standard approach to assessment late penalties.

In addition, a huge challenge has been pushing for

the prioritisation of safety initiatives and educational

programs at UWA when it comes to sexual assault

and harassment. The University in collaboration and

consultation with the UWA Student Guild has made some

positive progress towards to addressing this important

issue including the independent audit of the residential

colleges, reviewing of sexual misconduct policies and

online anonymous reporting systems.

The progress we’d like to see from the University can

often be slow in coming to fruition, and a main challenge

we have faced is in the lobbying space for more lighting

on campus, a more responsive security service and better

consent education modules that actually address wide

spread cultural problems.

Another final challenge we have faced is the attractiveness

of this University to prospective students. Any shift in

student numbers is felt directly by the Guild in our funding

models and operational activities. Considerable work has

been done especially as part of the 2030 Vision planning

to rectify this problem.

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Tremlett, both retired experts from the State Solicitor’s Office,

offering to complete the work pro bono within the available

time frame. It remains a daunting task and we gratefully

appreciate this assistance.

This example demonstrates the value of the network as the

skills and energy that sits in Convocation’s membership

and remains largely untapped. Therein lies a challenge to

Convocation and the University, but more on that later.

Full details of the proposed changes of Statutes will be

available on the Convocation website at www.convocation.

uwa.edu.au when they have been sufficiently developed.

Graduation Ceremonies

Convocation continues with its important role at all

graduations, with the Warden or representative welcoming

all graduates to Convocation as new members. At the six July

2018 Graduation Ceremonies, the Warden and Deputy Warden,

along with two Councillors, Dr Agi Gedeon and Mr Tony Tate

AM, delivered the Welcome Address.

Caption: Convocation Councillor Tony Tate AM delivering the Warden’s Welcome address at the July Graduation ceremony.

At each ceremony one or more Council members made

themselves available to personally hand the unique message

sticks provided by the Alumni Office to new graduates.

The format of the Graduation Ceremonies has stabilised

for now, with Convocation retaining its prominent

welcoming role.

It is always an absolute pleasure to be in a position to welcome

the new graduates, our new members to Convocation.

Introduction

Since the Autumn Ordinary Meeting of Convocation held

in March this year, there have been many significant issues

concerning the University reported in the media. The Vice-

Chancellor’s report for this meeting covers these issues for the

University and the students’ perspective is presented by Ms

Megan Lee, President of the Student Guild.

Vice-Chancellor

The development of the new 2030 Strategic Plan continues

a§er the Green Papers were released for comment to

stimulate the planning process. Convocation submitted its

own carefully considered Green Paper covering key items

of interest from the graduate perspective and this was well

received by the Vice-Chancellor, and a discussion of this is

planned for the near future.

Convocation’s role in relation to Statute changes

Convocation is contributing to Statute changes that flow

from the 2016 changes to the UWA Act, working with the

University Secretary, Ms Deirdre de Souza, to amend and

update the statutes that relate to Convocation. There will

be just the single statute covering all parts of the University

once completed. We have met three times with the University

Secretary and are comfortable with the process for review.

However, the challenge of the task has become more than the

volunteers of Council, in particular chair of the Governance

Committee, Dr Susan King can complete in the available time.

Fortunately, the powerful Convocation network has come

to the rescue with members Greg Calcutt AM and Patrick

Warden's Report Spring Ordinary Meeting, 21 September 2018

have been thinking then that “It’s about the network of the

future” and he could see the value. The figure above suggests

there are about 150,000 individual graduations, with several

individuals graduating more than once. Suffice to say there

may well be 130,000 alive today.

In a recent chat with Curtin graduates I checked their number,

roughly 250,000, some of them undoubtedly also graduates of

UWA, so the competition for members of “networks” is fierce.

UWA has Convocation. Curtin does not but it does have active

alumni groups working for it! It’s up to UWA to maximise the

benefits that can flow through its Convocation.

Communication with our members is critical, and this

has been more difficult than needs be, given some of the

rules of engagement between Convocation, Council and

the University over the years. Convocation has enjoyed an

excellent working relationship with Professor Kent Anderson

as Deputy Vice-Chancellor Community and Engagement. He

will be missed by Convocation when he leaves the University

later in the year. Convocation extends its very best wishes for

his future.

Convocation embraces the ideal of partnership with the

University, always seeking a stronger relationship and a fuller

appreciation of the value of the energetic and dedicated

graduate serving in a voluntary capacity. Convocation’s

Council and the University must be committed to a sustained,

smooth and efficient working relationship.

A Reflection

Let me reflect on my own trip with the University and

Convocation since graduation, first in 1972, then in 1981 and

finally in 1991. Far too much time spent at UWA, but it moulded

me, is important to me and has always been so, through work,

sport, mentoring, supervision, colleagues and friends, but

what about Convocation?

I was an occasional three-year subscriber, when I opened the

notices, but was I close to Convocation, did I know what it

was and did or could do? Hardly–living, working and family in

Narrogin, Perth, Bunbury, Kununurra, then eventually back

in Perth, how could I be? Had I heard about it or seen any

indication while in my ten years or so at uni over two and a half

decades – not at all?

More recently, a friend (it’s the network) asked if I would stand

for Convocation Council. I did and five and six years later I am

still here and am Warden. But I am just one of that 100,000

plus and in the second bar up in the figure, (also the third and

fourth). More networks!

In my presentation at the last Ordinary Meeting I highlighted

Masonic Hall Innovation Space

The redevelopment of the Masonic Hall into the new

Innovation Quarter Exchange (IQX), has progressed with

new client innovators occupying some of the working space.

The Convocation Boardroom is largely complete, although

a Council meeting in the room showed the acoustics to be

challenging. Work is underway to solve that problem and an

official naming and opening is planned for the very near future.

Connect, Communicate, Celebrate

In my last report to the membership I reiterated that “All

members of Convocation are life-time members of the

University community and therefore an integral part of UWA.”

I want that to be as important to this University as it is to

Convocation Councillors, present and past, and the regular

attendees at our Ordinary Meetings. Convocation should be

prominent in everyday university life so staff and students

know what Convocation can offer them.

At the Spring Ordinary Meeting in 2017, guest speaker

Tom Murrell challenged Convocation to establish and

maintain communication with its graduate members using

contemporary media. To this end Convocation’s LinkedIn

page is expanding its influence and I have enjoyed making

occasional posts. Younger members have been attracted to

participate and the subscriber number is growing, now around

3,500. We are doing well, but it is all done by volunteers, so not

always as rapidly as we might wish.

The challenge of connecting with representatives of

generation, gender, occupation and location has been

highlighted. The age spread of our membership was used in

our 2030 Green Paper.

A very easy response to this figure is to focus on the big

numbers of recent graduates at the top. Simply put, if you

are of my age and time from graduation there are more of

them than us.

When Sir John Winthrop Hackett stipulated there should be a

Convocation at the new UWA he was being smart. He may well

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Dr Joan Pope (Deputy Warden) setting up the display table, UWA Open Day (12th August 2018)

(L-R) Nee Nee Ong and Angela Evangelinou-Yiannakis

I write this on the day a§er our 2018 Awards Ceremony, where

around 100 attended, including a strong representation of

the University Executive, to celebrate the achievements of

undergraduate and postgraduate students in study, research,

culture, sport and even the need of remote students for

support with accommodation. You can imagine how thrilled

we were that one of the winners of our new undergraduate

prizes had travelled from Singapore to accept his award.

(L-R) Kak Ming Ling was presented the Convocation Postgraduate Research Travel Award by Professor Simon Biggs, Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Convocation’s lack of identity, particularly on campus with

“Where’s Wally?”. We have approval for “Convocation Walk”

alongside Saw Promenade, an avenue of trees planted by each

year’s new Guild President, a great start.

Subsequently just by asking a few questions we have been

granted a page (Convocation Conversations) in each edition of

the Club magazine. We will soon have a live screen showing

Convocation’s activities in the Club Corridor, alongside the

existing static display of features of UWA – and it may even

become “Convocation Corridor”.

“The Club” magazine, Issue 56 (July – September 2018), and “Convocation Conversations” first submission on page 29.

Our guest speaker at the Spring Ordinary Meeting, Jill Benn,

University Librarian, has approved access to the screens that

display information in the library, to the students who are

there every day. We will be visible on campus to students, but

the volunteers will have to hold the content together.

In mid-August the University attracted over 15,000 people,

including future students and their families, to its Open Day.

Given very short warning many members of the Convocation

Council volunteered to support the day and champion the

graduates.

Convocation at UWA Open Day, 12th August 2018, (Standing L-R) Dr Doug McGhie (Warden), Devon Cuneo, Melissa Hetherington & Temperance, (Sitting L-R) Tony Tate, Agi Gedeon and Julie Crews.

THE CLUB 1Celebrate 2009: Australia Day, The Club turns 4, Perth International Arts Festival.

July – September 2018

Issue 56

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Community Links

Greetings from UWA Convocation

UWA Convocation is thrilled to have the opportunity to connect

with many of our members through the University Club’s exclusive

channel. Look forward to regular conversations that will celebrate

our members’ contributions to society.

All graduates of The University of Western Australia are permanent

members of the Convocation of UWA Graduates and have a

life-long relationship with UWA. Convocation is one of the four

constituent bodies of the University (along with staff, the students

and the Senate), as defined in the University of Western Australia

Act of 1911.

Many great universities are defined by their graduates, who

collectively guard and augment the reputation of their universities.

UWA needs a strong and vibrant graduate community and

Convocation works to:

• Enhance the reputation of the University, particularly through its

members’ achievements.

• Maintain a long-standing commitment to undergraduate and

postgraduate scholarships, bursaries, and awards.

• Encourage good governance of the University through the

election of members of Convocation to the University Senate

and the Council of Convocation.

• Bring graduates together in a range of activities,

including reunions.

• Invite influential speakers to address Ordinary Meetings of

Convocation in March and September annually.

Further information is available from the Warden or through the

Office of Convocation at convocation@uwa.edu.au, or on

(08) 6488 3006.

Tree planting commemorates 105 years of

UWA Convocation

A white Jacaranda tree was planted on The University of Western

Australia’s Crawley campus on Sunday 4 March to celebrate the

anniversary of the first meeting of the Convocation Council of

UWA graduates in 1913.

Planted between the Social Sciences building and James Oval

by UWA’s 105th Student Guild President, Ms Megan Lee, this

commemoration has been an annual tradition for the University

since 2016.

Warden of Convocation Dr Doug McGhie said this annual event

is an excellent way to celebrate Convocation Day and the great

things being done by UWA graduates, while also reaffirming the

strong relationship between the Guild and Convocation Council.

“We were honoured this year to not only have with us the 2014

winner of the prestigious Convocation Geoffrey Kennedy Award,

but also the second ever winner of a Convocation Postgraduate

Research Travel Award almost 30 years ago,” Dr McGhie said.

PGRTA Award Winners. Back: Ben McAllister.

Row 2 (L-R): Paola Magni, Richard Harper, Brenda Powell.

Row 3 (L-R): Helen Barbour, Angie Kings-Lynne. Front: Kanthi Perera.

“Along with numerous other past award winners and members

of Convocation, it was a great way to mark the 105th

anniversary of Convocation.”

Dr Paola Magni, now a lecturer and researcher in forensic

science at Murdoch University, won the Geoffrey Kennedy

Award in 2014, but was unable to take it up due to

circumstances beyond her control. Dr McGhie thanked

Dr Magni for attending Convocation Day and commended

her for the ground-breaking work she is doing in her field as a

high profile forensic scientist and as a wonderful role model for

women in science.

Professor Richard Harper received his Convocation

Postgraduate Research Travel Award in 1989 in the second

year the Convocation awards were running. A past Councillor

of Convocation and now Dean of Science at Murdoch

University, Professor Harper told everyone how winning the

award gave him a fantastic boost at a critical time in his

PhD studies.

Dr McGhie invited all members of Convocation to next year’s

Convocation Day tree planting when lifetime subscribing

members will celebrate with the current Council.

Convocation Conversations

collecting food, inviting students to a home cooked meal.

What a difference that could make.

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

That same night of the Awards Ceremony I went public on

my intention to participate in the Ride to Conquer Cancer as

Warden, challenging the network to raise just $1 per member

but not just for cancer. I have had my own flirt with cancer

(melanoma as a result of too much time on the beach as a surf

lifesaver), but I also want to contribute to research into Motor

Neurone Disease (MND), as it took my mother and a work

colleague some years back, and youth mental health (we lost a

son to suicide 15 years ago).

I have also heard just today of the diagnosis of a close friend

with terminal cancer, they are all close to home.

I must express my admiration for the bravery of Neale Daniher

as the face and exemplar of MND and the “Big Freeze”. I am

the proud owner of a “Big Freeze” beanie. I was deeply moved

when I heard him speak at the televised game on the MCG and

personally at the following Eagles game when beanies were

being sold. They had sold out by the time I arrived, but I told

my mother’s story to one of the workers and he gave me his,

shed a few tears then too.

UWA is involved in research into all of these challenges and

Convocation will be able to collect and distribute funds

through the Office of Advancement.

As the nominal head of Convocation, I hope the membership

can get behind me as I complete the 100 km ride from Perth

to Mandurah on Saturday October 13th, returning the following

day with another 100km back to Perth.

I have a pretty good bike, ride and swim pretty well every day

(although never 100km) so I am confident of completing my

part of the deal.

The link at www.campaign.uwa.edu.au/dougmcghieride will

collect and distribute the funds raised.

Queen’s Birthday Honours

During July, Convocation Council was delighted when

the following graduates and other members of the UWA

community were recognised for their achievements in the

Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

In the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, the following members

of Convocation were recognised for their contribution

to Australia:

(L-R) Jeremy Quek travelled from Singapore to receive the Inaugural Convocation Undergraduate Prize in the Bachelor of Commerce presented by Professor David Sadler, DVC, Education.

(L-R) Marathon Kayaker Josh Kippin was presented the 2018 Convocation Sports Scholarship by UWA Sports General Manager

Ian FitzpatrickRafeif Ismail (Centre) was presented the 2018 Bryant Stokes Matilda Award for Cultural Excellence by Guild President Megan Lee, and Convocation Councillor Clinical Professor Lesley Cala

On that night Guild President Megan Lee and I discussed how

Convocation may be able to assist with the need of some

students for access to sufficient cheap and good food. It’s the

Convocation network that could help here, making meals,

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(Back Row L-R) Jonathan Strauss, Warren Kerr AM (Immediate Past Warden and Senate), Jeff Gunningham, and Simon Dawkins (Senate)(Middle Row L-R) Jim Paparo, Angela Evangelinou-Yiannakis, Brett Davies, Doug McGhie (Warden), Ric Stern, Fran Pesich, Jenny Gregory, Devon Cuneo(Sitting L-R) Maria Carvalho (Convocation Medal recipient), Nee Nee Ong, Susan King, Agi Gedeon, Joan Pope (Deputy Warden), Julie Matheson and Tony Tate.

Convocation Council

This report highlights some of the many issues considered

by Convocation Council, and the Statutory requirements of

Convocation. We continue to be particularly effective with

our existing awards, scholarships and events, but are shi§ing

towards appointing project managers with small support

teams for other targets. We have maintained the conventional

committees for the following:

• Awards Committee chaired by Ms Nee Nee Ong,

• Governance Committee chaired by Dr Susan King, and

• Honours Committee chaired by Adjunct Professor Warren

Kerr AM

Events and other engagement projects are more easily

covered by one or two councillors taking charge and calling

for assistance from within or outside Council as required. The

main events remain:

• our Ordinary Meetings, where Ms Juanita Perez takes

the central role and assistance from UWA staff including

Uniprint and Brand Marketing and Recruitment is critical.

Councillors help in various ways;

• the Annual Awards Ceremony, with Ms Perez central to

the organisation, with Chair Nee Nee Ong and the Awards

Committee completing great work, and outside supporters

assisting with the selection process;

• Convocation Day, where the Warden is assisted by several

councillors, the Guild and University Grounds staff;

• 50th Anniversary of Graduation where Deputy Warden Dr

Joan Pope and Mrs Pauline Tremlett have been central to

all recent celebrations;

Appointed as a Companion of the Order of Australia:

Ms Erica Lee Smyth, AC (BSc 1974; DLitt 2008)

Appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia:

Mrs Danielle Eva Blain, AM (BA 1967)

Emeritus Professor Bruce Clifford Elliott,

AM (BEd 1972; MEd 1973; PhD 1978)

Professor David Rowley Fletcher, AM (MBBS 1970)

Clinical Professor David Russell Hillman, AM (MBBS 1974)

Mr Robert John Inverarity, AM (BA 1967; GradDipEd 1967)

Clinical Professor Domenico (Dominic) Spagnolo,

AM (MBBS 1976)

Appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia:

Dr David John Cook, AO (BE 1965)

Emeritus Professor Robin Mary Creyke, AO (LLB 1966)

Professor James (Jim) McCluskey, AO (BMedSc 1974;

MBBS 1977; MD 1991)

Ms Paula Ruth Nathan, AO (BA 1977; BPsych 1981;

MPsych 1983)

Clinical Professor Michael Francis Quinlan,

AO (MBBS 1962; MD 1969)

Dr Paul Richard Wood, AO (BSc 1977)

Awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia:

Dr Alan Edward Bray, OAM (MD 1977)

Mr Archibald Simon Murray, OAM (GradDipEd 1975)

Mrs Audrey Jean Pearson, OAM (BA 1953; CertTeach 1954)

Adjunct Clinical Professor John Graham Rosenthal, OAM (BSc

1967; MBBS 1971)

The Honourable David Lawrence Smith, OAM (LLB 1966)

Convocation’s Honours Committee plays a role in nominating

and supporting nominations for our UWA graduates and this

encourages an increasing number of nominations for those

worthy of recognition being sent through to the Honours

Secretariat in Canberra. Given that the evaluation process

conducted by the Honours Office normally takes at least 18-24

months, Convocation Council is hopeful that an increasing

number of UWA graduates will continue to be included in

future Honours announcements. Members of Convocation

who are aware of worthy graduates are encouraged to

contact the Council through the Convocation Officer so that

confidential nominations may be progressed.

Members are also encouraged to nominate worthy members

for internal honours such as Honorary Degrees, the

Chancellor’s Medal, the Convocation Medal. the Philippa

Maddern Award, Guild Volunteer and others.

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

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

Mr Gary Pennefather Council Member (2017-2020)

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

Mr Ric Stern Council Member (2018-2021)

*Mr Jonathan Strauss Council Member (2011-2019)

Mr Tony Tate AM Council Member (2017-2020)

Mr Simon Dawkins Elected member of Senate (2010- 2021)

Mrs Pauline Tremlett has been co-opted to help the Council

with the 50th Anniversary lunch and has been excellent

contributor yet again. Our newest co-optee is Rubyna Mher,

representing our younger members and learning the ropes

with Convocation and Council.

(L-R) Co-Opted Convocation Council members, Pauline Tremlett and Rubyna Mher

Thanks

In conclusion, I wish to thank all members of Convocation

Council who have contributed to the successful delivery of our

roles and functions during the past year.

Since the last Ordinary Meeting, recognising the challenges on

our volunteer Councillors and one full time employee, we have

employed an Assistant to our Convocation Officer. Ms Melissa

Hetherington has lent her considerable energy, enthusiasm

and skills to all tasks to which she has been assigned and is

a great addition to the Convocation team. Melissa is a PhD

candidate at UWA and works one day a week at the Guild

as Archivist.

Finally, I must commend the splendid support we have all

received from the Convocation Officer Ms Juanita Perez, with

her excellent Convocation corporate knowledge, adherence

to our statutory obligations and untiring efforts to action the

results of our deliberations.

Dr Doug McGhie

Warden of Convocation

Other projects have been championed by Councillors or

small teams,

• Treasurer, Julie Matheson;

• Discontinuing the Lifetime email due to security issues,

Gary Pennefather;

• Fundraising projects, Brett Davies;

• Live display screens in the University Club and UWA Sports

to promote Convocation’s identity and activities, Warden

and Immediate Past Warden;

• A page of promotion of and stories about Convocation

in each edition of the University Club News, Uniview

magazine and the bi-monthly Alumni Connect, Jim Paparo;

• Updating the web site, Assistant Convocation Officer,

Melissa Hetherington and Graham Harmsworth.

The members of Convocation Council are as listed and

pictured below. Those whose terms on Council are complete

in 2019 are indicated with an asterisk. They may renominate

for a position on Convocation Council when nominations open

in November and close in December this year. Any member

of Convocation may nominate for the elected positions. All

members for whom postal addresses are held will receive

their voting papers early next year. Members for whom we

do not have email addresses can assist the communication

process by forwarding those to Convocation, particularly as

we progress towards electronic elections in the near future.

*Dr Doug McGhie, Warden of Convocation 2017-2018, Council

Member (2013-2016)

*Dr Joan Pope OAM, Deputy Warden of Convocation (2016-

2018), Deputy Warden 1985; Warden 1986-1988 Council

Member (1984)

*Adjunct Professor Warren Kerr AM Elected member of Senate

(2015–2019), Immediate Past Warden of Convocation (2017-

2019) Warden of Convocation (2013–2017) Council Member

(2010-2013)

*Dr Mark Andrich Council Member (2016-2019)

Clinical Professor Lesley Cala Council Member (2010-2020)

Dr Julie Crews Council Member (2017 2020)

Ms Devon Cuneo Council Member (2011-2021)

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

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

*Dr Libby Feutrill Council Member (2016-2019)

*Dr Agi Gedeon Council Member (2015-2019)

Emeritus Professor Jenny Gregory AM Council Member

(2018-2021)

Mr Jeffrey Gunningham Council Member (2017-2020)

Mr Graham Harmsworth Council Member (2015-2017

2018-2021)

*Dr Susan King Council Member (2013-2019)

Dr Raj Kurup Council Member (2017-2021)

*Councillor Julie Matheson Council Member (2016-2019)

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Convocation Officer’s reportThe following is a list of graduates whose current whereabouts have become unknown since the Autumn Ordinary

Meeting of Convocation on 23 March 2018. Graduates are listed according to the Faculty from which they obtained their

latest degree, along with their year of graduation.

Architecture, Landscape

and Visual Arts

2010 Zi X. Ban

1986 Gavin P. Knox

2011 Felicity Palumbo

1997 Christopher I. Tomlinson

Arts

1974 Stephanie A. Abercromby (née

Boys)

1999 Toby N. Adams

2001 Roslyn K. Affleck

2005 Jaye D. Alderson

1976 Rebe Atlas (née Berinshaw)

2007 Michelle A. Ball

1977 John Bardwell-Dix

1987 Kathleen J. Brenton-Coward

(née Prebble)

2010 Sarah E. Brice

1987 Brett A. Buktenica

2005 Raul S. Cantor Lopez

1976 Laura Connell (née Nickel)

1974 Brenda M. Conochie

2007 Jonathan D. Craig

2005 Ian A. Dolphin

1966 Andrew C. Domahidy

1970 Mary G. Evans

2016 Connor M. Fisher

1986 Heather D. Formaini

1999 Alison J. Fullam

1994 Emma E. Giambazi

2005 Belle Glaskin

2001 Ciara M. Haughton

1989 Margaret P. Henderson

2000 Christopher D. Jeakings

2002 Richard John

1993 Shane Johnschwager

2003 Michael R. Knowles

2006 Genevieve Y. Kung

1981 Brita Lim

1971 Suzanne J. Locke

1983 Susan Longo

2003 Paul C. Metcalf

1985 Christine A. Meyer

1981 Lynn E. Moss

2016 Alexandra H. Mould

2006 Maria A. Olejnik

2008 Tanya H. Oxtoby

1987 George Papamihail

1989 Susan Peacock

1974 Lloyd J. Peasley

2009 Laura K. Pond

1982 Dimitra H. Samios

2005 Stefano F. Santacaterina

1998 Bridget Stone

1989 Gek-Luan Tan-Noonan

1955 John J. Taylor

1975 Sandy M. Taylor

1981 Nicholas G. Toyne

1949 Elizabeth A. Van Hulssen (née

Bennett)

1988 Jacqueline M. Walsh

1951 Vivienne H. Ward (née

Toussaint)

1995 Rodney S. Wong

1967 Phaik K. Yeoh

Board of Studies -

Bachelor of Commerce

2016 Max M. Sands

Business School

2004 Sania Abid

2003 Hui Ang

1998 Daniel C. Barnao

2007 Mark P. Bertinshaw

2002 Kamini B. Bhojwani

2001 Vishen L. Bisnath

2009 Luke Boswarva

2006 Robert B. Brajkovich

2000 Blair J. Brice

1985 Slade A. Burnet

2012 Yat H. Chan

1973 Choon Ying Cheah

2002 Derek T. Chih

2007 Wee C. Chua

2013 Scott D. Clayton

1999 Angela J. Cross

1991 Lee J. Daniels

1995 Roger P. Dartnell

1967 Michael K. Davidson

2006 Natalina F. De Felice

2010 Maurice M. Doger de Speville

2006 Gavin R. Evans

1992 John J. Fitzgerald

2008 Su-Wei Foo

1982 Paul G. Fox

1973 Peter S. French

1999 Richard H. Hamersley

1997 Perrie S. Henderson

1986 Bee-Eng Hong

2006 Caley J. Horner

2008 Noor Zahirah Z. Ismail

2000 Kirrilee F. Jack

2000 Tania E. Jacobs

1994 Sascha A. Keen

2005 Jennine Kerr

2007 Jeremy J. Koh

2000 Chyn Koh

2011 Brie Langley (née Summerton)

1986 Peter R. Lawson

2000 Dayna L. Lee

2005 Boon S. Lee

1997 Gus E. Lee-Steere

2008 Nicholas Lim

2005 Lawrence L. Lim

1981 Mary Lim

2010 Amy V. London

1987 Brett C. McAuliffe

2002 Graeme D. McKenna

1983 Catherine S. Meacock

(née Gibson)

2001 Emma K. Miller

2004 Melissa J. Moorfield

2007 Tendai L. Muchero

2003 Paul G. Murray

2003 Christopher I. Murray

2006 Peter W. Ndiang'ui

1999 Michael Pecen

1991 Christian S. Pedersen

1994 Daniel M. Phua

2003 Luca M. Pietropiccolo

1993 Subashini Pulendran

1987 Howard C. Rae

2004 Andrew J. Read

1992 Ashley B. Rockman

2009 Jacqueline A. Rowell

2002 Benjamin D. Rumble

1986 Simon M. Rusk

1998 Vincent Sai

2004 Kurt S. Sibma

1982 Gordon A. Sklenka

1998 Penelope A. Smith

1994 Lyle S. Steffensen

1998 Joel M. Stone

1998 Melissa J. Sturgess

2004 Lisa M. Tassone

2011 Michelle C. Teo

1981 Yiu Joe Toh

1980 John Van Heurck

2008 Prashant Venkatesh

1999 Matthew K. Wellisch

2004 Trent L. Winduss

1998 Simon P. Worth

1996 Carman Yung

Education

1981 Narelle E. Alderman

(née Hasemer)

2003 Peter R. Altmeier-Mort

2003 Belinda J. Anderton

2012 Benjamin C. Beaton

1993 Paul Beecham

1985 Michael J. Blackwell

2000 Hansen Blaise (née Joanne

MacPherson)

1985 Heather M. Cannard

2001 Jane A. Claringbold

2013 Rochelle L. Coleman

1979 Shane R. Crockett

1986 Christine H. Cullen

1980 David S. Curry

1975 Anthony J. D Souza

1975 Philip S. de Garis

1973 Scotty M. Elliott (née Scott)

1978 Terry J. Foley

1987 Immacolata A. Franco

1983 Trina M. Glover

1981 Stephen J. Godwin

2012 Larissa F. Golden

1980 Neil C. Jilley

1998 Darian M. Le Page

1953 Anne H. Leach (née West)

1980 Bernadette A. Lee

1998 Andrew G. Lincoln

1992 Todd A. Manson

1998 Andrew D. Nicholls

2001 Grace Parks

1991 Kanu C. Patel

2004 Velayutham Ramasamy

1983 Christopher R. Rogerson

1998 Othman B. Simbran

1971 Heather M. Thompson

1998 Beverley Ward

2001 Anna Y. Young

Engineering, Computing

& Mathematics

1994 Clive S. Adams

2008 Katherine M. Brisco

1972 Ian J. Chandler

2013 Divya A. Chapman (née John)

1997 Edmund E. Chong

1994 Leith C. Collins

2004 Glen D. Cooney

1971 Kai-Ken Foong

2002 Andrew A. Forsyth

1994 Daniel I. Goodman

2007 Kevin Ho

1998 Philip A. Jefferys

2006 Aris Johar

2003 Alan J. Joice

2008 Uday Kamboj

1980 Wan C. Kok

1975 Pak L. Kong

1996 Mark J. Lewis

2010 Xue T. Liu

1992 Matthew A. Lyons

1968 David Macey

1998 Ian T. Marshall

1997 Yusuf A. Merchant

1968 Kam W. Ng

2007 Asher M. Packard-Hair

1973 Michael E. Perreau

2002 Sinisa Rakovic

1999 Michael A. Sharman

1982 Peng T. Soo

1997 Stephen A. Stretch

2000 Johan I. Subagio-Bakti

2009 Michael Talikowski

1973 Christopher B. Tan

(Tan Boon Chee)

2003 Jonathan C. Tan

1971 Chock-Nguang Tay

2012 Zachary W. Thornton

2007 Shuguang Wu

1972 Chen Ying

2012 Meng B. Zhang

Graduate Research School

2008 Gina L. Ambrosini

2001 Ross A. Ashman

1995 Tim T. Cable

1978 Donald Casson

1987 Robin H. Cowen

1975 Kenneth H. Davis

2011 Neil I. Gillespie

2007 Damien P. Hewitt

1985 Karen Hillman

2004 Trudy M. Hoad

1997 Stephen Kargotich

1998 John R. Kennard

2008 Andrea Khong

1992 Stephen P. Loss

1999 Andrew J. Marsh

2003 Kristina L. Mills

1998 Regina A. O'Brien-Malone

1999 Nicholas J. O'Toole

2014 Cathryne G. Sanders

1992 Hema Sharda

2005 Philippa K. Tandy

1997 Peter J. Thompson

1977 William D. Weeks

Law

2002 Alison M. Baxter

1982 Gregory A. Benn

2005 Holly S. Boyd

1989 Simon O. Copp

1990 Fiona J. Crago

2002 Erin J. Forrester

2005 Andrew J. Harvey

1997 Samantha C. Hayward

2002 Joanna E. Kargotich

(née Livanos)

2007 Aziz R. Khan

2012 Nicholas G. Mansfield

2001 Angela M. Murphy

2007 Christopher B. Nakamura

1987 Susanne L. Nelson

2006 Dominic A. O'Toole

2009 Penelope L. Pain

2004 Katie L. Pope

1997 Deborah L. Porter

1951 James D. Purvey

1993 Haydn J. Rigby

2007 Karen L. Tseu

2003 Alexandra Will

2008 Eleanor M. Yates

2007 Emilie C. Young

Medicine, Dentistry &

Health Sciences

2005 Husain H. Al-Reshidi

2006 Marcus Y. Chan

2001 Warwick D. Howe

1993 James J. Hu

1998 Yee Ling Kuok

2007 Wei-Mun Lam

2002 Duane F. Pennebaker

2010 Lavinia A. Petrescu

1980 Nick P. Silberstein

2001 Sarah J. Smith

1982 Christopher W. Turner

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Science

2008 Yee L. Ang

2009 Sophie G. Arnall

1959 Lynette M. Baxter

(née Saunders)

2011 Chiquita J. Burges

1976 Christopher J. Cooper

2001 Sherylyn M. Crisp

1996 Elliott J. Cross

2012 Luke B. Cummins

2004 Alvin J. d'Almaida

1992 Shani Dunne

1985 Antonio Graneri

2007 Adeline Hsu

1996 Rebecca Hughes

1992 Lapchi Huynh

1980 Christopher R. Hyde

2006 Alysia M. James

1947 Joy J. Jenkyn

2007 Yen M. Lim

2007 Karilyn A. Mahon

2006 Kelli N. Masters

2001 Emma K. McClughan

1995 Robert P. McFerran

2006 Fiona J. McLean

1989 Stephanie R. Meyer

1980 Shelagh C. Morgan

2005 Leah Muecke

1983 Siew Kong C. Ng

2008 Katie E. Nowland

1993 Brad J. Nugent

2008 Kerry L. O'Sullivan

2004 Michael C. Pang

1993 Ann M. Penketh

2003 Dean T. Plunkett

1977 Ann M. Quartermaine

2007 Samantha Repacholi

2008 Sharon A. Ridley (née Byrne)

2016 Matthew E. Rowbottom

2005 Kate D. Seaward

2008 Yi T. Seet

1989 Bronwen Simms

2007 Erin M. Smith

1988 Kathryn L. Smith

(née Devenish)

1965 Geoff A. Taylor

1971 Martin J. Taylor

1993 Jacqueline L. Teo

2004 Felicity Thorpe

1994 Phillip J. Trenerry

2015 Gek C. Wan

2003 Megan J. Waterhouse

1995 Christianne C. White

1987 Charles K. Wilks

1995 Christopher Cheun Choong

Wong

2008 Kelly Wrightstone

“The UWA Watersports Complex”

2017 Convocation Audit Report

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2019 50th Anniversary Reunion LuncheonWe are seeking the 1969

Graduates below

Convocation is again organising the

annual reunion luncheon for graduates

celebrating their 50th graduation

anniversary from UWA.

This event has become very popular

and all graduates are welcome.

The Convocation Council arranges

the function but would welcome

volunteers from among the 1969

graduates to join the committee and

to assist. If you are interested, please

forward your name and phone number

to the Convocation Officer, Juanita

Perez, via email to Juanita.Perez@

uwa.edu.au.

Help make this milestone an

enjoyable celebration of your

academic achievements.

We are still trying to trace some

‘lost graduates’ listed below.

Anyone knowing the present address

of any of these graduates is asked

to pass the information on to the

Convocation Officer.

Note: names in brackets are

maiden names.

Architecture, Landscape

and Visual Arts

Douglas Ransom

Arts

David Addenbrooke

John Anderson

Susan Atkins

Judith Barrett (Brechin)

Anthony Best

Reginald Birch

Daniel Boss

Noel Bryan

Russell Burgess

John Campbell

Kim Chee

Simplicius Cheong

Mary Chui

Kathleen Cockerell

Susan Constantine

Michael Croker

Graham Douglas

Robin Evans

Sandra Ferguson

Kerry Foster

Stacy Gallagher

John Garrett

Patricia Gerritsen

Caroline Gillies

Denise Gillies (Remnant)

Leonard Goodall

Christine Gould (Rodgers)

Jean Gray

Lynette Green

Susanna Grey-Smith

Gertrud Grotegoed

Emil Haberfield

Petar Hadji-Ristic

Pamela Hainsworth (Minchin)

Margaret Hallett

Daniel Hancock

Gregory Harper

Patrick Harrington

Leo Hassam

Winsome Hatcher

Florence Haycock

Bernard Higgs

The campus as it was in 1967

Linda Hogg

Beverley Hood

Richard Hook

Theo James

Ian Johnston

Gillian Johnston (Forbes)

Stephanie Keating (Fisher)

Margaret Le Breton (Jackson)

Peter Le Breton

Judith MacWilliam

Aileen Maguire

Jennifer Marsh (Loverock)

Richard Nagle

Sarah Nelson

Ivy Ng

Henry Nicholls

Peter O’Sullivan (Cullen)

John Perry

Sally Pullin (Halbert)

Margaret Quin-Conroy

Abdul Razak bin Muhammad

Elizabeth Richardson (Barclay)

Mary Rossiter

Dahlia Routman

Jenny Rushton

Maureen Ryder

Jane Sax

Jack Shamoon

Anders Sievers

Diana Silver

David Smith

Timothy Stafford

Francis Sykes

Lay Tan

Nguyen-Thi Thuy

Barbara Tyler

Alan Watt

Michael Weir

Felicity Wellington

Poh Wong Poh Ling (Leong)

John Zloich

Business School

Ian Baster

Lynette Birch

Stephanie Campbell

Michael Carter

Guan Chor

Kenneth Clarke

Bryan Cooper

Tran Dang

Nguyen Davis

Valaiporn Eksangsri

Josephine Fernandez

Penelope Gibson (Ferrier)

Choon Ho

Jeannine Kitson

Soo Kok

Somchart Komate

Jonathan Nelson

Thi Ngoc Anh Nguyen

Chun Pang

Evgeniy Poroch

Christopher Somas

Ronald Van Santen

Seow Wang

Thye Wong

Mee Yuen

Education

Ron Banks

Leslie Banyard

Andre Baronie

Margaret Carroll

Siew Chan

Owen Cook

Peter Dunnell

Kay Fandry (Davies)

Grant Glinski

Wendy Griffiths

Brian Haines

Walter Hall

Errol Hammond

Peter Harmsworth

Patricia Harrison (Philson)

Trevor Harwood

Sharon Hopkinson

Ronald Hu

Terrence Jackson

Willie Karmelita

Wee Kwok

Anthony Lembo

Susan Lorrimar (Odgers)

Brian Martin

Trevor Miller

Robert Miller

Bernard Nohan

Alice O'Loughlin

Pamela Piper

Robin Porteous

Alexander Pouw-Bray

Jacqueline Prior (Wickham)

Peter Richards

Bethwyn Roberton (Smith)

Christine Rutter

Margaret Sherwood

Frances Sillitto (Andre)

Robert Stephen

Ernie Stringer

Keith Taylor

Peter Thompson

Susan Walker

George White

Mohammed Yasin

Engineering, Computing

& Mathematics

Barry Chia

Kevin Colledge

Lyn Metcalf

Valentine Ng

Richard O'Donoghue

Rodney Perry

Peter Schoonens

Laurence Seddon

Frank Tung

Tea-Kruy Ung

Richard Winslade

Graduate Research School

Lee Brotherson

Edgar Campbell

Andrew Hamilton

Patricia Hansen

Aloysius Ho

Howard Jones

Lesley Le Souef (Searle)

Rodney Mahon

Leslie Mutton

Richard Pepper

Kanhaya Purohit

David Sang

Peter Sellick

Hefazat Siddiqui

Bernard Tang

Donald Taylor

Trevor White

Law

Rosemarie Solomon

Zbigniew Umbras

Anthony Wainwright

Medicine, Dentistry

& Health Sciences

Kwong-Shing Chang

Tommy Chung

Brian Davidson

Beverleigh Fitch

John Good

Susan Jordan

Robert Lawson-Smith

Gerald Milner

Francis Newton

Kenneth Parker

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Rasiah Rajagopalan

Robin Readhead-Taylor

Matthew Yung

Science

Terence Anderson

Bernard Ardagh

Yvonne Atkinson

Timothy Barber

James Battye

Christopher Benson

Kerry Bradshaw

Helen Carter

Siew-Ching Chang (Wee)

Errol Cocks

Robert Dekker

John Di Renzo

Lutz Engelhardt

Monica Fletcher

John Franklyn

Dennis Gillespie

Roderick Graham

Michael Gray

Jennifer Greenham

Alan Habgood

John Hall

Susanne Harris

Cheng Hoffman (Cheah)

John Hudson

Judith Hudson (Wilkins)

Charalambos Karathanasis

Patrick Ko

Eric Ko Chok Fai

Antony Kubicki

Elke Kuuse (Tawist)

Pui Lee

Shui-Lung Lee

Leonie Lee

Suang Lek

Kenneth Mann

Ian McDonald

Ian Miller

Anthony Miranda

Astley Molyneux

Teng Ng

David Nicholls

Robert Olivier

Judith Paterson (Ottaway)

Craig Pearson

Ann Peters

See Poon

Christopher Prince

Murray Ray

James Ridley

David Robertson

Diane Robinson

Juris Rungis

Joanne Samson (Patman)

Paul Stocker

Seng-Yeang Tan

Richard Tinkler

Christopher Tomney

Bee Wee

Peter Whittle

Lloyd Williams

Voon Yeong

“Celebrating 50 years of friendship”

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2018 Convocation Awards and Scholarship Winners2018 Bryant Stokes Matilda Award for Cultural Excellence

Rafeif Ismail, in the Category of Literature

2018 Convocation Accommodation Scholarship

Claire Ruth Palmer Bachelor of Science, majoring in Pharmacology and Biochemistry

2018 Convocation Postgraduate Research Travel Award Winners

Aida Carolina Borges Carneiro School of Civil, Environmental & Mining Engineering

Buddhi Ram Chaudhary Tharu School of Social Sciences

Aria Dolatabadian School of Biological Sciences

Alicea Garcia School of Agriculture and Environment

Fiona Hook School of Social Sciences

David Jago School of Molecular Science

Jeanette Jensen UWA Law School

Kak Ming Ling Centre for Child Health Research

Belinda Martin School of Biological Sciences

Md Sultan Mia School of Agriculture and Environment

Samuel Montgomery School of Medicine

Bryony Palmer School of Biological Sciences

2018 Convocation scholarships, prizes and award recipients with UWA Executives and very special guests.

Albert Pessarrodona Silvestre School of Biological Sciences

Arman Siahvashi School of Engineering

Penelope Strauss School of Population and Global Health

Arnold van Rooijen School of Earth Sciences

James Wong School of Human Sciences

Rachael Zemek School of Biomedical Sciences

Fangning Zhang School of Biological Sciences

Yueqi Zhang School of Biological Sciences

2018 Convocation Sports Scholarships

Hayley Clark Sailing

Joshua Kippin Marathon Kayaking

2018 Convocation Undergraduate Prizes

Sophie Coffin Convocation Indigenous Undergraduate Prize

Olga Mazur Convocation Undergraduate Prize in Bachelor of Science

David Murley Convocation Undergraduate Prize in Bachelor of Art

Jeremy Quek Convocation Undergraduate Prize in Bachelor of Commerce

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