The making of ahousehold name

THE MAGAZINE OF CURTIN UNIVERSITY ISSUE 21_ WINTER 2013

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How to keep mature-age women in the workforce

Technology reshapes a Botswanan village

Cover Carrie Bickmore – Curtin journalism alumna and popular national television news and talk show presenter.

Managing Editor Margaret McNally

Editorial Team Julia Nicol, Yvette Tulloch

Creative Direction Sonia Rheinlander

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Contributing Writers Colin Beckett, Claire Bradshaw, Kitty Drok, Sue Emmett, Karen Green, Andrea Lewis, Flip Prior

Contributing Photographers Alana Blowfield, Philip Gostelow, James Rogers, Klaus Schmechtig

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Claire BradshawClaire is a freelance writer, editor and scriptwriter, with more than 20 years’ experience in the communications field. She completed her creative writing degree at Curtin.

Kitty Drok Kitty is a freelance science writer and technical editor, with a previous career as a research chemist in the resources sector.

Colin BeckettColin is General Manager, Greater Gorgon Area, Chevron Australia and was appointed Chancellor of Curtin University on 1 January 2013. He has been a Curtin Council member since October 2010.

Karen GreenKaren is a science writer based in Curtin’s Corporate Publications team.

Sue EmmettSue is a freelance writer and photojournalist, with special interests in science, technology, Western Australian business, education and the marine environment.

Andrea Lewis Andrea is a freelance writer and editor. She was formerly publications manager in Curtin’s corporate communications area.

Flip PriorFlip graduated from Curtin with a journalism degree in 2004. A former newspaper reporter, she is now Communications Manager for the Walkley Foundation for Journalism.

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A mature approachAustralia’s ageing population and looming labour shortage means every worker counts. So why are older women leaving the workforce, and how do we get them to stay?

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10 Bringing them home: Domesticating images from the war on terror

The viral nature of social media means images of atrocity reach further than ever before. But to what effect? A Curtin researcher investigates.

13 Photo essay Curtin’s Centre for Aboriginal

Studies celebrates 30 years of empowering Indigenous Australians through higher education and research.

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12 Radiating good health? CT scans are an important

diagnostic tool – but a recent study by Curtin researchers shows their broad use and varying radiation dosages might be putting patients at unnecessary risk.

16 A village maps out its future

New technologies complement old practices in Botswana, with a Curtin team enabling a small village to enjoy a higher standard of living.

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02 VC’s view

03 News brief

05 Campus life

09 Alumni profile Popular personality

From radio rookie to Logie-award-winning TV news and talk show presenter, Carrie Bickmore has made all the right moves.

09 Alumni profile Inspiring the profession

Young achiever Dr Bay Leo might be a successful engineer, but it’s his humanitarian work that he is really passionate about.

17 Alumni profile High-scale economist

When talk turns to money, Paul Bloxham, HSBC’s chief economist for Australia and New Zealand, is leading the conversation.

17 Alumni profile Nursing leadership

No rest for Madam Lim: this dedicated alumna shows just what can be accomplished through education and training – and has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate for her efforts.

18 Rear view

20 In perspective It takes 2

Working together beats working apart: Curtin’s new Chancellor, Colin Beckett, says strengthening the bond between universities and industry is in both their best interests.

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Vice-chancellorcUrtin UniVerSitY

the higher education sector is changing, with new technologies revolutionising the way students learn and are taught, and universities competing in a global environment.

Curtin University recognises these challenges and, indeed, embraces them. Earlier this year Curtin released the new Strategic Plan for 2013 to 2017, which will guide the University to evolve so that we remain relevant today and even better tomorrow. The plan capitalises on the University’s strengths – in research, teaching, and in engagement with communities both locally and abroad – and sets out our long-term vision to be recognised as an international leader in research and education.

Underpinning our vision is Curtin’s solid reputation as a University that makes a difference to the communities it serves. The offerings in this issue of Cite bring to the fore just some of the innovative ways Curtin is having a positive effect – on people’s lives in remote villages as far away as Africa; at home through research that works to influence employment policy; and on our minds by encouraging us to think about the world in new ways.

Mature-age women are under represented in the workforce, where a labour shortage is already looming. Multidisciplinary research from Curtin Business School and the Faculty of Health Sciences is addressing this issue, and you can read about how on page 6.

The extent of Curtin’s impact abroad can be seen in Botswana, where Professor Bert Veenendaal, Head of the Department of Spatial Sciences, introduced a global information satellite system five years ago. Find out about the remarkable improvement this technology has made to the small village of Tshane, five years on, on page 16.

Whether they are economists, nurses, engineers or top television personalities, all of the four alumni profiled in this issue of Cite are exerting influence in the community. Their stories are inspiring.

The success of our graduates is in no small part a reflection of the success of those they learn from, and I continually delight in sharing news of awards bestowed on Curtin’s teaching and research staff. Page 4 highlights the recognition of three health sciences academics through awards received recently for their important work.

It’s been a privilege to present the exciting activities and achievements of Curtin through the engaging articles that have appeared in Cite since my appointment as Vice-Chancellor in 2006. Earlier this year, I announced my retirement and will leave in August to take up long service leave to the end of my second term in February 2014. Professor Colin Stirling, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic, will assume the role of Acting Vice-Chancellor in August, while recruitment for a new Vice-Chancellor is underway.

I thank you for your support of Curtin through your readership of the University’s magazine, and trust you will enjoy reading this and future issues, as I know I will continue to do.

Professor Jeanette Hacket AM

The offerings in this issue of Cite bring to the fore just some of the innovative ways Curtin is having a positive effect...

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Minister for Education the Hon. Peter Collier MLC

Jackpot for Curtin FM

Curtin FM 100.1 has been granted funding from Lotterywest for $712,871 – the largest single grant awarded to the radio station in its 36-year history.

In January 2013, the Minister for Education, the Hon. Peter Collier MLC, formally presented the grant, which will fund a much-needed capital, technical and infrastructure upgrade for the station.

Curtin FM Station Manager Quinn Glasson says that since the station’s move to the FM band 10 years ago, the infrastructure has remained unchanged.

“This grant is vital, as it should set the station up technologically for the next 10 years. Importantly, it will enable us to seize some of the opportunities that digital broadcasting presents,” he says.

The grant will also enable the station – based at Curtin’s Bentley Campus – to buy a purpose-built outside broadcast van, allowing greater interaction with the community.

“Lotterywest is about funding not-for-profit organisations to help them make a lasting difference in the community,” Glasson says. “An amount of this size shows the confidence it has in the station, and gives Curtin FM the opportunity to continue to expand its reach.”

WA’s first and largest community radio station, with more than 170,000 regular listeners, Curtin FM is a not-for-profit enterprise that is entirely self-funded through the support of the community and through corporate sponsorship.

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Dynamic leader to retire

Curtin’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Jeanette Hacket has announced her intention to retire, after more than 30 years at the University. Hacket, who was appointed to the position of Vice-Chancellor in 2006, will retire in August to take up long-service leave until her official resignation in February 2014.

During her tenure as Vice-Chancellor, the University’s reputation in innovative teaching and high-impact research has grown, with Curtin now recognised within the top 500 universities in the world.

Hacket says she has greatly enjoyed her time at Curtin.

“It has been a great privilege to work with so many highly talented individuals, to experience the hope and joy of students as they graduate, and to hear how our researchers and alumni are making a difference in the world,” she says.

“Curtin has a positive future, which I will follow with immense interest.”

Curtin Chancellor Colin Beckett describes Hacket as a dynamic leader with a longstanding commitment to education in Western Australia.

“Under her leadership, Curtin has seen an increase in student numbers, research has intensified, multi-million-dollar capital works programs have been completed, and the University’s national and international reputation has grown remarkably,” Beckett says.

An international search for a successor is underway, while Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic, Professor Colin Stirling will take up the role of Acting Vice-Chancellor from August.

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From left: Aboriginal elder Angus Wallam; Professor Douglas Hicks, Colgate University; Ezzard Flowers, CEO Mungart Boodja Art Centre; and Curtin Vice-Chancellor Professor Jeanette Hacket

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Artworks come back to country

A collection of Stolen Generations artwork will be returned home to Western Australia this year, after New York liberal arts college Colgate University signed a memorandum of agreement with Curtin in May to transfer the artworks to the University.

The 119 artworks were created by Noongar children between 1945 and 1951 at the Carrolup Native School and Settlement, in the great southern region of WA.

The collection, bequeathed to Colgate University in 1966 by well-known New York art collector Herbert Mayer, was purchased from Florence Rutter – a British philanthropist and benefactor of the Carrolup school, who was originally given the artwork as a gift from the children.

The collection remained in storage until its ‘rediscovery’ in 2004. The following year several pieces were exhibited at Colgate’s Picker Art Gallery, attracting international attention.

Curtin’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Jeanette Hacket says the works are a significant part of the heritage and history of regional WA, and their return signifies the important and longstanding academic connection between Curtin and Colgate universities.

“Colgate’s gift embodies the cultural, educational and international collaboration that is so strongly valued by Curtin,” Hacket says. “We are grateful that Colgate sees the deep and enduring value in returning the art to Noongar country.”

The collection has been and will remain the focus of a joint study between the two universities.

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Annalee Stearne, Research Associate, Faculty of Health Sciences

First place for Indigenous health researcher

Annalee Stearne, from the Faculty of Health Sciences, has been recognised with the First People’s Award for 2012 – presented by the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs – for her significant contribution to the advancement of the health of Indigenous people.

For more than a decade, Stearne has worked within Curtin’s National Drug Research Institute’s (NDRI) Indigenous Australian Research Team to empower, through knowledge, Indigenous people to address drug and alcohol issues in their own communities. Her expertise has also been sought in evaluating Indigenous Australian substance misuse interventions, with her findings garnering attention internationally.

Pro Vice-Chancellor of Curtin’s Faculty of Health Sciences Professor Michael Berndt says: “Annalee inspires those around her through her engagement with community. Through her significant contribution to health research in Australia, we are making a difference – empowering those in need to change their own lives and the lives of those around them.”

The annual award acknowledges the exceptional potential of a young scientist, and reflects an excellence in applying theory and knowledge to address drug and alcohol use or misuse.

NDRI is based at Curtin’s Shenton Park Campus and is supported by funding from the Australian Government.

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Professor Mike Daube, 2012 Bob Elphick Medal recipient

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Public health stalwart honoured for tobacco control

Professor Mike Daube, Professor of Health Policy at Curtin and Director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute of Western Australia, was recently honoured with the 2012 Bob Elphick Medal for his outstanding contribution to tobacco control.

Presented by the Australian Council on Smoking and Health (ACOSH), the award highlights his important role towards bringing into effect the plain packaging of cigarettes – a move that was introduced by the Australian Government last year.

Daube, who this year celebrates four decades in public health campaigning, says: “Plain packaging is a massive step forward – not a magic bullet, but part of a comprehensive strategy towards reducing smoking in Australia.

“A key lesson for public health from our work in tobacco is that overnight success takes time.”

In Daube’s case, this success has taken more than 20 years: from his first recommendations as chair of a ministerial advisory committee in 1991 to the final implementation on 1 December 2012.

Vice-President of ACOSH Professor Kingsley Faulkner, who presented the award, describes Daube’s contribution to tobacco control in WA and nationally as “remarkable”.

“He has been a crucial figure in all the developments over four decades that have made Western Australia a national and international leader in reducing smoking,” Faulkner says.

Health sciences program beats world’s best

Curtin’s interprofessional education program has beaten more than 40 of the world’s premier and award-winning companies’ best-practice initiatives in the inaugural International Best Practice Competition, held at the World Business Capability Congress in December last year.

Comprising several stages, the competition involved organisations presenting on their best operational and managerial practices, processes and systems.

Curtin’s entry was a cross-disciplinary program for its health sciences’ students; a program developed to encourage greater collaboration across different healthcare disciplines. The initiative was driven by the recognition that no single health professional or discipline has the capability to deliver optimal care for a wide range of health and social issues.

Margo Brewer, Director of Interprofessional Practice, in Curtin’s Faculty of Health Sciences, and a key member of the team who developed the program, delivered the winning presentation.

“It’s great to see things come full circle,” Brewer says. “When we started our program a number of years ago we were learning from international universities who were pioneering in this area.

“But now, other universities, government bodies and healthcare organisations are coming to us to learn about quality and best practices in interprofessional practice, education and research – something we are all extremely proud of.”

Curtin’s interprofessional education program is designed to ensure a better, more comprehensive healthcare service for the community into the future.

Margo Brewer, Director of Interprofessional Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences

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New ‘bike pods’ at Curtin’s Bentley Campus are part of the University’s plan to become a more cyclist-friendly campus – and to encourage more staff and students to choose this sustainable mode of transport. Curtin has built four bike pods to complement existing facilities on campus, with each pod housing lockers, two showers and secure bike storage. Solar panels assist in providing lighting and recharging electric bikes, and there’s solar hot water for the showers. For more information on the bike pods or cycling to Curtin, visit properties.curtin.edu.au/parking/cycling.cfm/.

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The labour force dilemma has been building for some time. Baby boomers have begun to retire, fertility rates have decreased, and life expectancy has increased. The Australian population is experiencing major demographic change: the proportion of our population aged 65-plus is projected to climb from 13.5 per cent to 23–25 per cent by 2056. We are moving into an era where an insufficient workforce will reduce Australia’s capacity for economic development, and the reduced tax base may compromise our ability to provide basic community needs.

Having addressed many of the issues affecting women’s capacity for paid work during their child-rearing years, the government’s policy intention is now to increase the retention of older women workers. Removing the barriers to employment for older women is particularly important because, compared with men and younger women, they are currently much less likely to be in paid work. They are also a fast-growing demographic. ‘Mum with

grown-up kids’ is the likely face of Australia’s future labour supply.

Unfortunately, research and policy attention on older workers has generally focused on men, and factors hindering the retention of older women in paid work are still poorly understood.

Associate Professor Siobhan Austen, Director of the Centre for Research in Applied Economics within the Curtin Business School, is addressing this knowledge gap through a range of research projects investigating women in the workforce. One project is on studying older women working in the aged care sector to identify the factors causing them to leave, or that would encourage them to stay.

“All of the bigger-picture problems in the labour market are exacerbated in this sector,” explains Austen. “It’s the perfect storm: due to the ageing population, it is a growing employment sector; it is a sector that is highly ‘feminised’ – about 90 per cent are women – with the median working age

around 50; and it is already experiencing labour shortages. It’s a sector that needs to think about how it will hold on to its labour supply, and therefore how it responds to this particular workforce demographic.”

The project began in 2011 with intensive data collection. Austen and co-researchers sent surveys to more than 7,000 women working in aged care across Australia, asking about the factors affecting their willingness to stay in their jobs. Data analysis is ongoing, but a number of trends are becoming clear.

“There are high numbers of ‘intention to leave’ evident,” Austen says. “We asked workers if they had thought about leaving their role, and how frequently: 43.4 per cent reported having these thoughts sometime in the previous 12 months, with 12.4 per cent reporting having them at least once a month. That’s a significant proportion of the workforce, and it correlates with other evidence in the aged care sector of high staff turnover.”

Over the last 20 to 30 years, the Australian Government has looked to attract more women into the workforce through family-friendly policies, better childcare availability and anti-discriminatory

legislation. But older women are still not well represented, the population is ageing, and a labour shortage is looming.

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In exploring the factors causing people to think about leaving, pay dissatisfaction correlated strongly with intention to leave. It is widely acknowledged that aged care workers are poorly paid considering the challenging nature of their work and the high levels of responsibility.

“It’s not just that,” Austen says. “A lot of the pay dissatisfaction also stems from the women’s sense that their roles, although important, are undervalued by the community. There’s almost a disrespect afforded to women working in the sector.”

Another issue was the physical demands of the work, particularly with an ageing workforce. Many women found that previous workplace injuries (‘bad backs’ sustained earlier in their careers) became more problematic with age, and being on their feet all day became tiring.

Professor Gill Lewin, co-researcher in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Research Director at Silver Chain, adds: “The data showed that an employer’s willingness to modify work roles, or improve the design of the work environment to reflect the physical capabilities of the workers, promoted the likelihood of older workers staying in employment.

“At the moment, legislation doesn’t support someone asking for their work to be redesigned in order to cope with declining physical capacity associated with age. That contrasts with existing discrimination legislation, which allows people with disability to request that an employer adjust the work environment to enable them to function and continue to work. Age discrimination legislation needs to be strengthened to encompass this.”

SOMe issues were unique to the current generation of older women, also known as the ‘sandwich generation’. These women often have dual-care responsibilities: they may be caring for dependant adult children, grandchildren and/or elderly parents. Thirty-four per cent of the workers surveyed reported they spent at least seven hours each week in an informal care role.

A related study by Austen and co-researcher Associate Professor Rachel Ong, from Curtin’s School of Economics and Finance, investigated how the size of an informal care role affected the likelihood of older women retaining a job. Unsurprisingly, if the informal care role increased, the likelihood of retaining paid work decreased. But surprisingly, the impact was much larger for people in permanent full-time work. Even

with access to a range of leave provisions, people were not able to adequately manage changing care responsibilities. The issue seems to be inflexibility.

“Current leave provisions are not sufficient to enable people to accommodate their informal care roles,” Austen says. “The leave provisions might not be generous or flexible enough, or able to be bundled to deal with an acute situation. The full-time job itself often has limited flexibility to manoeuvre: changing the working hours, reshaping the role or backfilling to cover a leave of absence.”

SO what should be done? The problems in the aged care sector are

early warning indicators for the workforce as a whole.

“Policies are needed in the areas of workplace flexibility and leave provisions for general care responsibilities,” says Austen, whose co-researchers also include Associate Professor Therese Jefferson, from Curtin’s Graduate School of Business, and Professor Rhonda Sharp, from the University of South Australia.

“The right to request flexible working arrangements should be extended more

generally to all older workers. Similarly, carer’s leave should be extended to the care of any dependant, not just children.”

Ironically, this needs to be backed up with improved institutional support for informal carers, including the provision of affordable high-quality residential, day and respite care for the frail aged and those with disability. This will require more funding for the sector as a whole, which must also address the pay dissatisfaction generally felt by its workers.

These messages are reaching policymakers through Austen and Lewin’s involvement in aged care reforms for the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission, the Work + Family Policy Roundtable, the Advisory Panel on Positive Ageing and submissions to the Australian Law Reform Commission.

Luckily, the aged care sector is already on board: they have been involved in the data collection and want to know the outcomes of the research. They are looking to directly implement recommendations and strategies within their organisations, and are lobbying government directly.

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CARRIe BICKMORe has a negative high-school career advisor to thank for steering her away from a career treading the boards, and onto the path to television stardom.

“She asked me what I liked doing and I said, ‘Dancing and talking and meeting people’, and she said to me, ‘You’ll never make a career out of being a dancer … why don’t you consider being a journalist?’,” Bickmore recalls. “That was pretty much it.”

Now a hugely popular television personality, the co-host of Network Ten news and talk show

program The Project looks back fondly on her days studying at Curtin from 1998 to 2000, saying it helped hone her skills.

There, she and close friends – including Louise Momber, now a weekend news anchor at Perth’s Channel 9 – polished their storytelling and broadcasting abilities at community radio station Curtin FM 100.1, at the time 6NR on the AM band, on the Bentley Campus. In her second year of studies, aware of how competitive the industry was, Bickmore threw

herself into work experience at commercial Perth radio station 92.9 FM, shadowing newsreaders at 5 am each weekday and practising in the studio on weekends.

Her diligence led to her big break: when a newsreader fell ill just before she was due to read a bulletin one weekend, Carrie’s boss asked her to fill in.

“I did it. It was so nerve-wracking and my throat was dry, it was horrible – but I survived,” she says.

Bickmore was promptly offered a job as weekend newsreader and stayed with the station for several years before moving to radio station Nova 100 in Melbourne, in 2001, after finishing her degree.

Gaining popularity through various newsreading and presenting roles, she made her TV debut in 2006 as the quirky news presenter on comedy talk show Rove Live.

However, she only gave up radio altogether in 2009, when she became co-host of The

Project with comedians Dave Hughes and Charlie Pickering.

IN 2010 Bickmore was awarded Most Popular New Female Talent at the Logie Awards and is now a household name, twice nominated for the coveted Gold Logie award for most popular Australian television personality.

But her growing celebrity aside, the 32-year-old mother of one is just happy she has found her dream job.

“Everyone asks me, ‘What are you going to do next?’, but I am so happy – The Project is the perfect mix: it’s chatty; it has a news element, which I love; the journalism; and the in-depth stories.

“And it’s got the comedy element as well … now, I couldn’t imagine doing a job where that wasn’t a part of it.”

And her dancing? “It’s got worse over the years,

but hey, I’ve still got a bit of rhythm,” she says.

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AS site engineer for a major infrastructure project in the Pilbara, Curtin graduate Dr Bay Yeo can’t imagine a career without making a humanitarian contribution.

When he was named Young Professional Engineer of the Year for 2012 in the Western Australia Engineering Excellence Awards, he was honoured for his career achievement and leadership. For Yeo, however, the award also signified something else: its ability to inspire others.

At just 27 years of age, Yeo’s early career has been marked by rapid success, with his current role at engineering consulting company Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) suggesting he is benefiting immensely from the industry-focused skills he gained at Curtin.

Now site engineer for the Cape Lambert Port B project in the Pilbara, he is overseeing all technical and commercial aspects of the $4 billion development, which will see Cape Lambert’s export capacity

increase by more than 50 million tonnes of iron ore per annum.

Yeo’s doctoral research provided a solid foundation for the demands of his current job. Under the supervision of Professor Hamid Nikraz, Curtin’s Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, he researched cement-stabilised crushed rock material, assessing its performance in different scenarios. The research resulted in several journal articles and conference papers, with his knowledge now being directly applied to the Cape Lambert project.

Yet amid the high-level job – not to mention the demands of a ‘fly- in, fly-out’ lifestyle – he remains drawn to his passion for inspiring others. He leads a team of engineers engaged in Engineers Without Borders’ high school outreach programs in the Pilbara. Last year, they presented a series of workshops on water treatment and technologies to Karratha Senior High School students, and will do the same this year.

YeO – who grew up in Sarawak, Malaysia – says he gained a strong sense of family and community early on, and that studying at Curtin Sarawak helped to nurture this.

“I watched the campus grow while I was in high school,” Yeo says. “Once I attended, I was part of a very close-knit community. Students get to know their lecturers. This really boosted my confidence.”

After completing his undergraduate degree in civil and construction engineering in 2008, the valedictorian at Sarawak was snapped up by SKM. The company supported him while he continued to work full-time during his doctoral studies.

He attained professional accreditation with Engineers Australia within the minimum timeframe of three years. As for the future: “I’d like to keep exploring what engineering can do for the community,” he says.

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IMAGeS of prisoner torture from Abu Ghraib are etched on many of our minds. When they first appeared in early 2004, the graphic photographs shocked a world that had never seen anything like it. The immediacy of unofficial atrocity photographs, captured by handheld digital devices and shared with friends and family through everyday forms of social media, made images of violence available to those outside the combat zones in new ways.

Since then, similar types of ‘wartime trophy images’ have proliferated as a result of the endless sharing capabilities of social media, making their way across borders and cultures and various media forms – with remarkable swiftness. The effects of these newly available images – in new conflicts and wars, and in everyday life – are still to be understood.

“Triumphal images from the battlefield are not new,” says Professor Suvendrini Perera, from Curtin’s School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts, and Acting Director of the Australia–Asia-Pacific Institute.

“Trophy images have always been circulated but, historically, in limited or secretive ways. With new digital technologies, however, images of terror multiply and mutate. This is the dark side of social media, and it raises questions about how trophy images travel, and to what effect.”

As Perera argues in her book-in-progress, titled ‘Old Atrocities, New Media’, new media embodies a paradox: it allows us to capture more intimate images than ever before and, at the same time, circulate them more widely across public as well as private domains. It is this paradox that gives social media its performative capacity.

“Scenes from a battlefield are on show, not just for an immediate audience of combat peers, but also for far-flung audiences, both friends and enemies,” Perera explains. “Bodies are filmed alongside a soldier speaking to camera in quasi-documentary style, sharing their heroism with an imagined audience of allies, or inciting aggression in enemies. We saw this, for example, in the circulation of images from the final days of

the war in Sri Lanka and from the shifting locations of the Arab Spring.

“We know that when we so regularly see images and practices of torture and terror in popular culture, it accustoms us to them – the unthinkable becomes something known. And the potential is there to generate new forms of violence, and extend the limits of what is acceptable in conflict zones.”

IF the circulation of these representations on the battlefield is troubling, then their consumption in the domestic sphere is equally problematic, argues Dr Antonio Traverso, a senior lecturer in film, in Curtin’s School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts.

“In the home, social media has become an extension, if not a replacement, of television,” he says. “Discussions around the effects of violence on television have lost their momentum and are being replaced by similar considerations around social media.

“Where we’ve become inured to the forms of violence on TV, social media has stepped in to provide new visual experiences around atrocity. That said, whereas television elicits a passive response in viewers, with new media we have become more actively engaged: the participating subject is also the user. So, we are no longer merely receiving information but can be an active part of the information relay.”

Perera and Traverso both agree that this agency is double-edged. While it can play a role in condemning violence – for example, by propagating political ideas that counteract discourses of violence or by exposing atrocities such that they can be prosecuted – the sheer ubiquity of, and easy access to, atrocity images can turn the viewing of violence into yet another form of rampant consumerism.

“Mobile phones, tablets and internet formats, such as YouTube, have also blurred the boundaries between genres,” says Traverso. “With people selecting short clips or watching feature-length films on a micro-screen while experiencing interruptions from emails, on-screen advertisements or family members, the experience of viewing violence has become individual and fragmented. I’d suggest that this lessens considerably the impact of such complex material.”

Later this year, Curtin will host an international symposium called Southern Cinemas – convened by Traverso and featuring Perera’s latest work. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from Australia, New Zealand, Latin America and South Africa, the two-day event will look at all forms of ‘cinema’ in the particular social and political contexts of the southern hemisphere.

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Torture has acquired a new visibility, generated by digital technologies and circulated through social

media.This, in turn, has changed the ways in which violence is used on battlefields – and viewed at home.

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INCReASed healthcare capabilities have raised Australians' expectations for better personal health outcomes. However, these expectations are creating numerous challenges for health professionals and health policymakers.

“Australians are very keen to use new technologies. Current generations have different expectations of health care and the health system,” says Associate Professor Rachael Moorin, from Curtin’s Centre for Population Health Research.

“The most obvious is how we’ve changed our views about ageing – what is normal and what isn’t. We stay more informed about chronic diseases than in the past, and we tend to ‘medicalise’ normal symptoms of ageing.”

Although most of us are keen to try medical innovations, Moorin is concerned about our lack of knowledge on some of the technologies we embrace – especially computed tomography, or CT, scanning.

CT scans deliver a high dose of radiation, she warns. And in some cases, the high-resolution scan delivered by CT doesn’t warrant the potential harm of the radiation exposure.

“In the past, CT was used primarily for cancer diagnosis and follow-up. But today the technology is being used for conditions like sporting injuries,” Moorin says, “which changes the risk–benefit dynamic.”

MOORIN has been investigating the reasons for the surge in diagnostic imaging, and in CT scans in particular. The National Health and Medical Research Council is funding the study, recognising that the increase in CT scans has implications for patient safety and policy decisions.

Another of her concerns is the manner in which CT scanning technologies are now ‘packaged’.

“It’s often a ‘black box’ approach, with manufacturer presets that make the scan more automated and faster,” she says.

“It’s easier to administer, so it’s used more frequently – and is performed more often on children.

“However, the parameters need to be tailored to the patient to reduce the radiation dose.

“People don’t consider that the risk from radiation is cumulative over a lifetime, and the risk is exponentially greater at younger ages.”

The research leads from a previous study funded by the Cancer Council Western Australia.

“There is a lack of consensus among service providers in Western Australia – including our public hospitals – on the radiation dose to use when CT scanning,” Moorin says.

“For the same clinical indication and diagnostic benefit, the study showed that the radiation dose from a standard scan varied across providers.

“And we were astonished to find that many GPs incorrectly believe that CT scans deliver only a low-to-medium dose of radiation, and that MRIs and ultrasound scans also deliver radiation – they don’t.”

Moorin’s study involves researchers from The University of Western Australia and Notre Dame University (Fremantle).

CT scanning technologies have been simplified, but there are complex issues associated with the procedure, including its unnecessary use and the potential risk to the patient.

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2013 marks the 30th anniversary for the Centre for Aboriginal Studies (CAS), which provides innovative, inclusive education for Indigenous Australians.

CAS was officially established in 1983, but has been running programs for Aboriginal people at Curtin University since the mid-1970s.

Curtin is proudly associated with the centre – based at the Bentley Campus and housed in the first purpose-built Aboriginal studies facility in Western Australia.

The centre was opened in 1994 by former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam, pictured top left with the then director of CAS, Pat Dudgeon (middle), and then patron, the eminent Aboriginal elder Richard Wilkes (right).

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The centre’s history is short but significant: it is recognised nationally for providing Indigenous education in Australia, and today has the highest enrolment of Indigenous Australians of any university in the country.

The building’s design reflects Aboriginal people’s close relationship with the land and strongly identifies CAS’s autonomy within Curtin.

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Then and now: (above) Graduation day for Teddy Carlton, one of the early graduates from CAS, 1992; (left) Graduates from the first intake of the Aboriginal Community Management and Development Program, 1992; (below) Current first- and second-year students of the Indigenous Community Health Program at CAS.

Courses at CAS respect the variety of cultural perspectives that make up Indigenous Australia.

The centre promotes increased participation in higher education by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and is committed to furthering Aboriginal self-determination.

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ALMOST five years ago, Curtin University became involved in a geographic information systems (GIS) project in Tshane, a village of 1,500 people in the Kalahari Desert, in Southern Africa. Sparked by PhD research being undertaken at Curtin by a student from the University of Botswana, the project has not only forged close links between the small rural village and the University, but also demonstrated the power of ‘participatory GIS’ in developing countries.

Head of the Department of Spatial Sciences Professor Bert Veenendaal explains: “GIS technology provides information that can open up new opportunities for a village like Tshane. It allows a wide range of details about a community to be collected, and then imported into a visual map, providing a big-picture idea of what its issues are, and what changes are needed.

“This can include information on housing, health, land ownership and use – overgrazing was a big issue in Tshane – and access to water and power, among other scenarios. It is derived from satellite imagery as well as information collected ‘on the ground’ from the villagers themselves.”

Armed with this kind of data, Veenendaal says, “You can plan much more effectively and start really improving standards of living.

“The important thing about participatory GIS is that it trains the community to manage the information for themselves; in poor and remote places, bringing experts in to do it on their behalf is neither practical nor sustainable.”

WheN the project began, the small, rudimentary school was the only place in the village that had access to power, and no one had even seen a computer, so the training challenges were considerable. But, with the blessing of the village elders – who saw it as a chance to bid more competitively for the regional funding that was passing them by – a number of donated computers were powered up and nominated trainees from

across the community began their lessons. Five years on, the developing GIS

knowledge base in the community has given rise to the establishment of the Mashego a Lobu (‘Blessings of the Pan’) Knowledge Centre and the initiation of more than 20 community development projects. Their outcomes include improved access to water and power supplies, housing upgrades, and improved farming and animal husbandry practices. One local woman, for example, has used satellite imagery to explore the best grazing options for her goats, turning a mediocre herd of 17 into a healthy herd of more than 50 in just three years.

Veenendaal has applied for funding to fly 12 of the villagers to Perth for further technology, leadership and management training. While this will be a big journey for individuals who have never even travelled in a lift, he knows from his own three visits to Tshane that the village has already experienced a big culture shift.

“It is fantastic to see how this knowledge has given them a new sense of purpose. For many, it has opened up a whole new world of possibilities,” Veenendaal says.

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BeING bestowed with an Honorary Doctorate of Science by Curtin in 2012 was “totally unexpected”, says Madam Lim Swee Hia – but to her nursing colleagues, the award came as little surprise.

Highly respected in the nursing fraternity after 40 years in the profession, the adjunct professor with Curtin’s School of Nursing and Midwifery is credited with fostering close professional relationships to significantly advance nursing education, research and workforce

development in Singapore.Madam Lim completed a

Bachelor of Science in Nursing Management and a Master of Nursing at Curtin. From her base in the SingHealth Alice Lee Institute of Advanced Nursing, at Singapore General Hospital, she and her team work collaboratively with Australian colleagues to improve the career prospects and training of nurses, through the introduction of evidence-based practices, research, training and postgraduate nursing programs.

Working with Curtin’s Head of School of Nursing and Midwifery Professor Phill Della, based at the Bentley Campus, Madam Lim has implemented affiliated training programs in domiciliary, wound management, evidence-based practice for nurses, research based on qualitative methods, and intermediate biostatistics.

She says the knowledge and experience gained at Curtin has allowed her to raise the profile of education and training programs for SingHealth. She has also invited speakers from Curtin to deliver lectures and training to Singaporean nurses, charting the path for them to become adjunct faculty lecturers. In doing so, she has made a significant contribution to the success of the institute’s nursing programs in Singapore.

“The learning experiences from Curtin University allow great opportunities to work with senior management and establish trusting working relationships

to transform nursing leadership,” she says.

MAdAM LIM is proud to see the growth of the future generation of nurses in Singapore and has nurtured young leaders for succession planning in the profession.

Her efforts have helped the facilities she has worked at gain accreditation at multiple levels and elevated the status of the nursing profession both locally and internationally. She is particularly proud of leading the Singapore General Hospital to be the first hospital in Asia to achieve Magnet Recognition and American Nurses Credentialing Center accreditation, with distinction, as a Provider for Continuing Nursing Education.

Of her honorary doctorate, Madam Lim says it is a “standing ovation” for the nursing profession as a whole. “I am truly humbled to have received it,” she says.

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hSBC chief economist for Australia and New Zealand Paul Bloxham can’t predict exactly what the future holds – no one can – but his outlook is based on a sound, forensic, economic analysis.

Since graduating from Curtin with a BCom in economics (with honours) in 1998, Bloxham has enjoyed a rapid rise to the highest echelons of Australian banking, through a 12-year stint at the Reserve Bank of Australia, and is considerably younger than most of his peers.

As HSBC’s spokesman on financial forecasts and trends for the Australian and New Zealand economies, he is responsible for understanding how local financial markets intersect with the international arena. Bloxham says in the next few years, the re-emergence of China and India as global giants, underpinned by infrastructure, will continue to drive up demand for Australian commodities and support domestic growth.

“China will probably be the biggest economy in the world within the next five years – it’s a big story for the global economy, but an even bigger story for Australia,” he says.

“We’re geographically proximate, they’re our largest trading partner and we’re a big resource producer, which is what they need at the moment: we’re the fuel for the engine of growth.”

ON most days, Bloxham juggles a hectic schedule of media interviews and client visits around Australia and abroad, snatching time to research and write reports in airport lounges before heading home to his family. Having eschewed a career in the theatre early on, citing a “risk-averse” nature, he says he’s now in “a pretty good spot” in his present role.

“In a lot of ways, [my role] combines my desire to influence the public policy debate and perform a bit with something that’s got the rigour of economics behind it,” he says.

He aspires to make economics interesting for everyone, not just economists – “I try to be as straight-talking as possible,” he says – and has a genuine passion for understanding how it intersects with politics and history.

“I think economics provides a very strong framework for thinking about the way the world works and how countries operate – it can be used to understand all sorts of decisions people make,” he says. “That’s the thing that excites me. It’s using that set of tools to explain why people do things and why the world works the way that it does.”

He says it will always be difficult to predict the future – or even know where the economy is at right now, let alone where it’s headed – but that’s what makes it a challenge for any economist, and why he’ll find his job exciting for years to come.

“These uncertainties are the biggest challenges any economist faces,” he says. "You just take the information that’s available and try your best.”

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The work of researchers Dr Ryan loxton and Dr Michael O’leary has been recognised with prestigious young Tall Poppy Science Awards for 2012. Both recipients also received praise for actively engaging and educating the community as part of their studies.

loxton, a senior lecturer in Curtin’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics, was honoured for his research in the field of optimal control and optimisation, which involves developing mathematical techniques to manipulate systems in the best-possible manner. For the last six years he has also supported Curtin’s maths enrichment program, run annually for school students across Perth.

Understanding how sea levels have changed in the past under different climatic conditions, and looking at the effect modern sea level rises will have on low reef islands and tropical coastlines, gave O’leary, from Curtin’s Department of Environment and Agriculture, his well-earned science award.

A dedicated marine geologist, he uses multimedia to engage school students and the general public to better understand how scientists collect data, analyse it and arrive at a conclusion or assumption on what might be occurring.

The annual young Tall Poppy Science Awards is an initiative of the Australian Institute of Policy and Science. The awards recognise the achievements of Australia’s outstanding young scientific researchers and communicators, and are run in all states and territories.

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A research report by Dr Lisa Hartley and Dr Caroline Fleay into the experiences of asylum seekers released into the community after long-term and indefinite detention has revealed profound mental distress as well as the importance of work rights for those waiting for refugee claims to be finalised.

Titled Released But Not Yet Free: Refugees and asylum seekers in the community after long-term detention, the report also emphasises the need for greater assistance for people released from detention to find employment.

Hartley and Fleay are advocates and lecturers at Curtin’s Centre for Human Rights Education. They compiled their work over three years from research carried out with men who had formerly been detained in Western Australian detention centres. The men were interviewed following their release as to what support they were receiving and what they saw as major challenges to overcome now that they were living in community-based arrangements.

The report is important, given the Australian Government’s recent policy of releasing some asylum seekers who have arrived by boat since 13 August 2012 into the community with little support and no work rights.

It is available for download at Australia Policy Online, and can be found by searching the authors’ names or report’s title. apo.org.au

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A love letter, a travel memoir and a ‘reading’ to Perth is how Dr David Whish-Wilson, a senior lecturer in creative writing at Curtin’s School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts, describes his brief to write a creative non-fiction book on the city that more than 1.9 million Western Australians call home.

The book is the seventh in the popular ‘City’ series, published by NewSouth Books, following Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra and Hobart, in which leading writers of fiction and non-fiction reflect on their home city.

Whish-Wilson, already well known for his Perth-based crime novel Line of Sight, says researching the story of Perth was a joy. The challenge, he says, was trying to fit the history, vitality and diversity of the city into the allocated pages.

The result is a great read, aimed at locals and tourists alike, that incorporates the flavours and textures of Perth, its personalities and incidents, a dusting of history, and some of Whish-Wilson’s own memories growing up in what is Australia’s fastest growing city.

The Perth biography, due for release in November, will be the second book release for Whish-Wilson this year. The novelist will launch his second crime novel, Zero at the Bone, in September.

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A new micro CT scanner recently installed at Curtin as part of the National Geosequestration laboratory (NGl) will help scientists to better understand the complexity of safely disposing CO2 underground.

The capability of the scanner will be the most advanced in Australia for obtaining high-resolution physical detail of how CO2 passes through a selected reservoir at temperatures and pressure similar to greenhouse gas geosequestration conditions.

The NGl is a collaboration between Curtin University, CSIRO and The University of Western Australia. It has been established to generate and deploy critical research and development to help enable commercial-scale storage of CO2 in Australia. The lab and its equipment are being funded by the Australian Government through the Education Investment Fund to the value of $48.4 million.

Dr Stefan Iglauer, a senior lecturer in Curtin’s Department of Petroleum Engineering, says the scanner will be used to explore the storage capacity of the pore networks in sandstone rock more than two kilometres underground.

Understanding how CO2 moves and behaves at a high-resolution 3-D micrometre level will help to address some of the uncertainties around geosequestration and large-scale carbon capture and storage.

John Curtin Distinguished Professor Chun-Zhu Li was a guest at a dinner in Beijing hosted by Prime Minister Julia Gillard during her visit to China in April, to celebrate 40 years of achievement in Australia–China education, science and research collaboration.

Professor Li is Co-Director of the Australia–China Joint Research Centre for Energy that aims to develop advanced technologies for improved energy security and reduced CO2 emissions in both countries. Research activities at the centre include bioenergy/biofuels, fossil fuels, energy storage, and fuel cells. The centre is supported by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Australia–China Science and Research Fund.

At the dinner, Prime Minister Gillard emphasised the successful joint research programs carried out by the two countries over the last four decades and what shared developments might be possible in the future.

“Prime Minister Gillard highlighted the joint research centres as an important cooperative relationship between the two countries and unveiled plaques for the six Australia–China joint research centres recently established,” Li says.

The Chinese-based Co-Director of the Australia–China Joint Research Centre for Energy, Professor Ke-Chang Xie, from Taiyuan University of Technology, also attended the dinner.

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up_coming events

haYman theatre

The Knife, the Fork & the Stranger6–10 August 2013

Ten actors, no script, one hour. The Knife, the Fork & the Stranger is an ambitious improvisational project that embraces every actor’s worst nightmare: stepping on stage with no clue about what story they’re in.

Hayman Theatre Upstairs Tel: + 61 8 9266 2383 l.brennan@curtin.edu.au

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Koolark Koort Koorliny (Heart Coming Home): The Herbert Mayer Collection of Carrolup Artwork 2 August – 6 October 2013

An exhibition of 119 significant paintings and drawings by Noongar children of Australia’s Stolen Generations. The works depict native landscape and bush scenes as well as animals, hunting and traditional cultural activities.

SoDA13 1 November – 8 December 2013

SoDA is the annual exhibition of works by graduating Doctor of Creative Arts, Master of Creative Arts, and Master of Arts students from the School of Design and Art at Curtin University.

Tel: +61 8 9266 4155 johncurtingallery.curtin.edu.au

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AS Curtin’s Chancellor, I understand the importance the University places on its connections with stakeholders across society. As the General Manager for the Greater Gorgon Area for Chevron Australia, I am particularly aware of the impact universities can have on industry, and vice-versa. The partnership between universities and industry is complex and multi-layered, and can be as powerful as we choose to make it.

Curtin prides itself on its responsiveness to industry, particularly in education. We build intellectual capacity and a skilled workforce. Our students benefit from a practically focused education, and our graduates are widely recognised as being work-ready, with developed communication, teamwork and leadership skills. However, it is unreasonable to expect that a new graduate is immediately able to deliver specifically to the requirements of a particular job. While Curtin contributes greatly to preparing its graduates for the workforce, more could always be achieved through extended partnerships, whereby industry engages further with the undergraduate experience.

Organisations can offer students internships during the summer holidays to expose them to industry norms and practices, and to build long-term relationships. They can allow their staff to augment Curtin’s education programs through guest lecturing, if they are subject-

matter experts; by setting and guiding industrial research projects and problems; or by hosting field trips. Industry experts are valuable members of many university advisory groups. Industry can also sponsor academic awards in areas of interest, encouraging students and highlighting attributes or skill sets of particular relevance.

ReSeARCh and innovation are also critical components of what universities do, and industry linkages are increasingly important to this activity. Curtin is a research-intensive university with a historically strong applied focus, so it makes sense to have open and frequent dialogue with the industries, organisations and people likely to use and benefit from the outcomes of research.

Universities develop new technologies, products and insights that can strengthen and benefit both specific organisations and entire industries. Equally, industry funding allows academics to extend their research, build on their expertise and focus on industrially relevant problems.

The best results come from genuine long-term partnerships between companies and research institutions. The WA Energy Research Alliance as well as Cooperative Research Centres are good examples of this. Good governance is crucial, and the relationship between the partners must be well managed to ensure they endure and

build on previous successes, rather than be purely transactional. Individual organisations can also form enduring partnerships with universities. Ideally, both partners should have a clear, single point of contact and focus, using staff who can negotiate the inevitable differences in culture, drivers and priorities.

WhILe universities must be industry-focused in their approach, equally organisations should be prepared to invest in more fundamental long-term research that has the potential to transform their industry in 10 years, rather than focus only on immediate problem solving. One approach is for large organisations to fund a chair in a department relevant to their business interests. Over time this enhances capability in a particular area, both in technical development and research and through producing specifically skilled graduates and postgraduates.

We all have a vested interest in nurturing strong and collaborative partnerships and engagements between the education sector and industry – goals are achieved on both sides through the development of technology, innovation and intellectual capacity-building. More broadly, the country as a whole benefits from the implementation of cutting-edge technology and ingenuity by a skilled workforce. The sum of the parts is very much larger than the whole.

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Universities do not exist in isolation. They are informed by, and supported by, the communities they serve and within which they operate. It is a two-way transaction, says Curtin University’s new Chancellor, Colin Beckett.

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about_curtinCurtin University is Western Australia’s largest and most diverse university. Curtin strives for excellence in teaching, and offers a wide range of courses in business, engineering and science, minerals and energy, sustainable development, health sciences and humanities.

The University is committed to building world-class research capability through partnerships with business, industry, government and community organisations. Curtin has a growing international presence, with an offshore campus in Sarawak, East Malaysia, and with Curtin Singapore, and runs offshore programs in six countries.

The University is named after John Curtin, prime minister of Australia from 1941 to 1945, and strives to honour his values of vision, leadership and community service.

Vision_2030A recognised international leader in research and education.

Our_missionTo change minds, lives and the world through leadership, innovation and excellence in teaching and research.

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As the proud recipient of The Herbert Mayer Collection of Carrolup Artwork, Curtin University’s John Curtin Gallery presents Koolark Koort Koorliny (Heart Coming Home) from 2 August to 6 October.

The exhibition celebrates the return to Australia of the recently rediscovered collection of more than 100 artworks created by Aboriginal children of the Stolen Generations from the Carrolup Native School and Settlement, in the great southern region of Western Australia, between 1945 and 1951.

The collection was recently transferred from Colgate University, Hamilton, New york, to the Curtin University Art Collection, in Perth (see story, page 3 of this issue of Cite).

In the spirit of the international collaboration that saw the transfer of these important artworks to the University, the Curtin University Foundation is seeking to establish a support program for The Herbert Mayer Collection of Carrolup Artwork. This will provide for the preservation and display of the artworks in the John Curtin Gallery, and the development of educational outreach to schools and communities throughout Western Australia.

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