Lumen Summer 2019

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Vice-Chancellor's Welcome

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Politics Leading lady

02 CONTRIBUTORS: Kelly Brown, Renee Capps, Alana Grimaldi, Tusha Bhatia, Nonee Walsh, Imogen Hindson and Michaela McGrath

Special Feature Agents of women's suffrage

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Sport Tackling inequality in sport

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Law Masters of their universe

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Science Safe house

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Culture A curious mind

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: External Relations, The University of Adelaide SA 5005.

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Email: alumni@adelaide.edu.au Telephone: +61 8 8313 5800

Then and Now On Dit

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Arts The art of reinvention

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Medicine Dr Yu makes X her mark

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Wine Heard it on the grapevine

EDITOR: Rachael Nightingale PHOTOGRAPHY: Meaghan Coles Photos of Joanna Dudley

by Adine Sagalyn DESIGN: Naomi Cain

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ViceChancellor’s Welcome

Our University has a history of excellence. We are associated with five Nobel Prize winners, the first Australian-born NASA astronaut, polar explorers and history-making pioneers.

Perhaps less well known, is our strong history of inclusion: we were the first university in Australia and among the first in the world to admit women to academic courses.

The University has a long history of high-achieving and pioneering women among its alumni, women who have led the way in many sectors of our society.

Among them is the first female Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon. Julia Gillard AC. We are immensely proud of her contribution to this country as Prime Minister and ongoing service in leadership in education, gender equality and mental health.

We also have remarkable Indigenous women: Rebecca Richards and Dr Claudia Paul, Australia’s first and third Indigenous Rhodes Scholars; law graduates including Professor Irene Watson, our first Indigenous law graduate and Andrea Mason OAM, who is a leader in social change – they continue to make a significant impact by bringing Indigenous perspectives to law and policy reform.

Graduates like Dame Roma Mitchell our first female QC, Governor and Chancellor; Edith Dornwell, the first woman in Australia to graduate with a science degree; the Hon. Catherine Branson AC QC, Australia’s first Crown Solicitor; and the Hon. Vickie Chapman MP, the state’s first female Deputy Premier and Attorney General – their stories inspire us all. They shine a light on this University’s values – of excellence, of leadership, of contribution to society – and of a university that was founded on the premise of providing opportunities for all.

As part of the 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage in South Australia, we are celebrating the achievements of these and other women associated with the University with a series of banners across our North Terrace campus.

To further mark the anniversary, this edition of lumen highlights some of many female alumni demonstrating excellence – pioneers in science, politics, arts, law, wine, medicine and media. We are incredibly fortunate to have alumni of this calibre in our University community, and we thank them for their contributions to our University and to society.

Enjoy reading their stories.

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Leading lady Vickie Chapman leads the way for generations of women to come.

STORY BY MICHAELA MCGRATH

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t 16 years old, Vickie Chapman’s life was “at a crossroad, [where] you either marry the boy next door or you have the chance to go onto an education in Adelaide.”

Up until then, the now-Deputy Premier and Attorney-General of South Australia had enjoyed an “idyllic life” on Kangaroo Island, filled with weekend sports, fishing and farm work.

Her country upbringing instilled a strong work ethic and a fierce sense of South Australian pride.

Ahead of her final year of high school, she crossed Backstairs Passage to complete her secondary studies at the newly merged Pembroke School and later studied law at the University of Adelaide.

She credits her pursuit of education to the women on the Island. “We were raised by my father so someone had to tell him that we had a chance to have an education,” she explained.

“I think the assumption is when you grow up in the country and you’re female and you’ve got a brother, that farming interests would transfer to the boys and you find something else to do.”

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“I think the assumption is when you grow up in the country and you’re female and you’ve got a brother, that farming interests would transfer to the boys and you find something else to do.”

To supplement life as a student, Vickie rekindled her childhood entrepreneurial streak, fostered through ventures including buying and selling pigs with her brother as a child. Equipped with her trusty Husqvarna sewing machine, the budding law student sewed and sold bikinis and bridesmaid dresses.

During her studies, Vickie frequently visited legal practitioners offering

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career insights and work experience.

“I took them literally, I rang them when I’d decided what I wanted to do,” she said.

This led to her first graduate position at David Burrell & Co where, interested in court work, she started with criminal law and quickly began dealing with everything from the Aviation Act to child custody disputes. She gained valuable insight working alongside senior barristers including Ted Mulligan QC and Brian Martin QC AO. Backed by an impressive calibre of courtroom experiences, Vickie established her own practice, Chapman and Associates, before

eventually entering politics.

In retrospect, Vickie’s career as a Liberal MP isn’t a surprising one.

After all, “civil service was something that was expected in the country.”

“You gave one bail of wool to the local church, one bail to the local hospital and one bail to the Liberal party.”

As a woman in the spheres of law and politics, she’s resolute on the importance of diversity in leadership.

“Every law we make affects people’s lives and therefore it’s important that there’s a perspective of diversity in the members of parliament who are considering these laws,” she said.

“People have to know when they look at the team, or the group, or

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the bench that are making decisions about their life that there is some capacity to be able to relate to them.”

As the state’s first female Deputy Premier and Attorney-General, she’s taken strides to address domestic violence and reform abortion law.

Earlier this year, the State Government introduced tough domestic violence laws, and in May awarded more than $2 million to fund the Legal Services Commission for the provision of legal services to victims of family and domestic violence.

“In life, in private practice and in politics I’ve seen domestic violence as an underpinning ill of our community,” said Vickie.

“A simple thing like changing the rules, suspending the need to pay a bond, or removing the offender rather than the victim, once initiated, can change the world for victims.”

These pieces form a puzzle of complex societal attitudes where, Vickie said, “it’s very important for girls to have good role models, to remove barriers for them accessing education, to ensure they have financial independence, and most of all to teach our boys to respect women.”

She’s also tasked the South Australian Law Reform Institute based at the Adelaide Law School, with considering changes to the state’s abortion laws.

“We haven’t really dealt with this in Parliament since it was debated in 1969 and clearly the medical world has moved on,” said Vickie.

“I think it’s important that we first get rid of this idea that we should put someone in prison for 15 years for taking a toxic substance to try and destroy a foetus in their own body. Stop punishing women for being in a situation that is just not viable for them.”

Despite holding the position of the state’s first law officer, the AttorneyGeneral proved you never stop learning when she returned to the University forty years post-graduation to undertake a one-week intensive Strategic Space Law course.

“We’re going to be the centre of space, so space law needs an army of people who are going to know about contract law in space, the rules of engagement in the defence world, the surveillance rules, and the launching and permit processes for satellites,” she said.

“Every new industry comes with an army of regulation and rules, we need to be prepared for it and I want South Australians in the legal world to provide that service.”

For Vickie, a woman proud and hopeful for her state’s future, this attitude extends to all new industries.

Between defence, cyber security and space, she’s dubbed this “the next golden age of South Australia.”

“We want to be a part of it and we want our kids to be a part of it. We’re talking about industries that require highly skilled young people with university degrees and we need them in a hurry,” she said.

“The University of Adelaide offers that, it’s a premier university, there’s no question about that.”

Above all else, as a woman leading the way in South Australian politics, Vickie is adamant about laying the groundwork for generations to come.

“People will judge whether I’ve been good or bad at it, but what’s important for me is that I try and demonstrate, for those who are watching with a view to their own future, that this is something that we as women can competently undertake.”

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Agents of women’s suffrage With the University of Adelaide in its infancy and the suffrage movement brewing, women’s education and voting rights walked hand-in-hand in late-19th century South Australia.

STORY BY MICHAELA MCGRATH

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eyond suspicion, no one has ever formally endeavoured to connect the University to the women’s suffrage movement which, in December 1894, led to South Australian women becoming the first in the nation to obtain the right to vote and stand for parliament.

That is, until final year Bachelor of Social Sciences student Courtney Eckert undertook the monumental task ahead of the state’s 125-year anniversary of suffrage in December 2019.

A colonial Adelaide

Paired with a growing divide between the Church of England and non-conformers, this led to a new wave of British migrants travelling down under, enticed by the prospect of populating a new city unconstrained by preconceived ideas of religion.

“A whole range of religious groups wanted to make their mark in a new place,” explained Courtney.

“That’s why Adelaide is known as the city of churches, because there were so many families coming over here and setting up churches of their own.”

In 1834, the South Australia Colonisation Act was passed in the UK providing for the settlement of South Australia.

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These were largely middle class family groups with South Australia quickly developing a reputation for its healthier social and moral climate, thanks to a high proportion of young married colonists.

Educated women made better mothers With an influx of religious families came an influx of ideas and particular attention to a woman’s place in society.

“There was a very religious culture of Protestantism and women were very much in the household, taking care of the children and doing the housework,” said Courtney.

“But the understanding was if you educated women, it would make them better mothers, better homemakers and better wives.”

Reflecting the colony’s desire for educated mothers, the University of Adelaide welcomed non-matriculated female students from its inception in 1874. At this time many men would return to the UK in pursuit of education from well-established institutions.

As a result, the University’s debut cohort comprised just six matriculated students and 52 non-matriculated students, of which 34 were women.

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Guideline changes later allowed matriculated women to graduate, paving the way for the University’s first female graduate in 1885, Edith Dornwell.

“Edith was our first female graduate but she was also the first person, male or female, to graduate with a science degree in Australia.

“This was roughly ten years before women had the right to vote, so in that respect the University was slightly ahead of women’s suffrage.”

Education as the foundation for suffrage Education laid the groundwork for the suffrage movement by levelling the intellectual playing field.

“As women came to the University, they realised their say needed to be heard in Parliament,” said Courtney.

“Some women had the same education outcomes as men. They were getting degrees, they had the same academic minds, and so that’s where the notion came from that they should also have the right to vote.”

What began as scattered committee meetings in churches and town halls, took more than ten years to eventuate in women’s suffrage, with arguments against the movement centred on

PREVIOUS PAGE AND LEFT Courtney Eckert INSET The Proud Sisters, photo courtesy of State Library of South Australia

the very facilitator of women’s education in the first place: their domestic destiny.

“They questioned why women would need to have a vote if their purpose in life was simply to be a mother, but this ideology stood in juxtaposition to them being educated.”

A lost history As a current student of the University, Courtney developed a new-found appreciation for her alma mater through delving into its suffragist past.

“After doing this project and learning about where we’ve come from, our history and our people, I was really impressed with how historically important this institution is,” she said.

“The Vice-Chancellor of the time, Augustus Short, was firmly in favour of women studying here and had to do a lot to make that happen.”

Today, the state’s suffragist past holds great value for a young woman focused on the equality issues that lie ahead.

“Gender equality and women’s rights are, unfortunately, an ongoing issue,” said Courtney.

“I think it’s really important to celebrate suffrage and for people to understand what we have now. Who we are is a credit to those who fought for change.”

“It’s my belief, after researching them, that Cornelius and Emily’s outlook around women’s rights ultimately influenced their children,” she said. “It’s one thing to express these things quietly in the household, but because their parents were actively involved [in the movement], their daughters looked up to them and were motivated to be active members of society also,” said Courtney.

This influence was evidenced in all three daughters’ success as University of Adelaide students.

Dorothea commenced an Arts degree at the University in 1906 before investigating the industrial conditions of female factory workers as the inaugural recipient of the Catherine Helen Spence Scholarship.

She later undertook legal studies at the University, was admitted to the Bar in 1928, and pursued women’s rights through law, community service and research.

Millicent and Katherine also achieved academic distinction, the former graduating with a Master of Arts in 1915, and the latter becoming the first woman to graduate with a Diploma of Commerce from the University in 1908.

The Proud family Such catalysts for change were active South Australian suffragists Cornelius and Emily Proud, who raised their three daughters Dorothea, Millicent and Katherine in a liberal, Baptist household.

“The three daughters were too young to sign the petition, but both parents were very involved in the suffrage movement,” said Courtney.

A series of banners celebrating the achievements of some of the University's outstanding female alumni are on display on campus. To find out more about those featured visit: ua.edu.au/suffrage

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SPORT

Tackling inequality in sport Angela’s charge to change the culture of sport.

STORY BY KELLY BROWN

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ngela Pippos is a die-hard sports fan and dedicated to her ‘religion’, feminism.

She is also a sports journalist, presenter, author, documentary maker and gender equality advocate.

In the 90s, she was one of very few women employed in sports journalism and, over a career spanning more than 20 years, has experienced and witnessed sexism and inequality in sport.

In more recent years, things have started to change.

“The best thing about living in this era is that we are challenging the old attitudes, we are challenging the old status quo,” said Angela.

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“I see the women of AFLW as the modern day suffragists as they have stared convention in the face and won. That’s after a long period of ridicule and being made to feel like oddities and unnatural for wanting to play the game.”

“The word equality is now used in conversations around sport – that sounds like a really small thing, but for sport it’s big, because for so many years you couldn’t even mention equality in the same sentence as sport.”

For Angela, these changes have also seen the return of her optimistic and invincible nine-year-old self, and her belief that it is possible to change the world.

Angela has always loved sport.

Preferring running shoes over pointe shoes, she would disappear from ballet class to watch netball played on nearby courts. She was very close to her brother Chris, so when he began to learn Aussie Rules Football, she also became besotted with the game.

“We took stats for each other’s games. We really were obsessed with it, and after we had played our respective sports, we would go to Norwood oval and watch Norwood play,” she said.

It was at University that Angela discovered other passions, including

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feminism. She became involved in student politics, activism and the student newspaper, On Dit. It was through these activities she met fellow students Natasha Stott Despoja AO (former politician), Annabel Crab (Australian political journalist, commentator and television host), and Samantha Maiden (journalist).

“It must have been second year and I was studying feminist history and I just loved it. Learning about the different waves of feminism and the role that South Australian women played in suffrage really inspired me.

“And then you’re hanging around with Annabel and Natasha, a really cool group of switched on, feisty women. I was hooked and it gave me a really solid platform to head out into the world,” Angela said.

Completing honours in politics at the University of Adelaide, and then a Bachelor of Journalism at the University of South Australia, Angela felt ready to take on the world.

The plan was to become a political journalist working in Canberra, but her path took a different turn.

Angela became a researcher for ABC Adelaide’s 7.30 Report. When the show was axed, she moved into the newsroom as a general reporter.

Because of her good sporting knowledge, she started to cover more sport than anything else, and people started to notice her talent.

Melbourne’s head of ABC News asked her to apply for a specialist sports journalist position. It was too good an opportunity to turn down, so she applied, got the job and moved to Melbourne in 1997.

Angela loved her work, but as one of only a handful of women in sports journalism at that time, she’d underestimated the challenges she would encounter.

“I was often the only woman at a media conference, so that came with the pressure of feeling like I was representing all women. So I didn’t want to let the team down by asking

silly questions, even though men all around me were asking silly questions.

“I felt the pressure to be better than them and I had to work doubly hard to be respected,” she said.

Her best defence was to quickly develop a robust sense of humour and get on with the job, which she did, working in television as a sports presenter for ABC for more than a decade. She has also appeared, cohosted and presented on ABC Radio Melbourne, Sport 927, and been a columnist and feature writer for the AFL website and The Sunday Age. Angela’s tipping point, where she finally felt she had enough runs on the board in her career to speak out, was empowered by a couple of events away from the sporting world.

The first being then Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech in parliament in 2012.

“I saw so much of myself in her when she stood up in parliament and did that.

“I saw myself rapidly moving

towards that point where I would be able to stand in front of my peers and say the same thing,” Angela said.

The other significant moment was the birth of her son Francis in 2013.

“It’s really hard to explain, but I think what happened was that I was no longer the centre of my universe.

It started to matter less what people thought of me, my focus was on Francis and the world that he was going to grow up in,” she said.

In her second book, Breaking the Mould: Taking A Hammer To Sexism In Sport, Angela describes the many events in 2015 that created the conditions for movement towards positive change. These include Michelle Payne’s historic Melbourne Cup win, and the Matilda’s (Australian women’s soccer team) stand for more respect and a decent base salary.

The introduction of AFL Women's (AFLW) in 2017 was, for Angela, the most exciting thing to happen in sport in her lifetime.

“What I love about AFLW is that it’s okay to be physical, but it also creates another version of what it means to be a girl or woman.

“I see the women of AFLW as the modern day suffragists as they have stared convention in the face and won. That’s after a long period of ridicule and being made to feel like oddities and unnatural for wanting to play the game,” she said.

Angela has written, directed and produced two television documentaries about the rise of women in Australian Rules football. She has a third documentary in the pipeline.

“I feel like I’ve had a career revival really because things have started to change for women and it’s given me a real spring in my step to continue to change the culture of sport so women can be at their sporting best.”

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Masters of their universe The community leader giving Aboriginal people a voice at the policy table.

STORY BY RENEE CAPPS

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hange is possible, let us lead. That’s what Andrea Mason OAM, one of the most powerful and inspirational voices in the Aboriginal community stands by, passionate that First Nations people should lead the solutions to issues that impact them.

“We often don’t have the final say in matters that affect us, matters that benefit us and we want that to change,” said the woman who has devoted her life to Aboriginal justice.

“We want to be able to lead our own communities and our own organisations. We look at our own communities from the inside out and we see that things are possible.”

Through her fight for Aboriginal rights, her journey has spanned politics, public policy and practice where she has acted as a bridge between ancient culture and the 21st century corporate world.

She is now ready to fight for those with a disability, having earlier this year been appointed as a Commissioner for the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with a Disability. Andrea hopes her contribution will bring about positive change in First Nations communities.

“First Nations people with a disability are a marginalised group within a bigger marginalised group. There are a lot of similarities in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Rights Movement and the Disability Rights Movement,” she said.

“I have seen first-hand what a respectful model of care looks like for ‘high risk’ clients.

“I felt the strength of that experience could only assist me in my role as a Royal Commissioner.”

Andrea is a Ngaanyatjarra and Kronie Australian woman who grew up in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.

As a child, Andrea could see the

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importance of speaking up for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights.

“From a young age, I was surrounded by men and women helping other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and it left a very strong impression,” she said.

Andrea moved to Adelaide in the 1980s. Over a period of time her interest in governance and policy led her to study law.

“I feel very privileged that I was living in South Australia at a time when there was a significant push for Aboriginal people to do studies, which were designed to give us incredible tools and understanding to work not only in the public service, but in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander services sector,” she said.

Andrea’s career took her on a journey in public policy and practice, but it was in Canberra where she hoped she could really make a difference.

As the first ever Indigenous woman to lead an Australian political party (Family First), Andrea ran unsuccessfully for office in 2005.

“Having studied law, as well as public administration, and having spent ten years working in the public service and seeing the experience of the Aboriginal rights movement, I felt as someone who was living well in two worlds, I could bring a point of difference in conversations. I could draw from my own history and from the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. I felt that was an opportunity to take at that time, but that door did not open,” she said.

In 2008, Andrea began working at the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council, an organisation governed and directed by Aboriginal women across 26 desert communities, spanning more than 350,000

“We want to be able to lead our own communities and our own organisations.”

square kilometres, traversing WA, SA and the NT. Here, Andrea was focused on conquering domestic violence, increasing employment and encouraging health and wellbeing for women in remote regions.

“There is an incredible level of hope and vision that sits at the heart of this women's organisation,” Andrea said.

After ten years as the CEO of the NPY Women’s Council, Andrea made the tough decision to step down from the role to take up her role as a commissioner in the Disability Royal Commission.

Andrea says of the many challenges faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, the need to be “supported to lead our own solutions in good law and good policy systems” is the one she feels most passionate about.

“Australia doesn’t exist, doesn’t have a soul or identity without its First Nations people,” she said.

“First Nations people governed this country and led a framework of peace, order and good governance before European contact.”

Looking back on her career, Andrea is exactly where she wants to be. A place where she hopes she will be able to inspire significant change.

PREVIOUS AND ABOVE Andrea Mason OAM, pictured at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, in front of Bush Tucker Dreaming, artwork

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Safe house Why the future of Australia’s defence is in safe hands.

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ustralia’s first female Chief Defence Scientist Professor Tanya Monro, is a brilliant physicist in her own right.

But it’s her track record of “creating research cultures that are vibrant and outward facing” that is truly impressive.

As the inaugural Director of both the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics at the University of Adelaide, Tanya is proud of going “from nothing, from scratch, to have what is a world renowned institute of more than 200 people.”

“I worked very hard to build that team where I could create a culture that was positive, outward facing and nurturing. I worked to build alliances and a shared vision that became the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing,” she said.

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“I think we’re making progress, but ultimately 'you can’t be what you can’t see' is a very powerful statement.”

“While I can give you scientific highlights – and you can’t stop me once I get started – the thing I am most proud of is just how the teams and leaders within those teams are flourishing.”

Up until her appointment as Chief Defence Scientist at Defence, Science and Technology (DST) earlier this year, Tanya was Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and Innovation at the University of South Australia.

Tanya was also the University of Adelaide’s first female physics professor and has a trail of accolades to her name including the Prime Minister's Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year, South Australian Scientist of the Year and the Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research, to name a few.

As the first female Chief Defence Scientist, Tanya is a strong supporter of programs and research to improve gender equality in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in the higher education and research sectors, including the Science in Australia Gender Equity Initiative.

“At the moment it's clear there's a very leaky pipeline for women, both in STEM and in senior roles in academia.

“We still don't have enough girls or boys doing high-level maths, but it's still starkly more male than female,” she said.

Tanya says that if you look at the data, it’s personality attributes, personal choices and the environment that women find themselves in that causes them to ‘opt out’.

“Essentially what happens in the Australian university context, particularly in STEM, is that women who stay to

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become professors, and then go into senior roles, are disproportionally those who are resilient, stubborn and tenacious.

“We need to use data and evidence to really hold ourselves accountable to what we do, to make sure that the ability to contribute and talent are what dictates whether people are in senior roles,” she said.

“I think we’re making progress, but ultimately 'you can’t be what you can’t see' is a very powerful statement.”

Producing science around impact and creating new knowledge that can be translated to solutions, Tanya says, is a real “hallmark of her career.”

“What I’ve put forward is the view that if you put in the effort to deeply understand problems other people face, whether that be in policy, in government, whatever the problem area, the questions you ask in your research become fundamentally different,” she said.

“So it's not just a matter of saying, ‘leave me in my tower and I’ll do worthy things and others can figure out how to apply them’, it's about saying, ‘let's have the questions, that curiosity and creativity, but shaped by a deep understanding of what's needed’.”

While DST has the pre-eminent role of developing scientific and technology research solutions to safeguard Australia’s interests, Tanya says her vision going forward is that “it will only do this in partnership.”

“For me, it’s a case of being able to reach out across Australia, reach out to our universities, to our industries, and try to co-create the thought leadership, and the clarity of direction required to make sure Australia has what it needs to be strong.”

The University of Adelaide is a long-term partner of DST, with collaborations ranging from human aspects of cyber security to advanced defence communications.

For Tanya, before there was science there was, and still is, music.

Her husband and all three of their children are ‘musicians on the side’, and as a family they enjoy attending concerts regularly and play an impressive number of instruments including piano, cello, viola, trumpet, oboe, cor anglais and harp. Tanya also sings.

“In fact, if it hadn’t been for music, I wouldn’t be a physicist,” Tanya said.

“I started learning the piano at age four and a half and started playing cello at age six.

“I just loved music and found it really absorbing. There's nothing else you can think about when you're trying to master and climb the mountain of something challenging and really push yourself.”

As a child, Tanya won a music scholarship to a top private school in Sydney. After arriving at the school, any ambitions to become a professional musician changed quickly when she discovered a new way to be creative, thanks to an amazing physics teacher.

“I went from thinking I wanted to be a cellist in the symphony orchestra to realising that actually science was a deeply creative endeavour,” said Tanya.

“What excites me about physics, or about science in general, is that it's about pushing forward the boundary of knowledge, being an explorer in a way you could say.

“But you can also do that in a way that solves really significant problems and creates new solutions – for me, it’s an intoxicating mix of creation and solution.”

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CULTURE

A curious mind Our Lord Mayor’s creative approach to breathing new life into the city.

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delaide’s 63rd Lord Mayor, Sandy Verschoor has a big imagination and a curious mind, attributes that have served her well in her mission to make the city of Adelaide the place to be.

And whether in local government, or working at the helm of some of the state’s premier arts and cultural events, Sandy has been dedicated to injecting artistic energy into the city. “I have three grown children and I want them to look at Adelaide as a place they want to be for work and to live. They can do anything they want, anywhere in the world, and they can do it from here,” she said.

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“We do groundbreaking projects in this city, we’re just not very loud at telling our own story. Adelaide people are passionate, creative and push boundaries, yet are quite humble at the same time, which is the thing I love most about this city.”

Going right back to childhood, curiosity and creativity have been the driving forces behind our Lord Mayor.

“I don’t think I’ve lost the essence of what I was like as a child, I was insanely curious and that was encouraged,” said Ms Verschoor.

“I wanted to know how things worked. I was the kid that got my fingers stuck in things and I used to follow my dad around and ask how does this work, how does that work, and I’d take things apart and try to work out how they went back together – not always successfully.”

“I grew up in a family where taking risks and finding new ways and creativity and innovation were just part and parcel of what you did every day.”

“With that came lots of ups and downs. As a family, we've had to traverse that territory where things

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worked incredibly well and also when they didn’t.”

A thirst for new knowledge led Sandy to study a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Adelaide where she discovered a passion for political sociology and psychology.

It has been a lifetime love of learning that has led her to further qualifications, including a Masters of Creative Writing, also from the University of Adelaide, a PhD in Business, a Diploma in Journalism and an MBA in entrepreneurship to name a few.

Tapping into her ever-present creative side, and putting her Masters to good use, Sandy, who is only the third female mayor in Adelaide City Council’s 178 year history, loves to write.

“I think I’ve always been a writer. I

have an active imagination – my husband would say a bit too active – and I like to channel that through words.”

She has a book underway and writes poetry – a passion she rediscovered during her Masters. She is also a budding playwright. Earlier this year at the Adelaide Fringe, a play she authored had its first public reading.

Before she entered local government, our Lord Mayor was entrenched in South Australia’s arts and culture industries.

Her very first break in the arts as a marketing manager for the 1996 Adelaide Festival was fortuitous.

“My first experience was doing the 1996 Adelaide Festival, Barrie Kosky’s festival, which just about blew my brain because it was the most extraordinary experience I’d

ever had,” said Ms Verschoor.

Over the next decade, Adelaide's current Lord Mayor worked with Australian arts royalty, including Robyn Archer on the 1998 and 2000 Adelaide Festivals, and Ian Scobie on a number of projects including WOMADelaide and Katrina Sedgwick on the Adelaide International Film Festival. She was CEO of the Fringe for four years (2006–2010), working alongside Director Christie Anthoney, and was the CEO of the 2017 Adelaide Festival for directors Rachel Healy and Neil Armfield AO (who recently received honorary doctorates from the University of Adelaide).

“I have worked with some of the most fascinating people globally, all here in Adelaide, so I’ve been incredibly lucky in that way,” Ms

Verschoor said.

The move into local government came after completion of her Masters, when she was approached about a contract to set up Adelaide City Council’s Vibrant City Program.

“I was here for five months and absolutely loved it – outside it looked like this slow lumbering beast and inside there were so many extraordinary people who were so passionate and dedicated to what they did and I thought, 'this is pretty amazing’.”

Since that time, Dr Verschoor has contributed to the vibrancy and culture of the city in interesting ways, including producing Adelaide Festival of Ideas twice, and spearheading Splash Adelaide – a Council program designed to give Adelaide’s creatives an opportunity to realise their

ambitions while minimising risks, responsible for initiatives including the mobile food trucks and the Adelaide Night Market.

She has also led teams that worked jointly with state government to drive changes in licensing, resulting in more than 100 new small bars and venues opening in the city.

Now, as Lord Mayor, there are no signs of slowing down.

“We do groundbreaking projects in this city, we’re just not very loud at telling our own story. Adelaide people are passionate, creative and push boundaries, yet are quite humble at the same time, which is the thing I love most about this city.”

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THEN AND NOW

On Dit The student voice lives on strong and proud through Australia’s third oldest student publication On Dit. STORY BY IMOGEN HINDSON, NONEE WALSH AND MICHAELA MCGRATH

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ronounced on-dee, On Dit roughly translates to ‘they say.'

Since replacing its precursor, the Varsity Ragge, as a two-page broadsheet in 1932, On Dit has expanded to become the primary vehicle for the University of Adelaide’s student voice.

As the third-oldest student publication in Australia, the magazine boasts an impressive calibre of past editors and contributors, including Clementine Ford, Annabel Crabb and Julia Gillard.

Other alumni to etch their name in On Dit history are Nonee Walsh and Imogen Hindson. The former, a Bachelor of Arts alumna, and the latter, a passionate media and law student. We take a look at their time editing On Dit.

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Imogen Hindson Current Editor Bachelor of Laws (2020), Bachelor of Media (2021) I first became involved in On Dit in 2018 following the violent passing of Eurydice Dixon in Melbourne. I was frustrated by the longspouted mentality that women are to blame for their abuse, and so I wrote A Monster Didn’t Kill Eurydice, Our Culture Did. I thought it was important for young students – especially young women – to consider the reality that is gendered violence in our country, and was attracted to On Dit because I saw the value in reaching a predominantly student-based readership.

That story was the match that sparked a flame and I became more and more involved with On Dit. I continued to contribute and eventually guest edited the annual women’s edition, Elle Dit, later in the year. Now, I co-edit the magazine alongside Samantha Bedford, Emily Savage and Maxim Buckley.

I don’t think a typical week exists for us at On Dit home base as we’re always trying our best to bring something new to the table, but you can usually find us sitting in the Howling Owl café or in our basement office musing ideas over a cup of coffee or tea.

One of the things we’ve been focused on is recapturing the political and social discourse of On Dit’s legacy. During the 70s, there were major student-driven protests around gay rights, the Vietnam War and women’s rights, but sadly I think we’ve gradually lost that passion. We’re really trying to ensure students’ voices are heard, especially when we have such active voices advocating for student unionism and protesting the government’s ineffective stance on climate change.

Students have historically been a very vocal body and it’s essential they have the place to express their opinions about what is happening within their University, as well as to vocalise their thoughts, feelings and concerns surrounding state, national and global affairs.

This expression is all part of the student experience and is fundamental in creating a group of educated people searching for change as they enter the workforce.

Editing the magazine has helped me realise that we as students have a way of thinking that is novel and fresh.

As content editor, I really enjoy the creative control the team and I have, and the ability to showcase some really interesting work. I’m always learning, researching and fact-checking while

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reading a varied collation of perspectives. I really enjoy learning from students in the process.

As my time as editor draws to a close, I’m most proud of our fifth edition because it showcases a lot of my passions including politics, abortion reform, greenwashing and whistleblowers, in one magazine.

Nonee Walsh Previous Editor Bachelor of Arts (1979) Having been a journalist for 40 years, I can't start writing unless I have a lead. As I was musing about writing about 1979 at the University of Adelaide, I was doing some cleaning, and it fell out of the shelf - a little blue and black magazine.

The cover was a formally dressed young woman wearing a hat where 'The Australian Women’s Meekly' was printed. She was wearing a badge saying 'I’M A HUMOURLESS FEMINIST', and slashed across the corner, 'This is really On Dit'.

That magazine (vol 47, no 21) typified my approach to editing the student paper – I wanted more than feminists and activists to read the annual women’s edition – in fact all editions.

PREVIOUS PAGE AND BOTTOM LEFT Imogen Hindson LEFT Nonee Walsh BELOW On Dit cover, vol 47, no 21

So along with the campus women’s group and volunteers, we did a spoof of The Women’s Weekly, as it was then, with both funny and serious articles about women’s issues and perspectives, complete with a back cover of collected graffiti from the University of Adelaide’s women’s toilets.

I was so pleased to see men reading it in the UniBar and to have the argument with one medical student who came into the office at the bottom end of The Cloisters to tell me it was irresponsible to put women off using IUDs by humorously overstating the dangers. (I note that some of those contraceptive devices were withdrawn years later because of their side-effects.)

On Dit was hard work, including late nights writing at home and on weekends (checked on by the kind University security guards) as I was a sole editor. I mostly worked 9-5, constrained by the hours for my daughter at the new University childcare centre.

I had a great team of friends in the Students' Association and other volunteers who laid out the editions by cutting and pasting – with real paper and scissors. Then they created bromides in the darkroom near the Students' Association office, at

the opposite end of The Cloisters, ready to send to the Murray Bridge printer.

Life revolved around The Cloisters, the Union Building and the Barr-Smith Lawns. It was a heady year of discussions and writing on contraception and abortion, human rights across the world, and of course education policy. Twice we were in Melbourne for the AUS National Council to stave off moves, led by then-students Tony Abbott and Peter Costello, to close down the union.

The late 70s and early 80s were a time of reform.

Protests a decade before led to new laws, and student politicians argued about legislation and implementation. It was a time when a few media outlets were just starting to report issues which had long been the province of student newspapers. That alternative role is one that a student newspaper should continue to fill.

I guess I always wanted to be in journalism, and the University of Adelaide got me there, perhaps inadvertently. I left well prepared to work in media with a BA in anthropology and an incomplete honours thesis which became a series on student radio. The rest is history.

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ARTS

The art reinvention The fierce, feminine performer pushing boundaries every time she hits the stage.

STORY BY KELLY BROWN

RIGHT AND NEXT PAGE Joanna Dudley

Photos by Adine Sagalyn

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s a performer, Joanna Dudley is unlike any other.

Yet this internationally acclaimed Adelaide singer, director and performance artist finds it amusing that her work surprises people, particularly other women.

“I will be told how brave I am to do certain things on stage and I think, this isn’t being brave, it’s about showing people everything I’m made of – strength and vulnerability, beauty, ugliness, loud and soft, comedy and seriousness, destruction and love,” Joanna said.

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Harnessing her many artistic talents and influences, Joanna has crafted a performance style which makes her truly unique and allows her to create memorable pieces of art on her own or in collaboration with some of the world’s most renowned artists.

Having performed in venues and festivals including Carnegie Hall, Avignon Festival, Holland Festival, The Metropolitan Opera, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Vienna State Opera and Hong Kong Festival, Joanna relishes reinventing herself.

“Once I have my team or I’m a collaborator for someone else that I respect, then I want to do something I haven’t done before specifically for the project. Each piece will provide another opportunity to invent myself again.

“As a female performer, vocally and physically I love combining a feminine elegance with comedy and a bit of horror.

I think this is a powerful stance. I like to catch people unaware in this way and it’s something only women can do,” she said.

A kaleidoscope of creative childhood experiences had an influence on the kind of artist Joanna wanted to become. After all, she grew up with creative parents just after Don Dunstan – a strong supporter of the arts and cultural exchanges with Asia – reigned as South Australian Premier.

From her childhood, Joanna fondly remembers Chinese kite flying in Elder Park on the weekends and taking part in the Come Out Children’s Festival (now the DreamBIG Festival), a week long arts extravaganza for kids, which took over the River Torrens’s banks each year.

Joanna’s mum Gai is a visual artist and teacher, and her brother Oliver works as a designer in advertising. Her father Grahame is a composer and University of Adelaide alumnus who taught at the Elder Conservatorium for more than 30 years.

Each member of her family has had an immense influence on what she does.

“Dad was often creating wonderful music theatre as a composer. He collaborated with Frank Ford [regarded

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“I never wanted to become a European artist – I knew I wanted to nurture what made me different.”

as the father of both the Adelaide Fringe and Adelaide Cabaret Festivals] at the University,” said Joanna.

“They were pushing the boundaries in what was taught and how to bring different departments together so students could collaborate and create new work. I adored watching these performances,” she said.

Joanna went on to study early and contemporary music at the Conservatorium.

“Oddly enough, the gesture of early music still influences everything I do – it is more about the silences than the loudness, the push of emotion at a very particular point rather than drowning people in over expression,” she said.

After completing her undergraduate degree, Joanna knew she would need to leave Australia to pursue her dreams. She spent a year at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam, and on scholarships studied traditional Japanese music in Tokyo and traditional dance and music in Java.

“I never wanted to become a European artist – I knew I wanted to nurture what made me different,” said Joanna.

“My biggest source of inspiration comes from Asian art forms – whether it be a performer’s control and subtlety in Noh Theatre, hand gestures in Beijing Opera, the J-pop culture in Japan or traditional dances of Java,” she said.

Joanna’s big break came when she started working as a guest director and performer at the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin, arguably one of Europe’s most important theatres. It was here she met her husband, set designer Rufus Didwiszus, who has become one of her most significant collaborators and influencers.

A later break was meeting world-renowned South African artist William Kentridge,

best known for his prints, drawings and animated films. Joanna and Kentridge have successfully collaborated many times, most recently in an immersive exhibition where Joanna performed The Guided Tour of the Exhibition: for Soprano and Handbag at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

Joanna enjoys pushing boundaries in her art. Creating new identities of femininity is a theme throughout her work. In the performance piece The Head and the Load, a Kentridge collaboration, Joanna played a mad, funny, horrifying and very feminine version of Kaiser Wilhelm – the German emperor who declared war on the world.

In her latest piece We Will Slam You With Our Wings, an operatic video installation, she played a madam dictator encouraging an army chorus of young girls to take autonomy over their own voices – powerful stuff.

As a seasoned performer, Joanna also enjoys sharing her knowledge with others. She has lectured in performance at universities, academies and schools in Switzerland, Berlin, Hong Kong, Singapore, and in Australia at the University of Adelaide.

Since Joanna studied at the University, a Bachelor of Music Theatre has been established to provide intensive training and teach the physical and intellectual skills necessary for a theatre career.

“It’s great there is another area of performance taught at the University. I would love to see what the students are up to,” Joanna said in response to this news.

Will the new course lead to someone following in her footsteps?

“That’s funny, if that course had been available I may have done it and my journey would have been quite a different one. Who knows?”

To find out more about the Bachelor of Music Theatre visit: music.adelaide.edu.au/ future/bmustheat

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Dr Yu makes X her mark Escaping Mao’s Cultural Revolution to pioneer her own in genetic pathology.

STORY BY TUSHA BHATIA

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error and tragedy pathed the way for Dr Sui Yu to become Australia’s first female genetic pathologist.

From her ninth floor office in the Women’s and Children’s hospital, the picturesque view Dr Yu now enjoys is far from the atrocities she experienced growing up in China during Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

“The discrimination I experienced in China was unbearable so I made the decision to leave. I am very grateful that I built my career and my life in a lovely country like Australia. Sometimes adversities can lead to something very good,

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you just never know.”

And something good did happen.

Dr Yu became a pioneer in genetic pathology, a field on the cutting edge of medicine where genetic diseases are diagnosed by testing patient samples for DNA abnormalities.

As Head of the Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics at Women's and Children's hospital Dr Yu works full-time and then some. Her team focuses on identifying the genetic causes for paediatric and reproductive related disorders and, for couples who have trouble conceiving, screening chromosomes and DNA for subtle

abnormalities for children with intellectual disability.

“We provide a high quality service to clinicians and to the patients. As a genetic pathologist, my passion is service quality, clinical risk management and training the next generation of genetic pathologists,” said Dr Yu. Sitting in her office, surrounded by case files, research papers and a map of the human genome, Dr Yu is confident and in her element. But the journey to the top of her profession was long, hard and marked with torment.

The Cultural Revolution took Dr Yu’s parents from her. The pseudomedical Chicken Blood Treatment which injected rooster blood into patients and was endorsed by the Communist Party of China, was the likely cause of Dr Yu’s mother’s death.

Her father was falsely accused of being an anti-revolutionary and sentenced to life imprisonment.

“Each of my boys is a milestone for me.

I had my eldest son when I was doing my PhD and my paper was dedicated to him.

I was on maternity leave with my second boy when I was studying for my medical qualification in Australia. For my third son, I was doing my pathologist training.”

LEFT Dr Sui Yu

Dr Yu was raised by her grandmother and was discriminated against as the daughter of an anti-revolutionist. To support her grandmother, younger sister and herself, Dr Yu worked in a tobacco factory, a candy factory where she hand-wrapped the lollies, and on construction sites.

While working in physically demanding jobs, she found solace in books and studies. After the Cultural Revolution, Dr Yu was lucky enough to pass the first national matriculation exam and was offered a place at Huangyang University to study medicine.

Dr Yu migrated to Australia in 1988.

In 1989, she enrolled as a PhD candidate, under the supervision of Professor Grant Sutherland, at the University of Adelaide to work on the molecular basis of the Fragile X syndrome. Fragile X syndrome is a genetic condition caused by genetic mutation of the FMR1 gene that causes intellectual

disability, behavioural and cognitive impairment in subjects affected by it.

The DNA change that causes the Fragile X syndrome was a scientific mystery and there was strong international competition to discover the molecular basis of Fragile X. For the Adelaide team working on the discovery, one of the bottle necks was generating a map around the Fragile X region.

“I was working on this map before and after my maternity leave. I’d draw a line on the paper and try to place the restriction enzyme sites on it to generate a map but it did not make sense.

“After a few months working on it without any progress, one night I had a dream about this line I drew, it was dancing and the ends joined together.

And I remember thinking to myself, ‘this is a dream but if it’s a circle, not a straight line, it might just work.’

So, I got up immediately and started working on the map. When I mapped all restriction enzyme sites in a circle, it worked perfectly.”

“The Adelaide team was then able to narrow down the Fragile X region to a stretch of DNA which is greatly elongated in patients with Fragile X syndrome. We submitted our discovery to Science, the top journal for reporting significant scientific discoveries, only 13 days ahead of the

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competing French research group.

“It was a great feeling to win the race and discover something no one else knew. This was the prime of my research career and I am proud of my contribution to science,” said Dr Yu. For Dr Yu, it was then a natural progression to a career as a genetic pathologist. But first, she had to qualify as a medical doctor in Australia. After having her second child, maternity leave gave her an opportunity to prepare for the notoriously difficult clinical exam set by the Medical Board of Australia to prove foreign doctors meet national standards.

“Each of my boys is a milestone in my career. I had my eldest son when I was doing my PhD and my paper was dedicated to him. I was on maternity leave with my second boy when I was studying for my medical qualification in Australia. For my third son, I was doing my pathologist training.”

It’s been more than 30 years since Dr Yu migrated to Australia, and she has left behind the memories from her traumatic youth in China.

“My boys have all heard the stories of my youth so they don’t take things for granted and understand that not everyone is as lucky as we are in Australia. Being able to study, build my career and raise my children in Australia is a true blessing.”

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WINE

Heard it on the grapevine Lou’s secrets to finding a long-term home among the vines.

STORY BY ALANA GRIMALDI

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lthough she’s best known as Chief Winemaker at Barossa Valley’s famed Yalumba, Louisa Rose’s close friends simply call her Lou. Graduating as one of only two women from the University of Adelaide’s winemaking degree in 1992, the industry heavyweight has gone on to become one of the world’s most respected winemakers in an industry that has long been dominated by men.

But Lou remains optimistic that the tides are turning and hopes to inspire future generations of women in winemaking.

“I don’t want to pretend it’s all perfect, we’ve still got a lot of work to do but I think it’s changing,” she said.

Beyond gender equality, Lou recognises the need for cultural diversity in the industry.

“If the people making the wine are all the same and we’re making wine for ourselves, then there’s an awful lot of the world that we’re not thinking about. I think it’s the way of the future for successful businesses.”

Lou has had a long and illustrious career in wine.

Among an impressive registry of accolades, she was named Australia’s Best Winemaker by The Age in 2014; Winemaker of the Year by Gourmet

Traveller in 2008; and was awarded the Women in Wine Award in 2004.

Born and raised in the Yarra Valley, Lou spent her teenage years toiling on her parent’s small vineyard when “there were only a handful” of them in the now thriving region.

Sceptical of the viability of a career in wine, she first completed a Bachelor of Science before her passion and interest swayed her to take a risk on winemaking.

She undertook a Bachelor of Applied Science in winemaking at the University of Adelaide's Roseworthy campus.

Lou then undertook a fate-sealing placement as a cellar hand at Yalumba, entering the industry at a pivotal moment in Australian wine history.

“Some of the opportunities I had to grow and take on new responsibilities were a credit to the expansion happening to the industry locally and around the world,” said Lou. More than 25 years later, she now holds the esteemed role of Chief Winemaker and custodian of Australia’s most historic familyowned winery’s proud lineage of tradition and innovation.Lou actions messages of change through her roles as: Chair of the Australian Wine Research Institute, Chair of the University of Adelaide's Alumni Council and as Grand Master of the winemaking fraternity Barons of Barossa. “I have been, and probably still am, asked to go on committees and boards as the token woman, to achieve the required gender balance. It worried me for a while but now I figure that I'm also qualified anyway... I don't take umbrage as to why I've been asked but I hope that I can make a difference.”

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Achievements Members of the University community have been recognised for their outstanding achievements, winning a number of prestigious awards. We are proud to acknowledge the exceptional accomplishments of those achieving excellence.

Queen’s Birthday Honours 2019 Companion of the Order of Australia (AC)

Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)

Mr Michael Davis AO

Emeritus Professor John Finnis QC, AO

Professor Peter Rathjen AO

Ms Natasha Stott Despoja AO

Mr Richard Broinowski AO Dr Derek Byerlee AO

Mr John Scanlon AO

Member of the Order of Australia (AM) Professor Adrian Cheok AM Mr Andrew Davies AM Adjunct Associate Professor Peter Dry AM Mr Marcus La Vincente AM Professor Gilah Leder AM Dr Peter Lillie AM Dr John Litt AM Mr Alastair McEwin AM Emeritus Professor Anthony Radford AM Mr Glenn Turner AM The Honourable Terence Worthington AM Dr Matthew Collins AM Professor Kevin Davis AM Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) Mrs Nancy Baldock OAM Mr Gregory Drew OAM Dr David Everett OAM Mrs Shirley-Anne Gale OAM Mr Brian Haddy OAM Mr Robert Handley OAM Dr Samuel Heard OAM Dr David Martin OAM Mr Graeme Pascoe OAM Dr Michael Scobie OAM Mr Austin Taylor OAM

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LEFT Shirley-Anne Gale OAM RIGHT Professor Jozef Gecz

SA Scientist of the Year 2019

Tall Poppy of the Year

Global space challenge

Professor Jozef Gecz

Dr Nigel Rogasch Neuroscience

Associate Professor Tat-Jun Chin Dr Bo Chen Dr Alvaro Parra Bustos

Professor Gecz is the founding head of the Neurogenetics Research Program within Adelaide Medical School. He has an enviable track record for discovering underlying genetic causes of intellectual disability, epilepsy, autism and, more recently, cerebral palsy. His research has led to clinical trials, informed national and international policy, and expanded our understanding of how genomics improve healthcare.

Science Excellence Awards Excellence in Research Collaboration Award B Part of It, led by Professor Helen Marshall

B Part of It is the SA Meningococcal B Vaccine Herd Immunity Study partnership between SA Health, the University of Adelaide, local government and others, which has saved a predicted 11 children from potential disability or death from a life-threatening disease.

Professor Marshall is an international leader in vaccinology and infectious disease epidemiology, and Deputy Director of Clinical and Translational Research at the Robinson Research Institute.

Dr Rogasch is a Senior Research Fellow within the Adelaide Medical School and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute.

His research combines non-invasive brain stimulation and neuroimaging methods to uncover differences in prefrontal mechanisms between people with healthy cognitive function and those with schizophrenia. This research has the potential to lead to new treatments for improving cognitive function across a vast range of brain disorders.

South Australian Tall Poppy Science Awards Dr Daniel King Psychology, Behavioural Addictions Dr Giang Nguyen Mathematics, Applied Probability Dr Danny Wilson Malaria Biology, Parasitology

A team of researchers from the University of Adelaide’s School of Computer Sciences defeated some of the world’s most prestigious universities and space technology companies at an international space competition hosted by the European Space Agency.

The ‘Pose Estimation Challenge’ asked competitors for an accurate estimation of the distance and orientation (pose) of a spacecraft from synthetic and real images captured using computer graphics and a robotic test-bed.

ABC Classic’s top 100 composers of all time Professor Graeme Koehne AO Professor Koehne, Director of the University’s Elder Conservatorium of Music, was recently voted among ABC Classic’s top 100 composers of all time alongside classical music greats Beethoven, Bach and Mozart.

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Events As reunion season hit full swing in the second half of the year, we reunited dentistry, medical, Roseworthy, Waite, wine and law graduates with friends, colleagues and old classmates, to celebrate good times past and present. We also celebrated 100 years of Adelaide Dental School with alumni, staff, friends, colleagues and industry associates. It has been extremely pleasing to see so many people reconnecting with their alma mater. To find out about the reunions we have planned for next year, please visit the alumni website for updates on our reunion program: ua.edu.au/alumni/reunions We look forward to staying in touch.

Gerald Thurnwald

Kevin Ward, Nick Hocking and Owen Hales

Feng Tam, William Tam, Derek Frewin and Margaret Frewin

Alison Wissman, Brandon Hoe and Richard Logan

Malvina Filip and Sarah Brimfield

Catherine Lee, Dianne HaddadFerraro and David Ferraro

Georgina Janssens, Kristen Mournas, Alesha Masaud and Jasmine Douglas

Lauren Ricks, Julie Mackintosh and Leah Fitzgerald

Kelly McAteer and Ursula Menz

Michael Gardner, Luke Kerins and Dave Huxter

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Wally Hassoun, Kong Yen, Daveena Sidu and Peter Alldritt

Chancellor, the Rear Admiral the Hon. Kevin Scarce, AC CSC RAN (Rtd) and wife Liz, with Nat Cooke MP

Chol Pager

Claire Catford, Nigel Williams and Dillon Catford

Leanne Pridham and Courtney Regan

Caroline Rhodes and Kathleen Giles

Angelo Papageorgiou and Dianne Haddad-Ferraro

Vanessa Freebairn, Claudia Wythes and Kerrin Blott

Ali Cooper, Joe Scammell, Sam Croser

Taryn Mangelsdorf and Andrew Hall

Sheryl Tugwell, Cheree Reichl and Melissa Fraser

Colleen Moten and Diana Stolfa

Jarrad Koh, Bronwyn Gordon and Feng Tam

Owen Davies and Glenn Drogemuller

Liz Cleasby and Michael Hastwell

Christopher Barnett and Gavin Nimon

Yu-chaun Lee and Erika Nishimoto

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