The University of Melbourne Voice

Issues, views, debate, University news and events, fortnightly

Vol. 3, No. 2, 12 May - 9 June 2008

Cover Story

The Economy: Balancing Act
A new Treasurer and Finance Minister confront our economy with inflationary pressures not seen for decades.

How We’re Handling Our Money
What is the financial position of Australian households, their motivation to save, and trends in their assets and debt?

The Changing Economy
After more than a decade of low inflation and economic growth, consumers may face a need to curb spending.

News

The Public Intellectual
Anti-racist policy should not be about making people feel dependent on others for their well-being; it should be about preserving their self-sovereignty.

World of Words Shared by Australian Children
Australian children share a strong common verbal culture despite gender, ethnic, socio-economic and geographic differences, new research suggests.

UAE’s First Women Teachers
Ten years ago the idea that confident young Emirati women, dressed in traditional black abeyas and headscarfs, would stand before classes of 30 young boys expertly teaching English was just a dream.

Unions Good for Business – Study
Unions can have a positive impact on organisational competitiveness according to research led by Dr Carol Gill of the University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Business School.

From the Vice-Chancellor
A National Conversation

Opening address at the Australia 2020 Summit
by Indigenous University of Melbourne Law student Sana Nakata

Learning Journey Continues
The University journey continues for Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars

Developing the Global Outlook
Concern to understand the global political economy and its impacts on the developing world’s poor has seen emerge over the past 20 or so years the major cross-disciplinary field of Development Studies.

Reviews and Previews

Tomorrow’s Comedy Stars
Two fast-moving bitter-sweet comedies of love, jealousy and mirthful confusion will be presented by University of Melbourne Victorian College of the Arts Drama and Production students in productions opening at the VCA next week.

Voyage to a Prize
Voyages to the South Seas, In Search of Terres Australes was a steep learning curve for University of Melbourne zoologist, Dr Danielle Clode. In her award-winning book published by Melbourne University Publishing, Dr Clode observes that Australia may never have been at much risk of being a French colony, but for many years she was the intellectual property not of the British who colonised her – but of the French, who understood her.

Prophetic Political Writing
A long-time ABC TV Lateline fan, this reviewer was concerned that her review of The Best Australian Political Writing edited by Tony Jones, would be biased – and it is – the four-time Walkley Award winning journalist presents a must-read selection of incisive analytical pieces covering the past year in politics.

Scam Movie Pays 21 for VCA Graduate
Filming in Las Vegas is a surreal, sometimes bizarre, funny and extraordinary experience, says director Robert Luketic. But it’s never dull.

Attempts on Her Life
Twenty-first century obsessions from pornography and ethnic violence, to terrorism and unprotected sex offer a roller-coaster ride of shock and hilarity in Martin Crimp’s post-modern play Attempts on Her Life opening this week for a limited season in the Guild Theatre at the University of Melbourne.

PODCASTS
Up Close in the Middle East

VODCASTS
Attack of the Senses

Knowledge Transfer

Melbourne Model Success
The Melbourne Model is aligned with new and emerging educational structures around the world

The Killer Within
Australia and UK have the highest rate of asbestos-related cancer deaths in the world.

Digital Assets Through YouTube
The University of Melbourne has led the way in providing Australian and world-wide access to its digital assets through YouTube.

Profiles

A Dream Realised
Linh Ma dreamed of studying law at university as a high school student, but never thought it could one day become a reality. “I thought that it was unattainable for me since I came from a non-English speaking background and had only been in Australia a few years. Therefore I did not consider law an option at tertiary level.”

Jungle Tim
Development Studies Masters student Tim Mann recently returned from 12 months in Indonesia working with an NGO on orang-utan reintroduction.

Alumni

Ripe for Success
Chloe Thomson graduated with Honours from a University of Melbourne Bachelor of Agricultural Science in 2004. In her final of year of study she discovered the University’s mentoring program

Learning centre is a gift
When Roy Hardcastle graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Engineering in 1949, little did he suspect that his links with the Melbourne School of Engineering. would continue well into 2008.

Living Ethically a Global Issue
When Peter Singer first enrolled at the University of Melbourne in 1963 he planned to become a lawyer.

Sport

A Rivalry Reignites
Mark this date in your diary: Saturday 17 May. Why? Well, if you’re a true footy tragic, you won’t want to miss what promises to be a blockbuster game of local football.

What's On

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