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April 1996 Issue Number 21
Extending performance
Lights, camera, action
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Cover: Choregrapher and QUT Arts (Dance) graduate Alison Ryall.
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Contents
April 1996
QUT Links Issue 21
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Noel expands Japanese horizons
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Lights, camera, action for QUT graduates
4
Busy Tina finds time for others
4
Pamela tackles the things that matter
5
Jonathon points tourists in our direction
6
Drama duo to extend performance concepts
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News briefs
9
Alumni news
10
Keep in touch
13
Calendar of events
Universities have a responsibility to many constituencies. The graduate body – which at QUT is known as the
Convocation/Alumni – provides valuable links between the university and the society which it services. QUT substantially extended its linkage with Alumni in 1995, making contact with more than 12,000 graduates from its predecessor institutions.
QUT Alumni is now established and provides support for:
• increased contact between Alumni and later-year students via the Career Mentor Scheme;
• networking for Alumni with similar interests who can meet regularly in QUT Forums to suggest practical solutions to professional problems;
• ongoing contact with the leadership of the university through Vice-Chancellor’s breakfasts and other functions; and
• recognition of high-achieving graduates through the Outstanding Alumni Awards.
The year ahead promises further opportunities for graduates to benefit from continued contact with the university.
I invite you to keep in touch with QUT.
Professor Dennis Gibson
The citizens of the Japanese metropolis of Osaka will be able to enjoy a little bit of Australia in the heart of their city if the vision of Brisbane architect and QUT graduate Noel Robinson comes to
fruition.
Noel recently presented a feasibility study for what will become Japan’s tallest building, the plans for which incorporated an Aussie-themed retailing and entertainment centre.
The plans allow for a 70- to 80-storey tower with a 600-room hotel and 45 storeys of offices to be set on top of an elevated park.
“Under the park will be the retail/entertainment complex which will include a wave machine from Bondi Beach, possibly Australian flora and fauna and a food hall dispensing typically Australian fare, including meat pies,” Noel explained.
“We also plan to attract Australian retailers like Ken Done and to have an area for exhibitions and facilities to sell Australian tourism.”
The park upon which the building would sit would reflect the wide open spaces of Australia and represent a departure from traditional Japanese urban design, he said.
“The tower will incorporate three sky gardens which will be double-storey spaces where people can eat and relax, meditate and take in the view.”
Noel said the project was being developed for a Japanese client, Mr Takahashi, by the Asia Pacific Design Group, a team of 11 consultants which he chairs.
He indicated he was quietly confident of
receiving a green light for the $1.4 billion project from his Japanese client.
“We have built up very good relationships with our Japanese clients and those relationships can count as much as experience when doing business in that market,” he said.
Negotiations are also being finalised on a number of other high-profile projects in Asia, including an airport and golf resort in China and a resort overlooking the Krakatoa volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
In 1994, Noel won the Kumdori prize for the best pavilion at the World Expo in Korea for his work on the Australian pavilion.
His significant domestic achievements have included airports in Bundaberg and
Rockhampton, the Queensland Police
headquarters in Roma Street and the Kenwynn Centre office development in Upper Edward Street. He has also designed award-winning resort and apartment complexes on the Sunshine Coast.
Noel graduated from QIT in 1970 with a Diploma in Architecture and has been in private practice almost from day one.
In 1975, he returned to QIT to complete a Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning.
In 1991, Noel was an Adjunct Professor of Architecture in QUT’s Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering and has since designed the O-Block complex on QUT’s Kelvin Grove campus.
Former QUT Adjunct Professor of Architecture, Noel Robinson, faces a myriad of challenging international and local briefs
Noel expands Japanese
horizons
First Assistant Director and Business graduate Darren Mallett
Lights, camera, action for QUT graduates Lights, camera, action for QUT graduates
He explained the equipment being used for the film was sophisticated, the work intense and the subjects a challenge . . . they’re mermaids.
“It can take a week to do five seconds,” he said. “We create impossible vision that can’t be shot.
“For example, I create impressions of mermaids who can swim
underwater for ages when a human would simply run out of breath.”
James isn’t running out of puff either. In an average week he clocks up 60 hours, at times, though, he happily doubles his commitment.
“I’m well paid and there’s a worldwide shortage of
professionals in my area, so you could say salaries are inflated,”
he said.
James graduated with a Bachelor of Business (Film & Television) four years ago and stays in touch with QUT.
He also keeps an eye out for talented graduates with potential, providing a valuable avenue for employment.
“I keep in close contact with tutors – it’s a very useful way to find out about graduates who have finished, and know what they’ve done,”
he said.
James has two feature films, three TV movies and two TV series to his credit and described his work as tedious at times but also exciting.
“My degree has been pretty important for me,”
James explained. “My course exposed me to many facets of film-making so I could discover which way I wanted to go.”
Direction wasn’t the issue for fellow QUT graduate Darren Mallett when he completed his Bachelor of Business with an advertising major in 1979 — but it is now.
After a dozen years in advertising, movie-making seduced this writer into a career change to drama direction.
“I’m a first assistant director, which means I break down the scripts, decide in which order scenes will be shot and generally plan and implement an efficient shoot,” Darren explained.
Currently working on the Nine Network television series Pacific Drive, a high-paced,
M
ore and more talented QUT graduates are making an impact on Australia’s flourishing film industry through Queensland’s largest film production facility, the Warner Roadshow Movie World Studios.Around a dozen ambitious graduates working at Movie World have been building lucrative careers in movie and television with specialties spanning visual effects, producing, directing and
much more.
One, James Rogers, is a visual effects supervisor in one of the film industry’s most progressive – and competitive – fields.
Working for the Photon Stockman company, James has just started work on his second Japanese film, Acri.
contract-based appointment, Darren is responsible for the efficient shooting of the commercial drama that screens both here and overseas.
“The hardest part of the transition from advertising to drama is convincing someone to give you a chance,” he said.
“It’s not necessarily what you know but who you know and whether you’ll get to talk to them when the job comes up.”
This philosophy has played a significant role in sustaining Darren Mallett’s 17-year working life and accommodating his career changes.
But, he said, the learning component was equally as important.
“Students need to complete their degrees in the assigned time and regard their degrees as their tickets to the next level of learning,” he said.
Associate producer and QUT journalism graduate Jo Porter is called on to make decisions about characters on and off screen.
She said QUT graduates had the edge in the marketplace because they had hands-on abilities up front.
“They’re some of the few graduates with the practical experience to walk in and be able to do a job,” she said.
“QUT graduates are much more prepared for certain roles on the crew and I’m always impressed with their production and technical abilities.”
Jo has been working with Village Roadshow Pictures for the past four years.
She had already completed her Bachelor of Business degree and had just returned from a working holiday in London when an opportunity came up with the company.
“Roadshow and Film Queensland’s trainee producer scheme was underway and I was keen to make Queensland my base,” she said.
“I think I got the job because of my degree and my overseas experience – in particular work on drama productions, which was hard to get in Queensland at the time.”
Jo said at least another six QUT graduates were working in full-time and part-time positions on Pacific Drive alone, with others working at the Village Roadshow Picture Studios.
Talented Danielle Dajani started making her own brand of “movie magic” as a QUT film &
television student.
“a degree is your ticket to the next level
of learning”
While still studying at QUT, Danielle began teaching her peers to use a budgeting and scheduling software package called Movie Magic.
Danielle said she had initially scrimped and saved to buy her own copy of the $2,500 program, but it eventually paid for itself.
She acknowledged features of Movie Magic became crucial in her job as a production
liaison officer with Warner Roadshow Movie World Studios.
But, since then, Danielle’s professional path has taken a
dynamic upswing and the skills she had built became invaluable.
She was appointed assistant to Warner Roadshow Movie World Studios Managing Director, Michael Lake, in 1994.
“It means (that I am now) budgeting and scheduling feature films and movies of the week – (as well as) setting up production offices until they can run under their own steam,”
Danielle said.
“I think my organisational skills and my computer knowledge helped (me get a start in the industry) and the fact I chained myself to the desk and wouldn’t leave,” she said, smiling.
Two of many QUT graduates working at Movie World . . . assistant to the Managing Director, Danielle Dajani (a film and television graduate) and First Assistant Director Darren Mallett (an advertising graduate)
It will be a fairly hectic time this year for QUT associate lecturer, student and Mater Hospital radiographer,
Ms Tina Hancock.
Besides her full plate of teaching, learning and medical commitments, Tina has become a participant in this year’s Miss Australia Awards.
The Miss Australia Awards are conducted by the Queensland Spastic Welfare League to raise funds to bridge the gap between available government funding and actual costs of services provided for people with cerebral palsy.
Tina is no stranger to the QUT campus. It is the ninth year she has been a student at the University.
She received her Diploma Applied Science – Diagnostic Radiography in 1990, did a postgraduate Diploma in Applied Science – Medical Ultrasound and this year hopes to complete a
Mathematics degree in Applied Science.
“I think it is important to study, whether it be at university or TAFE or courses which expand how you think about life and your work,” Tina said.
She said there was a link between her work and her involvement in the Miss Australia Awards.
At the Mater Public Hospital, Tina works with a variety of patients either with cerebral palsy or other disabilities and this, she said, helped her to relate to the specific needs of such clients.
“(Being in the Miss Australia Awards) is also going to benefit me and my co-workers because I can inform them more about what a cerebral palsy person has to deal with,” Tina said.
“It is not a disease, it’s a disability and there is no cure for it and they need as much help and understanding as possible in order to make their lives comfortable.”
Tina said she had always been interested in doing some charity work but admitted her involvement in the Miss Australia Awards was taking up a considerable amount of her time, particularly organising fund-raising activities.
QUT Social Science graduate Pamela Collins is part of a team which is
pioneering a range of invaluable support services that will ensure a better deal for more than 400,000 Queenslanders with a disability.
Pamela is tackling the challenge with the Brisbane-based Community Resources Unit (CRU), a unique Australian organisation, and her position as resource consultant puts her at the edge of social change.
“I see it as a highly political field and I’m very interested in knowing about things that lead to the devaluing of people and how that impacts on their life experiences and mine,”she said.
Pamela said she was committed to challenging ideas and practices which limited the lives of people with disabilities, while giving support to individuals and organisations.
She singled out the practice of separating those with disabilities from those without, saying this encouraged distorted views of the world from an young age, particularly in schools.
“People who are pushed to the margins are sentenced to impoverished lives which are lacking in social relationships and a sense of belonging,” she said.
CRU aims to boost inclusive education and enhance opportunities for those with disabilities.
Pamela has contributed to this goal by
successfully designing an award-winning library database system.
The program puts Queensland people in touch with more than 2,500 articles dealing with community living, human services and advocacy from all over the world.
Closer to home, ties have been strengthened between QUT and CRU, and, with the support of Pamela Collins, the first student placement with the specialised service commenced last year.
Another CRU student placement is under consideration for 1996.
Busy Tina finds time for others
Pamela tackles the things that matter Pamela
tackles the things that matter
Resource consultant and Social Science graduate Pamela Collins designed award-winning library database to assist people with disabilities
Tina Hancock... scheduling a busy year
Jonathon, who has not lived in Queensland since graduating from QUT six years ago, said his association with QTTC had a solid history attached to his home State.
He started out as a cadet travel consultant at one of the Queensland Government’s travel centres and quickly progressed through the ranks to Regional
Manager of the Americas.
“I spent a short time with the New Zealand Tourist Bureau’s Los Angeles Office but I was lured back to the QTTC,” he admitted.
Jonathon, who now lives and works at Century City, Los Angeles – the commercial heart of law, business and entertainment – described LA as “an acquired taste”.
“Five of us work in the office targetting new markets and working to put deals together,”
he said.
“We are selling Queensland to those companies which bring American tourists to Australia, whether they want luxury resorts or backpacker accomodation,” he said.
Jonathan said he also dealt with the airlines, hotel chains and big “people movers” in his QTTC marketing role.
“US tourists crave a definitive Australia made up of beaches, rainforests and reefs and they like the way Australians welcome them.”
But his business focus, he said, was at present set on Queensland tourism’s fastest-growing area, conventions and incentives.
“I’m working with the Queensland tourism industry to make sure it is taking the best advantage of the US market.”
Selling the Queensland dream isn’t just about Muriel’s Wedding or desert queens in high heels, but both have played memorable roles for Queensland Tourist and Travel Corporation’s (QTTC) new Regional Director Jonathon Day as he fans a thriving market.
However, the QUT Business Management graduate said movies and entertainers were still pivotal to Queensland’s
international profile, particularly in the United States where he is based.
“Queensland rode on the back of Crocodile Dundee and Americans know all about INXS.
They’re very welcoming to our cultural exports,”
he said.
From his Los Angeles base, Jonathon and his QTTC team target a huge tourism market which includes North and South America as well as Canada.
This means encouraging a growing number of the region’s 275 million people to come to Queensland’s shores.
More than half of potential visitors already choose Queensland as their preferred Australian destination, Jonathon said.
“When American tourists arrive in Australia, they are looking for something unique, but also something that’s not too different from their homes in the US,” he said.
“They’re well-educated, well-travelled and excited about our fauna and the prospect of meeting the locals.”
He said US tourists also valued our clean cities, familiar lifestyle and high levels of service.
The older American traveller, he said, could fly to Queensland and spend a week for between
$US1,500-$US2,000.
J onathon
points tourists in our direction
Business Management graduate Jonathon Day . . . Americans are receptive to
Queensland’s cultural exports
Drama duo extend
performance concepts
A
ctor, director and teacher Anthony Simcoe and fellow QUT graduate Alison Ryall are to launch an exciting new theatre company in Sydney that will give QUT drama students their first break into the tough theatre industry.Anthony and Alison – a promising young choreographer with the QUT dance department last year – have already planned a 1997 season they hope will set the Sydney theatre world on fire.
Alison completed her Bachelor of Arts (Dance) last year and this year is undertaking intensive postgraduate studies in choreography at the Victorian College of Arts in Melbourne.
The Queensland duo plan to showcase a
company which will bring a new “physicality” to some of western civilisation’s classic
theatre works.
A key aspect of the project is the involvement of future dance and drama graduates and staff from the QUT Academy of the Arts.
For instance, drama lecturer Mark Radvan has been invited to be guest director for their first production.
Anthony – who is a QUT and NIDA graduate – and Alison hope the helping hand they intend to offer will be the first step on the ladder to success for some of Australia’s best young dancers and actors.
For Anthony Simcoe, who is 26, it will be just one of the links he has forged with QUT. He returned in 1995 to shoulder a hefty load of tutorials while studying for his Master of Fine Arts (Drama).
“I’m really looking forward to hopefully being in a position where we can professionally showcase the talents of QUT graduates – especially the ones I’ve taught myself and (with whom I) have built up a shared vocabulary and a good working relationship,” he said.
“It’s hard to make that break into acting and I’m hoping the link between our company and QUT will be a very strong and important one for both of us.”
Anthony’s masters had a very public and successful finale recently when he directed Moliere’s A Doctor In Spite of Himself which ran for two weeks at QUT’s Woodward Theatre.
Heralded as a major success, the production featured 10 theatre professionals and
incorporated many of Anthony’s strongly-held ideals about what theatre must strive to offer audiences in the 1990s.
As part of his masters, Anthony – who is
passionate about Moliere – also worked for three months in Paris with the Comedie Francaise (Moliere’s own 330-year-old theatre company) as a guest assistant director.
He said that working with Comedie Francaise had enabled him to realise Moliere’s work was not being contemporised in a way that would bring in new audiences.
That, he said, just underscored “and re- invigorated” the work he saw he needed to do to bring his passion for Moliere’s texts to large audiences.
“I don’t want my plays to only appeal to the cliquey, theatre-going set and I don’t just want to put a lot of what I call cheap theatre on stage to pack things out,” he said.
“I want to bring that holy world and that rough world together. But, to find that balance is really difficult – the message can be too intellectual or the audience might not be entertained or they may not be emotionally engaged or it could be boring.”
Anthony said that, during his time as a teacher, he had been impressed with Alison’s
choreography work which was showcased in the QUT Dance Department’s
New Moves 2 production.
The next 18 months will see the pair seeking sponsorship for the formation of their company, with a season of three plays scheduled to open in 1997.
“This company will address the fact that the great texts are not explored in a very physical manner, in the sense that most actors you see on stage only use one eighth of their body,”
Anthony said.
Choreographer and QUT Arts (Dance) graduate Alison Ryall . . . hoping to achieve a vocabulary that actors and dancers can share
Alison said she and Anthony aimed to create an opportunity for other directors and other choreographers to work within the company structure.
“We are hoping to get a vocabulary that both actors and dancers can share,” she said.
“One of the reasons I am looking forward to working with Anthony is that we will both input ideas into the body of work that makes each production.”
While Alison continues her studies, Anthony is working in Sydney where he has been asked to direct a play with the Threshold Theatre in July as well as Tennessee William’s This Property is Condemned, to be produced by Moushe Phillips at the Bondi Pavilion in December.
These productions will add to his impressive resumé of work in Sydney which includes appearances in Three Winter’s Green at the Stables Theatre, Open House at Belvoir St Theatre and writing, performing in and producing Craving at the Sydney Street Theatre Space.
Anthony has also toured with the Queensland Arts Council in World Games and appeared in Peter Pan for the Queensland Theatre Company.
His film and television credits include the feature film My Entire Life as well as A Country Practice, English at Work and Home and Away.
Actor, director, QUT drama graduate and former QUT tutor Anthony Simcoe . . . wants to introduce a new
“physicality”
to classic theatre pieces
While committed to acting and directing, Anthony Simcoe has discovered that teaching young actors the techniques and science of acting has become one of his life’s passions.
Anthony said he was enormously grateful to QUT and to Drama Lecturer Mark Radvan for giving him the opportunity to identify, reflect upon and hone his teaching skills. (His master’s degree work specialised in actor training.)
“I love working with 19 to 20-year- olds who are discovering their adulthood and their artistic processes all at the same time,”
Anthony said.
“There’s nothing more exciting than seeing a talented kid on stage doing it, but not knowing how they’re doing it or how to replicate it in the workplace when they have to do it again,” he said.
“What I love doing is giving them language and giving them
techniques – giving them
something that they will take with them for the rest of their lives into films and theatre and stage
and projects.
“That’s such a mind-blowing
experience for me and it’s been the greatest joy of my life.”
As a teacher, Anthony has worked for the NIDA Open Program and the Sydney Youth Theatre Ensemble, as well as QUT’s Academy of the Arts.
Anthony said he believed QUT’s Academy of the Arts was
embracing the need to provide vocationally ready actors for the industry with the introduction in 1989 of the three-year drama degree course.
“It’s been an exciting time to be at QUT over the past 18 months, to see the change between the two- year course it was when I was here in 1988 and the more
comprehensive three-year course, which really does make QUT graduates ready to work,” he said.
7 NEWS
BRIEFS
Registrar retires
QUT Registrar Brian Waters retired in December after more than 25 years’ service to the university. Ken Baumber, currently Vice-Principal (Administration) at the University of Wollongong, has been appointed to succeed Mr Waters. Mr Baumber is expected to take up the post in mid-1996.
New school heads in Arts
QUT’s Faculty of Arts has two new school heads. Professor Stuart Cunningham has been appointed to lead the School of Media and Journalism (which last year made the move to Arts from the Business Faculty) while Professor Mary Sheehan will take the reins in the School of Social Science. Each possesses outstanding academic and research credentials in their discipline areas.
Medieval look planned for Gardens Point
QUT is embarking on a five-year, multi-million dollar plan to remodel its inner city campus on principles derived from medieval cities. The plan allows for a series of piazzas linked by paths which will exploit the high building density on the campus as well as an integrated approach to landscape planting and signage. The renovations are also being used as an opportunity to enhance service, security and access on the campus.
A change for Education
The Faculty of Education has created a School of Professional Studies following the amalgamation of the School of Social, Business and Environmental Education and the School of Curriculum and Professional Studies. The new school is led by former Curriculum and Professional Studies head Professor Brian Hansford.
Million-dollar library facelift
The Gardens Point library will house one of Queensland’s first dedicated researchers’ centres as part of a $1 million refurbishment to be completed by July. When completed, the centre will offer postgraduate students and academic staff access to the latest high-technology communications software, meeting rooms and work spaces as well as immediate access to new serials and book displays.
Stage one of the refurbishment, completed in January, saw the level three library entrance revamped with new floor coverings, lighting, acoustic ceilings, remodelled loans desk with a new self-serve limited access collection and separate entry and exit points.
Redevelopment plan garners national kudos
The redevelopment of the Gardens Point peninsula, spearheaded by QUT a decade ago, is one of nine projects shortlisted nationally for the Prime Minister’s inaugural Australia Award for Urban Design.
A strategy for use, rehabilitation and development of Gardens Point was prepared jointly by QUT and the Brisbane City Council in 1985.
A decade later, the redevelopment is almost complete. Achievements to date include renewal of the City Botanic Gardens with the Albert Street connection to the Queen Street Mall, the River Stage, the George Street Parliamentary forecourt, three new riverbank buildings at QUT and the removal of barriers between QUT and the Gardens.
QCOSS access to Internet
The Queensland Council of Social Services (QCOSS) is one of the first non-profit organisations cruising the Internet thanks to the QUT
Community Service Grants scheme.
QCOSS is one of 30 organisations to receive a free 12-month
subscription and access to QUT computers through the university- based Program on Nonprofit Corporations headed by Associate Professor Myles McGregor-Lowndes.
Catalogue celebrates QUT’s art
The depth and quality of QUT’s collection of Australian art has been showcased in a catalogue launched to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the university’s art collection.
Works by artists Hans Heysen, Clifton Pugh, Sidney Nolan and 1995 Archibald Prize winner William Robinson are among the 101 pieces by early and
contemporary artists included in the 120-page catalogue.
By thinking of QUT in your will, you can make a real difference to research and teaching programs which directly benefit the community.
In health, for example, QUT researchers have made strong, practical contributions to our understanding of leukaemia, Ross River virus, diabetes and cancer.
QUT scholarships too, help bright students become outstanding professionals with their feet firmly on the ground.
If you’d like to make a real difference, contact Jenny Kelk, QUT Development Office, on (07) 3864 2147.
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Keep your eye out for QUT Alumni on the Internet via QUT’s home page at http://www.qut.edu.au
Forums for networking
QUT is sponsoring a program to encourage graduates to set up personal and professional networks.
The networking groups – to be called QUT Forums – will see six to eight graduates invited to meet regularly for at least two years to discuss business and professional issues and share experiences.
Graduates will be matched by geographical location, management level and years of professional experience, but not by profession.
In fact, a mixture of professions is ideal. Each group decides its own agenda and how often it will meet.
Each Forum also will include a QUT staff member who will help the group access the university where beneficial. Interested graduates should call Leesa Watkin for further details on (07) 3864 2821.
Career Mentor Scheme expands
Now in its fourth year, the QUT Career Mentor Scheme is expanding within QUT and across a variety of industry sectors.
An initiative of the QUT Convocation, the scheme offers final-year students an opportunity to receive guidance in career development and experience from professionals in their chosen area of study.
Last year, Human Resource Management, Communications and Health Information Management were added to the list of areas participating. In 1996, Planning and Landscape Architecture will be added.
Students from these areas – as well as Accounting, Geology, Human Resource Management, Interior Design, Marketing and Stage Management – are covered by the scheme.
The 1996 Scheme starts in first semester and is an excellent opportunity for alumni of QUT and its predecessor institutions to become reinvolved in the university.
For more information about the QUT Career Mentor Scheme contact Elise Nancarrow in Careers &
Employment on (07) 3864 2687.
Society in business
More and more business people see professional communicators as the lifeblood of success. That’s the view of QUT alumnist and Public Relations Manager of Queensland Industry Development Corporation Brian Watt.
Brian, who is President of the Society of Business
Communicators, said the society — which is open to anyone working in a communication-related role as well as communication students — was well supported by QUT Alumni.
Affiliated with the International Association of Business
Communicators, the society offers newsletters, continuing
professional education, social functions and the chance to enter the national Serif Awards program for professional communication.
Graduates are invited to the society’s 1996 launch which will be followed by its Annual General Meeting at 7.30pm on the 1st of May. For further details, call Lara Forbes in QUT’s School of
Communication on (07) 3864 1862.
Built Environment, Engineering and Surveying alumni update
Please let the Development Office know what your Built
Environment, Engineering and Surveying Alumni (BEESA) can provide for you. We expect to send out a BEESA membership survey shortly.
BEESA seminar
The competition for final-year students in the Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering will be held later this year.
If you are interested in attending please phone (07) 3864 1764.
Thanks for your support
The University would like to thank everyone who supported the QUT Foundation Annual Fund. Money raised is matched by the university dollar for dollar and helps students by providing scholarships and improved resources.
This year’s campaign is about to kick off. QUT Foundation Annual Fund Chair Craig Schloman will write to graduates shortly.
Alumni breakfast
The next QUT Alumni function will be a breakfast to be held on Wednesday, 5 June at the Brisbane Sheraton Hotel. A guest speaker at the breakfast will be discussing future business innovation.
For further details call
Leesa Watkin on (07) 3864 2821.
9 Mr Budi Awan
(Bachelor of Applied Science – Computing 1994) Budi has been working as an IT
Consultant for Andersen Consulting Indonesia for almost 12 months.
Phone +62 21 520 8199.
Greg Banks
(Diploma in Building 1978)
Greg moved to Townsville in 1978 and has been working on all types of commercial and industrial building projects in North Queensland. He is Project Manager for Fletcher Construction Australia.
Phone (077) 753 900.
Megan Barron
(Bachelor of Business – Communications 1988) Megan is Marketing Manager for McCullough Robertson.
Phone (07) 3233 8830.
Carden Calder
(Bachelor of Business – Management 1992) Carden is a public relations consultant at AMP Financial Services. His work is primarily as a product specialist, but he maintains an interest in workforce diversity issues, for example managing the announcement that AMP was granting paid parental leave to fathers in its latest enterprise agreement.
Phone (02) 257 5574.
Kong Heng Cheang
(Bachelor of Engineering – Electrical &
Computer Engineering 1993)
Kong is an engineer for Advanced System Automation Pty Ltd in Singapore.
Phone +65 355 1328.
Kwan Yu Chu
(Bachelor of Business – Computing 1993) Kwan is Quality Assurance Officer for Wharf Cable Limited in Hong Kong.
Phone +852 2611 4628.
Michelle Clyde-Holland
(Bachelor of Business – Management 1990) Michelle is working in London for WWAV Wrap & Collins, UK as a marketing manager and enjoys the different aspects and training available overseas.
Phone +44 171 313 4373.
Dr Suzanne Elliott (nee Conlan) (Bachelor of Applied Science – Medical Technology 1981, Doctor of Philosophy 1993) After completing her PhD, Suzanne had a baby and then 6 months later started as a Research Officer at QIMR (Queensland Institute of Medical Research) with the EBV Vaccine Trial project.
Phone (07) 3362 0313.
Jo-Anne Fitchett
(Bachelor of Laws 1982, Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice 1983)
Jo-Anne is a solicitor for Roberts Leu &
North and is a director of the North Queensland Electricity Corporation.
Phone (077) 213 413.
Carol Grainger (nee Kerr) (Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety 1993, Graduate Diploma in Counselling 1983)
Carol is the Director Occupational Therapy Services Chair, Allied Health, at the Prince Charles Hospital. In 1993 Carol won the Gwendolen Sims research award.
She has also published a book dealing with violence at work. Carol is working on her PhD and is hoping to enhance it this year by travelling to Saudi Arabia to compare its violence, stress and crime there to our culture. Phone 015 179 214.
Rev Rowena Harris
(Graduate Diploma in Teaching 1983).
After graduating, Rowena studied at the Brisbane College of Theology and graduated with a Bachelor of Theology.
She has since been a Uniting Church minister in Caloundra, Brisbane and now Rockhampton. Rowena is also the Hospital Chaplain and works in the parish, in welfare and aged care.
Phone (079) 288 137.
Paul Hendon
(Bachelor of Engineering – Electrical &
Computer Engineering 1983, Masters of Engineering 1993)
Paul is a senior engineer at Telstra. He developed Telstra’s major Network Fault Analysis System and is now supporting various network management systems.
Paul is a director of part-time company Micro Innovations Australia Pty Ltd. He also plays jazz clarinet and more recently piano and is implementing permaculture gardens. Phone (076) 96 8886.
Glenn Hickling
(Bachelor of Applied Science – Construction Management 1989)
Glenn is Projects and QA Manager for Allbuilt Construction Pty Ltd in Darwin.
Allbuilt construction builds industrial and commercial works throughout NT, Northern WA, Northern QLD and Brunei.
Glenn has been working in Darwin for six years and finds business is never slow with the vibrant economy of the ‘Top End’.
Phone (089) 84 4100.
Janine Hill
(Bachelor of Business – Communication 1990) Janine secured a position as a journalist for the Sunshine Coast Daily soon after graduation and hasn’t been able to drag herself away from the beach yet. Janine would love to hear from anyone that was in her course, particularly other
journalism and/or public relations majors.
Phone (074) 308 000.
Peter Hobbs
(Diploma in Teaching – Primary 1984; Bachelor of Education 1990)
Peter is the Junior Primary Co-ordinator of Mathew Flinders Anglican College, but will be leaving mid-year to take up a position at an international school in Istanbul, Turkey. Phone (074) 455 699.
Tracey Hooper
(Graduate Diploma in Urban & Regional Planning 1989)
Tracey is travelling overseas, but was previously employed by Caloundra City Council as a Planning Officer.
Phone (07) 3886 6340.
Tony Jewels
(Bachelor of Business - Management 1985) Tony is Managing Director of Inventory Management Services. He has also been appointed a member of the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) Motor Race Advisory Panel and won the Queensland Sports 1300 Racing Championship for 1995 as well as the ’95 Indy Car Rally. Phone (07) 5543 6767.
Adam Johnson
(Bachelor of Laws 1992)
Adam is an associate at Grays Lawyers and is studying for his Master of Business (Professional Accountancy) at QUT.
Phone (07) 3866 2286.
Graeme M. Johnston
(Bachelor of Applied Science – Mathematics 1979)
Graeme is an analyst programmer for Matman Systems Pty Ltd.
Phone (07) 3846 1796.
Stephen Kearton
(Bachelor of Applied Science – Applied Chemistry 1980)
Since graduating, Stephen spent four years doing anything but chemistry with a civil engineering firm, but has since become involved with polyester resins, explosives and pharmaceuticals. He is now General Manager of Aloe Vera Industries, his own business which processes aloe vera.
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Phone (07) 3801 1177.
Jayne Keogh
(Bachelor of Business – Communication 1983) Jayne commenced working with Javelin Australia as Queensland Manager when its Brisbane office opened in 1995. Jayne has expanded her client base to encompass customers such as Gardams, Brisbane Sheraton Hotel & Towers, TAB and others.
Javelin has grown successfully since its Brisbane office opened and is continuing to do so. Phone (07) 3369 6873.
Joanna Kesling (nee Mitchell) (Bachelor of Business – Hospital Management 1982, Graduate Diploma in Business Administration 1987)
Joanna is a Superannuation Officer at QLD Treasury. Phone (07) 3237 0059.
Graeme P. Klatt
(Bachelor of Business - Accounting 1984) Graeme is Financial Controller – Australia of Caterair Airport Services Pty Ltd.
Phone (07) 3370 9517.
Gary J. Krebs
(Bachelor of Engineering – Electrical and Computer Engineering 1971)
Gary is Business Development Manager for SDR Construction, a multi-discipline engineering construction company which operates nationally, so he is still able to get back to Queensland and hopes to catch up with some of his contemporaries at some time. Phone (09) 481 3227.
David Lahey
(Associate Diploma in Mechanical Engineering 1980)
David is a process engineer at Queensland Alumina. He is working on an engineering project to keep QAL up with the best Alumina refineries in the world on cost and quality. Phone (079) 762 526.
Wendy Lahey
(Bachelor of Applied Science – Medical Technology 1981)
Wendy is a supervising scientist at Gladstone Hospital – Pathology Phone (079) 763 230.
Jung Chung (Johnny) Lai
(Bachelor of Built Environment – Interior Design 1993)
Johnny is a graduate student of the Department of Art of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the US. He is majoring in interior design/architecture studies program and will graduate in May 1997. Phone +413 655 8802.
Annabelle Lam
(Bachelor of Education (Secondary) 1996) Annabelle is a teacher at Browns Plains
High School. Phone (07) 3800 3699.
Shareen Iteshni Lata
(Bachelor of Applied Science 1994) Shareen is Quality Assurance Officer for Tucker Group (Fiji) Limited.
Phone +679 410 879.
Carmel Leahy
(Graduate Diploma in Library Science 1988) Carmel is a Reader Services Librarian at Charles Sturt University – Murray Campus. Phone (060) 41 8856.
Mong Tack Loo
(Bachelor of Applied Science – Computing 1994) Mong is a Systems Analyst for Jurong Town Corporation (Singapore).
Phone +65 568 8636.
Fransiscus Lumentut
(Organisational Studies 1994)
Fransiscus is a personnel officer for PT Newmont Minahasa Raya in Indonesia.
Phone +62 21 573 2711.
Ian Maitland
(Bachelor of Engineering – Mechanical 1976) Ian is a principal for Sinclair Knight Merz Consulting Engineers in its Sydney office.
Phone (02) 9928 2360.
Sandra Mannion
(Diploma of Teaching 1980, Bachelor of Education – Primary 1983, Graduate Diploma in Education – Teacher-Librarian 1992) Sandra is Head of Library & Learning Support at St Joseph’s College (Gregory Tce). The position was created as part of the College’s faculty structure to support teaching and learning across its curriculum. The College’s Library Services and Exceptional Learner’s support staff have combined to plan effective programs for the 1,100 students from years 5-12. Phone (07) 3214 5288.
Lia Delvia Marahusin
(Master of Applied Science 1992) Lia is a Technical Specialist for Hydro Coatings Limited in Singapore.
Phone +65 265 9884.
Gloria Marsh
(Masters of Education – Research 1995) Gloria is employed by Older Women’s Network (Qld) Inc to establish new groups of older women throughout Queensland and to encourage networking among their own groups and other women’s
organisations. Gloria finds this very interesting work and enjoys the opportunity to travel and to develop innovative strategies to broaden the network. Gloria also holds a Bachelor of
Arts (1984) and a Diploma of Social Science (1991). Phone (07) 3392 0422.
Graeme McAdam
(Bachelor of Business – Accountancy 1980) Graeme is a Taxation officer for the Australian Taxation Office.
Phone (07) 3213 8556.
Ann McColm
(Certificate in Biology Laboratory Techniques 1977, Associate Diploma in Clinical Techniques 1980)
Ann is in Madagascar working as a missionary in the laboratory of a temporary clinic. They expect to open a hospital in May 1996 called the Good News Medical Centre as their primary purpose is evangelism. She has been there for more than two years and is part of a multi- cultural team. Ann previously worked for 15 years in the Haematology Department of Queensland Medical Laboratory in Brisbane. Phone (07) 3369 0480.
Yvette McDonald (nee Crisan) (Bachelor of Nursing 1993)
Since graduating, Yvette has worked at the Royal Brisbane Hospital and the Brisbane Dental Hospital and is now a registered nurse at the Brighton Medical Centre.
This year Yvette is studying her Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety.
Phone (07) 3269 5666.
Mark McNamara
(Bachelor of Business – Communication 1979) Mark is National Leasing Manager for Coles Myer Properties. He is finalising the leasing of Tweed Mall on the Gold Coast for the Grand Opening in September 1996.
Later this year Coles will be launching the new development of Grand Central Toowoomba, Cairns Central and Sydney Central Plaza for completion at the end of 1997. Phone (03) 9829 3321.
James McPherson
(Diploma in Architecture 1975)
James operates his own practice with his wife, who is Office Manager and Interiors Consultant. The practice is in its fifth year and concentrates on retail fitout and consultancy. James also employs a student from QUT on contract.
Phone (07) 3851 1577.
Genevieve Michael
(Graduate Diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics 1983)
Genevieve has been working in private practice since 1995. This year she opened a new office from her home.
Phone (02) 9962 6600.
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Amit Mistry
(Masters of Business Administration 1995) Amit is Credit Officer – Collections at AGC. He is studying at the Securities Institute of Australia for a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment. Amit’s wife Meera Mistry is studying a Bachelor of Business – Human Resource Management at QUT.
Phone (07) 3392 0117 Richard Moore
(Diploma of Industrial Chemistry 1966) Richard joined David Gelatine after graduating and spent nearly 20 years in the food ingredients industry in both technical and managerial capacities.
Richard has a 25% equity interest in and is Technical Director of Woods & Woods Pty Ltd, a private company specialising in ingredients for the food, dairy and pharmaceutical industries. Both of his sons also have graduated from QUT. Paul Moore, Bachelor of Business Accountancy
& Law, 1990, Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice 1991 and David C. Moore, Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, 1992.
Phone 018 721 020.
Peter Murr
(Bachelor of Applied Science – Construction Management 1986)
Peter is Director, Shareholder and General Manager of Ceilspec Systems Pty Ltd, Building Contractors, which specialises in commercial construction, shopfitting, design & construction and office tenancy fitout. Phone (07) 3862 3022.
Perumal Nagapushnam
(Gradate Diploma in Architecture 1987) Perumal is Project Manager for DZJ &
Chartered Architects in Kuala Lumpur.
Phone +60 3 559 3380.
Rajasekar Nagarajan
(Master of Engineering – Science 1995) Raj is Equipment Engineer for Creative Technology Ltd in Singapore.
Phone +65 773 0233.
Sharyn Neilsen
(Diploma of Teaching – Early Childhood 1987) Sharyn is currently Director of the Student Union child care centre at James Cook University in Townsville.
Phone (077) 799 975.
Lew Newman
(Bachelor Applied Science – Mathematics 1989) Lew works in quality assurance in the food industry with Sanitarium Health Food Company as a food technologist. He also fills an advisory role in food production (grains) and holds a New South Wales Pest Control Licence. Phone (049) 802 777.
Kerryn Newton
(Bachelor of Laws 1989)
Since graduation Kerryn has worked in private practice as a solicitor, travelled the world extensively and developed an interest in South-East Asia and China.
This year, she is commencing her Masters of International Studies at Griffith University. Working at Parliament House as a Principal Research Officer, Legal, Constitutional & Administrative Committee, she has a keen interest in human rights on both domestic and international levels. Phone (07) 3406 7909 Louanne Oakes
(Diploma of Teaching 1973, Bachelor of Education 1982)
Since resigning as a teacher in 1983, Louanne has worked in the furniture retail business and now owns Sit & Sleep Pty Ltd. Phone (074) 937 444.
Greg Pantchenko
(Bachelor of Applied Science – Applied Chemistry 1977)
Greg worked as a cadet chemist with Provincial Traders Pty Ltd while studying and is now the Technical Manager for Meadow Lea Foods Ltd.
Phone (07) 3360 1888.
Simon Passlow
(Bachelor of Applied Science – Surveying 1981, Graduate Diploma – Surveying Practice 1989) Simon is a director and operations manager for Downes Survey Group, consulting surveyors and planners on the Sunshine Coast. Phone (074) 416 4555.
Ross Paull
(Bachelor of Business – Management 1984) Ross is an Associate Director, Research of ABN AMRO Hoare Govett Stockbrokers.
Phone (02) 364 6626.
Russell Peate
(Bachelor of Business – Public Administration 1980)
Russell is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer for the Rockhampton City Council.
Phone (079) 311 302.
Mark Pierce
(Bachelor of Business – Management 1992) Mark is Manager – Corporate Projects for The Queensland Chamber of Fruit and Vegetables. Phone (07) 3345 1191.
Mark Phythian
(Bachelor of Engineering 1982) Mark is a lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland and is studying a masters at QUT. Mark is also co-designer of ‘The Great Bilby Race’, a robotics competition for schools – which promotes engineering. Phone (076) 312 542.
Ahmad Lywa Satria Putra
(Graduate Diploma in Project Management 1994) Lywa is Building Manager for Jones Lang Wootton [Procon Indah] – Property Consultants in Indonesia.
Phone +62 21 520 3366.
Moham Ratnayake CPA
(Bachelor of Business – Accountancy 1991) Upon graduation in 1991, Moham commenced employment with Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) – Snack Foods Division. He is now employed by the Brisbane Support Unit of Beasam Pty Ltd which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Shell Australia Limited. He is the Accountant of Shell’s distribution ship in Cairns (North Queensland Region) – “Tropical Petroleum”. Phone 3208 1177.
Sarah Rienstra
(Bachelor of Laws 1993)
Sarah started working for the Brisbane City Council in April 1994 as a researcher and moved to the legal section in April 1995. Phone (07) 3403 4203.
Bina Shah
(Masters of Business – Management 1994) Bina is working for Bouchard International (Services) Limited as an Executive Assistant – Management in Nairobi, Kenya. Bina would love to keep in touch with graduates. Phone +254 2 229 518.
Murugan Sivagurunathan
(Masters Engineering Science – Engineering Management 1995)
Murgan is a manufacturing engineer at Charted Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd in Singapore. Phone +65 360 4787.
Meelah Sobrun
(Bachelor of Applied Science – Quantity Surveying 1994)
Meelah is a Quantity Surveyor for Ong Seng Goburdhun & Partners in Mauritius.
Phone +230 454 4854.
Paul Spresser
(Bachelor of Electrical Engineering – Electrical and Computing 1992)
Paul is Senior Engineer – Intrinsic Safety and Action Senior Engineer for
Engineering, Testing and Certification Centre at SIMTARS. Paul has been at SIMTARS for six years and previously acted as Senior Engineer – Flameproof and General Testing, involved in assessment, testing and certification of electrical equipment for hazardous locations, such as refineries and coal mines.
Phone 3810 6367.
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