THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME AUSTRALIA

THE OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME AUSTRALIA MAGAZINE APRIL 2002

NDA One of the Fastest Growing Universities in Australia

A RECORD number of students have enrolled at Notre Dame this year bringing the total student population to more
than 2300 across the university’s campuses at Broome and Fremantle.
More than 900 new students have signed up
for degree and diploma courses this year, making
Notre Dame one of the fastest growing
universities in Australia.
Vice Chancellor of Notre Dame Dr Peter
Tannock said local students accounted for 80
per cent of new enrolments with the other 20
per cent coming from 25 different countries.
“We are in a very dynamic development
phase at the moment,” Dr Tannock said.
“People are just pouring through the door, it
is very encouraging. A large number of students
have put Notre Dame as their first preference in
applying for entry to university. It is a
momentum we hope to maintain.”
Dr Tannock said that unlike other
universities Notre Dame did not have to rely on
increased Commonwealth funded places to
boost its enrolments. Part of this year’s commencement parade marching through the streets of Fremantle. A record
“There wouldn’t be another university in the number of students have enrolled at NDA this year.
country growing as fast as we are,” he said.
He said the university’s decision in 2000 to
relate its fees to those under the Higher
Science and Technology for
Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) had
in part accounted for the surge in enrolments.
“The market is very cost-conscious. Students
Notre Dame
A NEW College of Science and Dr Tannock said there was a growing
now know that a degree at Notre Dame won’t
cost them any more than a degree anywhere else Technology will open at Notre Dame in demand for service units in the areas of maths
and that has made our courses very competitive. 2003 in a move the Vice Chancellor Dr and science within existing schools and
It has been a very successful formula.” Peter Tannock described as a significant colleges in the university and it made sense to
He said 2002 would be a year of consolidation step forward for the University. bring these together in one specialised science
for Notre Dame and the university was on target The college will have a new School of college.
to achieve its optimum number of 4500 students Science and Mathematics and a School of “Teaching, nursing, behavioural science,
within the next decade. Information Technology. health and physical education,
Dr Tannock said the new college would environmental studies and business all require
help complete the University and fill an science-related service units, including those
obvious hole in the areas of maths and with a laboratory base,” he said.
science. “The new college has important long-term
The new college will be housed in new implications for Notre Dame. I believe it is a
purpose built facilities to be developed on one major step forward for us.”
of the university’s sites in Fremantle’s west The new School of Science and
end. Mathematics will offer several degrees in
“These facilities will cost around $1.5 2003: the existing Bachelor of Environmental
million and will allow the University to Studies and Bachelor of Information and
meet demands for expansion in this Communications Technology, the new
important area in the future,” Dr Tannock degrees of Bachelor of Science (with a
said. Biology or Human Biology major) and a
It will include science and information double degree in science and education.
Dean of Research & Graduate Studies
technology laboratories, teaching areas and Science and Technology will be the
Professor Don Watts with students at the start
office space. university’s sixth college.
of this year's commencement parade.
 Vice Chancellor’s Report
Notre Dame as a Catholic University
Notre Dame’s mission is ‘the advancement
of learning, knowledge and the professions and
the provision of university education within a
context of Catholic faith and values.’ It is in
trying to create that context of Catholic faith
and values that we identify ourselves as a
Catholic university. In this report, I would like
to outline some of the measures that we have
put in place over the first ten years of our life
in our efforts to become a Catholic university.
First, we require all of our undergraduate
students to include what we call ‘the Core
Curriculum’ in their undergraduate program.
This means that our graduates will have
successfully completed units in Philosophy,
Ethics and Theology, in addition to all of the
other requirements of their courses. This Core
Curriculum is taught by expert theologians,
ethicists and philosophers. It provides a
humane dimension to undergraduate studies
and brings our students into direct contact
with the history, ideas, teachings and issues
which are central to the Christian tradition.
We hope that our students’ experience in the
Core Curriculum will encourage them to take
further steps to increase their knowledge and
appreciation of the Christian story.
Second, we have established a College of
Theology which we are developing as a centre
for theological education and Christian
intellectual life. We are seeking to offer,
through this College, units and courses which
will develop the knowledge base of those who
wish to deepen their faith, to go beyond the
often modest formal religious learning of
school and childhood. We see the College of
Theology as a crucial intellectual engine for
the creation of a context of Christian faith and
values within the University, and for the
service of the Church in Australia and the
region.
Third, we have established the Edmund
Rice Centre within the University, which
actively promotes widespread student
involvement in community service projects
(ranging from the weekend ‘soup kitchen’ for
the needy in Fremantle to the periodic
provision of English language and nursing
services in East Timor). The Centre offers
optional units of study which focus on social
justice issues, attracting an increasing number
of students. The Centre also helps to organise
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and conduct ‘service learning’ practicums
which students may undertake ‘for credit’ and
which give then a systematic and sustained
experience of working with the poor and the
disadvantaged. We believe that the work of
the Edmund Rice Centre is a very important
mechanism for awakening and enhancing the
spirituality, generosity of heart and innate
goodness of so many of our students.
Community service and a practical
commitment to people in need are integral to
Christian life.
Fourth, we have a significant commitment
to Campus Ministry. This provides
opportunities for students to participate in
campus liturgies and, in conjunction with the
Chaplain, to explore often contentious issues
about their faith and values. Campus Ministry
has a vital role to play in promoting student
participation, particularly in the 18 - 22 year
old age group, in Christian life. In this sense,
Campus Ministry at Notre Dame is very much
a theological education program, designed to
meet the needs of all students, whether from a
Catholic or another faith tradition.
Fifth, we try to create norms within the
University which emphasise the importance
of staff/student relationships. Our staff, both
academic and administrative, are encouraged
to treat every student as a precious individual
in need of pastoral care and personal support
from the staff member. We want our staff to be
noted for their academic and professional
excellence and, in equal measure, for their
pastoral care of our students. Our excellent
staff have been chosen with these
comprehensive qualities in mind.
Sixth, we encourage our staff to believe in
every student, to have confidence in their
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THIS
EDITION
New Post Grad Centre p3
NDA leases Hewitt's building p3
Following the East Timor Caravan p4
Cutet orphans seek aid p4
Alumni feature p5-8
Grad School of Physiotherapy
for NDA? p9
Annual Appeal p9
Sailing the south-coast for study p10
John Button to speak at NDA p11
College of Health donors
acknowledged p12
capacity to succeed in a challenging and
sometimes formidable learning environment.
We think that this belief by staff in students
does much to create an atmosphere of
openness and warmth, so important to the
character and spirit of a Catholic university.
Seventh, we try to encourage a spirit of
enquiry at Notre Dame. People are free to
express their beliefs, and to discuss and debate
the great social, political, economic and moral
issues of our times. We want this University to
be a place where Christian beliefs can be
developed in an atmosphere of freedom, and
where they can be measured against the many
competing opinions and perspectives which
mark our diverse society. A Catholic
university which is not free in this regard can
be neither Catholic nor a university.
Finally, we encourage our staff and students
to pursue excellence in everything that they
do. We believe that an uncompromising
pursuit of the highest of intellectual and
academic standards, combined with a
transparent commitment to the Christian
values of truthfulness and ethical behaviour,
will produce an institution of higher learning
worthy of the descriptor ‘Catholic university.’
This is a noble and challenging agenda. I
am hopeful that we are making great progress
in addressing it, although I acknowledge that
the way is long and marked by many hazards!
P D Tannock
Vice Chancellor
 New Postgrad Push
A NEW Centre for Research and
Graduate Studies has opened at the
University of Notre Dame in a move
designed to enhance the university’s
research capabilities.
The establishment of the centre coincides
with plans to offer a number of special
research scholarships to full and part-time
PhD or Masters students at the university.
Vice chancellor of Notre Dame Dr Peter
Tannock said the changes were part of a new
student research policy and support
structure.
Assistant Registrar (Research) for Notre
Dame, Dr Helen Middleton said the new
centre would give postgraduate students of
differing disciplines a central work area on
campus.
The centre is scheduled to open next
semester and will include computer facilities,
office space and 24-hour access to many of
the university’s information services
normally available only through the library.
It is located in an area adjoining the
College of Business and has access from
High Street.
Those responsible for the centre are the
Dean of Research and Graduate Studies,
Professor Don Watts, the Director,
Associate Professor Roger Vallance and Dr
Middleton.
Dr Tannock said the university planned
to increase its number of postgraduate
research students and would be offering
various stipends and scholarships to
encourage high quality students into
selected areas of university specialisation.
“The broad thrust of these new policy
directions is to make our research
expenditure, from Commonwealth funds
allocated to the university and from
external sources, student-centred,” Dr
Tannock said.
“It is also to ensure that supervisors of Dr Helen Middleton and Dr Roger Vallance at
research students are encouraged and the new Centre for Research and Graduate
supported.” Studies. The centre is due to open next semester.

Another Old Bank Gets a New

Lease of Life at NDA
NOTRE Dame has leased the former “Hewitt’s Bookshop and Gallery” on the corner of High and Mouat Streets
in Fremantle giving the university a presence on each of the four corners of its west end precinct.
The building is currently undergoing a major
refurbishment and will contain three classrooms, three
medium sized tutorial rooms and two offices.
It was designed by architect Talbot Hobbs and opened
for business in 1895 as a branch of the National
Australia Bank.
The building was sold to the Commercial Bank of
Australia in 1902 and remained as an operating bank
until the 1950’s.
It then served as a shipping agency, a stock and station
agency, an art gallery and a bookshop.
Campus Services manager for the university Terry
Craig said the building was a classic example of Hobbs’
architecture and would be restored to its former glory.
“It displays the classic Hobbs hallmarks, a grand
entrance, lofty ceilings, huge windows, ornamented
wooden entrance doors and heavy Romanesque
ballustrading,” Mr Craig said.
“The entrance doors were removed several years ago
but were fortunately kept on site and have now been
replaced in their original position.”
Mr Craig said the cost of the refurbishment was
around $180,000 and the renovations would be
complete by April this year.
The building will be known as ND 31 and will be used
for general teaching purposes for the next two years. It
will undergo a minor refit at the end of 2003 and will
then be used to house the new Graduate School of
The former Hewitt's Bookshop and Gallery in High Street. Medicine, which is scheduled to open in February 2004.

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 Following the East Timor Caravan
ISOLATED and remote, the tiny East Timorese enclave of Oecussi in West Timor has relied heavily on aid from
Notre Dame’s East Timor Caravan since the aid began more than two years ago.
In January a team of students and staff took the
latest container of goods to the remote enclave.
Their journey took them across country
following a track marked with stones laid the day
before by members of the East Timor based
Leeuwin Care group.
The team shared the back of a four-wheel
drive vehicle with goods they had packed in
Fremantle just three weeks before.
When they arrived at their destination access
to the village was blocked by floodwaters and
villagers were forced to wade waist deep through
the river to collect the precious goods.
Members of the village’s most needy families
were given parcels that included food, medical
supplies, clothing and household items.
It was an experience that Edmund Rice
Centre director Dr Peter Harney, who
accompanied the students, will never forget.
“A tarpaulin was spread out in the shade of a Some of the children of Oecussi who have benefited from the "East Timor Caravan".
large tree and names were called. A member of donations, solicited from across the West Dr Harney said the East Timor Caravan was
each family stepped forward to collect their Australian community, and shipped to East part of the university’s commitment to assisting
precious bundle of goods each with a huge smile Timor. the people of East Timor.
and obvious gratitude,” Dr Harney said. The collection and packing of the goods is Groups of students travel to East Timor every
“Their smiles stayed with us as did the poverty coordinated by the Edmund Rice Centre and six months where they spend a month helping to
of their physical living situation. The local relies heavily on support from students at Notre rebuild the country.
people call this time of year ‘the hungry time’ Dame and other volunteers.
Baucau
because the crops, mainly corn, are not due until The containers are given free sea passage from DILI
March. Fremantle to Darwin through the generosity of
“It was the end of a long journey that began the Fremantle Port Authority, the Maritime Viqueque
with the generosity of the people of Western Union of Australia and North-West Timor
Australia through the compassion of the staff of Shipping.
the Edmund Rice Centre and the members of The most recent
Leeuwin Care. group included nursing
“The enormous effort to collect, store, pack
and now distribute the materials was certainly
TIMOR students from Fremantle and Broome
who helped to treat up to 100 patients a day in
West
worthwhile.” Timor remote health clinics.
Every eight weeks a sea-container, known as
the East Timor Caravan, is loaded with
Oecussi
Building a Brighter Future for the Children of Timor
SECRETED away in a remote volunteers under the direction of a 64 year-old As a result of the visit Leeuwin Care have
mountain area of the East Timorese priest, who is very ill. formed “The Friends of Cutet” and are
enclave of Oecussi in West Timor, lies the They have few facilities. Toilets consist of seeking 100 people to each donate $200 to
orphanage of Cutet. a pit dug into nearby bush and drinking water the orphanage.
Up to 100 displaced children live in four needs to be boiled before consumption. All money raised will be donated directly
small buildings serviced by a single well. With no family and no land to inherit, a to Cutet and used to educate the children
There is no village or other infrastructure to good education is vital for the children’s and to provide an ablution block and other
support the orphanage and the children rely on future but they have no access to formal basic facilities.
handouts of food from local subsistence farmers schooling. Already Leeuwin Care’s East Timor Caravan
to supplement what they grow in a small garden. Their plight was brought to the attention has sent an interim package of chicken wire and
Many of the children had parents who were of the Leeuwin Care Group by the local mulch to assist the children in developing a
slaughtered by the Indonesian Military. Others community and through Leeuwin Care to sustainable farming system at Cutet.
were left behind when their parents were forced Notre Dame’s Edmund Rice Centre (ERC). It is hoped that $20,000 will be raised by
to flee in the aftermath of the East Timor Director of the ERC Dr Peter Harney and the appeal every year and will provide the
Independence vote of September 1999. All students from Notre Dame visited the children of Cutet with a better future.
have a story to tell. orphanage in January as part of the For further information contact Damien
The children, ranging in age from a few university’s most recent immersion in the Norris, associate lecturer, Edmund Rice
months to 16 years, are cared for by a handful of war-ravaged country. Centre (08) 9239 5540.

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 Alumni
Notre Dame Alumni Up and Running
NOTRE Dame’s Alumni
Association has been officially
recognised as part of the
President's
university and is soon to open an
office on the Fremantle campus. Report
Inaugural president of the association It is indeed a great honour to be asked to
Toby Hicks said the group had been serve as the Inaugural President of the
established to service the needs of Alumni Association here at the great
Notre Dame graduates. University of Notre Dame Australia. It has
“The Alumni Association will been a tremendous challenge working on
maintain and strengthen links between the Alumni Association since the idea was
graduates and hopes to form a strong first raised midway through last year. But
network,” Mr Hicks said.
the greatest challenges lie ahead.
“One area where we hope to make
Notre Dame is like no other university in
an immediate impact is in linking
Australia, so it is fitting that the Alumni Association
graduates that have moved to different
should aim to differ also. Our Alumni Association is
locations around Australia and
an organisation dedicated to the service of all alumni,
overseas.”
with an interest in the University and its continued
“We will also work to promote the Toby Hicks
development, including its current students. We are
university through our alumni and the
already encouraging alumni to become involved with
work they are doing. We will aim to encourage alumni to contribute to the community
current students and to pass on their experience, for
through ongoing community service.”
it is this kind of kinship that will ensure that Notre
A committee of seven volunteers run the association and all are dedicated to ensuring
Dame continues to thrive.
that it becomes a working concern. They have so far made contact with more than 300
I am happy to say that I have a group of
graduates around the world.
professional and enthusiastic people serving beside
Mr Hicks spent seven years studying at Notre Dame, completing a Bachelor of Business
me on the Alumni Association Committee, and I
with a major in management in 1997 and a Bachelor of Laws in 2001.
look forward to serving alongside them over the next
He is no stranger to the challenge of establishing new organisations, having been
two years.
instrumental in galvanising student interest in the Student Government and having
But of course the Alumni Association is more than
served for two years as president of the Student Executive.
just a Committee. I’d like to thank all those alumni
“Being part of the Student Government in its early years had its challenges in terms of
from right around the world that have contacted us
establishing an interest in a new body and working to promote the university. I see my
with messages of support and to re-establish their
role on the Alumni Association as being a similar challenge,” he said.
connection with their University. We would
Membership of the association is open to all graduates of Notre Dame and there are no
encourage all alumni to ensure that we have your
joining or subscription fees.
correct details by logging onto our web site and
“We want to be able to assist all alumni and provide support to graduates well beyond
dropping us a line. Until then, best wishes for a safe
their university years. It is all part of the idea that the Notre Dame community is truly a
and happy 2002.
family and that connection never ceases,” Mr Hicks said.
Yours faithfully
He said there had been earlier attempts to establish alumni associations on campus but
none had gone as far as becoming an official part of the university.
Toby Hicks
‘We are here to stay and will become an integral part of Notre Dame,” Mr Hicks said.

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 Community Service
Award for First
Alumni President
ALUMNI president Toby Hicks has been awarded the
2001 Archbishop Foley Memorial Prize for Community
Service for his work with the university and the wider
community.
The award, presented at a special ceremony in Foley Hall on
April 3, recognizes Mr Hicks’ substantial contribution to establishing
the Alumni as well as his general work in the community.
It is only the second time that the award has been made.
Director of Development at Notre Dame Linda Back said Mr
Hicks had worked tirelessly in getting the Alumni up and running.
She said the model used for the Alumni was different to others
used in Western Australia because it was driven entirely by former
students.
“Toby has engineered the model and has been its driving force,”
Ms Back said.
“He has also been involved with study abroad students and has
maintained strong links with students at Notre Dame Indiana.
“Toby is totally committed to this university and to his work in
the wider community,” Ms Back said.
A number of other awards for academic achievement and
community service in 2001 were presented at the special ceremony,
which also included the announcement of scholarship winners for
2002.
Winners of the Vice Chancellor’s medal were: Timothy
Fitzsimmons (undergraduate award) and Lisa Gollan (postgraduate
award).
Those named on the Vice Chancellors list of high achievers
were: Susan Barnacle, Pauline Farley, Timothy Hawkes, Angela
Harris, Selena Ward, Maria Trichilo, Amanda Sapienza, Shani Long,
Amanda Gibellini and Curtis Crasto.
The Gerald T Faulkner Community Service Learning Award
was presented to Olivia Lavis for her work in East Timor and her
work in raising funds for the Leeuwin Care Group by coordinating
special programs with Alumni who have also spent time in Timor.
The 2002 scholarship winners are: Sunili Govinnage, Daniel
Taborsky, Annabel Hay, Suzanne Barton, Daniel Burrows, Katie
Vander Schaaf, Sharmane Mathot, CarmenWagenaar, Elyne
Terpstra, Madhulika Mukund, Richard Vinciullo, Steven Boyce,
Susan Low, Penelope Thomson, Gemma Henderson, Rebekah
Farrell.
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Leticia Helping Others to
Make Community Service a
Part of Life
NOTRE Dame graduate Leticia
Jennings is passionate about her
job.
As State Youth Coordinator for the St
Vincent De Paul Society in Western
Australia she spends much of her time
helping disadvantaged children and their
parents.
It is both rewarding and fun and gives
her enormous job satisfaction.
Ms Jennings coordinates and trains up
to 450 young adult volunteers who assist
families in crisis and disadvantaged
children by organizing and running holiday
camps and day outings.
Under the program up to 800 children
are given the chance to enjoy a range of
sports and other activities that would Leticia Jennings: “...working out ways
otherwise not be available to them.
to encourage ongoing involvement in
Ms Jennings said the programs gave community service by Alumni”.
both the children and their families some
“time out” and were conducted in a friendly and positive manner to help build the
children’s self-esteem and provide them with some positive attention.
“It’s a fantastic job, every day is different, I just love it,” she said.
Ms Jennings left Notre Dame in 1998 after graduating with a degree in Business
majoring in psychology and management, and a Master of Arts in Business.
During her time at university she was involved with a number of community
service programs and is keen to continue giving up her spare time to those in need.
Ms Jennings is an active member of the Alumni Association and sits on the
committee.
Her major interest in serving on the committee is to link former students with
programs that provide them with the chance to continue serving the community
well after they have left university.
She is currently developing ways for graduates to get back into programs run
through the Edmund Rice Centre and other community service organisations.
“Many graduates from Notre Dame want to continue their involvement in
community service programs but just don’t know how,” Ms Jennings said.
“My role in the Alumni Association will be to work out ways to encourage the
commitment to serving others, that most of us have”.
The new home of the
 Supreme Court Posting for NDA Graduate
NOTRE DAME law graduate Mr Lilleyman is keen to mentor Mr Lilleyman completed an arts
Justin Lilleyman has spent the past undergraduate students and to assist them degree with a major in psychology before
12 months with a front row seat on with their passage into the workforce. studying for his law degree and spent a
some of the highest profile legal “I think that amongst the whole legal total of seven years at Notre Dame.
cases in the state. community there is a growing acceptance He said his time at university was
As associate to Chief Justice David and willingness to take on Notre Dame “wonderful” and his degree had prepared
Malcolm, Mr Lilleyman has witnessed graduates,” Mr Lilleyman said. him well for work in the legal profession.
some of the nation’s best advocates in “I hope later this year to talk to the When he completes two years of
action and seen first hand how the justice coming graduates about life in the workforce service with the Supreme Court he plans
system really works. and my role as an associate to a judge.” to establish a career in civil law.
His job was one of the Justin Lilleyman: “...encouraging long-term commitment to NDA through the Alumni”.
most sought after in his
graduating year of 2000
and helped to prove that
Notre Dame’s first law
graduates could cut it with
the best of graduates from
universities with law
schools that had had a
history of producing
successful lawyers.
Mr Lilleyman is passionate
about Notre Dame and its
Alumni and is one of a
committee of seven working
hard to ensure that the new
Alumni Association
becomes an important arm
of the university.
“Being a founding member
of the Alumni Association
also allows me to keep in
touch with current and past
students", he said.
He sees its role as
encouraging long-term
commitment to the
university by its students
and as facilitating
networking between past
and present students.

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 Alumni Association Opens in Thailand
Former students of Notre Dame have formed a local branch of the Alumni Association in Thailand and met late
last year for an inaugural dinner sponsored by Notre Dame International at the Radisson Hotel in Bangkok.

Coordinator of the Thai Alumni Group, Nartaporn

Members of NDA’s Alumni Association in Thailand pictured with
NDI’s Helen Trenos (front left).
Nuntatikool, said nineteen former NDA students
attended the dinner and all were keen to become involved
in the group.
Academic Director of Notre Dame International,
Helen Trenos, represented the university at the dinner.
“Many alumni had not seen each other since
graduation and so there was a great deal of catching up
and reminiscing,” Ms Nuntatikool said.
A committee, made up of representatives from different
graduating years, was established to plan future activities.
Members of the alumni are being surveyed to assess
future directions for the group.
Ms Nuntatikool said the group looked forward to
welcoming visiting academics and colleagues from NDA.

Former Study Abroad Students Return to Fremantle

IN early January Notre Dame
welcomed back two of its
former Study Abroad students
from the University of Notre
Dame in the US.
Michael Shrekgast and Todd Gerch
both studied in Fremantle in August
1996 and were back in the port city as
part of a two week Australian holiday.
“The experience of NDA changed my
life, and its just awesome to be able to
come back here and see old friends and
remember the times we shared together
at Notre Dame” Mr Gerch said.
He has just finished a two-year stint
as a High Yield Investment Analyst
with Ares Management in Los Angeles,
and will be returning to school later this
year to complete his MBA at the
prestigious Wharton School of Business
at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr Shrekgast is a Telecom Equity
Research Analyst with Credit Suisse
First Boston in New York.
He said he had been impressed with
the rate of growth in the University
since 1996.
“Its amazing how quickly it has
grown and changed since we were
here” he said.
Both former students have offered
their support to the Alumni
Association and are helping to develop
the international network in the
United States among former Study
Abroad students.
“At Notre Dame (US) the Alumni Former NDA Study Abroad Students Michael
Association is such an important part Shrekgast (far left) and Todd Gerch (far right) from
of the University, and I believe it will Notre Dame Indiana, pictured with Alumni president
be the same here in Fremantle,” Mr Toby Hicks and Director of Development Linda Back at
Shrekgast said. a recent visit to the Fremantle Campus.

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Proposal for a new Graduate School of Physiotherapy
THE University of Notre Dame is investigating the feasibility of establishing a Graduate School of Physiotherapy as
part of the College of Health.
Under the plan the new school would open
in conjunction with the proposed Graduate
School of Medicine in 2004 and would take
its first students in June of that year.
Retired physiotherapist and former lecturer
at Curtin University Dr Brian Edwards is
conducting the study and is scheduled to
finalise his report in July this year.
He said the response from the profession,
the wider medical community and the
general public for the proposed new school
had been very positive to date.
“We are surveying members of the
profession and the general public at the
moment to see if there is a demand for
graduates,” Dr Edwards said.
“We are hoping to supply graduates who
are orientated to the areas of need in the
profession.”
The proposed school would have an Brian Edwards: “...response from the public and the profession for a Graduate School of
initial intake of 25 to 30 students including Physiotherapy at NDA looks encouraging”.
up to eight overseas students.
It was expected that graduates entering physiotherapy profession and said he was
It would be run as a two-year course in
intensive mode over six semesters. the course would have degrees relevant to excited by the prospect of the new school.
Students in the course would graduate with physiotherapy including health and “We are planning to liaise closely with
a Master of Physiotherapy and would be physical education, the biological sciences Curtin University in developing the new
eligible for admission into the profession. and other health professions. school as they currently have a graduate entry
Dr Edwards said the course would be Dr Edwards is currently working one day course.
designed to produce graduates who could a week at Notre Dame and spending the “We will also be looking at other graduate
specialize in the much-needed areas of rest of his time in Margaret River where he entry courses in physiotherapy being run at
muscular-skeletal and neurological oversees the running of the family the University of Queensland, The
physiotherapy and well as those willing to vineyard and boutique winery. University of Adelaide and Griffith
work in rural areas. He has had 40 years experience in the University.”

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 Eco-voyage of discovery for NDA Students
THE opportunity to spend 12 days sailing a tall ship off the south coast of Western Australia would for many seem like a
dream come true but for students at Notre Dame it is just another part of university life.
Every year a number of students elect to
undertake a voyage aboard the STS Leeuwin
sailing from Albany to the Recherche
Archipelago as part of an intensive course
studying the environmental and marine history
of the south coast of Western Australia.
Participants in the course undertake 27
hours of lectures and workshops before
embarking on the voyage where they join up
to 40 other young people in an eco-study
Sunset on the STS Leeuwin as it anchors off
the south coast.
Leeuwin Passage: An Unforgettable Adventure
Students who took part in the recent Youth Eco-Voyage 2002 had this to say about their time on the STS Leeuwin:
“The Leeuwin Eco-voyage was an unforgettable
adventure. The places, the people and the
experience will remain with me forever. Many of us
had never heard of or seen the environment we
sailed through but now we have a greater
understanding of its fragility and importance as one
of Western Australia’s, if not the world’s, last
remaining wildernesses. The Leeuwin experience
was special enough but the pristine waters and
islands we travelled to made it a lot more special. A
valued experience all round.” Slade Patman
(first year student - Bachelor of Tourism
(Major in Commerce)
“Achieving first-hand experience at sailing the
Leeuwin, combined with visiting some of the islands
of the Recherche Archipelago, as well as seeing the
coastline from a different angle meant that the
Youth-Eco Voyage of 2002 was an incredible
experience. It is a unique opportunity to
understand and recognise the key role of education
for the South-West coast. We ventured onto islands
that were prohibited to the public, and only because
of CALM members on board were we were
allowed access. It was an unbelievable experience
climbing the main mast and overlooking Middle
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tour that includes landfalls at remote and
isolated parts of the coast and uninhabited
islands.
Along the way the students take part in
all aspects of running the ship, learning a
range of skills from navigation techniques to
scaling the rigging and setting the sails and
taking turns to keep watch throughout the
night.
In January this year a group of eight students
from the Colleges of Business and Education
took part in one of the voyages accompanied
by the coordinator of environmental studies at
Notre Dame, Dr Peta Sanderson.
Dr Sanderson acted as educational officer on
the ship for the duration of the trip instructing
the students and the other members of the
public on all aspects of the marine and coastal
environment.
Officers from the Department of
Conservation and Land Management also
joined the voyage to assist with access to
national parks and nature reserves visited by
the tour and to provide detailed information
on flora and fauna.
The voyage included visits to colonies of sea
lions, fur seals and the nesting grounds of rare
migratory birds. Landfalls were made at Cape
Riche, the Doubtful Islands, Middle Island,
Island, the largest island in the Recherche, as well
as the surrounds. It’s also an incredible feeling when
you’re at the helm, so actually steering the ship by
yourself! The S.T.S Leeuwin is a fantastic ship,
with a great crew, so I would most highly
recommend an experience on board to anyone.”
Charmaine Evans (2nd year student -
Bachelor of Environmental Studies)
“Being on the Youth Eco-Voyage from Albany
to Esperance really taught me an immense
amount about the Southern Coast of Australia.
Being able to witness first hand the pristine
beaches, coastline, and magnificent waters of the
Southern Coast was an unforgettable,
educational experience. Through the knowledge
of two C.A.L.M. officers, a lecturer from The
University of Notre Dame Australia, and 7
students with knowledge on several different
topics on the Southern Coast, the combination of
lecture and real life experience was a great
learning environment. Understated to the
extreme, the Leeuwin sailing adventure is
something that has changed me forever. Through
the challenges of being at sea, meeting new
people, accomplishing tasks through team work
Mondrain Island, Lucky Bay and Cape Le
Grande National Park.
Participants in the study tour gained first-
hand experience of the importance of marine
habitat protection while snorkelling over a
range of seagrass and rocky shore
environments. They studied the effects of early
resource exploitation on colonies of seals,
penguins and mutton-birds to gain an
understanding of breeding ecology and they
investigated the geology of the south-coast
while climbing rugged and remote mountain
ranges.
Dr Sanderson said the voyages provided
students with a unique insight into eco-tourism
and the environment of the south coast. “They
also have incredible benefits from a personal
development point of view,” Dr Sanderson
said.
The eco-voyages began in 1998 and are run
every year during the summer term.
They are an initiative of the university in
conjunction with the Sail Training
Association of Western Australia.
Dr Sanderson said an unexpected spin-off
from one of the voyages had been that, after
having taken the eco-tour, two students who
had been enrolled at other universities had
decided to study full-time at Notre Dame.
and overcoming individual struggle-you will take
something valuable from the Leeuwin.” Ryan
Tamm (Student Abroad Student - St
John’s College)
Aboard the STS Leeuwin. Students take part in
all aspects of running the ship during the 10-day
Eco-voyage.
 John Button Lecture at NDA:
‘Another Look at Eric Cooke’
THE legal team behind an appeal notorious serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke later
decision described as arguably the confessed to committing.
most important in West Australian Mr Button served five years in prison for the
legal history will deliver a public crime and spent much of the next thirty-eight
lecture at Notre Dame on Monday years fighting to clear his name.
May 13. A chance meeting with journalist Estelle
Tom Percy QC, who led the successful Blackburn, who later published a book on the
appeal for the lifting of a 38 year-old crime, led to the reopening of the case and the
manslaughter conviction against John landmark quashing of the conviction in
Button in the Court of Criminal Appeal, February this year.
will discuss the case and its implications. Notre Dame law lecturer Ben Clarke said
John Button was convicted in 1963 of the the NDA lecture would be the first time that
hit-and-run death of his 17 year-old the legal principles underpinning the successful
girlfriend Rosemary Anderson, a crime appeal had been discussed in a public lecture.
“The decision by the Court of Criminal
Appeal in John Button’s case is a landmark
judgement in a number of legal areas including
the reopening of appeals and the admission of
third party confessions,” Mr Clarke said.
“It is a great honour for Notre Dame and the
College of Law to have Mr Button’s legal team
explain how they made legal history,” he said.
The speakers will include Estelle Blackburn,
Tom Percy, junior counsel John Davies and
John Button.
The free public lecture will take place at
10am on Monday May 13 in the university’s
Drill Hall. Morning tea will follow the lecture.

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