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THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS
THE LAW ON TERROR
PAST PERFECT
30 years at the Riversleigh
World Heritage fossil site
WATER RESEARCH
UNSW leads the way
A tribute
to Bronwyn Oliver
Contents
Special thanks to the staff of UNIKEN for
assistance in compiling this issue of UNSWorld.
Alumni Relations
The University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
Phone: 61 2 9385 3193
Fax: 61 2 9385 3278
Email: john.hume@unsw.edu.au
www.alumni.unsw.edu.au
Editor: Deborah Tarrant
Design: Gadfly Media
Cover image: Bronwyn Oliver, Grandiflora
(Bud), 2005, copper 60 x 58 x 58cm
Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9
Gallery, Sydney.
Printed by: Rostone Print
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PP 255003/07978
UNSW, Sydney NSW 2052
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NEWS
4 Highlights
TEACHING AND RESEARCH
6 Urban Impact:
City Futures Research Centre
7 Water World:
UNSW’s leading water research
8 Can We Afford to Grow Old?
asks Dr Hazel Bateman
9 Wrap-around Cinema
10 The Law on Terror:
Professor George Williams
12 Past Perfect: 30 years at the World
Heritage Riversleigh fossil site
ON CAMPUS
14 For Art’s Sake:
Eclectic art at UNSW
NAMES TO REMEMBER
16 Vale
ALUMNI
17 From the President of
the Alumni Association
18 Fresh Pickings:
Entrepreneurial success
20 UNSW Alumni Award recipients
22 Tribute to Bronwyn Oliver
UNSWorld 3
I am delighted to welcome you to the
latest issue of UNSWorld. This is my first
opportunity to write to alumni since taking
up the role of Vice-Chancellor. As you may be
aware, I spent a decade as Dean and Professor
of Management at the Australian Graduate School
of Management (AGSM) in the 1990s. To return to
the University as Vice-Chancellor is a great honour.
UNSWorld is designed to keep alumni up-to-
date with the University’s major achievements,
particularly in research, and with significant events
and developments on campus. It also includes
thought-provoking contributions from some of our
leading academics on issues such as Australia’s
terrorism laws and the challenges