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aspiration
Into the valley of
rode the brave
322
CLASS OF MAY 1989 SPECIAL EDITION
History’s Pages
That’s Cricket
MLC Makeover
A-Team for Sport
Celebrating the
class of 892
Steven Stern’s
coined research
Transforming the
iconic space
Bond’s star
coaching lineup
CLASS OF MAY 1989
Mona Abedian
Simon Abela
Stefan Ackerie
Michael Alexander
Nicola Anderson
Lachlan Anning
David Armenores
Sally Armenores
Heidi Armstrong
Nicole Azoulay
Andrew Baildon
Nicole Bailey
Adam Bain
Jane Balkin
Rodney Ballantyne
Cameron Barker
Ernest Barry
Christopher Barry
Allan Bartlett
Helen Basch
Albert Basch
Shane Bathgate
Scott Beasley
Maria Bell
Richard Bell
Kristine Benefield
Simon Bennett
Thomas Betts
Claire Bibby
Traci Bourke
Matthew Bransgrove
Roderick Broadley
Kirsten Bruce
Tevita Bukarau
Alexandra Buldrini
De Amilibia
Mark Bullpitt
Peter Burns
Kylie Burton
Suzanne Byrne
Alexander Calvo
James Campbell
Sarah-Jane Campbell
Despina Caralis
Brian Carlson
Karen Carmody
Robert Carruthers
Justin Carter
Owen Caughley
Huan Chan
Michael Chipman
Laura Chown
Lloyd Christophers
Peter Clark
Stephen Collins
Norman Colmore
Melinda Copes
David Cotton
Peter Crethary
Marguerite Croft
Jennifer Cronin
Derek Cronin
Andrew Crooke
Richard Croome
Robert Cupps
Andrew Cvetkovic
Jason Czinski
Jason Dacey
Frank Daniberg
Robert Davis
Rosann De Campo
Martin De Courtenay
Cameron Delahunty
Christina Demetriades
Lynette Dickson
Richard Duhig
Keith Duncan
Kara Dunnage
Alexander Erb
Andrew Evetts
John Falvey
Scott Falvey
Paula Fatseas
Ronald Ferguson
Mark Fisher
Louise Fitzgerald
Catherine Fitzgerald
Stacia Flann
Christopher Folley
Barbara Fox
Beau Franklin
Matthew Giess
John Giles
Susan Gillion
Edvaldo Godoy
Harris Gomez
Sara Graham
Mary Graham
Stuart Granger
Petrea Grant
Leah Gray
Philip Grice
Kedan Griffin
Haddad Thomas
Maree Hall
Alexander Hall
Gregory Hampton
Adam Handley
Richard Hanel
Andrew Harding
Helen Harper
James Harries-Reynolds
Paul Harris
William Haseler
Troy Hawthorn
Cameron Hedger
Darcelle Hegarty
Peter Herro
Kristin Hickey
Diane Hicks
Louise Hine
Judith Hoare
Katharine Hocking
Leith Hoffensetz
Kirsty Hogarth
Louise Hourigan
Jon Hui
Andrea Hunter
Renato Iannella
Brian Jean
Paul Jellett
Ross Johnston
Catherine Jolley
Andrew Jones
Paul Jones
Daya Kanyilmaz
Amal Karunaratna
Roy Kassab
Mark Kassab
Philip Kelly
Frederick Kelly
Matthew Kennedy
Kiniviliame Keteca
Alan Key
Hyun Kim
Catherine Kincaid
John King
Geoffrey Kinghorn
Simon Kinsella
Scott Knight
Robert Kukas
Anthony Lane
Damian Laugher
Eunnam Lee
Francis Lee
John Lee
Wei Lee
Chong Lim
Young Lim
Hone Lin
Angus Little
Cameron Lloyd
Robert Longmore
Gavin Loughton
Samantha Low Choy
Gregg Lucas
Rebekah Luke
Peter Lyons
Terence MacKay
Andrew MacLeod
Anthony Majer
Paul Manchin
David Manickam
Mark Marcar
Paul Marinko
Anthony Marino
John Markovic
Toni Marsden
Benjamin Martin
Keith Maskey
Koji Matsuoka
Gianluca Mazzocchi
Peter McAvoy
Justin McCamish
Denise McCowan
John McCrae
Rebecca McDonald
Craig McIver
Christopher McMahon
Simon Mestrov
Catherine Middleton
Stan Mihailidis
Alida Milani
Suzanne Miles
Antony Milford
David Millhouse
Michael Moore
Douglas Murphy
Raefe Murray
Steven Mutter
Bernard Nash
Michael Newell
Peta Nicholson
Brett Nipperess
Marc Nourse
Mark Nylund
David Oakley
Christopher O’Brien
Brendan O’Flynn
Barbara O’Hair
Christine Olds
Brian Orr
Ray Osborne
Katherine Owen
Michael Pabst
Elka Palant
Anneliese Palmer
Chul-Han Park
Kyoung-Hwan Park
Woo-Ram Park
Duncan Parkinson
Steven Parrott
Simone Pascali
Kristy Patterson
Michael Peberdy
Scott Pendlebury
Charles Peters
Courtney Petersen
Carla Pharaon
Fabienne Pharoan
Jason Phillips
Megan Phillips
Michael Phillips
Leo Pick
Philip Pidcock
Melissa Pinfold
James Pollock
Mo-Hong Poon
Jason Price
Nicholas Purtle
Prue-Annette Putman
Janet Qian
Stephen Rado
Douglas Rae
Stephen Ramsdale
Tracie Ramsdale
John Rapp
Grand Reed
Mark Rice
Richard Richards
Walter Rigamoto
Jacinta Ritter
Trudi Roberts
Simon Robinson
Jodie Robson
Stephen Roche
Bernard Rossi
Angus Roxburgh
Vuetaki Rupeni
Dean Sainsbury
Michael Sandery
Georgina Savic
Nicodemo Scali
Lara Scartozzi
Nicholas Schiffer
Mark Schwarz
Wayne Scott
Timothy Shaddock
Joanna Shaw
Jason Shepherd
Malvern Shinn
Suzanne Sillitoe
Peter Sinclair
Michael Smart
Scott Smith
Nadeyn Southion
Martin Spann
Emma Stone
Jeremy Stoupas
Stephen Sugden
Kazuhiro Takebe
Lisa Tamaoki
Cecelia Tancred
Lavinia Thanapathy
Luke Thomas
Maurice Thompson
Hirohide Toba
Danielle Tolley
Shauna Tomkins
Paul Tosi
Matthew Townsend
Van Tran
Rachel Trew
Andrew Tribe
Shinji Tsutsui
Michael Tudori
Samuela Vadei
Rakuita Vakalalabure
Hans Van Der Drift
Martin Van Der Walt
Jean Varnier
Susan Vinnicombe
Yolande Waldock
Adam Wallman
Pao Wang
Raymond Ward
Simon Ward
Lynne Weathered
Nicholas Wenck
Christopher West
Denise Wheeler
Matthew Wiseman
Cecilia Wong
Andrew Wood
Thin Woon
Jane Wright
Jason Wright
Min-Chung Wu
Junil Yang
Ho Yip
Katherine Youhanna
Eric Young
Sally Zillman
VICE-CHANCELLOR’S MESSAGE
“Into the valley of aspiration rode
the brave 322; from the class of 892.”
BOND University opened its doors on
the 15th of May 1989 and welcomed
its very first cohort of students. To be
precise, 322 brave souls enrolled in that
initial cohort.
Much like the cohorts of today, the
students were a diverse bunch drawing
from overseas, interstate and of course
South-East Queensland.
Our University must never forget
the courage of the members of our
Foundation Class.
Those were heady days and Bond’s
emergence had not been without critics.
There were many in places of power
within the higher education landscape
who campaigned vigorously against the
establishment of a private university.
Further, sections of the media were
unforgiving in their commentary, and
several high school principals cautioned
their students against enrolling at Bond.
I recently had cause to visit my good
friend and Bond’s Foundation Vice
Chancellor Professor Don Watts at his
home in Perth. Don reminded me how
far the University has come.
In our formative years, students took
a tremendous risk in coming to Bond.
Back then the University had no history
to inform its reputation and there
was no certainty over the institution’s
financial survival.
Almost 30 years ago, to enrol at Bond
University was a defining moment and
a decision that clearly separated our
students from their peers at the public
universities.
Indeed one could argue that a similar
sentiment could be expressed today.
However, much about the University is
now different.
Bond University’s reputation is now
well and truly entrenched. The
financial perils of the 1990s are in
our past; and the University’s name is
synonymous with quality.
However these achievements have only
been possible through the successes
and endeavours of our early students.
Turning specifically to the class of 892,
and having met several of this fine
group, I am aware that in many cases
these students turned their backs on
offers at other prestigious institutions
in order secure a seat at Bond.
These students were willing to take
a risk and challenge themselves in a
different educational model. Moreover,
these students were as entrepreneurial
as the University’s Founders.
Much like today’s cohorts, our early
students were high achievers. They
applied themselves diligently and
worked tremendously long hours.
However they also knew how to
reserve some time for a bit of fun.
The spirit of the class of 892 is truly
alive today. The energy, high levels of
engagement and enthusiasm of that
class remain.
In this issue, we pay tribute to
those brave 322 students. Many
have achieved much in a relatively
short period. Both individually and
collectively they remain tremendous
ambassadors for Bond University.
I acknowledge each of them and thank
them for their courage, commitment
and continued support of their
alma mater.
PROFESSOR TIM BRAILSFORD
Vice-Chancellor and President
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contents
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History’s Pages
Celebrating the
courageous 322 students
of Bond’s first cohort
22
Aussie at Heart
How Steven Stern is
helping the cricket
world keep score
31
MLC Makeover
Transformation
breathes new life into
an iconic space
38
A New Era for Sport
Bond builds its A-Team
with star-studded
coaching lineup
892 Alumni Features
11 Andrew Baildon
12 Catherine Middleton
12 Alida Milani
13 Nicholas Schiffer
14 Scott Beasley
14 Christina Demetriades
15 Scott Pendlebury
16 Martin Spann
17 Peter Burns
18 Jeremy Stoupas
19 Brendan O’Flynn
20 Yolande Waldock
Community
27 Former Justice Kirby’s visit
inspires diversity
29 Cancer research helping to
get healthcare right
34 Indigenous students’
transition
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Journalists: Laura Daquino, Paris Faint,
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Design: Paris Faint
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Photography: Kerrie Brailsford, GFP Studios,
Corne Lategan, Annie Noon, Remco Photography.
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NEWS
BONDIES IN LONDON GET
INTO THE GAMES SPIRIT
L-R: Mr Julius Brookman, Ms Chloe Kent, Mr Andrew Baildon, Professor Tim Brailsford
VICE-CHANCELLOR Professor Tim Brailsford
recently visited London and while there he
caught up with some Bondies at an official
event hosted at Australia House to celebrate
the upcoming Commonwealth Games to be
held next year on the Gold Coast.
The 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth
Games Baton Relay was launched in March
by the Queen and a group of Bondies were
soon on hand to help drum up support
for the Games. Andrew Baildon (Class
of 1989 and Swimming Champion) has
been instrumental in helping to bring the
Commonwealth Games to the Gold Coast
in 2018.
Mr Baildon was part of the original bid
committee that secured the Games and he
has since been appointed as the Attache
to the Australian Team for 2018. Also on
hand were fellow Bondies living in London,
Chloe Kent (President of the London Alumni
Committee) and Julius Brookman (past
President of the London Alumni Committee).
The baton has now embarked on a 388-
day journey around all nations of the
Commonwealth in the lead-up to the
Games opening ceremony.
The baton will arrive on Australian shores
on Christmas Day this year and spend
the final 100 days of its journey making
its way the length and breadth of the
country, before arriving at the Gold Coast
Commonwealth Games opening ceremony
on April 4, where the Queen’s message,
urging the athletes of the Commonwealth
to come together for a friendly and
peaceful sporting competition, will be read.
BOND COLLEGE
SETS STANDARD
IN ORDER to meet the growing
demand for alternative access to full
Bachelor degrees, Bond has recently
launched its new Bond University
College.
The campus addition will provide a
range of courses to prepare students
for University life, through a tailored
one-on-one learning experience.
Pro Vice-Chancellor Pathways and
Partnerships Catherine O’Sullivan says
the launch of the College supported
the University’s strategic approach to
delivering personalised education.
“Students entering university today
are a far more heterogenous group
than in the past,” says Ms O’Sullivan.
“Some universities have addressed
this by creating Vocational Education
Training pathways into their
programs, but this has led to a range
of unsatisfactory outcomes for large
numbers of quite capable young
Australians.”
“We are taking the concept a step
further by offering a full suite of
pathway programs on campus, to ease
students into the higher education
environment and set them on the road
to success from day one.”
The Bond University College officially
launched on March 16.
New business alumni committee gears up
BOND MBA and EMBA graduates formed
an official Alumni Committee late last year
to support engagement between alumni,
the University and new students.
The MBA Alumni Committee held their
inaugural event at Burleigh Brewing Co.
(run and owned by Alumna Peta Fielding
Class of 1989) in late January on the Gold
Coast, with almost 100 guests attending.
The networking event also welcomed MBA
students to the Bond community. The MBA
Alumni will host annual MBA and EMBA
Welcome events and the annual Bond
Benefit Dinner.
Hugh McFadden from the Class of 2001
(BBA) and 2014 (EMBA), is the inaugural
President of the MBA Alumni Committee.
Welcoming the new MBA students to the
Bond community, Hugh said that ‘Bondies
have always looked after Bondies. What is
true on campus, is true in business life. You
MBA Alumni Executive Committee. L-R: Mr Kristin Viccars, Mr Tim Gordon, Mr Hugh
McFadden, Mr Baden U’Ren, Ms Cameo Ashe, Ms Genevieve Collins, Ms Kerri Siggs.
will never again walk alone in the world.’
In addition, the MBA Alumni Committee
is hosting the inaugural Bond Benefit
Dinner for all alumni to attend during
Homecoming, to raise much needed funds
for scholarships and bursaries for current
and future Bondies.
Please see the Homecoming Program on
page 9 for further details.
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FIRST
ACTUARIAL
SCIENCE
STUDENTS
GRADUATE
THE first generation of Actuarial
Science Bachelor and Masters
students has graduated from
Bond University, becoming the
first ever Queensland-based
university cohort to do so.
A total of 11 students, eight
undergraduate and three
postgraduate, donned the yellow
sash to receive their degrees
alongside other students from the
Bond Business School.
Among the graduates was Lucy
Ward, who recently started
her new position with RACQ’s
actuarial team after being
headhunted by the Queensland
organisation on account of her
qualifications.
She stood beside fellow graduates
including Mark Johnman, the
program’s first honours recipient,
and Lachlan Farr, a postgraduate
who managed to secure a job
with the Commonwealth Bank
almost 12 months prior to
finishing his degree.
Mr Farr says his Actuarial Science
studies have thoroughly prepared
him to handle his new role
working in the Commonwealth
Bank’s Institutional Banking and
Markets division.
“I feel well prepared by Bond to
deal with ethical situations when I
begin work,” he says.
“I strongly believe the fact that
I was studying Actuarial Science
contributed to the fact that I
was able to get a job before
finishing.”
Out of the seven universities
that teach Actuarial Science
in Australia, Bond’s is the only
program offered in Queensland.
The graduation of its first Bachelor
and Bachelor with Honours
students will allow Bond University
to become fully accredited with
the Actuaries Institute.
CORFIELD TURNS
THE SPOTLIGHT ON
LANDMARK CASE
IT WAS the case that sent shockwaves
through the regional Queensland city of
Toowoomba, where a young girl known as
Lyndal was sexually abused at the hands of
her boarding school master at Toowoomba
Preparatory School.
Almost 17 years after the court case, Bond
alumnus and film producer Scott Corfield has
now adapted her story for the silver screen.
Don’t Tell, starring Aussie cinema
heavyweights Rachel Griffiths (Blow), Jack
Thompson (Breaker Morant) and Aden
Young (The Code), follows the landmark case
which broke the silence on institutionalised
child abuse throughout the country.
Mr Corfield says the release of Don’t Tell
comes at an important time in Australia’s
legal and political history.
“I think the timing is very important, because
at the moment there is a Royal Commission
going on that is looking into institutional
child sex abuse,” he says.
Mr Jack
Thompson
“This movie tells a story about the first girl
to bring her case before the court, changing
Australia in the process.”
Prior to its Australian launch on 18 May this
year, Don’t Tell will debut at the international
Newport Beach Film Festival held in California
on 20-27 April.
Mr Corfield says the project is his proudest
achievement as a producer to date, especially
considering the tight budget and time
constraints with which the cast and crew
needed to contend.
“This is my second feature and it’s certainly
the thing I am most proud of,” he says.
“When you know the story is true and
important, it makes it a lot easier to stay
focused when you’re up against the odds.”
“I have a daughter myself now and I just
have a lot of time for the real characters of
this film. I have a fondness for them and
it certainly makes it easier to work on the
project day-in-day-out.”
Alumnus Mr
Scott Corfield
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NEWS
BIBBY’S BRILLIANCE WINS AWARD DUO
Alumna Ms
Claire Bibby
CLAIRE Bibby is no stranger to the big
leagues of the law.
As Senior Vice-President Legal & General
Counsel for Brookfield Property Partners,
Ms Bibby has been instrumental to many of
the company’s largest property transactions
in the Australian and Asia-Pacific regions
over the past decade.
In addition to her day job, Ms Bibby also
maintains a keen philanthropic interest as
a non-executive director of Marist180, a
charity focused on helping young people ‘at
risk’ and their families.
For her string of outstanding achievements
and dedication to the profession, Ms Bibby
was named General Counsel of the Year at
the 2016 Women in Law Awards.
She also took out the esteemed Women in
Law Excellence Award, an achievement she
credits equally to her work and charitable
interests.
“I put it down firstly to the nature of the
work I do – I’m very fortunate that I’m able
to work on some of the most prominent
property transactions for my company,”
says Ms Bibby.
“It’s equally about the quality of the team
I have; they are a terrific, supportive and
collaborative team of people.”
“I’d also put it down to the initiatives that
I’ve done outside my day to day work.”
Ms Bibby is proud to be at the forefront
of women’s advancement in the in-house
profession, and hopes her awards will
help shine the spotlight on her successful
female peers.
“I think there has been a demonstrable
shift in the in-house profession that
has seen senior women rise to the top
and shine from a diversity and inclusion
perspective,” she says.
“These awards give prominence, and
personally I think that when you have a
stage you should use it in the best way
you can.”
Dr Jennifer
Cronin shines at
Hotelier Awards
BOND alumna Dr Jennifer Cronin, President
of international hotel group Niccolo &
Marco Polo Hotels, steered her company to
a sweeping victory at the prestigious 2016
BMW Hotelier Awards held in December.
Dr Cronin was named Asia-Pacific
Corporate Hotelier of the Year for her
recent outstanding achievements and
contributions to the profession, alongside
four other members of her team who also
received accolades on the night.
On winning the award, she acknowledged
the event’s co-founders Stephane
de Montgros and Benoit Thebaut,
congratulating them on their dedication to
the event which is now in its third year.
“The awards have set a very high
benchmark and they showcase the
passion and professionalism of this vibrant
industry,” said Dr Cronin.
Through the 2016 BMW Hotelier awards,
Dr Cronin has been particularly commended
for her entrepreneurial flair and thoughtleading
approach to running a successful
multi-national company.
Dr Cronin completed her MBA as part of
Bond University’s inaugural class of 1989.
Following 30 years in the hospitality industry,
she has also recently completed a doctorate
in philosophy from Bond University.
BOND WELCOMES HOME
THE CLASS OF 1994
IN FEBRUARY, Bond welcomed home a
group of alumni from the class of 1994,
who flew in from all over Australia and
around the world.
These Bondies have stayed in touch with
each other for more than 20 years since
graduating from Bond, and enjoyed a
weekend on the Gold Coast and a trip
Bond University Class of 1994 alumni
down memory lane at the University.
The Vice-Chancellor hosted the group,
led by Ms Sal Morgan (Class of 1994),
for a campus tour and drinks.
Bond is delighted to welcome home
all alumni and groups, and encourages
alumni to contact the Alumni Office
should they wish to arrange a visit.
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TAN’S GIFT
FOR BUSINESS
EARNS
ACCOLADE
ALUMNUS Chris Tan has always been on
the cutting edge of business.
Mr Tan established his own boutique
legal practice, Chur Associates, just four
years out of university, and the company
has since earned its reputation as the
‘Google’ of law firms.
For significant contributions to his field,
in addition to his ongoing work with
the International Real Estate Federation
(FIABCI), Mr Tan was named the 2016
Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the
Malaysian Australian Alumni Council
(MAAC).
Mr Tan is no stranger to success.
In 2010, he became the youngest
ever recipient of the FIABCI Medal of
Honour for his efforts in overseeing the
organisation’s youth activities worldwide.
He was also instrumental in setting up
FIABCI’s Asia Pacific Regional Secretariat
and East Asia Multinational Chapter,
while simultaneously serving on the
organisation’s International Board of
Directors as President of its Youth
Members Committee.
In regards to his latest achievement,
Mr Tan humbly thanked Bond for its
nomination to the MAAC.
IN THE TOP 20
BOND has been counted among the
top 20 small universities in the world
in a new ranking published by Times
Higher Education.
The ranking system is designed to
emphasise the criteria that students
want in a small university including
manageable class sizes, personalised
help from professors and an overall
sense of community.
On behalf of the Bond community,
Vice-Chancellor and President
Professor Tim Brailsford expressed the
honour of being ranked in the top 20.
“There are some truly outstanding
universities in this list and we are
quite humbled to be included in such
company,” says Professor Brailsford.
The international list recognises
universities with fewer than 5,000
students that teach across four or
more discipline areas.
BOND BUSINESS SCHOOL
TRANSFORMS ITS OFFERING
THE Bond Business School will add yet
another set of gems to its facilities through
the launch of its new Commercialisation
and Big Data Centres.
These new areas within the Bond Business
School, coupled with its existing co-working
spaces, will create a hub for several exciting
initiatives including its newly created
Transformer program.
Executive Dean Professor Terry O’Neill says
the Transformer program will extend beyond
the reach of the Bond Business School to
include students from all campus faculties.
“This is a great opportunity that we are
now able to make available to all incoming
students,” says Professor O’Neill.
“In other universities, subjects like the
Transformer tend to be implemented only in
the business school, because if they want to
reach out to the entire student population it
becomes quite a restricted offering.”
The Transformer subject will give students
the tools to incubate their own business
ideas, and will also provide an avenue
for improving the systems of existing
businesses through the principles of
entrepreneurship.
“It fits into the framework of
commercialisation,” says Professor O’Neill.
“It does not have to be about a product,
it could be about an idea. It does not have
to be a start-up, it could be embedded into
a bigger organisation where we want to
develop things.”
To that end, the Bond Business School is
redeveloping its third floor to create new
learning spaces.
It will also finalise its administrative
framework in the coming months, which will
include a new high-level appointment in the
innovation and entrepreneurship space.
Professor O’Neill expects the new
business collective will improve the quality
of research and strengthen external
connections.
“Some of the initiatives we have involve
various companies in industries including
health, media and sport,” he says.
“We expect it will be a very effective way of
getting relevant and high-impact research
projects into the Faculty and the University
in general.”
The Transformer will be launched on 15
May 2017 during Homecoming.
Horan achieves legend status
RUGBY Union great Tim Horan AM has
cemented his title as one of the game’s
shining stars, following his elevation to
Legend status in the Queensland Sport Hall
of Fame.
The ex-Wallaby and Bond graduate was
first inducted to the Hall of Fame in 2009
under QSport’s praise as “arguably the
greatest centre rugby has ever seen”.
Mr Horan has now joined the ranks of 16
Queensland sporting Legends including
Rod Laver, Cathy Freeman, Wally Lewis
and fellow Wallaby John Eales AM, who is
also the patron of Bond University’s Rugby
Excellence Scholarship.
Mr Horan debuted for the Wallabies in
1989 against the All Blacks and went on to
win two World Cup titles: the first in 1991
and miraculously again in 1999, four years
after a horrific knee injury that doctors
believed would end his career.
He is also a Member of the Order of
Australia, and inductee into both the
Australia Sport Hall of Fame and the
International Rugby Hall of Fame.
For six years, Mr Horan has commentated
Alumnus Mr Tim Horan AM
rugby for Fox Sports and has worked
as the National Head of the Sports and
Entertainment Division at Westpac Bank.
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NEWS
World MUN students aim to
repeat stellar performance
A GROUP of star students is set to travel to
Montreal for the 2017 World Model United
Nations (World MUN) Conference, where
they will represent the political position of
South Sudan on a variety of high-profile
international issues.
Following their efforts at the Japan Model
UN Conference in 2016, which supervising
professors described as “outstanding” and
“an amazing thing to see”, students Marty
Campbell, Holli Sargeant, James Schiphorst
and Lara Sveinsson will now debut on the
global stage.
The World MUN Conference runs for five
days, giving more than 2,500 delegates
from around the world an opportunity to
represent the political position of a given
country and debate on several current
international relations issues.
Dr Mark Dinnen, international relations
Assistant Professor and advisor to this
year’s Bond delegates, says the World MUN
is an invaluable opportunity for students
to develop key skills and enhance their
employability.
“It’s not the facts and figures or learning
about South Sudan that’s particularly
beneficial,” says Dr Dinnen.
“However, in Montreal, where students
must think critically, respond on their
feet, and speak to a large room filled with
people, those are the things you can’t do
quite the same in a classroom.”
“The skill set derived from the Model UN
goes directly on to employability.”
This will be the second time the Faculty
of Society and Design has sent an official
delegation of students to the World MUN.
Bond University Model United Nations team with Japanese competitors
HOMECOMING
2017
In May each year, all roads lead back
to Bond to celebrate the University’s
founding. This year we are celebrating
28 years of Bond University’s history.
The celebration will include the Family
and Friends Festival and signature
fireworks display expected to welcome
more than 1,200 people.
For more information, visit:
www.bond.edu.au/homecoming
May 18
ALUMNI AWARDS
DINNER
A night of celebration as we announce
the 2017 Alumni Award Recipients.
May 19
ALUMNI LEADERS
FORUM
Annual meeting of the Alumni
Advisory Board, Alumni Committee
Presidents and Bond University Limited
Alumni Members.
BOND FAMILY AND
FRIENDS FESTIVAL
Join us for our annual tradition as
we celebrate the University’s 28th
Foundation Day. Alumni, students and
staff and their families are encouraged
to attend this event.
May 20
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
WORKSHOPS
Refresh areas of study, learn new
advancements in particular disciplines
or test your appetite for further study
in a different or emerging field.
RUGBY HOME GAME
Come and support Bond as we take
on our arch-rival, The University of
Queensland! All alumni, students,
staff, family and friends are welcome.
BOND BENEFIT DINNER
The inaugural MBA Alumni Committee
dinner is a fundraising event and all
alumni are encouraged to attend.
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A leap of
faith
THE BOND CLASS of 892 took a leap of faith by
accepting offers to study at what was then a start-up
University founded by a controversial entrepreneur who
had plans to shake up tertiary education.
When the students arrived, they did not know what
to expect; what awaited them was a wet and muddy
campus that was still under construction.
Their challenge had begun. This was a group of students
who were not only working for themselves, but who
would set the standard for Bond as the years progressed.
Today, Bond University has a resplendent campus with
sandstone block buildings lining a majestic thoroughfare
descending onto Lake Orr.
It is an awe-inspiring view for the new students who
arrive each year, and the gravitas of the location is
imbued by the work of those early students.
They came from far and wide, from both Australia and
overseas, and have gone on to achieve in numerous
professions and industries, guiding the way for the many
who followed them. Some 892 Bondies have maintained
high levels of contact with the University over the years,
while others have gone their own way.
The common thread among them is the strong bond
they formed during their formative years at the
University.
Peta Fielding has maintained a close relationship with
Bond over the past 27 years. In between leading Burleigh
Brewing Co., she became one of the first alumni to
join the University Council, and was subsequently the
inaugural chair of the Alumni Advisory Board.
Another whose association with the University stayed
strong over the years is Derek Cronin.
Alongside building a successful law firm on the Gold
Coast, he has held roles on the Law Advisory Board, as
a University Council member and now as Chair of the
Alumni Advisory Board.
Further evidence of the strength of Bond’s law program
in those early years is Courtney Petersen, who went on
to become CEO of ASX-listed Shine Lawyers.
Some, such as Kristy Patterson, who travelled by train
from Perth to join the first cohort, made long journeys to
the Gold Coast, while others could study in their home
town, such as Mona Abedian.
From Canada, Brian Jean has had a diverse career
in property and politics and continues a long and
successful career in the Alberta Parliament, where he is
Leader of the Opposition in the Wildrose Party.
Another international 892 was Wayne Scott from the
United States, who pursued a successful accounting
career. Mr Scott was subsequently followed by his son,
Jerry, who undertook an MBA at Bond 25 years later.
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Jennifer Cronin, who mortgaged her house to undertake
an MBA and followed that up with a PhD, is now
President of the Marco Polo Hotel Group in Hong Kong.
Closer to home, Nick Scali, son of the founder of the
eponymously named furniture company, and Anthony
Majer, who founded Majer Tiles have built iconic brands.
You may have heard some of these stories before, and
others not. Over the next 12 pages are some of the
other quiet (or not so quiet) achievers of the 892 cohort.
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INTO THE DEEP
Andrew Baildon
Bachelor of Communication
(Business)
“I am very grateful
to the people
who have had
an influence on
my career. The
education at Bond
really helped
establish me in life
and gave me the
tools to continue to
be successful.”
During Bond’s earliest years, Andrew Baildon’s unmatched drive laid
successful foundations in sport and business.
WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO
CHOOSE COMMUNICATIONS?
It was an excellent degree for me to do for
my current business as communications is
an important skill to develop – if you can’t
communicate with people in business, you
can’t do business with them.
Working out how to identity the right
markets, and what medium to use to
make sure our business, Baildon Group, is
successful is very important.
HOW DID YOU BALANCE YOUR
SPORTING CAREER WITH STUDY?
I did Bond part time because I was
swimming for Australia at the time. I
graduated in 1995 and the following year I
opened my first business.
We now operate six businesses and have
over 80 staff. We have three swim schools,
a café and two Jetts gyms.
It was really tough balancing swimming and
studies because it draws out your degree,
and particularly the people you establish
close bonds with early on.
I made some really close friendships, and
they were gone after two or three years.
I was happy I stuck with it though and
finished it.
WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO
BOND?
Don Watts, who was our inaugural VC at
the time, was definitely the standout.
He was responsible for building that real
comradeship that we had among all the
students at the start and really paved the
way for the future of the University from
my point of view.
Sporting facilities were really great;
swimming pool, wonderful gym,
tennis courts, squash courts, we were
overwhelmed with the facilities we had.
It was my father who chose university
for me at the time as I was just thinking I
would swim and see how that went.
That was a pretty ignorant way of thinking
I guess, as a 16 or 17-year-old, but I was
glad my father was a lot wiser than I was.
I am very grateful to the people who
have had an influence on my career and
education at Bond.
They really helped establish me in life and
have given me the tools to continue to
be successful.
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST CAREER
HIGHLIGHT?
My highlights were winning Gold at the
Commonwealth Games in 1990, being the
first man to break 50 seconds and being
the Australian Team Captain.
WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR FOCUS
NOW?
Continuing to consolidate our business
interests, manage our staff well and
concentrate on being a good father to my
two children.
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Milani by name Milan by nature
Alida Milani is taking on the world of marketing and
events, with a fashionable twist.
Alida Milani
Bachelor of Commerce
WHERE DID YOU COME FROM TO
ATTEND BOND?
I grew up in Brisbane and after finishing high
school I went to Bond as an 892.
HOW HAS YOUR CAREER
PROGRESSED?
I’ve really enjoyed my career journey.
I started in a small management
consultancy in the mining industry
and left to follow a dream to
work in fashion in Milan.
Soon after I left,
the management
consultancy went
global (hmmm!).
Anyway, I proudly ended
up working with a
production agency that
produced fashion shows
for Milan and Paris
Fashion Weeks.
It was very exciting
experiencing the craft
of fashion with highly
skilled and passionate
people. I learnt how to
produce fashion shows
there.
From Europe, I
returned home to
work within the
Australian industry
- from Australian
Fashion Week in
Sydney to the
Melbourne Fashion Festival and Melbourne Spring
Fashion Week.
It was an exciting time in the Australian fashion
industry as our Australian designers became
internationally recognised and appreciated.
This led me to found AMME (Alida Milani
Marketing and Events). For the last 10 years, we
have been working with industry, brands, designers
and large shopping centres bringing their marketing
campaigns to life. We specialise in creating
extraordinary memorable moments and content.
WHAT IS A HIGHLIGHT OF YOUR
CAREER TO DATE?
Certainly working in Milan, but mostly
collaborating with talented people. I love the ways
ideas develop and expand in collaboration.
WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO BOND IN
THE FIRST INSTANCE?
A dear friend of mine had been accepted to
study at Bond. She mentioned it to me and it just
seemed like such an exciting opportunity. I really
loved that it was an accelerated course, that I
could be finished my degree in two years.
WHAT IS YOUR FONDEST MEMORY OF
BOND?
It would have to be the incredible friendships that
started there.
WHERE ARE YOU HEADED NOW?
We’ll continue to grow and develop the business
across fashion, food and lifestyle. But I would
also like to try my hand at writing. This could be a
long-term project though!
TAKING
IT TO
THE
WORLD
Catherine Middleton
Master of Business Administration
WHERE DID YOU COME FROM TO
ATTEND BOND?
I had moved to Australia (from Canada) as
a traveller and was working at Expo 88 in
Brisbane when I saw that Bond University
was starting up. I did an MBA. I previously
completed an undergraduate degree in
Canadian Studies.
HOW HAS YOUR CAREER
PROGRESSED AFTER THE MBA?
I went on to do a PhD in Management
Information Systems and Organisational
Theory at York University in Toronto. I am
currently a Professor and Canada Research
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WHERE DID YOU COME FROM TO
ATTEND BOND?
I moved from Melbourne to live on campus
at Bond.
Making his mark
HOW DID YOUR CAREER
PROGRESS AFTER YOU LEFT
BOND?
I did a backpacking holiday through the
United States, Europe and Asia for five
months. I then came back and worked for
one of the large accounting firms, Arthur
Anderson, as well as undertaking further
postgraduate study.
After 18 months, I left Arthur Anderson and
joined the investment banking department
of UBS where I worked for five years. I then
joined and remain working in Credit Suisse’s
investment banking department. I lead
Credit Suisse’s investment banking team
covering the infrastructure and utilities
sectors in Australia.
WHAT HAS BEEN A HIGHLIGHT
OF YOUR CAREER TO DATE?
The highlight for me has been advising a
variety of clients on landmark transactions.
For example, in 2016 we advised Future
Fund, Global Infrastructure Partners, QIC
and Borealis on their consortium acquisition
of the Port of Melbourne for around $9.7
billion.
We also advised IFM Investors on the sale
of a renewable energy company, Pacific
Hydro, for around $3 billion to a Chinese
state-owned enterprise. Helping and
advising clients execute significant M&A
transactions is exciting, challenging and
rewarding.
WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO
BOND?
Bond offered an accelerated timeline to
complete my degrees, as well as exposure
to a new and business-oriented curriculum.
The opportunity for greater independence
and a Gold Coast lifestyle was naturally very
attractive too.
WHAT IS YOUR FONDEST
MEMORY OF BOND?
The people, and the friendships. It was an
inspiring time to be immersed in a learning
culture with so many opportunities for
personal development, while at the same
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Bachelor of Commerce and Laws
time making great friends. I have many
fond memories of Bond.
WHERE ARE YOU HEADED NOW?
I am a father of four with a great family
and a successful career. I’ve established a
successful reputation and footprint as an
investment banker. I look forward to new
opportunities in 2017, whatever form they
may be.
Chair at Ryerson University with most of my
time dedicated to research. My focus is on
telecommunications policy, investigating
issues such as internet access, digital
literacy and inclusion.
One of the key findings is that there is still
a long way to go to ensure everyone can
participate in society using digital tools.
Although there is reasonable access to the
internet in cities in Canada and Australia,
some people don’t have the skill sets to do
what they need to do online.
More importantly, even with the
investments that have been made, many
households still don’t have affordable high
quality internet, making it difficult to roll
out nationwide services or engage with
people using online technology.
I continue to research digital inclusion as
an Adjunct Professor at the University of
Canberra, and am also studying the rollout
of high-speed public Wi-Fi in Australia as
part of a project led by RMIT University.
WHAT IS YOUR CAREER
HIGHLIGHT?
It is having the opportunity and privilege
to have held a Canada Research Chair. It is
a 10-year position and I am coming to the
end of that now.
I have had the opportunity to dig deeply
into understanding how people access
telecommunications services and how to
improve their access.
WHAT IS YOUR FONDEST
MEMORY OF YOUR TIME THERE?
For me, having been part of the
establishment of Bond and helping to build
it from the ground up.
WHERE ARE YOU HEADED NOW?
When I finish as Canada Research Chair I
will continue my position as Professor at
Ryerson University.
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CORNERING
THE MARKET
Christina Demetriades
Bachelor of Laws
WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO CHOOSE
YOUR DEGREE AND PATH?
Since the age of 9, I wanted to study Law.
My grandfather had been involved in New
South Wales in a big court case when I was
young, so I met many barristers. I thought
I wanted to become a barrister, but as I
progressed through my degree, I realised it
probably wasn’t for me.
Instead, being part of a team at a law
firm really appealed to me; the ability to
collaborate with people, deliver a better
outcome because you have many and
diverse strengths coming together.
HOW HAS YOUR CAREER
PROGRESSED?
I’ve had a number of jobs. I started in
private practice in Queensland, and got
a scholarship from Bond. I was very lucky
getting a job at the end of my degree when
things weren’t great economically, and
worked in Queensland before coming to
the United Kingdom on a Commonwealth
Scholarship. I studied a Masters of Law at
the University of London before going on
to Herbert Smith Freehills. Then I moved
to Baker and McKenzie where I was
partner for 14 years, and then someone
approached me to come in-house.
I started as a tax lawyer and am now
Deputy General Counsel of Sales and
Delivery at Accenture in a global team
outsourcing technology. I have lots of
experience in different environments,
countries and laws. I feel like the job I’m
doing now, though, is a combination of all
the experiences I’ve had. A lot of what I do
is thinking about people, empowerment,
strategy, how to do things in a more
digital-enabled way.
WHAT IS A HIGHLIGHT OF YOUR
CAREER TO DATE?
I would probably say, a few things: I was
the second youngest partner at the time
at Baker and Mackenzie. I joined that firm
because there was a phenomenal partner
Michael Hart who really wanted to see me
become a partner in that team, and wanted
to increase the diversity in that team.
Ultimately becoming a partner and equity
partner at the firm, a leading IT practice in
London, was also an amazing highlight.
Several years later I was asked to lead that
team when I came back from maternity
leave with my youngest.
Another is being asked to take on this
global role. I got to be on the actual
leadership team at Accenture as it was
formed. We do promotions at Accenture
every year in December and every year we
put a number of candidates through the
process.
For me that’s a highlight because I feel
a great responsibility to the people who
work for me – I want to see them have
opportunities, and there’s always a fine
balance in making that possible.
WHAT WAS YOUR EXPERIENCE AT
BOND LIKE?
The University obviously had a difficult
start and I remember that first day during
enrolment, there were press crews
wandering around and interviewing
students of the 892 class, asking us if we
thought the University would still be there
when we graduated. At the time, the lake
hadn’t been dug out, there were more
construction workers than students. It was
a bit of a gamble.
For most of us, we started straight out
of school, and we didn’t really realise
the chance we were taking, it was just
a university to us. For the older students
starting with us, it was a very calculated
choice for them. I originally started as a fullfee
paying student, and then the University
offered me a scholarship after the first
year. That first semester was quite a special
time, even though things didn’t quite work.
Don’s was particularly interesting due to the
camaraderie. We had an ‘us against the rest
of the world’ mentality. When I come back
to Australia, I still catch-up with friends
from that period of my life.
I can’t fault any teaching staff. The
University had high quality lecturers, and in
particular the reputation of the Law school
improved. People were willing to take a
chance and go to university in an entirely
different model and work in a different way
because of them. It made the University,
and I think the reputation came in large
measure because of its lecturers.
SCOTT
BEASLEY
SCOPES OUT
THE WORLD
Bachelor of Commerce
HOW HAS YOUR CAREER
PROGRESSED?
I have had a great career to date that has
exceeded my expectations. After Bond, I
attended UQ and obtained a Masters in
Social Science (Asian Government). I joined
BHP Steel as a marketing graduate in
October 1994, and I have now worked with
BHP Steel / BlueScope Steel for more than
22 years in 14 different roles.
WHAT HAVE BEEN SOME OF
YOUR BIGGEST HIGHLIGHTS?
Being part of the feasibility team for a new
A$150m BlueScope steel coating facility an
hour outside of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam,
and then transitioning to the in-country
role of BlueScope Steel Vietnam Vice
President Marketing. I was responsible for
business development in the Vietnam and
Cambodia markets and spent more than
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Scott Pendlebury
Bachelor of Commerce
FINDING
HIS NICHE
WHERE DID YOU COME FROM TO
ATTEND BOND?
I attended The Southport School on the
Gold Coast, so it was a local choice for me.
HOW HAS YOUR CAREER
PROGRESSED?
Immediately after completing my degree at
Bond, I worked for an actuarial consulting
company and that morphed into an
investment banking career in mergers
and acquisitions.
I spent 20 years on those two parts of
my career and worked for several global
investment banks focusing on banking and
insurance. Ultimately, I was an owner in a
small merchant bank, which got purchased
by my former employer Credit Suisse
in 2008.
I left investment banking to become a
consultant, then ultimately became an
entrepreneur by founding RenovatorStore.
com.au.
WHAT IS A HIGHLIGHT OF YOUR
CAREER TO DATE?
That step going from a successful corporate
career to becoming an independent
entrepreneur was a highlight.
I was taking a risk chasing profit rather than
a salary.
That is the goal that you are trying to
achieve because salary stops when you
don’t go to work, but profit keeps going.
The e-commerce industry is fast moving
and exciting and the global marketplace
to support that industry has changed
dramatically over the past five years.
The different ecommerce platforms
and tools allow you to build a business
inexpensively that can compete with the
big players.
WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO
BOND IN THE FIRST INSTANCE?
I was awarded a full scholarship for Bond,
which was a big part of the decision.
I found the Harvard or Yale-style
approach and culture they were looking
to implement to be very exciting and
different to what I would get at a
traditional university at that time.
It was an easy decision in the end.
WHAT IS YOUR FONDEST
MEMORY OF BOND?
The camaraderie of the first students, the
892s, continues to amaze me when we get
together. There is a strong bond between
those who took the first leap.
A lot of my close friends and business
relationships have come from that first
group of students. That’s my single biggest
highlight.
WHERE ARE YOU HEADED NOW?
I will continue to focus on Renovator Store.
It has a lot more opportunity ahead of it.
four years based in Ho Chi Minh City. As
part of the role, I travelled to more than
25 Vietnamese and Cambodian cities
and towns – an awesome country and
experience.
WHAT IS YOUR FONDEST
MEMORY OF BOND
The memories started before the first
day at a university-organised meet and
greet at the Fisherman’s Wharf. Fellow
892 Andrew Baildon organised the first
drinking boat race with the many willing
participants. The fun continued from that
point onwards.
The first day was amazing: the facilities
were not finished due to all the rain and
a group of brand new students trudged
through the mud to attend the Main F01
Lecture Theatre.
My other highlights include winning the
first premiership for the University as part
of the U/19 Colts Rugby Union Team;
responding to busloads of UQ students
who had come down to protest Bond
and the supposed university places it was
taking away from the public system.
Also the enduring close friendships and
bond amongst the 892 students.
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CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS
WHERE DID YOU COME FROM TO
ATTEND BOND?
I was living and working in Brisbane and initially
commuted to Bond before moving to the Gold
Coast during my second semester.
Martin Spann
Bachelor of Commerce
HOW HAS YOUR CAREER
PROGRESSED?
The economy in Australia was pretty tough
around the time I graduated, and while I had
a job it was not going anywhere quickly, so I
decided to make a change.
Some fellow 892 graduates had taken a year
out to travel and I heard stories about their
adventures in Japan. As the Japanese economy
was strong and Japanese banks were doing
well I thought there would be opportunities for
someone with a finance major who could speak
Japanese and so I went to Japan to study.
On my return to Australia I secured my first job
in the finance industry with State Street in their
Japanese division. Eventually I returned to Tokyo
to work for Barclays Capital on their futures and
options desk, later moving to the bond trading
desk where Japanese language skills were
required.
I spent several years trading bonds and interest
rate products in Japan in various positions. I
set up and ran the Japanese government bond
trading desk for a German bank covering
hedge funds before moving to work for the
Commonwealth Bank (CBA).
When I joined in 2010, CBA’s main business
in Japan was investing in bonds and trading
money-market related products. We have
since expanded our presence with a project
finance business that manages the Japanese
government-guaranteed portion of the bank’s
project finance deals, along with a structured
asset finance business (for aircraft and vessels)
with exposures of more than US$1 billion.
WHAT IS A HIGHLIGHT OF YOUR
CAREER TO DATE?
Being in the role of Japan Country Manager for
Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO BOND IN
THE FIRST INSTANCE?
The fact that I could do a degree in two years.
WHAT IS YOUR FONDEST MEMORY
OF BOND?
Don’s Tavern!
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Burns excels
area
in the
Commerce and Bond was the perfect equation for Peter Burns, producing
a world-class career in management consulting and a love of ambiguity.
WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO
BOND?
In the founding class, there was an appeal
of something that was entrepreneurial and
breaking the mould. It was the era of Alan
Bond, who as we all know, didn’t do things
by half measure.
From the initial set of professors he drew
on from around the world, you could tell
he was trying to set a new standard.
It was as much about trying to be part of
something that was fresh, entrepreneurial,
and you had a sense that it was going to
be something special.
HOW HAS YOUR CAREER
PROGRESSED?
I grew up in Queensland and the Northern
Territory, and went to TSS and was living
on the Gold Coast. I studied Commerce
and went into Booz, Allen and Hamilton
straight after.
I think in the Commerce degree I got quite
interested in Marketing and Statistics, and
it would have been a natural progression to
move into a market research firm.
Having made the decision not to follow the
natural pathway of what I was vocationally
gearing up for at university, management
consulting was the next step for me.
I have been effectively with the same
company ever since, through different
incarnations, Booz Allen Hamilton, which
became Booz and Company, and now it is
Strategy& as part of PwC.
I now lead PwC’s financial services consulting
practice across Australia, New Zealand and
South East Asia.
In my first three years I joined the Sydney
office and I don’t think I actually had one
project in Sydney. I worked in most States in
Australia and in Singapore.
I also spent time working in a hospital in St
Hellier in London, so it was an amazing early
experience.
My projects have been quite varied, the
geographical coverage means you’re
dealing with companies in Australia that
are quite sophisticated and mature, leading
growth strategies through to operating
models and alignment.
Within the PwC consulting practice, it’s
the largest professional services firm in
the world, which means when we serve
clients, we serve them everything from tax
structuring to strategic advice to digitising
outcomes.
I later took the step to study an MBA at
Harvard Business School.
WHAT DO YOU LOVE MOST
ABOUT YOUR CAREER?
The reason I’m still in consulting is that you
have to love ambiguity. It’s the great drug
of consulting.
You are wrestling problems, which by
definition are incredibly tough. The answer
isn’t obvious. Your capacity to bring teams
together will determine the outcome.
It’s a trait I still enjoy today, getting out of
bed and almost being on that adrenaline of
that next problem which is complex
and tough.
Some people like a little more ambiguity
and less stability in their lives, and
consulting certainly gives you that in
spades. It’s that challenge of wrestling with
really tough problems that I love.
WHAT IS YOUR FONDEST
MEMORY OF BOND?
I often reflect on my time at Bond. There’s
something special about the community up
there, that’s the reality of it.
There’s no question that Bond stands out.
Peter Burns
Bachelor of Commerce
“Ambiguity is
the great drug of
consulting. You
are wrestling
problems, which
by definition are
incredibly tough.”
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IMPACT
ON THE
WORLD
OF LAW
Jeremy Stoupas
Bachelor of Laws
WHERE DID YOU COME FROM TO
ATTEND BOND?
I’m originally from Melbourne. I completed
a Bachelor of Economics degree at Monash
University in 1986 and was working as
a Junior Equities Research Analyst at
stockbroker McIntosh Hamson Hoare Govett
when the 1987 stock market crash hit.
I managed to hold onto my job, but wanted
to make myself more employable if I lost it.
So, rather than taking on an MBA, I settled
on undertaking a law degree at Bond as an
inaugural student. I had every intention of
returning to stockbroking upon completing
my law degree. But, as things transpired,
that never happened and I’ve been a lawyer
ever since.
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE LAW?
I’d always been interested in studying
the law and had enjoyed legal studies at
school. I thought it would complement my
Bachelor of Economics nicely.
HOW HAS YOUR CAREER
PROGRESSED?
Upon completing my law degree, I obtained
a position as an articled clerk in the
Brisbane office of Blake Dawson Waldron
(now Ashurst).
Shortly after qualifying as a solicitor in the
firm’s banking and finance department, I
was transferred to the Sydney office. I was
part of a large team advising banks and
borrowers on syndicated loan transactions,
structured finance and asset financing
transactions.
In 1996, I moved to London to take up
a position as an associate lawyer in the
international capital markets department of
global ‘Magic Circle’ law firm Allen & Overy
(A&O). In that role, I gained invaluable
finance experience advising on some of the
largest, most innovative and challenging
debt capital markets transactions in the UK
and across Europe.
I left A&O in 2002 to take up a position as
a Senior Associate in the London office of
leading US law firm White & Case where,
again, I advised on international capital
markets transactions and highly complex
structured finance transactions in London
and in Eastern Europe including Russia,
Kazakhstan and Ukraine.
In 2003, an opportunity came up that
involved moving back to A&O, but this time
in Singapore.
So, I moved back to A&O as a partner
in the Singapore office in January 2004,
where I have been a partner with the firm
for the past 13 years. My practice remains
focused on international debt capital
markets, both conventional and Islamic.
Of course, being a key member of the
world’s leading international capital markets
team has been a huge privilege and I could
not have enjoyed the success I’ve been
lucky enough to achieve over the many
years without a team of incredibly talented,
high calibre lawyers supporting me.
WHAT IS A HIGHLIGHT OF YOUR
CAREER TO DATE?
There have been many. But the key
highlight for many lawyers who opt to
work in private practice for a large global
law firm is the milestone of being admitted
to the partnership.
I was promoted to Partner back in
November 2013. That seems like a lifetime
ago now! But I’d say that was the biggest
highlight – especially for a (relatively) small
town boy from Australia!
WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO
BOND IN THE FIRST INSTANCE?
It was mainly the fact that I could complete
a law degree in effectively half the
time because Bond has three, not two,
semesters a year. I’m not sure, at that stage
of my life, that I’d have taken on a four-or
five-year law degree. I ended up completing
my degree in around 2.5 years.
Also, being part of something new and
exciting and having the opportunity to lead
the charge into the legal world, as one of a
small number of fresh 892 graduates, was
very appealing to me.
WHAT IS YOUR FONDEST
MEMORY OF BOND?
Again, so many! Day one in a brand
new university; life and the camaraderie
that comes with living in the residences
on campus; annual parties and black-tie
balls; the inaugural car rally/treasure hunt;
meeting Alan Bond and spending a couple
of hours on his personal yacht with a
handful of other students; many fun nights
at Don’s Tavern and The Tunnel Nightclub
and generally having the opportunity to
meet and befriend such an incredible
array of people from all over Australia and
abroad – students and staff – many of
whom I am still in contact with to this day.
WHERE ARE YOU HEADED NOW?
Not sure. I love being in Asia. My wife is
Vietnamese, so Asia will always be a part of
my life. But, with a four-year-old daughter
and another little girl due this June, I do
wonder whether in the longer term we
might end up back in Australia.
It’s such a terrific place to raise a family,
although I think we’ll struggle initially
without our maids and domestic helpers
and the other perks of expat life in Asia!
We’ll see.
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Banking on
Brendan O’Flynn
Bachelor of Commerce
WHERE DID YOU COME FROM TO
ATTEND BOND?
Originally I am from Sydney’s eastern
suburbs, but I came straight from high
school at St John’s College, Woodlawn, in
northern NSW – a Marist Brothers boarding
school.
WHAT DID YOU STUDY?
Bachelor of Commerce with a Major in
Finance. I was a fortunate recipient of a full
fees academic scholarship, a magnificent
gift. Without it I could not have attended
Bond, as my financial circumstances simply
couldn’t support it.
HOW HAS YOUR CAREER
PROGRESSED?
It has taken a fascinating and unexpected
path. The main path has been working
with several international investment
banks, structuring and transacting financial
derivatives. It has taken me to Hong Kong
and London and New York, living abroad
for 17 years, supporting my keen appetite
for travel.
Interspersed along the way have been some
interesting side trips. In the late 90s I took
a jaunt into hospitality for a few years,
launching and running a private members’
club in Notting Hill, London. And now,
upon returning to Australia, I work with a
US fund manager, and have been privileged
enough to get hands on in the not for
profit space.
WHAT HAS BEEN A HIGHLIGHT
OF YOUR CAREER TO DATE?
There have been so many amazing
moments!
Most recent is my work helping launch the
Australian office of Human Rights Watch.
This organisation impacts millions of the
world’s most vulnerable people.
It works by investigating rights abuses in
the field, wherever they occur, publishing
this research to create public pressure for
change, and advocating directly with the
UN, national governments and other actors
to effect lasting change.
This is astonishingly important right now,
with the worrying trend of populist political
leaders, fake news, and alternative facts.
HRW’s commitment to facts and objective
research helps restore truth and reason to
public debate.
For example, just a few weeks ago some
colleagues reported on a trip to the
Philippines to research the 7,000-plus
killings since President Rodrigo Duterte
came to power.
Although they are instigated and applauded
by Duterte and the administration, the
reality is these killings comprise a campaign
against the urban poor that could amount
to crimes against humanity.
In Australia we focus primarily on
issues such as people with disabilities,
counterterrorism and privacy law, refugees
and asylum seekers, and juvenile justice.
We also look at rights across Asia and the
world, and how Australia can have impact
through its foreign policy.
WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO
STUDY AT BOND IN THE FIRST
INSTANCE?
Bond was brand new, presenting a great
opportunity to build a university to fit
today’s world.
That newness attracted entrepreneurial
people from all parts of the community,
and those early staff and students defined
the unique culture of the institution today.
WHAT IS YOUR FONDEST
MEMORY OF BOND?
The culture was great. Everybody was there
because they wanted to be, and that fact
cultivated a great camaraderie and positive
culture.
WHERE ARE YOU HEADED NOW?
My career interests have allowed me to
play in the sand pits of both the classic
private sector and the not for profit space.
But there must be a more effective way of
marrying these two worlds of investment
and social justice in some creative way that
hasn’t been addressed yet. Is there a future
for me somewhere in impact or ethical
investment? Watch this space!
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Class of 892 Feature
Life in the
fast lane
WHERE DID YOU COME FROM TO
ATTEND BOND?
I had just finished school in Sydney and
was excited about the opportunity to
be involved with something so new, so
fresh and so pioneering. I wasn’t sure
what I wanted to do, so doing something
completely different was super appealing.
WHAT DEGREE DID YOU STUDY?
Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing) with
an industry major in Services Marketing
(Hospitality).
WHEN DID YOU GRADUATE?
My final semester was 911 and I graduated
in May of 1991.
HOW HAS YOUR CAREER
PROGRESSED?
It’s been very exciting – lots of fascinating,
interesting, challenging roles that have
allowed me to travel all over the world,
meet people I never dreamt of meeting and
work at both a global and national level.
I started in the hotel business at Hyatt
Hotels, then moved to marketing and
advertising agencies managing major
automotive brands.
I worked for Heineken in Greece during
the 2004 Athens Olympics, and then
returned to Australia to join Toyota Motor
Corporation Australia where I have had
the amazing opportunity to work on both
Toyota and Lexus brands for almost 14
years now.
WHAT IS A HIGHLIGHT OF YOUR
CAREER TO DATE?
Creating the world’s first Hoverboard for
Lexus. Oh, and working in Tokyo for the
last few years. I like to call it “docking in
with the mothership” as I got to work at
the very heart of the business.
I headed up the Global Brand team for
Lexus International at a very exciting time,
and worked with outstanding marketers all
over the world.
WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO
BOND IN THE FIRST INSTANCE?
The opportunity to do a discipline degree
(Marketing) but with a focus on a speciality
area (Services Marketing) as I thought
I wanted to work in the hotel industry
forever. Also, the chance to finish my
degree in two years, rather than three. I’m
always in a hurry.
WHAT IS YOUR FONDEST
MEMORY OF BOND?
Living on campus – being among the first
group of people to ever live in A Block.
WHERE ARE YOU HEADED NOW?
I have just returned to Australia after my
Japan assignment. I have come back to
Sydney but will be transferred to Melbourne
at the end of the year. I get to head up
Brand Management and Communications
for Toyota, and continue playing with cars!
After a few years in Melbourne, who knows
where I’ll end up? Hopefully still travelling,
and playing with cars.
Yolande Waldock
Bachelor of Commerce
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TRANSFORMER
Launching May Semester 2017
The Transformer is a voluntary program
designed to give students from all
disciplines an opportunity to explore and
progress their entrepreneurial ideas.
Want to get involved as a mentor?
transformer@bond.edu.au
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An Aussie at
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Professor Steven Stern
Bond Professor Steven Stern, the American academic
helping the cricket world keep score
PROFESSOR Steven Stern has always felt
like an Australian at heart, so when he
moved to Australia from California 23 years
ago, it was only natural that he became
passionate about cricket.
It brought together two of Professor Stern’s
great loves – sport and mathematics – and
provided a way to connect with neighbours
and colleagues in his new home.
At that time, no one could have predicted
this interest would provide Professor Stern
with a legacy in the international game.
Professor Stern is the new Professor of
Data Science at Bond Business School,
and will help implement the University’s
actuarial program as well as oversee its Big
Data centre activities, and he is also the
custodian of cricket’s Duckworth-Lewis-
Stern (DLS) method.
Professor Stern’s name was added to the
system in 2014 when he took over from its
creators and his long-time friends, Frank
Duckworth and Tony Lewis.
He previously made his own amendment
to the complex system, which sets scoring
targets for cricket teams batting second in
rain-affected one-day cricket matches.
“I got involved because I was just intrigued
by the whole thing,” he tells The Arch. “I
came to love cricket, and in fact, I loved it
so much that I sent my son, who is now 16,
to play the game. He is a wicket keeper,
and one of my great loves in life is driving
him around and watching him play.”
The story of how an American maths
enthusiast from California came to play
a role in one of cricket’s more mysterious
elements, and work at Bond University,
begins at Stanford University, in the
United States.
Professor Stern was born and raised in a
small town near San Francisco and had
a family connection to Stanford, where
his mother studied and his father was
a researcher, and he followed in their
footsteps as a student.
Stanford, at that time, had a strong
Australian connection, and Professor Stern
was intrigued by the mystique of the far
away country where ‘drop bears’ attacked
from the trees.
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One of his friends suggested he apply for
a job at Australian National University, in
Canberra, upon graduation of his PhD, and
he scored the three-year position.
“Once I got to Australia, I just couldn’t
leave – it was just such a great place to live
– and I say I have always been an Australian
at heart, I was just born in the wrong
country,” says the Professor.
“And then, I was quite lucky, because about
two and a half years in there were some
long-term job openings so I applied and I got
one of those and the rest is history.”
Professor Stern, who is the former
Australian Bureau of Statistics National
Chair, worked in ANU’s actuarial program
for almost 20 years until his wife, who is a
special needs high school teacher, got a job
on the Sunshine Coast and he moved to
Queensland University of Technology.
He stayed in the role for three years before
being offered the position at Bond.
The primary factor that drew Professor
Stern to Bond was his long relationships
with the Executive Dean of the Bond
Business School, Professor Terry O’Neill, and
Vice Chancellor, Professor Tim Brailsford.
Bond’s smaller class sizes and focus on
teacher-student interaction are also draws
for Professor Stern, as is the opportunity to
play a role in leading the University’s new
actuarial program.
“As much as I enjoy doing research, I
think my biggest legacy from my working
life will be how I impact students,” says
Professor Stern.
“Bond is the closest to a US university in
Australia. The collegiality here and the
connection to the student-teacher ratios
make it a great place to be. There is a
happy vibe here and I really enjoy it.”
Of course, Bond’s strong focus on sport also
fits with Professor Stern’s role as custodian
of the DLS system.
His relationship with its creators goes back
to 1994, when Professor Stern’s friends
in Canberra asked him to explain to them
how it worked.
“It’s funny how the roles got reversed!”
Professor Stern laughs. “I considered
the system and I had some idea that I
could do it better, which is what every
mathematician thinks when they come
across a problem.”
He wrote a paper outlining his thoughts,
but before he published it, he sent a draft
off to Duckworth and Lewis to see what
they thought.
“To their great credit, Frank and Tony were
incredibly generous, and they wrote me
back and said, ‘this is fascinating work,
thank you for doing it’, and we started a
long conversation.”
That conversation became a friendship
and Professor Stern was later instrumental
in adjusting the system to cater for the
ballooning scores in modern international
one-day cricket matches.
Professor Stern understood that the
Duckworth-Lewis prediction model, which
uses scoring resources – wickets and
remaining overs – worked for scores up to
a maximum of 320-330, but for scores any
larger, it was flawed.
In most one-day cricket matches, the
team batting first will pace their innings
and accelerate as the innings progresses.
However, there is a limit to the amount a
batting team can accelerate its scoring.
Professor Stern points to an old rule of
thumb for commentators: to find a team’s
score over 50 overs, you double its score
after 30 overs.
“That rule works really well until the scores
start getting really big. So, if you score
3/200 off 30 overs you’re probably not
going to get 400 because that acceleration
rate is quite difficult to maintain. If you
want to score over 400, you need to be
more like 225-230 by 30 overs.”
It may seem a reasonable observation to
make, but Professor Stern had to scour
through the data to prove the hypothesis,
and then adapt the system so it could
predict high range scores accurately.
“So we drew some pictures and did
some data analysis and showed that you
get a reasonably sharp acceleration for
moderately scored matches and it’s not
quite as sharp and it tapers off, in fact, in
higher scoring matches.”
“If you take things to logical extremes and
say – look, you could score 1,800 runs for
50 overs if you score six on every bowl,
but that’s no acceleration at all, that’s just
constant 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, which is never going
to happen.”
“What I call it in mathematics is the
damping of the acceleration.”
Every twelve months Professor Stern reanalyses
the previous four years’ data to see
if the there is any change to the trends that
would require the DLS system to be revised.
“Generally speaking, every two years it has
changed enough that I have to put in some
tweaks, and those tweaks have gotten
smaller and smaller and smaller.”
Even though the tweaks are getting
smaller, Professor Stern is waiting for his
own protégé to emerge from the legion of
fans who email him about the system.
“You know, Frank Duckworth and Tony
Lewis are now in their 80s and I’m moving
on eventually and someone else is going to
have to take over,” says Professor Stern.
“I’m waiting for that day when someone
writes to me and we get a connection.”
“I came to love
cricket, and in fact,
I loved it so much
that I sent my son,
who is now 16, to
play the game.
He is a wicket
keeper, and one
of my great loves
in life is driving
him around and
watching him play.”
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Professor
Adrian Carter
Drawing
inspiration
POETIC integrity and justice is Professor
Adrian Carter’s great concern, in
architecture and every other sense.
The Head of Bond’s Abedian School of
Architecture, who believes in the sanctity
and significance of the poetic philosophical
side of architecture, is currently further
developing his research on Jørn Utzon, the
late Danish architect behind the Sydney
Opera House.
With next year marking the centennial
of Mr Utzon’s birth, Professor Carter is
driven to do poetic justice to the work of
‘a master’ who inspired the academic early
in his career in Denmark and who came to
know him, until his death in 2008.
Professor Carter’s PhD thesis entitled The
Utzon Paradigm has been a labour of love.
Now he’s focused on reworking this thesis
into a book, which he hopes will serve as a
catalyst for the next generation of architects.
Professor Carter has more than 30
years of professional and academic
experience spanning the globe, including
founding the Utzon Research Centre and
realising the Utzon Centre building in
Aalborg, Denmark, the latter designed in
collaboration with Mr Utzon himself.
“He was more highly recognised in
Australia due to his design of the Sydney
Opera House than he was in Denmark,
so to have the opportunity to inform and
inspire those back in his own country about
his work became a real labour of love for
me,” says Professor Carter.
“Utzon has been a great inspiration to me
and everyone who had the chance to work
with him which I have been keen to pass
on to coming generations.”
Professor Carter says disregarding next year
being the centenary, it’s a more important
time than ever now to study Mr Utzon’s
work, where an appreciation of nature and
the diversity of human cultures, creates
poetic, humane and innovative architecture.
“Utzon was one of the first of the modern
generation of architects after WWII who
travelled extensively and drew inspiration
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from many differing cultures, not just
within the Western tradition.”
He was very focused on how architecture
provides a means of gathering people
together and a frame for human experience.
“The Sydney Opera House is visually
arresting, but for Utzon the most important
thing was creating a public plaza where
people could gather on a grand flight of
steps, that would take them away from the
everyday. It’s quite a sacred place, directly
inspired by his experience of visiting the
ancient Mayan temples in Mexico.”
“As a synthesis of many culturally
diverse sources of inspiration, it is a very
appropriate symbol for a society made up
of many different cultures and that with
its iconic boat-like forms - a consequence
of the young Utzon working with his yacht
designer father - the Sydney Opera House
sits so beautifully within one of the world’s
great harbours.”
Professor Carter is a proponent of the
‘master-apprentice approach’ which he has
sought to further encourage at the Abedian
School of Architecture since taking up
leadership in January 2015.
“To become good at anything, you need to
study others who have achieved success in
that field and, ideally, work together with
them,” he says.
“In Denmark until the late 60s, at least,
it was a requirement for every architect
to spend a year training as a carpenter
or bricklayer so that they had hands-on
experience. I came to realise this is the
basis of world-famous Danish design and
architecture, since those that have an
understanding of how to make something
also have an idea of size, scale
and dimension.”
The master-apprentice approach, as well as
an appreciation of the vital inspiration from
first-hand experience of a diverse range of
cultures and exemplary architecture to the
education of an architect, has led to the
establishment of a regular study program
to Japan. This allows students to learn
from ‘an ancient culture with a strong craft
tradition and world-class contemporary
architecture’, and other initiatives such
as the Architecture Lecture Series which
profiles experts in the field.
“Students have access to the latest digital
tools, but we also encourage creating
with the hand, because that allows you
to use your intuition, informed by all your
experiences, much more effectively and in
relation to human scale.”
“Making something physically, or being
physically present in a world, creates a
much closer connection. At the Abedian
School of Architecture we are focused
on using what Utzon was very aware of
– embodied knowledge of all things you
have seen, felt and heard before. There are
universal sources of inspiration that I think
touch people quite similarly.”
“Jrn Utzon has been a great inspiration to me and
everyone who had the chance to work with him which
I have been keen to pass on to coming generations.”
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“I try to push the
boundaries of
international law”
EDWARDS CLIMBS
THE RANKS
A serendipitous moment led Holli Edwards on a path
of discovery, and the start of a new career in law.
Ms Holli
Edwards
A MOMENT of serendipity when
choosing electives changed Bond Law
and International Relations student Holli
Edwards’ career path forever.
In her second semester, Ms Edwards
decided to take an extra International
Relations subject, where the Adjunct
Professor taking the class became Ms
Edwards’ mentor, later arranging her a
once-in-a-lifetime internship in Geneva.
“It still amazes me how that moment of
serendipity had such a huge impact on my
life,” says Ms Edwards.
“I remember the first time I read in-depth
about the United Nations when I was about
10 years old. I made a promise to myself
that, one day, I would see the United
Nations in Geneva for myself.”
“To find myself there last year, walking
the halls of the diplomats, was absolutely
thrilling.”
Ms Edwards is now in her final year, and
will be graduating into a full-time role as
a Judge’s Associate to a Supreme Court
Judge in Brisbane.
It is a long process to formalise the position,
which won’t be completed until the end
of the year, but Ms Edwards will work very
closely with the judge on administrative
matters and research.
It is a dream come true for Ms Edwards and
the experience she gained from a largely
self-directed internship in what is regarded
as ‘international Geneva’ during her first
time overseas will prove pivotal.
With a passion for literature, ancient and
modern history, there was not a better
place for 20-year-old Ms Edwards to dive
headfirst into her passions.
“Most of my work focused on research
assistance to senior staff and creating
reports on interesting topics like comparing
secret intelligence organisations,” says
Ms Edwards.
“During my internship, I wrote my own
major research paper analysing the
application of international law to terrorist
groups, of which a smaller version has now
been published.”
“I was fortunate to interview several
international experts for the paper,
from organisations like the International
Red Cross/Red Crescent, to professors
at Geneva University and the Geneva
Academy for International Humanitarian
Law and Human Rights.”
“I believe the international legal framework
needs to be improved in order to contribute
to global counter-terrorism efforts. My
research reveals we need to adopt new
laws in this area, while being cautious not
to extend too many rights or obligations on
those who either won’t follow the laws, or
don’t have the capacity to follow them.”
Ms Edwards says she finds both
relationships between countries and
corporations very interesting.
She is currently following a career guide,
not a plan, to keep her options open,
but will probably look into corporate law
before transferring into governance and
considering a PhD a little down the track.
“I’m not necessarily one for criminal law,
at least domestically, because I don’t think
I would enjoy dealing with serious criminal
offences on a daily basis,” says Ms Edwards.
“I’m interested in many of areas of law,
particularly corporate law and constitutional
law. I’m trying to gain as much experience
as I can in a variety of areas and avoid
specialising too soon.”
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diversity
JUSTICE KIRBY INSPIRES
A NEW ERA FOR
ACADEMIC
IT IS safe to say that former High Court of
Australia Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG is
among a handful of great legal minds that
every law student in Australia aspires to be.
Bond University students were given the
chance to capitalise on their admiration
when Justice Kirby returned to campus
for his annual visit to spend time with the
students at several events.
On the day, Justice Kirby’s itinerary
included guest judging the Law Faculty’s
mooting finals, responding to questions
during the Law Student Association’s
(LSA) ‘Two minutes with Michael Kirby’
event, and attending the annual dinner for
students who participated in external legal
competitions throughout the year.
He also gave a public lecture on LGBTIQ+
rights in Australia, the proposed marriage
plebiscite and current issues regarding
marriage equality.
Assistant Professor Louise Parsons says the
annual Justice Kirby visit is an exceptional
highlight on the calendar, one which
motivates the Bond community in a
tangible and positive way.
“Justice Kirby is treated like a rock star by
the students,” she says.
“It is refreshing to see people appreciate
the fact that he is not only someone with
an incredible legal mind and a wonderful
professional background, he is also an
incredibly inspiring person as an individual.”
According to Assistant Professor Parsons,
Justice Kirby often imparts key pearls of
wisdom to the students during his visits,
ones which have a lasting impact on campus.
“Every year he shares a passion, vision or
perception with us; a bit of a suggestion,”
she says.
“For example, in 2015 during a closedevent
dinner he mentioned a concern that
Bond was not seen publicly to be catering
for diversity in the student community.”
“It was never his perception that Bond as a
University did not encourage diversity, but it
is also important in terms of what you can
see on the website, and assessments from
other organisations for example.
“He told students that he hoped to see
progress when he came back to visit.”
When Justice Kirby returned to campus for
his most recent visit, he was very pleased
with the developments.
Within the past year, the LGBTIQ+ space
at Bond has been transformed, notably
through the establishment of the Bond
LGBTIQ Working Party, the student group
Pride Alliance and the creation of a new
Special Interest Directorship on the LSA.
The students at Bond have also been
Justice Kirby and student
Mr Lachlan Hopwood
focused on reaching out to professions and
institutions off-campus to further enhance
the experience for those who identify as
LGBTIQ+.
“There have been a number of wonderful
developments at Bond in that space over
the past year,” says Assistant Professor
Parsons.
“While I don’t think it would be fair to
attribute all of that to Justice Kirby’s
comments, I do think the comments he
made gave impetus and helped to push
things forward.”
“These developments speak to the highest
level of the University, and the highest level
of the students who were at that dinner
in 2015.”
L-R: The Honourable Wally Oppal, Ms Madelaine Clifford, The Honourable Michael Kirby, Mr Thomas Fall and Mr Patrick Cross
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Professor
Chris Del Mar
OVER-TESTING LEADS
TO UNDER-TREATMENT,
STUDY SHOWS
DOCTORS are wrong about how much
interventions can help or harm more often
than we think, a Bond University study has
found.
Bond researchers Professor Tammy
Hoffmann and Professor Chris Del Mar
have discovered that health professionals
often overestimate the benefits and
underestimate the harms of medical tests
and treatments.
Their study found that health professionals
accurately identified the size of benefits in
just 11 per cent of cases studied, and they
were only accurate about the risk of harm
13 per cent of the time.
This can lead to suboptimal care. Patients
may end up being unnecessarily treated
and receive low value care (overuse)
or miss out on receiving effective
interventions (underuse).
The research, published by JAMA Internal
Medicine journal in early January, is believed
to be the first of its kind. The systematic
review included 48 studies, involving a total
of 13,011 clinicians from 17 countries.
Diagnostic and screening tests, medical
imaging and treatments were reviewed.
Professor Hoffmann says it’s not just health
professionals who are overly optimistic
about healthcare.
“We know from our earlier research that
patients also have inaccurate expectations,
and most people think that interventions
will help more and harm less than they
actually do,” she says.
“The reality is, if both clinicians and
patients are bringing inaccurate
expectations into the consultation, the
potential for misguided, ill-informed
decisions is very high.”
“Both patients and clinicians need ready
access to high-quality, unbiased, easy-tounderstand
information about the benefits
and harms of treatments and tests.”
Professor Del Mar believes the issue also
stems from the difficulty in sourcing, and
keeping up with, the latest research.
When they are pressed for time and
overloaded with information, Professor Del
Mar says it’s becoming harder for doctors to
identify quality research. He says the issue
partly stems from the ‘staggering amount’
of new research published every day.
Professor Hoffmann and Professor Del
Mar are involved in a number of studies
and initiatives at Bond University’s Centre
for Research in Evidence-Based Practice
(CREBP) that help health professionals
and patients to find and use evidence for
effective health decisions.
Research reveals another side to what the doctor ordered
A NEW study conducted by an
international team of nutrition and
dietetics researchers has revealed that
eating fruits and veggies offers a reduced
risk of early death to sufferers of chronic
kidney disease (CKD).
In an analysis of seven studies, the
researchers found that a healthy diet
high in nutrients including fruits,
vegetables, fish, legumes and fibre, and
low in red meat, salt and refined sugars
may help CKD patients live longer.
Bond alumna Shu Ning Wai and current
PhD candidate Jaimon Kelly are among
the seven researchers who co-authored
Healthy Dietary Patterns, Mortality and
End-Stage Kidney Disease in CKD: A
Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies. They
discovered that CKD patients experience
a 20-30 per cent lower rate of mortality
by eating the right foods instead of
simply restricting the wrong ones, such as
phosphorus, potassium and sodium.
The study also puts the spotlight on
emerging evidence that overall eating
patterns may have a greater effect on
patients’ health and longevity.
Team leader Dr Giovanni Strippoli MD
PhD says that in the absence of further
clinical tests, his team’s study is “the
best available evidence to drive clinical
decision-making by patients and doctors
on whole dietary approaches in chronic
kidney disease”.
The team’s findings appeared in the
latest issue of the Clinical journal of the
American Society of Nephrology (CJASN).
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ACADEMIC
Professor
Paul Glasziou
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Getting healthcare right
GETTING healthcare right has long been the
focus of Professor Paul Glasziou. Overuse
and underuse are the words on his lips, and
those of other academics who undertook
research for the ‘Right Care Series’ published
by The Lancet, one of the world’s oldest and
most esteemed medical journals.
The Series defines overuse as “the provision
of medical services that are more likely to
cause harm than good” and underuse as
“the failure to use effective and affordable
medical interventions”. Professor Glasziou
says there were some surprising findings,
even for him.
“We think of overuse, or over-diagnosis, as
mostly being a developed country problem,
but it actually occurs a lot in developing
countries as well,” he says.
“If you buy an MRI machine in India, you
have to try and use it to make up for the
cost. I also have a friend in Gaza and he
said there are a lot of patients getting
unnecessary surgery for low-back pain.”
“It’s a huge problem because it means there
are fewer resources and longer queues for
people who need care. The balance between
overuse and underuse is a problem across
countries, within countries, and different
regions have huge variations.”
The Series started with investigating
‘low-value care’, which includes care that
is ineffective or has very little benefit to
patients. Professor Glasziou draws on
the example of knee replacement, which
works well for patients suffering severe
osteoarthritis who have tried all other
avenues, but not so much for those who
don’t get appropriate physiotherapy
beforehand.
The Series concluded that overuse and
underuse are ‘symptoms of a healthcare
system that does not reflect the ethics
of medicine’.
Professor Glasziou notes that when you
consider all of the drivers, it turns out to be
a ‘very complex brew’ of not just money and
financing. The general practitioner says part
of the solution is re-education and system
reform.
“Shared decision-making tools safeguard
patients and clinicians from overestimating
the benefits and underestimating the harms.
There are decision-aids already for some
conditions. Doctors aren’t resistant to them,
but they just don’t currently integrate well
into the workflow. It’s a bit like learning to
use a stethoscope where you actually need
some practice in order to use it well.”
There is also the idea of dampening down
people’s fear of defensive medicine and
encouraging trialling low-risk, low-cost
remedies. For example, while in its early
days, new preliminary research by Bond
academic Dr Wolfgang Marx reveals
ginger may help cancer patients overcome
vomiting, nausea and fatigue caused
by chemotherapy.
Australia, like all other countries, is
struggling with spiralling costs of healthcare.
Professor Glasziou identifies the Medical
Benefits Schedule Review Taskforce,
of which he is a member, as the most
important occurrence in the Australian
healthcare system at the moment.
“That’s reviewing all of the Medicare items
and looking at the usage of inappropriate
care and trying to work out ways to either
change the listing of the items or people’s
behaviour in the way they use the items. It’s
already leading to some changes but most
will come through in the next two years.”
Professor Glasziou’s colleague, Professor of
Clinical Epidemiology, Tammy Hoffmann,
is leading a team that’s zeroing in on a
particular point discussed by The Lancet
Series.
Professor Hoffmann has been granted
funding from the National Health and
Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to carry
out a three-year study on reducing the
global threat of antibiotic resistance.
Professor Hoffmann describes the issue as
having reached a ‘critical’ point worldwide.
“Antibiotic resistance results in patient harm,
untreatable infections, restricted health care
and a significant, avoidable health burden,”
she says.
“Reducing the use of antibiotics is central
to minimising resistance, and with 80 per
cent of antibiotic prescriptions provided in
primary care, Doctors and their patients are
a priority target.”
The $325,000 grant will fund a randomised
trial in Queensland and New South Wales
that encourages Doctors to use shared
decision-making aids with patients in a bid
to reduce antibiotic use for acute respiratory
infections. Like Professor Glasziou, Professor
Hoffman is determined for these aids
to become the catalyst for collaborative
decision-making.
To begin with, the aids will be put to test
treating acute respiratory infections (ARIs).
“For ARIs in particular, it may represent
an important opportunity to reduce
unnecessary antibiotic use and thus help
to reduce the global problem of antibiotic
resistance.”
“We think of
overuse, or overdiagnosis,
as
mostly being a
developed country
problem, but it
actually occurs a
lot in developing
countries as well”
Professor
Tammy Hoffmann
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MEET BOND’S NEW
STUDENT
LEADER
Mr Christian Whitfield
New BUSA President, Christian Whitfield, is continuing the Association’s
impressive legacy of improving the welfare of Bond students.
CHRISTIAN Whitfield took up the role
of Bond University Student Association
(BUSA) President in October 2016, and has
already signed off on a major capital works
program at the University.
He was on-hand as the Digital Media Hub
extension to the Multimedia Learning
Centre was officially opened, an addition to
Bond that the Student Association strongly
supported.
“That is a really great legacy for the Bond
University Student Association to have,”
says Mr Whitfield of the Hub.
The past six presidents of BUSA have served
on the committee, or as the director of a
portfolio, in the year leading up to their
appointment as President, but Mr Whitfield
took a different route.
The Bachelor of Commerce and Laws
(Finance and Corporate Law) student, has
made a contribution to Bond as Treasurer
of both the Law Students’ Association
and the Business Students’ Association.
Mr Whitfield says moving into the revered
position as President of BUSA is a step up
from those roles, which he says were a
catalyst for pursuing the position.
“This is a whole other ball game. Even
now, I am amazed at how many parts of
the University we can touch in a meaningful
way,” he says.
Mr Whitfield grew up on Avoca Beach
and came to Bond from the Central Coast
Grammar School in New South Wales
in 2014 as a Macquarie Bank Corporate
Scholarship student.
He plays for the Bond First XI soccer team,
which gives him important insight into one
of the focus areas of the committee.
“We are building a lot of strategy around
sport, which is a massive growth area for
the whole of the University over the past
few years,” Mr Whitfield says.
“Bond is doing great things in the highperformance
sport sector and now we are
focusing on the participative side for the
average Bond student’s sports experience in
terms of coaches, facilities and programs.”
“It is very exciting that we have appointed
a sports wide strength and conditioning
coach, Rick Martin, who will be available to
build programs for all athletes who want to
take their abilities to the next level.”
Mr Whitfield has a team of 17 people
around him, including Charlotte St Baker as
Secretary and Josh Lane as Treasurer, who
are providing support as the committee
tackles important issues around the
campus.
“We have also taken massive strides in the
LGBTIQ space, and a lot of that work was
passed on from the previous committee –
we have picked up the baton and run with
it,” he says.
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ACADEMIC
Inside Bond’s new
DIGITAL HUB
L-R: Professor Tim Brailsford, Balnaves
Foundation General Manager Mr Hamish
Balnaves, BUSA President Mr Christian Whitfield
STATE of the art audio-visual production
tools are now available to Bond University
students and staff on a 24/7 basis at the
new Digital Media Hub, which opened on
24 January.
The facility is an extension to the Balnaves
Foundation Multimedia Learning Centre
(MLC) and includes a micro studio for
content creation and production, individual
digital media workstations and study
lounge areas.
The Balnaves Foundation and the Bond
University Student Association co-funded
the Hub, which will be used for both
academic-led classes and independent
learning for students out of hours.
Speaking at the Hub’s official opening,
Foundation General Manager Hamish
Balnaves said there was no better
investment in the future of Australia than
education facilities such as the MLC.
“Especially as we continue to grow towards
a creative-based economy, a knowledgebased
economy, and a service-based
economy,” Mr Balnaves said.
“The future of Australia’s prosperity relies
on higher education at a university level,
and that is where we have to compete with
the rest of the world.”
BUSA President Christian Whitfield says
several projects from across the University
were assessed for funding and the question
asked of each one was: how many students
would it benefit?
“This was leaps and bounds above all the
others,” Mr Whitfield says. “It is a 24/7
space attached to a building that is used
24/7, so it is a slam dunk as far as we are
concerned.”
BUSA contributed around 20 percent of the
construction costs and took a hands-on role
with the design. The Hub is the culmination
of years of work, initiated by the previous
BUSA administration team, which was led
by Jack Leonard.
“It is a pretty great legacy to come back in
10, 20 or 30 years and see we have built
something that is going to stand the test
of time,” Mr Whitfield says. “It is a credit
not just to our administration, but the team
before us. They were critical in the early
stages of the proposal.”
Health Sciences and Medicine, Film and
Television, Architecture, Advertising and
Journalism, and Interactive Media are
among the disciplines that will use the Hub.
The micro studio is the centrepiece of the
new Hub, and it will be used by students
and academics to create and edit podcasts
and vodcasts, and deliver lectures and attend
seminars anywhere in the world, at any time,
via virtual reality and cloud-conferencing.
Bond University Vice-Chancellor and
President, Professor Tim Brailsford, says
the extension will ensure the University
remains at the cutting edge of educational
technology.
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Hollywood
on the Gold Coast
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BOND University Film and Television
Award’s (BUFTA) were once again a starstudded
event, but there could only be one
showstopper.
Budding filmmaker Willem Kingma, from
Kardinia International College in Geelong,
took out the top gong at the Awards for
Best Overall Filmmaker late last year.
Mr Kingma’s short films Not Quite Right
and Suicide – Tiny Giants struck a chord
with the judging panel, who awarded him
a full scholarship to study a Bachelor of Film
and Television at Bond.
From 277 entries – more than ever before
– Mr Kingma was one of 17 finalists whose
films were shown online to an international
audience and played for 170 attendees at
the BUFTA Gala Awards Ceremony.
Television presenter, producer and
radio host James Mathison hosted the
BUFTA Gala Awards Ceremony, with
entertainment performed by The Voice
2016 finalist Tash Lockhart.
Mr Kingma says winning was a “great
recognition” of his storytelling ability.
“Finally bringing something together
and seeing it come to fruition is really
beautiful,” he says.
“Before this competition, I had doubts I
would ever become a filmmaker so I really
want to thank BUFTA for this award and this
opportunity. It means the world to me.”
Other BUFTA winners included fellow
Kardinia International College student Ben
Head, who took out Best Drama and The
Dean’s Choice Award for his film titled
Quiet.
Kardinia International College’s running
record on the night meant it also took out
Best School Award.
Jonno Kelly from Melbourne’s Scotch
College was awarded Best Documentary
and Best Cinematography for his film
An Australian Farmer’s Story, while Gold
Coaster Kate Burke, from Upper Coomera
Secondary College, was awarded City of
Gold Coast Filmmaker for her film Retard.
The Jury Prize, which includes a 25 per cent
scholarship, went to Molly Evans, from St
Peters Lutheran College in Queensland,
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who also received the Best Experimental
film award for her film Synthesis.
Bond Director of Film and Television, Dr
Michael Sergi, says students in Years 10
and 11 should start preparing their entries
for BUFTA 2017.
“BUFTA is Australia’s most significant short
film competition for senior high school
students,” he says.
“The success of previous winners,
including Eric So, who has been involved in
Hollywood films including Captain America
and The Great Gatsby, is testament to the
calibre of filmmakers discovered through
BUFTA.”
“With so many talented up-and-comers, it’s
an exciting time for the Australian film and
television industry and Bond looks forward
to continuing to help shape the filmmakers
of tomorrow.”
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1. Mr James Mathison
2. L-R: Mr James Mathison, Dr Michael Sergi,
Mr Willem Kingma, Professor Raoul Mortley.
3. 2016 BUFTA Gala Ceremony
4. Best overall filmmaker, Mr Willem Kingma
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COMMUNITY
Entrepreneurial
women changing
the game
Ms Rebecca Frizelle
CHANGING the face of Australia’s footy
codes at a nationwide level is a difficult feat,
one that two business leaders are tackling.
The games have changed – initiatives
like the AFL’s women’s competition have
recently launched to much success – but
change at the corporate level is happening
at a slower rate.
If Rebecca Frizelle and Josephine Sukkar
have anything to do with it, though,
representation will happen at the speed
of light.
Gold Coast business leader Ms Frizelle is the
first female club Chairperson in the NRL, and
Sydney’s Ms Sukkar is the Director of the
Australian Rugby Foundation and President
of Australian Women’s Rugby Union.
As part of Bond’s Entrepreneurial Women’s
Series, the pair spoke at a long lunch in
February about developing transferrable
skills to transcend industries, based on their
experiences applying lessons learned in
automotive and construction to corporate
careers in football.
Ms Sukkar co-founded Buildcorp with her
husband Tony Sukkar in 1990. Today the
business has around 300 employees and
revenue of $500 million. They founded
Buildcorp after the company Mr Sukkar
was working at went into liquidation in the
recession of the early 1990s.
Builcorp has been a major sponsor of rugby
union in Australia for 25 years, and now
is a major sponsor of our women’s rugby
union team too, the Wallaroos.
Ms Sukkar believes keeping girls on the
sporting field for longer will deliver a strong
return on investment in the business world.
“There’s a huge drop-off rate for girls
when they turn 14 and they stop playing
sport because they want to watch the boys
play rugby. It’s compulsory in New South
Wales for boys to play sport on a Saturday
in private schools, but it’s not for girls,”
she says.
“In attracting and retaining women on
the sporting field, they learn how to lead a
successful team, win with grace, and lose
with dignity. They learn how to manage a
team of desperate stakeholders, the pressure
backs and the belligerent front-rowers.”
Ms Frizelle also started her career in 1990,
in the family business, James Frizelle’s
Automotive Group. She remembers
financing cars in the early days at 21 per
cent, learning “not to take extended risks,
but calculated risks where we could visualise
where the future was going to be”.
Ms Frizelle says “90 per cent of the time”
she feels “absolutely welcomed” in the
sporting arena.
Where many of the industry leaders are
sporting greats or have familial ties to
them, Ms Frizelle says sometimes being on
the other end has put her at an advantage.
“I think having that lack of self-interest
and being able to stand back and look at
the game from a pure business perspective
gave me a different skill set that potentially
hadn’t always been there,” says Ms Frizelle.
Going forward, however, Ms Frizelle says
it’s about making sure “half the team isn’t
left on the sidelines”.
“Rugby league for years hasn’t grown
because we’ve left half our team on the
sidelines – it just didn’t make sense we
weren’t involving women – who are
deciding the social calendar and controlling
the remote control at home?”
“I think the Titans is one of the first NRL
boards to have three women directors,
and that purely happened by chance. I’m a
believer in selecting the best person for the
job not based on gender.”
GIRL’S SCHOOLS
LEADERS GET
INSPIRED BY
SILVER SCREEN
THE Alliance of Girl’s Schools
Australasia conference brought more
than 165 female student leaders
from across Australia and the Pacific
to Bond University to develop their
leadership skills and network with
their peers for four days in January.
The conference is designed to support
the development of young female
leaders by giving them confidence
and equipping them with the skills to
make a difference in their schools and
wider communities.
Tracey Vieira, CEO of Screen
Queensland and 2016 Queensland
Telstra Business Woman of the Year,
gave an emotive and inspiring speech
to the girls.
Ms Vieira addressed the bullying she
suffered early in her teenage years,
which forced her to change schools,
and how she overcame a critical lack
of confidence to become a leader in
the entertainment industry.
She had a strong message for the
young women in the room, and that
was to support other women.
“Your strength will not come from
some organisational chart, or your job
title; it will come from building trust
and earning respect,” she said.
Ms Vieira’s eight years working in Los
Angeles for Screen Australia allowed
her to develop important relationships
with some of Hollywood’s most
important players, and bring millions
of dollars of investment into Australia.
“This is what I want to ask of you, both
for now and your futures,” she said.
“I want you to hire women whenever
you get a chance.”
“I want you to show others that it
is possible to break barriers, glass
ceilings and be anything you want
to be. I want you to inspire other
people.”
During the conference the girls also
heard a thought provoking speech
from the 2016 Young Australians of
the Year and co-founders of Orange
Sky Laundry, Nic Marchesi and Lucas
Patchett, before preparing to return
home the next day.
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TAKING THE
EXTRA STEP
SINCE the establishment of the Nyombil
Centre in 2012 the population of
Indigenous students on campus has grown
exponentially, flourishing in both the
diversity of study and culture.
Of the many Indigenous students that
proudly cross the stage to receive their
Bachelor degrees, there are a number who
have decided to take their education to the
next level.
Dani Larkin
Doctor of Philosophy
After completing her Master of Laws –
Corporate and Commercial degree in
April last year, Dani Larkin has made
the leap to a PhD.
Inspired by her own experience as
an Indigenous woman working in
organisations in the private and public
law spaces, Ms Larkin’s doctoral thesis
will address international law, human
rights, constitutional law and politics
through a lens of cultural identity.
Ms Larkin says the continued support
from the law faculty throughout her
degrees has been instrumental to her
academic and intellectual growth.
“I came from a background in
corporate and commercial law, and
Oscar Davis, Hannah Duncan, Dani Larkin
and Caitlin Rodaughan are four such
students who have gone on to study
postgraduate degrees in addition to their
undergraduate studies at Bond, taking
that extra step toward fulfilling their career
ambitions.
Motivated by a hunger for knowledge and
experience, these students are now delving
into high-profile areas of study within the
fields of law, philosophy and psychology.
Bond offered a Masters in that field,”
says Ms Larkin.
“I stayed on to do my PhD after having
that Masters experience and being
exposed to such great teaching capacity
and student support.”
Ms Larkin looks forward to applying for
internships with the United Nations and
continuing a career in political advocacy.
Caitlin Rodaughan
Oscar Davis
Master of Philosophy
Oscar Davis made the shift from
studying the mind to speaking it,
when he discovered his love for
philosophy during one of his core
psychology classes.
Mr Davis received an Indigenous
Community Scholarship to study a
Bachelor of Psychological Science, later
making the switch to the fields he is
most interested in.
“I may have frustrated the Student
Business Centre with the degree
changes,” says Mr Davis, “but I
went on to complete a Bachelor
of Arts majoring in Philosophy and
Criminology, and then went on to
start a related postgraduate degree.”
Mr Davis is currently working through
his Masters thesis centred on the
principals of morality and the laws of
human nature.
He also works as a teacher at
Bond, where he has been inspired
to facilitate thought-provoking
conversations with his students, just as
his own professors had done with him.
Master of Psychology
For Caitlin Rodaughan, it was Bond’s
personal teaching approach that sealed
the deal on both an honours and
postgraduate degree in psychology.
She is currently compiling her Masters
thesis to test frameworks for mental
health in Indigenous university students,
while also working as an Indigenous
Tutorial Assistance Scheme (ITAS) Support
Officer at Bond.
“When I was at university in Melbourne
I didn’t even know my teacher’s names,”
reflects Ms Rodaughan.
“But then when I came to Bond, I
remember even just at orientation there
were so many teachers who were already
willing to talk to me. I think that is the
major bonus that helped me decide to
stick around for my Masters.”
Ms Rodaughan hopes to qualify and
register as a clinical psychologist in the
near future, aiming to secure a full-time
job in 2018.
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COMMUNITY
Hannah Duncan
Postgraduate Diploma
of Legal Practice
Not only is Hannah Duncan making
a name for herself in the public law
space, she is also well and truly living
up to the legacy of her lineage.
The history-changing work of her
grandfather, the late Eddie Mabo,
inspired Ms Duncan to carve her
own path toward helping society in
a positive way.
Ms Duncan completed her Bachelor
of Laws at Bond and is now studying
a Postgraduate Diploma of Legal
Practice, after which she hopes
to secure a position at either the
Administrative Appeals Tribunal or
the Attorney-General’s department.
“I think in these departments the
law would be applied in a different
sense, where you would need to
consider political grounds outside of
the legislation alone,” she says.
“I feel that if I work in this area,
I will be able to build my skills in
dispute resolution methods, such as
negotiation and mediation, and be
able to give back to the community.”
“I’m excited and nervous to see
what is ahead but I am confident
that if I work hard I will get where I
need to be, and achieve my ultimate
goal of making a difference.”
Ms Duncan found a passion for the
law, rather than politics, because she
believes the law is the best avenue
for understanding government
systems, and is a degree which can
support a variety of career choices.
MEET BOND’S NEWEST
INDIGENOUS SCHOLARS
BOND has welcomed its latest cohort
of Indigenous scholarship students; a
talented group of people with varied
interests and backgrounds, who have
embarked on a range of undergraduate
degrees and diplomas.
Among the eight new students who
started in the January Semester 2017 is
Rekisha Satour, a former Yalari program
student who also completed high-school
on a scholarship in Western Australia.
The cohort also includes Jenepher Boon,
a student from Rockhampton who is
undertaking a Bachelor of Biomedical
Science, and Jesse Russell, an aspiring
professional tennis player who is delving
into the business arena through a
Bachelor of Sports Management.
Jasmine Roberts and Giselle Kilner-
Parmenter, who were first introduced to
Bond through the Australian Indigenous
Mentoring Experience (AIME), are
both Gold Coast locals who have both
launched degrees through Bond Law.
Marnie Jones is enrolled in a Diploma of
Communication, and students Damien
Bourke and Timakoi Bowie, who both
came to Bond through the Cairns AFL
Cape York House, are each studying the
Diploma of Business.
Ms Satour says that aside from her
degree, she was most looking forward to
becoming a part of Bond’s internationally
diverse culture.
“The thing I was most excited about
was meeting new people from across
the world, it’s interesting meeting those
people with different backgrounds,” she
says.
Mr Bowie, who is currently in his draft
year with the Gold Coast Suns, is looking
forward to a future of professional footy
and giving back to the community.
“Being at Bond is a great experience,
I’m starting to get to know the other
students and lecturers and making good
friends,” says Mr Bowie.
“After I finish study, one of my uncles
runs an Indigenous centre in Cairns and
I’m hoping to help make something
bigger out of it.”
Bond University’s Indigenous
scholarship program is one of the most
comprehensive and successful in the
country, maintaining a significantly
higher student retention rate than the
national average.
Since launching the program, which is
supported by organisations including
Blue Sky Alternative Investments, Newell
Holdings QLD and ISS Facility Services,
Bond University has awarded a total of
70 Indigenous scholarships.
Back row (standing) L-R: Ms Marnie Jones, Mr Damien Burke, Ms Rekisha Satour
Front row (sitting) L-R: Ms Jenepher Boon, Mr Timakoi Bowie, Ms Giselle Kilner-Parmenter,
Ms Jasmine Roberts, Mr Jesse Russell
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Professor Tim Brailsford with the 2017 Vice-Chancellor Scholars
Ms Catherine O’Sullivan with
mentor Mr Mark Sowerby
Where ambition meets
EXPERIENCE
A LEADING venture capitalist, a partnerin-charge
of a ‘Big Four’ accounting firm,
the head of an institutional bank, and a
general counsel to an ASX-listed company
are among the mentors in the 2017 Bond
University Vice-Chancellor Mentor Program.
Nine students will benefit from the
deep industry knowledge and personal
experience that will be shared by these
industry leaders as the year progresses,
building a bridge between the ambition of
the young minds, and the experience of
their mentors.
The initiative is offered as part of the
prestigious Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship,
which is awarded to some of the country’s
highest achieving school-leavers each year.
The program aims to provide a
transformational student experience in line
with Bond University’s mission statement:
its ‘commitment to influence’, and
‘dedication to inspire’.
Bond University Vice Chancellor and
President, Professor Tim Brailsford, says
the most valuable commodity that can be
shared is knowledge, and the benefits of
the program are profound.
“It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to
absorb the insights, perspectives and life
lessons from leaders in their field; one that
they rate among the most valuable aspects
of their time at Bond,” he says.
“For our mentors, too, it is a significant
milestone; presenting a time to reflect
on their own success and how they have
achieved their goals, as well as providing
a collegiate connection with the next
generation of industry captains.”
Dakota-Lily Morris, 2014 Vice-Chancellor
Scholar, is now working as a Junior
Paralegal at DibbsBarker Brisbane while
she completes her Law and International
Relations studies at Bond.
Ms Morris was mentored by Judy Brinsmead,
Joint Chairman of ADCO Constructions.
“We have formed a strong relationship,
and I consider her a friend and the most
wonderful mentor you could have as a law
student,” says Ms Morris.
The relationship has blossomed past the 12
month program into a friendship.
“Ms Brinsmead is someone I can look up
to. She has achieved so much, yet she is the
humblest person and she makes the time to
spend with me, which is indicative of how
lovely she is,” says Ms Morris.
From early on in the program, it was clear
that it would be more than a 12-month
experience.
“I remember Ms Brinsmead said to me on
one of the first times I met her that she
had no intention of it being a 12-month
program, and I think that is very true, Ms
Brinsmead will be my mentor indefinitely.”
Ms Morris says the advice has been
particularly useful as she approaches
graduation in April 2018 and considers her
first career move.
“More than anything, it has given me a
lot of confidence, particularly at this stage,
which is quite daunting, coming up to
graduate from law and then considering all
the things outside of university. It is useful
for me to know that I can talk to someone
who has been there and done that.”
The mentorship has developed into a strong
bond for the pair.
“We have shared stores about our lives,
families, holidays and careers,” says Ms
Brinsmead.
“I’ve given advice on overseas study,
subject selections, employment
opportunities and leadership positions.
“She is an extraordinary woman and
colleague – one with whom I will
collaborate for years to come.”
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SPORT
SEVENS TO TAKE
ON THE NATION
UNDER WORLD
CLASS COACH
BOND is among eight universities
that will take part in the inaugural
National Sevens University Series
(NSUS)
Women’s rugby in Australia is
booming.
The Australian Women’s Sevens
team won gold at the Rio de Janiero
Olympic Games last year and
participation at the amateur levels
has grown 33 percent since then.
The series aims to build on that
momentum by providing a field
to unearth the next generation of
female rugby talent, who will get the
opportunity to play alongside some
of Australia’s best players.
The series will be played over four
tournaments between August
and October, in the World Series
off-season, allowing Australian
representatives to take part.
Under new coach Ben Gollings, who
has 70 caps for the England Sevens
team and holds the world record for
points scored in sevens, the Bond
team will have a top-level coach to
bring the best out of its players.
Mr Gollings, who is based at Bond
University Rugby Club, said the Gold
Coast was already home to to many
great women players.
“Introducing a new national
competition will give our Gold Coast
rugby players a home, and the
opportunity to play more often and
at a higher level, which is what is
needed to become more skilled and
more competitive internationally,”
he said.
“Our aim is to help develop the
sport at a community level by
encouraging more girls and women
to participate in Sevens.”
“From this solid base, we’ll be
in a strong position to identify
talent and create a pathway for
their development as they leave
school and look to become elite
professional players.”
The tournament builds on the
momentum being built in the
Women’s Sevens code following the
national team’s gold medal at the Rio
Olympics last year.
Blues Awards celebrate
Bond’s finest athletes
L-R: Ms Madeline Groves, Mr Mathew Belcher
OLYMPIC medalists Mathew Belcher and
Maddie Groves were named the Bond
University Sportsman and Sportswoman of
the Year at the annual Blues Awards late
last year.
Both Mr Belcher and Ms Groves won silver
at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games: Mr
Belcher for sailing in the 470 class; and Ms
Groves in the 200 metre butterfly swim.
In 2016, Mr Belcher also took out first
place in the 470 European Championships
and the Trofeo SAR Pincesa Sofia Palma de
Majorca, both in Spain, and placed second
at the World Cup in Hyeres, France.
It is the second time Mr Belcher and Ms
Groves have been named Bond’s top
sportspeople.
Mr Belcher was named top sportsman in
2013 after winning gold in the 470 class at
the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Ms Groves took out the 2015 award
following winning bronze at the 2014 Delhi
Commonwealth Games in the 200 metre
butterly, and where she also swam in the
heats for the gold medal winning Australian
freestyle team.
Mr Belcher, 34, graduated from Bond
with a Bachelor of Commerce in 2009 and
is currently studying a Master of Urban
Development and Sustainability at
the University.
He is a member of the Bond Elite Sport
Program (BESP), which provides support to
rising athletes to balance their study and
sporting ambitions.
“For me, it’s an absolute privilege to be a
professional athlete and a privilege for me
to be at Bond,” Mr Belcher says.
Ms Groves was awarded the 2015 Georgina
Hope Rinehart Swimming Excellence
Scholarship and is also a member of the
Bond Elite Sports Program (BESP). She is
studying a Bachelor of Social Science.
“I’m grateful for the opportunity to be here
so I can show how appreciative I am for
everything,” says Ms Groves of the Blues
Awards.
“I’ve been so fortunate to have such an
amazing year and I really appreciate Bond’s
support and contribution to that, as well as
the support of the Georgina Hope Rinehart
Foundation.”
Also honoured at this year’s Blues Awards
was Bond University Swimming Club coach
Richard Scarce, who was named Coach of
the Year. The swimming club also claimed
the Champion Club award, while surf
lifesaver Campbell McDonald was awarded
the Elite Sport Scholar award.
The Best Sporting Moment was awarded
to swimmer Alex Graham for breaking the
Australian University Games 100 metre
freestyle record with a 50.43 second swim
in Perth earlier last year; while Edward
Burrows-Cheng received the Outstanding
Service to Sport award for his role as Bond
University AFL Club President.
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Bond builds its coaching
A-TEAM
TRIATHLON
Mr Dan
Atkins
Dan Atkins is the Triathlon Australia
National Performance Centre Head
Coach, based out of Bond University,
and the Australian Institute of Sport
at Pizzey Park.
He has been working with the
swimming squad at the University
pool since 2014.
In the lead up to the Rio Olympics,
Mr Atkins had triathletes using
the altitude chamber at the Bond
Institute of Health and Sport to
prepare for the conditions at the
humid Brazilian city.
Mr Atkins has both Olympians and
Paralympians under his tutelage
and is excited to grow the triathlon
program at Bond to include amateur
athletes into the future.
Mr Atkins sees Bond and the Gold
Coast as the best places in the world
to train triathletes.
GOOD coaches not only get the best out of
the athletes they have, they attract a new
calibre of athlete to train under them.
That’s why Bond University has secured
some of the best coaches in Australia and
internationally, for its peak performance
sports.
The partnerships in sports such as
swimming, triathlon, rugby, AFL, netball
and soccer put Bond athletes in touch with
some of the nation’s top coaches.
The athletes benefit from a high-end
coaching experience commensurate with
the high standard of education they get as
a student, and clear pathways to the higher
levels of their sports.
This all feeds into Bond’s vision to be the
leading destination for sports education.
“We have worked very hard to attract these
coaches and our intent is to continue to
do so as we develop the Bond University
sports landscape,” says Executive Director
of Sport, Garry Nucifora.
“Good coaching is the cornerstone of
success and personal development, and we
want to foster both attributes in our Bond
athletes.”
The appointment of Ben Gollings and Luca
Liussi to the rugby department is a case in
point. Mr Gollings was an internationallevel
rugby sevens player for England who
is the new coach of the Bond women’s
SWIMMING
Mr Richard
Scarce
sevens team, while Mr Luissi has held key
management roles with senior Australian
sevens teams.
“ I came here for the rugby program after I
saw the world-class people and program at
Bond’s rugby facility,” says Mr Liussi.
“The credibility of the coaches and the
administration is really exciting.”
In swimming, Richard Scarce has brought
with him some of Australia’s highest
rated talent as part of the Bond University
Swimming Team – including Olympic
medallists Cameron McEvoy and Thomas
Fraser-Holmes.
Working alongside them is the triathlon
squad under coach Dan Atkins, who says it
is a key opportunity to have elite swimmers
working alongside each other, even if they
compete in different sports.
“The team has performed well over the
past 12 months and everyone has been
patting each other on the back while also
pushing each other to go further,” says Mr
Atkins. “I believe this is the best place on
Earth to do what we do, and I am really
excited about the future.”
The momentum building behind Bond’s
sports program will continue to grow under
the watch of these top-class coaches as
more elite athletes are attracted to the
University and participation levels among
students increases.
Richard Scarce has been Head
Coach for the Bond Swim Club
since 2015, when he brought a
team of 40 swimmers to train at
the University, including Olympian
Cameron McEvoy.
Assisted by Kyle Samuelson, Mr
Scarce has taken Bond’s swimming
program to an international
standard, which is important as
the University continues to attract
elite-level swimmers through
its Georgina Hope Rinehart
Swimming Excellence Scholarship.
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SPORT
AFL
Former VFL and AFL player Craig
Starcevich is Head Coach of the AFL
Women’s Brisbane Lions team.
Mr Starcevich played for Collingwood
for seven years from 1987 before
moving to the Brisbane Bears in 1994,
where he played for two seasons.
He also has a long history as a trainer
and strength and conditioning coach,
having held the role at the Brisbane
Lions and St Kilda Football Clubs.
Bond gains access to Mr Starcevich
through the University’s role as the
Official Coaches Partner of the Brisbane
Lions Women’s team.
In the Gold Coast competition, Bond’s
AFL team is guided by Sam Whish
Wilson.
Mr Whish Wilson has led the side to two
premierships in his three years with the
Club resulting in the team’s progression
to ever higher divisions.
Last year, the Bond University Bullsharks
AFL team made the preliminary final of
QFA Division 1.
Ben Merrett has proved a strong foil to
Mr Whish Wilson as the reserves coach.
Mr Merrett, son of AFL legend Roger
Merrett, came to the Bullsharks in 2015.
Mr Merrett is a formidable performer
on the field as a star for the first-grade
team and a representative player for the
south-east Queensland regional team, in
addition to being a strong guiding hand
for the reserves.
Dave Ashkar is Bond’s new AFL
women’s Head Coach. Mr Ashkar
hopes to replicate his success with the
Gold Coast Suns Under 16s academy,
which he took to back-to-back state
championships.
NETBALL
Ms Linda
Peterson
Mr Craig
Starcevich
Linda Peterson is the Coach of the
Bond University Golden South Jaguars
in the Queensland State Netball
League, a role she transitioned to
after eight years as a player.
The partnership with Bond has
allowed the Jags to implement a full
strength and conditioning program
with access to the new Sports Centre.
The Golden South Jaguars compete
in the feeder competition to the
premier Super Netball League making
Ms Peterson an important mentor
to the Queensland up-and-coming
netballers.
RUGBY
Bond University’s rugby
department has a new look this
year, under Director of Rugby
Sean Hedger.
It is a team with a wealth
of knowledge on the game:
Mr Hedger coached in
Japan’s top league, at the
Melbourne Rebels in the
Super Rugby competition and
with Melbourne Rising in the
National Rugby Championships.
The team has two new
members with a depth of
knowledge in the game this
year, in Luca Liussi as General
Manager Bond Rugby and Ben
Gollings as I came here for the
rugby program after I saw the
world-class people and program
at Bond’s rugby facility.
Mr Liussi comes to the
University from his long-term
role as the Australian Sevens
Team Manager, while Mr
Gollings – the highest point
scorer in world sevens history
– recently finished his long
international playing career.
Adding depth to the team is
Adrian Thompson, who is
Assistant Coach for the premier
team, and holds the role of
Australia Under 20s Coach.
Mr Ben
Gollings
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BOND BACKS WOMEN’S SPORT
PROFESSIONAL women’s sport is not new:
think tennis, surfing, golf and swimming.
What is new is the rise of women’s team
sports, especially in the traditionally male
dominated football codes.
Late last year, Super Netball players signed
a dramatic increase to the minimum wage,
the Australian Women’s Sevens team won
the gold medal at the Rio Olympics, and
the Women’s AFL Competition kicked off to
widespread acclaim.
Bond University is at the forefront of this
new push for women’s sport, which has
been embraced by the public and the sports
community at large.
“Sport is part of Bond’s DNA,” says
Executive Director of Sport, Garry Nucifora.
“We are staunch champions of women’s
sport and the creation of pathways to
enable more opportunities for young
players to develop into elite female
athletes and professionals through
coaching, conditioning, mentoring and
education,” he said.
The University’s support of women’s
team sport has a four-pronged approach,
spearheaded by its roles as the Official
Coaches’ Partner of the Brisbane Lions
Women’s team in the Women’s AFL.
“In the past few months we have witnessed
the nation getting behind women’s football
to an extent never seen before, and Bond
University is proud to cement its support of
women’s AFL through this partnership with
the Brisbane Lions,” says Mr Nucifora.
Additionally, Bond is a naming-rights
sponsor of the Golden South Jaguars in
netball and of the Gold Coast City Football
Club women’s senior team in the NPL.
The University is also represented in the
new National Sevens University Series this
year – Australia’s first national women’s
sevens rugby competition.
Jackie Parra, Manager of Sports and
Programs, says the University has an
emphasis on equality.
“Women’s team sport is making headway
into the Australian sporting landscape and
it is really exciting and productive that Bond
is partnering with some of the highest
levels of female sporting teams,” she says.
“These girls are elite athletes and also
wonderful role models, and we want to help
provide a pathway for female athletes to
achieve their sporting goals and dreams.”
2017 is Bond’s third year as a naming
rights partner of the Golden South Jaguars,
which competes in the Queensland State
Netball League, and two Bond students are
playing in the division one team: Ashleigh
Keefe, the 2017 ADCO Sports Excellence
Scholarship holder; and Laura King.
Two Jags players recently competed at the
highest level of domestic competition, the
Super Netball League, including the club
captain Kristen Oxenford.
“It shows the Jaguars are a high performing
team that provide a stepping stone to the
top level of netball in Australia, and they
have had several outstanding performers,”
says Ms Parra.
Golden South Jaguars head coach Linda
Peterson says the sponsorship has allowed
the team to step up its training programs.
“It is a big step up for the girls, and for
netball in the region. The sponsorship
means that we can run full strength and
conditioning programs with access to the
new Sports Centre – once a week we have
a squad session there,” says Ms Peterson.
These partnerships not only allow Bond
to attract elite athletes as students, but
provide existing students with pathways to
the top level of sport, both for competitors,
and sports science students, who get the
opportunities to work with the teams. It is a
win-win for women’s sport in the region.
Bond
Women’s
AFL team
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SPORT
In the swim of things
KICKING
GOALS
L-R: Ms Jenna Strauch, Ms Laura Taylor
BOND breeds elite swimmers in droves,
and the University’s latest rising stars are
Jenna Strauch and Laura Taylor.
Bendigo-born 19-year-old Ms Strauch
has competed at an international level,
representing Australia in the 2013 World
Junior Swimming Championships in Dubai.
She also swam for Australia at the 2013
Youth Olympics Festival in Sydney, winning
two gold medals and breaking two
world records.
Like Ms Strauch, local girl Laura Taylor,
from St Hilda’s School, has her sights set on
the next Olympic Games hosted by Tokyo
in 2020.
Ms Taylor made the Australian Junior
Pan Pac Team last year, as well as the
Queensland Short Course Team and, for
the third consecutive year, the Queensland
Talent Identification Squad.
At the Rio Olympic trials (2016 Hancock
Prospecting Australian Swimming
Championships), Ms Taylor took home
bronze in the 200 metre butterfly. She
also won five gold medals at this year’s
Georgina Hope Foundation Australian
Age Championships.
Both Ms Taylor and Ms Strauch have been
awarded the celebrated Georgina Hope
Rinehart Swimming Excellence Scholarship
to study at Bond University in 2017.
First offered in 2015, the scholarship gives
recipients the opportunity to compete at an
elite level while studying.
Ms Strauch, who was crowned the fastest
15-year-old female breaststroker in
Bond AFL
Australia Women’s in team 2012, started a Bachelor of
Biomedical Science at Bond this year.
“The ongoing discoveries made and
extended through science and medicine
that improve humanity and its purpose
really inspire me and is why I have chosen
to study Biomedical Science at Bond,” says
Ms Strauch.
“I have a lot of smaller goals for my studies
in the future but my next major sporting
goal is to qualify for the Open Australian
swim team and to represent Australia at the
2020 Olympic Games.”
Ms Taylor is looking more closely into the
health arena too, has begun a Bachelor of
Exercise and Sports Science this year.
“I’m really interested in seeing how the
body works and which muscles are used
while training and competing to help
maximise sporting success,” says Ms Taylor.
“Becoming a physiotherapist will not only
help me to understand my body and how
it works to a greater degree, but to assist
other athletes and sports enthusiasts to
reach their goals.”
Bond Executive Director of Sport, Garry
Nucifora, says the Georgina Hope Rinehart
Swimming Excellence Scholarship provides
a unique mentoring experience for
the recipients.
“Our Bond alumni include an impressive
cohort of Olympic and Commonwealth
Games gold medal swimmers who are
on hand to provide both career and sport
mentoring, and techniques to help our
athletes prepare for life beyond sport.”
Bond Sport Ambassador and current
Medical student, and Olympic gold
medalist, Melanie Wright, is an example of
one such significant mentor whom athletes
can access.
A NATIONWIDE search was
conducted last year for the next
John Eales Rugby Excellence
Scholar for 2017.
The Year 12 student received
the John Eales Rugby Excellence
Scholarship for being an
exceptional rugby player who
also possesses leadership and
community skills.
The undergraduate scholarship
is designed to allow students to
focus on their rugby careers while
preparing for life after sport.
Scholars train with the Bond
University Rugby Club under Head
Coach Sean Hedger, and also
receive mentoring from Mr Eales.
Mr Blyth, who hails from Casuarina
but graduated from The Southport
School (TSS), recently signed with
the Queensland Reds.
The talented defender was
also selected for the Australian
Schoolboys Barbarians team last
year, following two strong seasons
in the First XV for TSS and having
trained with the Reds schoolboy
development squad.
Mr Blyth started studying a
Bachelor of Commerce in January
2017.
“I would like to continue my
passion for business after my
rugby career has finished and this
scholarship will give me the ability
to set myself up to be successful
in both my chosen fields,” says Mr
Blyth.
“I plan to work on my off-season
fitness to be able to play in the
Queensland Under 20s in 2017,
then after that I hope to make the
Australian Under 20 squad to play
in Georgia at the Under 20 Rugby
World Championships.
“Having the assistance of an iconic
player such as John Eales, who is
someone I have looked up to my
whole life and seen as a real hero,
will be a major asset in helping
take my rugby career to the next
level.”
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Kirsty Mitchell,
Director of the Career
Development Centre
Careers:
THEN
AND
NOW
By Kirsty Mitchell, Director, Career and Development Centre, Bond University
THIS edition of the Arch highlights the
journeys of Bond’s inaugural cohort. It
provides a point of reflection for me as I
think about the career transitions of all the
students I have worked with during my
time at Bond in the Career Development
Centre (CDC).
The big over-arching concerns that plague
students are those around the outcome and
process - “Who will I become? What will I
do? Will I get there? Will I like it? Will I be
good enough?” Much angst is experienced
in this transition, most notably the selfdoubt
they all face.
In the CDC we have the privileged role of
providing advice, practical support, and
encouragement to students to help them
achieve their goals. I often call us the Office
of Hopes and Dreams.
We provide visible hope to students by
sharing stories of alumni success and how
they experienced the same concerns, yet
managed to overcome these challenges and
achieve their dreams.
We spend a great deal of time developing
maps and strategies with a significant
caveat - the map is not the terrain. After all,
a career is not a destination, but a journey.
I love talking with alumni about their career
journeys and a common element is how
they adapted when the terrain shifted.
Fortunately, I recently had the opportunity
to speak with Yolande Waldock, an 892
alumna who completed a Bachelor of
Commerce. Ms Waldock mentioned that
she was strongly encouraged by her father,
a racing car driver and explosives expert, to
enrol at Bond.
The fast-track degree held significant
appeal along with the challenger status
and unique education model offered by the
University. Ms Waldock thrived at Bond and
built long lasting relationships with fellow
Bondies living on campus.
When I asked about her biggest learning
experience to date, Ms Waldock replied,
“To learn, grow and evolve. You need to
accept change. You have an idea what
you want to do when you are at university,
however it is rarely how the plan goes”.
Her advice to other Bondies, particularly
recent graduates, is to “Do the things you
are passionate about”.
“We all work long and hard hours but you
need to be around people, products and
organisations that you enjoy and care about.
Give it a go, and if you don’t love it then
change it. Be happy and passionate; this is
when you perform at your best,” she said.
Over the course of her career, Ms
Waldock has deftly chased opportunities
through large corporate, agency and
automotive fields with dynamism, passion
and determination. Her passion for the
automotive industry has led to significant
career growth in a field typically dominated
by men.
After a challenging yet rewarding role at
Lexus International in Japan, Ms Waldock
recently moved to Sydney for a new role as
Corporate Manager, Brand Management
and Communications at Toyota Australia.
Ms Waldock is one of 322 students from
a handful of nations in the Class of 892,
whose courage and thirst for something
different helped Bond develop its reputation
to become a world-class institution.
We now have over 25,000 graduates from
over 150 countries. While there is no doubt
the University has grown significantly since
its foundation, I believe our core values
remain the same - we offer a uniquely
personalised approach to education, we
deliver a transformative experience that
unleashes potential, and we know our
students by name, not just by number.
Notably, the ethos of our students has
remained unchanged also.
Today’s graduates believe, just as the
students from 1989 did, in defining their
own success by challenging the status quo,
adapting to dynamic environments, thriving
on change and the opportunities it creates,
staying connected and supporting each
other, and by giving back through ongoing
involvement with the University.
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EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
APRIL 2017
24th 171 Semester ends
MAY 2017
OCTOBER 2017
7th 173 Graduation
TBC Business Links #3
NOVEMBER 2017
NOV15
GC DEMO DAY
10th
15th
15th
18th-
21st
18th
19th
20th
21st
172 Orientation Expo
172 Semester Begins
Transformer Launch
Homecoming
Alumni Awards Dinner
Family and Friends Festival
Bond Benefit Dinner
Blues on Broadbeach
3rd Indigenous Gala
15th Gold Coast Demo Day
16th BBT Graduation
DECEMBER 2017
6th Medicine Graduation
16th 173 Semester Ends
JUNE 2017
JUL22
OPEN DAY
10th
172 Graduation
23rd Bond Business Leaders Forum #2
with guest speaker Tony Shepherd
JULY 2017
22nd
TBC
Open Day
Business Links #2 with guest
speaker Mark Sowerby
AUGUST 2017
19th
172 Semester Ends
SEPTEMBER 2017
5th Bond Business Leaders Forum #3
with guest speaker David Thodey
6th
11th
173 Orientation Expo
173 Semester Begins
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