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Internationally acclaimed as All That False Instruction, published
harpsichordist, organist, fortepianist and under a pseudonym in 1975 and
scholar Dr Jacky Ogeil (1987) is the republished in her own name in 2001.
artistic director of Duneira, a cultural After returning to Australia she taught
oasis centred on a Victorian house creative writing at the University of New
and 15 hectares of gardens on Mount South Wales before a ‘tree change’ that
Macedon. Opened to the public in has taken her to northern New South
2004, Duneira features a rich calendar Wales and Tasmania, where she holds
of musical and literary events. With her an honourary fellowship within the
husband, the conductor John O’Donnell University of Tasmania. Kerryn is a keen
(director of the Canterbury Fellowship gardener and local climate activist.
Choir), Jacky also established the
Woodend Winter Arts Festival, which Collision Course is published by The MIT
celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2014. Press and distributed in Australasia by
Footprint Books (www.footprint.com.au).
To find out more, visit http://www.
duneira.com.au/ and http://www. There is no better way to note the Elizabeth Sevior (Creswell 1948) looks
woodendwinterartsfestival.org.au/ importance of Elizabeth Blackburn at JCH photos from the past in the
(1966) and Peter Doherty than to take SCR with her daughter Madeleine and
Erika Feller (1967) has been appointed a walk down Royal Parade from the granddaughter Molly on a recent visit to
a University of Melbourne Vice- College. In 2014, Fellow and Nobel the College
Chancellor’s Fellow, in which role she Laureate Dr Blackburn was honoured
will provide leadership in debates on by the naming of the new Elizabeth Musician and
refugee policy across the region. Erika Blackburn School of Sciences which composer
was back in JCH for the Leadership teaches 200 high-performing year Councillor Rohan
Dinner, and within the University she 11 and 12 students in partnership Leppert (2003)
will encourage better dialogue between between University High School and the holds the Arts and
academics and policy makers in the University of Melbourne. Just on from Culture portfolio
face of a global refugee crisis. She is the Elizabeth Blackburn School, our for the City of
uniquely placed to lead this dialogue, Nobel Prize winning College Visitor Prof Melbourne,
after long service as the UNHCR’s Doherty was honoured by the naming working with
Assistant High Commissioner of the of the new Peter Doherty Institute for community programs with a particular
United Nations Refugee Agency that Infection and Immunity. focus on Melbourne’s vibrant Arts scene.
oversees the protection of millions of
refugees worldwide. She is based at Musican and lawyer Olivia Hally
the Melbourne School of Government, (2010) has been touring North America JCH Rhodes Scholar Dr Jenny Tran has
contributing to teaching, workshops, and and Europe with Oh Pep! as the band embarked for Oxford, and is looking
public lectures. immersed itself in the ‘old time’ music forward to making the most of her time
of Virginia’s Applachian mountains. in Europe. Here she gazes out over
Kerryn Higgs (1964) has published Playing to enthusiastic audiences, Oh Prague from Astronomical Clock Tower
Collision Course: Endless Growth on Pep! has been selected to represent
a Finite Planet, which reviews have Australia at the 2015 Folk Alliance
praised as a ‘thorough and carefully International Conference in Kansas City.
crafted history of the ideas of limits
and growth’. A prize-winning graduate Olivia Hally
in English and History, Kerryn taught
in the Melbourne History Department

before heading to London, where she
won the first Angus and Robertson
Prize for a novel in progress and wrote

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