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A l umni News

Gillian Triggs and Cheryl Saunders Sunday

welcomed as College Fellows Afternoon

Conversation

with
Professor Tim Entwisle

In September 2013 College alumnus
and Director of the Royal Botanic
Gardens Professor Tim Entwisle spoke
at JCH in our annual ‘Sunday Afternoon
Conversation’. Tim traced his career path
from Nhill to Melbourne and enthusiastic
beginnings as a Botany student at the
University of Melbourne, to rewarding
Prof Cheryl Saunders AO Prof Gillian Triggs positions at the Royal Botanic Gardens in
Sydney, Kew (London) and Melbourne.
Two of Australia’s most distinguished lawyers, Prof Gillian Triggs (1964) and Prof Tim’s talk was accompanied by stunning
Cheryl Saunders AO (1962), have been elected Fellows of the College, the highest images including of Entwisleia bella, the
honour the College can bestow. Near contemporaries in the College, both have been first member of the order Entwisleiales,
honoured both nationally and internationally for their contribution to the knowledge recognising Tim’s international reputation
and practice of law, in particular international human rights law and constitutional law. in the study of freshwater algae. The
afternoon was also a reunion of sorts for
While Prof Saunders is completing a comprehensive comparative study of constitutions JCH alumni, and among those present
and constitutional law, her practical expertise has also been sought in aspects of was Professor Peter Koopman (1977),
constitutional design in Australia and other countries including Fiji, South Africa, now head of the Division of Molecular
Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, East Timor, Iraq and Nepal. Recently Prof Triggs has been active Genetics and Development at the
in her role as President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, drawing attention University of Queensland, who travelled
to the treatment of children in custody and asylum seekers. The College is delighted to down specially from Brisbane to attend
welcome both back into the life of the College as Fellows. the event.
As Prof Saunders completes her international comparative study, Prof Triggs and
fellow alumna Erika Feller (1967), Assistant High Commissioner of the United Nations
Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have contributed to a new collection of essays, Refugees
and asylum seekers: finding a better way; Contributions by notable Australians, which
was launched in December 2013 by Sir William Deane. The essays seek new ways of
framing public conversation about refugees and asylum seekers.

Erika Feller, Assistant High Catching up: Professor Peter Koopman
Commissioner of the United and Professor Tim Entwisle
Nations Refugee Agency
(UNHCR)
Sex, Freedom and Music

In December alumni and friends gathered as Kenneth Moore Memorial Music Scholar
Dr Anna Goldsworthy displayed her remarkable breadth of talent in concert and in
conversation. Over Anna’s long association with the College she has flourished as a
musician and also as a writer, as reflected in her appointment as inaugural Research
Fellow at the J.M. Coetzee Centre at the University of Adelaide. The College is delighted
that Anna has continued her association with Janet Clarke Hall as our Kenneth Moore
Memorial Music Scholar.

A large audience was fascinated as Anna read passages from her award-winning ‘Piano
Lessons’ and matched them with music reflecting the words. After a short interval
Jan McGuinness and Anna she was joined by Jan McGuinness (1967), Council member and former Chair of the
Goldsworthy in conversation Melbourne Writer’s Festival, as they discussed Anna’s Quarterly Essay ‘Unfinished
Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny’. Anna’s rare talent and intellect offered food for
the mind and soul.
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