The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, Mr Tim Fischer, presented the keynote address at the 1998 Australian Export Awards ceremony at the Star City Complex on 1 December.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, Mr Tim Fischer, presented
the keynote address at the 1998 Australian Export Awards ceremony at the Star
City Complex on 1 December.
UOW recently won the Austrade-sponsored 1998 Education Export Award in the NSW Premier’s Awards and then went head to head with other state winners at the national awards. The national education export award was won by RMIT.
Mr Fischer is pictured at the national awards ceremony with UOW Vice-Chancellor, Professor Gerard Sutton (right) and Vice-Principal (International) and Managing Director of Illawarra Technology Corporation, Mr Jim Langridge.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Gerard Sutton, is pictured with the envoys
and visiting journalists before the forum dinner. Pictured top far right are
Professor John Morrison and the Vice-Principal (Administration), Mr David Rome.
Potential environmental leaders from the East and South-East Asian region
visited Australia from 23 November to 1 December with the support of the United
Nations Environment Programme and the Australian Government.
The 20 participants in the program included 11 university students from six countries, United Nations Environment Programme representatives and Asian television, radio and print journalists. The students were from Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
The initiative was established under the auspice of the United Nations Environment Programme for Asia and the Pacific and has the support of the Federal Minister for the Environment, Senator Robert Hill. The program was hosted and co-ordinated by the University of Wollongong’s Environment Research Institute.
During their trip the envoys interacted with Australian students actively involved in environmental issues; attended workshops with leaders in environmental issues; and visited environmentally significant sites such as Sydney Airport and the Olympic Games site at Homebush Bay.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wollongong, Professor Gerard Sutton, said the primary outcome of the program was to train future leaders in environmental protection and sustainable management of natural resources in the various regions of Asia and Australia.
Professor Sutton said there was no doubt that environmental issues would dominate private and public sector agendas in the next millennium.
"Key partners who are involved in this program will play a strategic role in nurturing future environmental leaders in the Asian region," he said.
The envoys participated in an International Forum on Environmental Education and Management at UOW.
The forum was on the theme, ‘Integrating science and social science research into environmental decision-making’. It involved all Young Environment Envoys and a number of Australian undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The Manager of Client Services at the University Library, Lynne Wright, is
pictured with Bert Nixon and Bea Beamish from the Mayflower Retirement Village
at Gerringong who participated in a hands-on session for the retirees in the
Library’s Teaching Lab.
They may have trouble ‘hanging five’ on a surf board these days
but a group of senior citizens tested their skills on 27 November surfing the
Internet at the University of Wollongong in what was the first venture for many
of them into cyberspace.
The Minister for Communications, the Information Economy and the Arts, Senator Richard Alston, announced that 27 November would be a national day to promote the employment opportunity and social benefits of the information economy.
Online Australia Day essentially aims to highlight the fact that one doesn’t have to be a computer expert to become involved in what the Internet has to offer.
The University Library was the main focal point for the University’s participation in Online Australia. The Library invited a group of senior citizens from a retirement home and other retired members of the local community to attend a workshop about the Internet.