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I expect Deakin Research to set the standard for research operations within universities,
not just in Australia, but globally.
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Two Melbournian males, and their born in the heart land of baby booming, one late 1954,
the other early 1955 and I offer them as my example again of the commonalities that nit
these people together their life choices, the trajectory of their life, the kinds of
decisions they make about what they value and what they don't and so on and so fourth.
My first example late 1954 is Mark Chopper Read. Born late in 1954 and my second born
early 1955 is the reverend Tim Costello .
Like all baby boomers I came into being as a result of a vast worldwide outpouring of
***, that swept up my parents and all other human beings in the western world in its all
consuming desire to have sex, in the vast sigh of relief atthe conclusion of World War
II. I am mearly the result of this vast spawning, its not my fault I was born, its my parents,
and I think that you will find this is the default position for all baby boomers, thank
you.
What was interesting but also really rather distressing, well distressing to me, has been
that in some ways the Australian concept of fairness, of equity of the fair go, has been
inverted where people say they should get back in the queue and you have to say there
is no queue.
I become an Australian citizen, I bought my own house, coming to Deakin was the best move
I ever made.
We have five years of funding to be able to really focus on developing both the signs
the, materials for the storage technology and other engine technologies, also make those
linkages both in Australia and international with other people doing related research,
and hopefully in five years time we will provide a solution to some of our energy storage problems.
Well it is the challenge in making molecules and also the way to design molecules so they
do what you want or behave how you desire them to so there’s an elegance to it I think,
to write down on a piece of paper this molecule I want to make to then actually make it in
a laboratory and have it behave the way you predicted or probably more interesting the
ways that it didn’t intend to be predicted to behave. So we do a lot of good work like
that and often the unexpected results are the best. They lead to numerous projects and
so on so it’s been really what continuously drives me, is those diamonds in the rough
that you find that spur on new investigations.
When we moved across from Melbourne University to Deakin at the beginning of 2011, we were
initially a little bit apprehensive about moving from an established sand stone to a
brand new medical school. But, it really was the best move we ever made.
We got Deakin University in town as well and things are looking pretty good in Geelong.