62-572: The UWA Student Guild is the official student representative body at the University of Western Australia , representing the interests of students to the university, government and the wider community, as well as providing services to students. As of 2021, the Guild is affiliated with the National Union of Students, the peak representative body for Australian tertiary students. In 2021, 96% of
124-964: A UWA Albany Centre in 1999 to meet rural education needs. In 2005, Curtin University of Technology joined UWA in Albany to provide additional course offerings to the local rural community. UWA Albany offers postgraduate coursework and research programs through the Institute for Regional Development and the Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management. The UWA Rural Clinical School provides year-long rural placements for third-year medical students in Albany , Derby, Broome, Port Hedland, Karratha, Geraldton , Bunbury, Narrogin, Esperance, and Kalgoorlie ; Western Australia. Additionally,
186-540: A $ 31 million Business School building opened. In 2014, a $ 9 million new CO 2 research facility was completed, providing modern facilities for carbon research. The Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, a $ 62 million research facility on campus, was completed in 2016. The 65-hectare (160-acre) Crawley campus sits on the Swan River , about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) west of the Perth central business district . Many of
248-526: A Guild Alumni event to celebrate fifty years since the opening of the New Guild Building. The event was attended by former Guild President, Kim Beazley as well as former Guild Councillor the Hon. Robert French AC . The 2013 edition of annual charity newspaper Prosh caused significant controversy when a racist article, "dream-time horoscopes" lead to a public relations disaster for the Guild, with
310-668: A number of uses until its 1987 restoration funded by Convocation, after which it was moved across campus to James Oval. Since then, the northern end of the building has accommodated the Convocation Council meeting room while the remainder is used for change rooms and meeting rooms as part of the cricket pavilion. The building has been heritage-listed by both the National Trust and the Australian Heritage Council . Architect Rodney Alsop won
372-535: A proportion of the student population. In 2020, the university had 4,373 international student enrolments in a total student body of 18,717. The university recently attracted more competitive research funding than any other Western Australian university. Annually the university receives in excess of $ 71 million of external research income, expends over $ 117 million on research and graduates over 300 higher degree by research students, mostly doctorates. The university has over 80 research institutes and centres, including
434-699: A range of theatre and musical performances, including during the Perth Festival. The UWA Conservatorium of Music hosts many concerts each year by students and visiting artists, including series of free lunchtime concerts. The Berndt Museum of Anthropology , in the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery (formerly on the ground floor of the Social Sciences Building), contains one of the most significant collections of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural material in
496-536: A result, the relaunch saw the introduction of commercial breaks during the bulletin. The new bulletin format has since lost viewers, with the late bulletin often out-rating the flagship 6.30 bulletin; most of this has been attributed to the perceived commercialisation of the bulletin by the SBS Board. A dispute between longtime presenter Mary Kostakidis and the network arose in August 2007, when she walked out of
558-576: A series of lip dub videos, and battle of the bands. Some of the residential colleges have their own mascots. St Catherine's mascot is a cat, St George's a dragon and St Thomas More's a rooster. Students along college row tend to have short names for each of the colleges, and nicknames for the hostels have become a part of the resident culture. St Catherine's College is known as "St Cat's", St Thomas More College nicknamed "Tommy More", St George's College "George's", University Hall "Uni Hall" and Trinity Residential College "Trin". The university established
620-601: A very wide range of interests (religious, theatrical, cultural etc.). The Guild runs the majority of catering outlets on campus, including the Tavern, and a volunteering centre. The Guild's Student Assist provides one-on-one academic advocacy, financial counselling, a food pantry, and interest-free loans. The Publications Committee oversees print publications from student departments. This includes publications such as Pelican , Damsel Magazine (Women's Department), and Lighthouse Magazine (International Students' Department). Pelican
682-419: Is also a member of the international Matariki Network of Universities . UWA is ranked in the world's top 100 universities , according to several highly respected publications. Another defining characteristic of UWA is that it has retained its Convocation as an integral part of its governance structure. All UWA graduates are automatically lifelong members of the university through Convocation, which grants them
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#1732786560177744-606: Is brought together to discuss and contest contemporary and historical issues involving women and feminisms". Many notable UWA graduates have excelled in various professions, in particular in politics and government. Premiers of Western Australia have included graduates Alan Carpenter , Colin Barnett , Geoff Gallop , Richard Court and Carmen Lawrence . Former federal ministers include Kim Edward Beazley , his son, former deputy prime minister Kim Beazley , and Australia's 23rd prime minister, Bob Hawke . The former Chief Justice of
806-514: Is due to its simplicity and effectiveness in outsiders understanding the system. It is the first university in Western Australia to have this new system. Students entering the university at an undergraduate level must choose a three-year bachelor's degree. The university offers a Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Biomedical Science (BBiomedSc). As of 2017 , Bachelor of Design (BDes)
868-517: Is located on the Crawley campus at The University of Western Australia in Perth . CIBER conducts basic scientific research into honeybee reproduction, immunity and ecology and aligns its work with the needs of industrial and governmental partners. The university's degree structure changed in 2012 to bring together the undergraduate and postgraduate degrees available. Justification for this new system
930-547: Is the news service of the Special Broadcasting Service in Australia . Its flagship nightly bulletin is broadcast at 6.30pm on SBS with additional weeknight late bulletins from 10.30pm on SBS. SBS News is the name of the news app and website run by SBS. The World News began as a half-hour bulletin, first seen in 1980, soon after the launch of the then-named Channel 0/28. George Donikian
992-461: Is the premier student representative body on campus. It is affiliated with the National Union of Students. The Postgraduate Students' Association is the representative body for postgraduate students at UWA and is a department of the UWA Guild. The Guild provides a variety of services from catering to financial counselling. There are also over 100 clubs and societies funded by and affiliated with
1054-978: The Australian High Court , Robert French is also a graduate of the UWA Law School. Scientific and medical graduates include Nobel prize laureate Barry Marshall , the Australian of the Year for 2003 Fiona Stanley and the Australian of the Year for 2005 Fiona Wood . The former CEO of Ansett Airlines and British Airways , Sir Rod Eddington , is a graduate of the UWA School of Engineering. Graduates with outstanding sporting achievements include former Kookaburras (hockey) captain and Hockeyroos coach Ric Charlesworth . British-born Australian comedian Tim Minchin also attended The University of Western Australia. Parwinder Kaur , inducted into
1116-673: The Fields Medal . As of 2021, the university had produced 106 Rhodes Scholars . Two members of the UWA faculty, Barry Marshall and Robin Warren , won Nobel Prizes as a result of research at the university. The university was established in 1911 following the tabling of proposals by a royal commission in September 1910. The original campus, which received its first students in March 1913,
1178-565: The Parliament of Western Australia . UWA is the oldest university in Western Australia (WA) and the sixth-oldest in Australia. It is classed as one of the " sandstone universities ", an informal designation given to the oldest university in each state. UWA is a member of the Group of Eight , which consists of the eight most research-intensive and best-ranked Australian universities. UWA
1240-476: The University of Auckland , Monash University and the University of Queensland . Outskirts began as a printed magazine in 1996, and went online in 1998 as an Open Access Journal . The last edition published was Volume 14, in May 2019. Its stated aim was "to provide a space in which new and challenging critical material from a range of disciplinary perspectives and addressing a range of feminist topics and issues
1302-440: The 11th of April in 1913 with Sir John Winthrop Hackett serving as the first Guild President. Due to tuition being free at UWA at the time, there were limited resources for social and sporting activities, this resulted in the Guild taking these activities on and charging a membership fee of a half-crown, two shillings and a sixpence. In 1955, following the deaths of two final year law students - Ian Cruickshank and George Routley -
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#17327865601771364-740: The 1932 bronze medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects for Winthrop Hall. Those who knew him before his death, which occurred later that year, reported that Alsop had thought of little else but the Hackett Memorial buildings, including Winthrop Hall, for six years, and considered the buildings his life's greatest achievement. The university introduced the Doctorate of Philosophy degree in 1946 and made its first award in October 1950 to Warwick Bottomley for his research of
1426-582: The 21,265 UWA students were members of the Guild. Guild Council is the overall governing body of the Guild and consists of voting and non-voting members democratically elected at the annual Guild elections or at department annual general meetings. Student representatives are elected to their positions by students in annual elections held in September. Elections are conducted by the Western Australian Electoral Commission. Elected office bearers take office as of 1 December in
1488-585: The 30th of November in the following year. There are twenty-one voting members of council, and several more non-voting members. Members may hold a voting and a non-voting role concurrently. Unlike some other student unions, there is no financial compensation for student representatives, with the exception of the President and Postgraduate Representative who work at the Guild full-time and part-time respectively during their term. Members of Guild Council are: Standing Invitees are not members of Guild Council but have
1550-586: The Bachelor of Philosophy. The assured pathways to Dentistry via the Bachelor of Philosophy is the most difficult undergraduate and postgraduate pathway to obtain from the university. Only one place is offered each year. UWA's student body is generally dominated by school-leavers from within Western Australia, mostly from the Perth metropolitan area. There are comparatively smaller numbers of mature-age students. In recent years, numbers of full-fee-paying foreign students, predominantly from Southeast Asia, have grown as
1612-561: The Cruickshank-Routley Memorial Prize was established by the Guild. In July 1983, an inaugural Cruickshank-Routley Memorial Prize Dinner was held which has now become the annual Guild Ball, held in October. The Cruickshank-Routley Memorial Prize is awarded to the student who has made the greatest contribution to student life at UWA. In 2023, the prize was $ 500. In 2021, the UWA Student Guild held
1674-867: The Graduate Dramatic Society. and the University Dramatic Society. The venue is also home to a family of peafowl donated to the university by the Perth Zoo in 1975 after a gift by Sir Laurence Brodie-Hall . The university's cultural precinct is in the northern part of the Crawley campus. Other performance venues include the Octagon and Dolphin Theatres and Somerville Auditorium, the Winthrop Hall, Sunken Garden, Undercroft and Tropical Grove, which play host to
1736-433: The Guild hired audit and tax firm BDO to investigate financial irregularities in the Guild's 2013 accounts which identified between $ 800,000 and $ 900,000 in financial irregularities. Following the investigation, a staff member was dismissed as confirmed by the then Guild President, Tom Henderson. In 2018, a former financial officer of the Guild confessed to stealing more than $ 500,000 from the organisation. The financial officer
1798-462: The Guild. The Guild publishes the student newspaper, Pelican , as well as several other publications and is home to the Prosh charity event newspaper. UWA has had a publishing arm since 1935, when the university was the sole tertiary campus in Western Australia. In 2009 it was renamed as UWA Publishing . The journal Outskirts: feminisms along the edge is a feminist cultural studies journal which
1860-531: The Indigenous Communities Education & Awareness Foundation (ICEA) withdrawing support from the paper. SBS News reported that the horoscopes read "don't get stuck in a rut, shake up your daily routine and grab yourself a block of V-B instead of export". The Guild President at the time, Cameron Barnes, apologised for the article and committing to conducting an independent review of the newspaper's editorial processes. In May 2014,
1922-690: The J Robin Warren Library (Medical and Dental); the Beasley Law Library; and the Education, Fine Arts and Architecture Library. Residential colleges and additional student residential buildings close to the campus include University Hall (formerly known as Currie Hall), St George's College , St Catherine's College, Trinity Residential College and St Thomas More College. St Catherine's College also offers short stays for non-student visitors. The colleges border each other and run along
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1984-635: The Oceans Institute, the Centre for Energy, the Energy and Minerals Institute and the Centre for Software Practice. In 2008, it collaborated with two other universities in forming The Centre for Social Impact . The Zadko Telescope is a one-metre modified Ritchey-Chrétien telescope (F/4 equatorially mounted flat field) used for astronomy research at UWA. The telescope is co-located with the UWA's Gravity Discovery Centre and Southern Cross Cosmos Centre 70 km north of Perth on Wallingup Plain near
2046-494: The WA Women's Hall of fame, is a graduate of UWA. Mining magnate Andrew Forrest and Richard Goyder are graduates of UWA. Current staff of note include clinical psychologist David Indermaur (also a graduate of the university), 2009 Western Australian Scientist of the year Cheryl Praeger , former Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett and former Labor federal minister Stephen Smith . SBS News SBS World News
2108-613: The buildings are coastal limestone and Donnybrook sandstone, including the large, iconic Winthrop Hall, with its Romanesque Revival architecture . The Arts Faculty building (first occupied in 1964) encompasses the New Fortune Theatre . This open-air venue was built to celebrate Shakespeare's 400th anniversary, at the time the only replica in the world of the original Elizabethan Fortune Theatre , and used for 1964 Perth Festival performances. Since then it has hosted regular performances of Shakespeare's plays co-produced by
2170-431: The bulletin include: Ricardo Gonçalves and Darren Mara (News); Robert Grasso , Mariana Rudan and Lucy Zelić (Sport); and Catalina Flórez, Virginia Langeberg or Darren Mara (Finance). SBS World News Late was originally known as World News at Nine (reflecting its original 9:00pm position), then as World News Tonight when it moved to 9:30pm. It no longer has any branding distinct from the main 6:30pm bulletin. In 2012,
2232-642: The bulletin moved to a later timeslot of 10:30pm. Regular presenters for this bulletin include Ricardo Gonçalves , Darren Mara and Catalina Flórez. Occasional presenters for the bulletin include Virginia Langeberg and Lin Evlin. Previous presenters include Anton Enus , Ben Fajzullin , Neena Mairata, Amrita Cheema , Indira Naidoo and PJ Madam. Until its end in August 2006, the specially produced online news bulletins were presented by Ashleigh Nghiem. The online bulletins have since been replaced by stand-alone reports. SBS radio news bulletins are broadcast throughout
2294-481: The channel until its demise in 2009. World News Australia was relaunched in its current one-hour format in January 2007 taking over the timeslot of Toyota World Sport and signing CNN correspondent Stan Grant to co-present alongside Mary Kostakidis . The merger between the two programs took place as a result of a claimed drop-off in viewers between programs, when a solid block of advertising would be shown. As
2356-558: The chemistry of native plants in Western Australia. UWA is one of the largest landowners in Perth as a result of government and private bequests, and is constantly expanding its infrastructure. Recent developments include the $ 22 million University Club, opened in June 2005, and the UWA Watersports Complex, opened in August 2005. In September 2005 UWA opened its $ 64 million Molecular and Chemical Sciences building. In 2008,
2418-607: The day - including the flagship national bulletins, but also feature more national and international news stories. The main national bulletins are broadcast on SBS Radio on the hour, 24 hours a day, SBS World News Radio airs weekdays from 6am and 6pm on SBS Radio 1. National bulletins air on SBS Radio broadcasts the foreign-language news bulletins on SBS World News Australia Radio. Former presenters of World News Australia include Mary Kostakidis and Stan Grant , who both departed in 2007, Amrita Cheema who resigned in June 2008 and Ben Fajzullin who resigned in 2010. In October 2010, it
2480-614: The four bachelor's degrees. Places are very limited with on average only about 30 places offered to students each year. Thus there is a lot of competition for places and the cut-off admission rank is very high. High school graduates with high academic achievement are able to apply for "assured pathways". This means they are assured a place in the postgraduate degree for their chosen discipline while they complete their undergraduate degree. Assured pathways are offered for studies in fields such as medicine, law, dentistry and engineering. Prospective students may apply for an assured pathway through
2542-434: The main campus. Students of The University of Western Australia refer to the location of the college, which run along a common road, as "college row." All the colleges are co-ed and host several inter-college events throughout the year, in which residents of the various hostels compete against one another in a selection of events. Notable inter-college events include lip dub, in which the colleges compete against one another in
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2604-499: The network in frustration at what she saw as increased commercialisation at the network, and a shift away from the original values of both the news service and the station in general. It was widely speculated that Kostakidis' contract stipulated she would be the network's main news presenter, and maintain editorial control over bulletins, somewhat altered by World News Australia's change in format. Kostakidis took legal action against SBS for breach of contract. In 2009, World News Channel
2666-475: The policy of free education was compatible with high expenditure on professorial chairs and faculties. An "old student" publicised his concern in 1921 that there were 13 faculties serving only 280 students. A remnant of the original buildings survives to this day in the form of the "Irwin Street Building", so called after its former location. In the 1930s it was transported to the new campus and served
2728-754: The right to attend the Annual General Meetings, elect two members of the UWA Senate, and review any changes to University legislation. UWA graduates include Prime Minister of Australia Bob Hawke , five justices of the High Court of Australia (including Chief Justice Robert French , now Chancellor), Governor of the Reserve Bank H. C. Coombs , various federal cabinet ministers, and seven of Western Australia's eight most recent premiers . In 2018 alumnus Akshay Venkatesh received
2790-559: The same rights and privileges. Standing invitees are: The Guild runs a number of activities including Orientation Day (O-Day), the Weekly Tav Quiz and welfare events. Guild Departments and Subsidiary Councils run other events, such as Club Carnival run by the Societies Council. The Guild supports and assists a network of more than 140 affiliated clubs and societies on campus through the Societies Council, catering to
2852-573: The site of the Square Kilometre Array , a very large internationally funded radio astronomy installation capable of seeing the early stages of the formation of galaxies, stars and planets. The university is one of the partners in the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study , one of the largest cohorts of pregnancy, childhood, adolescence and early adulthood to be carried out anywhere in
2914-618: The town of Gingin . Its operation is harmonised with detection of major supernova events by some of the European Union 's satellites . A local businessman, James Zadko, and his family contributed funds for the telescope. The university also received funding from the State Government for The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research. The centre is a multi-disciplinary research centre for science, engineering and data intensive astronomy. UWA drove Australia's bid to be
2976-456: The two sites towards each other. The university also has facilities in Claremont, purchased in 2005 from Edith Cowan University . The university prefers call these facilities "UWA Claremont", not a campus. The university remains a single campus institution. UWA Claremont is about 5 km west of the main Crawley campus. Further west, the university has staff in central Claremont. Overseas,
3038-644: The university has strategic partnerships with institutions in Malaysia and Singapore , where students study for The University of Western Australia qualifications, but does not operate these foreign institutions directly. The university has also developed a relationship with Australian Doctors for Africa with whom it sends academic staff to conduct medical student teaching in Somalia , Madagascar , and Ethiopia . There are two to four visits to each location per year. The Centre for Integrative Bee Research ( CIBER )
3100-626: The university is involved in the Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health in Geraldton . The university has further facilities across Stirling Highway in Nedlands , linked by pedestrian underpasses beneath the highway, and paths in front of the residential colleges. Although not directly contiguous with the main Crawley site, the university owns almost every parcel of land between them and has long-term plans to expand
3162-420: The university, a far larger sum than expected. This allowed the construction of the main buildings. Many university buildings and landmarks bear his name, including Winthrop Hall and Hackett Hall. In addition, his bequest funded many scholarships, because he did not wish eager students to be deterred from studying because they could not afford to do so. During UWA's first decade there was controversy about whether
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#17327865601773224-481: The world. The QS World University rankings has consistently ranked UWA in the top 100 universities along with US News World University rankings. The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has also consistently ranked UWA in the top 100 universities. UWA ranked 85th in the world in 2022, according to the aggregate performance across QS, THE, and ARWU, as reported by Aggregate Ranking of Top Universities (ARTU). The University of Western Australia Student Guild
3286-476: The world. Its Asian and Melanesian collections are also of strong interest. It was established in 1976 by Ronald and Catherine Berndt. The University of Western Australia has five libraries on campus, including the architecturally recognised Reid Library building, the largest of the five. The other libraries are the Barry J Marshall Library (Biological and Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Psychology and Geography);
3348-766: The year they are elected. The Guild Executive consists of the Guild President, the Guild Vice-president, the Guild General Secretary, and the Chair of Guild Council. Both the Guild Vice-president and the Chair of Guild Council are elected by and from Guild Council at the first meeting for the Guild Year. The Guild is administered by a council of student representatives elected for one-year terms, beginning on December 1 and ending on
3410-412: Was established in 1930, making it one of the oldest student publications in Australia. PROSH is a Guild initiative that began in 1931 and is the oldest and most successful single-day charity event in the country run entirely by students. The tradition sees UWA students dress up in costumes and sell the satirical newspaper to raise money for charity. The first meeting of Guild Council was held on Friday
3472-471: Was no longer offered to non first-year students. The university also offers the Bachelor of Philosophy (BPhil) course for high-achieving new students. This is a research intensive degree which takes four years because the honours year is an integral part of the degree (most other degrees last three years with the honours year as a separate degree). Students studying the course choose disciplines from any of
3534-675: Was on Irwin Street in the centre of Perth , and consisted of several buildings between Hay Street and St Georges Terrace . Irwin Street was also known as "Tin Pan Alley", as many buildings had corrugated iron roofs. These buildings served as the university campus until 1932, when the campus relocated to its present-day site in Crawley . The founding chancellor, Sir John Winthrop Hackett , died in 1916, and bequeathed property which, after being carefully managed for ten years, yielded £425,000 to
3596-523: Was ordered to pay back $ 560,000 to the Guild's insurer as well as sentenced to four years in jail. University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia ( UWA ) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia . The university's main campus is in Crawley , a suburb in the City of Perth local government area. UWA was established in 1911 by an act of
3658-428: Was published biannually, in May and November, from 1997 to 2020. Formerly published by the Centre for Women's Studies, it has most recently through the School of Humanities. It is a double-blind , peer-reviewed academic journal. It was supported by editorial consultants and independent academic referees from a number of other Australasian universities, including Flinders University , the University of Adelaide ,
3720-421: Was replaced with SBS Two which became SBS Viceland in 2016. In February 2014, World News Australia was relaunched with new graphics along with a name, SBS World News . In 2017 SBS World News was upgraded with a new set and improved website. The program can now be streamed on the SBS News website as well as the SBS News app. From 1980 to 1991, Processional Fanfare by the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
3782-529: Was the service's first presenter; veteran newsreader Mary Kostakidis began reading the weekend news in 1986. The network's long-running investigative documentary series Dateline started in 1984. Closed captioning for the World News was introduced in March 1997. In 2002, a digital-only World News Channel was launched, aimed at providing a comprehensive foreign-language news channel, mainly showing additional bulletins already seen in SBS' morning WorldWatch timeslot. No English-language bulletins were shown on
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#17327865601773844-464: Was used as the main theme . Since 1991, the World News and World News Australia themes have been written by Australian composer Nigel Westlake . SBS World News , nightly at 6.30pm is Australia's only locally-produced news bulletin that focuses on world events. It is presented by Janice Petersen from Sunday to Thursday, and Anton Enus on Friday and Saturday. Finance is presented by Ricardo Gonçalves on weeknights. Fill in presenters for
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