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Issue: June 2005
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Graduating in his family's footstepsMore than 20 years ago Dr Will Kaberuka – now economic advisor to the President of Uganda – graduated with his PhD in economics from La Trobe University. 
Broken people, broken lives The story of Australia's repatriated asylum seekersIn Kabul, Afghanistan, an Afghan asylum-seeker sent home from Australia’s offshore detention centres on Nauru lives with four other men in one room with a hole-in-the-floor toilet, no running water and a camping stove. 
Quality audit commends La Trobe's student focusAs part of the national external quality audit process, the University was audited by the Australian Universities Quality Agency in 2004. 
La Trobe $3 million Visual Arts Centre opens at BendigoLa Trobe University’s new $3 million Visual Arts Centre in Bendigo was opened in May by State Treasurer and Minister for State and Regional Development, Mr John Brumby. Shepparton campus on the move‘A significant and symbolic change for La Trobe in Shepparton, reflecting the University’s commitment to the region,’ was how local Campus Director, Professor Brian Graetz, described the recent move of the University to new premises in that city. 
INU initiative boosts study abroad optionsGreater opportunities for students to study abroad were among a number of exciting new initiatives at a recent meeting of the Executive of the International Network of Universities (INU) held at James Madison University in Virginia, USA. La Trobe to help create National Biosecurity CentreLa Trobe University has welcomed the announcement by 
Working the Walk - Reconciliation needs the support of allReconciliation is the responsibility of non-Indigenous Australians but it cannot be achieved without the support and involvement of Indigenous Australians. New device tracks sports performanceA La Trobe University electronics student has developed a device that can calculate how far a footballer ran during a match, how fast he moved, and where he was at any given moment. 
Creatine myth exposedAthletes and other sports people using the popular ‘performance-enhancing’ substance creatine – promoted and legally sold internationally as creatine monohydrate – are probably deluding themselves about its benefits. Research in ActionAustralian kids avoid myopia epidemicAustralian children are as sure-sighted as they ever were despite an epidemic of myopia – or short-sightedness – that has swept much of the rest of the world. 
The heat is on for survival of this living fossilIt’s curtains, eventually, for the tuatara if those who model global warming are right and temperatures in New Zealand’s Cook Strait rise 1.5 degrees C in the next century. 
Saharan amphibian the daddy of them all?La Trobe University specialist in ancient land vertebrates, Dr Ross Damiani, has played a significant role in the discovery of some of the most primitive ancestors of all modern amphibians. 
Who's who among the MayaHe lived from 603 to 683 AD and was king of Palenque. His real name was K’inich Janab’ Pakal I, but he had at least 12 other names and titles. Books
Understanding Indigenous WritingHow do white Australians read the writings of their Indigenous compatriots, and how might they read them differently? Is there a solution to the problem that white Australians often fail to comprehend the writings of Aboriginal authors? 
Aboriginal Victorians - telling it like it wasLa Trobe University historian, Dr Richard Broome, may well have driven the final nail into the coffin of Terra Nullius with the launch of his latest book, Aboriginal Victorians: A History since 1800.. A million 'ten pound Poms'About a million of them arrived in Australia after 1945 – and more than half a century later their story has finally been told. They are the ‘ten pound Poms’, British migrants who paid 10 pounds for their fare and the Australian Government paid the rest. Peole
Professor Lapolla to Chinese university postLa Trobe University Chair of Linguistics, Professor Randy LaPolla, has been selected by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China has to help elevate a Chinese university to world class status. Intellectuals top of the popsThe Age newspaper recently ran an article nominating Australia’s top 20 ‘celebrity intellectuals’. Literary prizeLa Trobe University senior lecturer in English, Dr Alison Ravenscroft, has won the 2005 Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize for a short story titled Object Lessons.
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