Professor Stuart White, Director (1 July 2003)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Sydney Morning Herald
Kogarah Council plans to extend a successful trial on sustainable urban water management. Professor Stuart White says the key to the project is the recognition that stormwater, wastewater and piped water are all integral parts of the urban water cycle.

Alison Gwilt, Director, Fashion and Textile Design (1 July 2003)
Design, Architecture and Building
Readers Digest
The 'bogan' look has made a comeback, with ugg boots, trucker caps, stove pipe jeans and sheepskin coats big favourites this winter. Alison Gwilt says anti-fashion looks often get picked up by designers and end up being fashionable.

Professor Mary Chiarella (2 July 2003)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
La Fiamma (Young Italo-Australians)
Professor Mary Chiarella has developed an intensive course for nurse practitioners. She believes that clinical nursing should be recognised as a pinnacle of the career. Professor Chiarella has fulfilled a professional dream with her appointment to the top nursing position in NSW and the introduction of nurse practitioners.

Associate Professor Graham Sansom, Director (2 July 2003)
Centre for Local Government
ABC Radio Central West
A discussion of council amalgamations. Graham Sansom says that if there are to be changes to local government the NSW Government should set out guidelines for councils and look at the differences between country and city councils. At present both city and country local government work under the same principle. He says the idea of local councils providing leadership for communities and not just basic services is important to people, particularly in country areas.

Professor Lesley Barclay, Director, Centre for Family Health and Midwifery (2 July 2003)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
ABC Radio Northern Tasmania
Recent reports indicate that obstetricians are leaving the profession. Professor Lesley Barclay says maternal health care in Australia is facing major challenges and says these are greater now than any time within her 30-year career.

Simon Walsh (4 July 2003)
Science
Australian Biotechnology News
While DNA testing has become a mainstream forensic technique primarily used to identify suspects, things are changing. "I think there will be a day when the DNA profile won't just identify a person by comparison, but will identify them by description," says Simon Walsh, who is developing a predictive mathematical model to provide statistical weight to the use of forensic DNA profiling in the criminal justice system.
Walsh believes that within five to ten years forensic scientists will be able to build up a physical picture of an individual using the DNA from just a few cells left at a crime scene.

Dr David McKnight (5 July 2003)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Daily Telegraph
They decide who you like, admire, respect and vote for. This is the insidious industry of a spin. Media academic David McKnight says the public has little understanding of how powerful spin doctors have become in the Australian media. "The number of people who are in the public relations game is far greater than the number of journalists, many times greater," McKnight says. "I teach my students that journalists are most of the time not in the truth business, they are in the reporting business."

Larissa Behrendt, Director, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning (5 July 2003)
Law
The Courier-Mail
Many Australians have a "them and us" mentality towards refugees, Arabs and Aboriginal people, according to the woman who will give the inaugural Griffith Lecture at Griffith University next week. Professor Larissa Behrendt, an Aboriginal woman from Northwest NSW, is a Harvard law doctorate holder, Supreme Court barrister and Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies at UTS. Her lecture will discuss Australia's human rights record and argue in favour of the introduction of an Australian Bill of Rights.

Professor Zoltan Matolcsy, Head, School of Accounting (5 July 2003)
Business
Australian Financial Review
Trade loading - offering cheap wine deals to shift volume - may seem a good idea, but in management terms it's not smart practice. The head of the School of Accounting at Sydney's UTS, Zoltan Matolcsy, said the practice of trade loading is not illegal in an accounting sense, but from a management point of view it was not smart practice because it "artificially pulled forward demand."

Dr Antoine Hermens (5 July 2003)
Business
Sydney Morning Herald
Regular column by Antoine Hermens, senior lecturer in strategy and director of the Executive MBA at UTS. Hermens says that recently at international conferences around the world young Australians have amazed delegates with their technical knowledge and ability to leverage products and innovations in global markets rapidly and cost effectively. "More and more small businesses in Australia are recognising the chances offered by the Internet and are integrating the net into their strategy," he said. "The value is in the network of partners it brings together."

Beaver Hudson (5 July 2003)
Nursing, Midwifery and Health
Ballarat Courier
A Sydney hospital has introduced mental health nurses in emergency care teams. The initiative at St Vincent's Hospital is the brainchild of mental health nurse and UTS master's student Beaver Hudson.

Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning (6 July 2003)
Law
Radio 4BC (Brisbane)
Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies at UTS, Larissa Behrendt, is in Brisbane to speak at Griffith University about society becoming more racist. Behrendt says good studies have been done by the Anti-Discrimination Board in NSW which show that a xenophobia towards Arabs, Muslims and refugees has led to legislative changes that disadvantage those groups.

Professor Andrew Jakubowicz (6 July 2003)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sunday Telegraph
More and more Australians are turning to socialising with friends at home around the telly rather than out on the town. "With all the things going on in the world, people who were likely to spend money in a flash environment five years ago are now increasingly finding networks of friends they feel safe with and interacting with them," says Andrew Jakubowicz, Professor of Sociology at UTS.

Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning (7 July 2003)
Law
ABC Radio National
Sandy McCutcheon interviews Professor Larissa Behrendt. Behrendt says ATSIC is handicapped by not having a state base and has been a scapegoat when policies haven't worked. She says the challenge is how Government departments respond to ATSIC.

Jennie Small (8 July 2003)
Business
Sydney Morning Herald
Young Australians appear to be a bright spot in the beleaguered outbound travel market, persevering with overseas trips despite the risks of world today. "Young people are far greater risk takers and adventurers and feel it won't happen to them," said Jennie Small, a lecturer on tourist behaviour at UTS. "They feel they are immortal, and they are not responsible for other people."

Alison Beavis, PhD student (8 July 2003)
Science
Radio 2SM
A new test promises to reduce the number of false negatives in Melanoma diagnosis and potentially other forms of cancer as well. The research is being carried out by a chemist at the University of Technology, Sydney, Alison Beavis.

Dr Sarah Edelman (9 July 2003)
Science
ABC Radio 702 Sydney
Supporters say cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) offers faster progress and practical solutions to getting on with your life now rather than unpacking things from long ago. UTS's Dr Sarah Edelman says CBT recognises that childhood experiences shape us, but says there's little evidence that focusing on that enables us to deal with current problems. She talks about the need to identify patterns of thinking that cause stress.

Peter Meyer, Director, Taylor's Business School (9 July 2003)
Business
New Straits Times (Malaysia)
UTS recently held a graduation ceremony at NIkko Hotel in Kuala Lumpur for 91 students who had successfully completed the Bachelor of Business degree. UTS director of studies Peter Meyer said, "from a humble beginning of 117 students in February 1993, there are now more than 1,000 students undertaking the UTS business programme at Taylor's."

Professor Geoff Smith and Stefan Schelm (9 July 2003)
Science
optics.org
Two researchers have come up with a way to make glass that lets in sunlight but blocks out most of it's heat. As an alternative to the thin silver films, Stefan Schelm and Geoff Smith from UTS doped a polyvinyl butyral laminate sheet with rare-earth lanthanum hexaboride nanoparticles.

Dr Peter DeVries (10 July 2003)
Education
ABC Radio 702 Sydney
Toddlers and their music: Rogerson asks if there is a specific age we should start encouraging kids to listen to and participate in music. Interview with researcher Peter DeVries from UTS, who says he has noticed in his research that when it comes to listening to music kids are often forced to sit down and close their eyes. DeVries explains the research he did with children listening to music. He talks about the songs that kids responded to, and the gender differences in responses to the music.

Professor Jill White, Dean (10 July 2003)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia faces a critical shortage of nurses and NSW will be hit hardest unless improvements are made to supply and retain staff, educators warn. By 2006, Australia will have only 60 per cent of the registered nurses it needs and NSW just 47 per cent. Professor Jill White says that extra places in nursing, most likely to be awarded to regional universities, are "not nearly as many as we need".

Associate Professor Tony Veal (10 July 2003)
Business
AAP
It has been discussed that Sydney should consider moving it's summer arts festival to winter to attract more tourists during the cooler months.
However, Associate Professor Tony Veal rejected this week's comments by federal Tourism Minister Joe Hockey in Japan that Sydney was "tired" and "complacent" as a tourist destination. "If we concentrate on developing a vibrant culture and leisure community for the four million people that live in Sydney, the tourists will come," Veal said.

Associate Professor Ross Jones (10 July 2003)
Business
Money Management
Treasurer Peter Costello has announced the appointment of Ross Jones as deputy chairman of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, with a full-time three member executive group to replace the board. Jones is an associate professor of economics at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director, Jumbunna House of Indigenous Learning (11 July 2003)
Law
AAP, Queensland Times, Fraser Coast Chronicle (Maryborough), Launceston Examiner, Sunshine Coast Daily (Maroochydore), Townsville Bulletin, Radio 4AAA (Brisbane)
Middle Australia is in danger of becoming insular and racist unless it treats it's minorities better. Giving a lecture in Brisbane Professor Larissa Behrendt said the Tampa crisis and rise of Hansonism have fuelled racism and xenophobia in a return to conservatism. "A large part of this fear of others, particularly refugees, Arabs and Aboriginal people, seems to be related to an 'us' and 'them' mentality with an increasing sector of the Australian population," she said. Fraser Coast Chronicle (Maryborough), Launceston Examiner, Sunshine Coast Daily (Maroochydoore), Townsville Bulletin,

Professor Jill White, Dean (14 July 2003)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
ABC Radio 702 Sydney
Professor Jill White from the Faculty of Nursing at UTS calls in to say that she welcomes the ALP funding proposal for more university nursing places. She explains why in-hospital nursing training is inferior to university training.

Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning. (15 July 2003)
Law
4AAA (Brisbane), 4KIG (Townsville)
The report of a major review into the exhibitions and public programs of the National Museum of Australia has been made public. Professor Larissa Behrendt said she found the report to be extremely positive considering the Museum has only been going two years. She said the report was particularly complimentary of the Gallery of the Aboriginal Australians and criticises the Federal Government for not renewing the contract of museum director Dawn Casey.

Keri Spooner (16 July 2003)
Business
Sydney Morning Herald
A recent study shows that many people are dissatisfied with their work arrangements. The Hewitt Associates annual best employers study struggled to find 19 best employers out of a rising 230 entrants. Keri Spooner, a senior lecturer in industrial relations at UTS, believes corporate spin contributes to workplace cultures in which legitimate grievances are discouraged. "You can't kill conflict where it exists - it will eventually find a way to express itself," she said.

Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director, Jumbunna Indigenous House Of Learning (16 July 2003)
Law
The Australian
Letter from Professor Larissa Behrendt expressing outrage that the contract of the Director of the National Museum,Dawn Casey, was renewed only for a year. "To dismiss her capabilities because she is not an academic is offensive, trivialises her successes and is another triumph for the noisy minority on the Right who are seeking to exclude Indigenous experience and perspective of history from the national narrative," Behrendt says.

Adjunct Professor Kaye Schofield (16 July 2003)
Education
Campus Review Weekly
Educators from across the nation attended the annual conference of the Australian College of Educators. A powerful line-up of speakers attended including Kaye Schofield, adjunct professor in the Faculty of Education at UTS, who spoke about the unrealised potential of vocational education and training(VET).

James Arvanitakis (18 July 2003)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Riverina (Wagga Wagga)
Former businessman James Arvanitakis had a life changing experience after visiting a mine in South America and seeing child labour first hand. He is now a part-time lecturer in social inquiry at UTS and a coordinator of the Research Initiative on International Activism.

Dr Thomas Chiu (18 July 2003)
Law
SBS TV
World News: The leader of Hong Kong says he will not step down despite pressure of an anti-subversion bill. Report includes interview with Dr Thomas Chiu, Law Programs, UTS.

Prudence Black (18 July 2003)
Design, Architecture and Building
ABC Radio 702 Sydney
Prudence Black discusses fashion design. She has just been to Queensland for an international conference devoted to fashion and dress. Nostalgia in fashion was a prominent topic, including the return of the hipster flare from the 60s and 70s and the use of old techniques such as embroidery.

Eva Cox (19 July 2003)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
A High Court ruling forcing a doctor to pay the costs of bringing up a baby born through his negligence has opened an emotional debate on the value of children. Eva Cox says, "It worries me that this labels the child as a burden. It is different from compensating the mother for the loss of her income."

Professor Tharam Dillon, Dean (21 July 2003)
Information Technology
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
Professor Tharam Dillon is the new Dean of Information Technology at UTS. He has come from La Trobe University where he was Chair Professor of Computer Science, Head of Department, Computer Science and Computer Engineering and head of Engineering.

Dr Ilaria Vanni (23 July 2003)
Institute for International Studies
La Fiamma
The stories of Italians who made Sydney their home and played their part in shaping the city will be explored and celebrated in a major new exhibition on opening on 30 August at the Museum of Sydney. It is curated by Ilaria Vanni of the Institute for International Studies at the University of Technology.

Alison Gwilt, Director, Fashion and Textile Design (23 July 2003)
Design, Architecture and Building
Daily Telegraph
Forget sensible overcoats, the Sydney fashion crowd have turned to the tiniest of winter warmers to keep out the chill. Director of fashion at UTS, Alison Gwilt, said layering was part of the distinct Sydney winter style.
"People layer up and layer down, which seems very sensible for Sydney where it only gets cold for one or two months a year," she said.

Stephen Grant, Indigenous Academic Officer (23 July 2003)
Information Technology
National Indigenous Times
A project to put information and communications technology careers 'on the radar' for Indigenous Australians is being officially launched at UTS.
This is in response to findings that not only are few Aboriginal people employed in the ICT industry, it has not been seriously promoted as a career option within Indigenous communities.

Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning (23 July 2003)
Law
National Indigenous Times
Professor Larissa Behrendt says that middle Australia is in danger of becoming insular and racist unless it treats its minorities better.

Dr Ilaria Vanni (24 July 2003)
Institute for International Studies
City Weekly
An exhibition celebrating Italian culture in Australia is coming to the Museum of Sydney. It showcases an array of objects, photos, multimedia presentations and art that links diverse experiences of Italians in Sydney. "It's about how migrants create and recreate their Italian identity through encounters, socialisation, consumption, objects, travels," says the curator Dr Ilaria Vanni.

Professor David Barker, Dean (25 July 2003)
Law
Australian Financial Review
In an opinion piece, UTS Dean of Law, Professor David Barker, says Law students are questioning whether they are getting value for money. The Federal Government's reform package on university funding has placed law in the lowest discipline cluster, with an estimated Commonwealth course distribution in 2005 of $1509. Meanwhile, law students are placed in the highest band in terms of their contribution to the cost of their education.

Keith Tarlo (25 July 2003)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Channel 2 (Brisbane)
Stateline program: plans have been unveiled for another underground coal mine in central Queensland, but coal fired power stations, which generate approximately 80 per cent of Queensland's electricity, also contribute about one fifth of Australia's Greenhouse emissions. Keith Tarlo from UTS says that a combination of renewable energies and high-efficiency gas technology is required to combat emission problems.

Eva Cox (26 July 2003)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Radio National
Eva Cox discusses obesity. Ms Cox has lost around 40 kilograms and says it has been very good for her. Ms Cox says she was annoyed when people blamed her diabetes on her weight. Ms Cox says she didn't give up any type of food, rather she decided just not to eat them at certain times.

Dr Chris Bajada (26 July 2003)
Business
Sydney Morning Herald, The Age
Christopher Bajada, a senior lecturer in economics at UTS, has recently conducted a study that reveals that Australians are now failing to declare more than $100 billion a year in income tax to the Tax Office. This proves that the GST has failed to deliver on the Government's key promise that it would halt tax avoidance.

Professor Michael Adams (27 July 2003)
Law, Business
Australian Financial Review
An opinion piece by Michael Adams, Professor of Corporate Law at UTS, arguing that insider trading laws need to made simpler and more effective. He says the the recent Rene Rivkin sentencing has illustrated the need for reform: a successful prosecution for insider trading is rare, and where there is success, the penalties are inadequate.

Associate Professor Chris Peterson (29 July 2003)
Engineering
Sydney Morning Herald, The Age
Chris Peterson has been dealing with weather effects on computing for more than 25 years. He says weather conditions such as proximity to salt, air, dust or humidity all present challenges. The results range from computers that slow down on hot days, to equipment that lasts only half of its expected life.

Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning (30 July 2003)
Law
The Australian
Comment piece by Janet Albrechtsen claiming that "a new fundamentalism is stalking the Australian political landscape" in which analysis of arguments is being abandoned in favour of emotion-charged epithets. She singles out Larissa Behrendt over an attack on Government policies on asylum-seekers, native title and the republic as being evidence of an "insular, xenophobic, racist period of our history."

Professor Jill White, Dean (30 July 2003)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
ABC Radio 612 (Brisbane)
Professor Jill White says there is evidence that adequate resources are the key to keeping nurses in the work place. White was addressing the Queensland Nurses Union annual conference in Brisbane.

Larissa Behrendt, Director, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning. (30 July 2003)
Law
Campus Review Weekly
Larissa Behrendt warns that if racists win the culture wars white Australia will lose the generosity of spirit and civic responsibility necessary to create a society that treats all it's members equally, fairly and justly. "It is a debate whose results will have a profound influence on the values of our society for years to come and will determine whether we move towards tolerance, acceptance, coexistence and diversity or whether we continue to move towards intolerance, suspicion, fear and conformity," she says.

Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director, Jumbunna Indigenous House Of Learning (30 July 2003)
Law
Koori Mail
Larissa Behrendt says that Indigenous Australia is the benchmark against which the fairness of Australian society and the effectiveness of Australian laws will be judged by history. "As a historically marginalised, culturally distinct and socioeconomically disadvantaged sector of the Australian community, our treatment within Australian society is its success or its condemnation."

Associate Professor Chris Nash, Director, Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (31 July 2003)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Radio National
The Media Report: Journalists demand their right not to reveal sources, but there are now questions about whether that right is conditional. Chris Nash says that the relationship between journalists and their sources lies at the heart of freedom of the press. He says that sources cannot be held responsible for getting the complete story right.