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University of New South Wales. Public Affairs Unit
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1992, no. 4 (3 Apr., 1992)
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Uniken THE UNIVERSITY Of NEW SOUTH WALES 1
Turning young refugees into success stories 1
Home on the range 1
Alumnus returns to head personnel services 2
OBITUARY Visiting Professor Richard Apperly 1925-1992 2
New Director’s aims for Languages Institute 2
Polystyrene versus paper the cup runneth over 3
PACE develops Mandarin Computer Program 3
Turtle Beach: From novel to film 4
Stop! Let’s rid sexual harassment 4
Antiquity speaks up on contemporary issues 4
Staff protest over minimum rates award 4
Ensemble plays Meale and Schubert 4
At your service-but not by force 5
Don’t judge an author by his handle 5
Official opening of Children’s Leukaemia and Cancer Research Centre 6
Debut for Sydney’s musical landscapes 6
Precedent-setting alumni awards dinner 7
Special Alumni Award for longstanding and dedicated service 7
The story of OO—and how it is practised 7
Diary 4-19 April 8 , 9
Advertising 8
University College physicists probe nuclear secrets 9
Roandup Library tour statistics soar 9
interested in biomedical electronics? 9
World Health Day 9
English in the Workplace Program 9
Bridging the divide 9 , 11
Associate Professor Nathaniel McConaghy retires 11
Perspectives of the sole parents policy 11
Libraries ‘Friends’ learn of plans to aid Nepal 11
Anyone from Flinders? 11
Tramway woricshops vigil 11
Visit by Chinese teacher educators 11
Musical Director of Royal Shakespeare Company visits School of Performing Arts 11
International Student Centre seminar 11
Elections 10
Presiding Members of Faculties and Boards of Studies 1992-1994 10
1992 University Union Board of Directors 10
Council Elections 10
Schedule for Council Elections 1992 10
Nomination Procedures 10
Academic Board Elections 10
Electorates 10
Nomination Procedures 10
Schedule for Academic Board Elections 1992 10
Excellence awards in biochemistry 11
Around the Traps 12
Sport UNSW trekkers return from Everest 12
Feed back A place for doctors 12
Staff Social Club AGM 12

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Uniken  

THE UNIVERSITY Of NEW SOUTH WALES  

No. 324 (N 0.4 of 1992)  

Published fortnightly by the News Service  

Registered by Australia Post Publication No. NBF 4388  

April 1992  

Turning young  

refugees into  

success stories  

Dr Diane Barnes-Zulfacar,  

Head of the School of Social  

Work, is in the data-collecting  

stage of three-year project  

aimed at discovering the factors  

that lead to successful resettle-  

ment of young Vietnamese  

refugees in Australia.  

Am ARC grant has enabled her  

to recruit and train three tertiary  

educated Vietnamese interviewers  

to record the experiences and views  

of male Vietnamese who were  

teenagers when they arrived in  

Australia between 1980 and 1985.  

These youths are now mostly in  

their mid to late 20s.  

Dr Barnes-Zulfacar hopes the  

range of subjects will be wide  

enough to include some who have  

been outstandingly successful and  

others who might be involved in an  

unproductive or even antisocial  

lifestyle.  

From the data now assembled,  

the young Vietnamese themselves  

cite English language instruction  

and social orientation courses as the  

two most important factors in  

preparing them for resettlement.  

“Mastery of English opens the  

doors to everything,” one said.  

Familiarity with Australian cus-  

toms and agencies is also  

important. One respondent,(now  

undertaking postgraduate studies)  

as 12-year-old in Vietnam was  

extremely resourceful in finding  

food for his younger siblings after  

his parents were taken away by the  

authorities. However, he was ini-  

tially at complete loss as to how  

to fend for himself in Australia. On  

being discharged from his migrant  

hostel and with no family to turn to,  

he had no alternative but to sneak  

back to the hostel at mealtimes.  

Several months elapsed before this  

youngster’s plight came to the at-  

tention of the authorities.  

But no Vietnamese can limit  

their activity to fending for them-  

selves. Their social support system  

devolves entirely on the family  

whose members are strictly bound  

to meet group obligations.  

In Australia, refugees find them-  

selves with their obligations as  

onerous as ever but the family net-  

works they were used to drawing  

on, reduced to fragments. The  

struggle to contribute to their fami-  

ly is often undertaken at enormous  

personal cost.  

Silence and inertia  

Dr Bames-Zulfacar’s interest in  

adolescent refugees goes back to  

visit she made to Malaysia in 1983  

when she encountered teenage  

refugees in camps and was shocked  

to find many of those with no fami-  

ly support reduced to silence and  

inertia by loneliness and despair.  

She subsequently wrote up their  

plight in study of “unaccom-  

panied minors” who had settled in  

NSW. Many of her recommenda-  

tions have been taken up by  

authorities in Australia. For ex-  

ample, Dr Bamardo’s Homes  

volunteered to accept and care for  

the most severely emotionally  

damaged among young Viet-  

namese refugees.  

“Bamardo’s have had varying  

degrees of success,” Dr Bames-  

Zulfacar said. 'Tm hoping to  

include some who have been  

through their program in the current  

project.”  

Her ARC grant is for three  

years. Last year she designed the  

project and set up contacts with the  

Vietnamese community. Data-col-  

lecting will be completed by the  

end of this year and the study will  

be written up next year.  

Dr Bames-Zulfacar said it was  

amazing just how much difficulty  

refugees can go through and still  

get on top of things. “So it really  

pays to prepare them as best we can.  

We get good return on the invest-  

ment.”  

Home on the range  

UNSW’s School of Town Plan-  

ning is turning its attention to  

the newest and fastest-growing  

component of Sydney’s social  

landscape exurbanites.  

Exurbanites, according to Dr  

Peter Murphy, Senior Lecturer in  

Town Planning, are householders  

(usually business or professional  

people) who decide to push beyond  

suburbia into rural areas and spend  

both time and income on commut-  

ing, in order to enjoy gentrified  

lifestyle.  

While the “I vant to be alone on  

green pastures” stance of broad-  

casters John Laws and Phillip  

Adams gets wide press coverage,  

others less well known are set-  

tling down on the rural rim, far  

removed from the noise, con-  

gestion, pollution, microclimate,  

social heterogeneity and crime of  

the cities.  

They communicate with then-  

clients via phone, fax and modem,  

sometimes maintaining pied  

terre for their brief incursions to the  

city.  

As professionals with flexible  

working hours, an academic from  

UNSW and his wife can run an  

office from their home at Kangaroo  

Valley; software manufacturer  

can operate from Buckertty, South  

of Cessnock, lodging his two  

employees in cottage for the oc-  

casional sojourns they are required  

to make; public relations consult-  

ant has his office at Dungog and  

keeps flat in Kings Cross.  

Commuting for such people  

may actually be form of leisure,  

break from work in the home office,  

and an opportunity to view pleasant  

scenery on the way to enjoying big-  

city services.  

“But what we know of  

Australian exurbia is only anecdo-  

tal,” says Dr Murphy. “Most  

research on the subject comes from  

the US.”  

As Americans see it, the boun-  

daries of exurbia are defined by the  

locations people can conveniently  

reach in their cars. One spouse may  

work at an industrial park four exits  

down the freeway, the other at an  

office complex three exits up the  

freeway. The children travel by bus  

to their local school or drive to the  

local campus of the state university.  

The family shops at several dif-  

ferent malls along several different  

freeways. Everything they need to  

consume can be found along the  

highways. Occasionally they go  

downtown, but never stay long. In  

effect the home becomes the hub  

of city that is continually  

being “created” by the tracks, both  

physical and communicatory, exur-  

banites make across the landscape.  

Unlike suburbanites they do not  

exist to be channelled into the CBD.  

Their tracks follow the least con-  

gested routes.  

Grant to study exurban  

development  

Dr Muiphy, and Associate  

Professor Ian Burnley, of the  

School of Geography have received  

an ARC grant to look at Sydney’s  

exurban development. “We want to  

see what it has in common with the  

US situation.”  

Already he knows of two dif-  

ferences. In the US, income  

increases steadily upward from  

low base in the inner cities through  

suburbia and out to exurbia. TTie  

income curve in Australia is instead  

v-shaped. It starts high in the inner  

cities, slopes down in suburbia and  

rises again in exurbia. Another big  

difference is that the edges of  

American cities are much richer  

with jobs than Australian cities.  

This provides much impetus forex-  

urban development.  

But in exurbia there is also  

welfare group sole parents and  

counter culture practitioners look-  

ing for cheap rents.  

The first stage of Dr Murphy’s  

inquiry was to conduct survey of  

1,000 households, selected from  

electoral rolls, who moved to metro  

fringe and exurban environments.  

Respondents were asked to explain  

why they left one area to migrate to  

another, how the move altered their  

journey to work patterns and  

demographic questions that in-  

cluded their occupational status.  

The data is now being analysed.  

Dr Murphy also intends to conduct  

“quality” interviews with repre-  

sentative exurbanites. The second  

stage of the research involves  

analysing census and other secon-  

dary data.  

The expansion of exurbia has  

important policy implications, run-  

ning counter as it does to current  

plans for increasing urban density  

and containing the urban sprawl.  

But distinguishing between ex-  

urban and rural is not easy, says Dr  

Murphy. Campbelltown was once  

exurban. Now it is part of the urban  

fringe with high population den-  

sity of low income, first-home  

buyers. Kangaroo Valley and Buck-  

ertty currently represent the outer  

limits of exurbia with Bowral form-  

ing another node on the tablelands.  

However, even in America, so-  

cial observers (who nickname  

exurbanites “slurbs”) are forecast-  

ing the onset of boredom with the  

bush and with isolation, and the  

slow trickle back to the cities of the  

rural “push” who may well become  

key campaigners for the restoration  

of cities dying in their own waste.  

UNSW Open Day—a lifetime of opportunities in one day—Saturday September  

Dr Diane Barnes-Zulfacar... has  

encountered teenage refugees  

in camps  

typical exurban landscape-Burralong Valley, near Cessnock,  

Photo courtesy: School of Town Planning  

Dr Peter Murphy  

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