Awards
The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre is proud to have been the recipient of a number of community awards over the past few years.
Winner of the SA Great 2001 Education Award
The
Hawke Centre makes SA proud
The Hawke Centre's role in strengthening South Australia's international
relations has been commended statewide, with the Centre awarded the single
SA Great Award for Education for 2001.
Announced on 28 December 2001, Proclamation Day, the purpose of the awards
is to give recognition for outstanding accomplishment, with particular
emphasis on contributions to South Australia's development and international
recognition. The Awards were front page news on 29 December.
Hawke Centre Director, Elizabeth Ho, said the award was praise for the
Centre's success in bringing nationally and internationally recognised
luminaries to speak to the South Australian public, including to business,
education and government sectors.
"The award is a great honour, and recognises our public program which allows
South Australians access to 'big issue' perspectives", she said. "It
acknowledges that the calibre and debate that we have brought to South
Australia has created national and international links, and attracted
national broadcasts. The public outreach commitment of UniSA was also made
clear at the awards ceremony.
Ho said that the award also recognised the international stature of the
Centre's patrons who have helped support the Centre's politically bipartisan
aim to strengthen democracy through informed debate and to affirm a civil
society in Australia.
University of South Australia Chancellor's Awards for Community Engagement
The Hawke Centre is proud to be the recipient of Chancellor's Awards for Community Engagement, in 2002, 2004 and 2006 and a special commendation in 2002.
2006
The
Hawke Centre were awarded a Chancellor's Award for Community Engagement for
the International Alert Series: the BIG Issues which comprised
bi-monthly free public forums at the Adelaide Town Hall, from July 2005 to
October 2006, on major international development issues involving and
affecting the Australian community. The IA Series partners with the Hawke
Centre were World Vision, AusAID.
The IA Series provided a means to generate public dialogue on key issues
affecting human well-being, freedom, security and livelihood across the
globe as well as to communicate current directions, policies and plans in
the aid field. The IA Series also identified ways in which people
attending the forums, or using the post-presentation UniSA website
information, could act and advocate for a change to current conditions in
order to create greater freedom, justice, peace, environmental improvement
and opportunity for the world’s people in dire need.
Due to its success, the Series has now been extended with continued funding
from AusAID.
2004
The Hawke Centre (UniSA) and Adelaide Thinkers in Residence (SA
Government) partnership to present a community lecture series featuring
appointed Thinkers within the Adelaide Thinkers in Residence Program.
The project concerns the design and delivery on a partnership
basis of a successful community-oriented public lecture series. The aim of
the project has been to expose the community and targeted community groups
to the knowledge and aspirational ideas of external expert national and
international Thinkers, and thus to stimulate local initiatives that enhance
South Australia’s social, economic and environmental sustainability. To
date, five major lectures have been successfully offered through this
partnership and more are planned. Complementary web access provides
participation and information access opportunities for the community. The
partnership is to be continued for the life of the current Adelaide Thinkers
in Residence Program (2006).
2002
The Barbara Hanrahan Community Tapestry Project has not only resulted in
an arresting tapestry of Hanrahan's print Puppetmaster and other "text"
tapestries based on her writings, but has also generated its own weaving
"community" and affirmed UniSA's commitment to both the arts and community .
Complementary events and activities have included the production of a
journal by volunteer participants, the mounting of four seasonal forums
where speakers have addressed public audiences on Barbara Hanrahan's
literary and artistic legacy, and well-attended and community-inclusive
launches and "cutting down" ceremonies at the State Library and Thebarton
Branch Library at West Torrens.
The project is one of the outcomes of an ARC funded research effort by Dr
Cathy Speck, Kay Lawrence and research assistant Betty Snowden on
Significant Women artists in the South Australian School of Art 1888-1968,
conducted with the support of the Centre for Gender Studies within the Hawke
Institute. Led by respected tapestry weaver and lecturer at the SA School of
Art, Kay Lawrence, the Hanrahan Community Tapestry Project team has since
created a series of tapestries, involving over 30 volunteer weavers at two
public locations, the State Library and the Thebarton Branch library in West
Torrens. The project has been managed and promoted through the Hawke Centre
and was the recipient of the West Torrens Australia Day Community Award in
2000. Project team members were Kay Lawrence (Project Leader) with trainees
Kirsty Darlaston and Karen Russell (Weavers), Dr Catherine Speck (Research
advisor) and Hawke Centre Director, Liz Ho, and Assistant, Louise Barnes
(Project management).
While the tapestries will eventually hang in the planned Hawke Centre at
City West Campus, as a tangible expression of Barbara Hanrahan’s
contribution to the arts and the project’s outcome, UniSA has already
derived important community profile benefits out of the project, especially
an excellent reputation for community outreach, for publicly celebrating a
woman artist who relentlessy explored the role of women in her society, and
for supporting textile traineeships associated with the project. Inspired
participants have been motivated to plan for further community-based
tapestry projects, indicating the long-term value of this type of community
engagement and the fostering of recognition of the value of arts practice
within the community.
2002 - special commendation
The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre 'Visions for a Nation'
Team members: Elizabeth Ho and Louise Barnes
Community partner: Centenary of Federation Office
Vice Chancellor's Awards for Professional Staff Excellence 2006
In
2006 Louise Carnell from the Hawke Centre was nominated for the
Vice
Chancellor's Awards for Professional Staff Excellence in the category
Providing Quality Service and was a winner ‘for outstanding
contribution to service initiatives and excellent service to the University
and its communities’, receiving the award from the Vice Chancellor at a
ceremony in November 2006.