Former
UniSA Vice Chancellor Emeritus Professor Denise Bradley AO, and
founding Director of UniSA’s
Institute for Telecommunications
Research Emeritus Professor Michael Miller were among the 12
distinguished UniSA friends and alumni to receive Australia Day
honours.
Prof Bradley was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC),
“for service to higher education through leadership and sector-wide
governance, to the promotion of information-based distance learning
and to the advancement of Australian education facilities
internationally”.
She and Patron-in-Chief of UniSA’s
Hawke Centre, Rear Admiral Kevin
Scarce, Governor of South Australia, were two of only six
Australians to receive the highest accolade.
Prof Miller was made an Officer in the General Division (AO), “for
service to science, particularly through leadership roles in the
innovation and development of future generation telecommunications
technology”.
Other recipients were alumni Dean Brown (former SA Premier), John
Fotheringham, Ronald Harvey, Sister Helen Little, Elizabeth Raupach
(Director of the Helpmann Academy), former lecturer and donor Dr
Adam Jamrozik, Honorary Doctor and member of the Ian Wark advisory
board Sydney Richards and Professor Gerard Sutton, Vice Chancellor
of the University of Wollongong.
On behalf of the University, Vice Chancellor
Professor Peter Høj
congratulated all the recipients, making special mention of his
predecessor Prof Bradley.
“We are all very proud and delighted that Prof Bradley has been
acknowledged with the Companion of the Order of Australia award - it
is certainly well deserved,” Prof Høj said.
“To contribute to the establishment of a successful institution such
as UniSA in such a short period of time is one thing, but to have
achieved so much at a broader sectoral level through her leading
role in so many organisations and groups is nothing short of
remarkable.
“Prof Bradley’s achievements as a business woman, a scholar and a
leader are an inspiration to many Australians, myself included.”
Prof Høj added that “the best way we can pay respect to Prof
Bradley’s enormous achievements is to ensure that UniSA will
continue the path of improvement along all fronts to ensure it
becomes a very significant contributor to Australia having the best
higher education system in the world and to it becoming one of the
world’s best educated, most innovative, cohesive and sustainable
societies”.
