Fellows

Emeritus Professor William Rubinstein OAM FAHA and former Academy President Professor Joy Damousi AM FASSA FAHA have been named in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours, which recognise and reward meritorious, distinguished and conspicuous service. Member of the Order of Australia Professor Joy Damousi – for significant service to social sciences and the humanities, and to tertiary

OFFICER (AO) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA  Professor Geoffrey Lancaster AM, for distinguished service to the arts, particularly music, through education, performance, research and philanthropy.  MEMBER (AM) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA  Professor Virginia Gail Hooker, for significant service to tertiary education, and to Asia-Pacific relations.  Our

Early years Having fallen in love with music in his formative years, Malcolm was easily attracted to musical studies and a degree in the classics at the Australian National University, and subsequently a further degree in music from the University of Cambridge. He admits, however, that being the son of an economist father and mathematician

Where it began It was a chance meeting about 20 years ago in Melbourne that started a lasting, creative friendship between Mabel Lee and artist Fu Hong, culminating in his third painting, Professor Mabel Lee, being selected as a finalist for the coveted Archibald Prize in 2021. And as Mabel explains, this brilliant work was