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Morgan See (2016–2017)

This June-July, I am undertaking a clinical placement with Lions Outback Vision in Kalgoorlie and the Kimberley region of WA. The service's mission is to prevent blindness and vision loss among regional, remote and Indigenous Western Australian's by improving access to quality eye health care services. Importantly, the service is not a simple fly in fly out, curative service; it seeks to 'build the capacity of local health care providers and planners to deliver accessible, equitable, effective and culturally appropriate eye health care programmes and services to regional, remote and Indigenous West Australians.'

'At Broome airport following a three-day outreach trip to Kununurra for clinic and surgery blitz for patients in the East Kimberley. I accompanied the visiting team (which was greatly supported by Kununurra hospital) which included two ophthalmologists, including director of Lions Outback Vision Dr Angus Turner, a registrar and ophthalmic nurse.'

Oliver 'Ollie' George-Brown (2016–2018)

Updated July 2025

A former Burgmann Sports Rep (2017) and BRA President (2018), Ollie moved to the United States after graduating from the ANU, where he is now completing a PhD in Integrated Composition, Improvisation & Technology at the University of California, Irvine. His creative work blends new media performance, acoustic ecology, and site-specific art, including an ongoing project in the Mojave Desert exploring sonic feedback through native timber, and a recent performance in Canberra at New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2025, an ‘international conference about new musical interfaces, their artistic use and the technologies involved in building them’.

Ollie and his musical collaborator performed their site-specific project Xylocyclos at NIME2025 [pictured], using foraged timber interfaces from Galambary, or Black Mountain, on Ngunnawal country. They performed with bark and branches from various gum trees, and ‘a particularly exciting follicle cone of Wallum Banksia (Banksia aemula)’.

Ollie’s studies have taken him around the world, with performances across Australia, the USA, Canada, and Europe. He encourages current Burgmann residents to step beyond their comfort zones, both academically and socially, saying that enroling in courses outside his department helped spark new ideas and lasting connections.

‘I think my reflection on my time at Burgmann would be that I found the College to be an amazing springboard into other opportunities,’ said Ollie. ‘I'd encourage ressies to get involved both at College and beyond, since ANU offers such a huge range of students and student activities. I’d encourage ressies to push themselves beyond their program and their regular College life.

‘I tried to take one class outside my department every semester as a way of meeting new faces and ideas, and I have carried that through to my graduate studies. Even as a grad student, I try to enrol in one course each semester in a totally different department as a way of meeting new faces and hearing new ideas. Even when I'm totally out of my depth, it forces me to think in different and unexpected ways.’

Ollie George-Brown (R) performing Xylocyclos at NIME2025.

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