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THEY are the cream of the crop of South Australia’s high school achievers, but many of them have since settled interstate or overseas and some are unlikely to ever come home.
As the major Year 12 exam period begins today, The Advertiser tracked down some of the top students from the past 20 years, many of whom achieved “perfect” scores.
Among them are high-flyers based in California, New York, Sydney and Melbourne, working in fields ranging from artificial intelligence to construction, finance and medicine.
None have a bad word to say about Adelaide, no longer seen as too boring or insular to hold the interest of our best and brightest as a place to live.
They have left for lucrative university scholarships interstate or for better job opportunities once they have graduated university. Most would love to come home eventually but say the right work offer would have to be on the table — and in some fields that’s unlikely.
Georgina Downer, the daughter of former opposition leader and foreign minister Alexander Downer, is based in Melbourne with the Institute of Public Affairs and has worked in the US, UK, Japan and Canberra as diplomat, foreign affairs official and lawyer. While she raves about the lifestyle advantages of Adelaide, and says many of her friends have returned to raise families after launching careers elsewhere, she says the recent statewide power blackout was symbolic of SA’s struggle to match the opportunities in bigger cities.
“You can’t do that if your economic climate is toxic, if your energy system is completely uncompetitive,” she said. “It’s a real shame for SA, which needs a break.”
Entrepreneur and business consultant Owen Yang said starting businesses was easier in the bigger eastern states markets, and to move home he would “need not to be taking a massive pay cut”.
California-based artificial intelligence expert Ying Xiao, who works for Google Research, said Australia, let alone SA, lacked the hi-tech industry needed to lure him back.
Melbourne GP Preeya Alexander said the Victorian capital was now “home”. “You look at the difference in the economies between the states, and our (baby) daughter probably has a lot more opportunities in Melbourne,” she said.
Education Minister Susan Close said it was natural that high achievers from smaller cities spread their wings.
“While we are in (economic) transition, it’s not surprising that some of our brightest go interstate or overseas for a while, but there is a trend of them coming back,” she said.
Dr Close said projects such as the North Tce biomedical precinct, the Future Submarines contract and Tonsley innovation hub would create the jobs for future top students, and the Government’s new science and technology strategy in schools would ensure they had the skills to take those jobs.
Adelaide to Tokyo no Downer for Georgina
GEORGINA Downer picks her four years as a diplomat in Japan as the highlight of her sparkling resume.
Based in the Australian Embassy in Tokyo, she met with numerous politicians, academics and journalists to understand the very different Japanese political system and culture and keep on top of developments of interest to Australia.
And there was the highly challenging period after the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, when it was her job to relay all relevant information to Australia to be fed into official advice to our residents in Japan.
“Japanese politics was a rocky ride,” she says, noting there were four prime ministers during her posting.
By the time Downer, 37, moved to Tokyo in 2010, she already had plenty of international experience.
She hadn’t especially wanted to leave Adelaide after graduating from Seymour College in 1997, but the lucrative University of Melbourne scholarship she won was too good to pass up. She was a lawyer in Melbourne and worked for politicians in the US and UK before joining the Department of Foreign Affairs in Canberra in 2007.
More recently, she was director of the University of Melbourne’s AsiaLink Diplomacy arm and is now an adjunct fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs think tank and a regular media commentator.
The daughter of Alexander Downer and a mum of two, she says she would “never say never” about a homecoming but “there are no members of my immediate family in Adelaide, which must be a first for many generations”.
“It’s just finding the right job opportunity. The fact that I’m in foreign policy … does mean that coming home is more difficult,” she says. “I love Adelaide. I have wonderful memories of growing up in the Hills. I miss the beaches.
“When you have kids, you seek out places where you can have a bigger house, great schools and a great quality of life (which Adelaide has). You don’t have to live an hour out of town to get a house that suits your family’s needs. If you can get a job that challenges you, it’s an all-round winner.”
Playing on the world stage
PIANIST and author Anna Goldsworthy has performed and studied around the world, written stage plays, cabaret shows and an opera libretto, and penned two books of memoirs.
Now she is also a lecturer in ensemble at the Elder Conservatorium, a research fellow in the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at Adelaide University, and a mum of two young sons.
“It gets a bit compulsive, trying to do too much. It’s all very stimulating. I think balance is a mythical phenomenon in relation to my own life,” she says.
For someone juggling so many roles, a homecoming from Melbourne to Adelaide in 2013 has made things a little easier.
“I grew up as part of a supportive extended family and I was keen for (my sons) to have that in their own upbringing,” she says.
“Also there’s something about Adelaide. It’s on a human scale. There are lots of things in Adelaide that are conducive to producing art. On a good day, because you are not having to fight the city to get from A to B, you have more energy for creating things.”
Goldsworthy, 42, the daughter of author Peter Goldsworthy, was one of the top 10 students in the state when she completed Year 12 at Pembroke School in 1991 with perfect scores in five subjects.
She achieved an honours degree in music at Adelaide University’s Elder Conservatorium before pursuing a masters at Texas Christian University in the US.
“It was the urge to be exposed to a wider pool of musical influences,” she says of that initial move.
“In the piano studio I was in, there were fantastic pianists from all over the world.”
From 1999 she was based in Melbourne, at first for a residency at the Australian National Academy of Music, then a doctorate from the University of Melbourne. She also had stints studying in Russia and Germany as well as performing across the globe.
“I really established a life in Melbourne. I really loved it from a literary and perspective and a music perspective.
“As a musician you have to travel anyway, you can’t stay in the same place and perform to the same audience.’
MORE YOUNG SOUTH AUSSIES MAKING THEIR MARK
Sophie Wilkinson, 29
School: Walford Class of 2004, two SACE Merits, ATAR 99.35
University: Design studies and commerce degrees at Adelaide University, and a graduate certificate in project management.
Now: Design and construction manager, New York
Sophie Wilkinson
Ms Wilkinson first moved to Sydney in 2011 to work on the fitout of penthouse suites at a Darling Harbour hotel.
Two years later she headed to New York, securing a role with a large contractor to manage the fitout of luxury retail stores across America, including an Apple Store in Manhattan’s swish Upper East Side.
She is now head of design and construction for a venture capital company called Common that she says provides “community-minded, shared homes in major US cities”.
“I wanted to experience a city that was completely different to Adelaide and I was excited by the adventure of the move. Professionally I was keen to explore my own limits by taking on higher stakes projects in an international arena,” she says.
“In the short term, nothing would have kept me (in Adelaide). My desire to explore other parts of the world and the range of opportunities in my field of work would have always led me to move some place else, for at least some time.”
But she is not ruling out a return.
“I will move back to South Australia for the wonderful lifestyle Adelaide can provide … and for my family. Mostly I miss my family and friends, but I also miss the broad range of incredible landscapes that are right on our doorstep.”
Dr Ying Xiao, 31
School: St Peter’s College Class of 2003, International Baccalaureate 44/45, ATAR 99.95
University: Maths and computer science at Yale University, Connecticut (US), doctorate in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
Now: Artificial intelligence expert, Google Research, California
Dr Ying Xiao
Dr Ying Xiao says going to US Ivy League college Yale University was “a pretty natural extension of what Saints (St Peter’s College) was like”.
Born in China and raised in Brazil and Australia, he had no hesitation about seeking opportunities overseas.
After Yale he was briefly a Wall St analyst for Goldman Sachs before pursuing his doctorate, then was part of a “big data” focused start-up in California helping an oil company client maximise their production output. He now works for Google Research on artificial intelligence and “machine learning” projects.
“I guess I’ve always just followed my curiosity,” he says.
He visits his parents in Adelaide regularly but says it would be hard to return for work because “super high tech stuff doesn’t exist in Australia”.
He misses iced coffee and Adelaide people who “are not uptight and don’t take themselves too seriously”.
Owen Yang, 24
School: Prince Alfred College Class of 2010, International Baccalaureate 44/45, ATAR 99.95
University: Finance at University of NSW
Now: Business operator and consultant, Melbourne
Owen Yang
Entrepreneur Owen Yang couldn’t resist the offer of a UNSW scholarship, worth $16,000 a year, that gave him access to “really good internships” on top of his degree.
After his uni graduation he moved to Melbourne and has launched two businesses — one that helps start-ups gain research and development tax credits, and another called Gowning Street that sells graduation regalia for a lower cost than hiring from universities.
With the businesses “basically running themselves” now, he has taken up a job with Boston Consulting Group. To get started in the financial world there is little alternative to moving to the eastern states, he says, and to be lured home he would “need not to be taking a massive pay cut”.
He says running a “purely digital” start-up might work in Adelaide, but for anything require physical interaction with customers, Melbourne and Sydney are much bigger and more attractive markets.
Yet me misses a lot about Adelaide, including the Mt Lofty walk and cherry picking in the Hills.
“I do like the fact it’s not so urban. I liked playing sport in Adelaide. It’s not so easy elsewhere. There’s a tennis court on every corner in Adelaide.”
Gemma Skaczkowski, 28
School: Eynesbury College Class of 2005, two SACE Merits, ATAR 99.8
University: Science, health sciences (honours in psychology) and law degrees, Adelaide University, and upcoming doctoral graduation at University of Melbourne in December
Now: Senior research officer, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne
Gemma Skaczkowski
When she worked for Cancer Council SA, Ms Skaczkowski co-ordinated the South Australian fieldwork for the Australian Secondary Students’ Alcohol and Drug Survey. After moving to Melbourne, she analysed the survey data as a research officer for Cancer Council Victoria.
“(Now) I mainly work on a project examining the self-reported experiences of care of adolescents and young adults with cancer, and another population-based study examining diagnosis and treatment patterns of (youths with cancer),” she says.
She and her fiance both knew there were better opportunities for them interstate.
“I knew I wanted to do a PhD and the University of Melbourne has a good reputation for research.
“The plan has always been for us to come back at some point, it’s more a question of when. “There are lots of organisations and research groups in Adelaide that I would love to work with, but an eternal problem in research, in Adelaide and everywhere else, is getting the funding for projects and positions. For the right project, I’d move back in a heartbeat.”
Simon Blacket, 24
School: Unley High Class of 2009, five SACE Merits, ATAR 99.95
University: Science (Honours) at Adelaide University
Now: Data analyst, Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, Canberra
Simon Blacket
For a high-achieving school and university student, Simon Blacket found it a “humbling experience” spending months searching for work in Adelaide after graduating.
He made the most of that time by tutoring high school students and volunteering at a school for the vision impaired, but “it wasn’t until I widened my (job) search that I started to do better with my applications”.
Eventually he landed a position in a two-year graduate program with the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science in Canberra. The role has focused on forging connections between scientific research and industry. In his own time he also runs Youtube channel Cool Science, doing demonstrations to encourage kids into science.
Canberra has suited him because it’s “similar to Adelaide (with) that country town feel to it”, but
he wants to move home if possible.
“The department takes us on as full-time employees at the end of the year, but as to where I’ll be (posted), that’s just a little bit of a work in progress.
“It’s mainly that my fiance is still studying (in Adelaide), so it makes sense for me to move where she is.”
Rupert Pedler, 27
School: St Peter’s College Class of 2007, International Baccalaureate 44/45, ATAR 99.95
University: Law and commerce, Bond University
Now: Works in private equity for global investment firm KKR, Sydney
Rupert Pedler
Impeccable school results, followed by an extra year at St Peter’s College as school captain, helped score Rupert Pedler a full scholarship to Bond University in Queensland.
Since 2013 he has been in Sydney, firstly as an analyst for a boutique investment bank, and now with private equity firm KKR.
While he doesn’t have a bad word to say about Adelaide, he can’t envisage a return “in the near future” because Sydney is the centre of the finance industry.
“I certainly miss Adelaide from a friendliness and culture perspective. Sydney people can be pretty brash and self-centred and Adelaide people are not like that. I miss the way people go about living their life there.
“The dull and boring tag that people use over here (about Adelaide) is unfounded. Adelaide’s a great city, up and coming.”
Dr Preeya Alexander, 29
School: University Senior College Class of 2004, four SACE Merits, 99.85 ATAR
University: Medicine at Adelaide University
Now: A GP in Melbourne
Dr Preeya Alexander
Dr Preeya Alexander did her internship and more than two years of specialty training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital before deciding to switch directions and become a GP. She also runs The Wholesome Doctor website focused on preventive health.
She left Adelaide almost three years ago because her husband Will, also a doctor, secured a plastic surgery training position in Melbourne.
If not for that they would likely never had moved, but now there’s no turning back. She did all her GP training in Victoria.
“I think we are going to call Melbourne home now. There’s just a lot more to do for young people and it’s a very nice work-life balance here,” she says.
“We absolutely adore Adelaide and there’s so many positives to living in Adelaide, but at the end of the day it’s about opportunities for us. When you look at the difference in the economies between the states, our daughter (Eva, six months) probably has a lot more opportunities in Melbourne.”
Dr Alice Robinson, 36
School: Seymour College Class of 1997, five SACE Merits
University: Medicine at Adelaide University
Now: Obstetrician specialising in ultrasound, Melbourne
Alice Robinson
A year of travel was crucial to shaping Dr Alice Robinson’s career.
After her medical degree and an internship at Flinders Medical Centre, she headed to Europe and ended up doing some work in one of the world’s oldest maternity hospitals in Ireland, where she discovered a passion for obstetrics.
She lived briefly in Melbourne, than returned to Adelaide for five years of obstetrics training. Then it was back to Melbourne for even more training, and she stayed there because she loved the people she worked with. An eventual homecoming isn’t out of the question, however.
“It’s a really easy lifestyle in Adelaide and the weather is a lot better than Melbourne,” she says.
“I miss summer in Adelaide with the cricket and the Tour Down Under and the Fringe Festival.”
Jock Clarnette, 23
School: Prince Alfred College Class of 2011, five SACE Merits, 99.95 ATAR
University: Medicine at Adelaide University
Now: 5th year medical student
Jock Clarnette
On the basis of his stellar university results, Jock Clarnette was offered university places with scholarships all around the country. But he chose to stay in Adelaide.
“It was more that I just didn’t see a reason to leave. All my friends and family are here. Adelaide’s got a lot to offer,” he says.
“It doesn’t mean that I won’t ever venture anywhere else.
“It’s likely I’ll be working in Adelaide my first year out of uni, after that it will depend what opportunities are out there.”
