The most recent guidelines on appropriate alcohol consumption from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) are a hard sell to a hard-drinking public. And this is despite growing concerns about alcohol-fuelled violence in the community and a swelling evidence base demonstrating the nature and extent of alcohol-related harms, especially among young people.

Three months after her first baby was born, paediatric cardiologist and Rhodes Scholar Marina Hughes was faced with a difficult decision.

When she's travelling to work on a particularly cold London morning, Loretta Tomasi sometimes wonders what she's doing there. It's times like those that the English National Opera chief's thoughts turn towards sunny Perth, where she completed her commerce degree in 1978 and where she returns, twice a year, to visit family and friends.

More than 12,000 alumni now live overseas in more than 100 countries. Some are locals taking the skills acquired at UWA to every corner of the globe, some were international students now investing their knowledge and experience in their home countries. Tamara Hunter has tracked down just a few of the University's many ‘ambassadors'.