ABSTRACT
The University of Western Australia (UWA) had but a humble start in life. Created in 1911 as the state’s first university, its initial accommodation was but a cluster of timber and iron huts so meagre that it earned the nickname ‘Tin Pan Alley’. Yet, as the proverb goes, mighty oaks from little acorns grow, and today UWA’s campus in the Perth suburb of Crawley is widely recognised as Australia’s most beautiful.
