Go8, Australia. Vice chancellor of the University of Western Australia, Dawn Freshwater has become the first female chair of Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight Universities. Having arrived in Australia in 2014 with a robust reputation for university leadership in England, she has been committed to reforming the  sector’s mental health provision. In 2018, she was deputy chair of the Go8. As chair, Dawn will continue to make the case for a strong and well-funded research system because the fact is investment in research is an investment in the national economy. Go8 will make it clear to government and opposition that universities are a nation’s most valuable assets.