Bill Hoffenberg, 1923–2007

Professor Sir Raymond 'Bill' Hoffenberg: a celebration and thanksgiving.

The different names and titles Bill had are a way of revealing a variety of relationships. If one knew him from childhood, he was Billie. Army and university friends left off the diminutive; he was Bill, plain and simple. To his patients he was Dr Hoffenberg. To his students he was Hoff (not to his face) and Prof (to his face). To Professor was added, in due course, Dean and then President – ti...

Pharmacy Bill

Pharmacy Bill

Pharmacy Bill

Bill Bement

At the same time, the government was forced to admit that some of the pollution targets set for this year will not be met. Specifically, Australia wanted to reduce the fertiliser runoff by 50% by this year under the socalled Reef Plan, but this target has now been postponed to 2018. Only small reductions in nitrogen and sediment runoff have been achieved so far. These problems can be clearly li...