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The Charles Perkins Centre is a research and education hub at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia. Designed by Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp with Building Studio (architects in association), the building primarily focuses on three of Australia's biggest health epidemics–diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity and as well as other related conditions. Construction on the AUD$350 million Charles Perkins Centre began in 2012 and it formally opened in June 2014. The centre is named after Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins, the first man of Aboriginal descent to graduate from the University of Sydney. The centre's academic director is Professor Steve Simpson. The building is located within close proximity to the Royal Prince Alfred health precinct. ==Background== Charles Perkins, known as "Charlie", was one of Australia's most prominent Aboriginal activists. He was born in 1936 to an Arrernte woman and a Kalkadoon man in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts in 1966. Prior to this, he worked for an Adelaide fitter and turner company and had also worked for the City of South Sydney, cleaning public toilets. Perkins was a key member of the Freedom Ride, a bus tour through New South Wales protesting small-town discrimination of Aboriginal people. The action was inspired by the American Civil Rights Freedom Ride campaign in 1961 which travelled from Washington D.C. to New Orleans. In 1969 Perkins began his career as a public servant as a Senior Research Officer with the Office of Aboriginal Affairs. In 1972, as a public servant, he was suspended for alleged improper conduct after he described the Liberal and the Country Coalition government in Western Australia as being "racist and redneck". He later became the first Aboriginal to become appointed as the Permanent Secretary of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in 1981. He was a strident critic of the Australian Government and their policies. Perkins also had a career as a soccer player, serving as president for the National Soccer League team Canberra City in the Australian Capital Territory. He died in 2000 from renal failure and is survived by a large family, with two daughters and a son. During the 1970s Perkins had a kidney transplant and at the time of his death was the longest post-transplant survivor in Australia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Perkins Centre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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