Simon Adams is Associate Professor of Politics and History at the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle, Western Australia. He received his PhD from the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He has written two books, Exit Wounds: Murder Diaspora and the Irish Troubles (2000), and Comrade Minister: the South African Communist Party and the Transition to Democracy (2001). He is currently working on a history of capital punishment in Western Australia.
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Nikola Balnave is a lecturer in the School of Management at the University of Western Sydney. She completed her PhD in 2002 on Industrial Welfarism in Australia, and has published a number of papers on this topic.
n.balnave@uws.edu.au. |
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Anne Beggs Sunter has a long association with the regional city of Ballarat, where she lectures in Australian history and heritage at the University of Ballarat. She has recently completed her PhD thesis at the University of Melbourne on the interpretation of the Eureka Stockade. She is very involved in community cultural concerns in Ballarat, and is on the board of the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery and the Eureka Special Committee.
a.beggs-sunter@ballarat.edu.au |
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| Rowan Cahillis a labour historian and the co-author (with Brian Fitzpatrick) of The Seamen's Union of Australia 1872–1972: a History (1981). The obituary of Tas Bull, which was published in the Age on 13 June 2003, is reproduced with kind permission of the Maritime Union of Australia. |
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Brian Crozier is Senior Curator, Cultures and Histories at the Queensland Museum. His interest in the presentation of history for a popular audience dates from his involvement in the establishment of The History Institute Victoria in 1981, and has been explored in a number of publications, including 'Historical sensibility' in Australian Historical Association Bulletin, Dec. 2000.
brian@qm.qld.gov.au |
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Liza Dale-Hallett, (Senior Curator, Technology & Sustainable Futures, Museum Victoria) is a historian specialising in the history of agriculture and gender in Australia, and has a particular interest in contemporary issues that link city and regional communities. Current research and exhibition projects cover the agricultural enterprise of H.V. McKay, the role and impact of women in agriculture, and sustainable water use in the home.
ldale@museum.vic.gov.au |
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Ed Davis is Dean of the Division of Economic and Financial Studies at Macquarie University. He is a long-time observer of ACTU Congresses; he has attended every Congress since 1979, writing accounts of the 1983–1991 Congresses for the Journal of Industrial Relations, and 1993–1995 for the Economics and Labour Relations Review.
ed.davis@efs.mq.edu.au |
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Charles Fahey is Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Regional Development, La Trobe University and teaches history at the Bendigo campus. With John Lack he is writing a history of the Sunshine Harvester Factory. He is also engaged in a project to look at families and communities on the Victorian gold fields.
c.fahey@bendigo.latrobe.edu.au |
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Rae Frances is associate professor of history at the University of New South Wales. She has published extensively on the history of women, gender and work, and is currently writing a history of prostitution in Australia since 1788.
r.frances@unsw.edu.au |
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Helen Gregory is a Queensland consulting historian who has written extensively on Brisbane and Queensland history. Her first exposure to history in the museum context was writing, with Ross Johnston, the historical background for the Queensland Museum's 'Women of the West' exhibition, exhibited between 1995 and 2003 and was the Museum's most popular exhibition for most of that time.
Helen.Gregory@cultural.com.au |
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Vicki Grieves lectures at the University of Newcastle within the Wollotuka School of Aboriginal Studies. She is Worimi-Kattang from the midnorth coast region of NSW and has more than 20 years experience as an educator, administrator and manager within the context of Indigenous affairs in universities, the Commonwealth Public Service and Aboriginal community-controlled organisations.
vicki.grieves@newcastle.edu.au |
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Mark Hearn is a Sesqui Post-Doctoral Fellow in the discipline of Work and Organisational Studies, University of Sydney. He is researching aspects of Australian labour and nationalism with a methodological focus on narrative theory and biography. He is the editor of Working Lives, a website of labour biography:
www.econ.usyd.edu/wos/workinglives
m.hearn@econ.usyd.edu.au |
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John Lack is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Melbourne, where he teaches a variety of courses in Australian History. He and Liza Dale secured the Massey Ferguson Iseki records for the University of Melbourne Archives and Museum Victoria. With Charles Fahey, John is writing a history of the Sunshine Harvester Works.
j.lack@unimelb.edu.au |
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Tony Laffan is a social science teacher at Singleton High School. The primary focus of his research is the interaction between the coal miners of the Lower Hunter and socialists during the period 1860 to 1960. He has published two books: Good Work at Westy, on the socialist labor party and the northern coalfields of NSW, and The Freethinker's Picnic, on Newcastle's secular Hall of Science 1883–93.
tlaffan@yahoo.com |
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Stuart Macintyre is Ernest Scott Professor of History, Dean of Arts and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. The author of numerous books and articles, his most recent publication is The History Wars (2003) co-authored with Anna Clark.
s.macintyreunimelb.edu.au |
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Tom McDonaldis a former National Secretary of the BWIU and holds a typed copy of Ron Hancock's oral reflections.
Audrey.tommcdonald@bigpond.com |
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Bob McKillop, an agriculturalist working in the international rural development arena, has also published extensively on railway history and heritage issues over the past 25 years. He served as editor of the journal Light Railways from 1980 to 1992 and been co-editor of the revamped publication since 1997. His main field of interest is the economic and industrial history of inland centres and he has published articles on the Great Western Railway with the Australian Railway Historical Society and the mining industry of Cobar in Light Railways.
rfmckillop@bigpond.com |
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John Minns is a lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University. His research interests and publications are in the fields of East Asian political economy, labour movements and the political economy of newly industrialising countries and reactions to globalisation.
john.minns@anu.edu.au |
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Bobbie Oliver is Senior Lecturer, Australia Research Institute, Curtin University. She is Chief Investigator of an ARC-funded project collecting the history of the Westrail Workshops at Midland, WA.
bobbie.oliver@curtin.edu.au |
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Naomi Parry is a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales. Her thesis focuses on the removal of white and Aboriginal children from their families under the welfare systems of NSW and Tasmania in the period 1880 to 1940. Her research interests include Aboriginal biographies and studies of dispossession on the frontier.
nparry@student.unsw.edu.au |
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Paul Pickering is a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University. He has written extensively on nineteenth century popular radicalism in Britain and Ireland. He is currently completing a major study of the impact of radical migrants on the development of colonial Australia for the ARC.
paul.pickering@anu.edu.au |
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Andrew Reeves has published widely on both labour history and cultural matters. He is the author (with Anne Stephen) of Badges of Labour, Banners of Pride, of Another Day, Another Dollar, and co-editor of Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia. He is co-editing a history of the Melbourne Trades Hall Council. He has worked in senior positions at the National Museum of Australia, the Museum of Victoria and the Western Australian Museum and is currently Chief of Staff for Senator Kim Carr.
Andrew.Reeves@aph.gov.au |
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| Lyndall Ryan is Foundation Professor of Australian Studies at the University of Newcastle. She has published widely in the field of Aboriginal History and feminist history and is currently completing a biography of her mother, well-known feminist and labour activist, Edna Ryan (1904–97). |
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Malcolm Saunders is a lecturer at Central Queensland University in Rockhampton where he teaches Australian, American, and European history. His research interests include biography, peace, military, labour, and South Australian history. With Brisbane labour historian Neil Lloyd, he is currently working on a biography of Queensland Labor stalwart and longtime member for Capricornia, Frank Forde (1890–1983).
M.Saunders@cqu.edu.au |
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Lucy Taksa is Head of the School of Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour and Director of the Industrial Relations Research Centre at the University of NSW. Her current work focuses on labour and industrial heritage and the history of Sydney's Eveleigh railway workshops. She is a Corresponding Editor of the International Review of Social History, and a member of the Journal of Transport History (UK) Editorial Board and the Advisory Council of the Society for the History of Technology (USA), and Vice President of the History Council of NSW and the ASSLH.
l.taksa@unsw.edu.au |
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| Robert Tierney is a lecturer in Industrial Relations at Charles Sturt University. He is currently on leave from Charles Sturt, working as an Associate Professor of Labour and Management Studies at the Yunnam University of Finance and Economics, People's Republic of China. |
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| Liz Wilson is a Jimin woman and her country is near the Dawson River in Central Queensland. She is one of a several indigenous students who have gained a place at the University of New South Wales where she is studying law, Australian Studies and history. |
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