The Speakers
Jill Roe

Jill Roe               Paper

Professor Jill Roe is President of the Australian Historical Association. She holds a Personal Chair in history at Macquarie University, Sydney and has served on national reviews of history honours and research funding. Her long term research interest is the life and work of Miles Franklin. She has recently completed research on Australian war brides in the US and long term links with Australia.

David Marr

David Marr

David Marr is a Sydney journalist who has written biographies of Patrick White and Sir Garfield Barwick. After stints on the Bulletin, the National Times, ABC television’s Four Corners and Radio National’s Arts Today, he is now writing about justice, race, sex and other issues for the Sydney Morning Herald. Last year he published a collection of essays, The High Price of Heaven.

Henry Reynolds               Paper

Professor Henry Reynolds is the author of nine books, including Aborigines and Settlers, The Law of the Land , The Other Side of the Frontier, Fate of a Free People and Why Weren’t We Told? . He is currently a Research Professor at the University of Tasmania and has just been awarded an ARC Senior Research Fellowship.

Henry Reynolds

Marilyn Lake

Marilyn Lake holds a Personal Chair in History at LaTrobe University. From 2001-02 she will take up her appointment as Professor in Australian Studies at Harvard University. She has published eight books in Australian history. The most recent, Getting Equal: The History of Feminism in Australia, came out last year. She is currently writing a biography of the black activist, Faith Bandler.

Marilyn Lake
Gaye Sculthorpe

Gaye Sculthorpe

Dr Gaye Sculthorpe, an Indigenous Tasmanian, is Program Director of the Indigenous Cultures Program at Museum Victoria. In this position she has been responsible for planning Aboriginal and Pacific Islander exhibitions for the new Melbourne Museum to open in July 2000. She holds a position as Commissioner with the Australian Heritage Commission.

Katie Holmes

Katie Holmes               Paper

Dr Katie Holmes lectures in History and Women’s Studies at LaTrobe University. Her book Spaces in Her Day: Australian Women’s Diaries of the 1920s and 1930s used women’s diaries to explore the lives of women and to challenge the traditional historical narratives of the 1920s and 1930s. Her current research project uses women’s personal writings to look at the individual meanings and significance of gardens to Australian women.

Tony Birch

Tony Birch is a Koori historian who teaches Indigenous History at the University of Melbourne. From 1997 to 1999 he held a part-time position as Senior Curator, Indigenous Cultures Program, at Museum Victoria. He is a widely published writer of poetry, fiction and history.

Tony Birch

Brenda Niall

Brenda Niall was until recently Reader in English at Monash University, where she is now a Senior Research Associate. Her books include two award-winning biographies, Martin Boyd: A Life and Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer. She co-edited The Oxford Book of Australian Schooldays with Ian Britain and The Oxford Book of Australian Letters with John Thompson.

Brenda Niall
Greg Dening

Greg Dening               Paper

Greg Dening in his retirement is Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, ANU. He ‘adjuncts’ by offering a series of workshops for postgraduates from all disciplines and all universities in Australia. The series is called ‘Challenges to Perform’ and is concerned with the creative imagination in the presentation of scholarly knowledge.

Jennifer Craik

Jennifer Craik               Paper

Dr Jennifer Craik is currently a visiting fellow at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies at the ANU. Her publications include Resorting to Tourism, The Face of Fashion, and Public Voices, Private Interests: Australia’s Media Policy (co-edited with J.J. Bailey & A. Moran, 1995). Currently she is completing a book on cultural studies and co-editing a book on the cultural limits to tourism.

Deborah Rose

Dr Deborah Bird Rose is a Senior Research Fellow at the ANU. She is the award-winning author of Nourishing Terrains, Dingo Makes Us Human and Hidden Histories. She has worked with Aboriginal people on land claims, and with the Aboriginal Land Commissioner as his consulting anthropologist. She writes on social and ecological justice, most recently concentrating on frontier culture, and Indigenous and Settler ecologies.

Deborah Rose

Iain McCalman               Paper

Professor Iain McCalman was reared in Africa. He is Director of the Humanities Research Centre at the ANU, and has taught modern history at several Australian universities over a period of 30 years. He has written extensively on modern British history and has recently edited The Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age.

Iain McCalman
Stephen Muecke

Stephen Muecke               Paper

Stephen Muecke is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. His books include Reading the Country (with Paddy Roe and Krim Benterrak, 1984, 1996); Textual Spaces: Aboriginality and Cultural Studies; No Road (bitumen all the way); and a translation of Jose Gil’s Metamorphoses of the Body. He is co-editor with Meaghan Morris of The UTS Review: Cultural Studies and New Writing.

Margy Burn

Margy Burn               Paper

Margy Burn joined the National Library as Assistant Director-General, Australian Collections and Reader Services in June 1999. She has worked as an Australiana specialist at a number of major libraries and has been involved in innovative projects to digitise original pictorial and manuscript materials. She has also developed new collecting partnerships with a range of community organisations aimed at building more balanced collections.

Nicholas Hasluck               Paper

Nicholas Hasluck was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1988. He has written nine novels, the most recent of which is Our Man K, covering the first century of Australian Federation. He won The Age Book of the Year Award in 1984 and was made a member of the Order of Australia two years later. He was recently appointed Chairman of the Literature Fund of the Australia Council.

Nicholas Hasluck

Ann Curthoys

Ann Curthoys is Manning Clark Professor of History at the ANU. She has written widely on aspects of Australian history, including indigenous history, women’s history, the media, and post World War Two political history. She also writes on questions of national identity, historical writing, and the representation of history in museums. She serves on the advisory boards of a number of journals.

Ann Curthoys
Kate Grenville

Kate Grenville               Paper

Kate Grenville’s most recent book is The Idea of Perfection, about life, love and heritage in an Australian country town. Her other novels include Lilian’s Story, Dark Places and Joan Makes History, all of which have made use of historical material. She is also the author of The Writing Book, a best-selling how-to-write book. Her publications have won many prizes.

Peter Cochrane

Peter Cochrane               Paper

Dr Peter Cochrane is an Associate of Australian Heritage Projects and a freelance writer based in Sydney. He is writing the companion volume to the forthcoming ABC television series ‘Australians at War’, and is editing the National Library’s Centennial volume, to be published in 2001. He is also co-curator of the ‘Belonging’ exhibition that will tour Australia as part of the Centenary of Federation celebrations.

Nicholas Jose               Paper

Dr Nicholas Jose’s novel, The Rose Crossing is set in the seventeenth-century. His other novels, including most recently The Custodians, begin from a more recent historical point of view. His new novel, The Red Thread, out in September, takes place in China in the early nineteenth and late twentieth century.

Nicholas Jose

Stuart Macintyre

Professor Stuart Macintyre is the Ernest Scott Professor of History at The University of Melbourne and currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts. His publications include The Reds, the Oxford Companion to Australian History (1988, edited with Graeme Davison and John Hirst) and the Cambridge Concise History of Australia. He has been a member of the Councils of the National Library and the State Library of Victoria.

Stuart Macintyre
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