Place: Lecture Theatre 2, Hedley Bull Building, Australian National University, Canberra

Leaders: Frank Bongiorno, Nicholas Brown, Bruce Chapman, David Lowe, Meredith Edwards, Stuart Macintyre, Sean Scalmer and  John Uhr

 

Session 1

10:00-10:30

Introductions and Objectives

Session 2

10:30-11.50

• Emily Millane
  • Politics of tax reform in Australia

 

• Daniel Hannington-Pinto
  • Union engagement with and influence over policy debates from the mid-1960s

 

• Will Peart
  • Ideas shaping policy and laws for the ‘disposal of Crown land’ in Victoria in the 1860s and 1870s

 

• Liam Byrne
  • Political culture of the Australian Labor Party in Victoria 1901 and 1921

 

• Response
  • Frank Bongiorno and Bruce Chapman

 

LUNCH 12-12.30

Session 3

12.30-1.50

• Carla Pascoe
  • Changing policy regarding and experience of motherhood in Australia since 1945

 

• Kylie Rippon
  • Aboriginal Acts and their effects on Aboriginal Parenting 1877 to 1920

 

• Yolande Robinson
  • The recent history of community-based approaches to preventing crime in Queensland

 

• David Roth
  • Life, Death and Release at Callan Park Hospital for the Insane

 

• Response
  • Nicholas Brown and Meredith Edwards

 

Session 4

2.00-3.20

• Rebecca Cairns
  • ‘Australia-Asia’ policy and a history of the curricular present

 

• Anna Kent
  • Influence of education programs on Australia-Indonesia relations

 

• Nicholas Ferns
  • Putting Theory into Practice: Development and Australian Economic Assistance to Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia

 

• Daniel May
  • Political and Cultural Influence of Understandings of Indigenous Fire-use in Australia

 

• Response
  • David Lowe; John Uhr

Session 5

3.20-3.45

Overview and conclusions      Sean Scalmer and Stuart Macintyre