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






