PAPERS OF INTEREST

Annual General Meeting Paper Series

After the conduct of necessary business, an address by an esteemed colleague has become a feature of the Annual General Meetings of the History Council.

2005 - Professor Geoffrey Bolton - The Next Assignments

2006 - R.J.B. Bosworth - Doing Europe from Australia: an idiosyncratic historian’s journey

2007 - Lt General John Sanderson - Role of the Military in Indigenous Affairs

2008 - Hon Kim Beazley - The influence of good history studies on a career in public life

Proclaiming History

In 2003 as part of its contribution to Proclamation Week, the History Council presented a public forum focussing on constitutional issues. The Forum was held at the Constitutional Centre of WA on 25 October 2003.

Forum Agenda 

Professor Norman Etherington - The Western Australian Constitution in its Imperial Context

Peter Johnston - Waiting for the other Shoe to Fall: The Unresolved Issues of Yougarla v Western Australia

Emeritus Professor David Black - Proclaiming a Constitution

WA 2029 A Shared Journey

In 2004, the History Council coordinated the History Stream of the Western Australian Government sponsored WA 2029 A Shared Journey Conference. The Conference was held in the Perth Convention Centre from 17 - 19 November 2004.

Conference Program

Veronica Brady - Journey to the other side of the frontier: an interrogation

Dr Cathie Clement - Pursuing truth, dodging flak: the adventures of an empirical historian

 Geoffrey Gray - I wonder whether our tents will arrive in time’:Gerhardt Laves, Ralph Piddington and Marjorie Barnesat La  Grange, 1930.

Bill Leadbetter - Up Over for the Down There

Loreley A. Morling - Trawling through the records to unravel the story of my uncle the traitor: A biographical paper-chase through international archives

Professor Peter Read - The Intuitions of Place

Roger Underwood - An early chapter from a life in forestry

 Other Papers

Professor David Dolan - History and Heritage. Who Should Care?  December 2009

Transcript of The Great Debate “Is History Relevant?” Sponsored by the History Council of Western Australia, Alexander Library Theatre, 20 October 2005

John Howard - The Prime Minister's History Challenge (Transcript of the Prime Minister, the Hon John Howard MP Address to the National Press Club, Great Hall, Parliament House 25 January 2006)