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
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)
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