Merredith Southee, Councillor

Merredith has an Honours Degree in History and a Diploma of Education from the University of Western Australia. She has taught History in government and private schools for nearly thirty years. Currently Merredith is employed by WestOne Services to write a 3B Unit in Modern History for the new course of study to commence for Year 12 students in 2010. Merredith has written many articles for History teaching journals and contributed to academic publications on her thesis topic, “East Perth. A Social History 1884-1904”.  She has been an executive committee member of the History Teachers’ Association of WA since 2003. She has a keen interest in reconciliation issues and coordinated a reconciliation group at St Mark’s Anglican

Community School for six years.

Merredith was elected to serve on the Committee of the History Council at the AGM in September 2007.