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George Nelson is an Aboriginal Elder of both Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung Nations and has been a keeper of his family stories for seventy-three years. George had a broken education as a child and finally had the opportunity of returning to study at the age of fifty-six, completing a degree in Aboriginal Administration in Adelaide. George also commenced a postgraduate thesis, and took a special interest in further researching the life of his Grampa Thomas Shadrach James, an Indian from Mauritius who was responsible for educating both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people on Maloga and Cummeragunga missions over a period of forty-one years. George himself has a highly successful professional running career, on the Australian Professional athletics circuit.
Robynne Nelson has extensive experience working in Aboriginal communities around Australia, and has managed her own consultancy company Healing the Spirit Pty Ltd, working around Victoria and into New South Wales, supporting Aboriginal organisations and communities in community development, policy development, and cultural competency training across various communities and organisations. She also provides alternative and traditional healing therapies to those in need. Her business had been put on the backburner for seven years whilst completing her father’s research into Grampa Thomas Shadrach James and his family history in Australia, Mauritius and India, writing Dharmalan Dana on behalf of her father, and the completion of the amazing body of work with her father.
Trevor Wilson retired in August 2003 after more than thirty-six years as a member of the Australian foreign service, the last fifteen as a member of the Senior Executive Service, after serving as Australian Ambassador to Myanmar (2000-03). Since October 2003 he has been a Visiting Fellow on Myanmar/Burma at the Department of Political and Social Change, School of International, Political and Strategic Studies, The Australian National University.
Since 2004, Trevor Wilson has been co-convener of the Myanmar/Burma Update conference series at ANU. He has (co)-edited four volumes of the conference papers, Myanmar’s Long Road to National Reconciliation (ISEAS 2006); and, with Monique Skidmore, Myanmar: the state, community and the environment (Asia Pacific Press, 2007); and Dictatorship, disorder and decline in Myanmar (ANU Press, 2008); and with Monique Skidmore and Nick Cheesman, Ruling Myanmar From Cyclone Nargis to National Elections (ISEAS 2010) based on the 2009 Myanmar/Burma Update. With David Kinley, he co-authored a case study of Australia’s human rights training in Myanmar ‘Engaging a pariah: Human rights training in Burma/Myanmar’ (Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 29 No. 2, May 2007). He has written numerous opinion pieces and given many interviews about the situation in Myanmar/Burma.
Peter Baume is a physician and was a Liberal senator for New South Wales from 1974 to 1991, during which time he served as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Minister for Health and Minister for Education. Upon retiring from parliament he has been Professor of Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales, Chancellor of The Australian National University and Commissioner of the Australian Law Reform Commission and Foundation Chair at the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.
Hyaeweol Choi is the ANU-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies and Director of the Korea Institute at The Australian National University. Her research interests are in the areas of gender, culture, religion and diaspora. She is author of New Women in Colonial Korea: A Sourcebook (Routledge 2013) and Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways (University of California Press, 2009). She is currently working on a project, reexamining the modern history of women in Korea from a transnational perspective by focusing on the dynamic flow of the ideas, discourses and people across national boundaries that have triggered new gender images and bodily practices.
Atholl Anderson is a pre-historian in the Department of Archaeology and Natural History at ANU, who has undertaken extensive projects extending across the Pacific Ocean from Southeast Asia to South America and from equatorial to sub-polar regions, in addition to a current project on the human settlement of islands in the Indian Ocean. He has excavated numerous sites of early human colonisation and undertaken analyses, especially of radiocarbon chronologies, which demonstrate that patterns of migration and settlement were more episodic, less directed and generally younger than previously thought. This conclusion has led him to propose radically different explanations of Polynesian and other Indo-Pacific voyaging.
Brian Rappert is a Professor of Science, Technology and Public Affairs in the Department of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Exeter. His long term interest has been the examination of how choices can and are made about the adoption and regulation of technologies; this particularly in conditions of uncertainty and disagreement. His books include Controlling the Weapons of War: Politics, Persuasion, and the Prohibition of Inhumanity, Technology & Security (ed), Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits; and Education and Ethics in the Life Sciences (ANU Press). More recently he has been interested in the social, ethical, and epistemological issues associated with researching and writing about secrets, as in his book titled Experimental Secrets.
Dr Samuel Furphy is a Research Fellow in the National Centre of Biography, School of History, The Australian National University. His scholarly interests include Australian colonial history, British imperial history, Aboriginal history, and biography. Sam’s recent book – Edward M. Curr and the Tide of History – is a biography of a nineteenth century pastoralist, public servant, ethnologist, and Aboriginal administrator, whose written works were influential in the Yorta Yorta native title case. It was shortlisted for the Victorian Community History Awards in 2013.
Sam is a currently a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council project “Serving Our Country: A History of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in the Defence of Australia.” In 2014 he will commence work on a new project as an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow: “A Due Observance of Justice? Protectors of Aborigines in Britain’s Australasian Colonies, 1837-1857.”
Before joining the National Centre of Biography, Sam worked as a professional historian, writing several commissioned histories including Dimmeys of Richmond (2007) and Australian of the Year Awards: A Fiftieth Anniversary History (2010).
Oskar Spate (1911- 2000) was born and educated in England where he completed a doctorate at the University of Cambridge in 1937 on the development of London. After the Second World War he combined lecturing in England with writing a regional geography of the Indian sub-continent.
In 1951 he took up the post of Foundation Professor of Geography in the Research School of Pacific Studies at The Australian National University, a position he held until 1967. From 1967 to 1972 he was Director of the Research School of Pacific Studies, ANU, and in 1972 moved to its Department of Pacific History.
Throughout his career, Oskar Spate published a wide diversity of papers and essays on such subjects as the geography of Europe, South Asia and Australia and the exploration of Australia and the Pacific. Upon his retirement in 1976, he devoted most of his energies to researching and writing his three-volume history The Pacific since Magellan.
Peter Chen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney.