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Brett Bennett is Senior Lecturer in History in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. He is also a Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg and an Associate in the Centre for Environmental History at The Australian National University.
Fred Kruger is a Research Associate in the Centre for Environmental Management at the University of the Free State. During his career, Kruger has served in a variety of research and executive positions, including the Officer in Charge at the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Station, Director of the South African Forestry Research Institute, Director of Forestek (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research), and as a consultant and educator.
Geremie R Barmé is an historian, editor and translator who has published widely on late-imperial and modern China. He is the Founding Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW), College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.
Jeremy Goldkorn is a writer and new media entrepreneur and founder of Danwei.com, the digital research collaborator of China in the World. He relocated to Nashville, Tennessee in 2015 after twenty years of living and working in Beijing.
Geoffrey Lancaster has been at the forefront of the historically inspired performance movement for 40 years. He was the first Australian to win a major international keyboard competition, receiving first prize in the 23rd Festival van Vlaanderen International Mozart Fortepiano Competition, Brugge.
He has appeared to acclaim as keyboardist and conductor with such orchestras as the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Cologne Gürzenich, Ensemble 415, Concerto Copenhagen, Tafelmusik, and every major Australian orchestra. Former Director of the Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players and Chief Conductor of La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, he has lectured at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and other significant Early Music schools.
In 2006 Dr Lancaster was Australian of the Year for the Australian Capital Territory. His other honours include ARIA and Gramophone awards for some of his more than fifty recordings, the Australian Artists Creative Fellowship, HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship, Honorary Fellowship of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Order of Arts and Letters and the Order of Australia.
Bruce Hamon was born in Sydney in 1917, but spent his childhood and primary school years at Bawley Point. His secondary schooling was at St Patrick’s College, Goulburn. Bruce then studied science and engineering at Sydney University. He joined the CSIRO in 1941, and remained with them until retiring in 1979. Initially he worked on electrical standards, but in 1957 he transferred to the Division of Fisheries (later the Division of Oceanography) at Cronulla, where his interests were ocean currents, tides and mean sea levels. Bruce’s other interests were fishing, canoeing, bushwalking, birdwatching and woodwork. He passed away in 2014.
Fadwa Al-Yaman is Group Head, Social and Indigenous Group at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Michelle Gourley is Unit Head, Indigenous Data Analysis and Reporting Unit at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
John Lawrence was born in 1931 and was educated in Adelaide. Later, as a Rhodes Scholar in Magdalen College, Oxford, he completed a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. After a period of employment in the social work section of the Commonwealth Department of Social Services, he studied at The Australian National University and received his PhD. In 1961, he was appointed to the University of Sydney in the first Australian academic post in social administration. In 1964, he became a member of the Federal Council of the Australian Association of Social Workers.
Noah Riseman is an Associate Professor in History at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. He is the author of Defending Whose Country? Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War and co-author of the book Defending Country: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Military Service since 1945.