The Gowrie Foundation established in 1943 to maintain research scholarships in perpetual memory of those Australian men and women who gave their lives for their country in the Second World War. Established in the name of Australia's 10th Governor-General, the scholarship was "for graduates who were members of the forces during WWII or are descendants of such persons. Special consideration given to lineal descendants of a member of the forces who died as a result of any occurrence which happened during his period of enlistment". The first trustees were Sir John Latham, Sir Robert Garran and Sir Claude Reading.

The scholarship was awarded for 1 or 2 years to graduates of Australian universities to support study at universities or other research institutions, either in Australia or overseas.

The trust was dissolved in with ANU managing the scholarship from 2011. It is now known as the Gowrie Bursary.

Walls has a first-class honours degree in French and also studied law. She spent 15 years as a journalist, including three years in the United Kingdom, working for the BBC and commercial radio in London, and two based in New Caledonia covering the French South Pacific for the Australian press. She works as an independent translator.

Forestry Australia was previously known as The Institute of Foresters of Australia & Australian Forest Growers (IFA & AFG). The IFA was created in 1935 as the professional membership body for people trained in forest science (foresters).

James (Jim) Specht was a PhD scholar in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University in 1965. He was part of an archaeological group which carried out fieldwork studying Lapita pottery in Watom Island, near Raboul, and in Talasea, on the mid-north coast of New Britain. He was awarded a Ph.D for his thesis: Prehistoric and modern pottery industries of Buka Island, T.P.N.G. (1969). Specht joined the Australian Museum in June 1971. From 1991, he was Head of the Division of Anthropology and was Chief Scientist from 1997-2000 before retiring in November 2000.

The first patent application by the newly formed partnership Waters and Hart was filed in May 1859. The dominant partner was Edward Waters (1937 - 1917) who arrived in the Colony of Victoria from London in 1855. Subequent related businesses included Edwd. Waters and Sons (sic). Branch Offices we established in Sydney in the 1880s and Brisbane in the 1890s. The branches eventually became separate businesses.

On 1 May 1989, the company changed its name to Watermark Patent and Trademark Attorneys moved to 290 Burwood Rd, Hawthorn Victoria 3122.

In 2019 Watermark was fully integrated into intellectual property service provider Griffith Hack.

In 1835 John Tooth, who had arrived in New South Wales in 1828, and Charles Newnham opened the Kent Brewery in Sydney. In June 1888 Tooth & Company became a publicly listed company with capital of 900,000 pounds. In 1905 the Company acquired the New South Wales Malting Company's works at Mittagong. Over the next two decades the company acquired the Maitland Brewery (1913), the Castlemaine Brewery and Wood Brothers, Newcastle (1921); breweries in Wagga Wagga, Narrandera and Goulburn and in 1929 they acquired Resch's Limited. In 1977 the company acquired Wright, Heaton and Company and Penfolds Wines Limited and in 1978 Courage Brewery Limited. Tooth and Company was acquired by Carlton and United Breweries in 1983. The company's extensive collection of hotel properties were sold off from 1990. The company was delisted from the Australian Securities Exchange in 2010 after not having traded for many years. carlton and United Breweres were bought by Asahi Beverages in 2020.

Robert Crawford is Professor of Advertising in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.
His research focuses on the growth and development of the advertising, marketing, and public relations industries nationally and internationally.

Ernest Richard (ER) Scott was born in Geelong. Victoria, in 1899. Between 1924 and 1919. He worked for the Manfred Pastoral Company in outback New South Wales.

ER Scott lived in a workers camp while maintaining artesian bore Eureka Well. He also travelled to the homesteads of Manfred, Til Til, Kilfera and Clare stations.

ER Scott died in Geelong in 1971.

Barbara Curthoys was born in Grafton, New South Wales, on 21 June 1924 to John Archibald and Eda McCallum (nee Lockwood).

In 1953 she became a full-time Communist Party of Australia Activist.

Curthoys joined the Newcastle Branch of the Union of Australian Women in 1954 and was secretary of the Branch between 1954-1960. Curthoys was elected to the organisation’s national body in 1960, 1963 and 1970. In the 1960s, she also served as secretary of the Newcastle Trades Hall Council Equal Pay and Aboriginal Advancement committees. She was also a founding member of the Newcastle Peace Forum.

Elspeth Young was a geographer who spent many years studying Indigenous communities in Australia and Papua New Guinea, focusing on land management issues facing Indigenous peoples.
She graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1963, with MA (Honours) in Geography, with her thesis: Glenelg: a study of the developments in the economy of a West Highland District. After completing a Diploma of Education she taught geography and mathematics for a number of years in the UK and later in Trinidad. She returned to the UK to a position lecturing in economic geography at the Edinburgh College of Commerce in 1969. In 1971, she was appointed a Research Assistant and Tutor in the Geography Department of the University of Papua New Guinea. At the University of Papua New Guinea, she also pursued an additional degree, earning a MA for her thesis: Population Mobility in the Kainantu Area. Under the direction of Gerard Ward and Diana Howlett, she pursued her PhD at the Australian National University, which was awarded for her thesis: Simbu and New Ireland Migration (1977). In 1978, she switched her focus from PNG to Australia and began a study of Willowra station, north of Alice Springs. She became the first geographer to have worked on Northern Territory Land Claims, contributing to the successful claims to Ti Tree and Mt Allen (1980–85). Elspeth Young became a Research Fellow in Demography, ANU, (1980–1981) and Senior Research Fellow (1982–1985) in the North Australia Research Unit of the ANU. In 1985, she joined the Department of Geography and Oceanography at University College, University of New South Wales, Australian Defense Force Academy (1985-1994), where she would become an associate professor. In 1994 Elspeth returned to the ANU as Director of the Graduate Studies in Environmental Management and Development program. She stepped down from the position in 1999 and became a Reader at the program. She died in the UK in 2002. She made a bequest to the ANU in the form of the Elspeth Young Memorial Grant (https://study.anu.edu.au/scholarships/find-scholarship/elspeth-young-memorial-grant), supporting Indigenous Australian undergraduate and graduate students at the Australian National University.

Glen Fingleton was born in 1911 at Waverley, Sydney, New South Wales. He was the son of James Fingleton (1876-1920), tram driver and Labor politician, and Belinda May (Mary), née Webb (1878-1955). He was variously employed as a messenger in the Postmaster-General’s Department, civil servant, clerk, then union secretary.

Fingleton opposed efforts to ban the Communist party during the 1951 referendum. He joined a 1952 trade union delegation to the Soviet Union as a Waterside Workers Federation (WWF) representative thenclashed with the WWF Sydney Branch by publishing a report of the visit that was critical of the Soviet Union.

Fingleton died in 1965 at Glebe Island.

David Buchanan SC was admitted to practise as a solicitor in Sydney in 1975. He was called to the NSW Bar in 1977 and appointed Senior Counsel (SC) in 1997. His area of practice is criminal law. He has been involved for many years in the gay community response to HIV/AIDS in Australia and generally in the Indo-Pacific region. He has a particular interest in the role of the criminal law and of public health interventions in the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Francis Barrymore (Barry) Smith completed an MA from University of Melbourne and PhD from Cambridge University. He joined the Department of History, Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University as Senior Fellow from August 1966 and was promoted to Professorial Fellow in 1975. After retiring in 1997, he continued as a visiting fellow. Smith has published books concerned with British and Australian social and medical history.

Pat Howden graduated with a BSc from the the University of Sydney. He spent many years travelling and working in America and England.

Mervyn Meggitt served in the Royal Australian Navy during World War II before enrolling at the University of Sydney, where he graduated with Double Honours. Meggitt's first fieldwork was with the Walbiri in Central Australia. He published Desert People based on his Walbiri study. His next field work location was in the Papua New Guinea Highlands, studying the Enga. Between 1955 and 1961 he spent 21 months in Papua New Guinea. During this time he was also a lecturer at the University of Sydney. Between 1962 and 1965 he took up a fellowship at Manchester University, followed by visiting professorships in the USA. In 1965 he returned to the United States as a professor at the University of Michigan. In the 1967 he moved to a position at Queens College, City University of New York, where he remained until his retirement as Distinguished Professor Emeritus in 1992. He made his last visit to the Highlands in 1982.

The Jabal Indigenous Australian Centre provided a meeting place for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students studying at the Australian National University in Canberra, as well as student support services, recruitment and exhibitions. The Centre opened in May 1989 as the Aboriginal Liaison office and Students Support Centre. Bob Randall was the Centre's first Aboriginal Liaison Officer. By 1993, it became known as the Jabal Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Centre with Ms P Kemp-Elliott appointed as Director. In 2012 Dr Anne Martin was appointed Director and the Centre was re- named Tjabal Indigenous Higher Education Centre.

Emeritus Professor John White, AO CMG FRS FAA FAIP FRACI, studied chemistry at the University of Sydney before earning a doctorate at the University of Oxford. He returned to Australia in 1985 to take up the position of Professor of Physical & Theoretical Chemistry at the Australian National University.

Alan Gordon Thorne was born in Neutral Bay, Sydney, on 1 March 1939, and was educated at North Sydney Boys High. He started his working life as a cadet journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald in 1957. He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1960 after majoring in zoology and anthropology. While studying for his PhD at the University of Sydney, (awarded 1975), he was a research fellow in the Archaeology Department in the Institute of Advanced Studies (now the Department of Archaeology and Natural History, in the College of Asia and the Pacific) at The Australian National University. He held the position of Senior Fellow there until his retirement.

Kondelea (Della) Xenodohos (later known as Della Elliott) was born in Melbourne in 1917. After leaving school at the age of 14, she graduated from business college as a typist but found it difficult to gain regular paid work. She worked for a while with the International Labour Defence before gaining paid work with the Friends of the Soviet Union and the Militant Minority Movement.

In the 1940s Della was a delegate to the Labour Council of NSW and the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and passionately pursued the issue of equal pay for women. This included working as a member of the Australian Women's Charter Committee alongside feminist activist Jessie Street.

Della and Laurie divorced in 1945 and she began working for the Waterside Workers Federation (WWF). Here she met Seaman's Union of Australia (SUA) leader Eliot V. Elliott. They were partners for the rest of their lives, eventually marrying in 1982.

Della began work at the SUA in 1955 as an administrator in the federal office, keeping meticulous records and facilitating a number of industrial campaigns, as well as editing the Seamen's Journal. Della eventually retired from the SUA in 1988, four years after Eliot's death.

Della was a strong supporter of the League for Democracy in Greece and the Union of Australian Women. She was also passionate about Indigenous issues and founded a scholarship at the University of Sydney for female Indigenous students.

Della Elliott died in Sydney on 2 October 2011 at the age of 94.

Eliot Valens Elliott was born Victor Emmanuel Elliott in New Zealand in 1902. He joined the Federated Seamen’s Union of Australasia (FSUA), later the Seamen’s Union of Australia (SUA) at the age of 17 and worked stoking boilers. He quickly earned a reputation as a tough delegate focused on campaigning for better working conditions. Elliott came to prominence during the 1935 seamen’s dispute as Assistant-Secretary of the Sydney strike committee and was elected Queensland Branch Secretary of the FSUA. By late 1924 his sailing records showed a change of name to Eliot V Elliott.

He became General Secretary of the FSUA in 1941 and in 1942 served as the seamen’s representative to the Maritime Industry Commission. He was also active in the international labour movement, sponsoring union recruitment and organisation among Australian and visiting seamen and promoting collective action by Chinese, Greek and Indonesian seamen. Although he led the SUA in their opposition to the Korean and Vietnam Wars, he generally relied on negotiation skills rather than engaging in costly strike action. He was a fierce opponent and defended the rights of SUA members in bitter battles with BHP and the Utah Development Co.

In 1949 Elliott joined the CPA’s central committee and was appointed vice-president of the maritime section of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), which had strong backing from the USSR. Although the Australian Council of Trade Unions withdrew from the WFTU that same year, the SUA didn’t disaffiliate until September 1952. Elliott maintained a long-term pro-Moscow view, which contributed to his removal from the central committee of the CPA in 1969, and him joining the new Socialist Party of Australia in 1971.

Elliott's long-time partner was prominent trade unionist and activist Kondelea Xenedohos (more commonly known as Della Elliott), whom he met while both were working for the WWF.

After 37 years as General Secretary, he retired from the SUA in 1978. He died in Sydney on 26 November 1984, survived by Della and his son.

The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) was established in 1946 by Dr. Herbert Schlink (later Sir Herbert) as the Australian Hospital Association (AHA). The AHA joined the International Hospital Federation in 1949, and changed their name to the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association in 2006.

The official theatre company of the ANU College of Arts and Sciences

Hans Pillig worked in the ANU Design Unit.

Margaret and James Tedder lived in the Solomon Islands from 1952 until 1974. During the last years of her residence there, after the children went to Australian schools, Margaret did a lot of bush touring carrying out research on plants used by the Islanders for medicines, cures and other purposes. Most of Margaret Tedder's plant identifications were checked in the now defunct Forest Herbarium where she lodged duplicates of the plants.

William (Bill) Adrian McGrath completed an Engineering, Surveying Cadetship in the Public Works Department of Western Australia from 1950-1953, and joined the Administration of the Territory of Papua New Guinea as a Cadet Patrol Officer in April 1953. In 1955 he was promoted to Patrol Officer at Erave Patrol Post in the Southern Highland Province. In 1958 McGrath attended a Long Course at ASOPA and in 1959 was appointed as Patrol Officer [Lands] at Konedobu Headquarters. He undertook land buying assignments for the PNG Administration in the Central, New Britain and Northern Districts. From 1961-1965 McGrath worked in the Lands Department before becoming Director of Lands and Surveys of the US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands at Saipan. From 1971-1975 McGrath was the Land Department Manager in C Brewer and Co. Ltd in Hawaii. From 1975 to 1979 he was appointed the founding General Manager of the Native Land Development Corporation. From 1980 to 1984 McGrath worked as a Land Consultant to the then New Hebrides Condominium Government, continuing in the position after Vanuatu gained its independence. From 1984 to 1997 he was Land Supervisor with Chevron Niugini as the operator of the PNG Kutubu Petroleum Development Project. In 1984 Bill McGrath set up the Pacific Book House as a mail-order bookshop, which he ran intermittently until being able to devote more time to the business in 2010.

Joan Marjorie Rochester was born in Victoria in 1931. She married Cedric Coxsedge in 1953 and had two sons and a daughter.
She became a professional artist in the 1960s and held four exhibitions of pen and wash drawings of historic buildings as well as undertaking a commission for the Builders' Labourers' Federation drawing Green Bans buildings around Australia in 1975.
As well as being an accomplished artist, Joan was a committed activist and politician. As a member of the Save Our Sons Movement which opposed conscription for the Vietnam War, she went to jail in 1971 for anti-conscription activities. She campaigned against the Croatian terrorist movement Ustashi in the early 1970s, opposed secret service organisations and was founding Chairman of the Committee for the Abolition of Political Police in 1973.
A member of the Australian Labor Party from 1967, Coxsedge contested unsuccessfully the Legislative Assembly seat of Balwyn in 1973 and stood for pre-selection in Richmond in 1976 against the Leader of the Opposition, Clyde Holding. She eventually became the first Labor woman to be elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as the Member for Melbourne West Province in July 1979 and served until 1992. While in office she wrote and produced the newsletter Hard Facts for Hard Times from her Footscray office, in which she offered a left view of current local, national and international events.
Coxsedge was involved with a large number of community groups and projects. She served as a Board Member of the Footscray Community Arts Centre (1980-98) and Chair of Board (1990-93); Board Member of West Theatre (1989-90) and Chair of End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism (1993-98).

James Patrick Sinclair was born in Dubbo NSW on 18 April 1928. He attended Dubbo High School, Sydney Grammar School and the Australian School of Pacific Administration (ASOPA) in Sydney. In November 1947, he Joined the Department of District Services and Native Affairs, Administration of Papua New Guinea. After attending an orientation course at the Australian School of Pacific Administration he proceeded to Papua New Guinea in August 1948 as a cadet patrol officer. He also attended the No 4 Long Course at ASOPA in 1953 - 1954. From 1948 to 1975 he served successively on many stations as a patrol officer, assistant district officer, deputy district commissioner and district commissioner. He was the last Australian District Commissioner of the Eastern Highlands District, 1969-1974.

During his service James Sinclair conducted extensive exploratory and pacification patrols in Morobe and Southern Highlands Districts. He opened the station of Koroba in 1955, Lake Kopiago base camp in 1956 and explored the then Uncontrolled area to the Strickland River until late 1958. He married Janece Marie McGrath in January 1959 and had three children. He subsequently served in charge of the Wau, Finschhafen and Lae Sub-Districts before moving to the Eastern Highlands in 1968.

James Sinclair retired in August 1975 following Independence in Papua New Guinea. He returned to his previous hobby of writing on Papua New Guinea history, which became a full-time occupation and he has since published more than 30 books. His first book, ‘Behind the Ranges’¸ was published in 1966 and told of his exploratory work in Morobe and the Southern Highlands. In 2013, several publications edited by James Sinclair were ready for publication, including publications about Peter Fox, A Lloyd Hurrell and John Middleton. Jim died on 9 October 2017.

Honours: James Sinclair has been awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1992; the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the Australian National University in 1999; and a Companion, Order of the Star of Melanesia (PNG) in 2008.

The Peel River Land and Mineral Company (Peel Company) was formed in 1853 after gold was discovered on the banks of the Peel River. It was established by Act of Parliament in London to purchase the Peel River Estate (Goonoo Goonoo) from the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo). The gold mining activity was short lived. The Peel Company then concentrated on working sheep and cattle on the property. It also made early ventures into Queensland: Cashmere (near St George 1861-1873); Corona and Nile (near Winton 1875-1881) and Currawhillingi (NSW/Qld border 1881-1918) as well as Eagle Grange (NSW 1898-1918); Moorlands station (Tamworth); Avon Downs (NT); Mt Alfred and Mt Margaret stations (Qld). From 1849 the Peel Company laid out town lots in (south) Tamworth. From the 1870s farm lots were laid out in several subdivisions around the town. In 1909, 88,518 acres were resumed by the NSW Government for closer settlement; a further 17,500 acres in 1938 and 18,150 acres in 1952. The Goonoo Goonoo homestead block was sold in 1985.

The first General Superintendent of the Peel Company was Philip Gidley King (1854-1904) who was succeeded by his son, G B G King (1904-1910) and grandson, G M G King (1910-1930). They were followed by J F Holloway (1930-1932). From 1932 the AACo and the Peel River Land & Mineral Company were jointly managed in Australia. The companies together purchased a number of properties including Caldervale (near Tambo, Qld) in 1934 and the Coonamble Properties (Sandcycamp, Pillicawarrina and Narraway, NSW) in 1948.

In 1959 the AACo acquired the whole share issue of the Peel River Land & Mineral Company and the company was delisted from the London stock exchange.

The Australian Agricultural Company (AACo or The Company) was formed in London in April 1824. Its purpose was to raise fine woolled sheep and sell wool on the London market. The formation of the Company was supported by an Act of Parliament and a Royal Charter. Its directors and major shareholders included directors of the Bank of England, the East India Company and Members of Parliament; with assigned convicts given the roles of shepherding and general labour. The Company’s initial land grant was one million acres in New South Wales plus two thousand acres in Newcastle. After some uncertainty the land, in the colony, was in three blocks: 464,640 acres between Port Stephens and the Manning River (Port Stephens Estate), 249,600 acres on the Liverpool Plains west of Willow Tree (Warrah) and 313,298 acres at the Peel River south of Tamworth (Goonoo Goonoo). The AACo operated in four major NSW locations during the nineteenth century – Port Stephens, Tamworth, Quirindi, and Newcastle – and from the last quarter of the century also in Queensland and eventually in Northern Australia. Its interests expanded to include wool, wheat, cattle, coal and land sales.

Within a year of its formation the AACo also became involved in coal mining at Newcastle, taking over the government’s operations there. After protracted negotiations the Company’s first pit was opened in 1831.The discovery of gold in New South Wales on the Company’s Peel Estate led to the formation of the Peel River Land and Mineral Company in 1854. Between 1825 and 1862 the AACo, with the Peel River Land and Mineral Company, brought from Europe to New South Wales over 700 men to work either at the colliery in Newcastle or on the extensive pastoral estates at Port Stephens, Tamworth and the Liverpool Plains. The new arrivals were managers, skilled mechanics, shepherds, miners and labourers. The first group of employees was managed by the Company’s first Agent, Robert Dawson (Agent, 1824-1828). Dawson’s successors included Sir Edward Parry (Commissioner, 1830-1834); Henry Dumaresq (Commissioner, 1834-1838); Phillip Parker King (Commissioner, 1839-1849); followed by several General Superintendents with Jesse Gregson, the Company’s longest serving General Superintendent from 1875-1905.

In 1864 the AACo began the development of the Warrah Estate for sheep breeding, investing extensively in wells, bores and fencing. The AACo purchased Corona (near Longreach) in 1912; Bladensburg (near Winton) and Highfields (between Corona and Bladensburg) in 1915; Headingly (Urandangie) in 1916; before moving into the Northern Territory with the purchased of Avon Downs (Barkly Tablelands) in 1921. From the 1930s gradually phasing out sheep the AACo became increasingly involved in beef cattle, developing the Santa Gertrudis stud at Goonoo Goonoo and purchasing Rockhampton Downs (Barkley Tablelands NT) in 1948, Wrotham Park (near Chillagoe, Q) in 1963, Brunette Downs (north of Tennant Creek) in 1979.

In 1975 the London-based directors resigned and the Company’s tax domicile was transferred from London to Tamworth, NSW and then to Brisbane in 1985 following the sale of Goonoo Goonoo. From 1976 the Company’s name was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange as the Australian Agricultural Company Limited. In 1995 Elders Ltd acquired the AACo and it was delisted from the Australian Stock Exchange. The Company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Futuris Corporation Limited after Futuris took over Elders in 1997. The Company was re-listed in 2001.

Forestry Australia was previously known as The Institute of Foresters of Australia and Australian Forest Growers. The Institute of Foresters of Australia was created in 1935 as the professional membership body for people trained in forest science. Australian Forest Growers was previously known as the Australian Forest Development Institute when it was founded in 1969.

Jack Golson AO was an archaeologist who did extensive fieldwork in the Pacific region. He studied history and archaeology at Cambridge University. From 1954 until he joined the ANU in 1961, he was a lecturer of archaeology at Auckland University. In 1969, Golson was appointed as the inaugural Professor of Prehistory at the ANU. He led the department until his retirement in 1991.

Edward Adley Owen was employed by CSR at the Labasa Mill in Fiji circa 1909-1910. He died in Sydney on 17 May 1929, aged 41 years.

Rhys Gardner is a New Zealand botanist. He completed his BSc (Hons) in botany at the University of Auckland in 1971, followed by a PhD in 1977. He has served as a botanical ecologist and taxonomist for the former DSIR Botany Division at Mt Albert, Auckland, and a consulting botanist for Bioresearchers Ltd. He also served as a volunteer at the Auckland Museum Herbarium for many years, becoming a Research Associate in 1990. He has worked widely in the field, collecting specimens from Rarotonga, Fiji, Norfolk Islands, the Solomon and Chatham Islands, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea. He has described, new to science, three species, one subspecies and one forma. He has contributed botanical specimens to herbaria around the world. Most of his publications since the 1980s are to be found in the Auckland Botanical Society Journal and the New Zealand Botanical Society Newsletter.

Born in Arkansas, USA, David Hyndman studied at the University of Colorado, and completed his MA at the University of Idaho. In 1972, he moved to Australia to pursue his PhD at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Queensland. His doctoral thesis on the Wopkaimin people of the Ok Tedi area of Papua New Guinea was completed in 1979.
He studied subsistence, ethnotaxonomy, ethnobotany, mining and Indigenous peoples, and biodiversity conservation. He completed several periods of fieldwork in the region from 1973 through the 1980s. He spent a good deal of research on the effects of the Ok Tedi mine on the surrounding area, both socially and environmentally.
From 1989-1992, Hyndman worked with the T'boli people of Mindanao in the southern Phillippines. Hyndman was a lecturer and later a reader at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Queensland, from which he retired in 2001, moving to the Canberra region.

Patrick Nicol Troy was born in Geraldton, Western Australia on 22 January 1936. Son of trade unionist Paddy Troy, he worked in the private sector and in State and local government, as a planner in New South Wales and as a senior administrator in the Commonwealth, including as Deputy Secretary in the Federal Department of Urban and Regional Development in the Whitlam Government.
He held various positions at the Australian National University from 1966-2000 including professor and head of the Urban Research Unit, Research School of Social Sciences 1984-1991.
He served on State and Federal government agencies and as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Urban and Regional Development (1973-1975) he was involved in the establishment and operations of the South Australian Land Commission, Western Australian Land Council, New South Wales Land Council, Victorian Land Council and the Australian Housing Corporation. Troy held numerous appointments as a member of the South Australia Urban Land Council 1975-1977; Deputy Chairman Australian Housing Corporation 1975-1976; member of the Australian Housing Council 1984-1992; member Building Research and Development Advisory Committee 1984-1987; member of the board National Building & Technology Centre 1985-1988; member Ministerial Advisory Committee on Housing Access 1989-1990; member Urban Regional Development Advisory Committee 1992-1993; member ACT Planning and Land Council 2003-2006.
He published 15 books on cities and many papers on housing, infrastructure, transport, urban planning and development, and energy and water consumption.
Troy died in Canberra on 24 July 2018. The Patrick Troy Memorial Prize has been established at the Australian National University as a tribute to his work.

Hendrick Anton Herbert ("Hank") Driessen was a PhD student of the Research School of Pacific Studies. He began his enrollment at the Australian National University in 1978, and submitted his PhD thesis, From Ta'aroa to 'oro : an exploration of themes in the traditional culture and history of the Leeward Society Islands, in 1991. His PhD was conferred on 14 August 1992. He conducted fieldwork in the Society Islands over a number of years, and collected an archive of his research. He worked for many years at the National Archives of New Zealand, beginning as an archivist, and advancing to the head of Outreach Services and Exhibitions. He was a founding Council member of the New Zealand Society of Archivists from its inception in 1989 and served on the Council until 2000. Towards the end of his life, he returned to Australia, where he died in 2021.

Frederick William Doutch worked in a Burns Philp store on Banaba (Ocean Island) c. 1913 - 1915. He was an avid amateur photographer, and took photographs of his time in the Pacific, including his journey to Banaba and his time there. He often recorded the weather, light, time of exposure, and chemicals used to develop his photographic plates.

Dr Roy Scragg was the Director of Public Health for the Australian Administration of the (then) Territory of Papua New Guinea from 1957 to 1970. He also served in the PNG Parliament as a member of the Legislative Council and Executive Council PNG and as Member, House of Assembly and Constitutional Committee from 1957 to 1968. Dr Scragg had a large impact on the development of the public health program in Papua New Guinea, and undertook pioneering research into infertility.
Roy Scragg was born in Feilding, New Zealand, later moving to South Australia where he obtained his medical degree from Adelaide University in 1946. He then joined the Department of Public Health for the Australian Administration of the (then) Territory of Papua New Guinea. Dr Scragg obtained a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Sydney School of Public Health in 1950, shortly before he began his ground-breaking research into infertility in New Ireland. He discovered the role of gonorrhoea in infertility in New Ireland, which had led to a decline in population. Twenty years later, in 1975, the WHO commented that the “most complete epidemiological study on the prevalence of infertility, pregnancy wastage, and child loss is that by Scragg on New Ireland in the West Pacific.” He received a Doctorate in Medicine from Adelaide University in 1955 for his thesis on the depopulation of New Ireland.
In 1957, Dr Roy Scragg was appointed the Director of Public Health for the Australian Administration of the (then) Territory of Papua New Guinea from 1957. He succeeded Sir John Gunther in the post. He ensured that the country was covered with a network of aid posts and health services, even in remote regions, to control the major diseases and causes of death. During his time as Director of Public Health, the crude death rate (per UN estimates) in PNG declined from 27.4/1000 to 16.5/1000.
Dr Scragg promoted the training of PNG nationals as doctors, nurses, and medical personnel, paving the way for independence. Although he had to send PNG nationals to Fiji for medical training, Dr Scragg was an active participant in the establishment of health science education in PNG and the establishment of the Medical School within the University of PNG.
On his return to Australia, Dr Scragg continued contributing to scholarship and public life. He served as a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators, president of the Public Health Association of Australia and life member of the Australasian Epidemiological Association, among other positions. In 1971 Scragg was recognised as an officer of the Order of the British Empire and in 2021 he was appointed a member of the Order of Australia (AM) to mark his significant contributions to medicine, epidemiology and medical associations. He earned a master of public health in 1982 from the Sydney School of Public Health and was made an honorary doctor of Adelaide University in 2014. Dr Roy Scragg died in 2022.

In 1904, J C White and F C White became owners of the property of Brunette Downs. The Whites went into partnership with Alfred J Cotton in 1912 and bought out Cotton in 1928. The property was purchased by King Ranch's Australian subsidiary, King Ranch Pastoral Co Pty Ltd, in December 1958 and was later purchased by the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) for $5 million in 1979. As a subsidiary of the AACo, its managers included K J Warriner (1979 - 81), B Gough (1981 - 86), C I Paige (1986 - 87) and G F Wagstaff (1987 - ).

Leslie (Les) Montague Groube was born in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, on 12 December 1937. He completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Auckland University, under Jack Golson. His early focus and fieldwork was on Maori settlement patterns. He later held positions in the Anthropology Departments of the University of Otago and the University of Auckland. The New Zealand Archaeological Association’s Groube Fieldwork Award (also known as the Groube Gumboot Award) was named in his honour. After 1969, Groube left New Zealand, and spent varying amounts of time in Canberra at the Australian National University, Port Moresby, Dorset, and Cambridge where he pursued fieldwork and lecture positions. He retired to Brittany, France, and died in 2018.

The Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies was established in 1948 as the Research School of Pacific Studies, changing its name in 1994. It is Australia’s pre-eminent centre for research and postgraduate training in the Asia-Pacific region, with one of the largest concentrations of expertise in the world. Priority areas for research are Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Southwest Pacific. Research is multidisciplinary and is focused on anthropology, archaeology, economics, history, human geography, international relations, linguistics, political science, resource management and strategic defence studies. In 1947 New Zealander Raymond Firth, an anthropologist who had published widely on the Pacific and Southeast Asian region, was invited by the Interim University Council to act as the Academic Advisor for Pacific Studies with the hope that he would take on the job as Foundation Professor. Firth’s initial plans for the School of Pacific Studies were that it would have an emphasis on human studies and be concerned mainly with the Pacific Island territories for which Australia was responsible. In contrast to this, proposals put forward by Sir Frederick Eggleston to the Academic Advisory Committee, before Firth’s appointment, called for a school that was to also have an Asian focus and concentrate on political problems in the Pacific. In 1949 Firth resigned from the Academic Advisory Committee, deciding not to make the move permanently to Australia from England, giving Eggleston the opportunity to substitute a broader scope for the School including India, Southeast Asia, China and Japan. In mid-1949 Firth was persuaded to resume his role as Academic Advisor and made the initial appointments of chairs to Siegfried Frederick Nadel (Anthropology and Sociology), Walter Russell Crocker (International Relations), James Davidson (Pacific History), and Oskar Spate (Geography) and the appointments of Readers W.E.H. Stanner (Comparative Social Institutions) and C.P. Fitzgerald (Far Eastern History). Further departments were added: Economics (1960), Linguistics (1968), Prehistory (1969), and the New Guinea Research Unit (1961). The Geography Department reformed as two departments in 1968: Biogeography and Geomorphology, and Human Geography. Its name was changed to the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies in 1994, to reflect the balance of research activity in the School which had shifted significantly from the Pacific towards Asia.

Brian Galligan was born in Dalby, QLD in 1945. He graduated in Economics and Commerce from the University of Queensland, and has a Masters and PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto. In the early 1980s he was Senior Research Fellow, Department of Political Science at the Australian National University and Deputy Director, Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations. From 1984-1992 he lectured at La Trobe University. Galligan was Professor and Director of the Federalism Research Centre at the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU from 1992-94. Since 1995 he has been a Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne and later became a director of the university's Centre for Public Policy. Galligan is author of a number of books on Australian citizenship, politics and political economy, and has co-authored publications including Beyond the Protective State (1992) with Ann Capling.

Jai Ram Reddy was born on 12 May 1937 in Lautoka, Fiji. He completed a Bar-at-Law from the University of New Zealand, Wellington 1956-1960. Reddy entered politics in the 1970s as leader of the National Federation Party (NFP) and leader of the Opposition. His political appointments included Leader of the Opposition’s nominee in the Senate 1972-1976; Member of the House of Representatives April 1977; Leader of the Opposition 1977-1984; Attorney General and Minister of Justice April-May 1987; Member, Falvey Constitution Review Committee July 1987; NFP-FLP nominee to the Deuba Accord Committee September 1987; Member of the House of Representatives 1992; Leader of NFP and Leader of the Opposition 1992–1999; Member, Joint Parl. Select Committee on Constitution Review (1995-1997). He was a co-principal architect of the 1997 Constitution of Fiji, and a supporter of reconciliation in post-1987 Fiji. Reddy was defeated in the 1999 general elections and departed from politics in the same year. He then took up the position of President, Fiji Court of Appeal (March-August 2000; January 2002-April 2003) and Permanent Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda 2003-2008.

The company was registered on 30 October 1908. The company owned Mount Wood Station, near Tibooburra in New South Wales. Mount Wood Station was first taken up in 1883 by George Dorward and later the homestead and woolscour were built in 1897. Proprietors of the station were Moore, Dorward & Co (1893 - 1897); Moore, Dorward and Palmer (1905 - 1907) and later Mount Wood Pastoral Co Pty Ltd (1908 - 1973). Its Managing Director included Ian McLachlan (1950s - 1973). Mount Wood Station was incorporated into Sturt National Park after 1972. The company was deregistered on 16 January 1987.

Peter Della Torre was an engineer who lived and worked in Papua New Guinea, mostly in Rabaul and Port Moresby. He was involved in the building of the Rabaul hospital and war memorial.

Richard (“Dick”) Shutler Jr. was an archaeologist who worked extensively in North America and the Pacific during his career.
World War II interrupted Shutler’s higher education. After enlisting in the US Army, Shutler spent the majority of his service (1942-1946) in the Aleutian Islands. After the war, Shutler earned his AB and MA at the University of California (Berkeley), and later his PhD at the University of Arizona in 1961. Shutler’s fieldwork focused primarily on North America until the late 1960s, although his first fieldwork in the Pacific took place in New Caledonia in 1951/2 with Edward Gifford and his first wife, Mary Elizabeth Shutler.
Dick Shutler excavated widely across the Pacific, including fieldwork in Vanuatu in 1963/4 and 1966/7, in Gilbert Islands in 1969, in Vanuatu in 1971, in the Philippines in 1976 and 1978, in Fefan Island in 1977, in Rotuma in 1981, in Hong Kong in 1990, and in Tubuai in 1994. Shutler was involved in fieldwork in Tonga throughout the 1990s.
Among his many academic appointments included serving as department chair at the University of Iowa and at Simon Fraser University. After resigning the chair at Simon Fraser University, he remained at the university with emeritus status to continue his research. He died in 2007, at age 86.

Parke was born in Moreton, Dorset in 1925. In 1951 Parke was posted to the Western District of Fiji. He would continue to work in the country, in various locations and posts, over the next 20 years. He was also a Trustee of the Fiji Museum and advised the museum on archaeological matters. After Fijian independence, Parke relocated to Canberra, where he pursued his MA and later PhD at the Australian National University based on his many years experience in Fiji.

Professor Spriggs is the Professor of Archaeology in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Social Sciences at the ANU. Prior to this he was a Senior Research Fellow in Archaeology and Natural History, in what is now the College of Asia Pacific. Before joining the ANU in 1987, he was an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department of University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. His research interests are the archaeology of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, and Cornish Studies.

Dr Barry McGowan was an historian specialising in mining towns and Chinese communities in Australia. Born to Mac and Olga McGowan in Oakleigh, Victoria, Barry McGowan grew up in Mount Gambier, South Australia. He completed an economics degree at the University of Adelaide in 1967, then volunteered as an economist for the South Pacific Commission in Noumea for two years. After returning to Australia, McGowan became a public servant for the Australian Government. He worked in various departments including the Department of Industrial Relations until 1995, while privately pursuing his interests in mining, history and archaeology. McGowan’s first book on mining, Lost mines revisited: historic mining communities of the Monaro, Southern Tablelands, and south-west slopes districts of NSW, was published in 1994. In 1995 he graduated from the ANU with a Bachelor of Arts, and left the public service to work as a heritage consultant, and to commence doctoral studies at the ANU. McGowan gained his PhD in 2002, and his thesis, Dust and dreams: mining communities in south-east NSW, was published in 2010. He published many other papers, heritage reports and books relating to mining and Chinese–Australian history. McGowan was awarded a Medal in the Order of Australia for services to community history in 2018.

Ralph Gerard Ward was born on 20 May 1933 in Taupo, New Zealand. He received a BA (1954) and MA in Geography (1956) from Auckland University College, and PhD from the University of London (1963). He worked as a Junior Lecturer in Geography 1956-1959; Lecturer in Geography 1960-1961, University of Auckland. From 1961 to August 1967 he was Lecturer in Geography at the University College London. Ward was foundation Professor of Geography at the University of Papua New Guinea 1967-1971. He joined the Australian National University as its foundation Professor of Human Geography, Research School of Pacific Studies from December 1971 to 1998. During his tenure he was Head of Department 1971-1980 and 1995-1998. Ward was appointed to Director, Research School of Pacific Studies November 1980-May 1993. After retiring in 1998, Ward became a Visiting Fellow of The Pacific Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU. He contributed to the governance of three Pacific universities, serving on Council for University of Papua New Guinea, National University of Samoa and Universite Francaise du Pacifique. He has also served on the Pacific Science Association and the Australian National Commission for UNESCO. He died on 16 January 2023 in Adelaide.

Professor Arthur Burns was a Professor of Political Science, specialising in superpower rivalry, nuclear weapons and game theory. Born in Summer Hill, Sydney on 24 March 1922 to Crayton and Denise Burns, Arthur Burns was educated at Scotch College, before studying history, theology and philosophy at the University of Melbourne. In 1946 he was awarded a Masters in Philosophy and History for his thesis on Historical Explanation. In the same year Burns married Netta Cox, and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister. In 1947 to 1948 he attended the London School of Economics under a British Council Scholarship. On returning to Melbourne, Burns tutored and lectured in Church History at Ormond College Theological Hall, and in History at the University of Melbourne. He was appointed Research Fellow in International Relations within the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University in 1955. In 1961 Burns transferred to the Department of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, where he oversaw a Defence Studies Project 1963 – 1966, which was managed by the department on behalf of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. Burns was appointed to second Chair in the Department in 1966. He undertook international posts at a variety of institutions including the Universities of Princeton and Chicago, and the Royal Institute of Strategic Studies. Burns published prolifically in the 1950s and 1960s, with his major works being From Balance to Deterrence (1956), and Of powers and their politics: a critique of theoretical approaches (1968). Burns was involved in litigation with the ANU 1981 to 1994 after his employment was terminated. He was an independent candidate for the Australian Capital Territory Assembly in 1995 as part of the Abolish Self Government Coalition, but died five days before the election.

Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Brennan was an Australian philosopher who held professorial positions at ANU, University of North Carolina, Duke University and Virginia Tech. Originally trained as an economist, he worked at the intersection of economics, politics and philosophy and played a major role in the development of interdisciplinary 'PPE' research. He was Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at ANU from 1991 to 1996. He was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences in 1987 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of St. Gallen in 2002.

The ANU Emeritus Faculty was established as a collegiate organisation within the University to provide opportunities for retired academic and professional staff to continue to contribute to the academic and cultural life of the university.

The Mount Stromlo Observatory was established in 1924 as the Commonwealth Solar Observatory. The site had been used for observations since an observatory was established there by Pietro Baracchi using the Oddie telescope in 1911. The dome built to house the Oddie telescope was the first Commonwealth building constructed in the newly established Australian Capital Territory. Until World War II, the observatory specialised in solar and atmospheric observations. During the war the workshops contributed to the war effort by producing gun sights, and other optical equipment. After the war, the observatory shifted direction to stellar and galactic astronomy and was renamed The Commonwealth Observatory. Following the establishment of the Australian NAtional University in 1946 a formal amalgamation took place in 1957, with Mount Stromlo Observatory becoming part of the Department of Astronomy in the Research School of Physical Sciences at ANU. The Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics was formed in 1986 and continues.

On 18 January 2003 a firestorm hit Mount Stromlo destroying telescopes, workshops, homes, and the administration building. The only telescope to escape the fires was the 1886 15-centimetre Farnham telescope.

The Drill Hall was built in 1940 to train soldiers for the Second World War. The 3rd Battalion, Werriwa Regiment was based in this building in 1941-2. In 1984 the interior was superbly remodelled to create an art gallery which is considered one of the most beautiful of its kind. In 2004 a Heritage order was placed on the building.
While the National Gallery of Australia waited for the completion of its building, temporary exhibitions of the national collection were held here. In 1992 the Australian National University took over the Drill Hall Gallery as a showcase for its own art collection and as a venue for temporary exhibitions. There are 4 discrete exhibition spaces.

The Gallery is a venue of choice for many of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, curators and collectors. We have developed a proud tradition of impeccably presented landmark exhibitions accompanied by scholarly publications. Sidney Nolan’s 9-panel panorama, Riverbend (recently nominated among the ten must-see art treasures of Canberra) is on permanent display in the Riverbend Room.

The Drill Hall Gallery provides the Canberra community and ANU with a selective program of high quality exhibitions of Australian and international art. The Gallery supports the arts in the Canberra region by presenting exhibitions developed in conjunction with the University’s wide-ranging academic interests and/or to coincide with major conferences and public events. National and international exhibitions – and works from the University’s own extensive collection – are features of the Gallery’s program. Surce: Quoted from https://dhg.anu.edu.au/about/ on 9 January 2023

Jill Jolliffe was an Australian journalist who reported on East Timor since 1975. She is the author of 'Cover-up : the inside story of the Balibo Five' (Scribe, 2001).

Dr John Baker holds a BA degree with First Class Honours from Hull University, an MA from London University and a PhD from the Australian National University. His academic and business interests include public management and the economic development of countries in South East Asia and the South Pacific. In his early career (1964 - 1965) he worked in the Solomon Islands under the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) scheme.

John Baker was an economist to the Government of Tonga from August 1969 to May 1970, the first economist employed by the Tonga Government to work on development planning. He was engaged to undertake the preparation and drafting of the Tonga Development Plan 1970-75, Tonga's second development plan. Following his work in Tonga, Dr Baker studied at the ANU where he completed a PhD on shipping in Tonga and Fiji.

In 1975 he joined AIDAB, Australian Agency for International Development (the predecessor of AusAID) where he was Head of the South Pacific Section. He occupied a number of other senior government positions in Canberra including positions in the Corporate Services Division of the Department of Primary Industry, the Departments of Prime Minister and Cabinet and Foreign Affairs. He was the Australian Ambassador to Madagascar and the Comoros from 1982 to 1984.

During the late 1980s he was First Assistant Commissioner of the newly-created Public Service Commission (PSC) and played a leading role in the development of various APS management reforms, which produced APS 2000, a major report on the future development of the Australian Public Service (APS). In his subsequent career, Dr Baker was Australian High Commissioner to Tanzania.

In 1991, John Baker established his own Canberra based consultancy company, the Centre for Public Management Pty Ltd (CPM) and the Executive Director. John Baker is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.

Burnett Foundation Aotearoa (formerly New Zealand AIDS Foundation & Ending HIV NZ) has been at the forefront of the community response to HIV in Aotearoa for nearly 40 years. https://www.burnettfoundation.org.nz/

Ann Curthoys was born in Sydney in 1945 to Geoffrey Carlton Curthoys and Barbara Lindsay McCallum, both of whom were members of the Communist Party of Australia until 1970. Curthoys graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in 1967 and also holds a Diploma in Education from Sydney Teachers' College. While still an undergraduate she took part in the 1965 Student Action for Aborigines Survey and Demonstration Bus Tour (Freedom Ride) to examine racial discrimination in some New South Wales towns. She then undertook a PhD at Macquarie University on the history of race relations in New South Wales in the mid nineteenth century, comparing British colonists' attitudes to Chinese immigration with attitudes to Aboriginal people, graduating in 1973.

After graduation Curthoys worked overseas then began teaching and researching at Canberra College of Advanced Education, New South Wales Institute of Technology (Later UTS). In 1995 She took up the Chair of History at the Australian National Unversity where she taught on Aboriginal History, Australian History and Historiography. he was elected to the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 1997 and the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2003.

Born Mavis Moten in Melbourne, to John and Claire (nee Tilley) Moten. Member of the Eureka Youth League in the 1940s. Married journalist Alec Robertson in 1953. Campaigned on numerous causes including against apartheid, in support of Chilean refugees following the 1973 coup, in the peace and anti-nuclear movement, and for women’s liberation. Became a joint secretary of the Communist Party of Australia in 1976 and left the party in 1984. First chair of Jessie Street Trust. Became involved in the superannuation industry in the 1980s and held leadership roles in several organisations, including the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST), Cbus, and Women in Super. In 1998 co-founded the Mother’s Day Classic fun run for breast cancer research.

Bill Tully was an employee of the National Library of Australia from 1968 to 2002. He was involved as an editor and writer in the Australian Independence Movement from 1975-1985. In this period he was active in running the ACT Branch of the Australian East Timor Association and the Campaign for an Independent East Timor. Tully covered these areas of political and social interests as a volunteer on the Canberra public radio 2XX, presenting Asia Pacific News program from 1982-1984, and Writers Workshop (later Sound Print) from 1983. He was a former editor of Blast magazine and editor of Voice magazine.

Ralph Bulmer was a social anthropologist, naturalist, and ethnobiologist noted for his work in Papua New Guinea, particularly with the Kalam. He born in Hereford, UK, and received his BA om anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 1953. He studied Sami culture in Sweden and Norway before pursuing his Ph.D. at Australian National University. His fieldwork for his Ph.D. was based in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, in particular among the Kyaka-Enga people in the Baiyer Valley. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1962. He then became a Lecturer, and later Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland.
In 1964, Bulmer began his work among the Kalam in Papua New Guinea. He took the unprecedented step of changing the role of his Kalam informants to that of collaborators and co-authors, involving them in the documentation of their culture. Ian Saem Majnep, a Kalam naturalist, was his primary collaborator and co-authored a number of publications with Bulmer. The Kalam project set out by Bulmer eventually included two anthropologists, two linguists,and more than twenty zoologists, botanists, and other scientific colleagues. He became the Foundation Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1968, serving until 1973. He then returned to the University of Auckland as Chair in Social Anthropology until 1988.

Professor Harold Brookfield was a British and Australian geographer with interests in rural development, family farming, land use and society in developing countries. He completed a BA and PhD at the London School of Economics. He was briefly a lecturer in Geography and Birkbeck College, London and Lecturer in Charge at the Department of Geography, University of Natal where he began engaging with development and social justice issues in South Africa and Mauritius. After three years, he moved to Australia to join the University of New England and in 1957 joined the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University where he spent most of his academic career. He spent two periods at the Geography (later Human Geography) Department in RSPAS – the first from 1957 to 1969, and then again from 1982 until his retirement in 1991, at one point becoming the Head of the Human Geography Department and Acting Director of the School.
Brookfield conducted field work in Papua New Guinea, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, Bougainville and the Philippines. His interests focussed on Papua New Guinea where he conducted fieldwork in the highlands and collaborated with anthropologists from the Research School. In the 1970s his work extended to smaller islands of the Caribbean and the smaller eastern islands of Fiji. His work largely focused on the relationship between humans and their landscapes, particularly as this was understood through the lens of agricultural production. His work on agricultural intensification, land use and land degradation, and the impact of El Nino events was ground-breaking and innovative.

Founded in Victoria as the Ancient Order of Foresters in 1849 to provide mutual support during illness and after death for members.
The company is member-owned and currently has over 80,000 members, for whom it provides investment and insurance services.

The Australian Mutual Provident Society was formed in 1849 as a non-profit, life-insurance company, and mutual society, with its first office located in Sydney.
George King was chairman for fifteen years from the 1850s. Richard Teece was general manager and actuary from 1890 and a director from 1917 to 1927.
As the company grew, offices were opened across Australia including in Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra and Darwin as well as regional centres such as Newcastle, Goulburn, Bendigo, Warrnambool, Maryborough, Townsville and Rockhampton.
In 1876, the company expanded to New Zealand and opened its first office in Wellington. An Auckland office was opened in 1960.
In 1998, AMP was demutualised into an Australian public company, AMP Limited, and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and New Zealand Stock Exchange.
In 1999, AMP launched AMP Banking, an online bank.
In 2003, the company demerged its UK operations, creating the Henderson Group.
On 15 November 2010, AMP announced a bid to merge its business with AXA Asia Pacific Holdings, with AXA acquiring AXA Asia Pacific Holdings' Asian business and AMP acquiring AXA's Australian and New Zealand business. The Australasian holdings included the former National Mutual business (established in 1869) which was demutualised in 1996. As part of this merger, the AXA brand was phased out of the Australian and New Zealand market by 2013.
In 2020, AMP completed the sale of its life insurance business AMP Life to Resolution Life.
In February 2022, AMP delisted from the NZX, consolidating its listing on the Australian Securities Exchange.
An additional arm of the AMP business is the global investment management company AMP Capital. AMP Capital manages real estate and infrastructure assets including shopping centres, airports and trains on behalf of funds and clients, while in public markets, it manages investments in equities, fixed income, multi-asset and diversified capabilities on behalf of clients around the world.

Born in Brisbane. Cadet at Courier-Mail. Joined Communist Party of Australia in 1939. Enlisted in Australian Army in 1941 and served as lieutenant in New Guinea then as a pilot in the Australian Air Force. Returning to Courier-Mail after the war, he was awarded the Kemsley Empire Journalism Scholarship, reporting from London and Europe. Fired by Keith Murdoch for not obeying editorial instructions. Robertson then become sub-editor of the Melbourne Argus, before joining the Victorian Peace Council. He became secretary of the NSW Peace Council in 1951. Robertson married Mavis Moten in 1953. In the 1950s Robertson was elected to the CPA's Central Committee and later the National Committee. Became Chief Editor of the Tribune in 1964. Campaigned for Papua New Guinea's independence and the anti-Vietnam war movement, and other left wing causes.

Foundation member of the Australian Journalists' Association in Queensland. School teacher and headmaster, and early member of the Queensland Teachers' Union. Journalist at Queensland Daily Mail. Journalist, then later the Chief Editor of the Labor Party's Queensland newspaper (the Daily Standard). Prominent in anti-conscription during WWI. Editor of the Courier-Mail from 1932. First station manager of the Courier-Mail radio station (4BK-AK). Chief of public relations for the Southern Electrical Authority 1951 - 1960.

Geoffrey Luck was a radio journalist for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC). He was based in Longreach, Queensland, 1953-1955; becoming a foreign correspondent in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 1957-1967; Northern Ireland and London. On his return to Sydney Luck was appointed Economics and Finance Correspondent with the News Division in early 1972. His duties included presenting the radio program, The Week in Business, until 1976. He completed an MBA at Macquarie University in 1975.

The United Ancient Order of Druids (UAOD) was founded in Victoria around 1862. By 1867 the Society had 11 Lodges in Victoria. The Order of Druids was originally a male society until a Juvenile Lodge was opened in Prahran in 1886 by the Loyal Canterbury Lodge. Other lodges were formed in South Melbourne, Footscray, and others in New Zealand. The first female Lodge was established in Launceston, Tasmania in October 1899. The Victorian Grand Lodge held the title of Grand Lodge of Australia and was responsible for the establishment of Druid’s House in Melbourne on 4 April 1927. The UAOD Friendly Society of NSW was demutualised in 2011.

The Ancient Order of Foresters, which originated in England in the mid 1700s, established its first branch (Court) in Victoria in 1849. Foresters was set up as a non-profit organisation, the founding principles of the Society being to provide financial and social benefits as well as support to members and their families in times of unemployment, sickness, death, disability and old age. The Society is now known as the Foresters Friendly Society and in July 1999 was incorporated as a public company limited by shares and guarantee.

The Friendly Society of Victorian Natives, was a mutual society formed in Melbourne in 1871. The Society changed its name to the Australian Natives Association (ANA) in 1872 following a vote to include white men born in the other Australian colonies. The Association's objectives were to "raise funds by subscription, donations ... for the purpose of relieving sick members, and defraying expenses of funeral of members and their wives, relieving distressed widows and orphans and for the necessary expenses of the general management of the Society."[Menadue, J A Centenary History of the Australian Natives' Association 1871 - 1971, Page 9]. The ANA provided strong support for the Federation of Australia, sport, afforestation, social well-being and the Federal Government's restricted immigration policy, later referred to as the White Australia policy. The ANA and Manchester Unity agreed to merge to form Australian Unity in 1990.

In 1879 the South Australian Government granted Charles Brown Fisher and J Maurice Lyons a lease over 15,890 square miles of land to form the cattle station, Victoria River Downs. Financial difficulties led them to take out a mortgage with R Goldsbrough and Company in 1886. After an attempt by the Northern Australian Territory Company Ltd to buy the land fell through Goldsbrough Mort and Company became the property's owners in 1887. In 1900 Goldsbrough Mort sold the station to a syndicate comprising Forrest Emmanuel and Company, Kidman Brothers, GS Yull and R and BJH Richards. The station was then bought in 1909 by Bovril Australian Estates Pty Ltd which sold the station to William Lionel Buckland in 1955. In 1960 it was sold to the Hooker Investment Corporation Ltd who in 1984 sold it to Peter Sherwin. Since 1989 the station has been owned by the Haytesbury Pastoral Company and is now managed by Janet Holmes a' Court.