Is “balanced” development really the best way to manage our inland rivers? Cameron Muir looks at the language that could save or condemn them… read the full essay at Inside Story.

Centre for Environmental History, Australian National University, Canberra 28 May-1 June, 2012   Are you writing a PhD in some aspect of environmental history? The Centre for Environmental History at the Australian National University will be running a workshop for PhD students from around the country who are researching aspects of environmental history in Australia, [...]

Peter Stanley is the joint winner of the 2010-2011 Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History. Judges said his book, Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny and Murder in the Great War, is a ‘bracing and fascinating corrective to some of the popular myths’. He shares the $80,000 prize with Professor Jim Davidson, who won for his [...]

The general meeting of the Australian Forest History Society has adopted a motion to change the name of the AFHS to the New Zealand and Australian Environmental and Forest History Society.  This will mark an exciting new stage for environmental and forest history if the new constitution is adopted.  The proposed name change will, if enacted, enable us to recruit [...]

The Centre for Gippsland Studies, Monash University Friday 25 and Saturday 26 November 2011 The Auditorium (Building 3E) Monash University, Gippsland Campus Northways Road, Churchill Victoria 3842 This academic and community event examines the ways in which the people of Gippsland respond to and interact with the Gippsland environment. The conference will consider how the [...]

W K Hancock Professor of History Inaugural Lecture Tom Griffiths introduced by Emeritus Professor D.A. Low Tuesday 20 September 2011 5pm, followed by a reception in the foyer Hedley Bull Theatre ANU   Keith Hancock championed a rapprochement of science and the humanities and was a pioneering environmental historian of the Australian high country, the [...]

George French Angas, North-West of Stuart’s Creek. From John McDouall Stuart, Explorations in Australia, 1865. Call for Papers Expeditions have shaped the world as we know it. So not surprisingly, there is an almost infinite literature dealing with exploration and its effect over time. But the expedition itself, a culturally and historically specific way of [...]

Australian monsoons, coal industry slavery and early Australian agriculture were the winning topics this year for the annual National Museum of Australia Student Essay Prize for the History of Australian Science or Australian Environmental History. The winning essay, A brief history of the monsoon, was penned by Christian O’Brien, a PhD student at the Australian [...]