The Australian War Memorial has provided more details of its Imperialism and Resistance: Australia's First Wars conference on 17-18 September. Speakers have been listed but mostly not as yet against topics.
Rachel Perkins, First Nations filmmaker and writer, and Emeritus Professor Henry Reynolds, historian, are keynote speakers, along with former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who is also a former member of the War Memorial council and recent author of a history of Australia.
Other speakers are Professor Kate Fullagar, Mina Murray, Dr Nicholas Clements, Dr Tom Richardson, Peter Bakker, Cam Simpson, Major Samuel White (Army Fellow at the Memorial), Professor Charlotte Macdonald, Dr Alex Little, Dr Jilda Andrews (Deputy Director, First Nations, National Museum of Australia), Captain Alistair Cooper, Margaret Farmer (Memorial curator of records), and Dr Thomas Rogers (Memorial Historical Section).
Keynote speakers Perkins and Reynolds will talk about the Australian (Frontier) Wars while keynote speaker Abbott will talk about his book. The other speakers will cover: histories of contact and conflict in Australia; Colonial Australians fighting for the British Empire; Colonial society, law and conflict; objects that tell stories; naval and military history in the nineteenth century Australian colonies. There will also be a session previewing the Pre-1914 galleries due to open in 2028.
Henry Reynolds is one of Defending Country's distinguished Supporters. The book, The Australian Wars, which he and Rachel Perkins and Mina Murray and others wrote, is reviewed here. There is a link here to reviews of Mr Abbott's book.
Bookings (prices $280 to $350).
Picture credit: Departure of the NSW Contingent from Sydney for the Sudan (1885). The Memorial uses this image on its website page promoting the Conference.
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