CCH/APH Policy Brief Workshop for PhD/ECRs

13 August 2025, Deakin Downtown Are you a PhD candidate or ECR interested in learning how to write a policy brief? Join us at Deakin Downtown for a whole-day workshop to learn the ropes of policy writing and translate your expert knowledge into advice for policymakers. The workshop will include an overview and examples of […]

Medicare: A Forty Year Health Check

Healthcare experts diagnose fundamental problems with our health system – it remains oriented to acute and episodic illness and curative responses even though we are now in an age of chronic illness, which requires continuing and holistic care, and a more preventative approach. Not only does this disjunction between disease and service provision affect the […]

GOLD STANDARD?: THE HAWKE GOVERNMENT 40 YEARS ON

Celebrate and reflect on the legacy of the Hawke government. Watch a recording on the Museum of Australian Democracy’s YouTube of this conference looking back on the Hawke government – one of the longest-serving and most transformative in Australian political history. Learn about the Hawke government’s successes and failures from key speakers including: Hon Professor […]

Post Pandemic Positions: Australian NGOs and Education in a Century of Internationalism – Students, Experts and Friends

An Academy for Social Sciences in Australia workshop Convened by David Lowe, Kate Darian-Smith, Jon Piccini and Melanie Oppenheimer Ten years after the 2012 White Paper on Australia in the Asian Century, it is time to assess what has become of some of the major components of the people-to-people aspect of Australia’s engagements in its […]

Public Health Symposium – Building and Maintaining Medicare: Insiders’ Perspectives

Building and Maintaining Medicare: Insiders’ Perspectives: Panel Discussion chaired by Professor Frank Bongiorno, ANU Hon. Dr Neal Blewett, Commonwealth Minister for Health, 1983-1990 Bill Bowtell, senior adviser to Health Minister Neal Blewett, 1983-1987 and Prime Minister Paul Keating, 1984-1996 Caroline Edwards, Deputy Secretary/Associate Secretary of Commonwealth Department of Health, 2017-2021

Australian Policy History International Public Health Symposium

Australian Policy and History and the Contemporary Histories Research Group at Deakin University hosted leading academics and policy experts from across the world to discuss public health policy from historical and contemporary perspectives. Speakers including Hon Dr Neal Blewett, Bill Bowtell and Professor Catherine Bennett talking about the foundation of Medicare and the contemporary state […]

I don’t hold a hose, mate: Power and sentiment in the Australian Federation

We are delighted that you can now watch Dr Carolyn Holbrook’s 2021 History Council of Victoria Annual Lecture – I don’t hold a hose, mate: Power and sentiment in the Australian Federation. The lecture was delivered via zoom in October 2021. Click below to watch the video.

International Symposium on Public Health Systems: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University and Australian Policy and History International Symposium on Public Health Systems: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives A virtual conference Tuesday 9 November 2021, Australian Eastern Daylight Time (UTC + 11) Register here (free) About this event Australian Policy and History and the Contemporary Histories Research Group at Deakin University […]

International Symposium on Public Health

International Symposium on Public Health Tuesday 9th November 2021 Deakin Downtown, Melbourne Live & Virtual Registrations details will be available soon. Australian Policy History and the Contemporary Histories Research Group at Deakin University are delighted to host a stellar group of academics and policy experts from across the world to discuss public health policy from historical, […]

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