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

Public Health Symposium – Hip-pocket First, Fairness Second: Australians and the Birth of Medicare

‘Hip-pocket First, Fairness Second: Australians and the Birth of Medicare’ Dr Carolyn Holbrook Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University

Q and A with Stuart Macintyre

In memory of the late Stuart Macintyre, we are re-publishing a Q&A he took part in with the Director of APH, Carolyn Holbrook. This piece was originally published in the AHA ECR blog in 2018, and we reprint it here with the permission of the AHA ECR Representatives. We send our condolences to Stuart’s family, […]

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

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, […]

APH in NYC

Our director, Carolyn Holbrook, was invited to participate in an international panel about history and policy at the recent American Historical Association conference in New York, with Dane Kennedy from the National History Center and Charles Kraus from the Wilson Center in Washington DC and Andrew Blick from History and Policy in London. The panel […]

Mothers explain how they navigated work and childcare, from the 1970s to today

We are republishing a piece written by Dr Carla Pascoe Leahy, from the University of Melbourne. Carla will be presenting a longer version of this piece at the History and the Hill Conference on Thursday 13 June. You can find out more information and register for the conference here. Australian government support for working mothers […]

History and the Hill Conference 2019

Second Annual ‘History and the Hill’ Conference 12-14 June 2019 Deakin University, Melbourne How can historical research inform public policy debates? How can historians ensure their expertise is heard by politicians and policy makers? Speakers include Katharine Murphy (political editor, Guardian Australia), Misha Ketchell (editor, The Conversation) James Button, Dr Peter Shergold AC, Terry Moran […]

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