The Australian Society of Archivists presents

A symposium exploring community memory, meaning and pluralisation

Thursday 20 October 2011

9.00 to 4.30pm

Crystal Palace, Sydney’s Luna Park Milsons Point, Sydney Proudly sponsored by AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OF ARCHIVISTS INC SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM The Australian Society of Archivists presents

order of proceedings

8.00 – 8.50am registration – venue foyer; tea/coffee 11.30am ‘Archiving the Sydney Opera House: a 2.50pm ‘Untold stories – Canberra’s Centenary drama in more than three acts’ opportunity’ 9.00am Welcome to Country Paul Bentley Dr David Headon 9.05am symposium welcome, and welcome to Session 2: Iconic People 3.30pm Afternoon tea Keynote speaker Pat Jackson (ASA President) 12.00pm ‘Engaging with a national icon: The 3.55pm ‘WikiLeaks and the meaning of archives’ Matthew Flinders experience’ Cassie Findlay and Antony Loewenstein 9.15am Keynote address Paul Brunton Tim Bowden AM 4.25pm introduction to Professor Nakata 12.30pm ‘Pitching the past – selling history to the Pat Jackson 9.45am Keynote speaker thank-you and welcome to media’ 4.30pm The Loris Williams Memorial Lecture Session 1 speakers Brad Argent Dr Louise Trott (ASA Councillor) Presented by the Australian Society of 1.00pm Questions and responses from the floor Archivists’ Indigenous Issues Special 9.50am Session 1: Iconic Spaces Interest Group 1.10pm lunch ‘Are icons made or are they simply Professor Martin Nakata 1.50pm ‘From the Paper panopticon to Facebook promotional artefacts’ 5.00pm symposium closing address - 21st Century uses of the Records of the Professor Peter Spearritt Pat Jackson Tasmanian Convict Department’ ‘Closure? Or opening? Collections and Ross Latham 5.30pm drinks overlooking Sydney Harbour archives as forums for dialogue’ Joanna Besley Session 3: Iconic Events 6.30pm close 10.50am Questions and responses from the floor 2.20pm ‘Archiving the immediate: how and why archives should approach social media’ 11.00am morning tea Dr Axel Bruns

1 ARCHIVING THE ICONIC: EXPLORING Tim Bowden is a broadcaster, radio and television Life; Antarctica and Back in Sixty Days. Aunty’s Jubilee COMMUNITY MEMORY, MEANING AND documentary maker, oral historian and author. He was – Celebrating 50 Years of ABC-TV was published in PLURALISATION born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1937 and currently lives in October 2006. His most recent book, published in May regional NSW. He is married, with two children. 2008, is Down Under in the Top End – Penelope Heads From 1986 to June 1994, Bowden hosted the ABC-TV North. In one day away at an historic site we seek to explore listener and viewer reaction program Backchat. For the last 20 years Tim Bowden has been actively the challenge of engaging with archives of iconic Bowden’s background in journalism includes current broadcasting, writing and researching Australian significance. Whether personally or politically affairs, news, and feature and documentary work. He activities in Antarctica. He has produced six radio sensitive, famed, notorious or controversial, physical has worked as a foreign correspondent in Asia and documentaries Australians in Antarctica in 1987, and in or virtual, iconic archives create their own set of North America, and in 1969 was the first executive 1993 was commissioned by the Antarctic Division to challenges for the archivist. producer of the ABC radio current affairs program write the official history of ANARE (Australian National PM, before becoming a producer with the ground- Antarctic Research Expeditions) The Silence Calling – KEYNOTE SPEAKER breaking television current affairs programThis Day Australians in Antarctica 1947-97. Tonight in the early 1970s. Bowden’s six half-hour documentaries Breaking the Ice (on current ANARE operations, following visits to TIM BOWDEN AM In 1985 Bowden founded the ABC’s Social History Unit. Among his major productions are the award-winning all the Australian stations at Macquarie Island, Casey, 24-part series Taim Bilong Masta – The Australian Davis and Mawson from October to December 1994) Involvement with Papua New Guinea, and Prisoners of were broadcast on ABC-TV in April and May 1996, and War – Australians Under Nippon. have been released on ABC DVD. His published books are: Changi Photographer – Tim Bowden received an Order of Australia for services George Aspinall’s Record of Captivity; One Crowded Hour to public broadcasting in June 1994. In May 1997, he – Neil Davis, Combat Cameraman; The Backchat Book; was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters The Way My Father Tells It – The Story of an Australian from the University of Tasmania.

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Are icons made or are they simply promotional Closure? Or opening? Collections and archives as exhibitions and collections that represent the artefacts? forums for dialogue experiences of people who have experienced multiple Professor Peter Spearritt Joanna Besley traumas and distress, such as being institutionalised or caught up in a terrorist attack or natural disaster.

Peter Spearritt regards ‘icon’ as the most over-used This presentation takes as a starting point the idea word in the promotional lexicon. He admits some that collections and collecting institutions can be Through a discussion of examples both in Australia responsibility for this overuse, having used the term in generative spaces. Exhibitions in particular can be an and overseas, Jo Besley will explore how collecting his publication The Sydney Harbour Bridge: a Life, first active gathering, a process that creates collections institutions can take on the role of contemplating published in 1982. rather than just draws from them. If curators and interpreting difficult, contentious, even incomprehensible, events and experiences. Drawing In the 75th anniversary edition of the book, published and others work closely and collaboratively with on personal curatorial experience with projects in by UNSW Press in 2007, he felt unable to abandon the individuals and communities who have a personal Queensland, alongside international examples from term because of upstart bids for Brisbane City Hall, stake in the history being presented through a recent Churchill Fellowship, Jo will look at the the Melbourne Exhibition Buildings, the Wrest Point collections, then memories, stories, fragments and potential for collecting institutions to be spaces that Casino and other implausible claimants to the term. even absences – not just objects and documents – become essential elements of both collections and encourage ‘opening up’ as opposed to the popularly- Peter Spearritt canvases the role of archival records exhibitions. held notion of ‘closure’. in supporting both established and fading iconic structures, with examples from various Australian The potential returns of this approach are significant, capital cities or states. but it is not easy. This is particularly true with

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Archiving the Sydney Opera House: a drama in more than three acts Paul Bentley

From 1973-1997, the Sydney Opera House employed the Dennis Wolanski Library and Archives of the Performing Arts, as well as records management, marketing and other business units, to capture its history. From 1987, at a time when responsibilities for recordkeeping were shifting from the gravediggers to the midwives, plans were developed to amplify the House’s archival capital through exhibitions, multimedia projects and a high-tech performing arts museum. The museum aimed to cover the cost of running archival and library programs and to generate additional income of $1 million for the Opera House. The 1995 NSW state election and managerial turnover led to the closure of the Dennis Wolanski Library and Archives in 1997 and the dispersal of its collection to other institutions and organisations throughout Australia. What happened during the first two decades? What happened to the material afterwards? And are there any lessons from the experience?

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Engaging with a national icon: The Matthew Flinders – with transcriptions – the entire Flinders archive held more than 2 billion profiles from over 100 countries experience by the Library. Most importantly, it engaged people in 20 million member trees. Ancestry.com.au has also Paul Brunton around Australia, led to offers of material, a revived determined that 90 per cent of Australians consider interest in Flinders himself and in his archive. Publicity knowing their family history to be important – a for both Flinders and the work of the Library across powerful statistic for archives to note and leverage. The Flinders exhibition, Matthew Flinders: The Ultimate Australia was unprecedented. Brad Argent, Ancestry.com.au’s Content Director for Voyage – mounted by the State Library of NSW in Paul Brunton will follow the journey of this major Australia and New Zealand will outline the process 2001 – was the most successful exhibition the Library exhibition – from archive to audience. Ancestry uses locally (and internationally) to engage has ever staged. It was on show at the Library from with the media; from writing effective press releases to October 2001 and then travelled nationally in two establishing ongoing relationships with broadcasters versions, metropolitan and regional. Twenty-two and journalists. The objective of this presentation is to locations were visited, and the curator visited each Pitching the past – selling history to the media equip attendees with the basic knowledge needed to and presented talks and activities. The metropolitan Brad Argent get their share of media attention without impacting version then returned by popular demand to the State on budget. Library in late 2003. It was, though, more than an exhibition. It involved an Ancestry.com.au is Australia’s leading family history innovative fund-raising program ‘Crewing for Flinders’, website. Its statistics are astounding: 930 million which engaged supporters more than a year before searchable Australian and UK family history records the show opened. It included a website that digitised and the world’s largest collection of family trees, with

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From the Paper panopticon to Facebook - 21st well as genealogical research into family origins. A Century uses of the Records of the Tasmanian fantastic example is the recent Founders & Survivors Convict Department initiative which is a partnership between historians, Ross Latham genealogists, demographers and population health researchers. It seeks to record and study the founding population of 73,000 men women and children who Tasmania was the second primary site for the were transported to Tasmania. Many survived their reception of convicts transported from the British convict experience and went on to help build a new Isles to the Australian continent in the nineteenth society. century. Convicts formed the first major group of Another example is the Founders and Survivors European descent to settle in Tasmania, and formed Storylines project currently in development. This is to the bulk of the community throughout the period be a multifaceted broadcast and online project that of transportation. The records created of our convict will interpret and interact with the amazing life stories founders are the most detailed descriptions of the and experiences held in this remarkable set of now bodies and lives of men, women and children created digitised records, using the all the tools of interactive anywhere in the world in the 19th century. No other online, social networks, mobile and the music of settler society has such a record of their founders’ acclaimed singers and songwriters from Australia, UK, heights, eye colour, literacy, skills, family history, Canada and Ireland. problems and temperament. Ross Latham will use these and other examples The records, held by the Tasmanian Archive and to demonstrate how technology has presented Heritage Office, meticulously document every aspect opportunities to the archives profession we could of the life of each convict in the system, and have once have only dreamed of. provided the basis for research into a wide range of historical topics related to the convict period, as

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the death of Osama bin Laden, for example, will be of archival treasures in the collection of the National significant interest to future researchers. Additionally, Archives of Australia, which provide insight into both in many cases, simply capturing social media content the competition and its premeditated designs. One Iconic Events at large scale is relatively easy; processing and Griffin item, believed long lost or destroyed, was ‘re- evaluating it is considerably more difficult, however. discovered’ in April this year—and unveiled at the NAA Archiving the immediate: how and why archives This paper will outline what’s possible - and necessary amidst much fanfare in May. The lucky ‘re-discoverer’ should approach social media - in this context. will reflect on the item’s high significance and the rich Dr Axel Bruns cultural context in which it emerged. Untold stories – Canberra’s Centenary opportunity Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter form Dr David Headon WikiLeaks and the meaning of archives an increasingly important part of our overall media Cassie Findlay and Antony Loewenstein ecologies. Though sometimes criticised as merely The years leading up to Canberra’s Centenary birthday ephemeral spaces for incessant chatter, they come to in 2013 provide an ideal opportunity to re-visit both “Effective democratisation can always be the fore especially at times of crisis: tracking unfolding the origins and the stunning originality of Australia’s measured by this essential criterion: the acute events from natural disasters to political crises in capital city. The tired old prejudice of Canberra as ‘the participation in and the access to the archive, a more complex and comprehensive way than almost cemetery with lights’, ‘the ruin of a good sheep station’, its constitution, and its interpretation.” - Jacques any other medium is capable of. They provide real- could hardly be more misleading. Canberra was in Derrida, Archive Fever (1996) time indications of contemporary popular interests, fact founded on the basis of some of the world’s most as well as constituting a rich historical record of how “If we want a rich, complex and civil civilisation progressive social, political and design ideas a century major events unfolded and were received by their then we need to have this robust intellectual ago. This paper will enlarge on just a few of them, publics - and for both these reasons, they are well ingredient, which is the historical record. And paying close attention to the international design worth archiving. How national and global audiences we want as much in the historical record about competition (1911-12), its winner (entry #29, by Walter responded to events like the Japanese tsunami, or how governments and organisations actually Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin), and the behave. So we can use it to understand our

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world, adapt it and adjust to it and to engage Australia, the UK and the US, between - on one in the democratic process. Without that we are hand - the desire for free flow of information, and on sailing in the dark; all of us are sailing in the the other, governments restricting and over dark without that basic intellectual ingredient classifying information despite ‘open government’ civilisations are built on.” - Julian Assange, rhetoric. quoted in ‘The behaviour of guilty men’ The Hindu • The notion that increased public access to March 22, 2011. government information is a political act, making any In this session, the role and meaning of archives in challenge to the 30 year restricted access rule a society now and into the future will be explored, using political challenge first and foremost. the philosophy and methodology of WikiLeaks as a • The question of trust and archives – where records starting point. are asserted to be permanently available so they may In recent times WikiLeaks has demonstrated the be relied upon by victims of injustices, how much power of records to expose abuses and effect change, should we worry about such records being in archives at the same time helping to drive a rapidly changing that exist outside of government / large corporate relationship between citizen and State that has come control? about with the technologies that are now available to • How archivists can look beyond paper based us in the connected world. processing models and deploy powerful tools During the discussion we hope to cover: already at their disposal, such as rich ‘over time’ • The extent to which there is a convergence between contextualisation and understandings of long term the stated aims of Australian archives and preservation in the connected / online environment recordkeeping and WikiLeaks’ aims to bring about to achieve the kind of impact that WikiLeaks has had. justice by holding powerful organisations to account. • The tension in information rich societies such as

8 THE LORIS WILLIAMS MEMORIAL LECTURE Professor Martin Nakata is the Director of Nura Gili This lecture is named in memory of Loris Williams at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He (1949-2005) who after completing her fieldwork also holds the title of Chair of Australian Indigenous at the State Library of Queensland became the Presented by the Australian Society of Archivists’ Education. first Aboriginal person from Queensland to gain Indigenous Issues Special Interest Group Professor N M Nakata (B. Ed Hons. PhD) is the first professional archival qualifications, and only the Torres Strait Islander to receive a PhD in Australia. second in Australia to do so. PROFESSOR MARTIN NAKATA His mother is an Indigenous person from the Torres Loris was a well-respected colleague and a tireless Strait Islands, and his dad was born in Kushimoto-cho, advocate for the rights of Indigenous people to Japan. access archival collections and for the importance His current research work focuses on higher education of educating Indigenous professionals. curriculum areas, the academic preparation of Indigenous students, and Indigenous knowledge and library services. He has presented eighteen plenary and keynote addresses at national as well as international conferences in ten countries, and published various pieces on Indigenous Australians and education in various academic journals and books in Australia and abroad. His book, Disciplining the Savages-Savaging the Disciplines, was published in 2007 by Aboriginal Studies Press. In 2005 he co-edited Australian Indigenous Knowledge and Libraries (Canberra: Australian Academic and Research Libraries) with Professor Marcia Langton. In 2007 an e-book version was published by UTS e-press.

9 speaker biographies Following the closure of the library and archive in Joanna Besley 1997, with Sydney businessman and philanthropist Joanna Besley is currently Senior Curator Social Phillip Wolanski, he set up the Wolanski Foundation Brad Argent History at Queensland Museum, Southbank, Brisbane. (www.twf.org.au) to assist the public to navigate to From 2004 to 2011 she was Curator, Histories and Brad Argent has worked for Ancestry.com.au since the dispersed collections and provide other research Community at Museum of Brisbane. Joanna was 2007 and is Content Director for the Australian and and information services. From 2005 to 2008, the awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2009 to study New Zealand markets, as well as being the principal Foundation supported the development of archival international sites of remembering and healing. spokesperson. His primary role is to work with projects at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. Although somewhat concerned that she is becoming archives to bring their records to wider audience During the past decade Paul has undertaken branded with ‘difficult subjects’ when she also really through partnering with Ancestry. Prior to Ancestry, consulting projects for a number of clients, including loves fun and whimsical projects, Jo strongly believes Brad worked for a number of large public and private Flinders University (for the AusStage performing that museums have an essential role as a forum for sector organisations in the area of Information arts gateway). He has contributed to Australians: A tough topics. Technology. Historical Library, Companion to Theatre in Australia, She has published extensively including recent the Australian Dictionary of Biography, and the chapters (with Professor Mark Finnane, ARC Fellow, Paul Bentley internationally-acclaimed CD ROM, Stage Struck. His Griffith University) in Exhibiting Madness in Museums: Paul Bentley managed the Dennis Wolanski articles as a feature writer for Thomson Reuters’ journal Remembering Psychiatry through Collections and Library and Archives of the Performing Arts at the Online Currents over the last ten years have included Display, Coleborne and MacKinnon (eds) and (with Sydney Opera House from 1973 to 1997. As well as Evolving Stages: Australian Performing Arts Online Carol Low) in Re-Presenting Disability: activism and developing library and archival programs, he initiated (2005) and Mastering Digital Lives: Cultural Heritage agency in the Museum (2010), Sandell, Dodd and improvements to enterprise information systems, Institutions Tackle the Tower of Babel (2010). Garland-Thomson (eds) both published by Routledge. produced the Building of the Century and other Since 2006, he has also served as executive officer exhibitions, and oversaw the development of the ill- of Museums Australia (NSW), where he takes a keen fated TheatreWorks performing arts museum project. interest in the converging future of galleries, libraries, archives and museums.

10 Dr Axel Bruns ‘one of the reigning doyens of Australian manuscript Cassie Findlay Dr Axel Bruns is an Associate Professor in the curatorship’ (Flinders University). Cassie Findlay is the Project Manager, Digital Archives Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University He was a founding member of the Australian Society at State Records NSW. In this role she is responsible of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. He is a Chief of Archivists in 1975, and played a vital role in the for delivering the digital archives infrastructure Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for development and growth of our Society, serving and processes for accepting, preserving and Creative Industries and Innovation (http://cci.edu. as President (1992-1994). He was a co-editor and making available digital State archives of the NSW au/). He is the author of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life contributor to our internationally acclaimed manual Government. and Beyond: From Production to Produsage (2008) and and textbook Keeping Archives (1987 and 1993) and Prior to this she established and managed State Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production was Convenor of the successful 2002 conference Records’ digital records strategy, Future Proof, (2005), and the editor of Uses of Blogs with Joanne Past Caring: What does society expect from Archivists. and worked in various roles within State Records’ Jacobs (2006; all released by Peter Lang, New York). Paul has been and remains a passionate advocate for Government Recordkeeping program. He is an expert on the impact of user-led content archives and archivists with significant networking She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University creation, or produsage, and his current work focusses and media skills. His breadth of knowledge and of Sydney, a Master of Information Management especially on the study of user participation in social erudition is an inspiration for our profession. – Archives / Records from the University of New media spaces such as Twitter, especially in the context South Wales, and a Diploma of Management. Cassie of acute events. His research blog is at http://snurb. Anne Doughty wrote the chapter on digital recordkeeping in the info/, and he tweets at @snurb_dot_info. See http:// current edition of the Australian Society of Archivists’ mappingonlinepublics.net/ for more detail on his Anne Doughty has been the Luna Park Historian textbook Keeping Archives, and is a co-founder of the current social media research. since 1999. She is a fully trained Librarian and has worked with many libraries, including the Mitchell recordkeeping and archives discussion group, the Library. Anne was also credited with research and fact Recordkeeping Roundtable. Paul Brunton checking for the Luna Park ‘Just for Fun’ book written Senior Curator of the Mitchell Library, State Library by Sam Marshall. She is currently installing Luna Park’s of New South Wales, Paul Brunton has been called new archive image system, within the Park.

11 Dr David Headon Miracles—the Cast of the Federation Story (2000), The deep appreciation of Pacific Archives and archivists. David Headon is a cultural consultant and historian. Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: a 200-Year Collection In terms of archival work in Australia, Pat worked Formerly Director of the Centre for Australian Cultural (2001) and The Symbolic Role of the National Capital at the National Archives of Australia in Canberra in Studies in Canberra (1994-2004), he is now Adviser (2003). collection management before moving on to a much on the Centenary of Canberra in the Chief Minister’s Dr Headon was the project co-ordinator, editor and smaller archive in Alice Springs. Department, ACT Government, and Adviser to Senator co-writer of the national award-winning The Griffin Pat’s vision of the ASA is for an association that Kate Lundy. Legacy (2004). In 2001, he was awarded the Centenary supports best-practice archival and recordkeeping Dr Headon is a regular commentator/presenter on Medal. expertise, networks and professionals from varied cultural, political and social issues on ABC radio and parts of the community and diverse backgrounds. television (regional and national). Since early 2008, he Pat Jackson has been presenting a regular segment on Canberra’s Pat Jackson is the President of the Australian Society Ross Latham Centenary history for ABC TV’s Stateline/7.30 Report of Archivists and Manager of the Northern Territory program. Ross Latham is the Manager of the Tasmanian Archive Archives Service in Alice Springs, a regional office of and Heritage Office (TAHO) and Tasmania’s State Dr Headon is also a member of the ACT Place Names the Northern Territory Archives Service. Archivist. Committee, the Territory Records Advisory Council, She has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in History and he has been Vice-President of Manning Clark TAHO brings together the collections and services of from the University of Adelaide and a postgraduate House since its inception in 1997. the Archives Office ofT asmania, Heritage Collections Diploma in Applied Science (Archives and of the State Library of Tasmania and the Launceston His publications include: North of the Ten Recordkeeping) from Edith Cowan University. Local Studies collection. Ross commenced in this role Commandments: a Collection of Northern Territory Pat has lived in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea and in October 2010 and was immediately impressed by Literature (1991), The Oxford Book of Australian Sporting worked at the Australian High Commission as the the significance and scope of theT AHO collection and Anecdotes (1993), The Abundant Culture: Meaning and Information Officer. She has also lived in the Republic the tremendous potential to promote and make it Significance in Everyday Australia (1995), League of a of Kiribati and while there used the Kiribati National accessible to a worldwide audience in many ways. Nation (1996), Our First Republicans (1998), Makers of Archives as a case study for her assignments, gaining a

12 Ross previously worked for the National Archives of Muslim world in Arabic. contributed to Amnesty International Australia’s 2008 Australia from 1986 - 2010, culminating in his time His second book, The Blogging Revolution, on the campaign about Chinese internet repression and the as State Director in Tasmania from 2000 - 2002 and internet in repressive regimes, was released in 2008 by Beijing Olympic Games. Victoria from 2003 - 2010. Melbourne University Publishing and will be released Antony appears regularly around the world on radio in an updated edition in 2011 and an Indian version (including the BBC), TV (including Al Jazeera English, Antony Loewenstein soon. He is currently working on a book about disaster Democracy Now! and ABC News24), in public, writers’ capitalism and privatisation in Australia, the Asia- festivals (in Australia and overseas such as Indonesia, Antony Loewenstein is a Sydney-based independent Pacific and beyond and a book about the role of the India and New Zealand) and at universities (including freelance journalist, author, documentarian, Left in modern politics. Harvard) discussing current affairs, politics and media. photographer and blogger. He has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Guardian, His 2010 ABC Radio National feature documentary, Washington Post, New Statesman, The Nation, BBC A Different Kind of Jew, was a finalist in the UN Media Professor Peter Spearritt Peace Awards. World Service, and many others. Peter Spearritt has spent most of his working life at Antony contributed a major chapter to 2004’s He writes regularly for online magazines New universities in Victoria, NSW and Queensland but Australian best-seller, Not Happy, John! on the Middle Matilda and Crikey and is a board member of regularly pays homage to archival collections in all East. His best-selling book on the Israel/Palestine Macquarie University’s Centre for Middle East and states, as evident in his co-authored Holiday Business: conflict,My Israel Question, was released by Melbourne North African Studies. He is an Associate at the Tourism in Australia since 1870 (MUP 2000). The General University Publishing in 2006. A new, updated edition University of Technology Sydney’s Faculty of Arts Editor of the five reference volumes inAustralians: an was released in 2007 (and reprinted again in 2008). and Social Sciences and a Research Associate at the historical library (FSW 1987), Peter has also worked as a The book was short-listed for the 2007 New South University of Technology Sydney’s Australian Centre co-curator on ten exhibitions from Australians and the Wales Premier’s Literary Award. Another fully updated, for Investigative Journalism. He sits on the advisory Monarchy (Powerhouse Museum) to The 200 kilometre third edition was published in 2009. It was released in council of the British-based Sri Lanka Campaign for city (Museum of Brisbane). Peace and Justice. He is the co-founder of advocacy all e-book formats in 2011. An updated and translated As a historian at the University of Queensland, he has edition will be published soon in Indonesia and the group Independent Australian Jewish Voices and

13 worked on two major websites, queenslandsplaces. Louise holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Early com.au and the Queensland Historical Atlas (qhatlas. English Language & Literature from the University com.au). No other state has yet published an historical of Sydney; a Graduate Diploma in Information atlas nor a scholarly guide and assessment of its major Management (Archives Administration) from the settlements. University of New South Wales, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Old Icelandic Language & Literature from the University of Sydney. Dr Louise Trott Louise Trott is the Australian Society of Archivists’ Vice- President, as well as Convenor of the NSW Branch and Convenor of the Religious Collections Special Interest Group. Louise has been the Sydney Diocesan Archivist for the Anglican Church Diocese of Sydney since November 1996, when she was appointed as the first full-time Sydney Diocesan Archivist. Louise is also National Convenor of the Australian Anglican Archives Network, a body hosted by the General Synod of Australia. Louise has also worked as a contract and consultant archivist for the NSW Department of Corrective Services, the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Kensington and Sancta Sophia College, University of Sydney.

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Booking and registering The venue Bus Registration Accessibility Many North Shore bus routes pass the nearby North Registration for the Symposium is via the attached The promenade and venues are wheelchair accessible. Sydney Station and/or terminate at Milsons Point, Registration Form. For any registration enquiries, then it’s a short walk along the harbour boulevard to please email [email protected] or call Luna Park. Getting to Luna Park (07) 3221 4887. A map can be found at: Taxis http://www.lunaparksydney.com/index.php/visitor- Price Taxis can either drop off at Luna Park carpark entrance, information/how-to-get-there ASA Professional Members - $275 Paul Street (and then it’s a walk down steep stairs to Luna Park is located in Milsons Point, just under Park entrance) or at bottom of Alfred Street South ASA Institutional & Associate Members and ALIA/ the northern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. (where buses terminate at Milsons Point), and then RIMPA members - $325 It’s incredibly easy by train, ferry, bus or car. To plan take an easy walk along Olympic Boulevard to Non-members - $375 your trip and view public transport timetables visit the Park. Phone Taxi Combined Services : General Price includes full Symposium program, commencing www.131500.com.au or call 131 500. bookings 133 300; Maxi Taxi 131 924 and Wheelchair coffee/tea, morning/afternoon tea, lunch and accessibility: 02 8332 0200. concluding heritage talk and drinks. Train From Milsons Point station, it’s an easy downhill five Coach Registration Desk minute walk to Luna Park. Milsons Point Station is only Coaches may drop off and pick up passengers at Event registration desk will be located in the foyer of one stop from the CBD and is both ‘Northern Line’ and North Sydney Pool at the bottom of Alfred St South the Crystal Ballroom, just inside the entrance doors to ‘North Shore & Western Line’. and Olympic Drive. Coach parking is available at Henry the venue. Lawson Avenue, which is located at the end of Blues Point Road.

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Ferries Finding the Crystal Palace inside Luna Park Images: all images used in this program are courtesy There are regular services to and from Circular Quay Event signage will be located at the front entrance to of Luna Park on the following routes; Darling Harbour/East Balmain, Luna Park to provide directions for the 5 mins walk to Disclaimer Woolwich/Balmain and Parramatta. the Crystal Ballroom (on the left side of the Park). All program information is correct at the time of printing. The Australian Society of Archivists reserves the right to alter the program at any time. Matilda run direct services to Luna Park wharf on Please view our detailed Terms and Conditions on the Registration Form. board the Rocket Express. Ferry and ride packages Acknowledgement are available by visiting one of Matilda’s Ticket Offices The following people have contributed to the at Pier 26 Darling Harbour, King St Wharf 4 or Jetty 6 development of the program and organisation of the Circular Quay. You may prefer to book over the phone Symposium: by calling (02) 9264 7377 or online by visiting www. matilda.com.au Joanna Baker, Paul Bentley, Joanna Besley, Jackie Bettington, Tim Bowden, Alice-Anne Boylan, Dr Axel Luna Park Wharf is also available for charter vessels to Bruns, Paul Brunton, Tamara Cummings, Therese drop off and pick up, subject to prior permission and Cuthbert and staff at the Crystal Palace, Luna license from Luna Park Sydney. Park, Anne Doughty, Cassie Findlay, Anna Grega, Dr Sebastian Gurciullo, Dr David Headon, Patricia Car Jackson, Ross Latham, Antony Loewenstein, Donna Luna Park has 389 secure car spaces. Fees apply. Car Morris (ICMI), Professor Martin Nakata, Margaret park entry via Paul Street, Milsons Point. Maximum Paterson, Bill Shaw, Clive Smith, Steve Stefanopoulos, vehicle height is 1.9 metres. Hours of operation are Mandy Sullivan, Dr Peter Spearritt, Dr Louise Trott, 7am to 3am (No vehicle entry after midnight - exit Alan Ventress, Andrew Wilson (and members of IISIG), only between midnight & 3am). and Melissa White. Special thanks to Brad Argent and Ancestry.com.au for their generous support of this event.

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Rahnee ALVAREZ national Archives of Australia Kerri GENOVESE Brigidine College St Ives Adelaide PARR University of Melbourne Lee Amoroso state Records of South Australia Brenda gifford national Film and Sound Archives Margaret PATERSON Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School Carol Anderson sisters of Mercy Bathurst Marguerite GILLEZEAu redlands School Janette pelosi state Records NSW Brad ARGENT Ancestry.com (SPEAKER) Emma GRAY State Library of NSW Kylie PERCIVAl university of Adelaide & Vice- President, ASA Caroline ASWorth national Archives of Australia Gina GREY National Archives of Australia John PHELAN St Mary’s Star of the Sea College Megan ATKins state Library of NSW Melanie GROGAn national Archives of Australia Anne PICOT University of Sydney Margaret AVArd noel Butlin Archives Centre Sebastian gurciullo public Records Victoria & Editor, Archives Rachel PINTAdo the History Company Joanna BAKER Australian Attorney-General’s Department and Manuscripts Svemir popovic hurstville City 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