Mateship Conference: Keynote and Guest Speakers
Professor John Rickard
Honorary Professorial Fellow, School of Historical Studies and The National Centre for Australian Studies (Monash University), and author of Class and Politics; Australia: A Cultural History; Family Romance: the Deakins at Home, and H.B. Higgins, the Rebel as Judge.
Eva Cox
Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology in Sydney, author of A Truly Civil Society (1995), and Leading Women (1996). Her recent research is on social capital and ethics and she recently published a paper on women in Immigration Detention Facilities and 'In Defence of Social Capital' in Arena Magazine, April-May 2005.
Richard Waterhouse
Richard Waterhouse is Bicentennial Professor of Australian History and Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at University of Sydney. He is the author of five books and more than forty articles and chapters on aspects of United States and Australian social and cultural history. His books include: A New World Gentry: the Making of a Merchant and Planter Class in South Carolina, 1670-1770, and Private Pleasures, Public Leisure: A History of Australian Popular Culture Since 1788. He has just published his new book entitled The Vision Splendid: A Cultural History of Rural Australia.
Mungo MacCallum
Mungo MacCallum is a well-known political journalist and social commentator writing for Nation Review , the National Times, The Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald. His autobiographical narrative of the Australian political scene was entitled Mungo: the man who laughs - and is currently in its fourth reprint. In 2002 Mungo wrote theQuarterly Essay 'Girt by Sea: Australia, the Refugees and the Politics of Fear'.