Dr David Dunstan

Senior Lecturer & Coordinator, Graduate Publishing and Editing Program

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David Dunstan is an Australian historian, teacher, supervisor and researcher.

David's specialist areas of research interest include the study of Australian society and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, biography, heritage, international exhibitions, industrial and regional communities, publishing studies, newspaper and media history, wine and viticulture, the history of sport and Australians and Australian communities abroad.

Research Interests

Melbourne

David's doctoral thesis on Melbourne's nineteenth century government was published as Governing the Metropolis (Melbourne University Press 1984) and remains a standard work. His interest in Melbourne, its governance, politics, history and public culture, is reflected in many chapters in books, essays and articles and entries for the Australian Dictionary of Biography and the Encyclopedia of Melbourne (Cambridge University Press 2005 and online) of which he was an Associate Editor. The Encyclopedia of Melbourne is a free to the public online resource. He has a continuing interest in the Melbourne City Council and has contributed to public debates about the city's governance and planning.

David's historical and urban research interests embrace government and politics, social reform, urban built form and planning, low life, population movements, consumption, newspapers and the media, popular culture, the drink trades, crime and sport. He has taught university courses on comparative urban history and the history of Melbourne.

Exhibitions

David's interest in Exhibitions and Public Culture are represented in his publications. His Victorian Icon: Melbourne's Exhibition Building (1996) remains an important foundation study of this World Heritage Listed site. This work helped lay the foundations for the successful bid for World Heritage listing. He contributed to the standard international text, the Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions edited by John Findling and Kimberley Pelle (McFarland Publishing, 2008) with entries on the Melbourne International Exhibition, 1880-81 and the Centennial International Exhibition, 1888-89. He also contributed to Kate Darian-Smith et al. Seize the Day: Exhibitions, Australia and the World (Monash ePress 2008). With Professor Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay of Burdwan University, India, he is completing a study of the 1883-84 Calcutta International Exhibition.

Australians Abroad

With Professor Carl Bridge of Kings College, London, and Dr Robert Crawford of the University of Technology, Sydney, David edited a book of essays on Australians in Britain in the twentieth century published by Monash ePress. His studies of international cricket undertaken with his colleague Dr Tom Heenan include the career of Sir Donald Bradman and the cricketing nations of the Imperial (now the International) Cricket Council. With Tom Heenan he is completing a study of Australian and Indian international cricket relations. On behalf of NCAS and the Monash Institute for Global Movements David was a convenor of the Southern Worlds conference – South Africa and Australia Compared held 25-28 November, 2008 at Monash South Africa.

The Newspaper Press, Media and Publishing

David is working on a long-term project on the history of the Melbourne Herald newspaper and Australian journalists, columnists, correspondents and cartoonists at home and abroad. His interest in biography and journalism has resulted in a scholarly edition of a convict autobiography Owen Suffolk's Days of Crime and Years of Suffering (Australian Scholarly Publishing 2000) and a collection of his father, Keith Dunstan's journalism, The Melbourne I Remember: Batman in the Bulletin (Arcadia 2004). An active interest in Australian publishing stems from his co-ordination of the Graduate Publishing Program with Melbourne publisher Nick Walker. David contributed to David Carter and Anne Galligan Making Books Contemporary Australian Publishing (University of Queensland Press, 2007).

Biography and Writing

David is the author of thirty-eight entries in the Australian Dictionary of Biography with three more forthcoming in volume 18 due to be published this year. This resource conducted by the Australian National University is free to the public. David’s most substantial entry is the Victorian Premier from 1955 to 1972, Sir Henry Bolte. His studies of the Victorian premiers William Watt, John Murray and Bolte appeared as chapters in The Victorian Premiers (Federation Press, 2006) edited by Brian Costar and Paul Strangio. He edited and introduced a convict autobiography, Owen Suffolk’s Days of Crime and Years of Suffering (2000). David is a reviewer of historical and autobiographical writing for Reviews in Australian Studies conducted by the National Library of Australia and other publications. With his colleague Dr Tom Heenan he is writing a new study of the life of the Australian international cricketer Sir Donald Bradman.

The Press, Media and Publishing

David’s long-term project is on the history of the Melbourne Herald newspaper and Australian journalists, columnists, correspondents and cartoonists at home and abroad. He has edited a collection of his father, Keith Dunstan’s journalism, The Melbourne I Remember: Batman in the Bulletin (2004). He is a contributor to the forthcoming Companion to the Australian Media. David is working with his colleague in the Graduate Publishing program, Dr Louise Poland, on a comparative study of the Australian and Canadian publishing industries. Together with Dr Tom Heenan and Dr Caron Dann of the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies he is researching the history of Australian sports writing. David’s entry on the Herald & Weekly Times editor, director and chairman, Sir John Williams, is a forthcoming entry in volume 18 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Wine

David’s interest in the history of viticulture and winemaking has a scholarly basis in the social and cultural significance and achievements of these trades the history of wine and viticulture in Australia and the role drink has played in our culture; also, industry regulation, temperance, prohibitionist and anti-drink trade movements, the regional character of wine and understandings of terroir and Mediterranean agriculture. David helped build and research Museum Victoria’s collections in this field. He is the author of Better Than Pommard! A History of Wine in Victoria (1994) and Wine from the Hills: Australia’s Pyrenees Region (2000). He has completed a history of the Viticultural Society of Victoria, which is currently in press and is writing a history of Elgee park vineyard on the Mornington Peninsula. He is a contributor to the forthcoming Electric Pictures documentary Australian Wine Revolution and together with Professor John Germov and Dr Julie McIntyre of the University of Newcastle is proposing a collaborative study of the wine industry in the Hunter Valley district of NSW. David is in demand as a supervisor and as an assessor of research projects in this area.

Sport

David was instrumental in the development of Arts Faculty undergraduate sports studies subjects at Gippsland, Peninsula and Caulfield campuses of Monash University from 2004. Together with his colleague Dr Tom Heenan he is researching the history of Australian-Indian cricket. Together with Tom Heenan and Dr Caron Dann he is researching Australian sports writers and writing. David contributed a paper on the 1947-48 Indian Cricket Tour of Australia to the Indian Australian Studies Conference (IASA) held at Kolkata, India, in January, 2008. Together with Tom Heenan he is the author of a controversial essay on Sir Donald Bradman ‘Just a Boy from Bowral’ in the Cambridge Companion to Cricket (2011) and is undertaking further work on Bradman as part of a larger biographical project.

Through the auspices of the School of Journalism, Australian and Indigenous Studies the international sports historian Dr Boria Majumdar visited Monash University as Visiting Fellow and together with Professor Brian Stoddart and author and cricket writer Mr Gideon Haigh spoke at a National Conversation: Cricket and Postcolonialism at BMW Edge Federation Square, Melbourne in December 2011

Keywords

Melbourne, History, Cities, International Exhibitions, City Governance, Biography, Wine, Viticulture, Cricket, Bradman, Journalism, Newspaper History, Australians Abroad, British World, Sport, Sports Writing, Publishing, Business History, Public History, Regions, Heritage.

Biography

David joined the National Centre for Australian Studies in 1997 and was Director from 2004 to 2006.

David was born in New York City where his father, the well-known Australian journalist, Keith Dunstan, was a foreign correspondent. He completed his schooling in Brisbane and Melbourne and, in 1974, an Arts degree with first class honours in History at Monash University and his doctorate (also in History) at the University of Melbourne in 1983. He has taught Australian Studies and Australian History at the University of Melbourne, Deakin, RMIT and Monash universities.

David has worked as a school and university teacher, a public servant, a freelance journalist and professional historian and writer. He was a Tutor in History at the University of Melbourne and Senior Tutor in the School of Humanities at Deakin University. For a number of years he wrote as a journalist about wine for the Melbourne Age, the Sydney Sun Herald, the Wine Spectator and Business Review Weekly. He was a member of the Urban Conservation Committee of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) and a deputy member of the Historic Buildings Council of Victoria. In 1984 he joined the Victorian Ministry for Planning and Environment as an historian, planner and administrator and worked with the Historic Buildings Council (now Heritage Victoria). During this time he was involved in conservation planning for local government, administered research and additions to the Victorian Heritage Register and provided expert advice on heritage. Among the notable conservation deliberations he was involved with included Her Majesty’s Theatre, Flinders Park (Melbourne Tennis Centre), H.V. McKay Sunshine Harvester Factory, Sunshine, the Victoria Brewery, the Windsor Hotel and heritage conservation and tourism planning for the Victorian goldfields. From 1990 to 1993 he worked with Museum Victoria as an historian and researcher and as Senior Exhibitions Developer for the planned new Museum at Southbank. Whilst with Museum Victoria he commenced the Graduate Diploma in Editing and Publishing at RMIT University which he completed in 1995. From 1994 to 1996 he was a Lecturer in Public History with the History Department at Monash University (now the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies) and commissioned by the Royal Exhibition Trustees to write a history of the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, which was completed in 1996.

Initially, David taught in the Graduate Tourism and Museum Studies and Folklife programs at NCAS. He was instrumental in developing the Arts Faculty’s Graduate Publishing and Editing program, which commenced in 1996. He further developed and taught undergraduate and postgraduate units in Tourism, Communications and Australian Studies. In 2002 he was responsible for the introduction of the 72 pt Master of Publishing and Editing. Prior to that time a Graduate Diploma only was offered. In 2004 when Director he introduced sports studies units to the suite of existing Australian Studies undergraduate units. David has taught in all of the undergraduate and post-graduate programs at the NCAS and is the co-ordinator of the Graduate Publishing and Editing Program.

David is a contributor to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, which is conducted by the Australian National University. He chairs its Victorian Working Party and is a Section Editor for Victorian entries.

In 2010 he was the Menzies Fellow in Australian Studies at Kings College, London. He has been involved with the British Australian Studies Association (BASA), the European Australian Studies Association (EASA) and the Indian Association for the Study of Australia (IASA). He has travelled extensively in furthering the international mission of Australian studies.

David supervises higher degree research and is actively involved in collaborative research projects. He has been the recipient of research and project grants from the Australian Research Council, the Co-operative Research Centre for Tourism, Monash University’s Institute for Global Movements, Monash International and industry and business.

He is a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the Australian Historical Association, InASA, the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and other professional associations.

Supervision

David has supervised more than thirty higher degree research theses, including 4th year Honours and Masters qualifying, Masters and Doctoral theses. David supervises students in Tourism, Business History, Australian Studies and History, and Publishing. He has co-supervised higher degree research students with colleagues in other Schools and Departments in the Faculty of Arts and with the faculties of Business and Economics and Art and Design at Monash University and other Australian universities.

David and his colleague in the Graduate Publishing program, Dr Louise Poland, are both qualified supervisors. The Graduate publishing program contains thesis units that may be undertaken on a part or full-time basis that have the capacity to qualify students for higher degree doctorial research.

David is interested in supervising future studies in the following areas:

Australian newspaper and media history
Australian communities abroad
The history and culture of viticulture, wine, food and drink in Australia
Mediterranean idealism and agriculture in Australia
Australian regional, remote, urban and agricultural communities
The history of travel and tourism
Australian biography, autobiography and popular narratives
The urban contexts of Australian publishing
Popular and material culture
Australian capital cities and their governance
Australian sports writing and publishing
Australian national and international sport
The culture, politics, aesthetics, wars and general excesses of the 1960s
The economy, culture and identity of Australia's provincial towns and cities

Doctoral completions supervised by David include:

Hope Kynoch, The Life and Works of Elliott Lovegood Grant Watson (1999)
Morna Sturrock, Bishop of Magnetic Power: James Moorhouse in Melbourne, 1877–1987 (2005) subsequently published as a book by Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Mike Williams, Melbourne and Country Victoria: the Drift to the City: 1916–1918 (2007).
Josette Wells, ‘One Voice For Australia’: A Marketing History of Australia’s National Tourist Organisation — 1929–1967 (2010).

Research Projects and Grants

Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Kings College London, Fellowship 2010.

Teaching

David co-ordinates and teaches in the Graduate Publishing and Editing program conducted by NCAS. He has specific responsibility for the subject APG4800 Publishing History, Culture and Commerce and fifth year research units.

With Dr Tom Heenan he teaches in the undergraduate Sports Studies subjects program and is an occasional contributor to other programs conducted by NCAS.

David co-ordinates the undergraduate subjects ATS2393/3393 Australian Sports Writing and ATS1260 Sport and Society in Australia.

Publications

David contributes to scholarly journals in Australia and overseas, is an author of books and is a reviewer and contributor to the national and local press.

In-press

(with Tom Heenan) ‘”Raining Rupees”: How Australian cricketers came to embrace the subcontinent’ in Re-mapping the Future: History, Culture and Environment in Australia and India edited by Rae Frances and Deb Narayan Bandypadyyay (forthcoming Cambridge Scholars Press).
‘A Thorough and Beneficial Acquaintanceship’ – The Participation of the Australian Colonies in the Calcutta Exhibition of 1883-4’ in Re-mapping the Future: History, Culture and Environment in Australia and India edited by Rae Frances and Deb Narayan Bandypadyyay (forthcoming Cambridge Scholars Press).
‘The Viticultural Society of Victoria: a history’ (forthcoming 2012).
‘John Keith Walker (1905-1987) wine merchant and restaurateur’, ‘Charles Henry Malpas (1899-1982) inventor, businessman’, ‘Sir John Williams (1901-1982) journalist and company director. Australian Dictionary of Biography vol. 19 (forthcoming 2012)

Books

Morris of Rutherglen: a Celebration of 150 Years, Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009.
(with Philip Bentley), The Path to Professionalism: Physiotherapy in Australia to the 1980s Melbourne, Victoria, Australian Physiotherapy Association, 2006.
Wine from the Hills: Australia's Pyrenees Region, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2001.
Victorian Icon: The Royal Exhibition Building Melbourne, The Exhibition Trustees in association with Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne 1996.
Better Than Pommard: a History of Wine in Victoria, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 1994.
Governing the Metropolis: politics, technology and social change in a Victorian city: Melbourne 1851-1891, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1984.

Edited Books

(with Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay) Australian Studies: Reading History, Culture and Identity, New Delhi, World View Press, 2010.
(with John Niewenhuysen) Southern Worlds: South Africa and Australia Compared, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2010.
(with Carl Bridge and Robert Crawford) Australians in Britain: The Twentieth Century Experience, Monash ePress, 2009.
Keith Dunstan (with a foreword by Barry Humphries), The Melbourne I Remember Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne 2004.
Owen Suffolk's Days of Crime and Years of Suffering, Australian Scholarly Publishing 2000.
(with Graeme Davison and Chris McConville) The Outcasts of Melbourne: Essays in Social History, Sydney, Allen & Unwin 1984.

Book Chapters

(with Tom Heenan) Don Bradman: Just a Boy from Bowral in Anthony Bateman and Jeffrey Hill eds. The Cambridge Companion to Cricket , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK (2011).
‘A drink whose time had finally come: wine consumption in Australia 1950-1980’, in Consumer Australia: Historical perspective, eds Robert Crawford, Judith Smart, Kim Humphery, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 2010.
(with Tom Heenan) 'Burnt Bridges: Australian Cricket and the Subcontinent 1888-1960' in David Dunstan, Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay, and Shibnath Banerjee eds. Australian Studies: Reading History, Culture and Identity Worldview Publications, Delhi 2010.
(with Carl Bridge and Robert Crawford), ‘More than just Barry, Clive and Germaine: an overview of Australians in Britain, in Australians in Britain: The Twentieth Century Experience, eds Carl Bridge, Robert Crawford and David Dunstan, Monash University ePress, Clayton Vic Australia, 2009.
‘We came on a holiday like you’: The Australian community press in London in the 1970s and 80s’ in Carl Bridge, Robert Crawford and David Dunstan (eds) ‘Australians in Britain: The Twentieth Century Experience’, Monash University e-Press, 2009.15.1-18.
‘The Melbourne saga, in Melbourne Global Smart City’, ed. John Keeney, ETN-COM, Sydney NSW Australia, 2009.
‘The exhibitionary complex personified: Melbourne’s nineteenth century displays and the mercurial Dr LL Smith’, Seize the Day: Exhibitions, Australia and the World edited by Kate Darian-Smith, et. al. Monash University e-press, 2008.
(with Annette Chaitman) ‘Food and Drink: the appearance of a publishing subculture’ in Making Books: Contemporary Australian Publishing edited by David Carter and Anne Galligan, St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 2007.
‘John Murray and William Watt: the Odd Couple’ and ‘Henry Bolte: the Lucky Developer’ in The Victorian Premiers edited by Brian Costar and Paul Strangio, Federation Press, Sydney 2006.
‘When Clown Hall Really was Town Hall’ (with John Young) in Seamus O’Hanlon and Tanja Luckins (eds) GO! Melbourne in the Sixties” Circa Publishing Melbourne 2005.
‘Viticulture and winemaking in the Bendigo district in the 19th century,’ in Bendigo at Work: an industrial history, eds Mike Butcher and Yolande M J Collins, Holland House for the National Trust of Australia, Strathdale Vic Australia, 2005.
‘”Doing the Exhibition” – The Royal Exhibition Building’, ‘Part of the city: Local government’ and (with Don Chambers) ‘Classification and Arrangement: the Museum of Victoria’, in Carlton: A History, ed. Peter Yule, Melbourne University Press, Carlton Vic Australia, 2004.
‘The Argus: The life, death, and remembering of a great Australian newspaper’ in The Argus The Life and Death of a Great Melbourne Newspaper (1846-1957) ed. Muriel Porter, Informit Library, Melbourne, 2003 www.informit.com.au.
‘Introduction’ Owen Suffolk’s Days of Crime and Years of Suffering, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2000.
(with Peter Spearritt) ‘Sydney: Capital of the Continent’, in Australian Studies: A Topic for Tertiary Education? Berliner Debatte Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin Germany, 2000.
‘A Long Time Coming’, in Local Government Reform in Victoria, ed. Brian Galligan. State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Vic Australia, 1998.
‘The Vignerons’, in Bendigo: The German Chapter, German Heritage Society, Bendigo Vic Australia, 1998.
‘Williamstown’, ‘Collins Street – Eastern End’, (with Graeme Davison) ‘St Kilda in Melbourne on Foot ed. Graeme Davison, Rigby, Adelaide, 1980.

Refereed Journal Articles

‘Charles and Sophie La Trobe and the Vignerons: the birth of an industry in nineteenth century Victoria’, La Trobeana: Journal of the C.J. La Trobe Society Inc., vol 10, issue 2, 2011.
‘With Sam Benwell and the House of Lords Journeying to Wine in Victoria’ in Culinary Distinction edited by Emma Constantino and Sian Supski, Special edition of the Journal of Australian Studies No. 87, 2006, pp.87-99.
‘A Sobering Experience: From ‘Australian Burgundy’ to ‘Kanga Rouge’: Australian wine battles on the London market 1900 to 1981.’ Journal of Australian Studies vol. 17 No.2 Winter 2002 (pub 2004), pp.179-210.
'Rules of simple cleanliness': the Australian health society 1875-1900, Victorian Historical Journal, vol 74, issue 1, Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Melbourne Vic Australia, 2003.

Other Research Publications, Multi-media, etc.

(with Jock Collins, Simon Darcy, Kirrily Jordan, Ruth Skilbeck, Simone Grabowski, Vicki Peel, Gary Lacey and Tracey Firth) in Jock Collins et.al., Cultural Landscapes of Tourism in New South Wales and Victoria CRC for Sustainable Tourism Pty Ltd 2008.
Dalwhinnie, Arcadia Press, Melbourne, 1998.
Subject: Murray D. Tyrrell (Chairman, Tyrrell's Wines, Pty Ltd), National Library of Australia Oral History Program.National Library of Australia, Canberra ACT Australia. 1997.

Encyclopedia/Dictionary Entries (to 2005)

‘Sir Bernard Evans’, ‘Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne’ in Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture eds Philip Goad and Julie Willis, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne 2012.
‘Melbourne International Exhibition, 1880-81’, ‘Centennial International Exhibition, 1888-89, Melbourne’ in Encyclopedia of Worlds Fairs and Expositions edited by John Findling and Kimberley Pelle, McFarland, North Carolina, 2008.
Antcliff, Alan (1923–1985) Australian Dictionary of Biography vol 17, Melbourne University Press, 2007, pp. 28-29.
Bolte, Sir Henry Edward (1908–1990) Australian Dictionary of Biography vol 17, Melbourne University Press, 2007, pp. 119-124.
Evans, Sir Bernard (1905–1981) Australian Dictionary of Biography vol 17, Melbourne University Press, 2007, pp. 364-365.
Bolte, Sir Henry Edward (1908–1990) Australian Dictionary of Biography vol 17, Melbourne University Press, 2007, pp. 119-124
Howard, Frederick James (1904–1984) Australian Dictionary of Biography vol 17, Melbourne University Press, 2007, pp. 552-553.
The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 2005. (Associate Editor and author of major entries: ‘Politics’ ‘Municipal Government’, ‘Mayoralty’, ‘Melbourne City Council’, ‘Health’, ‘Heritage’, etc.).
‘Arthur Purssell Akehurst’, in The Australian Dictionary of Biography (Supplement) 1580-1980, eds Christopher Cunneen with Jill Roe, Beverley Kingston and Stephen Garton, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2005
John Curtain, in The Australian Dictionary of Biography (Supplement) 1580-1980, eds Christopher Cunneen with Jill Roe, Beverley Kingston and Stephen Garton., Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2005
‘Victor Joseph Clement Deschamps’, in The Australian Dictionary of Biography (supplement) 1580-1980, eds Christopher Cunneen with Jill Roe, Beverley Kingston and Stephen Garton, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria, 2005
‘James Jamieson’, in The Australian Dictionary of Biography (Supplement) 1580-1980, eds Christopher Cunneen with Jill Roe, Beverley Kingston and Stephen Garton, Melbourne University Press,Carlton, 2005.
George William Knight, in The Australian Dictionary of Biography (Supplement) 1580-1980, eds Christopher Cunneen with Jill Roe, Beverley Kingston and Stephen Garton, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2005
James Jamieson, in The Australian Dictionary of Biography (Supplement) 1580-1980, eds Christopher Cunneen with Jill Roe, Beverley Kingston and Stephen Garton, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2005.
Jean-Pierre Trouette, in The Australian Dictionary of Biography (Supplement) 1580-1980, eds Christopher Cunneen with Jill Roe, Beverley Kingston and Stephen Garton, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2005

Conferences

(with John Young), The 'most undemocratic municipality in Australia': changes to the franchise and electoral arrangements of the Melbourne City Council 1938-2011, State of Australian Cities: National Conference, 2011, State of Australian Cities: National Conference, http://soac2011.com.au/full-papers-list.php.
‘Translating the Mediterranean: European idealists in Australia in the Nineteenth Century’ 'Found in Translation: Textual Explorations of Australia and the World', 20-25 September, 2010, Monash Prato Centre, Italy.
‘Cricket at the Crossroads: Australian cricketers on a changing world stage in the 1950s’, Australian Historical Association Conference 5-9 July, 2010, University of Western Australia.
'A Mediterranean Idealist in Australia: the experience and advocacy of John Ignatius Bleasdale (1822-1884)'.10th Biennial conference of the European Australian Studies Association (EASA), Universitat des Illes Balears, 2009. Palma de Mallorca.
Re-imagining Australian Studies, Indian Australian Studies Conference (IASA) Kolkata, India January, 2008.
‘The Argus: The Life, Death and Remembering of a Great Australian Newspaper’, The Argus: The Life and Death of a Great Melbourne Newspaper 1846-1957, 2001, RMIT University, Melbourne Vic Australia.
1997, ‘Reflections on a Revolution’, The Australian City - Future/Past, Melbourne, 11-14 December 1996, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 279-289.
‘Health Officers of the City of Melbourne’ in Patients, Practitioners and Techniques: Second National Conference on Medicine and Health in Australia, Melbourne, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 1984.

Selected Reviews

‘My father’s daughter: memories of an Australian childhood by Sheila Fitzpatrick’, Reviews in Australian Studies, vol. 6, no.1 (2012).
‘Unsettling the Land’, Sea of Dreams: The Lure of Port Phillip Bay 1830-1914, [exhibition catalogue] Mornington Peninsula Shire, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington Peninsula Vic Australia, 2012.
‘Final proof: Memoirs of a publisher by Peter Ryan’, Reviews in Australian Studies, vol 5, issue 3, British Australian Studies Association, London UK, 2010.
‘Joseph Reed: A city's greatest architect’, Australian Heritage, vol. 1, Hallmark Editions Pty Ltd, Brighton Vic Australia, 2010.
Breaking the bank: an extraordinary colonial robbery by Carol Baxter, Historical Studies, 2, 2009.
‘The Independent Type’ (Exhibition, State Library of Victoria) History Australia, 3, 2009, 78.1-3.
‘Melbourne: a tale of treaties and good intentions’, Australian Heritage, vol Summer 2007, issue 9, Hallmark Editions Pty Ltd, Brighton Victoria, Australia.
‘A little history of Australia by Mark Peel, Reviews in Australian Studies, vol 2, issue 5, 2007.
‘The Wine Press, Meanjin, vol 61, issue 4, 2002.

Professional Memberships and Editorial Positions

Chair, Victorian Working Party Australian Dictionary of Biography
Member ICOM Australia
Member, InASA
Member, Australian Historical Association
Member, Australian Society for Sport History

Community Engagement

Board Member, Australian Dictionary of Biography