Associate Professor Don Garden is a retired environmental historian who holds honorary positions at the University of Melbourne. He is a Council Member of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and the Australian Conservation Foundation.

David Carment, AM, BA (Hons) UNSW, PhD ANU, FACE, FFAHS is an Emeritus Professor of History at Charles Darwin University. He joined the Council of the Royal Australian Historical Society and rejoined the Committee of the Federation of Australian Historical Societies, of which he is a former Vice-President and Honorary Secretary, in 2008. He is also Vice-President of the History Council of New South Wales and a current and former office bearer in numerous other history and heritage organisations. His publications cover Australian federal political history, Central Queensland history, Northern Territory history, cultural heritage management and family history.

Esther Davies is a retired history teacher and former President of both the Canberra and District Historical Society and the ACT History Teachers' Association. She currently works part-time as a school archivist.

Dr Ruth Kerr is an experienced historian in mining, regional, economic and company history, having written several books on these subjects. Ruth has worked in the area of native title, been an archivist at Queensland State Archives and is currently in Strategic Policy in Primary Industries and Fisheries in Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation. Ruth is a long term member of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland Council (first female president,1992-1995), an Adjunct Professor of History at University of Queensland, member, past President of Professional Historians Association (Queensland), past President of the FAHS (and Committee member since 1986), and a member of several historical societies.

Since leaving full time employment with Wesfarmers, Nick is now on various committees for the Royal Western Australian Historical Society being a Councilor, Tours & Events, Promotions & Marketing and the Affiliated Societies. Nick is also Treasurer of the Friends of Battye Library, Perth and the History Council of WA

Margaret Anderson is Director of the History Trust of South Australia, a position she has held since 2000. In a career spanning 30 years she has worked as a public historian in museums in Western Australia and South Australia and taught history and Australian Studies at Monash University. Her research interests have focused on women’s history and demography, but she has also written more generally about South Australian history and the practice of public history.

Currently Vice President of the Historical Society of the Northern Territory and Honourary Archivist. Yvonne edits the Occasional Paper series published by the HSNT and the monthly newsletter. She has been in the Territory for over 30 years, travelling widely. Yvonne has been Librarian for the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority (the Former Sacred Sites Authority) since 1980 and set up the Library for the Northern Land Council, was Chair of the Arts Council (NT) and was on the Council of the National Trust (NT). She also set up and ran the U3A Darwin from 1989.

Prior to her retirement twelve years ago, Helen was a Senior Researcher in Epidemiology in the Health Department of Western Australia. She has a PhD in Anthropology. She was elected to the Council of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society in 1996 and became Vice-Chairman in 2001, a position which she still holds. She has been actively involved for varying periods in: the History Council of Western Australia; the Historical Records Rescue Consortium; Museums Australia (WA); and the FAHS, of which she has served as Vice-President and President. Helen and her husband, Bill, are currently preparing a biographical account of the life and scientific contribution of Augustus Oldfield (1821-1887) who was an important botanical collector in Australia in the mid-nineteenth century.

Joan Hunt is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and recent vice-president. In 1988 she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study how community heritage groups in the U.K. organise and administer themselves. Joan has convened the History Victoria Support Group of RHSV since 2004, and has been president of several local and family history societies in Victoria; her involvement spans 35 years. She works at the Ballarat Archives Centre, Public Record Office Victoria. A retired teacher, Joan has published several histories and is currently writing a history of the Springdallah district south-west of Ballarat.

Ian Jack is Senior Fellow at St Andrew’s College in the University of Sydney and President of the Royal Australian Historical Society. He has retired from the Department of History in that university, where he was a co-founder of Historical Archaeology in 1974. His six-year stint on the Heritage Council of NSW ended in 2005. He is author of Exploring the Hawkesbury; co-author of Australian Pioneer Technology, Industrial Archaeology in Australia, Regional Histories of New South Wales and Australia’s Age of Iron: History and Archaeology; and many articles on heritage and local history.

Lennie McCall retired from a 35-year career in librarianship in 1998, having been the Director of the JS Battye Library of West Australian History at the State Library of WA from 1995 until her retirement. She has been a Delegate to the FAHS since 2001 and its Hon. Secretary from 2003 to 2008. She has been a Councillor of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society since 1991 and Chairman of Council since 1999, and a member of the History Council of WA since 2003. She was Vice-President of the Historical Records Rescue Consortium 2003-2008, and the Inaugural Chair of the Friends of the University of WA Press 2000-2005. She was a Charter Member of the Zonta Club of Perth in 1971 and since then has held various positions in the organisation.

Carolyn worked for many years as a reference librarian in the John Oxley Library and is now a private historian specialising in commissioned histories of Queensland properties, businesses and associations. Her published work includes histories of some of Queensland’s far western regions. She is the current President of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, a member of the Queensland Women’s Historical Association, and works part-time at the Brisbane Archdiocesan Archives.

A retired senior secondary history teacher and ACT Department of Education curriculum adviser, Julia Ryan was a founding member of the ACT History Teachers Association in the 1960s. Co-convenor of the Association’s professional development committee for many years she co-organised the History Teachers Association of Australia’s 2001 Conference to celebrate the Centenary of Federation. Since 2003 she has been a Council member of the Canberra & District Historical Society and, on their behalf, has managed such ACT Heritage Grant Projects as Settler Society on Record and Canberra History Gateway.

Dr. Snowden is a professional historian and genealogist based in Richmond, Tasmania, and has served on the Tasmanian Heritage Council including as Interim Chair. She has extensive involvement in a range of volunteer organisations such as the Association for Children with Disability, the Tasmanian Historical Research Association and is currently vice-president of the Coal River Valley Historical Society. She is a Board Member of the National Trust (Tasmania), the Female Factory Historic Site and a member of the State Library of Tasmanian Advisory Board. Since 2008, she has been a member of the National Archives of Australia Advisory Council.

Jean Stewart is a retired history teacher from Armidale New South Wales where she was president of the Armidale and District Historical Society 1979 and 1984-1986 and is a Life Member of that Society. She moved to Brisbane and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland of which she was president from 2004-2007, and was a delegate to FAHS from 2005-2007. She was awarded a Medal in the Order of Australia (OAM) in January 2009 for service to the community through the preservation and promotion of local history and heritage.

John Davies is retired from the Australian Public Service, where he was an Information Technology Officer. He has been working for the FAHS part-time since 2006.