In August 2006, Minister for Education, Science and Training, the Hon Julie Bishop MP, met with twenty-three leading Australian historians, public figures who promote the study of history and educational leaders to seek advice on ways the Australian Government could strengthen the place of Australian history in the school curriculum and re-establish a structured narrative...

Governments are the custodians of the vast majority of the most significant heritage places in Australia, and also own a very large number of less significant places. Arrangements for their conservation are often deficient, according to this report, as are existing arrangements for privately-owned places. The report proposes a series of reforms to improve heritage...

It is a little known fact that New Zealand was both a British colony and imperial power in the Pacific during the twentieth century. From 1901 to 1965, under the pretext of a civilising mission, New Zealand exercised moral responsibility for the Cook Islands. Beneficent overtones concealed the colony's quest for territory and power, and...

The importance of marine versus terrestrial foods in prehistoric Pacific and New Zealand diets, and the adaptation of the Polynesian diet to new enviroments, is examined through the analysis of the ratios in human bone of the stable isotopes of carbon, nitrogen and sulphur.

Transcript of a lecture by Atholl Anderson on the Indo-Pacific Prehistoric Colonization Project and the Asian Fore-Arc Project. The data obtained in these projects will become the essential nuts and bolts in constructing the prehistory of Indo-Pacific colonization, but they also provide a point of entry into larger questions about how the cultural landscape of...