The Whitlam Institute and the Australian Studies Institute warmly invite you to the launch of the publication Curating the National Estate: Equality, Environment and the Whitlam Government by 2022 E.G. Whitlam Research Fellow Dr Ben Huf. In this publication, Dr Huf recovers the internationalism and conceptual boldness that defined this earlier era of environmental policy making and considers its contemporary relevance in today’s policy context.

Taking place at the ANU Kambri Cultural Centre, the event will feature a panel discussion featuring Dr Huf, Dr Peter Ellyard, Associate Professor Ruth Morgan, and Dr Jeremy Walker. The panel will be chaired by Whitlam Institute Distinguished Fellow Professor Frank Bongiorno AM.

This event is free but bookings are recommended. Explore the research here.

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Dr Ben Huf is a historian of Australian economic, intellectual and policy history. Ben was awarded his PhD from the Australian National University in 2018 and has held research fellowships and positions with the Laureate Program in International History at Sydney University, as Dr AM Hertzberg Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales and with the Parliament of Victoria. He has recently published in Labour History, Australian Historical Studies and Contemporary European History and is working on several book projects, including a history of the changing meanings of the Australian economy, and a commissioned history of parliamentary administration in Australia. He is the 2022 E.G. Whitlam Research Fellow.

Professor Frank Bongiorno AM is Professor of History at the Australian National University and a Distinguished Fellow of the Whitlam Institute at Western Sydney University. He was previously Senior Lecturer at King’s College London and the University of New England, and was Smuts Visiting Fellow in Commonwealth Studies at the University of Cambridge in 1997-98. He is the author of The Sex Lives of Australians: A History (2012), The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia (2015) and Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia (2022).

Dr Peter Ellyard is a futurist, strategist, speaker, and author. Originally a biochemist, and soil and plant scientist, he was appointed CEO of the Australian Commission for the Future in 1988. He has worked as an advisor to the United Nations and was a special adviser to the 1992 Earth Summit in the fields of biodiversity and climate change.

Associate Professor Ruth Morgan is the Director of the Centre for Environmental History at the Australian National University. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Climate Change and International History (Bloomsbury).

Dr Jeremy Walker is a researcher with the Climate, Society Environment Research Centre at the University of Technology Sydney. He is the author of More Heat than Life: The Tangled Roots of Ecology, Energy and Economics (2020, Palgrave), which investigates the prehistory of the confrontation between neoliberalism and environmentalism, from the 1970s into the present climate emergency.