Events

1970 - 1974

Secondary teacher of History, Art History and English with the New South Wales Department of Education

1977

Part-time teacher of Communication subjects with the New South Wales Department of TAFE

1980 - 1981

Part-time teacher of Communication subjects with the New South Wales Department of TAFE

1982 - 1987

Research assistant to Emeritus Professor Manning Clarkof the History Department at the Australian National University

1987 - 1990

Part-time research assistant for the History Department at University College with the Australian Defence Force Academy

1988 - 1990

Contractor to the Australian Heritage Projects Pty Ltd

1990 - 1991

Part-time lecturer and tutor in Australian History for Cultural Heritage Management students with the Faculty of Applied Science/Communication at the University of Canberra

August 1990 - June 2001

Historian, Project Manager and Manager for Australian Heritage Projects (AHP) Pty Ltd

October 1990 - August 1991

Full-time responsibility for project with Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War 1939-45 for the Australian War Memorial

1991 - 1993

Curator of 'Nyngan - Our Stories', local history exhibition with a focus on the 1990 Nyngan flood

1991 - 1994

Project officer and editor of the Country Education Profiles project for the National Office of Overseas Skills Recognition (NOOSR), Department of Employment, Education and Training

1991 - 1996

Editor of the Australian Customs History Journal

1993

Joint curator of exhibition, ' Coming to Canberra' for the ACT Museums and Galleries Unit and the National Museum of Australia

1993 - 1994

Curator of 'Literary Links between Australia and Britain', a travelling poster exhibition for the National Library of Australia and The British Council

1993 - 1994

Historical research and script (with Stephen Foster) for video production, 'Menzies in his time' for the Sir Robert Menzies Foundation

1994

Significance assessment for National Library of Australia Community Heritage Grants

1994

Historical significance assessment of the North Sydney Olympic Pool for North Sydney Council

1994 - 1995

Joint curator (with Stephen Foster) of Australian Archives/National Library of Australia exhibition, 'An Ideal City? The 1912 competition to design Canberra'

1995

Author of commissioned history of the Health Insurance Commission,Building Strength Through Change: Twenty Years of the Health Insurance Commission

1995

Compilation (with Jan Lyall, Stephen Foster and Duncan Marshall) of General Guidelines to Safeguard Documentary Heritage Memory of the World project, UNESCO

1995 - 1997

Research and writing for CD ROM, 'One Destiny! The Federation Story' and research and writing for a book of the same title (with Philip Chubb, published 1998 by Penguin Australia)

1995 - 1997

Compilation (with Stephen Foster and Susan Marsden) of Federation: The Guide to Records, for Australian Archives

1995 - 1997

Oral history project for the Australian Industrial Property Organisation

1997 - 1998

Project manager for CD ROM project, 'Stories of Democracy', for the Curriculum Corporation

1997 - 1998

Writing text and audiovisual scripting for the Australian War Memorial's redevelopment of its World War II gallery, with particular responsibility for the development of the interpretation of the Women's Services

1999 - 2001

Interpretative display for the foyer of Customs House, Canberra

1999 - 2003

Significance assessment for National Library of Australia Community Heritage Grants

9 May 1999 - 31 October 1999

Co-curator (with Stephen Foster) of an exhibition for Old Parliament House, 'Going My Way?: Australia's Choice in 1949', dealing with the election of 1949

2000

Exhibition for Museum of the Riverina, 'They came from the bush', about rural Olympians

2000

'The Nation's Garden - thirty years of growing', an exhibition for the Australian National Botanic Gardens

2000

Interpretation for Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve Visitor Centre for Environment ACT

2000 - 2002

Co-curator of exhibition for the Centenary of Federation, 'Belonging: A Century Celebrated', for National Library of Australia, National Archives of Australia, State Library of New South Wales and State Library of Victoria.

October 2000 -

Editor of Museum National for Museums Australia

2001

Significance: a guide to assessing the significance of cultural heritage objects and collections, for the Heritage Collections Council, Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts

2001

Exhibition for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

June 2001

Partner with Marsden Russell Historians