New Voices, New Visions:
Challenging Australian identities and legacies

Wednesday 26 November - Friday 28 November 2008
Sponsored by the Humanities Program, Queensland University of Technology

To be held at QUT's Gardens Point Campus (near the River & Botanical Gardens in the CBD of Brisbane).

This conference invites interdisciplinary explorations of the ways in which ideas, representations, narratives of Australia, Australians and Australian experiences have been challenged in the new millennium.

Opening Address
The Hon Andrew Fraser MP, Treasurer, Queensland Government

Andrew Fraser was appointed to the role of Treasurer in the Queensland Bligh Government after overseeing the most important program of reform to local government in Queensland's history during his term as Minister for Local Government, Planning and Sport. First elected to the electorate of Mt Coot-tha in 2004 and re-elected in 2006, Mr Fraser became the youngest ever Parliamentary Secretary in Queensland during his first term as an MP. After first serving as Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier and Treasurer, Mr Fraser then served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier and Minister For Health. He became the youngest Minister since 1891 when appointed to the Cabinet after the last election. Appointed at 30, he is the youngest Minister to hold the Treasury portfolio since 1915. Mr Fraser is a graduate of Griffith University with degrees in Commerce and Law. He graduated with first class honours and received the University Medal for academic excellence.

Keynote Address
Professor Jenny Hocking, Monash University

Professor Jenny Hocking is a well-known biographer and a highly regarded scholar and commentator on Australian politics, counter-terrorism and security matters. Jenny has written extensively in these fields and her work has appeared in scholarly journals, newspapers, radio and television. She is a regular commentator on Australian politics and security matters in Australian media and for Radio Netherlands, and contributed the entries on Gough Whitlam and Lionel Murphy to the Oxford Companion to Australian Politics. Jenny is the author of two award-winning political biographies, Lionel Murphy: a Political Biography (Cambridge University Press. 1997, 2000) and Frank Hardy: Politics Literature Life (Lothian Books. 2005). She has also written extensively on counter-terrorism and democracy most recently in Terror Laws: ASIO, Counter-terrorism and the Threat to Democracy (UNSW Press. 2004). Her latest book Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History has just been published by Melbourne University Publishing/Miegunyah Press (2008).

Conference Information

• InASA 2008 Conference Programme
• InASA 2008 Conference Abstracts
• InASA 2008 Conference Map

Conference Convenor

Dr Keith Moore
Humanities Program,
QUT - Carseldine Campus
Beams Road,
CARSELDINE Queensland.
k.moore@qut.edu.au
Ph +617 3511 6561 (07 3511 6561)

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