Previous John West Memorial Lectures

1989
Professor Henry Reynolds:
Tasmania's Forgotten Treaty

1990
Professor C M H Clark, AC:
The Writing of Australian History

1991
Emeritus Director Daniel Thomas, AM:
Tasmania's Contribution to the Advances of Art and Taste

1992
Professor Michael Roe with Dr Dan Huon and Dr Alison Alexander:
Launceston Examined: A city and its Newspaper 1842-1992

1993
Dr Marilyn Lake:
Gender and History: Lady Franklin and the Masculinity of Self-Government

1994
Dr Patricia Grimshaw:
Writing the History of Aboriginal and White Women in Colonial Tasmania

1995
Mr Justice Michael Kirby, AC, CMG:
John West, Nationhood and the Millennium

1996
Sister Veronica Brady:
"To Set the People Free": Conviction and Conscience. John West at the end of the Twentieth Century

1997
Mr Clement Mulcahy:
Sectarianism - A Blessing or a Curse! Does Tasmania have a Cromwellian Legacy?

1998
Mr John Lyons, Editor The Sydney Morning Herald:
Media at the Crossroads

1999
Professor A G L Shaw, AO:
John West's Tasmania

2000
The Honorable Sir Guy Green, AC, KBE, Governor of Tasmania:
Constitutionalism and the Two Cultures

2001
Professor Geoffrey Blainey:
How Six became One: the Strange Story of the Creation of Australia's Commonwealth

2002
Associate Professor Janet McCalman, FAHA:
By way of Blessington: pathways in an ecological history of humankind

2003
Professor Stuart Macintyre:
The slavish violence of mere servants of the people: John West and the problem of responsible government

2004
Mr Paul Brunton:
The Voyages of Abel Tasman 1642-44

2005
Professor Tim Bonyhady:
Louisa's legacy: an appreciation of Tasmania's first environmental activist

2006
Dr Hamish Maxwell-Stewart:
“Unutterable”: Imagining the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station

2007
Dr Michael Vertigan AC
Investment in Education - a key to Australia's future Prosperity

2008
Professor Henry Reynolds AC
What now for the Black-Arm band?
Aboriginal history after the apology

2009
Phillip Adams
The End of the World? or
The Birth of a Better One?

2010
Professor Tim Flannery
The CPRS – Is it right for Australia?

2011
Professor Cassandra Pybus:
The colourful life of Gilbert Robertson, Aboriginal hunter, True Colonist editor, agriculturalist and perpetual litigant

Each of the lectures for 1989 - 2011 has been published in the Society's annual Papers and Proceedings. Copies of recent issues (and some earlier issues) are still available.