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Contributors

Kris Bizzaca

As a postgraduate student at Murdoch University, Kris completed her Master of Arts thesis on the development of the heritage movement in Fremantle.

Since 1998, she has worked as an historian and consultant in WA’s heritage industry. This work has involved research of a number of residential, commercial and industrial sites in Fremantle, including the demolished CBH Silos at North Quay which was the subject of a paper in Fremantle Studies Volume 3 (2004).

Kris has worked as part of the organising committee of the Fremantle Heritage Festival for a number of years and in 2006 and 2007 was co-ordinator of the festival. In 2004, as part of the festival program, she was instrumental in the establishment of the inaugural Fremantle and East Fremantle Local History Awards.

Kris has recently completed a four-year term as President of the Professional Historians Association (WA) and continues to serve on its Management Committee. She is also a member of the Fremantle History Society, the Fremantle Society and the National Trust of Australia (WA)’s Built Environment Working Committee and is the Heritage Council of WA’s Regional Heritage Advisor for the Avon area.

Shane Burke

Shane Burke is a sessional lecturer in Western Australian history and archaeology at the University of Notre Dame Fremantle. He is interested in the archaeology of Western Australia’s colonial period (1829 to 1890), particularly sites associated with the State’s first ten years of settlement and those connected with Davies’ 1880s timber mill industry in the lower south west. He is presently researching the 1830 dated Peel town near Kwinana.

Len Collard

Len Collard is a direct descendant of the Whadjuck and Balardong Nyungar of the Fremantle and Perth as well as the greater metropolitan area of Western Australia. On the Whadjuck side of his family he is a traditional Nyungar owner of the country now known as the Perth metropolitan area. On the Balardong side of his family he has traditional ties with the Nyungar of the Brookton area. Len is currently the Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies and is a senior lecturer in the School of Media, Communication and Culture at Murdoch University.

Len is a well-respected academic leader in the field of Nyungar culture and scholarship. He is a speaker and writer of Nyungar, the Aboriginal language of the people of the metropolitan area of Western Australia. Len has a background of developing multi-disciplinary strategies to improve and support the quality of student learning about Australian Aboriginal Cultures. Len has undertaken a number of projects in the area of education, history and Aboriginal studies. Len’s knowledge of Nyungar culture and issues has been critical in the creation of professional development programs for University teaching, school leaders and the professional or the general public who intend to work with Indigenous populations per se or in the south west specifically. Len’s writings have primarily emanated from his teaching and research as part of his role as Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at Murdoch University. This is in keeping with the central argument of the ideas of Nyungar cultural knowledges which Len believes is central to the influencing and shaping of knowledge formation and the history of the south west of Western Australia.

Pamela Statham-Drew

Pamela Statham-Drew graduated from Monash University with an Honours degree in Economics, and has taught economics and economic history at the University of Western Australia since 1966. She was awarded a doctorate in 1980, her PhD research focusing on the economic development of the Swan River Colony 1829-1850. A summary of this research was published as a chapter in A New History of Western Australia (ed CT Stannage, 1981). She became an Associate Professor in 2004, retiring from UWA at the end of 2006.

Dr Statham-Drew has published extensively, including The Dictionary of Western Australians Vol 1 1829-1850 (1979), The Tanner letters: a pioneer saga of Swan River and Tasmania 1831-45 (1981), The origins of Australia’s capital cities (1989), Life on the ocean wave: voyages to Australia, India and the Pacific from the journals of Captain George Bayley 1824-1844 (1998) and the much acclaimed James Stirling: Admiral and founding Governor of Western Australia (2003).

Allen Graham

Allen Graham is a long-standing resident of Fremantle, having been born and bred in the town and growing up in South Street, Beaconsfield where he attended Beaconsfield Primary School and later Hamilton High School.

Allen has always been very involved in the affairs of Fremantle and was a Councillor with the City 1985-1990 when Fremantle experienced the frenetic activity associated with the America’s Cup. Allen shared that Council experience with two brothers who have also served as Councillors with the City of Fremantle.

After leaving high school Allen completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at WAIT, (now Curtin University), and has more recently completed a Master of Industrial Relations degree at the University of Western Australia. Today Allen works as a Human Resources Manager.

Allen has always had an interest in the history of Fremantle and has for a long time been researching the history of the Fremantle Hotels between the years 1829 and 1929, and found the material contained in this essay as he pursued the primary objective of publishing a book on the early history of Fremantle’s hotels.

Michelle McKeough

Michelle has been working as a professional historian since 1997. Since writing a history of the West Australian Water Police in 2001, Michelle has had a particular interest in the social history of Fremant1e’s west end and harbour-side. She is currently completing a PhD with a working title of ‘A Port in Crisis: Three Turning Points in Fremantle from 1900 to 1919’. The turning points cover the Black Plague, the Great Depression and Post World War One.

As part of the ‘Voices of the West End’ project, her PhD thesis investigates the lives and lifestyles of the people of Fremantle, in what was the thriving and chaotic harbour- side area of the West End. It will provide insights into what was the colourful mosaic of West End social life during vital years of growth and change in Fremantle.

Sally May

Born in Western Australia, Sally was partially educated at Moora Junior High School, then at boarding school in Perth before moving with her family to New Zealand and then Queensland where she completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Queensland before taking a position with the Queensland Museum, Maritime Archaeology section in 1983 where she was a team member on the excavation of HMS Pandora, wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef, south west of Thursday Island. In 1985, Sally joined the Maritime Archaeology Department of the Western Australian Museum, becoming head of Maritime History in 1995 and exhibition coordinator for the development of the new maritime museum 1996-2002. She is currently completing, part-time at Murdoch University, a PhD on the social history of Western Australia’s fisheries and their management.

Sandra Murray

Sandra Murray graduated with a BA (Honours) in Fine Arts, and then completed a Master of Philosophy (Australian Studies). She became curator at Fremantle Prison in 2002 after18 years’ experience curating art and directing heritage institutions, having acted as inaugural head of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, and Mandurah Art Gallery, Mandurah Performing Arts Centre. She has also been director of Lake Macquarie Regional Gallery and curator at the Constitutional Centre of Western Australia.


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