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Queensland Firsts was commissioned by Queensland State Archives through the Department of Public Works to celebrate 150 years of Queensland’s Separation from New South Wales.
The historical documents selected for the exhibition provide an important insight into the types of records held in the State’s cultural heritage institutions. Although most of these documents are held at Queensland State Archives, material was also accessed from the collections of John Oxley Library at the State Library of Queensland, National Library of Australia, Queensland Fire and Rescue Service and Queensland Police Museum.
Historians Professor Kay Saunders, Dr Julie Ustinoff and Dr Shirleene Robinson believe the documents selected for the Queensland Firsts exhibition offer a wide view of Queensland’s history to date and provide equal attention to economic, political and social history across various regions, major towns and Brisbane.
You can visit Queensland State Archives online at www.archives.qld.gov.au
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Professor Kay Saunders AM
Trained in political science and anthropology, Kay Saunders AM was Professor of History and Senator of the University of Queensland from 2002-06. Serving on the Council of the Australian War Memorial, she was Chairman of the Official History to the Australia at War Committee. Professor Saunders was appointed to the Council of the National Maritime Museum of Australia and was Director of the National Australia Day Council. She served as Chair of the Queensland Government’s Cultural Advisory Council and was a member of the Premier’s Advisory Council on Women’s Policy. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, the Royal Historical Society (London) and the Royal Anthropological Institute. In 2001 she received the Medal of the National Museum of Australia and in 2006 was the recipient of the John Kerr Medal from the Royal Historical Society of Queensland. Her most recent books include A Crowning Achievement: A Study of Australian Beauty, Business and Charitable Enterprise (2005) and Between the Covers: Revealing the State Library of Queensland’s Collection (2006).
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Dr Julie Ustinoff
Julie Ustinoff holds a PhD in History from the University of Queensland and currently lectures there in a number of history subjects. Julie is the co-author of A Crowning Achievement: A Study of Australian Beauty, Business and Charitable Enterprise (2005) and has served as a consultant to the Museum of Australia on the national touring exhibition, Miss Australia: A Nation’s Quest as well as on the SBS documentary, The Pageant. Her research interests range across Australian social and cultural history, popular culture, gender studies and the media. She has contributed to a number of journals and books and has presented at international and national conferences.
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Dr Shirleene Robinson
Shirleene Robinson is a Lecturer in Australian History at Bond University. She is the author of Something like slavery? Queensland's Aboriginal child workers, 1842-1945 (Australian Scholarly Publishers) and the editor of Homophobia: An Australian History (Federation Press). She has written a number of articles that have been published in journals such as the Journal of Popular Culture, the Journal of Genocide Research, Aboriginal History, Labour History, the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society and the Journal of Australian Colonial History. She has previously taught at the University of Queensland and was an Australian Studies Fellow at the University of Wales (Lampeter).
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Curators
Professor Kay Saunders and Dr Julie Ustinoff from the Brisbane Institute and Dr Shirleene Robinson from Bond University
Archival assistance
Elizabeth Hawkins and Kate Wilson, Queensland State Archives
Graphic Design MA Plus Design
3D Design Maria Cleary Design
Audio visual ToadShow
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Queensland Firsts is touring as part of Queensland Arts Council’s Ontour onexhibition 2009 Season – visit www.qac.org.au
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