Contributors

Jillian Barteaux

Jillian Barteaux is an archaeologist at the University ofWestern Australia. She completed a Masters of Historical Archaeology at the University of Leicester, where she studied the relationship between urban planning and social relationships in colonial Fremantle. Her recent studies and interest in Fremantle s social history sparked her curiosity in learning more about one of Australia’s most famous landscapes - the beach. This interest inspired a research project, awarded the first Fremantle History Society scholarship in 2015.

Kris Bizzaca

Kris Bizzaca has worked as a heritage consultant and professional historian for almost twenty years, with qualifications in English, History and Public History, Fremantle's heritage movement being the subject of her Master of Arts thesis which was completed in 1997. Kris has a particular passion for archives and collections and has been actively involved in a number of community-based projects, including acting as Chair of a multi-million dollar project that resulted in the digitisation of all of the cassette tapes and consequent saving of over 6,000 oral histories held in the J. S. Battye Library of Western Australian History. She was the City of Fremantle's representative on the Library Board of Western Australia from 2007 to 2013 and President of the Professional Historians Association (WA Branch) for over six years.

Robin McKellar Campbell

In 1966, Rob Campbell established his architectural practice in Fremantle specialising in restoration work, adapting the old Lunatic Asylum for the Fremantle Museum and Arts Centre, writing reports for FCC on historic buildings and townscape, and managing projects on the Round House, Fremantle Markets and verandahs, St John's Church Fremantle, the Old Courthouse, and the first detailed report on the Fremantle Prison. Work in Claremont included the Railway Station and Christ Church in the 1970s.

In the 1980s and 1990s, major projects included Guildford Grammar School Chapel, the Perth Mint Factory Buildings, the Perth Police Courts and the Hackett Memorial Buildings at UWA. He was also consultant architect to the Benedictine Community of New Norcia, providing conservation advice on some 24 significant buildings from 1986 to 2012.

Rob was an active member of ICOMOS Australia, the RAIA and the National Trust (WA), and a long term lecturer in conservation architecture at UWA. His interest in the Convict Establishment in Fremantle led to a PhD on the subject in 2011, and a book Henderson & Coy was completed just before his unexpected passing 20 October 2017. He was a passionate advocate for conservation in Fremantle right up to that last day.

Mary-Ann Goodlich

Mary-Ann Goodlich is currently a teacher and has an interest in design and the built environment and has completed a Degree in Architecture at the University of Western Australia in addition to a Bachelor of Education. She has maintained an interest in local planning and architectural issues while living in Fremantle and undertook a Graduate Diploma in Applied Heritage Studies at Curtin University of Technology to better engage in heritage issues. Mary-Ann has been living in Hilton for several years where she has been involved in local planning and heritage issues taken up by the community.

Pam Harris

Pam Harris has a degree in Social Sciences (with Distinction) majoring in Australian History and Politics and a Graduate Diploma in Information and Library Studies. Pam has worked in libraries for over twenty four years, most recently as a librarian with the Heritage Council and the Supreme Court Law Library. Pam retired in 2018 having worked for eleven years as the History Librarian at the Fremantle City Library. Pam has also been involved in various roles in the Fremantle History Society for a period of twelve years.

Carmen Lawrence

After training as a research psychologist at the University of Western Australia and lecturing in a number of Australian universities, Dr Lawrence entered politics in 1986, serving at both State and Federal levels. For 21 years, she was W.A Minister for Education and Aboriginal affairs and then the first woman Premier and Treasurer of a State government. Shifting to Federal politics in 1994, Carmen was elected as the Member for Fremantle, becoming Minister for Health and Human Services and Minister assisting the Prime Minister on the Status of Women. She then held various portfolios in Opposition, including Indigenous Affairs, Environment, Industry and Innovation, and was elected national President of the Labor Party in 2004. Retiring from politics in 2007, she re-entered academia and is now Professor Emerita in the School of Psychology at the University of Western Australia and President of the Conservation Council of WA.

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