Contributors

Kristy Bizzaca completed a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in History and English and Comparative Literature in 1994 at Murdoch University. This was followed by an Honours degree in History in 1995 and a Master of Arts degree in Public History in 1997 also at Murdoch University. Her Masters thesis consolidated her interest in the concept of heritage and was based on the development of the heritage movement in Fremantle.

Since this time, she has worked as an historian and consultant in the Western Australian heritage industry. This has included contract employment in-house at the Heritage Council of WA in its assessment area as well as the preparation of histories as part of heritage assessments and conservation plans for a number of historic places. Some of the projects that she has been involved with have been: worker’s cottages in such areas as Plympton, North Fremantle and South Fremantle; the Fremantle Passenger Terminal; the North Quay Silos; Old Bristile Kilns, Belmont; Gloucester Park racecourse; and, Stirling Terrace, Albany.

Kristy is a member of the National Trust’s Built Environment Working Committee and is also a committee member of the Fremantle History Society.

Bruce Bott holds an Arts degree from the University of Western Australia with majors in Classics and Ancient History as well as professional postgraduate qualifications in education, librarianship and management.

After a short period as a secondary school teacher he found his vocation as a librarian and has most recently held the position of Parliamentary Librarian, Parliament of Western Australia. Previous appointments include that of foundation Law Librarian at Bond University on Queensland's Gold Coast, a position he held for nearly six years, and Court Librarian, Supreme Court of Western Australia, a position he held for nearly ten years. He has recently completed a master's degree in educational administration.

His research interests lie in the development and delivery of programs that promote information literacy in law and in the management of libraries in a tertiary education context. He has long had an interest in Western Australian history. At Notre Dame, he has teaching duties in Legal Research and Writing as well as being responsible for all aspects of the organisation, development and management of the Law Library. Since April 2000 he has also held the position of University Librarian at Notre Dame.

Phyl Brown is a curator in the History Department of the Western Australian Museum and Curator of the Fremantle History Museum. She has been part of the team involved in the refurbishment of the Fremantle History Museum and a new Aboriginal gallery, and the Land and People exhibition for the Perth campus of the Western Australian Museum. Phyl is co-author of Fremantle Hospital: A Social History to 1987.

Geraldine Byrne is the author of Valiant Women (Polding Press 1981), A Basilica in the Making (Mazenod Press 2000), as well as the forthcoming biography of the Kilfoyle family of the Kimberley, Tom and Jack . She is co-author with Prof Geoffrey Bolton, of The Campus that Never Stood Still, to be launched 2002. She is currently working on the history of the Home of the Good Shepherd, Leederville.

Ron Davidson was born into a newspaper family in Perth, Western Australia. He worked as a journalist in Australia and overseas and later lectured in psychology at the University of Western Australia. He is currently an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Cultural Heritage at Curtin University of Technology. His works include The Divided Kingdom with Connie Ellement (1987), High Jinks at the Hot Pool (1994), Anything But Ordinary. The Nine Lives of Cecile with Cecile Dorward (2000), and a chapter on newspapers and wartime propaganda in On the Homefront (1996). Both The Divided Kingdom and Anything But Ordinary were short listed for the Premier’s Award in non-ﬁction. Ron is represented in a number of anthologies. Ron’s long-standing interest in Fremantle intensiﬁed when he came to live there in the seventies, a time of intense resident action against unsympathetic developers. He still lives there and takes an active part in Fremantle community politics.

David Hutchison was born in Perth and lives in Fremantle. He has degrees in engineering and arts and has taught physics and been an adult educator. In 1970 he became the ﬁrst curator of History at the Western Australian Museum and is an inaugural Honorary Fellow of the national Museum of Australia. He retired in 1985 to work as a museologist and heritage consultant. Publications include a guide to Fremantle, a book about the Benedictines of New Norcia, articles, essays, poetry and short stories (his own and translations from Modem Greek) and botanical illustrations.

Richard Moore is a ﬁfth generation Western Australian. Currently a lecturer in New Testament at the Baptist Theological College and with Murdoch University, he majored in history in his primary degree and drew extensively on historical theology for his doctorate. In 1985 he founded the Baptist Historical Society of Western Australia and has been responsible for the two major publications of that Society. The present paper arises out of his research for a history of the Moore family. It focuses on one of his forebears, who was born in the colony in 1835 and later became closely identiﬁed with Fremantle. both as a resident and as a ‘merchant prince’.

Jacqui Sherriff grew up on a farm on Flinders Island in Bass Strait. After completing an Arts degree at the University of Tasmania, she arrived in Western Australia in 1995. The following year she completed a Graduate Diploma at Curtin University in Applied Cultural Heritage Studies and is currently a Master of Arts candidate. Now based in Perth, Jacqui works as a consultant historian with a particular interest in the built environment and heritage collections. In addition to her own history and heritage consultancy, she worked at the Heritage Council of Western Australia for several years. In late 2000, Jacqui gave up private practice in exchange for the challenging role of curator at Fremantle Prison.

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