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1 NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS K.H. Kennedy earned his PhD at James Cook University. Now a Senior Lecturer, he has specialised in the history of mining for several years. His publications include The Mungana Affair, (Brisbane 1978) and Readings in North Queensland Mining History 2 vols. (Townsville 1981, 1983.) Peter Bell received his PhD from James Cook University in His doctoral thesis, on the historical development of the North Queensland house, is about to be published by the University of Queensland Press. His honours thesis was published as The Mount Mulligan Disaster, No. 2. of our Studies in North Queensland History. He works for the Heritage Cons^ervation Branch in South Australia. John Came completed his honours degree with a thesis on the Albanian Community of Mareeba on the Atherton Tableland, skilfully utilising oral history to supplement the limited documentary evidence. He is a teacher in the Queensland State Secondary School service. Carolyn Edmondson wrote her honours thesis on the Government Agent Sydney Mercer Smith and the Pacific Island Labour Trade. She has been a full-time Research Officer in Oral History within the Department for several years. Doug Hunt obtained his PhD from James Cook University for a thesis on the Labour movement in North Queensland from 1900 to He is a Lecturer in the Institute of Advanced Education, formerly the Townsville College of Advanced Education. Dawn May is a graduate in Economic History of Adelaide University. Her MEc Qualifying thesis at James Cook Is now available as From Bush to Station: Aboriginal Labour in the North Queensland Pastoral Industry, , No. 5. of Studies in North Queensland History. She is a full-time candidate for the PhD. 254

2 John Maguire tutored in History for many years at Queensland University and James Cook before taking up the Hanbro Research Fellowship within the History Department. His paper is a by-product of his jubilee history of the Catholic diocese of Townsville, now nearlng completion. Diane Menghetti is one of only two history graduates to be awarded university medals at James Cook. Her honours thesis was published as The Red North, No. 3. of Studies in North Queensland History. She is a Tutor in the Department and a part-time candidate for the PhD. Joan Neal wrote her honours thesis on the Impact of the Boer War on Charters Towers. A secondary school teacher, she has since completed a centennial history commissioned by Dalrjmiple Shire. Malcolm Saunders a PhD graduate of Flinders University in South Australia, is a Tutor In the Department. He has published extensively on the movement opposed to the Vietnam War, and the wider peace movement in Australia. Anne Smith based her paper upon research done for her honours thesis on George Rymer, leader of the militant A.R.U. in the inter-war years. She is currently writing for her M.A. a centennial history of a Townsville firm of solicitors. Janice Wegner is a full-time PhD candidate working on the History of Croydon. Her paper arises from research undertaken for her centennial history of Hinchinbrook Shire Council. 255

3 JAMES COOK THESES ON NORTH QUEENSLAND HISTORY COMPLETED SINCE 1978* PhD Bell, P.G., Houses and Mining Settlement in North Queensland, (1982). Doran, Christine R., North Queensland Separatism in the Nineteenth Century (1981). Hunt, D.W., A History of the Labour Movement in North Queensland: Trade Unionism, Politics and Industrial Conflict, Moore, C.R., Kanaka Maratta: a History of Melanesian Mackay (1981). MA Carlton, Pamela A., The Australian Women's Land Army in Queensland, July 1942-December 1945 (1980. Richards, M.J., Allan Vlckers, Flying Doctor (1979). BA or BEc Honours Carne, J.C, A History of Albanians in North Queensland (1979). Edmondson, Carolyn J., Government Agent: S.M. Smith and the Queensland Labour Trade, (1981). Gibson-Wilde, Dorothy M., Gateway to a Golden Land: Townsville 1884 (1982). May, Dawn, Aboriginal Labour in the North Queensland Pastoral Industry, (1981) Menghetti, Diane, The Red North: Some Aspects of the Popular Front in North Queensland, Neal, Joan, Charters Towers and the Boer War (1980). Nettle, R.A.W., From Sewerage Systems to Septic Tanks: Federal-State Financial Relations and Urban and Regional Development, (1980). Smith, Anne, George Rymer and Labour Politics, (1981) Smith, P., Like a Watered Garden. Era (1980). Yarrabah : the Foundation Wegner. Janice H.. The Etheridge (1980). For a list of earlier theses, see Volume 3 of this series (1979) pp

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