A Passion for the Gut:
The Evolution of Gastroenterology in Australia
 Gastroenterology in Australia began as a specialty in the late 1940s with the return of inspired, dedicated and ambitious men from war service and overseas registrar positions. Early gastroenterologists combined teaching, clinical work and research with leadership and mentoring. They established the foundations for the growth of gastroenterology as a specialty in Australia, and paved the way for the next generation of physicians with a passion for the gut.
As the number of gastroenterologists and units across the country grew, the time came to acknowledge this emerging specialty and in 1959 the Gastroenterological Society of Australia was established. Founded as a professional scientific body to guide and uphold standards of practice and to assist the advancement of gastroenterological knowledge in this country, the Society’s work since has reflected the evolution of its membership and its profession.
This history traces the development of the specialty in Australia and the Society that has supported the profession of gastroenterology over the past fifty years. Launched during Australian Gastroenterology Week in Sydney in October 2009, A Passion for the Gut was commissioned to celebrate the golden jubilee of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia. It features over 150 photographs and illustrations including Leonardo da Vinci’s study of the stomach and intestines on the cover.
Gastroenterological Society of Australia, 2009
ISBN 978-0-646-51497-0
212 pages. Hardback |
A Culture of Learned Professionals:
Celebrating 50 Years of the Australian Society for
Microbiology
 This history of the Australian Society for Microbiology (ASM) was commissioned to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the organisation’s foundation in 1959. Produced as a special golden jubilee edition of the Society’s journal Microbiology Australia and published by Cambridge Media, the history was launched at the Society’s annual scientific meeting in Perth in July 2009.
The history of the ASM is rich and dynamic. It is the story of an active organisation that has adapted to suit the changing needs of its members while continuing to provide a voice for the discipline of microbiology in Australia. Far from an administrative body weighed down by bureaucracy or formality, this history reveals a story of camaraderie, support, activities and events that reflect a healthy and strong organisation supported by a robust membership.
A Culture of Learned Professionals combines oral history testimony and archival research into a largely chronological narrative interspersed with a variety of breakout boxes, vignettes and biographies. Photographs, illustrations, and cartoons are used throughout. In telling the story of the first fifty years of the Society, Way Back When’s hope was to reflect the breadth, dynamism, strength, reputation and continuing relevance of the ASM.
Cambridge Publishing, 2009
ISSN 1324-4272
60 pages. Produced as a special jubilee edition of Microbiology Australia |
From Ferranti to Faculty:
Information Technology at Monash University,
1960 to 1990
 This commissioned history tells the story of the foundation of the first faculty dedicated to computing and information technology in Australia. Covering the period from the late 1950s until 1990 when the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology at Monash University was formed, it spans the establishment phase of the discipline of computing. During this time, this field of study was developing and changing at a rapid rate, arguably faster than any new discipline in the past. This created enormous challenges and difficulties, as well as wonderful opportunities.
These opportunities were seized upon by visionary people both at Caulfield Institute of Technology (later Chisholm Institute of Technology), and at Monash University. In many ways From Ferranti to Faculty is about these people – the influence they had on the development of computing in Australia and on the establishment of the faculty.
From Ferranti to Faculty traces the foundation and establishment of Monash University’s Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, known today as the Faculty of Information Technology. It explores the emergence of computing and computer science as new, stand-alone disciplines in the tertiary sector. The history of higher education in Australia provides the backdrop to this story, as does the history of Monash University and the various institutions that occupied what is now the Caulfield campus of Monash University.
Monash University ePress, 2008
ISBN 978-0-9-805108-0-5 (p/b)
ISBN 978-0-9-805108-1-2 (web)
140 pages |
Nationality Stateless, Destination Australia:
JDC and the Australian Survivor Community
 The New York-based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is a major welfare organisation established in 1914 to provide relief and aid for Jews all over the world suffering the results of political upheaval and turmoil. The JDC has a long and dynamic history of involvement with the Australian Jewish community that stretches back to the 1930s. Not only did the JDC play a crucial role in the relocation of Jewish war refugees to Australia, but it worked closely, often behind the scenes, with Jewish welfare and relief organisations in Australia in the crucial post World War Two years.
This history, designed as an extended exhibition catalogue, celebrates the collaboration between the Australian Jewish community and the JDC. Using personal stories and profiles of individuals to tell the moving story of Jewish welfare and the JDC in Australia, it explores a pivotal chapter in Australian Jewish history. This story is important because it shows how stateless refugees need the charity of individuals and the goodwill of governments to survive.
Nationality Stateless, Destination Australia examines the role of the JDC in Europe: running displaced persons' camps, finding missing persons, and acting as immigration agents for refugees. It also looks at how the JDC prepared the way, politically, for Jewish immigration in Australia. Working together with local Jewish charities, the JDC provided the funds to bring 25,000 Jews to Australia and then helped them find housing, work or education.
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 2008
112 pages |
Home Away From Home:
Celebrating 125 Years of The Victoria Hotel
 Standing proudly on Little Collins Street in Melbourne’s central business district, The Victoria Hotel has been a silent witness to the growth and development of Melbourne for more than a century. Established in 1880 as The Victoria Coffee Palace, it is one of Melbourne’s earliest hotels and is a true Melbourne icon. It is well known throughout country Victoria and has become a home away from home for many regional Victorians. The Vic has ebbed and flowed with the times, responding to the changes in the city that surrounded it and the needs of hotel guests.
To commemorate its 125th birthday, a comprehensive history of the life of the Vic was commissioned. Using a combination of narrative text, images and extended image captions, this history explores the colourful life of the hotel and how the experience of staying at the Victoria has changed over the years. Oral history interviews, original documents and images are used to build a picture of this fabulous Melbourne landmark.
CL Creations, 2007
ISBN 978-0-9580670-6-5 h/b
ISBN 978-0-9580670-6-8 s/c
144 pages. Hardback and softcover with colour illustrations |
Evolution Through Innovation:
A History of Marketing Education at Monash
 The Caulfield campus of Monash University has been a leader in marketing education for more than thirty years. In the 1970s it was the largest centre of marketing education in the Southern Hemisphere and today, is still one of the biggest providers of tertiary level marketing education in Australia.
2006 marked the 35th anniversary of the first marketing course held at the Caulfield campus. To commemorate this milestone, the Department of Marketing at Monash University commissioned a comprehensive history of the department and of the development of marketing as a discipline. The history documents the department’s journey from pioneers of a little-known discipline to a world-leader in an established and important field of education. It celebrates the proud heritage that underpins this story, commemorating the department’s remarkable evolution and its important contribution to marketing education
Monash University, 2007
ISBN 987-0-9750559-1-5
164 pages. Hardback with colour image insert |
Olims Hotel Canberra: Through the Ages
 In 1927 Canberra was alive with building and construction activity as the nation’s capital was coming to life. The Olims Hotel Canberra, originally called the Hotel Ainslie, came into existence during this exciting period, opening its doors in time for the grand opening of the new Parliament House. Built by the government as a hostel for public servants, the hotel also served as a home for young women after World War Two and became a popular entertainment venue for locals bin the 1950s and 1960s.
As Parliament celebrates its 80th anniversary in 2007, so too does the Olims Canberra Hotel. This history celebrates the 80 rich and colourful years of the hotel’s life. It tells the story of a hotel that grew, changed and adapted along with the young city that surrounded it. It tells the story of what is now the Olims Canberra hotel, through the ages.
CL Creations, 2007
ISBN 978-0-9590670-8-9
96 pages. Softcover with colour illustrations |
An Early History of Marketing at Caulfield
 The Caulfield Institute of Technology became the first tertiary institute in Victoria to offer a marketing qualification when it introduced the Diploma of Marketing in 1971. This is the story of how an emerging discipline became a profession, and of the efforts of early pioneers who had a vision and a passion for the future of tertiary marketing education.
Commissioned by Monash University to be launched at the Back to Caulfield reunion in November 2005, this short history blends personal experience and official documentation in a dynamic and engaging way. Published in booklet format, it has been circulated to current, past and prospective staff and students, alumni, and the wider university community, as a way of building the profile of the department. |
