edited books

• With Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin, A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, National Museum of Australia Press, Canberra, 2005.
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articles and book chapters - history

• With Tom Griffiths,'What if the northern rivers had been turned inland?', in Stuart Macintyre and Sean Scalmer (eds), What if? Australian history as it might have been, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2006, pp. 234-254.
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• 'Civilisation versus the Giant, Winged Lizards -- Changing Climates, Changing Minds', Altitude, no. 7, 2006.
  [READ AT ALTITUDE]

• 'Frontiers of the future: science and progress in 20th-century Australia', in Deborah Bird Rose and Richard Davis (eds), Dislocating the frontier: essaying the mystique of the outback, ANU E-Press, Canberra, 2006, pp. 121-142.
  [DOWNLOAD PDF] [VIEW/ORDER BOOK]

• 'Human elements', in Tim Sherratt, Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin (eds), A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, National Museum of Australia Press, Canberra, 2005, pp. 1-17.
  [READ AT HUMANELEMENTS.INFO]

• 'Remembering Lawrence Hargrave', in Graeme Davison and Kimberley Webber (eds), Yesterday's Tomorrows: The Powerhouse Museum and its precursors, 1880-2005, Powerhouse Museum in association with UNSW Press, Sydney 2005, pp. 174-185.
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• 'Science, history of', in Oxford Companion to Australian History, Graeme Davison, John Hirst, Stuart Macintyre (eds), Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 572-3.
  [READ DRAFT]

• 'CSIRO', in Oxford Companion to Australian History, Graeme Davison, John Hirst, Stuart Macintyre (eds), Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 164-5.
  [READ DRAFT]

• 'Atomic testing', in Oxford Companion to Australian History, Graeme Davison, John Hirst, Stuart Macintyre (eds), Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 42-3.
  [READ DRAFT]

• 'David, (Tannatt William) Edgeworth', in Oxford Companion to Australian History, Graeme Davison, John Hirst, Stuart Macintyre (eds), Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 174.
  [READ DRAFT]

• 'Florey, Howard Walter', in Oxford Companion to Australian History, Graeme Davison, John Hirst, Stuart Macintyre (eds), Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 258.
  [READ DRAFT]

• `"A physicist would be best out of it": George Briggs at the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission', Voices, Autumn 1993.
  [READ]

• `Australian Scientists at the British Atomic Tests', Science Show 2, Robyn Williams (ed.), Nelson, 1985.
  [READ]

• `"A political inconvenience" - Australian scientists at the British atomic weapons tests, 1952-1953', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 6, no. 2, 1985.
  [READ]

articles - archives, web

• With Gavan McCarthy, 'Mapping scientific memory - Understanding the role of recordkeeping in scientific practice', Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 24 no. 1, May 1996, pp. 78-85.
  [READ AT ASAPWEB]

• 'Pathways to Memory - Accessing archives on the WWW', Proceedings of AusWeb96Conference, Southern Cross University, 1996.
  [READ]

• `Introduction', in Recovering Science - Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future - Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992,Tim Sherratt, Lisa Jooste and Rosanne Clayton (eds), ASAP, Canberra, 1995.
  [READ AT ASAPWEB]

articles - magazines

• 'Political Fallout - Australian scientists and the atomic bomb', Australasian Science, Spring 1996, p.64
  [READ AT BRIGHT SPARCS]

• 'The many battles of Jock Marshall', Australasian Science, Winter 1996, p.64
  [READ AT BRIGHT SPARCS]

• 'A War Against Disease', Australasian Science, Spring 1994, p.64
  [READ AT BRIGHT SPARCS]

• 'Finding Life in Ancient Corals', Australasian Science, Summer 1994, p.64
  [READ AT BRIGHT SPARCS]

• 'From Beetles to a Nobel Prize', Australasian Science, Autumn 1994, p.64
  [READ AT BRIGHT SPARCS]

• 'A model scientist', Australasian Science, Autumn 1993, p.56.
  [READ AT BRIGHT SPARCS]

• 'A passion for physics - Joan Freeman', Australasian Science, Winter 1993, p. 64.
  [READ AT BRIGHT SPARCS]

• 'No standing back - Dame Jean Macnamara', Australasian Science, Summer 1993, p.64.
  [READ AT BRIGHT SPARCS]

• With Anne-Marie Condé, 'Communicating with Wild Life', Australasian Science Mag, no.4, Summer 1992 (published 1993), p. 8.
  [READ AT BRIGHT SPARCS]

reviews, review essays

• Review of Treasures of the Museum, Victoria, Australia, and Land Nation People: Stories from the National Museum of Australia, Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 16, no. 1, 2005, pp. 122-125.
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• Review of Tom Frame and Don Faulkner,Stromlo: an Australian observatory, Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 15, no. 1, June 2004.
  [READ]

• Review of Roger Cross, Fallout: Hedley Marston and the British bomb tests in Australia, Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 14, no. 2, November 2002, pp. 209-10.
  [READ]

• Review of Wayne Reynolds, Australia's Bid for the Atomic Bomb, Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 13, no. 4, December 2001, pp. 536-8.
  [READ]

• Review of Clarence Hardy, Atomic rise and fall and Enriching experiences, Historical Records of Australian Science,vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 105-7.
  [READ]

• 'Scienceworks, the Museum of Victoria's Centre for Science and Technology', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 9, no. 4, December 1993, pp. 387 -388.
  [READ]

• 'Making science for whom?', Antithesis, vol. 2, no. 2, 1988/9, pp. 13-18.
  [READ]

guides, catalogues, proceedings

• With Lisa Jooste, Guide to the Records of Phyllis Margaret Rountree, Australian Science Archives Project, 1996.
  [BROWSE ON ASAPWEB]

• With Lisa Jooste and Rosanne Clayton, Recovering Science - Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future - Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992, ASAP Canberra, 1995.
  [BROWSE ON ASAPWEB]

• With Anne-Marie Condé and Lisa O'Sullivan, Australia's Scientific Heritage - An exhibition first held at the Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, 27 March - 2 April 1993, Australian Science Archives Project, Canberra, 1993.

• With Stuart Brash, Anne-Marie Condé, Libby Robin and Gavan McCarthy, A Guide to the Records of Philip Crosbie Morrison, Australian Science Archives Project, 1993.

• With Gavan McCarthy, Oscar Manhal and Lisa O'Sullivan, A Guide to the Records of Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian Science Archives Project, 1993.
  [BROWSE AT ASAPWEB]

• Guide to the Records of Edwin Sherbon Hills, Australian Science Archives Project, 1992.
  [BROWSE AT ASAPWEB]

conference papers

• 'On the Beach: Australia's Nuclear History', paper delivered at French Worlds, Pacific Worlds, July 1996.
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• 'The Bright Sparcs Project - Combining Directory and Publishing Functions in a Subject-Specific Resource', delivered at Resource Discovery Workshop 96, 18 March 1996
  [BROWSE SLIDES ON ASAPWEB]

• 'Advertising your archives on the WWW', invited presentation to Internet workshop, Australian Society of Archivists Annual Conference, 1995
  [READ PAPER ON ASAPWEB] - [BROWSE SLIDES ON ASAPWEB]

• 'The crossroads of destiny' - Choosing a future in atomic Australia', Australian War Memorial Conference, 1995.
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• 'The WWW experience of a small organisation with big dreams', Asia-Pacific WWW Conference, 1995
  [READ PAPER ON ASAPWEB] - [BROWSE SLIDES ON ASAPWEB]

• 'Phyllis in atomic wonderland', AAHPSSS Annual Conference, 1992
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speeches, burbles

• 'Inigo Jones: the weather prophet', public lecture at the National Archives of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2005.
  [READ AT NAA]

• 'Unsung heroes', launch of Murray Upton, A rich and diverse fauna, CSIRO Entomology, 1998.
  [READ]

• `A conspiracy reveal'd',`Working with knowledge' conference, 6 May 1998
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• 'Unpacking the cabinet', Cabinet of Curiosities Farewell, 26 February 1997
  [READ ON ASAPWEB]

seminar papers, drafts

• Draft - 'The weather prophets', July 2001
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• Draft - 'A climate for a nation', June 2001
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• Draft - 'Frontiers of the future: Science and progress in twentieth century Australia' (edited version of seminar paper), November 2000
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• Seminar paper - 'Frontiers of the future: Science and progress in twentieth century Australia', History Program, ANU, 12 October 2000
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• Seminar paper - '"The attributes of a god" - Science and the Australian public, 1901-21', History Program, ANU, 24 June 1999
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• Draft - `A wartime observatory observed: The Mount Stromlo community, 1940-1945', 1994
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