Lyndon is interested in Queensland political history, enjoys archival research and is skilled at writing, reading/reviewing articles and producing book reviews.
Skills and services offered:
Historical research and writing
Professional interests:
Biography
Business/administrative history
Education history
Qualifications: BA Hons; MA; PhD; Graduate Certificate
in Education (Tertiary Teaching)
Publications and experience:
"The power of veto in the United Nations", in C. Smith,
R.J. Sullivan and A. Smith (eds), Education for good international
cCitizenship: The young diplomat program, James Cook University,
Townsville 1996.
"Australia and Papua New Guinea", in Rodney Sullivan,
Claire Smith, Lesley Jackman and Anne Smith (eds), Education
for Australia's international future, James Cook University,
Townsville 1998.
"A history of gold mining in Ravenswood", Queensland
Review, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1998
"'Don't you think they know their business best?' The failure
of private railway companies in late colonial Queensland",
in Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol. 2, No.
2, October 2000
"Teething pains of the early Commonwealth: Barton, Philp
and the end of the Pacific Island labour trade" in New
Federalist, No. 8, 2001
"The 1900s: A forgotten turning point in Queensland history",
in Queensland Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, April 2004
"Nation Building through bilateral education aid: Commonwealth
policies 1945-2000", in Joseph Zajda and Peter Ninnes (eds),
Global pedagogies: Equity, access and democracy in education:
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Australian and
New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society,
Centre for Research on Education in Context (University of New
England), Armidale, 2005
"Indigenous education in colonial Papua New Guinea: Australian
Government policy (1945-1975)", History of Education Review,
Vol. 34, No. 2, 2005
"The deep mines fiasco 1902 to 1920", Journal of
the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, Vol. 17, No. 1,
May 1998
"Sir Robert Philp and the Queensland mining industry",
in Patrick Bertola and Karen Miller (eds), Proceedings of the
Australian Mining History Association Conferences 1997-2000,
Australian Mining History Association, Nedlands, 2001
"Robert Philp: North Queensland pioneer", in Journal
of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, Vol. 18, No.
4, 2002
"White Queensland vs. White Australia: Queensland, the Commonwealth
and the Pacific Island Labour Question 1880-1901", Australian
Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 52, No. 1, 2006.
Lyndon Megarrity, "Regional goodwill, sensibly priced: Commonwealth
policies towards Colombo Plan scholars and private overseas students
1945-72", Australian Historical Studies, 2007, vol.
38, no. 129.
Lyndon Megarrity, "A highly regulated 'Free Market': Commonwealth
policies on private overseas students from 1974 to 2005",
Australian Journal of Education, April 2007, vol. 51, no.
1.
Address:
PO Box 1101, Aitkenvale Qld 4814
Phone: 07 4725 5555 (Home) or 0415 515 326 (Mobile)
E-mail: drlyndon@bigpond.net.au
or Lyndon.Megarrity@premiers.qld.gov.au
Last updated 18 July 2007
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