To celebrate Queensland's sesquicentenary of seperation from New South Wales in 1859, the Professional Historians Association (Queensland) hosted a two-day conference in Brisbane, over 3-4 September 2009, which focused on shifting perspectives in Queensland history and historiography, and how these have informed our present and potentially, our future.   Titled Journeys through Queensland's history: landscape, place and society, PHA(Q) anticipated that this conference would be one of the key history-focused events celebrating the sesquicentenary.

Over the two days that it ran, the conference focused on the following aspects of life in Queensland over the past 150 years.

Landscape: how we have explored, adapted to and utilised the landscape on many levels, and for many purposes, from economic, to establishing urban environments, to recreational and aesthetic.

Place: how the concept of ‘place’ has been positioned in Queensland history - as political or geographic entity; public or private arena; male or female domain; conflict site; sacred site; the embodiment of the work of an institution, organisation, or business; a repository of historical information; or heritage legacy.

Society: how patterns of Queensland’s social, political and cultural development are revealed in race and gender relations; immigrant contributions; the formation of social, religious and political structures and organisations; and the provision of societal fundamentals such as law, justice, education, defence and government administration.

Copies of the conference Proceedings are available for purchase at $40.00 each, which includes postage.  Please forward a cheque or money order, only, to the Secretary.