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Vale Emeritus Professor Donald Denoon FAHA 1940 – 2024

A leading historian, Donald wrote extensively on Australia’s relations with Pacific countries as well as on Papua New Guinea. Editing and promoting the research of others across the Pacific and Asia, Donald’s personal research interests and collaborations focused on a number of key themes, including settler societies and their relations with Indigenous people, medical history

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Vale Emeritus Professor John Rickard FAHA 1935 – 2024

A renowned Australian historian with a reputation as a leading interpreter of Australian cultural and political history, John was elected to the Academy in 1991. He wrote widely on Australian culture and biography and was awarded the prestigious Ernest Scott Prize in 1988 for his book Australia: A Cultural History. John was a former professional

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Vale Professor William (Bill) Rubinstein OAM FAHA 1946 – 2024

Elected to the Academy in 1986, he published extensively on modern British history, especially the history of elites, and on Jewish history. Instrumental in advancing Jewish studies in Australia, Bill was foundation editor (1985-95) of the Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, President of the Australian Association of Jewish Studies (1989-91), and President of the Jewish

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Vale Professor Michael Osborne FAHA 1942 – 2024

Michael Osborne was a complex person who defies easy categorisation. A gifted scholar of Greek epigraphy, a committed Sinophile, and Vice Chancellor of La Trobe University (1990-2006), where his career as an academic leader ended in conflict and serious turmoil. Michael was an inveterate traveller (especially to China) where he found that his interest in

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Emeritus Professor David Tunley AM FAHA Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques 1930 – 2024

David Tunley AM FAHA Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques was born in Sydney and grew up in the country town of Gulgong in New South Wales, moving as a boarder to Sydney for his secondary education. He went on to do a Diploma in Music at the Sydney Conservatorium, specialising in piano–the Bachelor’s Music

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Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.