New South Wales

ISAA New South Wales

The New South Wales ISAA group was originall formed as a chapter of ISAA  at a meeting in the State Library in February 1997. While most NSW members reside in or adjacent to Sydney, a number live as far afield as Armidale and Cooma.

The composition of the 2024-2025 NSW Committee is as follows: 

  • Chair: Christine Jennett (Convenor Work-in-Progress Committee; Public Affairs Reading Group)
  • Immediate Past Chair: Lesley Potter
  • Vice-Chair: Christine Yeats (Seminar Convenor)
  • Treasurer: Rodney Nillsen
  • Secretary: Susan Flaxman 
  • Ordinary members:  Michelle Cavanagh, Monica Dennison, Susan Steggall, Ian Willis, Hilary Yerbury
  • Library Liaison: Christine Yeats
  • Public Events Committee: Lesley Potter, Christine Jennett, David Carment, Shirley Randell AO, Christine Yeats 
  • Regional Representatives: John Ramsland

Hilary Yerbury What do you do when a website has been updated and the content relevant to your research is no longer there? The Wayback Machine has created snapshots of websites for the past twenty-five years. There is no guarantee that there will be a snapshot of the timeframe you…

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Professor Cath Ellis The latest addition to ISAA's online presentations that are now available on YouTube is the address by Associate Professor Cath Ellis titled '"The Cheating Game" - Contracting to Cheat: What Cheating at Uni Looks Like These Days and What We are Doing About It'. the link to…

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ISAA-NSW has three volumes of its Seminar Proceedings available for sale. These are: Democracy, Freedom and Identity In The 21st Century; Spare the Rod: Convention of the Rights of the Child Thirty Years On, and Visions of Sydney. Information about these volumes can be found on the ISAA national website…

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Thursday 4 February 3-4 pm (via Zoom) Topic: Shedding light on the Australian Joint Copying Project Speaker: Christine Yeats Abstract: Between 1948 until 1993 teams of librarians worked on what was probably the longest running microfilm project of its kind in the world. It is known as the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP).…

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This Forum was held on 5 November via Zoom and presented by Professor Richard Kemp, a cognitive scientist and forensic psychologist at the UNSW. Richard’s topic The Psychology of Eyewitness Memory was wide ranging around the issues of identity research and evidence, the reliability of human memory and concerns about false identification.…

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Keynote Address by Quentin Dempster ─ The Right to Know: Journalism STILL WAITING … FOR YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW Quentin Dempster  Presentation to the Independent Scholars Association of Australia (in association with the State Library of NSW) via webinar on 22 September 2020. We’re all still waiting … for your right…

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The National Council of ISAA resolved to write to the Federal Minister for Education, Dan Tehen, expressing its concern at the rise in fees for humanities courses, which will more than double and put them alongside law and commerce in the highest price band of $14,500 a year, as a result of…

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ISAA NSW Chapter ANNUAL SEMINAR In collaboration with State Library of NSW ‘Spare the Rod’: Convention on the Rights of the ChildThirty Years On   The Seminar marks the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child(CRC) in November 1989. The CRC incorporates all the…

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OPEN FORUM 27 August 2019 2-4 pm State Library  At what price? The costs of Australian security. Dr Alison Broinowski Topic: Australian governments have always been obsessed with the prospect of armed attack. Since 2001 Australia has built up an unprecedented concern with national security, which has been justified by…

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