(a) ENERGY: Junior Common Room (Chair: Martin Shanahan)

Malcolm Abbott (KPMG Melbourne), ‘A long-term look at the development and reform of New Zealand’s electricity supply industry’

Grietjie Verhoef (University of Johannesburg), ‘Environmental and economic considerations in Gas-To-Liquid Industry: the role of Sasol in gasification, 1970 – 2006’

(b) GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS: Drama Room, Evan Burge Building (Chair: Paul Robertson)

Jim McAloon (Lincoln University), ‘Full Employment and External Constraint: New Zealand 1945-52’

Neil Barnwell (University of Technology, Sydney), ‘Australia and the First World War – A re-evaluation of its long term economic impact’

Gordon Beckett (University of New South Wales), ‘Government business enterprises - a closer look’

(a) WATER: Junior Common Room (Chair: Neil Barnwell)

Arounyadeth Rasphone, Fumio Osanami, Takumi Kondo (Hokkaido University) and Sipaphaphone Chounramany (Ministry of Planning and Investment, Lao PDR), ‘The development of irrigation and the response for future development: a study of rice production in Laos from 1961-2006’

Edwyna Harris (Monash University), ‘The persistence of correlative water rights in colonial Australia: a theoretical contradiction?’

Sara Hughes (University of Santa Barbara and University of South Australia) and Martin Shanahan (University of South Australia), ‘A brief history of the supply, demand and sustainable use of water from the Murray-Darling river system, 1900-2000’

Jun Sato (Hachinohe National College of Technology), ‘The role of the Bank of England in creating central banks during the 1930s: an examination of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic’

Catherine Schenk (University of Glasgow), ‘Disentangling from sterling: the case of Malaysia and Singapore 1967-73’

Nguyen Van Quyen and Hong Thi-Dieu To (University of Ottawa), ‘Economic growth and climate change without an environmental treaty’.

(a) INSURANCE: Junior Common Room (Chair: Robin Pearson)

Monica Keneley (Deakin University), ‘Organizational capabilities and the role of routines in the emergence of a modern life insurer: the story of the AMP’

Takau Yoneyama (Hitotsubashi University), ‘Great Kanto earthquake and the response of insurance companies: a historical lesson on an impact of great disaster’.

Commentator: Robin Pearson (University of Hull)

(b) LABOUR MARKETS: Sharwood Room (Chair: Chris Lloyd)

Junichi Kanzaka (Soka University, Tokyo), ‘Labour rent contract with tenants raising ploughing animals: two different responses to the demographic pressure in medieval England’.

Glenda Maconachie and Miles Goodwin (Queensland University of Technology), ‘Victimisation, inspection and workers’ entitlements: lessons not learnt?

Takashi Hirao (Tokyo University of Science), ‘Japanese labour management system after WWII: impact of “Job-Based Payment” at Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.’

(a) IDEAS AND THEIR DIFFUSION: Junior Common Room (Chair: Diane Hutchinson)

Larry Lepper (Victoria University of Wellington), “Philosophical and Artistic Influences on Keynes’s Economics.”

Laurel Myers (Welle Consulting Services), ‘The foundations of the economics profession in Australia’.

Ray H. Anderson (Victoria University) and Shelley Du (RMIT University), ‘Telling their story: the role of the Australian Institute of Management in influencing business disclosure’

(b) HEALTH AND STATURE: Sharwood Room (Chair: Lionel Frost)

Ralf Futselaar (Kwabnsei Gakuin University), ‘Microbiological environments and economic development: the case of tuberculosis in Japan 1945-1953’.

Hirotaka Matsuda (University of Tokyo), ‘The relationships between economic development, disease environment and human physiques on the pre-war era of Japan’

Stephen L. Morgan (University of Nottingham), ‘New estimates of change in the welfare of Chinese during the nineteenth century’

(a) URBANIZATION & FAMILIES: Junior Common Room (Chair: Monica Keneley)

Lionel Frost (Monash University), ‘The economic impact of big cities on inland Australia and the Pacific United States: evidence from the histories of Sydney and San Francisco’

Timothy J Hatton (Australian National University) and Richard M. Martin (University of Bristol), ‘The effects on stature of poverty, family size and birth order: British children in the 1930s’

Nigel Stapledon (University of New South Wales), ‘Housing in Australia 1880-1965: new price series and historical perspectives’

David Merrett (University of Melbourne), Stephen Morgan (University of Nottingham) and Simon Ville (University of Wollongong), ‘Industry associations as facilitators of social capital: the establishment and early operations of the Melbourne Woolbrokers Association’

Chih-lung Lin (National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan), ‘The Japanese shipping challenge and the Lower Yangtze Shipping Conference, 1921-1927’

Diane Hutchinson (University of Sydney), ‘Australian economic development and individual opportunity: Robert Webster’s rise to prominence’.

(a) GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT & FINANCE: Junior Common Room (Chair: Pierre van der Eng)

Risti Permani (University of Adelaide), ‘The role of education in economic growth in East Asia: historical trends and empirical evidences (1965-2000)’.

Paul L. Robertson (University of Tasmania) ‘Resource based or resource cursed: a brief history of the Australian economy since 1850’

John Singleton (Victoria University of Wellington), ‘A new window on the development of the euromarkets: borrowing by the New Zealand government in the 1960s’

(b) BUSINESS & SOCIETY Sharwood Room (Chair: Catherine Schenk)

Yoonzi Kim and Keun Lee (Seoul National University), ‘Historical evolution of managerial classes in Korea’.

Gordon Boyce (University of Newcastle), ‘Firm, family, and social diversions: language and socially constructed reality in the merchant-shipowning community. The Bates of Liverpool 1870-1945’.

Takeshi Yuzawa (Gakushuin University), ‘Quick responses to environmental changes? - a case study of ICI comparing with Japanese chemical companies’

(a) COMMODITIES & MARKETS: Junior Common Room (Chair: Alex Millmow)

Stephen Legg (Monash University), ‘Deforestation and the business response: Victoria before 1918’.

A. Rasyid Asba (Hasanuddin University, Makassar), 'Makassar copra as a trigger of the struggle for power between central and local government: A historical study of regional political economy in Indonesia'.

Pierre van der Eng (Australian National University), ‘Market responses to climate stress: Rice in Java in the 1930s’

(b) CAPITALISM & INNOVATION: Sharwood Room (Chair: Stephen Morgan)

Pedro Carvalho de Mello (ESALQ/University of Sao Paolo), ‘Bolsa de Mercadorias de São Paulo: the first modern commodity exchange in Brazil.’

Guibin Zhang and Zhong Qin (University of Wollongong), ‘The development of private businesses in China: 1978-2004’

Chris Lloyd (University of New England), ‘Australian capitalism since 1992: a new regime of accumulation? The 21st century in historical perspective’.