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Dr Libby Connors

Name :	Dr Libby Connors
Position :	Senior Lecturer (History)
Section :	Faculty of Arts School of Humanities and Communication
Office :	Q234
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4631 1048
Extension :	1048
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BA(Hons), PhD Qld

Professional Memberships

Vice-president, Australia & New Zealand Law and History Society
Editorial Board, ANZLH E-Journal
Spokesperson, Save the Reef (environment group)

Australian Historical Association
Brisbane History Group

Professional Affiliations

Recent media:
13 February 2013
http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/news/curtis-island-lng-approvals-process-called-questio/1753704/
5 February 2013
Interview/debate with Qld Environment Minister on reef matters on ABC Qld radio: http://blogs.abc.net.au/queensland/2013/02/how-did-queenslands-mines-fare-during-the-floods.html
4 February 2013
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/fitzroy-catchment-miners-release-diluted-cocktail-of-toxic-wastewater-into-flooded-river/story-e6frg6n6-1226567678887
28 January 2013
http://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/news/regions-mines-release-water-fitzroy-basin/1734952/

Research Interests

Social history of the law
Environmental history
Queensland and Australian history
Social movement history

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

‘Women, Children and Violence in Aboriginal Law: Some Perspectives from the Southeast Queensland Frontier’ in Diane Kirkby (ed.) Past Laws, Present Histories. Canberra: ANU E Press & ANZSOG, Sept 2012, pp. 125-136. ISBN 9781922144027 (Print version) ISBN 9781922144034 (Online)

‘Distant and Disinterested: Oversight of Northern Policing as Colonial Office Policy in the 1840s and 1850s’ ANZLH E-Journal, Refereed Paper No (3), 2012, pp. 78-95. ISSN 1177-3170

‘Witness to frontier violence: An Aboriginal boy before the Supreme Court.’ Australian Historical Studies, vol. 42 No.2, 2011, pp. 230-243. ISSN 1031-461X

Most notable :

‘Sentencing on a colonial frontier: Judge Therry's decisions at Moreton Bay’. Legal History, Vol. 12 No. 1, 2008, pp. 81-97. ISSN 1833-7155

"Indigenous Resistance and Traditional Leadership: Understanding and Interpreting Dundalli", Royal Historical Society of Queensland Journal, Vol. 19, no. 3, August 2005, pp. 701-712.

A History of the Australian Environment Movement, Melbourne, Cambridge University press, 1999. [co-authored with Drew Hutton.]

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

HIS1001
HIS2000
HIS2001
HIS4001
HMT3000
HMT4001
HMT4002

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 20+ years

Administrative Responsibilities

Honours Coordinator, Arts Faculty
Head, history discipline