Over the past decade or so, Tony Taylor, who is based at Monash University, has worked closely with a wide range of colleagues to improve the standing of history education in Australia.

In 1999 he was appointed Director of the Australian Government's National Inquiry into the Teaching and Learning of History and, from 2001-2007, he was Director of the Australian Government's National Centre for History Education.

In 2003-2005, with the assistance of an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant, he developed national professional standards for the teaching and learning of history.

He researches and publishes extensively in Australia and overseas in the field of history education and since 2003, he has successfully led three large ARC grants in that field and is currently involved as a partner in another ARC history education project.

From 2006 to 2012 he worked with Professor Stuart Macintyre as senior consultant with successive Coalition and ALP federal governments in formulating three drafts of a national history curriculum.

Jeana Kriewaldt is a Lecturer of geography and humanities education in the Master of Teaching program at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne.

She is a life member of the Geography Teachers’ Association of Victoria, and has served on the board of the Australian Geography Teachers’ Association. During her time as a secondary school teacher, she wrote numerous geography textbooks.

Funded by the Australian Research Council and industry partners, Jeana was a chief investigator in the Strengthening Standards of Geography Teaching through Linking Standards and Teacher Learning project which delivered a set of national standards for teaching geography.

David Boon has taught all grades F-10 over a 25-year career in Australian education. In the past decade he has had a number of curriculum and professional learning roles for the Tasmanian Department of Education in history, SOSE and ICT. David is currently a Senior Education Officer for History.

His acknowledged expertise in primary history education led to his involvement in the National History Summit in 2006, being an invited presenter at the National Sumer School for Teachers of Australian History in 2008, and contributing to the development of the framing paper for the Australian History Curriculum.

David is currently completing a PhD on the history of Tasmanian primary education. His other research interests include utilising the local area in history education, the use of spatial skills in exploring the past, and differentiation in primary history education.