I developed the themes and program, as well as undertaking the general management of ASAP's national conference, 'Recovering Science - Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future'. The conference was attended by over 120 people and was deemed a great success. I edited and published the proceedings, which are also available on-line . I took over the editorship of HASN in 1991, and have endeavoured to make the Newsletter accessible and entertaining as well as informative. The Newsletter has received much favourable comment over the years, and provides an important means of bringing together the fragmented history of Australian science community.
Some past issues are available on-line .
Participants included the legal counsel for the Maralinga people at the Royal Commission into the atomic tests, and Bill Jonas one of the Royal Commissioners. In 1984 I prepared an honours thesis on the role of Australian scientists at the British atomic weapons tests. I undertook this project, shortly before the establishment of a Royal Commission to examine the tests, and managed to gain first access to a number of archival documents. My thesis was submitted to the Royal Commission, and I broadcast an item on the ABC Radio Science Show , drawing attention to the political forces involved in the selection of Australian scientific representatives. This broadcast was published in a 'best of' collection of the Science Show .