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Name:	Professor David Carment
Qualifications:	AM BA (Hons) UNSW PhD ANU FACE FFAHS
Main role:	Professor of History
Phone:	0418 857 182
Fax:	{fax}+61 8
Email:	david.carment@cdu.edu.au
Address:	School of Creative Arts and Humanities Faculty of Law, Business and Arts Charles Darwin University - based in Sydney

Research interests Publications Current projects Recent completions supervised

Research Interests David's interests include: Northern Territory cultural heritage, history and politics

Recent Publications Books Carment, D. (2005). Australia’s northern capital: a short history of Darwin. Historical Society of the Northern Territory. 44pp Carment, D. (Ed.) (2004). Northern encounters: new directions in north Australian history. Charles Darwin University Press. 229 pp. Cremin, A., with Carment, D., Milne, T., Johnson, W., Kerr, R., Wilson, A. & Young, L. (Eds.) (2001). 1901: Australian life at Federation, an illustrated chronicle. University of New South Wales Press. 175 pp. Carment, D. (2001). A past displayed: public history, public memory and cultural resource management in Australia's Northern Territory. Northern Territory University Press, 141 pp. Book chapter Carment, D., Fredericksen, C. & De La Rue, K. Forthcoming (2005). From ‘native relics’ to ‘Flynn’s pillar’: cultural heritage management in the Northern Territory during the 1950s. In M. Dewar, S. Parry & J. Wells (Eds.), Modern frontier paradox: Aspects of the 1950s in Australia’s Northern Territory. Charles Darwin University Press. Carment, D. (2005). Clare Martin: the discreet revolutionist'. In J. Wanna & P. Williams (Eds.), Yes, Premier: Labour Leadership in Australia’s States and Territories. University of New South Wales Press. 145-167pp Carment, D. (2002). Darwin’s federation heritage. In: Mearns, L. and Barter, L. (eds). Progressing Backwards: The Northern Territory in 1901. Historical Society of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia. pp 87-93. Carment, D. (2002). The Northern Territory's past: public history, public memory and cultural heritage tourism. In: Pons, X. (ed). Departures: how Australia reinvents itself. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Australia. pp 52-60. Carment, D. (2002). Darwin's federation heritage. In: Mearns, L. and Barter, L. (eds). Progressing backwards: the Northern Territory in 1901. Historical Society of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia. pp 87-93. Carment, D. (2001). A relict goldfield: Arltunga, Northern Territory. In: Cremin, A. et.al. (eds.). 1901. pp 46. Carment, D. (2001). Australia in the world in 1901. In: Cremin, A. et.al. (eds.). 1901. pp 1-3. Carment, D. (2001). Colonial frontiers in the 1890s. In: Cremin, A. et.al. (eds.). 1901. pp 18-21. Carment, D. (2001). The Government Residence in Darwin.In: Cremin, A. et.al. (eds.). 1901. pp 94. Journal articles Carment, D. Forthcoming (2005), Political chronicle: Northern Territory, July-December 2004. The Australian Journal of Politics and History. Carment, D. Forthcoming (2005/2006). Darwin: urban meeting places in Tropical Australia. Historic Environment. Carment, D. (2005). Unfurling the flag: history, historians, identity and politics in Australia and the Northern Territory. Journal of Northern Territory History. 16, pp29-36 Carment, D. (2004). Political chronicle: Northern Territory, January-June 2004. The Australian Journal of Politics and History, 50 (5), pp 629-635. Carment, D. (2004). History at Charles Darwin University. History Australia, 1 (2), pp 314-318. Carment, D. (2004). History, identity and politics. History Australia, 2 (1), DOI: 10.2104/ha040017. Carment, D. (2004). Political chronicle: Northern Territory, July-December 2003. The Australian Journal of Politics and History, 50 (2), pp 301-307. Carment, D. (2003). Political chronicle: Northern Territory, January-June 2003. The Australian Journal of Politics and History, 49 (4), pp 609-615. Carment, D. (2003). Political chronicle: Northern Territory, July-December 2002. The Australian Journal of Politics and History, 49 (2), pp 299-305. Carment, D. (2002). Political chronicle: Northern Territory, January-June 2002. The Australian Journal of Politics and History 48 (40), pp 590-595. Carment, D. & Wilson, W. (2002). Political chronicle: Northern Territory, July-December 2001. The Australian Journal of Politics and History, 48 (2), pp 287-294. Carment, D. (2003) Presenting mining’s past in Australia’s Northern Territory. Journal of Australasian Mining History, 1 (1), pp 24-30. Carment, D. & Wilson, W. (2002). Change at the top: the 2001 Northern Territory election. Journal of Northern Territory History, 13, pp 69-79. Carment, D. (2002). Making museum history in Australia's Northern Territory. Australian Historical Studies, 119, pp 161-171. Carment, D. & Wilson, W. (2002). Political chronicle: Northern Territory, July-December 2001. The Australian Journal of Politics and History, 48 (2), pp 287-294. Carment, D. & Wilson, W. (2002). Change at the top: the 2001 Northern Territory election. Journal of Northern Territory History, 13, pp 69-79. Carment, D. (2002). Northern Territory: January to June 2002. The Australian Journal of Politics and History, 48 (4). Carment, D. (2001). Political chronicle: Northern Territory January-June 2001. The Australian Journal of Politics and History. 47 (4), 579-585. Carment, D. (2001). Political chronicle: Northern Territory July-December 2000. The Australian Journal of Politics and History, 47 (2), pp 295-303. Carment, D. (2000). Political chronicle: Northern Territory July-December 1999. The Australian Journal of Politics and History, 46 (2), pp 270-277. Carment, D. (2000). Cultural heritage management in the Northern Territory 1983-1998. Journal of Northern Territory History, 11, pp 15-24. Carment, D. (2000). Presenting the past at Kakadu and Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Parks. Public History Review, 8, pp 87-97. Carment, D. (2000). Political chronicle: Northern Territory January-June 2000. The Australian Journal of Politics and History, 46 (4), pp 602-608. Carment, D. (1999). Political chronicle: Northern Territory July-December 1998. The Australian Journal of Politics and History, 45 (2), pp 300-306. Carment, D. (1999). Political chronicle: Northern Territory January-June 1999. The Australian Journal of Politics and History, 45 (4), pp 605-613. Carment, D. (1998). The Northern Territory Government and the debate on Aboriginal native title 1992-1995. Journal of Northern Territory History, 9, pp 81-90. Carment, D. (1998). Political chronicle: Northern Territory July-December 1997. The Australian Journal of Politics and History, 44 (2), pp 308-315. Carment, D. (1998). Political chronicle: Northern Territory January-June 1998. The Australian Journal of Politics and History, 44 (4), pp 617-623.

Current Projects Territorianism: the politics of identity in Australia’s Northern Territory Stolen wages in the Northern Territory (with S. Gray)

Recent Completions Supervised PhD Bev Phelts, Water and the economic development of the Northern Territory 1824-2002, 2005 Eve Gibson, Beyond the boundary: a history of land use and planning in Fannie Bay 1869-2000, 2004 Christine Gordon, The Catholic church and the status of women: Port Keats, 1935-1958, 2004 Bernie Brian: The Northern Territory's One Big Union. The Rise and Fall of the North Australian Workers' Union, 1911-1972 Lodged: 03/09/01 Cameron Raynes: 'Very hard that day': The moral subtext of Aboriginal oral history from the western Victoria River region, Northern Territory Lodged: 11/12/00 William Wilson: A Force Apart? A history of the Northern Territory Police Force 1870-1926 Lodged: 14/11/00 Peter Elder: Charles Lydiard Aubrey Abott: Countryman or Colonial Governor? Lodged: 19/02/98