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Dr Glenn Davies is a teacher, author, republican activist and historian.
In any spare time, which seems increasingly rare, he is an occasional science fiction writer and reviewer, and has been an Aurealis Award Short Story Judge. He believes strongly in the epithet ‘publish or perish’ – no matter how constant and demanding the teaching load, it is vital, as historians, to be writing.
Glenn was raised and educated in the north Queensland goldfield community of Charters Towers. He has taught political science at Illinois State University and history at Central Queensland University. Glenn has been studying the republican debate in Australia for over 20 years. He received his PhD in 2005 from University of New England on the history of Australian republicanism, and has written academic articles and national curriculum project units on Australian history. Since 1991 he has taught ancient and modern history in a number of state high schools around Queensland and has written five secondary school history textbooks. In 2001 he established his own education publishing imprint, Digital Spring Media. He is currently Head of Social Science, Caboolture State High School and a member of the Queensland History Teachers’ Association State Executive.
Glenn has been involved in politics since his student union days at James Cook University in the 1980s. Over the past fifteen years he has held branch and state conference elected positions within the Queensland Teachers’ Union and the Australian Labor Party. In 2007, he was elected Queensland State Secretary, Australian Republican Movement and was re-elected in 2009. He is the editor of the long-running Queensland ARM quarterly newsletter, Armlet, and the bi-montly national Republican Roundup. In 2009 he established the annual National Republican Short Story Competition. He is also the history editor and a regular columnist for Independent Australia and blogs monthly on republican issues.
Glenn lives in northern Brisbane with his beautiful wife and two gorgeous kids, a haughty cat, and a King Charles Cavalier who has recently agreed to renounce the monarchy and accept his republican family’s ways.
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Hello, Can you put me in touch via email or phone with Dr Glenn Davies? We are putting together a small panel discussion on the republic in association with a week of art events in Brisbane called “Art On James”, June 2 to 9. We would like to invite Dr Davies to speak at this panel discussion, scheduled for Sunday 5 June at 3 pm. It will be chaired by Phil Brown (Brisbane News) and be preceded by an artist talk by Alex Seton (whose exhibition at Jan Murphy Gallery at this time is concerned with ideas for an Australian republic).
My details are 0418 267 196 / 3206 1900 and the email above.
all best wishes
louise
[...] Just over one hundred years ago, on 27 March 1912, Australia introduced compulsory enrolment and, in 1924, compulsory voting — since then, participation in the voting process has become an accepted and entrenched activity in Australian society, writes history editor Dr Glenn Davies. [...]