The 2025 Moreton Bay Settlement Conference – 200 Years of Settlement on the Brisbane River

The RHSQ is convening a full day history conference at the Commissariat Store concerning the relocation of the convict settlement from Redcliffe to the Brisbane River.

Programme:

8.45am: Registration

9.20-9.25am: Welcome by the president

9.25-9.4=30am: Deborah Sandy: Acknowledgement of

Country

Session One: 9.30-11.00am

Chair: Stephen Sheaffe AM

9.30 – 10.00 – Dr Ray Kerkhove: Relationships and

Conflicts

10.00 – 10.20 – Jeff Hopkins-Weise: The 40th Regiment

of Foot

10.20 – 10.40 – Jan Richardson: The first three women

convicts in Moreton Bay

10.40 – 11.00 – Roger Ford: The Development of

Agriculture in Moreton Bay

Morning Tea: 11.00-11.30

Session Two: 11.30-1.00 pm

Chair: TBD

11.30 – 11.50 – Dr Michael Macklin: The settlement in

Brisbane

11.50 – 12.10 – Dr Jennifer Harrison: Nailing the jailing:

creating Brisbane Town

12.10 – 12.30 – Richard Hunt: The Second

Commissariat Storeman: Skene Craig

12.30 – 12.50 – Dr Thom Blake: How the Convicts

cleared the Timber

Lunch: 12.50 – 1.30

Session Three

Chair: TBD

1.30 – 1.50 – Prof John Pearn: Dr Henry Cowper,1800-

1849, Doctor to the Moreton Bay Settlement 1826-

1832

1.50 – 2.10 – Julie Smith and Jan Nixon: The First

Convict Overseer

2.10 – 2.30 – Dr Gary Bacon: Sylvan Landscapes –

Then and Now’:

Afternoon Tea: 2.30-3.00

Session Four

Chair: TBD

3.00 – 3.20 – Stephen Sheaffe: The First Three

Commandants in Moreton Bay

3.20 – 3.40 – Kim Jones: John Winstanley at Redcliffe

and Brisbane and a convict Mr Jones

3.40 – 4.00 – Matthew Rowe: The Royal Charlotte

Close by the President: 4.00 pm