Colin Milner
Position: PhD Student
School and/or Centres: School of History
Email: colin.milner@anu.edu.au
Location: Level 5, RSSS Building, 146 Ellery Crescent
Qualification:
BA Hons (Sydney) LLB (Sydney) AMusA (AMEB) Barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
Thesis title: Robert Randolph Garran and the Australian Commonwealth: a study in public service.
Colin Milner is a PhD candidate in the School of History under the primary supervision of Professor Frank Bongiorno. A former diplomat and public servant, he was Australia’s Special Representative to Nauru in 2004-05; his earlier postings were to Brussels and Pretoria, and he has served on many official Australian delegations, including at the United Nations Human Rights Council, Pacific Islands Forum Regional Security Committee and as Australia’s representative to the Council of Europe’s Committee of Legal Advisers on Public International Law. He has been a Campus Visitor at ANU and worked as a Research Officer at ANU and a Research Assistant at the University of Sydney. He has also worked professionally as a classical singer.
Australian history, Pacific history, International history (especially the British Empire, Commonwealth of Nations, League of Nations and United Nations)
'An empire man on the road to Dominion independence: Robert Randolph Garran and the Armistice 'blunder' ' in After the Armistice: Empire, Endgame and Aftermath ed. Michael J. K. Walsh and Andrekos Varnava (London: Routledge, 2021), 142-59.
Book review of Bruce Grant Subtle Moments: Scenes on a Life's Journey in Australian Journal of Biography and History: No. 2, 2019 (Canberra: ANU Press, 2019), 183-86.
Documentary appearance in the final episode of Rise and Fall: The Turning Points of World War II (Wildbear Entertainment, released 2019).
Colin Milner, ‘Robert Randolph Garran and the Creation of the Australian Commonwealth’, in Australia and the World: A Festschrift for Neville Meaney, ed. Joan Beaumont and Matthew Jordan (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2013), 121-44.
Colin Milner, ‘Human Rights and International Law’, in Australia and the United Nations, ed. James Cotton and David Lee (Sydney: Longueville Books and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2012), 341-72.
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Documents on Australian Foreign Policy volume on Australia and Nauru, 1950-68 (editor)
Australian Government Research Training Program Stipend Scholarship.
Australia Day Achievement Medallion, 2006.
Colin serves on the steering committee of the Commonwealth Round Table in Australia and on the board of National Opera in Canberra. He has previously served as an executive or committee member with several community organisations at the local and national level.
