A transformative archaeology: Archaeology as a tool for public good

For anyone who studied archaeology from the 1980s onwards, Australian Archaeology has always been there. Many of the scholars who established and drove the earliest issues of Australian Archaeology, including long-term editors Betty Meehan and Val Attenbrow, are still forces in the field. In another 50 years our students and our students’ students—and their students’ students—will have responsibility for nurturing Australian archaeology—the discipline as well as the journal. How might what we are doing today play out through these coming generations?