Anna Clark is the author of Making Australian History (Penguin), a history of Australian history, and has written extensively on history education, historiography, and historical consciousness. She is currently Director of the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney.

If you could go anywhere tomorrow, where would it be, and why?

The underwater world is my happy, calming place, so I’d have to say a protected marine zone where I can get a glimpse of what Australia’s natural bounty must once have been like everywhere.