Renate Howe

Renate Howe has built a career around her long-standing commitment to issues of urban and housing equality. A leading historian who has written extensively on Australian social and religious history, she is an honorary associate professor at Deakin University, a committee member of the Cultural Heritage Centre Asia and the Pacific, and a fellow of the Victorian Planning and Environmental Law Association. She has previously been a member of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, as well as the Victorian Heritage Council, and is currently a sessional member of Planning Panels Victoria. Renate’s most recent publication, Trendyville: The battle for Australia’s inner cities (co-authored with Graeme Davison and David Nichols, and published by Monash University Publishing in 2014), is a striking account of protest and gentrification in the 1960s and ’70s.