The Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA). (Appendix: FILLM--history and objectives).

AULLA was founded in 1950 as the Australasian Universities Modern Languages Association. The name was changed in 1957 to emphasize that the Association embraced all disciplines concerned with literary and language studies. When first established, AULLA was the only organization in Australasia representing the interests of academics working in English and foreign language areas. At that time there were 11 universities in Australia and four in New Zealand. The membership was drawn from all these institutions, each of which had departments of English, French, German and, with one or two exceptions, Classics. Other languages like Italian, Russian, Maori and Hebrew were also taught in a minority of institutions. AULLA's chief aim was to provide academics with an opportunity for exchange of ideas by means of regular conferences and the publication of a journal. At the same time it functioned as a lobby group which attempted to keep the importance of the work done in this branch of the humanities before the minds of the public, of educational bureaucrats, and of successive governments.

Today AULLA continues to serve these purposes. A conference is held every 2 years, hosted and organized by one of the universities, with two conferences in Australia followed by one in New Zealand in a recurrent cycle. The most recent conference was held in Adelaide in February …