Associate Professor Malcolm Tull
Dean of School

Bachelor of Science (Econ), First Class Honours, 1972 (University of Hull)
Doctor of Philosophy, 1985 (Murdoch University)

Murdoch Business School
Murdoch University
Tel: + 61 (08) 9360 2481
E-mail: m.tull@murdoch.edu.au

Associate Professor Malcolm Tull is presently the Dean of the Murdoch Business School. He has extensive experience teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate units in economic theory, economic policy, and economic history, and a wide background in administration at Murdoch University, having performed a key role in the early development of the Murdoch Business School. He has a strong international record of publications in the disciplines of maritime economics and economic history. He was joint editor of the prestigious International Journal of Maritime History from 2000-2008, the author of A Community Enterprise: the History of the Port of Fremantle, 1897 to 1997 (1997), a Senior Editor for the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Maritime History (2007), and co-editor of Port Privatisation: The Asia-Pacific Experience (2008). A Fellow of Murdoch University’s Centre for Asian Studies since 1999, Malcolm was appointed Principal Investigator for the Asian History of Marine Animal Populations Project in 2006, initiating his own investigation into Indonesian shark fishing as part of this multi-national project. In 2008 Malcolm was elected Vice-President of the International Maritime Economic History Association. He is currently President of the Economic Society of Australia Inc., Western Australian Branch. Malcolm continues to teach and to supervise honours and postgraduate students at the Murdoch Business School.

Key Publications & Research

Research Interests:

• Applied Maritime Economics
• Maritime Economic History
• Asian Economic Development

Publications:

Refereed Articles and Publications in Academic Journals

• ‘The Performance of Western Australian Ports’, Ocean Economics Review of China, Vol. 2, No.1 June 2008, pp.1-33. (With F. Affleck)
• 'Restricting Fishing: A Socio-Economic Impact Assessment Of Artisanal Shark And Ray Fishing In Cilacap’, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Volume 44, Issue 2 August 2008, pp. 263 -288. (With Simon Vieira).
• ‘Privatisation of Ports- an Evaluation of the Malaysian Experience’, Economic Papers, vol 21 (December 2002), pp.63-79. (With J. Reveley).
• ‘The merits of public versus private ownership: A comparative study of Australian and New Zealand seaports’, Economic Papers, Vol 20 No.3 (September 2001), pp.75-99. (With J. Reveley).
• ‘Anglo-American contributions to Japanese and German corporate governance after World War Two’, Business History, vol.42, No. 2(April 2000), pp. 119-40. (With T. Buck).
• ‘The Fremantle Port Authority: a case study in microeconomic reform’, Economic Papers vol 16, No.4 (December 1997), pp. 33-53.
• ‘Economic prospects for freshwater Crayfish (Yabby) in Western Australia’, Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics, vol. 64, No. 3, December 1996, pp. 325-335.
• ‘A bibliography of university theses on Australian maritime history’, International Journal of Maritime History, No. 1 (June 1996), pp. 199-246.
• Roundtable Discussion of Dianne Newell, Tangled Webs of History: Indians and the Law in Canada’s Pacific Coast Fisheries., in International Journal of Maritime History vol. VII, no. 2, December 1995, pp. 187-93.
• ‘Resource use and environmental management in Japan 1890-1990’, Australian Economic History Review, September 1994. Vol, 34, No. 2 (1994) pp.3-23. (With A. R. Krishnan).
• 'The Pearling Industry', The Great Circle, vol 16, No.2, 1994, pp 73-5.
• ‘The Development of the Australian Fishing Industry: A Preliminary Survey’, International Journal of Maritime History, V, No.1 (June 1993), pp. 95-126.
• ‘Shipping ports and the marketing of Australia’s wheat, 1900-1970’, Australian Economic History Review, vol XXXII, September 1992, pp. 33-59.
• ‘Profits and Lifestyle: Western Australia’s Fishers’, Studies in Western Australian History, vol XIII, 1992, pp. 92-111.
• ‘The Development of Port Administration in Australia: the Case of Fremantle, 1903-1939’, The Journal of Transport History, vol 10, No.1, March 1989, pp. 41-58.
• ‘The Financial Performance of the Fremantle Harbour Trust, 1903 to 1939,’ Australian Economic History Review, vol XXVIII, No.1, 1988, pp. 21-42.
• ‘Australian Maritime History: A Progress Report’, The Journal of Transport History, vol 9, No.1, 1988, pp. 78-92.
• ‘Blood on the Cargo: Cargo-Handling and Working Conditions on the Waterfront at Fremantle, 1900-1939,’ Labour History, May 1987, pp. 15-29.
• ‘Port Finances at Fremantle’, Australian Corporate History Bulletin, vol 2, No.2, 1986, pp. 1-13.
• ‘The Development of the Port of Fremantle, Australia’s Western Gateway’, The Great Circle, vol 7, No.2, 1985, pp. 116-138.
• ‘American Technology and the Mechanisation of Australian Ports, 1942-58’, The Journal of Transport History, vol 6, No.1, 1985, pp. 79-90.
• ‘The Development of Port Administration at Sydney, 1901-1936,’ The Great Circle , vol 4, No. 2, 1982, pp. 92-104.

Books and Monographs

• (With Reveley, J.) (eds.), Port Privatisation: The Asia-Pacific Experience, Edward Elgar, 2008.
• Senior Editor, The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Maritime History 4 vols Oxford University Press, NY, 2007. (Editor in Chief J. B. Hattendorf).
• A community enterprise: the history of the Port of Fremantle, 1897 to 1997 . International Maritime Economic History Association, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s 1997.
• A bibliography of university theses on Australian maritime history , International Maritime Economic History Association, St. John’s Newfoundland, 1996.
• Prospects for Australian seafood exports: a case study of the Taiwanese market , Asia Research Centre Policy Paper No. 13, Murdoch University, 1993.
• The Australian Fishing Industry: A Select Historical Bibliography , School of Economics, Murdoch University, Research Monograph, 1990. (With H. Smith).

Chapters in Edited Volumes

• ‘The Western Australian Economy’, Historical Encyclopaedia of Western Australia (UWA Press, Nedlands, forthcoming, 2009).
• ‘ Western Australia’s ports’, Historical Encyclopaedia of Western Australia (UWA Press, Nedlands, forthcoming, 2009).
• ‘Competition policy’, Historical Encyclopaedia of Western Australia (UWA Press, Nedlands, forthcoming, 2009), (With Leigh Edmonds).
• ‘Introduction: Port Reform in the Asia-Pacific Region’, (With J. Reveley) in M. Tull and J. Reveley, (eds.), Port Privatisation: The Asia-Pacific Experience, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2008, pp. 1-16.
• ‘Privatisation Postponed: Convergence and Divergence in Australian and New Zealand Port Reform’, (With J. Reveley) in M. Tull and J. Reveley, (eds.), Port Privatisation: The Asia-Pacific Experience, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2008, pp.17-50.
• ‘The Environmental Impact of Ports: An Australian Case study’ in T. Bergholm, L. R. Fischer and E. Tonizzi (eds.) Making Global and Local Connections: Historical Perspectives on Ports (International Maritime Economic History Association, St. John’s Newfoundland, 2007).
• ‘The Port of Fremantle’, Encyclopedia of Maritime History , Oxford University Press, NY, 2007, pp.63-64.
• ‘The Port of Dubai’, Encyclopedia of Maritime History , Oxford University Press, NY, 2007, pp.589-590.
• ‘ Australia and New Zealand trade’ in McCusker, John J. ed. History of World Trade since 1450. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006, pp. 33-36
• ‘Port cities and international trade’ in McCusker, John J. ed. History of World Trade since 1450. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006, pp. 595-599.
• ‘Centralised Port Planning: An Evaluation of the British and New Zealand Experience’ (With J. Reveley). In G. Boyce and R. Gorski (eds.), Resources and Infrastructures in the Maritime Economy, 1500-2000, ( St John’s Newfoundland, 2002).
• ‘Port Privatisation in Asia’ in H. Gerstenberger & U. Welke, (eds.), Seefahrt im Zeichen der Globalisierung, (Münster:Westf. Dampfboot, 2002).
• ‘The Potential for Historical Studies of Fisheries in Australia and New Zealand’, (With Tom Polacheck), in L.R. Fischer, P. Holm and D. Starkey (eds), Exploited Seas: New Directions for Marine Environmental History Research in Maritime History, No. 21 ( St. John's, 2001).
• ‘Resource use and environmental management in Japan 1890-1990’, in J. R. McNeill, (ed.), Environmental history of the Pacific and the Pacific Rim (Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, Hampshire, 2001). (With A. R. Krishnan).Reprint.
• ‘The history of waterfront labour at the Port Of Fremantle’, in S. Davies et.al. (eds.), Dock Workers. International Explorations in the Comparative History of Dock Labour, (Ashgate, Glasgow, 2000).
• ‘The development of Australian ports since 1945’, in L. R. Fischer and A. Jarvis (eds.). Any Port in A Storm: Essays in Port History in Honour of Gordon Jackson. (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1999).
• ‘The development of the Port of Fremantle’, in A. Jarvis (ed) Port and Harbour Engineering. Studies in the history of civil engineering, (Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1998).
• ‘The history of Waterfront labour at the Port of Fremantle, 1890 to 1990’, in Port Reports prepared for the Conference on Comparative International History of Dock Labour, vol 2, published by the International Institute of Social History Amsterdam, 1997.
• Maritime History in Australia’, in F. Broeze, (ed.), Maritime History at the Crossroads: A Critical Review of Recent Historiography, (St. John’s, Canada, 1995).

Conference Papers and Seminar Papers (last 5 years only)

• ‘Port security in Australia from Federation to 9/11’, Paper presented at the 5th International Congress of Maritime History, University of Greenwich, London, 23-27 th June 2008.
• ‘The Performance of Western Australian Ports’, Paper presented at the International Association of Maritime Economists Conference, Dalian, China, 2-4 th April 2008.
• ‘The environmental impact of ports’, Paper presented at the XIV International Economic History Congress (session No. 58), Helsinki, Finland, 21-25 August 2006. Also presented at the ICOMOS National Conference, Fremantle, 9-11 November 2006.
• ‘Potential impacts of management measures on Indonesian artisanal shark and ray fishers’, Asia Research Centre. Murdoch University 18th November 2005.
• ‘Shark fishing in Indonesia: a brief historical overview’, paper presented at the Oceans Past conference, Kolding, Denmark, 24-27 October 2005.
• ‘ Ports and the environment: an Australian perspective’, paper given at the International Commission for Maritime History Quinquennial Congress, Sydney, 4-10 July 2005.
• ‘Potential impacts of management measures on artisanal fishers in Indonesian shark and ray fisheries: a case study of Cilacap’, paper presented at the 7th Asian Fisheries Forum Penang 30 November to 4 th December 2004 (With Simon Vieira).
• ‘ Fremantle Harbour: from commercial port to recreational centre?', paper presented at IVth International Maritime History Association conference in Corfu June 22nd-27 th 2004.
• ‘ Western Australia 1829-2000: an economic overview’, paper presented at the 32 nd Australian Conference of Economists, Canberra, 29 September- 1 October 2003.
• ‘Aviation Programmes at Australian Universities’, paper presented at the Aviation Management and Education Research Conference, Montreal, July 20-22, 2003.

Discussion & Working Papers (last 5 years)

• Tull, M. T. & Affleck, F., ‘The Performance of Western Australian Ports,’ Planning and Transport Research Centre, Curtin University, Working Paper No 15/07, 2007. (See http://www.patrec.org/publications/index.php).
• 'Potential impacts of management measures on artisanal fishers in Indonesian shark and ray fisheries: a case study of Cilacap', Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Working Paper 127, December 2005. (With Simon Vieira).

International and National Competitive Research Grants

• History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP) South East Asia’, Chief Investigator, (US$20,000 HMAP, Census of Marine Life, 2008).
• Port Security and Trade with Asia: Australia from Federation to 9/11, ($4,125 CA ARS REGS 2007 round).
• ‘History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP) South East Asia’, Chief Investigator, (US$35,000 approx A$46,900, HMAP, Census of Marine Life, 2006).
• Seminar on Port Privatisation, ($10,000, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, 2005).
• ‘Phase II – Artisanal shark and ray fisheries in East Indonesia: their socioeconomic and fishery characteristics and relationship to Australian resources’, Chief Investigators Professor Ian Potter, Associate Professor Malcolm Tull, Dr W. White, ( $223,367Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, 2004).
• “Voices From the West End: The Fremantle Living Histories Project,’ Chief Investigator with Emeritus Professor G. Bolton, Dr B. Bunt, Dr J. Macbeth, Associate Professor R. Reece and Dr R. Strong (Yr 1- $80,000, Yr 2- $90,000 Yr3- $25,000, Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, 2003).
• ‘Artisanal shark and ray fisheries in eastern Indonesia’, with Chief Investigator Professor Ian Potter, ($134,466 Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, 2001).
• ‘Oral History of the Australian Fishing Industry CD Rom’, ($8165 Fisheries Research & Development Corporation 1999/2000).
• Purchase of microfiche collection of material on the American Occupation of Japan ($5,000, Murdoch University Special Research Grant, 1999).
• ‘A comparative study of port reform in Australia and New Zealand’ ($4042 Murdoch University Research Quantum funds 1998).
• ‘Economic prospects for aquaculture in Western Australia’, ($4283, Murdoch University Research Quantum funds 1997).
• ‘Bibliography of University these about maritime history’, ($4,400, Murdoch University Special Research Grant, 1996).
• ‘The development of overseas markets for the Western Australian Aquaculture industry’, ($10,987 Asia Research Centre, 1995).
• Prospects for Australian Seafood Exports: a Case Study of the Taiwanese Market, ($15,996, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, 1993).
• World Bank Database (with Associate Professor Phil Lewis and Associate Professor B. Armstrong ($593, Australian Research Council, Mechanism A Infrastructure Funds, 1993).
• Resource use and environmental management in Japan, ($5,750-Special Research Grant, Murdoch University, jointly with A. R. Krishnan, 1992).
• The Economic and Social History of the WA Fishing Industry, ($6,000-Special Research Grant, Murdoch University, 1991).
• The History of the Australian Fishing Industry, ($83,000 Fishing Industry Research and Development Council, 1988-90).

Other External Research Grants & Consultancies

• Western Australian Marine Science Institution’s (WAMSI) Node 4 Project 4.5 ‘Socio-Economic Implications Associated with Implementing EBFM’ ($174,390 2008).

Teaching

Units Taught

Associate Professor Malcolm Tull currently coordinates and teaches the following units:

• C162 Australian Business and Economy
• C272 The Changing Economies of Asia
• MBS531 Economics of Globalisation

Malcolm also supervises students at both the honours and postgraduate levels.

University and Community Service

Associate Professor Malcolm Tull was Head of the School of Economics on three occasions and in 2002 became the Deputy Head of the Murdoch Business School when the School was created through the merger of the Schools of Commerce and Economics, serving in this role until June 2004. At Murdoch University, he has been a member of numerous committees including the University Lecturer Promotions Committee, the University’s Information Planning and Technology Committee, the Academic Staff Promotion Appeals Committee, and the Research Degrees and Scholarships Committee. Malcolm has been Honorary Secretary (1983-88), President (1993-98), and is currently Treasurer of the Australian Association for Maritime History. In 2005 Malcolm was elected Vice-President of the Economic Society of Australia Inc., Western Australian Branch and in 2008 President. Since July 2008 Malcolm has been Vice-President of the International Maritime Economic History Association.

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