ACA Annual Conferences & PF Thompson Lecturers | |||
Year | Location | Memorial Lecturer | Topic of Lecture |
| 1960 | Melbourne | ||
| 1961 | Sydney | ||
| 1962 | Auckland | ||
| 1963 | Adelaide | ||
| 1964 | Newcastle | ||
| 2965 | Melbourne | ||
| 1966 | Sydney (Manly) | ||
| 1967 | Brisbane | ||
| 1968 | Auckland | ||
| 1969 | Perth | ||
| 1970 | Newcastle | ||
| 1971 | Melbourne | Dr Edmund Potter (inaugural lecture) | The Corrosion Scene in Australia |
| 1972 | Adelaide | ||
| 1973 | Brisbane | ||
| 1974 | Hobart | Professor H Muir | Corrosion and Engineering Design |
| 1975 | Sydney-6th ICMC | ||
| 1976 | Auckland | Professor A L Titchener | Corrosion – Battle between consumption and conservation |
| 1977 | Newcastle | ||
| 1978 | Melbourne | Jack Thompson | |
| 1979 | Perth | ||
| 1980 | Adelaide | Professor Mattsson | |
| 1981 | Brisbane | Professor L E Lyons | |
| 1982 | Hobart | J C Scully | Pitting Corrosion |
| 1983 | Sydney | Professor G R Wallwork | Corrosion – Australia versus England |
| 1984 | Rotorua | Graham A Wright | The Reactivity and Passivity of Metal Surfaces |
| 1985 | Newcastle | Professor E O Hall | |
| 1986 | Adelaide | Graeme Kelly | Experts, Expertise and Expert Systems |
| 1987 | Melbourne | Professor Brian Cherry | |
| 1988 | Perth | Dr Ian D McLeod | Lessons from the past, Hope for the future |
| 1989 | Gold Coast | ||
| 1990 | Auckland | John Duncan | Materials and Maintenance |
| 1991 | Sydney | ||
| 1992 | Hobart | G Robilliard | Synergy in Cause and Prevention |
| 1993 | Newcastle | Les Boulton | |
| 1994 | Adelaide | Dr David Nicholas | |
| 1995 | Perth | Dr Peter Farinha | Corrosion Management in Mining – MIC a Problem |
| 1996 | Melbourne | Prof Brian Cherry | |
| 1997 | Brisbane | Dr Paul Schweinsberg | Modern Science, Technology and the Learned Society |
| 1998 | Hobart | ||
| 1999 | Sydney | Dr Bruce Hinton | |
| 2000 | Auckland | T Betts | Corrosion Technology from the Industrial Age to the Information Age and Beyond |
| 2001 | Newcastle | Mr Brian Martin | Stray Current Corrosion Real Corrosion |
| 2002 | Adelaide | Ian McLeod | Electrons Lost in Paradise |
| 2003 | Mark Weston | ||
| 2004 | Perth | Robert de Graaf | Corrosion Management Australia |
| 2005 | |||
| 2006 | |||
| 2007 | Sydney | Fred Salome | State of Corrosion Address |
| 2008 | Wellington | Keith Lichti | Accelerated Corrosion Testing |
| 2009 | Coffs Harbour | Rob Melchers | Experiments, Science and Intuition in the Development of Models for the Corrosion of Steel Infrastructure |
| 2010 | Adelaide | Dennis Richards | The Good, The Bad and the Ugly of the Heavy Duty Coating Industry |
| 2011 | Perth (ICC) | Ian MacLeod | Consuming Corrosion –A Journey into the Realm of Materials Conservation |
| 2012 | Melbourne | Graham Sussex | A Journey Through Stainless Steel |
| 2013 | Brisbane | Arthur Austin | Where Theory Meets Practice; Some Demonstrations and Case Histories |
| 2014 | Darwin | Warren Green | Electrochemistry and Its Relevance in Reinforced Concrete Durability, Repair and Protection |
| 2015 | Adelaide | Rob Francis | Who Rusts First: Revisiting Galvanic Corrosion |
| 2016 | Auckland | Patricia Shaw | Corrosion of Polymeric Materials |
| 2017 | Sydney | Maria Forsyth | Controlling Corrosion with Chemistry |
| 2018 | Adelaide | Brian Kinsella | Addressing Several Critical Issues on the Mechanism CO2 and its Inhibition |
| 2019 | Melbourne | Willie Mandeno | Corrosion and Civil Engineering; What has changed? |
| 2022 | Newcastle | Ted Riding | Why some coatings do not measure up |
| 2023 | Perth | Geoffrey Will | Electrochemistry, Corrosion and Data Analytics: A Pathway to Education and Better Asset Integrity |
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