Abstract
This year and next mark the centenary of national professional forestry education in Australia, with the Australian Forestry School (AFS) established first at the University of Adelaide in 1926 before transferring to Canberra as a Commonwealth entity in 1927. The national program followed the prior establishment of the Victorian School of Forestry at Creswick in 1910 and a School of Forestry at the University of Adelaide in 1911. Both the national and Victorian models, subsequently incorporated into the Australian National and Melbourne Universities, respectively, and the program initiated in the 1990’s at Southern Cross University, served the needs of forestry education for both Australia and the wider region, encompassing at various times Burma, Malaysia and New Zealand (amongst others), throughout the 20th Century.