“…This was also apparent in the UK’s analogous efforts in the late 1990s to establish clear learning outcomes in the introduction of its History Benchmark Statement for undergraduate programmes in 2000, now twice revised (Booth, 2010). In Australia, historians faced similar difficult choices, in the end formulating discipline standards influenced by yet outside of Tuning which reflected both the diversity and commonality of practice in their national discipline community (Brawley et al., 2011). In all efforts to establish discipline-wide standards, there have been disagreements, resistances and the (eventual) forging of consensus.…”