 The society has established a joint committee with the Professional Historians Association (Queensland) to award an annual John Douglas Kerr Medal for Distinction in historiography, historical research and writing since 2005.The medal honours John Douglas Kerr (19422003), a CSIRO statistician, railways enthusiast and historian who joined the society in 1967.He served as a councillor, editor of the Journal (from 1985) and the honorary librarian.