  In July/August last year, a group of 50 galactic astronomers convened at Dunk
Island, Australia to celebrate Prof. Ken Freeman's 60th birthday. The
overarching theme of the meeting reflected Ken's wish to understand ``the chain
of events that occurred during the formation of the Galaxy", to quote from his
Annual Reviews article in 1987. The workshop was divided into four parts:
galaxy structure and dynamics, haloes and environments, HI and dark matter,
galaxy formation and evolution.
