CQU Bundaberg's Associate Professor Karl Neuenfeldt contributed the sociological and demographic research underpinning a 'Boom Baby Boom' exhibition, which has toured to over a dozen locations across Australia.

Dr Neuenfeldt - a baby boomer himself - is also the keynote speaker for a special 'Boom Baby Boom' event next week - in conjunction with the exhibition - to celebrate Seniors Week 2006 at the Queensland Museum.

The event is on Tuesday, August 22.

Audience members are being invited to join 60s celebrities Normie Rowe and Carol Lloyd for a trivia quiz and afternoon tea at the museum.

'Boom Baby Boom' is a travelling exhibition of the Bundaberg Arts Centre, an Arts and Cultural Initiative of the Bundaberg City Council funded by Visions of Australia.

"Doing the research was a great opportunity to re-connect and in some cases vicariously re-live, or at least re-remember, some of the people, places and things that were special to my own ‘coming of age’ which did not always equate with the ‘getting of wisdom’," Dr Neuenfeldt said.

Baby Boomers is the term for the generation of post World War 2 children who came to maturity [or some would say entered endless adolescence] in the 1960s and 1970s.

The same demographic phenomenon occurred in Western countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK and the United States.

Between 1946 and 1964 there were 4.2 million births in Australia. It was an era of general economic prosperity, large-scale immigration and cultural and societal stability.