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Oral histories of Lake Tyers and surrounds

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Oral histories of Lake Tyers and surrounds

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2020 Lake Tyers Oral Histories – Wurinbeena

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Ballarat and District Aboriginal Co-op and it's founding. Interviews with the founders and staff.

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Ballarat And District Aboriginal Co-operative

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Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia brings together historical materials from national and international collections in languages other than English. We seek to rethink and enlarge narratives about Australia that come solely from English-language sources, by showing modern Australia to be a complex multilingual creation. This project is funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant.

The site consists of collections of text-based articles, newspapers and images. You can explore these and carry out searches through the 'go to archive' button and clicking on the different categories.

We acknowledge the First Nations peoples of Australia and other sites referred to in this collection of documents. The University of Sydney, where we are based, is on the unceded land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, and we pay particular respect to them.

Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this site may contain or link to material which could be culturally sensitive, including records of people who have passed away.

Languages

Key periods

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Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia (OMAA) - The University of Sydney - Opening the Archive

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Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia brings together historical materials from national and international collections in languages other than English. We seek to rethink and enlarge narratives about Australia that come solely from English-language sources, by showing modern Australia to be a complex multilingual creation.

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The largest collection ever assembled of historic photographs dating from 1859 to the 1960’s in and of the South-West of Victoria.

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A Century of Australian Advertising Posters

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A Century of Australian Advertising Posters

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What can we learn from the sentiment and imagery used to sell Australians of the past food, excitement and adventure? How are they reflected in the advertising images we still see today?

The National Library of Australia holds a vast number of late-19th and 20th-century Australian advertising posters that are now available to explore online. The collection features many famous brands and illustrators of the time, including Bushells, Ever Ready, James Northfield, Gert Sellheim and Norman Lindsay.

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What can we learn from the sentiment and imagery used to sell Australians of the past food, excitement and adventure? How are they reflected in the advertising images we still see today?

The National Library of Australia holds a vast number of late-19th and 20th-century Australian advertising posters that are now available to explore online. The collection features many famous brands and illustrators of the time, including Bushells, Ever Ready, James Northfield, Gert Sellheim and Norman Lindsay.

The lone, glamorously dressed Ceylonese tea-picker above was a feature of Bushells advertising over quite a long period in the early 1900s. Spending the day picking only the upper-most leaves of Camellia sinensis appears exotic, glamorous and thoroughly relaxing, and presumably this is the feeling we're meant to believe is imparted when drinking a cup. Unlike other Bushells posters of the time, this one, mercifully, does away with the continued pun that regularly featured on her basket: 'Bushells of flavour'.

Estonian-born Gert Sellheim also used a female figure as the focus of his poster for the Australian National Travel Association, albeit in a more familiar setting. Aimed at encouraging visitors from overseas, Sellheim famously portrayed our beaches and sunshine. This example showcases his signature technique of combining text, image and photomontage, which distinguished Sellheim from his contemporaries Percy Trompf and James Northfield. Sellheim went on to design the Qantas flying kangaroo logo, and his travel poster archetypes, focussing on beach culture and natural beauty, continue to be used by government agencies to promote Australian tourism today.

A prominent navel of a different kind is the highlight of a 1930s poster promoting oranges from Yanco, New South Wales. With colours and styling that are instantly recognisable as dating from the Art Deco period, it makes us wish that Sunbright and King Sol oranges were still available. Perhaps better known for wheat and barley these days, Yanco remains the largest vegetable-producing area outside the Sydney Basin, and so perhaps it's time for the 'Fresh from Yanco!' slogan to make a return. At the very least, it would be less confusing than ' Orange-grown black muscat grapes '.

Billing Murray as 'The most amazing, sensational and mysterious man of this or any other age', perhaps the most mysterious thing about this poster from the 1920s is what exactly Murray did with those handcuffs - clearly too small for his wrists - or how you went about acquiring a ticket.

And while we're examining mysteries, why does the Australian version of the Voodoo Tiger film poster depict Johnny Weissmuller as Jungle Jim, attempting to stab a lion? It appears that this was a rehash of the poster for Weissmuller's previous film Tarzan the Ape Man, and our version substitutes this lionised tiger for the heavily stereotyped African who appeared on the American poster.

Previously, the bulk of this amazing collection could only be seen onsite at the Library in Canberra. The digitisation of these posters, thanks to generous support of our 2019 fundraising appeal, has unlocked these images and made them available to all Australians via Trove. Take a digital break and explore the images used to sell Australians products, travel and excitement from a time when advertising really hit its stride in Australia.

By Greg Bell
Use our finding aid to explore digitised Australian advertising posters through Trove.

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A Century of Australian Advertising Posters

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What can we learn from the sentiment and imagery used to sell Australians of the past food, excitement and adventure? How are they reflected in the advertising images we still see today?The National Library of Australia holds a vast number of late-19th and 20th-century Australian advertising posters that are now available to explore online.

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Long time listener - Listening Post magazine

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Long time listener - Listening Post magazine

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Listening Post is the magazine produced by Sydney community radio station 2SER FM from 1979 to 1997. It was launched just before the station itself in October 1979, designed to capture the mood, but also the progress, of a rapidly changing media industry at the time. With the print edition, 2SER, or ‘Sydney Educational Radio’, was able to provide the city and its surrounds with a broad resource to connect and continue to learn. Initiated by the station’s first manager, Keith Jackson AM, the magazine soon gained a dedicated following of those who wanted to get a grass roots, but also truly independent, view of the Australian media landscape.

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Listening Post is the magazine produced by Sydney community radio station 2SER FM from 1979 to 1997. It was launched just before the station itself in October 1979, designed to capture the mood, but also the progress, of a rapidly changing media industry at the time. With the print edition, 2SER, or ' Sydney Educational R adio', was able to provide the city and its surrounds with a broad resource to connect and continue to learn. Initiated by the station's first manager, AM, the magazine soon gained a dedicated following of those who wanted to get a grass roots, but also truly independent, view of the Australian media landscape.

A star-studded cast

Importantly, the station has been a place for marginalised communities to connect and thrive - providing support for those who needed it during unnecessary persecution (through the pioneering 'Gaywaves' programming of the 1970s and 1980s, when LGBTQI people were being particularly targeted), as well as a first step towards specialist Indigenous programming (with pioneering broadcasters and activists ). Women's and non-binary communities were also supported with initiatives like 'Crystal Set', as well as generalist, independent news like The Wire and Razor's Edge.

Getting about a collaboration between the University of New South Wales and the University Of Wollongong to support the Listening Post deposited into Trove began when I saw a deposit of magazine Art Express. Notably, this model showed two universities working together to provide an excellent accessible public artefact that will now be permanently displayed and protected. Inspired by this, the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Macquarie University, the two supporters of 2SER, each provided funding to support the digitisation of Listening Post, thereby ensuring the magazine, which up until that point was held only in boxes or incomplete collections, could be widely and permanently accessible.

Surprising and delightful finds

Another special edition

In an exciting update since we 'went to Trove', in 2020 the station has been able to revive re waiting, Listening Post as a 'subscriber special' publication for its annual Radiothon supporter drive. The special issue combined the best of 'now' with 40 of the best stories from the station's history to date. To do this, editor Demetrius Romeo dove into Trove to find, confirm and rebuild details that had otherwise been lost to time or sketchy memory. The special issue isn t up on Trove yet, but give it time! While you browse issues from 1979 to 1997 of the Listening Post.
Dr Liz Giuffre is a Senior Lecturer in Communications for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney.

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Listening Post is the magazine produced by Sydney community radio station 2SER FM from 1979 to 1997. It was launched just before the station itself in October 1979, designed to capture the mood, but also the progress, of a rapidly changing media industry at the time.

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Australian Federation full text database 

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Australian Federation full text database 

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This database provides access to the key primary source texts of Australian Federation, including the official reports of the debates of the 1890s, the major participants' accounts and memoirs, as well as a number of important related texts.

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Welcome to the Australian Federation Full-Text Database. Digital Conversion of the core collection was funded by the NSW Centenary of Federation in 2001. Digital reproduction of the works of Robert Garran has been undertaken with the kind permission of Mrs Win Garran, Deakin, ACT.

Introduction by Helen Irving

When the Constitution's framers gave the Commonwealth powers over "postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services", in an era when the radio was still a utopian dream, they could not have imagined that other like services would come to include the internet. But, being High Victorians, they were all very excited by the prospects of scientific advancement and progress... More

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Australian Federation Full Text Database

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Welcome to the Australian Federation Full-Text Database. Digital Conversion of the core collection was funded by the NSW Centenary of Federation in 2001. Digital reproduction of the works of Robert Garran has been undertaken with the kind permission of Mrs Win Garran, Deakin, ACT.

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The National Archives of Australia cares for and makes accessible the most significant Australian Government records to help tell our national story – past, present and future.

With more than 40 million items, our collection includes records about military service, immigration, First Australians and much more.

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The National Archives of Australia cares for and makes accessible over 40 million Australian Government records to help tell our national story - past, present and future.

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The Hansard is the report of the proceedings of the Australian parliament and its committees. This includes the Senate, House of Representatives, the Federation Chamber and all parliamentary committees.

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The Hansard is the report of the proceedings of the Australian parliament and its committees. This includes the Senate, House of Representatives, the Federation Chamber and all parliamentary committees.

Follow Hansard on Twitter at @AUS_Hansard to receive direct notifications when reports are published.

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The Hansard is the report of the proceedings of the Australian parliament and its committees. This includes the Senate, House of Representatives, the Federation Chamber and all parliamentary committees. Follow Hansard on Twitter at @AUS_Hansard to receive direct notifications when reports are published.

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1901-1980 Commonwealth of Australia parliamentary debates presented in an easy-to-read format for historians and other lovers of political speech.

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Lot's Wife is the official student newspaper of Monash University's Clayton Campus. Lot's Wife is distributed around campus on a monthly basis, and is freely available to all students, staff and visitors to the University. Lot’s Wife is run entirely by students, under the leadership of a small number of editors elected by the student body.

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Lot's Wife is the official student newspaper of Monash University's Clayton Campus. Lot's Wife is distributed around campus on a monthly basis, and is freely available to all students, staff and visitors to the University. Lot's Wife is run entirely by students, under the leadership of a small number of editors elected by the student body.

In 2016, the editors are Lisa Healy, Carina Florea and Tim Newport.

Lot's Wife was founded in 1964, and for almost 50 years Lot's Wife has upheld the core tenet 'Never Look Back' in its ongoing pursuits as a socially progressive student newspaper.

Access to the Research Repository issues are embargoed for 10 years after date of publication. Current issues may be available on the Lot's Wife website

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Lot's Wife is the official student newspaper of Monash University's Clayton Campus. Lot's Wife is distributed around campus on a monthly basis, and is freely available to all students, staff and visitors to the University.

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Vagrants and Murderesses: Melbourne's Criminal Women

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Vagrants and Murderesses: Melbourne's Criminal Women

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On 3rd of Feb 1855 Bridget Plunkett was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for the crime of robbery. A 48 year old servant unable to write, Plunkett does not appear a woman of any great significance. However, ‘No. 1’. Is carefully written in the left hand corner of her prison record.

Plunkett, most likely unbeknownst to her, was the first of many women to be recorded in the first book of the Victorian Female Prison register. Created by the Penal and Gaols Branch , the the Victorian Female Prison register records the name and details of female prisoners in custody in Victorian gaols since 1855.
Plunkett was to be the first of many. Between 1855 and 1948 over 7000 women were recorded in the register. Today, sixteen volumes containing over 7000 files are open for public viewing at the Public Record Office Victoria. 900 of these are accompanied by mugshots, stunningly evocative images that show complex moments and emotions.

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Between 1855 and 1948 over 7,000 women were recorded in the Victorian criminal register. Today, sixteen volumes containing countless files and mugshots are open for public viewing.

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Reason in revolt : source documents of Australian radicalism

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Reason in revolt : source documents of Australian radicalism

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The Reason in Revolt project aims to bring together primary source documents of Australian radicalism as a readily accessible digitised resource. By 'radical' we refer to those who aimed to make society more equal and to emancipate the exploited or oppressed. As it grows and develops, the project website will become an expanding record of the movements, institutions, venues and publications through which radicals sought to influence Australian society.

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Reason in Revolt brings together primary source documents of Australian radicalism as a readily accessible digitised resource. By 'radical' we refer to those who aimed to make society more equal and to emancipate the exploited or oppressed. The Reason in Revolt website is an expanding record of the movements, institutions, venues and publications through which radicals sought to influence Australian society.

Reason in Revolt is sustained through a partnership with the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Melbourne Branch.

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Reason in Revolt brings together primary source documents of Australian radicalism as a readily accessible digitised resource. By 'radical' we refer to those who aimed to make society more equal and to emancipate the exploited or oppressed. The Reason in Revolt website is an expanding record of the movements, institutions, venues and publications through which radicals sought to influence Australian society.

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The Melbourne directories are a comprehensive listing of city addresses and occupants organised alphabetically by streets across the central city. It is augmented by alphabetical, trade and professional listings, as well as information on leading financial, government, official, ecclesiastical, legal and municipal institutions, and other miscellaneous advertisements, maps and information. The directory includes town as well as suburban listings, with coverage including Melbourne proper and, from year to year, the expanding suburbs of the greater metropolitan region.

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The Melbourne directories are a comprehensive listing of city addresses and occupants organised alphabetically by streets across the central city. It is augmented by alphabetical, trade and professional listings, as well as information on leading financial, government, official, ecclesiastical, legal and municipal institutions, and other miscellaneous advertisements, maps and information. The directory includes town as well as suburban listings, with coverage including Melbourne proper and, from year to year, the expanding suburbs of the greater metropolitan region.

This collection currently spans directories from 1857 to 1880. Due to size constraints, each yearly directory is broken up into multiple files.

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The Melbourne directories are a comprehensive listing of city addresses and occupants organised alphabetically by streets across the central city. It is augmented by alphabetical, trade and professional listings, as well as information on leading financial, government, official, ecclesiastical, legal and municipal institutions, and other miscellaneous advertisements, maps and information.

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While these plans are mainly concerned with recording ‘cadastral’ information, or the boundaries of properties, there are many sequences and plans that record other types of information as well.  You might find:

early descriptions of soils and native vegetation

location of huts, fences, gardens and other capital improvements made by squatters

location of other buildings

tracks used by colonial settlers

reserves set aside for public use

early place names

location of pastoral runs

ship wrecks

the general progress of European settlement at various times

progress of cadastral, geodetic and physiographic surveys at particular times

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We're testing new functionality for searching the PROV collection

We are redesigning our catalogue. To take a sneak peek click on the slider to the right, search and order your records and send us some feedback. You can also order records as normal via this site below. You may need to perform a search again if switching between old and Beta versions of the site.

Record Series Number (VPRS): 8168

What do I need to know?

The following information will help you find records of interest to you:

If the plan you want has not been digitised then you will need to order the plan and then complete the request form.

How do I search?

Use the first search box to search for digitised plans only, or the second search box to search across all plans (or, on the results page you can filter the results to show only digital or physical records). Around 45% of the 11,000+ plans have been digitised.

You can search this record series online for a particular plan by parish, town, type or other place name. Some maps include a surveyor name e.g. Hoddle. If you would like a digital copy of a plan see Next Steps below.

About these records

The historic plans collection is a collection of early surveys and other kinds of maps kept by the Department of Crown Lands and Survey between 1836 and 1984. It is an important resource for exploring the beginnings of European settlement in Victoria. An explanation of the classification codes can be found here. Note that microfiche of the County, Old Roads, New Roads and Electric Telegraph plans has not been transferred to PROV.

Who created these records?

The majority of the physical plans are closed to public access for preservation reasons.

Next Steps

Once you have found records of interest to you, order them online, note down the name of the plan and then view corresponding image on microfiche in our Reading Room. If the record is one of the 45% of the collection that has been digitised, look for 'digital records' on the left hand side of the search results screen to see if a digitised image of the plan is available. Public users cannot place orders on s11 records.

You can submit a digital copy request form found here. Or, if you mention the plan name in our online inquiries form we can review the plan to see if it's possible to view in person.

What are in these records?

While these plans are mainly concerned with recording 'cadastral' information, or the boundaries of properties, there are many sequences and plans that record other types of information as well. You might find:

early descriptions of soils and native vegetation

location of huts, fences, gardens and other capital improvements made by squatters

location of other buildings

tracks used by colonial settlers

reserves set aside for public use

early place names

location of pastoral runs

ship wrecks

the general progress of European settlement at various times

progress of cadastral, geodetic and physiographic surveys at particular times

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The Everyday War - World War I and the City of Melbourne

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The Everyday War - World War I and the City of Melbourne

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The majority of Australians experienced World War I not on the battlefields of Europe or Africa but at home, in everyday ways in the cities and towns where they lived and worked. While spatially distant from the battlefront, daily life in Melbourne was filled with events and interactions that brought the war home and affected the city and its citizens on multiple levels. Public life and entertainment, economic prosperity, the day-to-day running of the city, international trade relationships, housing and health, and the lives of ordinary individuals — all would be changed and shaped by the conflict.

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The majority of Australians experienced World War I not on the battlefields of Europe or Africa but at home, in everyday ways in the cities and towns where they lived and worked. While spatially distant from the battlefront, daily life in Melbourne was filled with events and interactions that brought the war home and affected the city and its citizens on multiple levels. Public life and entertainment, economic prosperity, the day-to-day running of the city, international trade relationships, housing and health, and the lives of ordinary individuals - all would be changed and shaped by the conflict. This feature explores the experience of the war, through one particular collection of documents from the archives of the City of Melbourne, in order to tell the big and small stories of war in the city.

This website presents around 600 files and almost 6000 individual pages from the Town Clerk's files that reveal the everyday war in Melbourne. The files can be browsed by year or by theme to enable users to discover the rich array of material in the collection and to provide a valuable resource for students, researchers and members of the public.

Read an in depth critical examination of these records and their profound importance - and the ways in which they can be used to tell the big and small stories of war in the city - in the article 'World War I on the Home Front: the City of Melbourne 1914-1918' in Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria (issue 15, 2016-2017) by Nicole Davis, Nicholas Coyne and Andrew J May.

See: World War I on the Home Front: the City of Melbourne 1914-1918

Years

The City of Melbourne Town Clerk's correspondence (VPRS 3181 and VPRS 3183) is a diverse collection of documents that record much of the minutiae of everyday life in the city. The records from 1914 to early 1919 form an assemblage through which the workings of the council and the life of the city and its inhabitants during this period can be traced and in which the effect of the war can be discerned.

Themes

Themes that run through the correspondence enable comparison of experiences in Melbourne with other cities in Australia and the world. These themes traverse diverse aspects of public and private life within the city, such as the usage of urban spaces, the workings of council, participation in patriotic acts, international trade and political relationships, the role of women, children and other non-combatants, the presence and impact of the federal government and military forces, and the repercussions of the war.

Connections

Birmingham

Melbourne (Australia) and Birmingham (England) were very similar sized cities of Empire whose populations were vastly separated in distance, but in intimate political and cultural alliance through the Great War. The Voices of War and Peace: the Great War and its Legacy project, led by Professor Ian Grosvenor at the University of Birmingham, provides a web-based resource on the experience of the war on the home front, and covers themes including: belief and the Great War; childhood; cities at war; commemoration; gender and the home front; peace and conflict.

See: www.voicesofwarandpeace.org

Bendigo

The experience of the War on the home front in regional Victoria is explored in a WW1 Resource Kit developed by Dr Michele Matthews at the Bendigo Regional Archives Centre. Digitised records from municipal correspondence files reveal a range of responses to issues including: school children's contributions to patriotic and War Savings funds' collections; the formation and activities of local voluntary fundraising groups; enlistment figures; plans for closer land settlement for returned soldiers, in the Bendigo and district area; the plans to construct the Soldiers' War Memorial in Pall Mall.

See: www.brac.vic.gov.au/Digital_Records/WWI_Resource_Kit

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The majority of Australians experienced World War I not on the battlefields of Europe or Africa but at home, in everyday ways in the cities and towns where they lived and worked. While spatially distant from the battlefront, daily life in Melbourne was filled with events and interactions that brought the war home and affected the city and its citizens on multiple levels.

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National Archives of Australia - Cabinet Papers

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National Archives of Australia - Cabinet Papers

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The Cabinet of Australia is made up of the Prime Minister and senior government ministers.

Cabinet records in the National Archives provide a fascinating look at the issues and decisions our government has faced over the decades.

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Cabinet records in the National Archives provide a fascinating look at the issues and decisions our government has faced over the decades.

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Museum of applied arts and sciences digitised collections

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Museum of applied arts and sciences digitised collections

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Explore the extensive MAAS collection through sets of objects selected by theme.
These collection sets are presented as a starting point to browse the collection and new sets are added regularly.

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The Powerhouse acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the ancestral homelands upon which our museums are situated. We respect their Elders, past, present and future and recognise their continuous connection to Country.

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Digitised as part of the "Digitised newspapers and more" which allows access to historic Australian periodicals.

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The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982)

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Title information for The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982)

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Five criminal casebooks, one civil casebook and other papers of Judge Willis, the first judge in Port Phillip (later Victoria) from March 1841 to July 1843, have survived and were passed to the Royal Historical Society of Victoria (RHSV) in 1909 by James Palmer Savage, and are now in the manuscripts collection of the RHSV. The Judge Willis Casebooks are an invaluable record of Victoria’s early legal jurisdiction and early Port Phillip life.

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Five criminal casebooks, one civil casebook and other papers of Judge Willis, the first judge in Port Phillip (later Victoria) from March 1841 to July 1843, have survived and were passed to the Royal Historical Society of Victoria (RHSV) in 1909 by James Palmer Savage, and are now in the manuscripts collection of the RHSV. The Judge Willis Casebooks are an invaluable record of Victoria's early legal jurisdiction and early Port Phillip life.

The Judge Willis Casebooks exist on this site as transcriptions with commentaries, with a name indexand supporting documentsall completed by His Honour Paul R. Mullaly QC. Original scans are available alongside the transcripts and all that is available on this site can be seen on the Willis Collection Overview. Other contextualising materials exist on this website at the support materials page.

A podcastof the talk given by The Honourable Chief Justice Marilyn Warren marking her launch of the site on 16 September 2014 is available. Also there is a podcast of a conversation between Janine Rizzetti, Richard Broome, Damien Carrick and Jon Faine on the ABC 'Conversation Hour' about Judge Willis on 19 September 2014.

The original casebooks and/or their high resolution digitised originals can be viewed at the RHSV by genuine researchers. The RHSV's collection also contains another fifteen casebooks relating to New South Wales, which have not been transcribed, but which can be consulted at the RHSV - again in original or digitised form.

Copyright in the Willis papers resides with the RHSV. Copyright of the materials on this website reside with the authors, as indicated, but may be used with fair dealing for research and educational purposes.

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The Judge Willis Casebooks - Royal Historical Society of Victoria

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Five criminal casebooks, one civil casebook and other papers of Judge Willis, the first judge in Port Phillip (later Victoria) from March 1841 to July 1843, have survived and were passed to the Royal Historical Society of Victoria (RHSV) in 1909 by James Palmer Savage, and are now in the manuscripts collection of the RHSV.

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A catalogue of historical images of Chinese, Chinese immigrants and their descendants held in Australia. It primarily draws on the photographic holdings of the Chinese Museum but also includes photographs from other online archives, publications and private family collections.

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Home - Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia

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Home - Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia, This is a catalogue of historical images of Chinese held in Australia from a range of publications, public and private collections. It also contains information to contextualize the images with bibliographic references to assist further research.

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The National Archives of Australia developed the Discovering ANZACs website in partnership with Archives New Zealand allowing the public online access to original records, and files relating to the war experience both abroad and at home in Australia and New Zealand.

A large selection of photographs from the National Archives and Archives New Zealand is also available, including images of battle sites, maps and strategic plans, personal photographic collections of significant people, as well as official photographs of some soldiers and most internees.

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Battle to Farm: WWI soldier settlement records in Victoria

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Battle to Farm: WWI soldier settlement records in Victoria

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Enables access to nearly 10,000 government records on the Victorian Soldier Settlement Scheme. The Victorian Soldier Settlement Scheme helped settle thousands of returned WWI soldiers on farming land across Victoria through government leases, drastically transforming the landscape of regional Victoria. Through the digitised resources, we can see not only the land allocated to each settler, but the hardships they faced.

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A history of St Kilda’s “golden age” between 1841 and 1900 has won the top prize at the prestigious Victorian Community History Awards, which were presented at the Arts Centre Melbourne on the 2nd of February 2024. Award winners in 12 categories spanned a wide breadth of the state’s history, covering diverse topics including 19th century St Kilda, the 1970s Pram Factory, the loss of “Marvellous Melbourne” and contemporary social media takes on the urban environment.

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The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918

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Links to the following digitisation projects:
Battle to Farm, available via http://soldiersettlement.prov.vic.gov.au, enables access to nearly 10,000 government records on the Victorian Soldier Settlement Scheme.
The National Archives of Australia developed the Discovering ANZACs website, https://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au, in partnership with Archives New Zealand allowing the public online access to original records from armed forces and service records, and selected correspondence.

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This year's Remembrance Day marks one hundred years of the signed Armistice to end the First World War.

After accepting the terms presented by General Foch of the French army, the Germans signed an armistice bringing an end to the War. The armistice came into effect at 11am on 11 November 1918.

This day was originally called Armistice Day in Australia in recognition of the signed agreement. At the end of World War II in 1945, the Australian and British governments changed the name to Remembrance Day to commemorate the fallen of all wars and conflicts. In October 1997, Governor-General Sir William Deane broadened the scope of the official commemorative nature of Remembrance Day by urging all Australians to remember the sacrifices not only of those who had died but also those who had otherwise suffered in Australia's cause in wars and war-like conflicts.

Commemorating the Centenary of WWI

The 11th of November 2018 also signals the end of the ANZAC Centenary commemorations. As part of the ANZAC Centenary, there have been many projects undertaken by government, councils, community groups, historians and museums across Australia. At the Victorian Archives Centre, we contributed to this assembly of history with two significant digitisation projects. The first was a Public Record Office Victoria project entitled Battle to Farm and the second project run by the National Archives, Discovering ANZACs. We also hosted an exhibition at the Old Treasury Building and awarded other impressive Victorian projects through the Victorian Community History Awards.

Battle to Farm

Battle to Farm, available via http://soldiersettlement.prov.vic.gov.au, enables access to nearly 10,000 government records on the Victorian Soldier Settlement Scheme.

The Victorian Soldier Settlement Scheme helped settle thousands of returned WWI soldiers on farming land across Victoria through government leases, drastically transforming the landscape of regional Victoria.

Over the years there has been great debate as to the success or failure of the soldier settlement scheme as ex-soldiers were entering farming life in a difficult economic climate as the world descended into the Depression. Over 50 per cent of the soldiers that were allocated blocks left the scheme. Many were unable to cover their debts when food prices plummeted, while others accused the government of leasing blocks that were too small or not suitable for farming.

Through the digitised resources, we can see not only the land allocated to each settler, but the hardships they faced. Searchable by soldier name and geographic location, the website features digitised soldier settlement records, letters from the soldiers about their farming life, video interviews of people who grew up on settlement blocks, photographs, and a guide to understanding the records.

Battle to Farm was funded by the Veterans' Branch of the Department of Premier and Cabinet as part of the Centenary of Anzac commemorations. The project was supported by Monash University, the ANZAC Commemorative Committee, Beaufort Historical Society, Stanhope Historical Society, Gippsland Historical Society, and more than 80 volunteers.

Featuring some of the records from this collection, among other personal stories and contributions, we also held an exhibition called Soldier On at Old Treasury Building, going into further detail about the Soldier Settlement Scheme and its impact on the people and development of Victoria.

Photo displayed at Old Treasury Building as part of the Soldier On exhibition, provided courtesy of Bill Rowe

Discovering ANZACs

The National Archives of Australia developed the Discovering ANZACs website, https://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au, in partnership with Archives New Zealand allowing the public online access to original records from:
* Australian Imperial Force
* Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force
* Royal Australian Navy
* Australian Flying Corps
* Australian Army Nursing Service
* depot unit personnel
* official artists, photographers, war correspondents and historians such as CEW Bean
* internees
* munitions workers
* New Zealand Boer War service records.

Additionally, the website features files relating to the war experience both abroad and at home in Australia and New Zealand:
* selected copyright and design records
* selected correspondence from departments such Defence, Security and Intelligence
* correspondence from Australian wartime governors-general
* Acts of Parliament, letters, protest material and clippings on conscription
* diaries and records of the Chief Censor.

A large selection of photographs from the National Archives and Archives New Zealand is also available, including images of battle sites, maps and strategic plans, personal photographic collections of significant people, as well as official photographs of some soldiers and most internees.

Many of the volunteers who assisted with the Battle to Farm digitisation were also involved in this project at the Victorian Archives Centre.

Victorian Community History Award winning projects

To acknowledge all of the incredible work of local community groups, councils, historical societies and historians, a special award category was introduced to the Victorian Community History Awards, which we host in partnership with the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. The projects that received the award over the course of the Centenary include:
* Suburbs at War. The cities of Malvern and Prahran during the Great War, Helen Doyle, City of Stonnington
* Home Front Ballarat WW1 Website, Ballarat & District Genealogical Society
* To Paint a War: The Lives of the Australian Artists Who Painted the Great War 1914-1918 by Richard Travers
* Lest We Forget: Southern Mitchell Shire Volunteers Who Served in World War One articles in the North Central Review newspaper by Grahame Thom and the Kilmore Historical Society

Grahame Thom (right) with Royal Historical Society President Don Garden (left)

History for future generations

All of these projects, and the many others completed across Victoria, help to ensure that the memory of World War One and the contributions of those who fought and were affected by the war will not be forgotten. Their stories will be accessible to future generations to learn and commemorate, particularly on Remembrance Day each year.

Lest we forget.

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The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918

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This year's Remembrance Day marks one hundred years of the signed Armistice to end the First World War. After accepting the terms presented by General Foch of the French army, the Germans signed an armistice bringing an end to the War. The armistice came into effect at 11am on 11 November 1918.

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Compare Melbourne as it was in 1945 with today.

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Compare Melbourne as it was in 1945 with present-day satellite imagery

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A gateway for researchers and scholars of labour history, linking together historical detail, archival resources, published material and information about Australian industrial organisations, mainly including trade unions and also employer bodies.

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Home - Australian Trade Union Archives, ATUA is a biographical, bibliographical and archival database of Australian Trade Unions and the Trade Union movement with links to related articles and images.

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Colonial Frontier Massacres in Central and Eastern Australia 1788-1930

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Colonial Frontier Massacres in Central and Eastern Australia 1788-1930

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This site presents a map, timelines, and information about massacres in Central and Eastern Australia from 1794 when the first massacre was recorded until 1930. The map also includes information about massacres of British colonists and others in Central and Eastern Australia in the same period.

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The makers of this website respectfully acknowledge the Pambalong Clan of the Awabakal Nation, the traditional custodians of the land where this website is hosted and where most of its development was done. We would also like to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations and Peoples,…

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The Di Holdway Collection is an important poster archive that shows the emerging political voice of Australia’s youth culture through poster art. The collection shows how the poster was used as a political tool during the 1970s and 1980s to actively communicate information to a mass audience. It also reveals how the decorative style has effectively been engaged to highlight social issues.

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Poster art has evolved significantly from the early posters first produced in Australia in the early 19th century that only featured text, to the posters in the Di Holdway Collection that are characterised by bold designs and effective use of photographic and graphic screen print techniques. The Di ...

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First World War databases - State Library of Victoria

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First World War databases - State Library of Victoria

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To access these databases, you need to sign up as a member to the State Library of Victoria.
To do this, click the link below, scroll down to Databases, journals and ebooks > History, and click on the First World War link.

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State Library Victoria's vast array of journals, databases, newspapers, ebooks and other online resources offers amazing information for students, browsers and serious researchers, from home or onsite.

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There are currently 22,848,223 newspaper pages and 2,026,782 gazette pages digitised and available to view in this system.

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Title coverage information for all Newspaper and Gazette title in Trove

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The Dawn: A Journal for Australian Women was an early feminist journal published monthly in Sydney, Australia between 1888 and 1905. It was first published 15 May 1888 by Louisa Lawson using the pen name of Dora Falconer. The subtitle was later changed to A Journal for the Household. It became the official publication of the Australian Federation of Women Voters.

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The Dawn (Sydney, NSW : 1888 - 1905) - Trove

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Title information for The Dawn (Sydney, NSW : 1888 - 1905)

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Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau records.

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Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau

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Current location: Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau

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Digitised content on the wartime experiences of the brave men and women who served in Australia's military forces. Includes photographs, records, manuscripts and more.

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Advanced Search | The Australian War Memorial

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Use this login for Shop items, and image, film, sound reproductions

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Explore the Stories, Collections and Organisations that make up the rich cultural life of Victoria on Culture Victoria.

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Culture Victoria is a gateway to Victoria's cultural collections and organisations. Explore the Stories, Collections and Organisations that make up the rich cultural life of Victoria