The Great Australian Dream- A Home of our Own
Home ownership is once again a hot political issue. As house prices rose inexorably in the early twenty first century, many young people found themselves locked out of home ownership. […]
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Consuming Fashion: Fibres and Fun in the 1960s
Online , AustraliaThe next installment in the seminar series from Deakin University, Australian Catholic University and Old Treasury! ‘Material Histories’ presents new scholarship from a wide range of speakers, all united by […]
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Looking back on the Swinging Sixties
Online , AustraliaWhat comes to mind when we think about the ‘Swinging Sixties’? Is it miniskirts and pop music, street protest, or the Pill? Do we remember rebellious youth and ‘the generation […]
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Making Public Histories: Thinking about the weather heatwaves and history in twentieth century Australia
Online , AustraliaHeatwaves are forgotten killers as deaths occur silently, in homes and institutions. In urban and temperate areas heatwaves evaporate from our memory, erased by the drama of fire, flood and […]
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Material Histories: Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Fashionable Consumption and Australian Wool ‘Waste’
Online , AustraliaWe live surrounded by material things. Some are mundane and utilitarian, others exotic objects of desire, but all our belongings have something to say about who we are and how […]
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Media Literacy and Political Cartoons in the classroom (for Educators)
Online , AustraliaThe Museum of Australian Democracy is excited to work with The Old Treasury Building to present an online Teacher Professional Development: Media Literacy and Political Cartoons in the classroom. This online […]
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Making Public Histories: Women and the criminal justice system in Australia
Online , AustraliaWomen were outsiders in the criminal justice system for most of the nineteenth century. Unable to practice law, sit on juries or serve in the police force, they were subject […]
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In Conversation with Matt Golding, Political Cartoonist of the Year
Online , AustraliaJoin Political Cartoonist of the Year Matt Golding and last year’s winner Megan Herbert as they discuss Behind the Lines 2025 with the exhibition curator Matthew Jones. Both hailing from Melbourne […]
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Glee East Celebrates the 1960s
Old Treasury Building 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaJoin Glee East on the Old Treasury Building steps to celebrate the 'Swinging 60s' exhibition with a fun free set of much-loved music from the 1960s. What better way to […]
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Material Histories: Belief, Magic and the Supernatural: the Power of Objects
Online , AustraliaWe live surrounded by material things. Some are mundane and utilitarian, others exotic objects of desire, but all our belongings have something to say about who we are and how […]
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