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SUMMARY:Making Public Histories: Thinking about the weather heatwaves and history in twentieth century Australia
DESCRIPTION:Heatwaves 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 storm.\nEnvironmental historians recognise the importance of climate as not simply a “backdrop against which history is played out” but an active force in Australian life. Through hospital records\, diaries and press reports\, we examine daily life in the mid-twentieth century as heatwaves unfold\, finding that decisions about sleep\, food\, housing\, clothing and social interaction\, as well as professional and domestic labour\, were disrupted and negotiated.\nBy uncovering the everyday practices by which people negotiate weather\, in urban\, regional and remote areas\, we reveal how heatwaves have been crucial in shaping the Australian idea and experience of climate. \nJoin us for three expert speakers and a topical panel discussion. \nSpeakers\nMANDY PAUL- ‘Fearful heat’: the January 1939 heatwave in Tarntanya/Adelaide\nMandy is a public historian and museum professional whose current research interests include the history of heatwaves in Tarntanya/Adelaide\, and the power of museum collections. She is Head of Collections at the History Trust of South Australia and a visiting Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. \nROCHELLE SCHOFF- Thermometer conscious: keeping an eye on the mercury in everyday life\nRochelle is a graduate researcher in environmental history in the Department of Archaeology and History\, La Trobe University. Her research focuses on drought and extreme weather and considers relationships between people and climate across regional southeastern Australia during the twentieth century. \nREBECCA JONES- Living with heat in arid Australia\nRebecca is an environmental historian with particular interest in Australian climate\, weather\, rural health and adaptation. She worked as a public historian in Victoria and at Monash University and the Australian National University. She is the author of Slow Catastrophes: Living with drought in Australia (Monash University Publishing). \nThe seminar is part of an ongoing series\, Making Public Histories\, that is offered jointly by the Monash University History Program\, the History Council of Victoria and the Old Treasury Building. Each seminar aims to explore issues and approaches in making public histories. The seminars are open\, free of charge\, to anyone interested in the creation and impact of history in contemporary society. \nWe thank the series sponsors\, Monash University Publishing\, the Monash University History Program and the Old Treasury Building.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/making-public-histories-thinking-about-the-weather-heatwaves-and-history-in-twentieth-century-australia/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Making Public Histories
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SUMMARY:Material Histories: Cuttings\, Combings\, Fettlings and Flock: Fashionable Consumption and Australian Wool ‘Waste’
DESCRIPTION:We 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 we live. Objects reflect both culture and history. Individually and collectively\, they shape our lives\, link us to others and connect us to the past. Yet objects are often strangely absent from accounts of past lives. This seminar series aims to unpack some of the stories that objects can tell about the present and about the past.  We also hope to provide a forum for discussion for those of us interested in material histories. We aim to cast the net widely\, with no limitations on either time or space. \n  \nAustralia’s wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century\, spurring clothing industries globally and driving fashionable consumption. Yet wool processing and clothes manufacturing also generated waste – products like cuttings\, combings\, fettlings and flock. Salvaged then sold to waste merchants\, these materials had a second life. This paper explores fashion and its resulting waste by drawing together the mail order catalogues produced by the Melbourne department store Foy & Gibson and the invoices it issued for the wool waste leaving its mills and clothing factories. It considers the value of these waste products in their second life. \nSpeaker: Dr Lorinda Cramer is a lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University. Her work explores the worn and material histories of Australian wool\, the gendered dimensions of dress and textiles\, and historical examples of sustainable fashion and waste in museum collections. \nMaterial Histories is presented by Old Treasury Building in partnership with Deakin University and Australian Catholic University. \n  \n‘Cuttings\, Combings\, Fettlings and Flock: Fashionable Consumption and Australian Wool ‘Waste’’ is presented as part of the PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival’s Independent Programme.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/cuttings-combings-fettlings-and-flock/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Material Histories
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SUMMARY:Media Literacy and Political Cartoons in the classroom (for Educators)
DESCRIPTION:The 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. \nThis online session will provide tips and resources to help you use political cartoons in the classroom to build students’ media literacy skills. Join discussions about how to analyse cartoons with students\, and how you can work with students to create their own cartoons as a way to use their voice on issues important to them. With special guest Fiona Katauskas. \nBe prepared for an interactive session with activities to spark your thinking and discussions with other educators. Book online to secure your spot. \nThe Behind the Lines travelling exhibition is on at the Old Treasury Building from 2 March 2026 to 3 May 2026. \n‘Behind the Lines’ is a travelling exhibition developed by the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House\, and is proudly supported by the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach program\, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/media-literacy-and-political-cartoons-in-the-classroom-for-educators/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Making Public Histories: Women and the criminal justice system in Australia
DESCRIPTION:Women 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 to the operation of a masculine legal system. But this did not mean that they were without agency. Through the lives of three very different women\, this seminar explores women’s interactions with an evolving criminal justice system\, struggling to come to terms with new (and assertive) women as citizens. \nSarah Conquest was a working-class woman from inner Melbourne who engaged extensively with Melbourne’s Court system in the early twentieth century. Sarah navigated the Melbourne Police Courts in a wide variety of ways from the 1890s to the 1920s\, as witness\, as accused\, in an attempted prosecution\, in maintenance claims against her separated husband and for the state support of her two children. Later\, she was an inevitable presence as her younger son became entrenched in the criminal justice system. Sarah’s experiences suggest that working class women were not only the subject of state intervention\, but endeavoured — with varying success — to employ the Court system to their own advantage. \nMary Fortune was a pioneering crime writer in Australia\, and one of the first women to write police procedurals world-wide. Because she used the pseudonyms Waif Wander and W. W. her substantial audience did not know her identity–with good reason. She had committed bigamy when she married a policeman\, and her son George was a career criminal. That did not stop her earning a living with goldfields memoir\, female-centric journalism and of course genre\, for she survived as a freelance writer for over forty years in Melbourne. While George robbed banks and cracked safes\, his mother considered questions of reform and recidivism in her crimewriting. This contradictory and vital pair raise questions of gender roles\, crime and punishment\, and how the unconventional can be so easily erased from history. \nFanny Kate Boadicea Cocks was an unmarried\, 40-year-old South Australian woman who in 1915 became the first policewoman in the British Empire employed on the same salary as men\, and with the same powers of arrest. A strict Methodist and teetotaller who loved to shop\, Cocks walked the streets with a five-foot cane\, barking “Three feet apart!” at young couples caught canoodling in the Adelaide parklands. When she wasn’t rescuing young women from opium dens and finding jobs for wayward youths\, she was single-handedly cracking cases\, from drugs being smuggled aboard interstate coffin boats\, to the suspicious poisoning of children in a country town. Cocks’ work was so groundbreaking that it was reportedly copied by the New York Police Department and hailed as world’s best practice by the League of Nations. But despite earning an MBE and enjoying almost unrivalled renown in early 20th century Adelaide\, she has joined many once-prominent women in becoming lost to popular history. \nOur speakers: \nDr Jennifer Anderson is a managing lawyer at Women’s Legal Service Victoria. Her PhD examined the creation of the Children’s Court jurisdiction in Victoria in the early twentieth century. Her research explores the experiences of children and women in the early Victorian criminal justice and social welfare systems. \nLucy Sussex is an Honorary Fellow at La Trobe University. Her award-winning fiction includes novels and five short story collections. She has examined crime fiction’s origins in: Women Writers and Detectives in the Nineteenth Century (2012); Blockbuster (2015); and with Megan Brown\, Outrageous Fortunes (2025)\, about Mary and George Fortune. \nDr Lainie Anderson OAM is a writer whose 35-year career in journalism and public relations includes 17 years as a columnist with Adelaide’s Sunday Mail as well as stints at the Herald Sun and London’s The Times. In 2024\, Lainie completed a PhD with the University of South Australia\, researching the life of Kate Cocks\, the inspiration behind her best-selling historical cosy crime\, The Death of Dora Black. Lainie is vice-president of the History Council of South Australia\, board trustee with the History Trust of South Australia and a South Australian representative on the Federation of Australian Historical Societies. \nThe seminar is part of an ongoing series\, Making Public Histories\, that is offered jointly by the Monash University History Program\, the History Council of Victoria and the Old Treasury Building. Each seminar aims to explore issues and approaches in making public histories. The seminars are open\, free of charge\, to anyone interested in the creation and impact of history in contemporary society. \nWe thank the series sponsors\, Monash University Publishing\, the Monash University History Program and the Old Treasury Building.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/making-public-histories-women-and-the-criminal-justice-system-in-australia/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Making Public Histories
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SUMMARY:In Conversation with Matt Golding\, Political Cartoonist of the Year
DESCRIPTION:Join 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. \nBoth hailing from Melbourne (there must be something in the water)\, Matt Golding currently draws political cartoons for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. A second-time winner of this award\, he is also a Walkley Award-winner and has received multiple Stanley Awards from his peers at the Australian Cartoonists Association. Megan Herbert is a cartoonist\, illustrator\, and writer whose work appears in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. 2024 was her first time being Political Cartoonist of the Year. Matt and Megan will reflect on what being Political Cartoonist of the Year means\, and how they work to distil complex ideas into short\, witty cartoons. \nThis talk is presented as part of the exhibition\, ‘Behind the Lines 2025: Are we Rolling’ on display at the Old Treasury Building from 2 March to 3 May 2026. \n‘Behind the Lines’ is a travelling exhibition developed by the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House\, and is proudly supported by the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach program\, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/in-conversation-with-matt-golding-political-cartoonist-of-the-year/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Glee East Celebrates the 1960s
DESCRIPTION:Join 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. \nWhat better way to mark a decade of change and colour than by sharing this unforgettable music in such a beautiful historic setting?\nAnd of course\, you’re always welcome to sing along! \nGlee East is a vibrant community choir of around 50 voices and part of the much-loved Glee Club Singing family.\nKnown for their warm sound\, inclusive spirit and joyful performances\, Glee East brings people together through the simple pleasure of singing.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/glee-east-celebrates-the-1960s/
LOCATION:Old Treasury Building\, 20 Spring Street\, East Melbourne\, VIC\, 3002\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Material Histories: Belief\, Magic and the Supernatural: the Power of Objects
DESCRIPTION:We 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 we live. Objects reflect both culture and history. Individually and collectively\, they shape our lives\, link us to others and connect us to the past. Yet objects are often strangely absent from accounts of past lives. This seminar series aims to unpack some of the stories that objects can tell about the present and about the past.  We also hope to provide a forum for discussion for those of us interested in material histories. We aim to cast the net widely\, with no limitations on either time or space. \n  \nFirst speaker: \nA Boot in the Wall: Folk Magic in Gold-Rush Victoria? \nThis talk starts with a single\, mud-caked leather boot found sealed inside a small compartment in a Ballarat building and asks why anyone would hide footwear in a wall. Drawing on the Australian Magic Research Project’s fieldwork in Victoria\, I explore concealed shoes as protective charms\, links to British and European folk belief\, and what these quiet acts of “everyday magic” reveal about anxiety\, migration and community life in nineteenth-century Australia. \nDr David Waldron is Associate Professor of History at Federation University Australia. His research focuses on folklore\, local history and community heritage. His works include Sign of the Witch\, Snarls from the Tea-Tree and Aradale: The Making of a Haunted Asylum\, and the award-winning podcast Tales from Rat City. \n  \nSecond speaker: \nRuma Besar (The Big House): Encountering the Supernatural in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands \nThis paper focuses on Oceania House\, a colonial-era mansion located in the Australian Indian Ocean Territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Now privately owned\, it was formerly home to the Clunies Ross family\, who operated a coconut plantation using the labour of “Malay” indentured workers until the islands’ integration with Australia in 1984. Known locally as Ruma Besar or “the Big House\,” it is believed by the local Cocos Malays to be a site of supernatural activity following the departure of its original owners. This research situates these beliefs within the broader Malay-Muslim context and considers what they reveal about tensions between official heritage narratives and local understandings of the past. In doing so\, it examines how supernatural beliefs provide a means of engaging with difficult histories and heritage and its impact on the present day lives of the community. \nMelathi Saldin is a Lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University. An archaeologist and critical heritage scholar\, Melathi’s research looks at the relationship between difficult heritage\, local communities and cultural resilience. She is an International Member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and Co-Chair of the Sri Lanka ICOMOS National Scientific Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage. She is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Heritage Destruction (2023). \n  \nMaterial Histories is presented by Old Treasury Building in partnership with Deakin University and Australian Catholic University.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/material-histories-belief-magic-and-the-supernatural-the-power-of-objects/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Material Histories
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