At our celebratory Christmas Dinner, our Guest of Honour and Speaker will be Rear Admiral John Lord AM RAN (Rtd), whose extensive naval service  and industry career spanned many facets, including command of HMA Fleet.  He undoubtedly has many stories to tell.

Speaker: Mr Greg Hood AO, former Chief Commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. Greg will talk candidly about his aviation career including his time as an air training corps cadet flying gliders in South Australia, his RAAF ATC career including overseas service in the Sinai Desert, his time with Airservices Australia as an air
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Want to learn more about the value of oral histories and Council’s heritage collections? Join us at our upcoming event at Heritage Hill Museum and Historic Gardens. Historian Dr Nicolette Snowden will explain how to record oral histories and examine their value in both a community and professional context. Nicolette is an experienced oral historian,
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Learn about pioneering women in Greater Dandenong’s history, the less represented voices. Speakers include Angela Bailey, a curator, photographer and creative producer whose practice is informed from a community and cultural perspective. As a young activist participating in the fight for gay law reform in Queensland in the late 1980s to her work as Director
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Organised by the National Trust of Australia (Victoria). Experience the complex richness of Labassa's architectural and human history on its final open day for 2024. Although more than 700 people have lived at Labassa, it has miraculously survived with most of its opulent Victorian era decoration intact. Guided house tours and tower tours operate throughout
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Join members of the Malvern Historical Society on Tuesday 17 December, at 10 am, to explore the history of the area close to Tooronga Station Malvern.