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From the Baltic to the Pacific: The first Displaced Persons to arrive in Australia after WW2

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In early December 1947, the first post WW2 ‘Displaced Persons’ arrived in Melbourne. They were part of a group of over 800 refugees from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania selected for resettlement in Australia. This seminar looks at this historic journey, set against the backdrop of Australia’s attitudes and policies to migrants at the time. It also showcases the range of records available via the National Archives of Australia.

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Rutherglen’s Historic Common School Museum celebrates its 150th Anniversary

Rutherglen Common School Museum Murray Street, Rutherglen, VIC, Australia

Rutherglen’s Historic Common School Museum celebrates their 150th Anniversary on Saturday morning the 21st of January 2023 at 10am.
The morning will be relaxed and informal, with a welcome, morning tea and mingling amongst Rutherglen locals and visitors.
Drop in for a look, a chat, and let us all just enjoy the wonderful old school building, which is still standing, being cared for and well used after 150
years.

CHINESE MUSEUM: CHINESE LUNAR NEW YEAR PROGRAM

Chinese Museum 22 Cohen Place, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

In 2023, the Chinese Museum gets off to a BANG! with their biggest ever Chinese Lunar New Year program! On Friday 20th January, they open our Lucky Rabbit Exhibition, which reveals our traits and fortunes predicted by the 2023 Chinese Horoscope. On Sunday 22nd Jan, Chinese Lunar New Year Day, there will be discounted entry to the Chinese Museum as part of the day's street festival celebrations with includes the famous Millenium Dragon Parade.  

Celebrating Women Teachers – the 62nd Pioneer Women’s Ceremony

Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden Kings Domain, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

The National Council of Women Victoria celebrates Victoria’s pioneer women, past and present at this annual event. As 2022-23 is the 150th Anniversary of Free, Secular and Compulsory Education in Victoria, our focus will be on pioneering women teachers. Dr Deborah Towns OAM, co-author of A Secondary Education For All? A History of State Secondary Schooling in Victoria and author of articles on education and teachers in Government, Independent and Catholic schools, will highlight women pioneers in education and early schools in Victoria.

Well Built: Simmie & Co Master Builders 1924 – 1978

RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Simmie & Co was a prominent building company in Melbourne (1924-1978) and in Canberra (1926-1969).  In Melbourne the company was highly successful and built many iconic buildings, churches, monasteries, schools, housing, factories, defence works, the Shrine forecourt (1939-45), offices and theatres including some heritage-listed constructions (one designed by Robin Boyd). The founders were three Victorian brothers, all born in the last decade of the nineteenth century and all worked at the Sunshine Harvester factory before World War One – William, Jock & George. All were World War One veterans (two were Gallipoli veterans). All were wounded and survived. Two were closely involved with the Master Builders Association in Melbourne. Discover their story of a pioneering building company of the early to mid-twentieth century, of World War One veterans, of courage and a willingness to take a risk, of the beginning of the capital city of Australia and the workers, the unsung heroes, who made it all happen.

Eltham Lower Park

Eltham Senior Citizens' Centre Library Place, Eltham, VIC, Australia

Prior to the extension of European people into the lands of the Nillum-bik in the late 1830s the Wurundjeri people had been meeting in the area now known as Eltham
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Book launch. Trade Winds: A Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping

Readings State Library of Victoria State Library of Victoria, 285 Russell Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

In 2020, Christiaan De Beukelaer spent 150 days covering 14,000 nautical miles aboard the schooner Avontuur, a hundred-year-old sailing vessel that transports cargo across the Atlantic Ocean. Embarking in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, he wanted to understand the realities of a little-known alternative to the shipping industry on which our global economy relies, and which contributes more carbon emissions than aviation. What started as a three-week stint of fieldwork aboard the ship turned into a five-month journey, as the COVID-19 pandemic forced all borders shut while crossing the ocean, preventing the crew from stepping ashore for months on end.