Vietnam 30/50 – Thirty Years of War / Fifty Years of Reflection
Videos and Papers from MHHV’s 6th Biennial Two-Day Conference of Military History and Heritage Victoria Inc. at the Tobruk House, Albert Park, 16-17 May 2026.
Fighting to the Finish: Australia in 1945 – Strategy, Victory and Legacy.
Which were the key battles Australians were fighting in?
Menace at Home – Australia Under Attack 1939-1945. One-Day Conference
Major-General Jim Barry AM, MBE, RFD, ED (Rtd), MHHV Patron, opened the conference by noting that when Professor Geoffery Blainey had presided over the inception of the MHHV he had […]
In the Fight: Australians and the War in Burma 1942-1945 – Conference
Australians were involved in the longest campaign of WWII, in Burma, in what was called ‘a forgotten war’.
Game of Dominoes: Australia’s Security and the Cold War 1947-1991
Australia’s involvement in Asia in particular, arising from its part in the ANZUS treaty of 1951 and in SEATO from 1954 was examined – its role in the Malayan Emergency, […]
Defenders of the Queen: Imperial and Colonial Defence 1850 – 1901
In this conference, historians and experts on the era presented on both the strategic and the tactical.
1943 – Australia and the Pacific War; The Tide Turns
The fourth year of World War 2 saw the German Army suffer its first major defeat at Stalingrad, and an Allied victory in North Africa enabled an invasion of Italy […]
The Bloody Beachheads: The Battles of Gona, Buna and Sanananda – One Day Conference Papers
The Battle for the Beachheads, as it became known, followed the Kokoda Campaign and lasted around two months from mid-November 1942 to mid-January 1943.
