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Mud and Blood – WWI play by Meg McNena directed by Alice Bishop – Special Performance
Mud and Blood, Meg McNena's compelling 80-minute, six-actor play, is about distinguished Australian general, Harold 'Pompey' Elliott, who led the Essendon Rifles and took most of them to WWI. The tenacity of Australian men and women is shown in battle and at home. Timing in 2018 with Anzac and Armistice centenaries adds impact. Set 1914-1921, […]
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Debt of Honour Photographic Exhibition – Bruce Butler – Last Week
Debt of Honour Photographic Exhibition – Bruce Butler – Last Week
Reflects the debt of honour owed by Australia to the Timorese people. In 1942 two of Australia's first Commando units who trained at Wilsons Promontory fought a guerrilla war against the Japanese in former Portuguese East Timor. The Commandos only survived through the support of the Timorese people who provided food and shelter, warned of […]
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Debt of Honour Photographic Exhibition – Bruce Butler – Last Week
Debt of Honour Photographic Exhibition – Bruce Butler – Last Week
Reflects the debt of honour owed by Australia to the Timorese people. In 1942 two of Australia's first Commando units who trained at Wilsons Promontory fought a guerrilla war against the Japanese in former Portuguese East Timor. The Commandos only survived through the support of the Timorese people who provided food and shelter, warned of […]
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Commemorating World War II at Museum Victoria: Stories From the Collections
Commemorating World War II at Museum Victoria: Stories From the Collections
Presented by Deborah Tout-Smith, Liz Bramley & Nina Buchan, Museum VictoriaNext year marks the centenary of the outbreak of World War I, an event that profoundly influenced the development of our national identity and impacted on the lives of everyone living in Australia at the time. As part of a range of programs and activities […]
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Commemorating World War II at Museum Victoria: Stories From the Collections
Commemorating World War II at Museum Victoria: Stories From the Collections
Presented by Deborah Tout-Smith, Liz Bramley & Nina Buchan, Museum VictoriaNext year marks the centenary of the outbreak of World War I, an event that profoundly influenced the development of our national identity and impacted on the lives of everyone living in Australia at the time. As part of a range of programs and activities […]
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The Girls in Grey
The Girls in Grey
The Shift Theatre presents The Girls in Grey by Carolyn Bock and Helen Hopkins The Girls in Grey is a powerful play for all Australians, young and old, that brings to dramatic life the story of Australian Army Nurses during the Great War. Elsie Grace and Alice leave our shores in 1914 determined to prove […]
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Requiem
Requiem
Presented in partnership with Reportage, festival of documentary photography. Between the height of the French Indochina War in the fifties and the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon in 1975, 135 photographers from all sides of the conflict are recorded as missing or having been killed. This exhibition is a memorial to those men and […]
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RACV’s Wartime Contribution: WWI & WW2
RACV’s Wartime Contribution: WWI & WW2
This illustrated talk will reveal some moving tales of the active involvement of the RACV in supporting the Australian military. Beginning in 1908 with the initiative of Automobile Club of Victoria Foundation Member, Colonel Harley Tarrant, the RACV‚Äôs involvement has included novel fundraising motor gymkhanas, the promotion of alternative fuels during petrol rationing and since […]
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Great War Centenary Awareness Day
Great War Centenary Awareness Day
This event is planned to increase community awareness and focus attention on preparations for centenary commemorations 2014-18, with particular attention on the centenary of the Bacchus Marsh Avenue of Honour. Contributors will include The Great War Centenary Committee, the RSL, the National Trust, Historical Societies, Monash University, and local primary and secondary schools. Audio-visual and […]
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Great War Centenary Awareness Day
Great War Centenary Awareness Day
This event is planned to increase community awareness and focus attention on preparations for centenary commemorations 2014-18, with particular attention on the centenary of the Bacchus Marsh Avenue of Honour. Contributors will include The Great War Centenary Committee, the RSL, the National Trust, Historical Societies, Monash University, and local primary and secondary schools. Audio-visual and […]
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Writing on Anzac
Writing on Anzac
In 2003, David Cameron conducted an early archaeological survey of the 1915 Anzac Gallipoli battlefields. Exploring the histories of the battles and the individuals involved, David is currently writing his seventh and final book on Anzac 1915. In this talk he will focus on his approach to writing military histories, as well as discussing his […]
