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SUMMARY:AUKUS - So What?: Reconciling Australia's Geography with its History\, its Fear of Abandonment and Fear of Entrapment
DESCRIPTION:In light of the recent AUKUS pact between Australia\, the United Kingdom and the United States\, Professor John Blaxland from the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at ANU will explore the unreconciled dialectic in Australian consciousness between our geography\, history and a lingering fear of entrapment. \n \nProfessor Blaxland’s talk will probe such issues as: \n– As a multicultural nation\, how important is the Anglosphere to Australia’s identity\, its sense of history and its hopes for the future? \n– How fearful should Australians be of being left to face the fears of our geography without a great and powerful friend by our side? \n– To what extent do Australia’s interests overlap with its neighbours and how much hope can they place in regional partnerships? \n– How much can AUKUS do for Australia in enlisting British and American help? And will that make the regional partnerships more or less likely to be successful? \nThis will be a thought-provoking discussion on highly pertinent questions about Australia’s place in the world. \n  \nSpeaker: John Blaxland is Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies\, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australia National University and a former military intelligence officer. His publications include: The US-Thai Alliance and Asian International Relations (2012); Niche Wars: Australia in Afghanistan\, 2001-2004 (2020); In From The Cold; Reflections on Australia’s Korean War (2020); A Geostrategic SWOT Analysis for Australia (2019); The Secret Cold War (2016); East Timor Intervention (2015); The Protest Years (2015); The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard (2014); Strategic Cousins (2006); Revisiting Counterinsurgency (2006); Information era Manoeuvre (2003); Signals (1998) and Organising an Army (1989). \n  \nThis will be a online webinar. Please registar by clicking the ‘get tickets’ button below. \nRegistrations close at 4:00pm AEST on the day of the event \n  \nIMPORTANT DETAILS \nIf you have registered for an ‘online’ ticket you will receive a follow-up confirmation email containing further details on how to join the webinar ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT. You will receive an email by 4:30pm on the day of the event. If you do not receive an email by 5:00pm\, please check your junk folder. The event will start at 6pm AEST (Sydney\, Canberra\, Melbourne time\, UTC+10).
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/aukus-so-what-reconciling-australias-geography-with-its-history-its-fear-of-abandonment-and-fear-of-entrapment/
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SUMMARY:‘Leadership in Crisis: Blamey at War.’ - Speaker: Brent Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 10 November 2021 7:00PM-8:00PM (Australian Eastern Standard Time) \n \n\nThe presentation\nGeneral Blamey is a controversial figure in Australian military history. This presentation describes a consummate military leader at the top of his game fighting for his country in a time of deep crisis.\n‘Never trust foreign generals with the Diggers’ was Blamey’s cast iron rule\, which he learnt the hard way on the killing fields of World War I. As Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Military Forces in World War II\, by applying this rule and through great leadership\, he built up a winning world-class military system. He kept control of his forces and demanded his generals always ‘keep the casualties low’. As a result\, the Diggers had remarkably low casualty rates while achieving spectacular results. \nBlamey was a hard man doing a very hard job very well for a long time. He was both spectacularly effective (consistently won\, managed complex and difficult political relationships\, managed a vast\, dispersed organisation in a time of crisis and stayed in command for the whole war) and efficient (kept the casualties low). \nAll leaders make enemies and mistakes. Blamey was no different. His reputation has been unfairly blackened by the small number of mistakes he made\, while the huge amount of good he did tends to be unknown or unrecognised\, including by the Diggers whose lives he saved. \nBrent’s analysis shows Australian forces in WWII suffered 45\,000 fewer deaths than one would expect. This was largely Blamey’s work since he sat at the apex of the command pyramid. The presentation explains how he achieved that great feat while leading a force of comprising around million men. The other major achievement was that his force won most of the time. \nFurther he kept his job right through the war\, which is an achievement not shared by the governments that employed him. \n \n\nAbout the presenter\nIn addition to writing two biographical leadership books Brent has had over twenty-five years professional experience in understanding and describing leadership to senior management. Included in that experience was four years as research director for KPMG during which time he applied many analyses similar to those applied to Blamey’s record.\nBrent has a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) and Bachelor of Arts (Psychology Hons).
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/leadership-in-crisis-blamey-at-war-speaker-brent-taylor/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20211112T043000
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SUMMARY:Commemorate Remembrance Day with Mat McLachlan
DESCRIPTION:It’s been a difficult couple of years for everyone\, and while this year we will commemorate Remembrance Day on Australian soil\, I am delighted that with the return of international travel we will be able to walk the ground on battlefields around the world in 2022.\nThis year for Remembrance Day\, I would like to invite you to join me for a very special online event that will take you to the battlefields of the Western Front\, Vietnam and Kokoda to chat about some of the most significant battles in Australia’s history. \nDATE: Thursday\, 11 November 2021\nTIME: 5:30pm – 6:30pm (AEDT) \nSpecial guests joining me will be historian and battlefield guide Pete Smith from the Somme; Vietnam veteran and Military Cross recipient Gary McKay; and historian and Kokoda specialist David Howell – who has undertaken over 60 crossings of the Kokoda Track. \nPlease register here to attend.
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/commemorate-remembrance-day-with-mat-mclachlan/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Soldier settlement schemes seminar via zoom
DESCRIPTION:A joint presentation with the Genealogical Society of Victoria and the RHSV. \nWe are delighted that Dr Charles Fahey has agreed to deliver this seminar on Soldier Settlement Schemes. \n \nThe Soldier Settlement Schemes encompassed thousands of World War One returned soldiers who occupied farming land on conditional purchase leases across Victoria between 1919 and the 1960s. If you are researching family or Australian history this talk will help you understand the individual experience of a soldier settler\, as well as the historical context of the Victorian Soldier Settlement Scheme. The talk will make special use of files from the parishes of Wagant and Kulwin to illustrate the information and stories to be found in vast archive left by the settlers. \nDr Charles Fahey joined Latrobe University in 1990 after briefly teaching history at the University of Tasmania in Launceston. He taught history at La Trobe University\, in Bendigo\, Melbourne and Shepparton until his retirement in 2018. His research explores Australian Labor\, rural and mining history. He is the author of many Victorian rural histories and articles (a list of articles can be found here). Before becoming an academic\, he was employed as a historian with the Victorian Government\, where he worked on the conservation of historic sites on Crown land and the history of Victorian forestry. The unit Charles worked with was also responsible for transferring the vast archive of Solder Settler files to PROV. \nThis is a free Zoom presentation. Please register here and the Zoom log-in details will be sent to you 24 hours before the event.
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/soldier-settlement-schemes-seminar-via-zoom/
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SUMMARY:Caen is coming to you
DESCRIPTION:Transport yourself to the famous region of Normandy and visit picturesque Caen\, a town enriched with history\, nature and gastronomy.  \n \nFollowing the success of the online event “Bordeaux vient à vous”\, we are delighted to invite you to the next destination of our virtual tour of France: Caen. \nEmbark on an exciting trip to Caen in Normandy\, in the north-west of France. Located only 2 hours from Paris by train\, Caen is a must-see destination for your next trip to France. In partnership with Caen Tourism Board\, discover the charming sights in the lush countryside and by the sea\, and don’t forget to explore and enjoy the local cuisine! \n \nUncover the rich history of Caen and discover William the Conqueror\, the Battle of Hastings and the significant role played by French and Australian soldiers in partnership during the Second World War. Olivier Pizzimenti from the WWII Memorial Museum will join us to talk about the landing beaches and the involvement of the Australian soldiers for the freedom of France. \n📅 Tuesday 16 November\n🕕 6.30 PM – 7.30 PM\n🎤 Hosted by AFM | Guests: Florence Nikolic (Caen Tourism Board) and Olivier Pizzimenti (Caen Memorial Museum)\n🏷️ $20\n📍 Online\n💬 In English \n  \nYou must RSVP by 15 Nov 2021 2:00pm – Caen is coming to you (afmelbourne.com.au)
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/caen-is-coming-to-you/
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