Retrospective Consulting - Catriona Banks

08/09/2022

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Employment Opportunities - There are currently 3 employment opportunities posted on our website including:

👉 [ACT x 1] Team Leader - Archival Collections Unit (affirmative measures) - CLOSES TODAY: https://www.archivists.org.au/community/employment/australian-capital-territory
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👉 [SA x 1] Assistant Archivist: https://www.archivists.org.au/community/employment/south-australia

You can browse all employment opportunities via the Employment home page: https://www.archivists.org.au/community/employment

30/08/2022

« All Events FREE SECULAR COMPULSORY. 150th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORIAN EDUCATION ACT 1872, CONFERENCE 2022. October 1 - October 2 $20 – $160 Event Navigation « Family History Social Group Who Do We Think We Are » Our past informs our present and our future. Our education system shapes our soc...

22/08/2022

Statues embodying past values should not be allowed to continue to occupy public space in perpetuity. What we put on a pedestal should always ask new questions of the past.

18/08/2022

There is not a single historian, publisher or archivist on the review panels whose feedback will help shape Australia’s new cultural policy

17/08/2022

17 August 1801 the Female Orphan School officially opened. The School was founded by Governor King and housed 31 girls who were taught needlework, spinning, reading and some writing. By May 1803 there were 104 girls at the Orphan School. Reverend Samuel Marsden performed a special ceremony and sermon for the opening.

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17/08/2022

The Living Archive challenges the idea of what an Indigenous museum collection can be and could become say experts including from the University of Melbourne.

07/08/2022

Reducing access to humanities degrees will reduce critical thinking among the population, academics warn, as Federation University's decision to axe its Bachelor of Arts program continues to draw criticism.

28/07/2022

28 July 1923 construction began on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Two workshops at Milson's Point fabricated the steel into girders and the granite for the pylons was quarried near Moruya where about 250 workers and their families lived in a temporary settlement.

Premier Jack Lang opened the Harbour Bridge on the 19 March, 1932.

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25/07/2022

22/07/2022

The Virtual Record Treasury is recreating much of what was lost in a Dublin fire a century ago.