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For Humanity Medicine in war and peacekeeping since 1945 – Exhibition
The Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, AustraliaThis exhibition tells the story of medical care in war and peacekeeping since 1945. Victorian men and women have helped the sick and wounded across the world, including in Korea, Malaya, Vietnam, Rwanda, East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan. They have braved sometimes dire conditions and desperate circumstances, often coming under direct threat of death and […]
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Mark Johnston – “An Australian Band of Brothers”
Pompey Elliott Memorial Hall Camberwell RSL, 403 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria, AustraliaIn what promises to be a riveting presentation, Dr Johnston follows a small group of front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War II. No ordinary soldiers, they are members of Don Company and part of the famous 9th Australian Division which, during their campaigns, sustained […]
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Mark Johnston – “An Australian Band of Brothers”
Pompey Elliott Memorial Hall Camberwell RSL, 403 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria, AustraliaMark Johnston – “An Australian Band of Brothers” In what promises to be a riveting presentation, Dr Johnston follows a small group of front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War II. No ordinary soldiers, they are members of Don Company and part of the famous […]
One Road, One Bet initiative in Pacific and its implication for Australia – Professor Matthew Clarke
ANZAC House 4, Collins St, MelbourneRoyal United Services Institute of Victoria Lunchtime Address. Professor Matthew Clarke is the Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University. He has published on the Millennium Development Goals, the nexus between religion and development, aid effectiveness and the emergence of non-traditional donors. Much of Matthew’s research has focused on the […]
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Resistance РAustralians and the European Underground 1939–45
Greece has a centuries-old tradition of armed resistance. The Greek word for partisan is Andartes and these fighters fiercely resisted German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation from 1941 until 1944. Rival groups then turned on each other. 'Resistance‚Äô and ‚ÄòUnderground‚Äô are names used to describe the various secret organisations that arose in European states under enemy […]
Resistance РAustralians and the European Underground 1939–45
Greece has a centuries-old tradition of armed resistance. The Greek word for partisan is Andartes and these fighters fiercely resisted German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation from 1941 until 1944. Rival groups then turned on each other. 'Resistance‚Äô and ‚ÄòUnderground‚Äô are names used to describe the various secret organisations that arose in European states under enemy […]
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Resistance – Australians and the European Underground 1939–45
The Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, AustraliaGreece has a centuries-old tradition of armed resistance... The Greek word for partisan is Andartes and these fighters fiercely resisted German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation from 1941 until 1944. Rival groups then turned on each other. ‘Resistance’ and ‘Underground’ are names used to describe the various secret organisations that arose in European states under enemy […]
For Humanity Medicine in war and peacekeeping since 1945 – Exhibition – Last weeks
The Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, AustraliaThis exhibition tells the story of medical care in war and peacekeeping since 1945... Victorian men and women have helped the sick and wounded across the world, including in Korea, Malaya, Vietnam, Rwanda, East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan. They have braved sometimes dire conditions and desperate circumstances, often coming under direct threat of death and […]
Fearless in Serbia
The Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, AustraliaDr Mary De Garis of Victoria (1881–1963) was of the first ‘generation’ of Australian women to graduate from medicine in 1905. During the First World War, Mary worked as a surgeon in a 200-bed tent hospital in northern Macedonia, near the Balkan Front, under the Serbian Army. Join Dr Ruth Lee as she reclaims Mary’s […]
For Humanity Medicine in war and peacekeeping since 1945 – Exhibition – Last weeks
The Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, AustraliaThis exhibition tells the story of medical care in war and peacekeeping since 1945... Victorian men and women have helped the sick and wounded across the world, including in Korea, Malaya, Vietnam, Rwanda, East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan. They have braved sometimes dire conditions and desperate circumstances, often coming under direct threat of death and […]
The Zipper
National Vietnam Veterans Museum 25 Veterans Drive, Phillip Island, AustraliaFollowing open heart surgery, our internal wiring goes a little haywire – and the results, surprisingly, can be absolutely hilarious! Our heart objects to having been interfered with, stopped and bypassed for a period even, and quite mysteriously gives instructions to the mind to seek revenge! To stuff things around a little. “Do not,” surgeons […]
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