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Rock Away on Labour Day 2018
Do you love Rock n Roll? Save this date to your diary ‚Äì Monday 12 March 2018. Come along to the National Vietnam Veterans Museum and Rock Away on Labour Day with popular local bands Rockhouse and The Laing Brothers from 11.30am until 4.30pm. Local Rock & Roll dance groups will give some lively displays […]
Dome at dusk: Will Dyson, Australia’s first war artist
See the drawings of Will Dyson, appointed Australia‚Äôs first official war artist in 1917 in the Changing face of Victoria exhibition. Dyson called war a ‚Äòfilthy business‚Äô ‚Äì learn about his intention to accurately capture the experience of being a soldier in World War I. Join us under the Dome at dusk for a series […]
Dinkum Assorted
Probably the only play in the world written for a cast of fifteen women and a nanny goat, Dinkum Assorted by Linda Aronson is a wild comedy with music and tap dancing, set alongside some thought-provoking stories about women striving for personal and professional freedom. Set during the wartime spring of 1942 in the remote […]
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.
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 […]
