Calendar of Events

Join us for the launch of a significant social history book, and a lecture by Professor Jay Winter. This Remembrance Day, World War One: A history in 100 stories, written by Monash University historians Professor Bruce Scates, Rebecca Wheatley and Laura James, will be launched. This social history remembers not just the men and women […]

Book launch - Invasion: the Gallipoli campaign through Turkish eyesDr John Basarin OAM and Mrs Hatice Basarin Authors Wednesday 11 November 6pm for 6.20pm - 7.30pm Dyason House

Australian success in Papua between July 1942 and January 1943 checked the Japanese southward advance but the victories at Kokoda, Milne Bay and the Beachheads did not remove the Japanese presence in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea to Papua‚Äôs north. From early 1943, Australian troops embarked upon a series of campaigns in the Mandate‚Äìat […]

Fred Ransome Smith, imprisoned by the Japanese during the Second World War, used art to document his captivity. Decades later he returned to this art to release and share wartime memories. Experience Fred’s wartime drawings as well as works he created in Australia from 1975 onwards

Enjoy the rare opportunity to tour a 19th Century Coastal Artillery Fort. Fort Queenscliff is one of Victoria's most important heritage sites and one of the largest and best preserved forts in the country. Enjoy the rare opportunity to tour a 19th Century Coastal Artillery Fort (operating as an Australian Army Base) with over 150 […]

Enjoy the rare opportunity to tour a 19th Century Coastal Artillery Fort. Fort Queenscliff is one of Victoria's most important heritage sites and one of the largest and best preserved forts in the country. Enjoy the rare opportunity to tour a 19th Century Coastal Artillery Fort (operating as an Australian Army Base) with over 150 […]

In this photographic exhibition of remembrance at the Monash Federation Centre (produced by MHHV member Dr Andrew Kilsby/Cooee History & Heritage), World War One Avenues of Honour in the modern Electorate of Chisholm (partly in the former Shire of Mulgrave) are considered.Three were established before the end of World War One and one after the […]

This Intimate War :Gallipoli/√áanakkale 1915 is a book of poems reflecting the experiences of both Australians and Turks during the Gallipoli/ √áanakkale campaigns. ¬† Join author Dr Robyn Rowland as she shares a moving and intimate portrait of two countries at war. This program will take place in the exhibition ‚Äì The Anzac Battlefield: Landscape […]

This workshop is for RSL staff and volunteers who work with military memorabilia collections.¬†Learn how to plan, theme and design effective and interesting exhibitions. We will cover new ways of approaching exhibition themes, as well as ways to select the best objects to tell your story. We will approach audience identification and how to write […]

Navy League of Australia, Victoria-Tasmania Christmas Luncheon.

Australian Navy Foundation Day,¬†16th Annual ‚ÄúCreswell Oration‚Äù.‚ÄúThe conduct of Current and Future Joint Operations' will be presented by¬†VICE ADMIRAL David Johnston AM RAN. VENUE: William Angliss TAFE Institute Restaurant 550 Little Lonsdale Street, between King & Spencer Sts. DATE: TUESDAY 1st. Mar 2016. TIME: 1200 for 1230 LOCATION: William Angliss Institute Restaurant, 550 Little Lonsdale […]

Australian success in Papua between July 1942 and January 1943 checked the Japanese southward advance but the victories at Kokoda, Milne Bay and the Beachheads did not remove the Japanese presence in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea to Papua‚Äôs north. From early 1943, Australian troops embarked upon a series of campaigns in the Mandate‚Äìat […]