Rotary Club of Melbourne, 4 August 2021 Introduction I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, and pay my respects to elders […]
The aim of revisiting Ormonde’s insightful biography of Cairns is to bring new attention to an extraordinary Australian politician whose restless ambition took him from a modest background to Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia. […]
From his conservative days as a clerk and athlete, then Special Branch detective, Jim Cairns rose to lead the historic marches against the Vietnam war and to give protest a respectable face. […]
We are drawn into the struggle for control of a Melbourne private school, identifying with the heroine, headmistress Joan Montgomery, barracking for her supporters even in their missteps, willing the plotters to fail, hoping for right to defeat might while suspecting that in the end the numbers will tell a different story. […]
the book is much more than an account of the conflict between church and school and the consequences of essentially one man’s will to assert his power over others. The book depicts a struggle between noble ideals and self-interested ambition. […]
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The following in-conversation happened at the Australian Association of Jewish Studies 2021 Conference held at the Jewish National Memorial Centre in Canberra earlier this year. The Powerbroker: Mark Leibler, an Australian Jewish Life. (Monash University […]
Stephen Wilks’ lively look at one of Australia’s most imaginative, ideas-driven politicians — who was briefly Prime Minister — unearths an underrated public figure who dared to dream. Wilks himself dared to come to grips with an almost […]
Peter Freeman’s richly illustrated narrative of Thoroughly Modern traces the evolution of Moir and Sutherland’s Architecture, some of the earliest examples of modernism built in Australia, and the subsequent achievements of Ian Slater and Neville Ward, Malcolm’s architect […]
Held at the Lyceum Club on Joan Montgomery’s 96th birthday on 6 July 2021 The Vetting of Wisdom is the gripping tale of a revered Principal—acclaimed nationwide as the leading girls’ school educator of her […]
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