National Museum of Australia – Audio on demand program
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Forums, talks, symposiums, conferences and other events held at the National Museum of Australia, exploring Australia's land, nation and people.
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Inside Children’s Homes forum panel discussion | Panellists discuss life since the National Apology to the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants. | 26 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Identity Game or How Irish is Australia? | Shane begins by singing lyrics about Ned Kelly written to the The Patriot Game that he wrote for the centenary of the Ned Kelly’s execution in which he drew a connection between that event, Armistice Day and the dismissal of the Whitlam government. | 11 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contemporary Chinese art | Fan Di’an, a leading figure in Chinese contemporary art, provided an introduction to the A New Horizon exhibition and discussed Chinese art over the past 60 years, including significant artists and movements. | 11 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rachael Romero on In the Shadow of Eden | Following the Australian premiere of her film In the Shadow of Eden, independent filmmaker and Forgotten Australian Rachael Romero joins visitors for a question and answer session via video link from New York. | 15 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Landmarks: behind the scenes with conservators | Following a background to the Landmarks Gallery by Daniel Oakman, three of the Museum’s conservators shared the techniques and process used to prepare, treat and install the Kenya station windmill, one of the Springfield dresses, and Phar Lap’s heart. | 4 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Inside: Life in Children’s Homes and Institutions: exhibition launch | Actor Jack Thompson makes an impassioned plea for continuing recognition at the Inside exhibition launch, followed by Minister Jenny Macklin and a performance of Eagles Wings written and sung by Christine Harms. | 29 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Not Just Ned: what sort of history of the Irish in Australia? | Symposium chaired by Orla Tunney, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Ireland, with short contributions from other speakers giving their opinions on the Not Just Ned exhibition. | 4 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The National Museum of Ireland: an ideological history | Pat Cooke discusses the history and evolution of the National Museum of Ireland in the context of the material culture of Ireland in modern times. | 23 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mick Gooda joins the conversation | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda will share his views on Indigenous governance and representation, and the provision of services to the community following the closure of ATSIC. | 20 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Off the walls: Art from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Agencies 1967-2005: Exhibition launch | Peter Yu opens Off the Walls: Art from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Agencies 1967–2005, an exhibition about Indigenous art and the politics and history of a time of great change in Indigenous affairs. | 2 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sorting out the Irish immigrants of colonial Australia | Eric Richards examines the reciprocal relationship between Ireland and the Australian colonies and looks at such questions as what characteristics and qualities did Irish immigrants embody and how selectively did the colonies draw on these immigrants. | 30 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Exhibition launch: A New Horizon: Contemporary Chinese Art | Fan Di’an, Director of the National Art Museum of China, Chen Yuming, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China and Dennis Richardson, Secretary to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, open the exhibition that examines Chinese art since 1949. | 26 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Life inside Westbrook Children’s Home, from the perspective of a survivor | Al Fletcher discusses with Adele Chynoweth his experiences at Westbrook as re-told in his book Brutal: surviving Westbrook Boys Home. His story is one of many that will be included in the upcoming exhibition Inside: Life in Children’s Homes. | 23 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Exhibition launch: Bipotaim: Stories from the Torres Strait | Pedro Stephen, mayor of the Torres Shire Council, opens the exhibition of photographs by David Callow complemented by objects from the National Museum’s collections that share stories about the lives, culture and identity of Torres Strait Islanders. | 20 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A few of my favourite things: some objects from the Not Just Ned exhibition | Richard Reid, senior curator of the Not Just Ned exhibition, tells some stories and presents a few of his favourite objects from the exhibition to open the 18th Australasian Irish Studies conference: The Irish in Australia 1788 to the present. | 22 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How ethical is Australia? | Peter Singer is Australia’s best-known philosopher. Once labelled the most dangerous man on the planet, in this lecture facilitated by Jenny Brockie, he examines how well Australia is performing as a global citizen. | 11 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In Memory of Malawan presented by Ian Dunlop | Following a screening of In Memory of Malawan, film-makers Ian Dunlop and Pip Deveson discuss the filming of the rituals for the funeral of Aboriginal clan leader Malawan over a two-week period in the early 1970s. | 31 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book launch: Exploring the Legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition | The book, co-edited by Martin Thomas and Margo Neale, extends on the papers presented at the ‘Barks, Birds and Billabongs: Exploring the legacy of the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land’ Symposium held in November 2009. | 11 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Constitutional recognition – so what? | The inaugural Platform Conversations event was a provocative panel discussion facilitated by David Speers debating whether recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the Australian Constitution will make a meaningful difference to Indigenous peoples’ lives. | 19 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Irish immigrants from Australian records: the real keys to finding them in Ireland | In the genealogical rush to return to Ireland and where our ancestors were from, records of their lives in Australia were sometimes overlooked. Perry will outline key documents which provide clues to finding ancestral spots in Ireland. | 17 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ancestry.com.au: Where do we start? | Brad outlines what’s on the Ancestry.com.au website and how to get the best out of it. He’ll also talk about other free online databases that could enhance your family history research without breaking the bank. | 17 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gallery launch: Landmarks: People and Places across Australia | Senior Curator Kirsten Wehner introduces the new National Museum gallery exploring a broad history of Australia through stories of places and their peoples. | 22 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Flora Pell: the cook and her turbulent career | Curator Alison Wishart, together with food historian Dr Adele Wessell, has enjoyed researching the life and contributions of one of Australia’s pioneering and political cookery educators and authors, Flora Pell. | 5 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Collectorfest: a right royal celebration | Curator Guy Hansen and passionate royal memorabilia collector Professor Peter Spearritt discuss Australia’s fascination with royalty and then showcase five items belonging to collectors from the audience. | 5 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Exhibition launch: Not Just Ned: A true history of the Irish in Australia | Author Tom Keneally officially launches the National Museum’s new exhibition about the Irish contribution to Australia. Includes a performance by the Alan Kelly Quartet and speeches by the Federal Arts Minister and new Irish children’s minister. | 27 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Foundation of the Aboriginal Arts Board | Former members of the Aboriginal Arts Board describe the years of its establishment under the directorship of Bob Edwards. | 17 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A portrait of Bob Edwards | A discussion on John Elliott’s portrait of Bob Edwards at the National Portrait Gallery and how it portrays elements of Bob’s character, including his cultural diplomacy and advocacy for Australia’s Indigenous people. | 17 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bob Edwards: from orchardist to ethnographer | Childhood friend Dick Richards provides an insight into Bob Edwards’ early years, from growing up on family farms on the Adelaide Plains, to market gardening, the Royal Geographic Society and his anthropological studies. | 17 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bringing the world’s heritage to Australia | Former National Gallery of Australia director Betty Churcher and art scholar Dr Caroline Turner discuss Bob Edwards’ contribution to persuading overseas gallery directors to allow exhibitions of masters to come to Australia. | 17 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Early curatorial career at the South Australian Museum | Highlights from Bob Edwards’ fieldwork, collecting Aboriginal stone tools and documenting rock art and engravings, and his time at the South Australian Museum in the 1960s–70s. | 17 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A tribute to Dr Robert Edwards AO: welcome and keynote address | A welcome by Andrew Sayers followed by Neil MacGregor’s reflections on Bob Edwards as museum curator, anthropologist and archaeologist, founding director of the Aboriginal Arts Board and exhibitions wheeler and dealer. | 17 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contributions from friends and colleagues | The man of the moment, Bob Edwards, responds to messages from friends and colleagues who paid tribute to his work. | 17 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bob Edwards: museums and archaeology | An esteemed panel discusses Bob Edwards’ impact in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, museums and museum management. | 17 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stirring the pot: women in the business of food | Women are strongly represented in Australia’s food industry as producers, chefs, cookbook authors and creative writers. Chef Janet Jeffs, novelist Marion Halligan and food historians Adele Wessell and Donna Lee Brien explore women’s stories about food. | 20 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the national interest: the National Museum of Australia | In this National Press Club address Andrew Sayers talks about how the ideas that have shaped us as a nation, and continue to shape our thinking, can be illuminated and debated in the National Museum of Australia. Audio courtesy of the National Press Club. | 17 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The future of museum multimedia | This forum, sponsored by Museums Australia ACT branch, outlines the multimedia used in the National Museum of Australia’s Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route exhibition as part of a broader discussion on the future of museum multimedia. | 6 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Question and answer session with Archie Roach and friends | Songman Archie Roach, former AFL star and Indigenous activist Michael Long, and Bill Johnson, whose Indigenous son Louis died tragically, with curator Stephen Munro, answer questions from the audience following the screening of the film Liyarn Ngarn. | 27 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Aboriginal treasures at the Vatican | Margo talks about the new exhibition of Aboriginal artworks sent from Catholic missions in the north and west of Australia to the Vatican that recently opened at the Vatican’s Ethnological Museum and coincided with the canonisation of St Mary MacKillop. | 6 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country, memory and art: Understanding Indigenous art | Anthropologists Howard Morphy and John Carty, and senior curator Mike Pickering, discuss Indigenous art from the Western Desert and Arnhem Land, and how art from both regions reflects concepts of Country, family and memory. | 6 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yalangbara: Art of the Djang’kawu: exhibition launch | After introductions by Andrew Sayers and Dr Margo Neale and a welcome to country by Matilda House, Mawalan 2 Marika speaks on behalf of the Marika family, followed by Franchesca Cubillo, senior Indigenous art curator at the National Gallery of Australia. | 19 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Walyja: family and art history in the Canning Stock Route Collection | The Canning Stock Route, combined with the concept of Walyja (family), acts as a prism through which it is possible to trace both the human and the subsequent artistic movements that characterised the far Western Desert region in the 20th century. | 18 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Melbourne Cup: 150 years of history | The first Tuesday in November this year sees the running of the 150th Melbourne Cup. Curator Isa Menzies gives an insight into the race that stops the nation: from the glitz and glamour to the seamy underside of horseracing in Australia. | 17 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Wet: history, art, science and community in the Desert Channels | Artist Mandy Martin, historian Libby Robin and zoologist Chris Dickman join Guy Fitzhardinge from Desert Channels Queensland for an insightful discussion that explores partnerships, art and writings about conservation around our desert rivers. | 7 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Question and answer session from Understanding and representing trauma | Discussion amongst the panellists and questions from the audience. Museum curators and researchers with experience representing traumatic experiences in museums share their expertise. | 31 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pigott inquiry and country museums in Australia | In 1974 a committee, to be chaired by Peter Pigott, was set up to inquire into the state of museums in Australia and in particular the development of small country museums. Anne-Marie will talk about her research into the Pigott committee records. | 31 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Understanding and representing trauma: speaker presentations | Museums and kindred institutions that are serious about reflecting human life are often compelled to confront the dark side of human experience we might prefer not to face. But if we are to be truthful, we must do so. | 31 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Letter readings from the Voyages of Discovery | Actor Rhys Muldoon, joined by the Director of the National Museum of Australia, Andrew Sayers, and curator of the Exploration and Endeavour exhibition bring to life the letters from the voyages of discovery to Australia. | 31 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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September 11: Museums, spontaneous memorial and history | James Gardner discusses museum responses to the spontaneous memorials following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US. He looks at tensions between memorialising, collecting and interpreting historic events. Also forthcoming in Grassroots Memorials. | 11 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Exploration and Endeavour: The Royal Society of London and the South Seas: exhibition launch | Professor Penny Sackett opens the Exploration and Endeavour: The Royal Society of London and the South Seas exhibition to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society, the world’s oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. | 10 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Barbados: More than a beach | Roslyn Russell takes us on a journey through the history of Barbados, from its first parliament in 1639, through the dark days of slavery to the present days. Learn why, with its rich history and culture, Barbados is certainly ‘more than a beach’. | 23 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sinners, Saints and Settlers: book launch | Ms Orla Tunney from the Embassy of Ireland in Canberra launched Sinners, Saints and Settlers: A journey through Irish Australia, a book co-authored by Dr Richard Reid of the National Museum of Australia and photographer Brendon Kelson. | 16 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Albert Namatjira, camels and cars: the evolution of Indigenous art economies in Central Australia | Alison French considers the role of camels and cars in the evolution of Namatjira’s art and the ways they fostered and sustained both the practice of art as well as myths and stereotypes that position artists and the economic values of their art. | 6 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Melbourne Cup: Is it all about the gamble? | Dr Chris McConville combines his great interest in horse racing with his expertise on the history of gambling in Australia to talk the Melbourne Cup from a gambling point of view. | 29 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Where does the Melbourne Cup belong in Australian culture - and why has it endured? | To introduce this session Louise Douglas talks about not only Phar Lap’s heart but also many other objects associated with the Melbourne Cup in the National Museum of Australia’s National Historical Collection. | 29 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Melbourne Cup: Why has it endured into the twenty-first century? Good luck or good management? | Rod Fitzroy discusses how it’s a little bit of good luck and a lot of good management that has delivered for a century and a half an annual event that so commands the attention of the whole nation as does the Melbourne Cup. | 29 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Welcome to ‘The Heart of Australian Racing: the Melbourne Cup’ symposium | MC for the day Bryan Martin provides a brief background to the Melbourne Cup and Andrew Sayers, the new Director of the National Museum, outlines why the Museum recently declined to lend Phar Lap’s heart to Melbourne for the horse’s re-assembly. | 29 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What the Melbourne Cup means to me | Hear what the Melbourne Cup means to the owner of a cup winner, the first female trainer to win both the Melbourne and Caulfield Cups, the grandson of the inaugural Melbourne Cup winning trainer, and a former jockey who has won the Melbourne Cup twice. | 29 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Melbourne Cup: why? | Having researched written three volumes covering the social and political history of Australian racing, Andrew Lemon has been working as a consultant historian with the Victoria Racing Club and talks about why the Melbourne Cup. | 29 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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150th running of the Melbourne Cup: special events | Rod Fitzroy, Chairman of the Victoria Racing Club, outlines events taking place during 2010 to mark the 150th Melbourne Cup race, including the launch of a commemorative coin set struck by the Royal Australian Mint and three legacy projects. | 29 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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On the Punt: Chance, racing and the horse in Australian life and culture | Hear a racing administrator, the author of The Horse in Australia, a bookie and a sports publisher discuss the public fascination with the Cup as not only a day of fashion, socialising, networking and fun but also a time to chance their luck with a bet. | 29 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Melbourne Cup: what it means to me and what it means to Australia | Former Australian political leader and statesman, Andrew Peacock talks about ‘chasing a dream’ of winning a Melbourne Cup and from his experience describes how, unlike the Melbourne Cup, other great horses race around the world don’t stop any nation. | 29 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Chinese in Bendigo | Curator Anne-Marie Conde shares her work developing an exhibit on Bendigo as part of the gold module for the Landmarks: People and Places across Australia gallery, covering in particular the development of the Chinese community from the 1850s. | 1 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Symbols of Australia public forum with Rod Quantock | Join comedian Rod Quantock, historians and other writers for an entertaining, provocative and controversial look at Australia’s best-loved symbols – from the quirky to the official, and those with the power to make a nation. | 30 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Public conversation: Bowled over by Gideon Haigh | Journalist, acclaimed cricket historian and devoted club cricketer Gideon Haigh and sportswriter John Harms explore the changing value of the baggy green and its significance as a symbol of Australia. | 22 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reflections on the day | Margy Burn from the National Library of Australia, Michael Crayford from the National Maritime Museum and John Greenwood from the University of Canberra review the themes discussed during the day with Louise Douglas from the National Museum of Australia. | 2 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Remembering the goal | Maryanne McCubbin discusses the development of three strands of collection workers over the past 30 years: curators, collection managers and conservators. | 30 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Caring for collections – welcome and keynote address | Philip Jones delivers ‘From curation to management: reflections on museum objects’, a consideration of how the traditional curatorial role has changed. | 30 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Restoring the Royal Daimler | Conservator David Hallam and curator Guy Hansen discuss the process of restoring the Royal Daimler. | 30 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Risk management and light levels | Following on from last year’s presentation on light levels, Nicki Smith examines the latest developments in risk management and light levels. | 30 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Centre for the National Museum of Australia Collections | Greer Gehrt and Eric Archer discuss the development of a business case for a new Centre for the National Museum of Australia Collections that balances passive design and collection management needs. | 30 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Museums and ‘open collections’ | Mathew Trinca proposes that at the heart of museums lies a deep commitment to the idea that our material lives are worth recording and that our heritage objects provide insights into the circumstances and meaning of human life. | 30 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Access all areas – Powerhouse Discovery Centre case study | Christopher Snelling provides a case study on how the Powerhouse Discovery Centre and collection stores at Castle Hill have been developed and opened to the public. | 30 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A question of significance | Roslyn Russell examines the development of the Significance publication and suggests that the preservation of an object’s function in the conservation process is important where the function is an integral part of the object’s significance. | 30 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chasing shadows – acquiring and managing virtual collections | Poppy Wenham looks at some of the issues in adapting museum practice to the challenges of born-digital collection material and asks what we need to do to work effectively with virtual collections. | 30 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reflecting on 30 years in conservation | Eric Archer reflects on the achievements in the conservation professions and the incorporation of conservators into mainstream collections management structures. He also raises the issue of how to open up objects in non-displayed collections. | 30 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A curatorial perspective | Jennifer Sanders looks at seven themes in the history of curatorial practice: farewell the keepers, age of managerialism, out of the silos into the world, tipping the iceberg, curating in a digital world, telling stories and go beyond the walls. | 30 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Parliament for the people | Curator Jennifer Wilson tells us how Australia’s first purpose-built home for the Commonwealth Parliament was opened with suitable pomp and ceremony in Canberra on 9 May 1927. | 23 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Love tokens performance and talk with Elena Kats-Chernin | Listen to part of Elena Kats-Chernin’s 2009 composition Garden of Dreams, inspired by the convict love tokens held in the Museum’s collection, performed in the Australian Journeys gallery. | 23 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kimberley points performance and talk with Elena Kats-Chernin | Listen to part of Elena Kats-Chernin’s 2009 composition Garden of Dreams, inspired by the Kimberley points display, performed in the Gallery of First Australians. | 23 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Matthew Flinders in the Recherche Archipelago | Matthew Flinders sailed through the Recherche Archipelago in 1802 and 1803 on board the Investigator. Curator Pip McNaught shares her work developing a Landmarks’ exhibit and talks about Matthew Flinders and his cat, Trim. | 10 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The case against recycling water for drinking | Peter Collignon explains why he believes that recycling water is a bad idea – particularly where there are other options – for various reasons including the health risks. | 3 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The science of recycling water | Simon Toze explains various processes for recycling water, the kinds of chemicals that appear in water (such as pharmaceuticals, oestrogen and plasticisers) and makes a case for drinking recycled water. | 3 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Water and the spirit | John Archer shares his experience of travelling the world recording the stories, legends, myths and rituals of cultures that revere water. | 3 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tasting and discussion | Mark Juddery, National Museum of Australia, facilitates the recycled water taste test and discussion among the panellists and audience. | 3 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Public opinion on recycled water | Kelly Fielding gauges the levels of support for and opposition to recycling water for human consumption, and explores the reasons behind each position. | 3 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Age of Stupid – film screening and discussion | Dr Jenny Newell hosts a public screening of Franny Armstrong’s drama documentary about climate change, The Age of Stupid. This audio consists of her introductions and the ensuing discussion led by a climate change scientist and a science communicator. | 11 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How can museums help history teachers? | The Head of the National Museum’s Centre for Historical Research asks teachers ‘How can museum historians and curators best support history teachers?’ | 5 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Curating Australian histories | What can objects tell us about the past? Kirsten Wehner talks to history teachers about the nature of exhibitions as histories. | 5 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The language of power and persuasion | Julian Burnside reflects on the importance of words in his life as a barrister, an activist, and a writer. | 28 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Language and identity | Jeanie Bell, a Jagera and Dulingbara woman, talks about the importance of language to Indigenous identities, the impact of the forcible loss of language and culture, and the attempts to revive Indigenous languages. | 28 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Living language | Susan Butler and Roly Sussex discuss the idea that a living Australian English is all about change and infiltration by ‘multiple, parallel streams’ as spoken by Aboriginal people, Southern European migrants, English-speakers in other countries and so on. | 28 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Love of language | David Malouf talks about the importance of language and literacy, and his love of language, but also laments its overuse and debasement. | 28 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bendable learnings | Don Watson looks at the triumph of modern management-speak and how those who favour the deliberately obscure and the falsely scientific are driving us all nuts. | 28 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A life in dictionaries | Bruce Moore describes how his life in dictionaries, and in Australian English, began when he was teaching army cadets old and middle English languages. | 28 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Sunshine harvester | For many decades, Sunshine Harvester Works was a significant landmark in Sunshine, a suburb in Melbourne’s industrial west. Museum curator Leah Bartsch explores research into the stories and objects of Sunshine. | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Necessity entrepreneurship within a dominant society | Dennis Foley describes two kinds of Indigenous entrepreneur: ‘opportunists’ who seize a concept and use their networks to embark on a business venture, and those who lack capital, so out of ‘necessity’ must adapt to dominant culture to provide the basics. | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Demand responsive services and culturally sustainable enterprise in remote Aboriginal settings | In a good-practice study of where the Dreamtime meets the market, Paul Memmott discusses the Myuma Group (of three Aboriginal corporations) in far west Queensland, which successfully manages the interplay between demand for and supply of service. | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Options for developing a natural resource-based economy in Arnhem Land: Payments for environmental services | Payments for Environmental Services (PES) are used to simultaneously tackle poverty and environmental degradation. Using data from two field sites, Nanni Concu talks about the potential of PES to promote a natural-resource-based economy in Arnhem Land. | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Policy mismatch and Aboriginal art centres: The tension between economic independence and community development | Gretchen Stolte talks about Aboriginal art centres, arguing that a centre should be funded in accordance with its engagement with the community, because the more community-building it does, the less money it can make. | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Understanding Indigenous enterprise on Palm Island: Is resilience more than a metaphor? | Erin Bohensky applies resilience theory to a proposal for an aquaculture farm as a sustainable enterprise on Palm Island, North Queensland, and adds historical analysis and empirical insights from interviews and photographic surveys. | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Animal spirits in the Dreaming and the market: The economic development of caring for country | Are the Dreaming and the Market mutually exclusive? In economics as in anthropology, ‘animal spirits’ are understood to influence outcomes. Geoff Buchanan explores the hybrid economy (customary, market and state) in the context of caring for country. | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A financial scandal | For seven decades the Queensland government intercepted Aboriginal people’s wages, child endowment, pensions, inheritances. It controlled their bank accounts, deducted fees, restricted withdrawals. This was wrong. What are the avenues for redress? | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Social and cultural factors in remote area Indigenous enterprise development | Deirdre Tedmanson uses Foucault’s notion of ‘governmentality’ to explore impediments to enterprise development in ‘remote’ homelands and communities on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands of South Australia, and ways of overcoming them. | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wrap-up and discussion | Ian Keen provides a brief, broad view of the discussions over the two-day conference, its themes and its significance, covering hybrid models, empirical studies and the links between research and practice. | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Unfair pay: Tracing tracker wages in New South Wales, 1862–1950 | Hundreds of Aboriginal men were employed as police trackers from 1862. They enjoyed a regular income, but the work was risky and the pay and conditions terrible. Michael Bennett describes the system and makes the case for a compensatory scheme. | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Workfare, welfare and the hybrid economy: The Western Arrernte in Central Australia | A self-proclaimed ‘hybrid economy skeptic’, Diane Austin-Broos offers some reasons why the Western Arrernte’s Community Development Employment Project became ‘welfare’ rather than ‘workfare.’ | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Before the mission station: The incorporation of settlers into a seasonal economy | Exploring intercultural relations in the period of pastoral expansion, John White says that working relationships based on reciprocity enabled Aboriginal people to factor settlers into their seasonal movements and carve out a niche in the settler economy. | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The 1968–69 introduction of equal wages for Aboriginal pastoral workers in the Kimberley | Challenging the idea that equal wages caused mass eviction and unemployment for Aboriginal people, Fiona Skyring looks at other factors such as how government investigations in 1965 and 1966 discouraged station owners from appropriating pension payments. | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Small Aboriginal community incorporations on shifting ground: A perspective from Ltyentye Apurte Community, Santa Teresa | Judy Lovell describes Keringke Arts Aboriginal Incorporation and the effect of the ‘Emergency Response’ and government reforms; and Ntwerle Aboriginal Incorporation, a new initiative promoting and hosting w********a leadership training programs. | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The economy of shells: A history of Aboriginal women at La Perouse making shellwork for sale | Maria Nugent explores the 130-year-long practice of shell-working by Aboriginal women at La Perouse in Sydney’s south, and how the makers have been able to create or find new markets by adapting their products to appeal to new customers. | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From barter to award wages: Aboriginal labour and Methodist missions in Arnhem Land | Gwenda Baker traces the history of Aboriginal labour on Methodist missions in Arnhem Land, where award wages led to fewer jobs. While resenting the low wages, some Aborigines see their work on the missions as a highlight of enterprise and achievement. | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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‘Afghans’ and Aborigines in Central Australia | Philip Jones explores the relations between Aboriginal people and ‘Afghans’, whose camel trains linked Central Australian outposts with supply centres and markets in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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‘Always Anangu’ – always enterprising’ | Alan O’Connor examines Anangu involvement in economic life from early records pre-contact, through the establishment of the mission Ernabella, in 1937, when dingo scalps were traded for flour, tea and sugar, to the enterprises that emerged in the 1970s. | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Evidently not! | Museum collections exaggerate the traditional lives of Indigenous Australians. Here, Mike Pickering seeks to expand Indigenous history to include items that, though the product of western industry, were mostly used by Indigenous workers. | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Between locals: Interpersonal histories and the Papunya art movement | Thorley and Greenslade consider Papunya Tula during the 1970s, as Indigenous art became recognised as fine art, and remote markets developed, shaping the art movement. But local markets persisted, and their effect on the movement warrants further study. | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The art of cutting stone: Aboriginal convict labour in 19th-century New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land | In the first half of the 19th century, at least sixty Aboriginal men from New South Wales were transported as convicts. Kristyn Harman discusses their labours within the convict system, the rationale for putting them to work, and the outcomes. | 15 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Settler economies and Indigenous encounters | Christopher Lloyd explores and discusses the development, meaning, use, and usefulness of the concepts of ‘conquest’, ‘hybridity’, and ‘production regimes’ in the field of research into the history of settler/Indigenous relations and their consequences. | 15 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Indigenous modes of exchange and participation in the Indonesian trepang industry | Daryl Guse discusses archaeological research in north-western Arnhem Land that indicates early Indigenous participation in and trade with the Indonesian trepang maritime industry, and the adaptability of Indigenous coastal communities. | 15 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The hybrid economy as political project | Altman introduces his conceptual framework ‘the hybrid economy’, devised as a means to overcome the binary between market/non-market and to explore alternative ways of understanding and practising ‘development’. | 15 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Terra incognito no more – reflecting on change | At the time of this ‘last great expedition’, many plants, animals, aspects of human culture were unknown to science. Robyn Williams launches the symposium Barks, Birds and Billabongs with a broad-ranging talk on science since 1948. | 28 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Launch of Collecting Cultures, a book about the 1948 expedition | Craddock Morton, Director of the National Museum of Australia, introduces, contextualises and launches the book by Sally K May: Collecting Cultures: Myth, Politics and Collaboration in the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition | 22 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Force for good: how Indigenous Australians have enriched football | This is a forum on how Indigenous Australians have enriched Australian Rules football, and the social significance of their participation. Speakers include players, academics and sports commentators. | 8 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Smithsonian’s participation in the Arnhem Land Expedition | Paul Taylor offers some historical context for the Smithsonian Institution’s participation in the Expedition, especially in light of prior Smithsonian partnerships, involvements, and sponsorships of domestic and international scientific expeditions. | 31 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hidden for 60 years: The motion picture films of the American–Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land | Josh Harris describes the rediscovery in the archives of The National Geographic Society of 12,000 feet of film shot by Howell Walker during the 1948 Expedition and the in-depth steps that were taken to preserve and bring the footage back to life. | 17 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beneath the billabongs: The scientific legacy of Robert Rush Miller | Robert Rush Miller was one of the youngest members of the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. Miller’s son, Gifford Miller, and son-in-law, Robert Cashner, provide insight into his life and work. | 23 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Inside Mountford’s tent: paint, politics and paperwork | Charles Mountford lacked formal credentials as an anthropologist or scientist, yet he led the largest and most complex scientific expedition to remote Australia. Dr Philip Jones explores Mountford’s contribution and the controversy around his leadership. | 22 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Locating the expedition politically: 1948 American–Australian Relations | Kim Beazley situates the 1948 Expedition in the context of postwar international relations. | 22 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A history of the 1948 expedition | Sally K May provides a historical overview of the Expedition, its planning and execution. | 22 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Making a sea change: Rock art, archaeology and the enduring legacy of McCarthy’s research on Groote Eylandt | Dr Anne Clarke and Ms Ursula Frederick revisit Frederick McCarthy’s research in relation to their own more recent analyses of rock art sites on Groote Eylandt, using sites that were not recorded in 1948, and focusing on cross-cultural interaction. | 22 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Forget the barks! Bring on the string figures! The String Figures of Yirrkala: Activating a legacy | Robyn McKenzie examines Fred McCarthy’s celebrated collection of Yirrkala string figures as artefacts of cross-cultural exchange, looking at problems of definition, description, interpretation and analysis. | 22 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Appraising the legacy of the Arnhem Land Expedition: An insider’s perspective | Raymond Louis Specht, botanist on the 1948 Expedition, reflects on the influence of the Expedition and discusses his botanical investigations. | 22 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Collecting Australia at the Smithsonian: 150 years and still going | Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator of Oceanic Ethnology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, provides an overview of the museum’s Australian collections, focusing on the Arnhem Land collection which comprises more than 400 artefacts. | 22 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Birds on the wire: Colin Simpson and the emergence of the radio documentary feature | Tony MacGregor examines the 1948 ABC radio feature about the Expedition both as a remarkable contemporary account and as a media object of an emerging form – the radio documentary feature. | 22 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The forbidden gaze: The 1948 Wubarr ceremony performed for the American–Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land | Murray Garde considers the Wubarr ceremony performed in 1948 and examines the tangled cross-cultural politics of non-Aboriginal involvement in secret Aboriginal religious ceremonies in Western Arnhem Land. | 22 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fossicking memories | Expedition botanist Raymond Louis Specht is interviewed by Martin Thomas. | 22 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The ‘exciting thing was the landscape’: Raymond Specht, a botanist in the field | Lynne McCarthy explores the work of Raymond Louis Specht, Expedition botanist, and considers his botanical collection as both a process and a product. | 22 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The forgotten collection: Baskets reveal histories | Louise Hamby examines the dispersed collection of fibre objects collected by the 1948 Expedition – the objects and the process and politics of their collection. | 22 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Closing remarks | Closing remarks from the Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium. | 22 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Missing the revolution! Negotiating disclosure on the Pre-Macassans (Bayini) in North-East Arnhem Land | Ian McIntosh examines how Yolngu people negotiated disclosure and concealment in relation to Bayini bark paintings. What did they tell Charles Mountford about it and why? What did they tell other anthropologists and how is that issue significant? | 22 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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‘A Robinson Crusoe in Arnhem Land …’: Howell Walker, National Geographic, and the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition | Mark Jenkins explores the role played by the Expedition’s primary American sponsor – National Geographic – and its intrepid representative, Howell Walker. | 22 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Unpacking the testimony of Gerald Blitner: An Indigenous perspective on the Arnhem Land Expedition | Gerald Blitner served as a guide and translator for the Expedition. Here, Martin Thomas explores his oral testimony alongside archival evidence, including observations recorded by the Expedition party, to unpack their intercultural exchanges. | 22 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From Fish Creek to the Mann River: Hunter-gatherer transformations in western Arnhem Land, 1948–2008 | Jon Altman describes transformations in the customary economy of Aboriginal people in western Arnhem Land over 60 years – a comparative analysis made possible because of research undertaken by Frederick McCarthy and Margaret McArthur in 1948. | 22 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The responsibilities of leadership: The records of Charles P Mountford | Suzy Russell describes the Mountford–Sheard collection at the State Library of South Australia, shares insights recorded by Bessie Mountford in a journal she kept during the Expedition, and considers some Expedition controversies. | 22 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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‘Bastard barks’: A gift from the 1948 Arnhem Land expedition | Margo Neale explores Charles Mountford’s collection of works on paper, locating them as a useful starting point for reassessing Mountford’s reputation as a collector of Aboriginal art and stories. | 22 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yolngu ways of knowing Country: Insights from the 1948 Expedition to Arnhem Land | Whereas the 1948 Expedition presented vast collections of plant and animal life classified according to Linnaean taxonomy, Ad Borsboom explores how the Yolngu organise and present knowledge through mythological Dreaming stories. | 22 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Creating a colony: the European settlement of Tasmania 1803–1853 | Curator Anthea Gunn talks about her research on the colonial settlement of Hobart and the expansion of Van Diemen’s Land in the early 1800s, as part of her work on the Creating a Country gallery. | 27 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What is a memory? | Historians Mike Pickering, Paul Pickering and Peter Stanley join psychologist Judith Slee in a discussion about memory, how it is defined, measured and understood, and why it is sometimes contested. | 15 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Memorials and sacred sites | The spiritual significance and memorialisation of place are explored by archaeologist Claire Smith, examining Aboriginal sacred sites, and by historian Peter Stanley’s research into the Mont St Quentin battlefield. | 15 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Layers of significance – Reconciliation Place and the Acton Peninsula, Canberra | Explores the varying layers of significance of Reconciliation Place and Acton Peninsula in Canberra, both traditional homes of the Ngambri Aboriginal people. The Peninsula was once the site of the Canberra hospital and is now home to the National Museum. | 15 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Australians in the Himalayas | Leading Australian mountaineers reflect on their Himalayan and broader climbing experiences, on the 25th anniversary of the first Australians climbing Mount Everest. | 15 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stories of the sea: travellers across the Pacific | Pacific scholars Deveni Temu, Prue Ahrens and Sioana Faupula explore the personal and historical accounts of lives lived with the sea, from early Indigenous populations and European venturers to contemporary travellers. | 30 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Get Up, Stand Up public forum | Contemporary forms of Indigenous protest are examined by historian John Maynard, film director Rachel Perkins, elder Martin Ballangarry and hip-hopper Brothablack in a forum coinciding with the Museum’s From Little Things Big Things Grow exhibition. | 29 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ocean crossings: the material traces of voyaging | Contemporary perspectives on Pacific Islander voyaging, investigating archaeological evidence and museum displays from Pacific scholars Kylie Moloney, Melanie Van Olffen and Matthew Spriggs. | 29 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Violent ends: the arts of environmental anxiety | Fears around global warming are explored through different mediums by a group of artists, poets, dancers, singers, scientists, film makers, historians, creative writers and cultural theorists. | 17 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In coral seas: ships, cargo and people in the South Pacific 1930 to 1960 | The history of trade, shipping, tourism and migration between the Pacific islands and Australia is explored by historian Jonathan Ritchie as part of Voyages of the Pacific Ancestors: Vaka Moana exhibition. | 11 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tattoos, lashing, house and canoe building | Siosiua FP Tofua’ipangai, also know as Lafitani, examines significant Tongan cultural practices, discussing the techniques of tattoos, lashing, house and canoe building over time. | 11 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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‘If it wasn’t for them …’ – remembering the activists of the 1920s and 1930s | Historian John Maynard leads an informal discussion with some of the original political activists from the Indigenous protests of the 1920s and 1930s, as part of the National Museum’s celebration of the 70th anniversary of the 1938 Day of Mourning. | 29 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robe is not famous for robes | Curator Jennifer Wilson talks about her research into the fishing port of Robe in South Australia in the late nineteenth century, as an example of a place where people endeavoured to create a just society with equality of opportunity and participation. | 28 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stories of sadness and loss | Collector Peter Lane and curators Laina Hall and Susannah Helman discuss three stories from the Australian Journeys gallery: the emotional drama of convict tokens, Alexander Mussen’s redemption on the goldfields and Muriel McPhee’s secret trousseau. | 26 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Investigation into the collections of Dr Herbert Basedow | National Museum Friends Foundation Fellow David Kaus outlines his research into Aboriginal artefacts and natural history specimens collected by Herbert Basedow between 1903 and 1928 and now held in institutions across Australia. | 26 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Research in free-choice learning | Museum evaluation and learning theory experts Lynn Dierking and John Falk share insights from two current research projects in free-choice learning in museums, at this seminar for museum and gallery professionals. | 14 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The ‘spirit of inquiry’ in Port Macquarie | Curator and historian Roslyn Russell talks about the work of amateur scientists, including astronomer WJ Macdonnell, in the New South Wales coastal town of Port Macquarie, as part of her research for the Creating a Country gallery. | 13 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Heavens above! | The National Museum’s rare 1883 Grubb refractor telescope, used in early Australian astronomical observing programs and returned to working condition, is discussed by curator Kirsten Wehner, astronomer Vince Ford and astronomical engineer Hermann Wehner. | 12 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writing Captain Cook symposium | Leading writers and historians discuss their recent books on Captain James Cook and explore Australia’s continuing fascination with the explorer. | 14 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Design inspirations behind the Museum building | Sue Dove provides an insight into the design of the National Museum of Australia, discussing the building’s aim and function, the influence of other international buildings, contentious design aspects, and the expression of major Australian themes. | 24 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Introduction to the AE Smith collection | The AE Smith string quartet held by the National Museum is outlined by conservator Robin Tait. She also discusses the conservation strategy of display and occasional use for functional museum objects. | 18 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Pereira, Unity is Strength (2008) | Renowned Australian cellist David Pereira plays a personal composition on the cello made by AE Smith in Sydney in 1953, one of the National Museum’s most treasured musical instruments. Dedicated to Gabrielle Hyslop and the National Museum. | 18 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peter Sculthorpe, Threnody (1991) | Renowned Australian cellist David Pereira plays the cello made by AE Smith in Sydney in 1953, one of the National Museum’s most treasured musical instruments. Dedicated to Stuart Challender. | 18 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Carl Vine, Inner World for Solo Cello and Electronics (1994) | Renowned Australian cellist David Pereira plays the cello made by AE Smith in Sydney in 1953, one of the National Museum’s most treasured musical instruments. This piece was dedicated to David Pereira. | 18 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bach, Suite No. 3 in C Major BWV 1009 (c. 1720) | Renowned Australian cellist David Pereira plays the cello made by AE Smith in Sydney in 1953, one of the National Museum’s most treasured musical instruments. Movements played: Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Bourrees I and II, and Gigue. | 18 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Arvo Pärt, Spiegel im Spiegel (1978) | Renowned Australian cellist David Pereira plays the cello made by AE Smith in Sydney in 1953, one of the National Museum’s most treasured musical instruments. This piece was originally for violin and piano. | 18 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time (1942) | Renowned Australian cellist David Pereira plays one of the National Museum’s most treasured musical instruments, the AE Smith cello, accompanied by harpist Alice Giles. | 18 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bach, Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major BWV 1010 (c. 1720) | Renowned Australian cellist David Pereira plays the cello made by AE Smith in Sydney in 1953, one of the National Museum’s most treasured musical instruments. Movements played: Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Gavottes I and II, and Gigue. | 18 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conversation with Peter Cundall | Horticulturalist and television personality Peter Cundall shares his unexpected life story, his passion for gardening and his thoughts on life, love and the environment with curator Stephen Munro. | 12 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guna Kinne and Carmelo Mirabelli’s stories | Guna Kinne and Carmelo Mirabelli’s stories feature in the National Museum’s Australian Journeys gallery. They join curator Karen Schamberger and broadcaster Sylvie Stern in a discussion about their lives in Europe and Australia. | 11 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rugged Beyond Imagination: Stories from an Australian mountain region | Curator Matthew Higgins talks about his book Rugged Beyond Imagination, which explores how people including stockmen, skiers, scientists and surveyors have shaped and been shaped by the Australian alpine environment. | 6 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Food and space: the Australian nation in the British Empire | Historian Adele Wessell uses cookbooks to draw conclusions about Australian political and social life at the turn of the century, examining British diet and food preferences that were maintained and transformed in colonial Australia. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Introduction to the Creating a Country gallery | Curator Kirsten Wehner outlines the themes of the new National Museum of Australia permanent gallery, Creating a Country. It will look broadly at the history of Australia since European colonisation of the continent in the late eighteenth century. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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‘Never enough grass’ and Bowen Downs | The development of the Australian pastoral industry at Bowen Downs in central Queensland, one of four places to be featured in the ‘Never enough grass’ module of the National Museum’s Creating a Country gallery, is outlined by curator George Main. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From flat things big things grow! | Elspeth Wishart outlines the challenges facing the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in exhibiting important two-dimensional artefacts. She relates how the museum must balance the needs of visitors with the care of these artefacts, a letter and a flag. | 21 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Objects to stories: using thematic studies to develop exhibitions at volunteer museums in the Port Macquarie-Hastings region | Curator Liz Gillroy discusses the development of exhibitions at volunteer museums in northern New South Wales. She examines methodologies, education, training and support from the wider museum sector. | 21 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Victoria Police Museum: collecting crime | Collections manager Liz Marsden outlines the objectives of the Victoria Police Museum, examines its exhibitions and how the presentation of stories can create challenges in regard to the emotional ‘charge’ experienced by some visitors. | 21 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Into the light | Conservator Nicola Smith examines the management of exhibition light levels at the National Museum of Australia. She addresses display periods, object replacement and new non-destructive methods of assessing object degradation from light. | 21 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Before the badges, before the T-shirts, before the flag | Curator Jay Arthur on the creation of an exhibition on the struggle for Indigenous civil rights from 1920 to 1970 for the National Museum. She examines the notion of the ‘untold’ story and the challenge in assembling objects to tell this story. | 21 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No presence in the case: looking for Tahiti in world museums | The presence of objects from Tahiti in museums across the world is examined by historian Jenny Newell. She discusses the representations of Tahiti over the years and suggests how museums might renew Tahitian exhibitions and collections. | 21 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A load of old rubbish: displaying archaeology of the modern city | Curator Charlotte Smith outlines the development of an exhibition at Museum Victoria based on urban archaeology. She discusses the challenges in interpreting the ‘rubbish’ and creating a snapshot of life in nineteenth-century Melbourne. | 21 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A cast of thousands: redevelopment of Circa | National Museum curators and researchers discuss the development of the Museum’s introductory Circa rotating theatre. They examine its function and the use of new narratives to explore the National Historical Collection. | 21 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dead museum animals: from ‘order of nature’ to chaos of culture | Libby Robin looks at the use of dead animal collections in museums. She examines the scientific precedents behind these collections and how they are evolving from representations of science to components of social history and art studies. | 21 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What was it like: a perspective on history in museums | Museum consultant Brian Crozier considers how material culture might be interpreted by museums for popular rather than academic audiences. He examines the cultural contributions that museums may make in the study of history. | 21 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Flora Pell: Australia’s first domestic goddess | Alison Wishart examines the challenges of displaying rare cookery books in museums. She focuses on Flora Pell’s Our Cookery Book, published in 1916, and suggests display methods to allow better visitor interaction. | 21 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Online exhibitions | Mary-Elizabeth Andrews examines an online exhibition about war brides at the Australian National Maritime Museum. She considers the use of objects, access, technical and moral concerns and how museums can reconnect with communities. | 21 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Review of the National Museum of Australia’s Australian Journeys gallery | Historian Michael Cathcart critiques the new Australian Journeys gallery, which traces Australia’s interconnections with the world. Exhibition curator Martha Sear responds, in a discussion chaired by museum general manager Louise Douglas. | 21 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From collections to exhibitions – welcome and keynote address | Peter Stanley welcomes guests to the 2009 National Museum Collections Symposium and key speaker Howard Morphy delivers ‘Perspectives on exhibiting collections,’ looking at the significance of artefacts and the stories they can tell. | 21 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Darwin’s experiences in Australia | Frank Nicholas from the School of Veterinary Science outlines Charles Darwin’s visit to Australia on the HMS Beagle in 1836. What Darwin saw contributed to the wealth of evidence he assembled from around the world showing that species have evolved. | 14 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Human evolution: fossils surprising, fossils predicted | Archaeologist Colin Groves outlines the fossil history of human evolution. He examines how some parts of the human fossil record appear to depict gradual change, while others seem better interpreted by the model of punctuated equilibria. | 14 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Charles Darwin symposium welcome and introduction | Museum director Craddock Morton launches a symposium for examining and understanding the life and times of Charles Darwin, the impact of his published work and his scientific legacy. Includes an introduction by ABC Radio National science broadcaster Robyn Williams. | 14 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Evolutionary change in agriculture – the past, present and future | The impact of adaptation and evolution on the development of modern agricultural crops and the use of genetically modified technologies is outlined by evolutionary biologist Jeremy Burdon. | 14 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Darwin and social Darwinism: the political use and abuse of natural selection | Historian Tony Barta examines to what extent Charles Darwin’s ideas were misused by others and discusses the tragic effect of Darwinian eugenics in Australia and Germany. | 14 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A lunatic idea: British science and evolution on the eve of Darwin’s Origin of Species | Historian Iain McCalman explores the dominant scientific attitudes to ideas of evolution in Britain in the years before Darwin’s Origin is published. He explains why evolution was widely regarded as a lunatic theory and was resisted so fiercely. | 14 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Evolution and creationism | Theologian Neil Ormerod examines debates over creationism, creation science and intelligent design, and how they muddied the waters of what was held in the Catholic Encyclopedia over 100 years ago regarding the theory of evolution. | 14 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Irish in Australia | Researcher, author and Irishman Richard Reid and photographer Brendon Kelson examine the role of the Irish in Australia, to be featured in a forthcoming National Museum book, The Scattered Children of St Patrick. | 14 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Social reactions to Origin | Historian Barry Butcher explores the work of four Australians who contributed to the growing corpus of Darwinian science from the 1860s to the 1890s: William Edward Hearn, Robert David Fitzgerald, Walter Baldwin Spencer and Alexander Sutherland. | 14 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Charles Darwin: his character and convictions | Historian Tom Frame explores Charles Darwin’s personal profile and describes the impact of his scientific views, his attitudes and opinions on religion. | 14 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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‘A theory to work with’: On The Origin of Species and its contemporary reception | Historian Paul Turnbull summarises Charles Darwin’s arguments in Origin, its diverse reception in British and European circles from 1860 to 1900, and how the natural history of humanity came to be envisaged in Darwinian terms. | 14 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Charles Darwin symposium closing address | Science journalist and broadcaster Robyn Williams presents a humorous summary of proceedings from the Charles Darwin symposium. | 14 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Who you callin’ urban? | An examination of the expression of Indigenous culture and identity by a dynamic group of contemporary artists and authors. Explores the impact the ‘art’ movement has had on Indigenous people and how cultural material can be ‘read’ as documentary text. | 2 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writing onto public record our stories | An exploration of the term ‘urban’, whether it is an appropriate reference for Indigenous people living in Australian cities, and the many ways Indigenous culture is expressed in these environments. | 2 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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These are modern dreamtime stories! | The ways the ‘active’ Indigenous voice has changed the representation of Indigenous cultures from urban areas in museums and keeping places is explored by Indigenous artist Gordon Syron, poet Sam Wagan Watson and writer Stephen Hagan. | 2 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Animated conversation with Geoff Pryor | Historian Michael McKernan celebrates the life and work of much admired political cartoonist and Canberra identity Geoff Pryor, who retired after three decades with The Canberra Times. | 1 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Darwin exhibition opening | Writer, lawyer and former science minister Barry Jones opens the Charles Darwin exhibition at the National Museum of Australia. | 17 12 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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History in the baking | Historian Adele discusses cookbooks as historial resources, drawing on the National Museum’s collection in her time as a Visiting Fellow with the Museum’s Centre for Historical Research. | 16 12 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Emily: the impossible modernist | ABC journalist Virginia Trioli discusses the work of artist Emily Kngwarreye with Sydney Morning Herald art critic John McDonald and National Museum curator Margo Neale. Does Emily’s work compare with modernism? Is it considered abstract expressionist? | 30 11 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Environmental history beyond the ivory tower | Environmental historian Libby Robin talks about the uses of environmental history in museums in Australia and New Zealand as a bridge between the traditions of natural and social history. | 30 11 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Port of Aran | Irish archaeologist Michael Gibbons talks about the history and archaeology of Killeany Harbour, Inis Mor on Aran Island off the coast of Ireland, as part of a broader survey of Irish antiquities. | 27 11 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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George Reid: a journey through three parliaments | Curator Martha Sear discusses objects in the National Historical Collection that once belonged to Sir George Reid, a key figure in Australia’s Federation-era political history. Reid’s story features in the Australian Journeys gallery. | 21 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The making of Australian Journeys | Curator Martha Sear examines the evolution of the National Museum’s Australian Journeys gallery. She provides a comprehensive overview of the stories and the objects in this gallery, which looks at Australia’s connections to the world over time. | 21 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Outback archive: unorthodox historical records | Historian Darrell Lewis discusses his research on ‘the outback archive,’ unorthodox historical records from pre-European times to the present, concentrating on marked water tanks and trees along the Murranji Track in the Northern Territory. | 18 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New directions | Chrischona Schmidt examines Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s role as painter in the community of Utopia and Gwen Horsfield looks at Australia’s participation at the Venice Biennale 1978-2007, where Emily was one of the featured Australian artists. | 10 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Emily Kngwarreye’s practice of painting: an international perspective | Art historian Terry Smith explores how Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s work operates between the evolution of Indigenous and non-Indigenous art in Australia. He draws comparisons with the achievements of contemporary European artists. | 10 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Emily as located historian: the Camel Lady narrates a history of discovery without 1788 | Historian Ann McGrath discusses paintings as agents of history, bringing history into the present. She looks at the work of Emily Kame Kngwarreye to investigate how paintings tell different stories depending on where they are presented. | 10 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Japanese responses to the Emily exhibition | Art historian Chiaki Ajoika, Aboriginal art consultant Mayumi Uchida and Australian Embassy official Hitomi Toku discuss Japanese responses to the Osaka and Tokyo exhibitions of Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s work, with Ronin Films managing director Andrew Pike. | 10 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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‘Why do those fellas paint like me …?’ Emily Kame Kngwarreye symposium welcome and introduction | The National Museum’s Margo Neale and Dennis Grant welcome participants to the Emily Kame Kngwarreye symposium, for the exchange of cultural perspectives by Australian and Japanese speakers. Includes a welcome by Ngunnawal elder Agnes Shea. | 10 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Emily Kame Kngwarreye: her place in Australian art | Art writer and critic Susan McCulloch discusses the significance of Emily Kame Kngwarreye in twentieth-century Australian art, her contribution to its development and the stylistic breakthroughs of her work. | 10 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Into the west: Torres Strait Islander railway workers, migration and belonging | Historian Shino Konishi explores the experiences in the 1960s of young Torres Strait Islander men who moved from the Torres Strait to the Australian mainland to work on railway construction. | 10 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A new ritual in contemporary Aboriginal art | The art of Emily Kame Kngwarreye and the use of cultural rituals to demonstrate Aboriginal modernity is explored by curator Sally Butler. She also compares Emily’s art practices to 1970s and 1980s modernist design techniques. | 10 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The impossible modernist: an ‘outsider’ view | Museum director and Emily Kame Kngwarreye exhibition curator Akira Tatehata explores the ironies of ‘the impossible modernist’ from another cultural space, as a Japanese man steeped in his own culture and an international art curator and academic. | 10 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Late-style modernist: a ‘boundary rider’ view | Indigenous art curator Djon Mundine examines the art of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, drawing parallels with other late-style female artists to deepen the understanding of Emily and her work beyond the local perspective. | 10 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An artist first and foremost | Artist and gallery owner Christopher Hodges, who had a close association with Emily Kame Kngwarreye, affirms her position as an abstract artist and provides insights into how her thinking was reflected in the Emily exhibition in Japan. | 10 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Janet on the spot | Renowned art collector Janet Holmes à Court discusses the deeply moving work of Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye with National Museum curator Margo Neale. | 10 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The possible modernist: an ‘insider’ view | Art historian Ian McLean offers a view based on the Australian post-colonial experience, arguing that Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s form of modernism is different from international modernism in both source and history. | 10 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ninety years ago on a French hillside: a story of Mont St Quentin | The story of one Australian platoon involved in the 1918 battle of Mont St Quentin, as told by historian Peter Stanley, who follows the 12 men throughout their lives. | 10 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Showcases II – examples of material culture research in museums | Curators outline examples of material culture research in Australian museums through objects including a wall-hanging crafted in a refugee camp, a military jacket, a wool collection, mining models and Australian Inland Mission Frontier Fête material. | 31 8 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Showcases I – examples of material culture research in museums | Four National Museum of Australia curators provide examples of material culture research into a boomerang, tools used by Hmong gardeners, a dress worn at the opening of Parliament House in 1927 and objects from the Snowy Hydro-Electric Scheme. | 31 8 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Collections used to interpret the past: panel and audience discussion | Leading historians reflect on the ways in which collections can be used to interpret the past, and the issues and problems faced in doing so, in wrapping up the National Museum’s Collections 2008 symposium on material histories and objects as sources. | 31 8 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Viewpoints on material culture | Archaeologist Mike Smith, curator Guy Hansen, historian Margaret Anderson and anthropologist Fred Myers reflect on the way their four different disciplines have approached physical evidence at the 2008 National Museum Collections Symposium. | 31 8 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Captured in Staffordshire | Curator Rebecca Nason discusses two Staffordshire figurines of nineteenth-century Irish nationalist, parliamentarian and convict William Smith O’Brien. His story is told in the Australian Journeys gallery. | 28 8 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Moving stories: women’s lives, British women and the postwar Australian dream | Oral historian Alistair Thomson explores the experience of migration to Australia in the 1950s and 1960s, through the eyes and life stories of four British women, during his time as a Director’s Fellow at the National Museum of Australia. | 10 8 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From Makassar to Marege to the Museum | Curator Alison Mercieca tells the story of the Macassan trepang, or sea slug, industry. She considers the places connected by the Macassan voyagers from Indonesia and looks at the archaeological traces left on the Arnhem Land coast. | 3 8 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A market for memories: understanding public history at the Mindil Beach site in Darwin | Historian Mickey Dewar talks about her research into Mindil Beach, Darwin and the ways in which a cultural site intersects with a complex community history and memory, as part of her time with the National Museum’s Centre for Historical Research. | 29 7 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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All along the line | American writer and scholar William Fox discusses his research into how humans transform land into landscape, terrain into territory, and space into place, during his time as a Visiting Fellow at the National Museum’s Centre for Historical Research. | 28 7 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guna Kinne and her Latvian national dress | Curator Karen Schamberger tells the story of Guna Kinne’s Latvian national dress, assembled over a period of 20 years in Latvia, Germany and Australia, and now part of the National Museum’s National Historical Collection. | 27 7 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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100 years of rugby league in Australia panel discussion | The great and controversial moments of 100 years of rugby league in Australia are discussed by sports historians Ian Heads, Sean Fagan and Geoff Armstrong and National Museum curator Guy Hansen. | 15 6 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clash of the codes: rugby union vs rugby league | The relative merits of rugby union and rugby league football are debated by ABC Canberra sports reporter Tim Gavel, Brumbies media manager Nick Smith, Canberra Raiders media manager Ben Pollock and National Museum curator Guy Hansen. | 15 6 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Baden journals | The lives of a group of young sisters growing up on Baden farm at Grong Grong in country New South Wales around 1912 are revealed in a collection of journals, examined by curator Susannah Helman. | 26 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Footprints in the sand: Banks’ Maori collection, Cook’s first voyage 1768-1771 | Historian Paul Tapsell discusses how artefacts in Joseph Banks’ collection from Captain James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific can be viewed as ‘taonga’, or Maori treasured possessions. | 20 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cook, his mission and Indigenous Australia: a perspective on consequence | Curator Doreen Mellor examines the life-changing consequences for Australian Indigenous peoples of Captain James Cook’s first Pacific journey, and subsequent European settlement, as the background to the story of the Stolen Generations. | 20 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Looking across the beach – both ways | Historian Greg Dening examines the cultural achievements of the Sea of Islands or Pacific peoples with a particular focus on Tupaia, a priest of Oro, who joined Captain James Cook on the Endeavour. | 20 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brushed with fame: museological investments in the Cook voyage collections | Historian Lissant Bolton considers the nature of Captain James Cook’s fame in a museological context and discusses how difficult it is to present artefacts from the Pacific in an exhibition without reference to Cook’s three voyages. | 20 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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To attempt some new discoveries in that vast unknown tract | Anthropologist Adrienne Kaeppler outlines the research that has gone into reconstructing the ethnographic collections from Captain James Cook’s three Pacific voyages. | 20 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Encounters with wondrous things: the historical significance of the Cook-Forster Collection | The historical significance of the Cook-Forster ethnographic collection of the University of Göttingen in Germany is examined by historian Paul Turnbull. | 20 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovering Cook: Georg Forster and the image of Captain Cook | Curator Nigel Erskine discusses the official account of Captain James Cook’s third Pacific voyage, particularly the introductory essay by German naturalist and fellow voyager Georg Forster. | 20 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mutukayi: motor cars and Papunya painting | The sometimes life-changing, occasionally hilarious and always vital role of the mutukayi – or motor car – in the history of the people of Australia’s Western Desert is explored by an expert panel with firsthand Papunya experience. | 8 4 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Collecting Papunya art | Explore the history of the Papunya painting movement and discover the current generation of Papunya artists at a forum held in conjunction with the National Museum’s Papunya Painting exhibition. | 8 4 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Into the desert | Desert archaeologist Mike Smith on his expedition into the remote southern Simpson Desert in South Australia. Mike recalls the thrill of discovering ancient fossil remains, working with camels and a helicopter rescue for an injured expeditioner. | 26 3 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Gore’s telescope | A Dollond achromatic telescope used by Captain John Gore helps to tell remarkable stories about Captain James Cook’s Pacific voyages and the development of optics and navigational techniques, according to curator Michelle Hetherington. | 18 3 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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He nearly made it: Leichhardt’s ‘grand plan’ of 1848 | Darrell Lewis examines German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt’s intended route for his attempted east-west crossing of Australia. Lewis argues that Leichhardt followed his plan and managed to cross two-thirds of the continent. | 21 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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‘A very tolerable addition’: Leichhardt’s mapping of the Balonne River | Curator Martin Woods examines a rare map drawn by Ludwig Leichhardt. Woods says the map of the Balonne and Condamine rivers in Queensland raised hopes of an expanded Darling Downs farming district and funded Leichhardt’s final journey. | 21 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leichhardt in Australian literature | The fascination of Australian writers with explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, including Patrick White’s Voss, earlier elegiac poems and Lemurian novels, is examined by English lecturer Susan Martin. | 21 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leichhardt panel discussion | Alice Springs historian Dick Kimber proposes an alternative theory for the fate of Ludwig Leichhardt’s expedition, arguing that it was lost in the Simpson Desert, in a closing discussion with earlier symposium speakers. | 21 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leichhardt as scientist and diarist | Tom Darragh uses Ludwig Leichhardt’s diaries to show the skill and accuracy with which the explorer and naturalist recorded scientific observations and information about plants and geological specimens, in terminology which is still used today. | 21 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Overview of the National Museum of Australia’s purchase of the Leichhardt nameplate | Curator Matthew Higgins outlines the work undertaken to establish the authenticity of a small brass nameplate, the first object with a corroborated provenance from explorer Ludwig Leichhardt’s lost 1848 expedition. | 21 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ludwig Leichhardt: a loss to science and Australian culture | Scientist Henry Nix argues that had explorer Ludwig Leichhardt lived, he could have published the results of his scientific observations and joined the company of peers including Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin. | 21 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leichhardt: the motivations of an explorer | Historian Rod Home looks at Ludwig Leichhardt’s family background, financial situation and formal scientific training to argue the explorer was also a perceptive naturalist with a well defined research agenda in Australia. NOTE: audio loops from 18:40 on. | 21 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Scientific analysis of the Leichhardt plate | Conservator David Hallam outlines the metal and corrosion analysis which helped to authenticate the Leichhardt nameplate. The plate is the only known artefact from Ludwig Leichhardt’s lost 1848 Australian expedition with a corroborated provenance. | 21 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Deepening the mystery: the 1938 South Australian government Leichhardt search party | Historian Philip Jones re-examines evidence found in the Simpson Desert in 1938, which prompted a search for the Ludwig Leichhardt’s lost expedition. He argues the search party may have discovered an Aboriginal burial site. | 21 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The dàn tre: a musical migration story | An original bamboo musical instrument made by Minh Tam Nguyen, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, illustrates a meeting of European and Asian traditions and a life changed by war, explains curator Jennifer Wilson. | 5 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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History meets poetry | Poet and writer Sam Wagan Watson, historian and Indigenous biographer Peter Read and National Museum curator Margo Neale discuss Indigenous issues and the intersection between historical research and imagination. | 19 12 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nomadic cultures, journeys and coming home | Adventurer and author Robyn Davidson joins desert archaeologist Mike Smith for a discussion about her travels in Australia, India, China and Tibet, and 30 years since the publication of her Making Tracks book. | 13 12 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conversation with Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton | Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton recounts events since her daughter Azaria was taken from a tent in Australia’s Northern Territory in 1980. She speaks about the National Museum’s Chamberlain collection and the public’s fascination with the case. | 9 12 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Photographer Richard Daintree’s glass plates | A set of ten rare glass plates depicting people and places in north Queensland in the mid-1800s reveal much about pioneering geologist and photographer Richard Daintree and life in the colony, according to curator Martha Sear. | 21 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The last man: the making of Andrew Fisher and the Australian Labor Party | Historian and National Museum Director’s Fellow David Day argues that Australian prime minister Andrew Fisher should be remembered for social reforms and infrastructure projects, not just committing ‘the last man and last shilling’ to the First World War. | 12 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Creating child-friendly cities: lessons from Monstropolis | Geographer Paul Tranter critiques the movie Monsters, Inc. in an entertaining examination of the serious issue of making cities safe, fun and connective for kids. He suggests changes to urban form and transport, neighbourhood design and social values. | 12 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conversation with Jenny Kee | Fashion designer Jenny Kee, whose story features in the National Museum, explains how her chance survival in the Granville Train Crash in Sydney in 1977 became a catalyst for her art, in a conversation with curator and historian Roslyn Russell. | 30 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The natural world as a character | Environmental historian Libby Robin and novelist Nicholas Drayson share an interest in nature and the history of science and discovery. They explore the dynamic relationship between historical evidence, recollections and the reconstruction of the past. | 19 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Weird and wonderful: the first objects of the National Historical Collection | Libby Robin tells the story of the zoological specimens, collected by Sir Colin MacKenzie, that were among the first objects in the National Museum of Australia’s National Historical Collection. | 18 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reflections on the history of the National Historical Collection | Six expert speakers – each involved with shaping the National Historical Collection over time – reflect on their personal experiences with the National Museum of Australia in a discussion with curator Kirsten Wehner. | 18 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Singular or plural? Social history and national collections | Historian Ian McShane analyses social history as museum theme and practice from 1981 to 2000. | 18 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Collecting for the future: a collections development plan for the National Historical Collection | Collections and Content General Manager Mathew Trinca outlines the National Museum of Australia’s Collections Development Plan, designed to support collecting efforts for five years. | 18 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A sum of many parts: the history of the National Historical Collection | Curator Guy Hansen traces the history of the National Museum’s National Historical Collection. He argues that the collection is eclectic – that there is no single story but many stories, with various collectors bringing different perspectives. | 18 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Springfield transformed: family collection into national treasure | The history of the Springfield collection, more than 2000 objects from a major rural property near Sydney, is outlined by registrar Carol Cooper. She explores the remarkable family who cared for it and the Museum’s work to make this collection available. | 18 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Australia’s Official Papuan collection: Sir Hubert Murray and the how and why of a colonial collection | Sylvia Schaffarczyk reconstructs the history of the Official Papuan collection at the National Museum of Australia and examines Australian collecting in Papua during a key period in the development of anthropology and Australia’s colonial interests. | 18 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Professionals and amateurs: different histories of collecting in the National Ethnographic collection | Curator David Kaus provides an overview of the Aboriginal material in the National Museum of Australia’s National Historical Collection. | 18 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Life and art? Relocating Aboriginal art and culture in the museum | Historian Angela Philp explores Aboriginal art and culture, and the tensions between aesthetics, history and politics that have been critical in the institutional histories of the National Museum of Australia and the National Gallery of Australia. | 18 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Examining the intersections of historical research and fictional writing | The convergence of history and fiction and the power of archives and objects to inform their work on Australian women and the League of Nations is explored by political historian Lenore Coltheart and author Frank Moorhouse. | 17 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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