VHJ JUNE 25 DIGITAL. VICTORIAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL ISSUE 303 VOLUME 96, NUMBER 1

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CONTENTS:

Introduction by Judith Smart and Richard Broome

UNDERSTANDING VICTORIA

Discussions at Government House

Part 2: ‘Faith in the People?’ Victoria and Federation, Creation and Outcome

Prologue: Opening Remarks and Background by Professor the Hon. Margaret Gardner AC, Governor of Victoria

Introduction by Jon Faine

The Ideals and Imagined Citizens of the New Commonwealth of Australia at Federation by Marilyn Lake

The Effect on the Commonwealth of Melbourne Being the Temporary National Capital by Judith Brett

Federation’s Failure in 1901 to Inspire Australians as a Moment of National Birth, and the Consequences for our Democracy by Carolyn Holbrook

Part 3: ‘What do we want? And when do we want it?’ Human Rights and Modern Victoria: Protest in the 60s and 70s

Prologue: Opening Remarks and Background by Professor the Hon. Margaret Gardner AC, Governor of Victoria

Introduction by Jon Faine

Understanding 1970s Protests in the Continuum of Feminist Activism by Diane Kirkby

The Emergence and Success of a Gay Movement in Australia from the 1970s by Dennis Altman

How and Why Did the Australian Black Power Movement Emerge in Victoria? By Gary Foley

RHSV VICTORIAN HALL OF FAME

LECTURES

Orontes Adventure: Introducing the Jones Collection of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria by Richard Aitken

Breaking Australian Rules in Sport and History by Barry Judd

Feminists to Felons: Exhibiting Women’s History by Margaret Anderson

ARTICLES

Working People on Pastoral Estates in Western Victoria, 1860-1880 by Michael Sturmfels

The Making of the Australian Family Farm: A View from the Northern Plains, 1870-1921 by Charles Fahey

The Original Sentimental Bloke by Gary Fearon and Philip Butterss

INTERPRETING AN IMAGE

Unbuilt Melbourne: The Government Houses that Never Were by Jack T. Norris

HISTORICAL NOTES

Wotjobaluk Stories of Country and Spirituality as Related to an Early Horsham Pastoralist by Tony Ward

The Mystery of the Anzac Stick by Graeme Davison

REVIEWS

A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon’s Australia by Tessa Morris-Suzuki by Dennis Altman

The Untold Story of William Shum by Sue Walker by John Schauble

A Convenient Scapegoat: Angus McMillan and the Gippsland Massacres by Rob Christie by John Schauble

Staging a Revolution: When Betty Rocked The Pram by Kath Kenny by Desley Deacon

Heritage Matters: Seventy Years of the East Melbourne Group 1953-2023 by Jill Fenwick by Charles Sowerwine

Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800 by Richard Broome by Tim Calabria

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