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Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Script, Robin Boyd, The Flying Dogtor. Episode 24 The Shrinking Snake, 1963
Crafty drank all of the mixture by the time they unlocked Room Z, and felt himself deflating down and down, shorter and shorter, thinner and thinner, to the size of a centipede. The Dogtor saw a little black wriggling thing slipping out the crack under the door. Crafty was swept up into the moving vacuum cleaner by the cleaning lady. The Dogtor took the package of dust form the cleaning lady so he could drop it off at the police station.The Flying Dogtor" series was broadcast on Australian Television Network (later becoming the Seven Network) between February and April 1964 (see item D254 for schedule).Handwritten, foolscap, 2 pagesThe title is crossed out. Many edits.the flying dogtor, robin boyd, crawford productions, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Script, Robin Boyd, The Flying Dogtor. Episode 25 The Countdown, 1963
Major Minor, the space mouse, was feeling well again now that no-one was poisoning his food and plans were made to send him up in the satellite that afternoon. The countdown began. Major Minor was strapped in and given his camera, notebook and cheese lunch packages for seven orbits. The Flying Dogtor thought his work in Woomera had been completed when he realised they’d given the space mouse the wrong package. The Dogtor and the Secret Service Man looked at each other in horror because that meant that Crafty was onboard the rocket!The Flying Dogtor" series was broadcast on Australian Television Network (later becoming the Seven Network) between February and April 1964 (see item D254 for schedule).Handwritten, foolscap, 2 pagesThe title is crossed out. Many edits.the flying dogtor, robin boyd, crawford productions, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Slide, Robin Boyd
Colour slide in a mount. Demolition of heritage building, possibly AustraliaFile No / Title / Encircled 33 (Handwritten)slide, robin boyd -
Yarrawonga and Mulwala Pioneer Museum
Books, Manners and Tone of Good Society - 11th Edition, Unknown
Printers Bradbury, Agnew and Co. WhitefriarsHard cover book 195 pages. Written by a member of the Aristocracy. Alternative ttle "Solecisms to be Avoided". Outlining the "art of polite conversation" and advice on "what to say" and "how to say it". The last pages other books of Etiquette, Poedtry, Cookery, Plant and Flowers available from Frederick Warne an dCo. Publishers.J A Hanrahan stamped on title page -
Slovenian Association Melbourne
Invitation to the Winter Dance, Invitation to the Snežak - Zimski junak - the Snowman, the Winter Hero Dance 1957, August 1957
The happy Slovenian can find any reason to dance, sing and enjoy Slovenian music. For occasions they were very quite innovative and used every opportunity to get together and speak in their bellowed Slovenian language, meet friends, some who met life partners.The innovative design of the Winter themeSlovenians love to dance in Winter, or in the heat of the Summer. The invitation invites Slovenians to a Winter Dance on Saturday, August 10, 1957 at the Prahran Town Hall, Melbourne.Hand lettered and decorated title of the dancewinter slovenian dance, slovenian club melbourne, slovenian music -
Slovenian Association Melbourne
Exhibition panel, Immigration Museum Exhibition Title panel
Immigration Museum Exhibition panelTitle panel: Where to? To a New Beginning . . . -
Torquay and District Historical Society
Book - Book, paperback, History of Torquay Surf Life Saving Club, 1996
Written for the 50th anniversary of the Torquay Life Saving ClubTorquay Surf Life Saving Club was the first Surf Life Saving Club in Victoria, established December 1945, and the founding Members of the Club were instrumental in the formation of the Victorian Division of Surf Life SavingHard Cover book, colour blue,Gold title , Author Ken Pollardtorquay surf life saving club, torquay, surfing, ken pollard -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Booklet - Demobilization Procedure Booklet, Demobilization Procedure in Australia(A.I.F.), 1919
Booklet issued to officers, nco, and men on embarkation for Australia.Mitcham RSL collectionBooklet, Demobilization Procedures, issued 1919.Rising sun insigna, title, & instructionaif, official, documentation -
Unions Ballarat
Bob Ansett - An Autobiography, Ansett, Bob et al, 1986
Bob Ansett is a well-known Australian entrepreneur and founded Budget Rent a Car. He is the son of the late Sir Reginald Ansett (Ansett airlines).Autobiographical interest.Paper. Front cover: Colour photograph of Bob Ansett (seated); white text.Front Cover: authors' names and title.ansett, bob, ansett, robert, ansett, reginald, ansett, btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, businessmen - autobiography, pullan, robert -
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Private lives - public heritage : family snapshots as history, Bate, Weston et al, 1986
From a Museum of Victoria project where over two thousand family photos were entered into a pictorial database. Includes material from Ballarat and Manangatang.Pictorial history of social life, customs and families, including some material from the Ballarat district.Paper. Front cover: red background; black and white photograph; white text.Front cover: authors' name and title.btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, social customs, families, pictorial history, bate, weston, mc gillivray, euan, nickson, matthew, ballarat, manangatang -
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The Amalgamated Engineers in Australia 1852-1920, 1970
History of Amalgamated Engineers in Australia 1852-1920. Significant to the history of Australian trade unions. References to 7th Intercolonial Trades Union Congress 1891. References to Tom Mann.Paper. Front cover: white background; black text; black and white illustration of two men wearing top hats.Front cover: author's name & title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, unions, amalgamated engineering union, amalgamated society of engineers, buckley, k.d., history, 7th intercolonial trades hall congress, mann, tom -
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The Story of the National Union of Printing Bookbinding and Paper Workers, Bundock, Clement J, 1959
History of the National Union of Printing, Books, Bindings and Paper Workers.Significant to history of unions and the labour movement in the United Kingdom.Paper. Front cover: dark blue with white text.Front cover: author's name and title.national union of printing, books, bindings and paper workers, btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, united kingdom, history, printing industry, unions, printers -
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Homeless : true stories of life on the streets, Byrne, Andrew, 2005
This is the story of homeless people interviewed by the author - about the experience of being homeless, causes of homelessness, community and culture.Relevant to all communities and people.Paper. Front cover: Sepia photograph of a person sleeping rough; white lettering.Front cover: author's name and title.homelessness, btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, homelessness - causes, homelessness - culture, homelessness - community, byrne, andrew -
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Goldrush doctors at Ballaarat, 1977
Biographical book about medical practitioners in Ballaarat (Ballarat) goldfields between 1850-1860.Ballarat region - social history.PaperFront cover: title and author's name.medical practitioners, ballaarat, ballarat, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, btlc, doctors -
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The History of the Municipal Employees Union in Victoria 1885-1985, Best, Alleyn, 1986
One hundred years' history of the Municipal Employees' Union - 1885-1985.Significant to the history of labour unions in Australia.Paper - book. Front cover: green background; artistic impression of working men in green; text in green and black.Front cover: title and author's name.municipal employees union, federated municipal and shire council employees' union of australia, btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, unions, history, municipal employees, best, alleyn -
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Tas Bull: An Autobiography. Life on The Waterfront, Tas Bull, 1998
An autobiography by Tas Bull who was an Australian trade union leader. Tas Bull became General Secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation from 1984 to 1993 and was also an office bearer in the ACTU in the late 1980s-early 1990s.Significant to the history of trade unions - particularly the Waterside Workers' Federation.Paper - book. Front cover: black background; blue and black photograph - male with an MUA inscription on the back of t-shirt; red and black portrait photograph; white text. Front cover: title and author's name.btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, bull, tas, unions, waterside workers' federation, seaman's union of australia, delegates, international transport workers' federation, history, autobiography, actu, australian council of trade unions -
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Who are our enemies? : racism and the Australian working class, Ann Curthoys and Andrew Markus (eds), 1978
Tracks racism and discrimination towards the lower-classes, Indigenous persons and immigrants in Australia.Significant to the history of race relations in Australia.Paper; book. Front cover: red background; image of a white spanner - black and white picture shaped like a nut; black text. Front cover: editors' names and title.btlc, migrants, immigration, racism, race relations, social class, indigenous, aboriginal, discrimination, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, curthoys, ann, markus, andrew, who are our enemies -
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John Hancock and the rise of Victorian Labor : the first detonation of the volcano, Claven, Jim, 1993
Biography of Labor's first member of the Victorian legislature in Footscray, Victoria. Hancock was an MLA in 1891–1892 and 1894–1899. The author, Jim Claven, was a member of the ALP Victorian branch administrative committee and the Fabian Society executive.Biographical history pertaining to the Victorian ALP.Paper; book. Front cover: blue background; yellow and white text.Front cover: author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades and labor council, ballarat trades hall, victorian parliament, claven, jim, hancock, john, alp, australian labor party, fabian society, elections, government, mlas, member of legislative assembly, politicians, politics -
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'A bit of a rebel' : the life and work of George Arnold Wood, Crawford, RM, 1975
George Arnold Wood (1865-1928) was an historian who founded the Australian Anti-War League in 1902 with W.A. Holman and others. He also co-founded the Teachers' Guild of NSW. Biographical. Significant to the history of the Boer War, Teachers' Guild of NSW and Wood's research into Australian history.Paper; book. Front cover: orange background; black and white caricature of George Arnold Wood on the front; black text.Front cover: author's name and title.george arnold wood, historians, australian anti-war league, w.a. holman, teachers' guild of nsw, btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, boer war, australian history, crawford, raymond maxwell, crawford, rm -
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The great Labor schism : a retrospective, 2005
A collection of chapters by different historians and writers; the book is about the 1955 split in the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and its longer-term effects.Significant to the history of the ALP around 1955 and subsequent formation of the DLP. Includes interference by the Groupers, Bob Santamaria and other characters.Paper; book. Blue and white cover with red and black writing.Title and names of editors on the front cover.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, alp, australian labor council, 1955, dlp, democratic labor party, alp factions, politics, government, b.a. santamaria, peter love, brian coster, paul strangio, catholic church, communism -
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Footprints : history of the plumbers union, Crawford, George, 1997
History of the Plumbers & Gasfitters Employees Union of Australia (1928 - 1993).Significant to the labour/trade union movement in Australia.Paper; book. Front cover: blue background; black and white text; union shield.Front cover: author's name and title.plumbers union, plumbers and gasfitters union, unions, btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, history, labour, wages, nsw, plumbers -
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Freedom in Australia, Campbell, Enid and Whitmore, Harry, 1966
This book is predominantly about Australian civil rights, the legal system (law enforcement, crime, police powers) and treatment of the sick.Legal processes and treatment of the sick.Paper; book.Front cover: authors' names and title.btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, civil rights, legal system, law enforcement, crime, police, whitmore, harry, prosecution, arrest, rights, sickness, liberty, freedom of information -
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The Origins of Political Surveillance in Australia, 1983
Cain discusses issues free speech and political surveillance in WWI. The book includes the history of intelligence agencies that started in WWI, but also surveillance of communists and spying on the left in Australia during peace time.Significant to matters of national security, freedom of speech and movement and the use of intelligence agencies during and post WWI.Paper; book. Front cover: blue and green theme with white dots, dark male head with eye accentuated; white lettering.Front cover: author's name and title.cain, frank, wwi, world war i, btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, surveillance, intelligence agencies, free speech, civil liberties, communism, spying -
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Herbert Morrison: portrait of a politician, 1973
Biography of Herbert Morrison (1888-1965), a former British labor party politician who held positions of Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister.Significant to Labor Party history in the United Kingdom.Paper; book. Front cover: red background; blue and black photo of Morrison on a podium addressing a crowd of people; black, red and blue lettering.Front cover: authors' names and title.labor party - united kingdom, morrison, herbert, btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, home secretary - united kingdom, foreign secretary - united kingdom, deputy prime minister - united kingdom, biography, donoghue, bernard, jones, gw -
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Felicia: the political memoirs of Don Dunstan, Dunstan, Don, 1981
Don Dunstan was a South Australian state politician known for progressive reforms. He was premier of South Australia over the periods June 1967-April 1968 and June 1970-February 1979. He resigned from politics in 1979 and died in 1999.The book forms part of Labor Party history in South Australia and is of an autobiographical nature.Paper; book. Front cover: black background; black and white photograph of Don Dunstan; red and yellow lettering.Front cover: author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, dunstan, don, south australian parliament, premier - south australia, politics, politicians -
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The Australian Labor movement 1850-1907 : historical documents / extracts from contemporary documents, Ebbels, RN et al, 1983
Beginnings of the Australian labour movement and the ideas and circumstances that shaped it over the period 1850-1907.Australian labour movement history - 19th Century.Paper; book.Front cover: author's name and title.australian labour movement, australian labor party, alp, btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, politics, australian history, 1850-1907, ballarat trades hall -
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The printers of Melbourne : the history of a union, Fitzgerald, RT, 1967
History of various printing unions in Melbourne up to 1966.Pertinent to union history in Australia.Paper; book; red, black and white cover with a drawing of men operating old printing presses.Front cover: title and author's name.btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, unions - printing, melbourne, history -
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The Life and Death of Harold Holt, Frame, Tom, 2005
Biography. A profile of the life and circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Holt in 1967.Relevant to Australian political history and the Liberal Party.Paper; book. Front cover: sepia photograph of Harold Holt; light blue text.Front cover: author's name and title. btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, liberal party, holt, harold, frame, tom, biography, liberal party of australia, politics, politicians, prime minister -
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A Gippsland union : the Victorian Coal Miners Association 1893-1915, Gardner, PD, 2003
Members of the Victorian Coal Miners Association, were locked out of the Jumbunna Coal Mine in 1903. The book charts the long battle between capital and labour that lasted seventy weeks.Significant to union history - particularly the Victorian Coal Miners Association - and industrial action. Paper; book. Front cover: old black and white picture of miners with their banner; white text.Front cover: author name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, victorian coal miners association, strikes, unions, jumbunna coal mine, industrial disputes, coal miners -
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Inside Australia and New Zealand, Gunther, John, 1972
Gunther was an American journalist and author. The "Inside" series of books are continental surveys. Gunther travelled through each geographical area, conducting interviews with a variety of people (politicians, average people, social leaders). The Inside series are his interpretations of these experiences. Relevant to Australian and New Zealand's cultural, political and social profiles circa 1972.Book; paper. Front cover: authors' name and title.ethnography, "inside" series, surveys, interviews, geography, politicians, social history, travel, btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, anthropology