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Koorie Heritage Trust
Book, Bellear, Lisa, Dreaming in urban areas, 1996
This book is Lisa's first published collection - A Human Rights Activist everyone who was touched by Lisa will agree that this earth was left a better place for her having walked on it.xii, 76 p. ; 20 cm.This book is Lisa's first published collection - A Human Rights Activist everyone who was touched by Lisa will agree that this earth was left a better place for her having walked on it.women, aboriginal | australian -- poetry | human rights activist. -
Unions Ballarat
Killer Company: James Hardie Exposed, Peacock, Matthew, 2009
Matthew Peacock is an ABC journalist who researched the story of the company, James Hardy, that knowingly continued to sell asbestos products despite serious health risks to its employees and customers. Stories of past employees including the late Bernie Banton who publically crusaded against James Hardy.The book and its stories are significant to workplace health and safety in Australia and consumer safety.Paper; book. Front cover: red and black background; white and red text; photographs of Greg Combet, Bernie Banton and a man holding a banner that reads, "Killed by Asbestos".Front cover: title and author name.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, banton, bernie, james hardy industries, occupational health and safety, asbestos, workers' compensation, political activists, unions, asbestosis, biography -
Vision Australia
Book - Text, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Lighthouse on the Boulevard: a history of the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind (RVIB) 1866-2004 / Judith Raphael Buckrich, 2005
From its beginning in 1866, the Victorian Asylum for the Blind (later called the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind) has been a prominent resident in St Kilda Road. Intended to provide work and education, the RVIB has adapted and changed according to the staff and people who passed through, lived, laughed, learned and languished in it, as well as societal expectations. In this history of the building, its services and personalities, up until the closure of St Kilda Road.284 pages without illustrations in etext filenon-fictionroyal victorian institute for the blind, rvib burwood school -
Carlton Football Club
Commemorative Ash Tray, 1947 VFL Awarded to H O Bell Secretary of Carlton FC 1947, 1947
Presented to Carlton FC secretary H O Bell in recognition of Carlton's 1947 premiershipThe awarded trophy although for the 1947 season was passed onto former Carlton player Cyril Mann who missed selection for the 1945 Grand Final (The Blood Bath) victory over South Melbourne. Cyril Mann's maternal Grandfather William Cooper "is remembered as the Australian Aboriginal political activist, much-respected community leader and genuine man of stature whose extraordinary lifetime achievements cannot be properly acknowledged in the limited space available here". Tony De Bolfo 2013.Comprises stainless steel & bronze. Small bronze medallion sits atop ash tray on a small pedestal."Awarded to H O Bell Secretary Carlton Football Club 1947 PREMIERS" The VFL emblem is depicted on one side of the medallion. -
Camberwell Historical Society
Book, Susan Priestley, Henrietta Augusta Dugdale: An Activist 1827-1918, 2011
Biography of the life of pioneer feminist Henrietta Augusta Dugdale, who initiated the first female suffrage society. Published in 2011, this book offers an insight into Australian women's rights in the 19th century.australia, history, biography -
The Celtic Club
Book, Nancy Carduso, Lucky eyes and a high heart: The life of Maud Gonne, 1978
Biography of Maud Gonne, Irish revolutionary activist of the early twentieth century.Index, plates, ill, p.411.non-fictionBiography of Maud Gonne, Irish revolutionary activist of the early twentieth century.maud gonne - biography, feminists - ireland - biography -
Vision Australia
Book - Text, Hawthorne Press, Memoirs of Tilly Aston: Australia's blind poet author and philanthropist, 1946
Memoir of blind activist and poet, Tilly Aston.243 pages with illustrationsnon-fictionMemoir of blind activist and poet, Tilly Aston.tilly aston, association for the advancement of the blind -
Vision Australia
Book - Text, Hawthorne Press, Maiden verses by Tilly Aston, 1946
Poems by blind activist and poet, Tilly Aston.pages with illustrationsnon-fictionPoems by blind activist and poet, Tilly Aston.tilly aston, association for the advancement of the blind -
Vision Australia
Book - Text, Hawthorne Press, Songs of Light by Tilly Aston, 1946
Poems by blind activist and poet, Tilly Aston.pages with illustrationsnon-fictionPoems by blind activist and poet, Tilly Aston.tilly aston, association for the advancement of the blind -
Vision Australia
Book - Text, Hawthorne Press, Old timers by Tilly Aston, 1946
Poems by blind activist and poet, Tilly Aston.pages with illustrationsnon-fictionPoems by blind activist and poet, Tilly Aston.tilly aston, association for the advancement of the blind