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Koorie Heritage Trust
Book, Broome, Richard, Aboriginal Australians : a history since 1788, 2010
... Australians -- Removal -- Government policy. | Aboriginal Australians... -- Removal -- Government policy. | Aboriginal Australians -- History ...Richard Broome tells the history of Australia from the standpoint of the original Australians: those who lost most in the ealy colonial struggle for power. 'In this book Richard Broome has managed an enviable achievement. The vast sweeping story of Aboriginal Australia from 1788 is told in his typical lucid and imaginative style.v-vi; 400 P. facs. photographs; notes; maps; bib. indexRichard Broome tells the history of Australia from the standpoint of the original Australians: those who lost most in the ealy colonial struggle for power. 'In this book Richard Broome has managed an enviable achievement. The vast sweeping story of Aboriginal Australia from 1788 is told in his typical lucid and imaginative style.aboriginal australians -- social conditions. | race discrimination -- australia. | australia -- race relations. | australia -- colonization -- history. | stolen generations (australia). | aboriginal australians -- removal -- government policy. | aboriginal australians -- history. | colonization. | race discrimination. | race relations. | australia -- colonization. | australia. | aborigines. | colonisation. | racial discrimination. | social conditions. | history. | aboriginal australians - social conditions. | race discrimination - australia. | australia - race relations. | australia - colonization - history. -
Koorie Heritage Trust
Book, Broome, Richard, Arriving, 1984
... policy - Integration. | Government policy - State and territory... - Population dynamics. | Government policy - Integration. | Government ...Tells the story of immigrants, from settlement at Port Phillip to date. It also describes the interaction with the Aboriginal people who were already here it spans 50,00 years. First chapter of each volume is an overview of traditional life at the time of contact concentrating on Aboriginal economic life altering/?managing of environment, with discussions of original population estimates and extent of decimation due to; disease in colonial times - smallpox, V.D., Aboriginal and white attitudes, friendships/?violent conflict, continued depopulation, missions/?reserves - 19th/?20th cent. incldg Lake Tyers, contemporary Aboriginal identity, welfare/?land rights programs.v-xiv; 258 P.; : ill. (some col.). ; maps; figs.; notes; index; 26 cm.Tells the story of immigrants, from settlement at Port Phillip to date. It also describes the interaction with the Aboriginal people who were already here it spans 50,00 years. First chapter of each volume is an overview of traditional life at the time of contact concentrating on Aboriginal economic life altering/?managing of environment, with discussions of original population estimates and extent of decimation due to; disease in colonial times - smallpox, V.D., Aboriginal and white attitudes, friendships/?violent conflict, continued depopulation, missions/?reserves - 19th/?20th cent. incldg Lake Tyers, contemporary Aboriginal identity, welfare/?land rights programs.social identity - aboriginality. | religions - christianity - missions. | settlement and contacts - colonisation - 1788-1850. | daily life. | demography - population dynamics. | government policy - integration. | government policy - state and territory - victoria. | health - infectious diseases - smallpox. | land rights. | socioeconomic conditions - living conditions. | race relations - violent - massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - to 1900. | race relations - racism - stereotyping. | reproduction. | technology. | bung yarnda /? lake tyers (e vic gippsland sj55-07) victoria. | victoria -- history. -
Koorie Heritage Trust
Journal - Serials, Department of Pacific and Southeast Asian History, Australian National University, Aboriginal History - Volume 03. 1-2 1979, 1979
... contacts - Colonisation - 1851- | Government policy - Initial... and contacts - Colonisation - 1851- | Government policy - Initial ...A series of articles on Aboriginal History by well-known historians.166p.; footnotes; bib.; ports.; facsimiles; 25 cm.A series of articles on Aboriginal History by well-known historians.aboriginal australians -- periodicals. | ethnology -- australia -- periodicals. | aboriginal australians -- missions -- new south wales | religions - christianity - missions | religions - christianity - missionaries | music - vocal | literature and stories - story telling and story tellers | language - texts and translations - aboriginal to non-aboriginal language | art - rock art - painting | photography - ethnographic | ceremonies | literature and stories - story telling and story tellers | world war, 1939-1945 -- participation, aboriginal australian. | aboriginal australian soldiers. | aboriginal australians -- northern territory -- arnhem land. | defence - world war ii | religions - christianity - lutheran church | religions - christianity - missions | settlement and contacts - colonisation - 1851- | settlement and contacts - colonisation - 1851- | government policy - initial period and protectionism - 1851-1900 | government policy - state and territory - queensland | animals - invertebrates - crustacea and molluscs - beche-de-mer / trepang | -
Koorie Heritage Trust
Booklet, Aboriginal Affairs (Association), On Aboriginal Affairs, 1962
... . | Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- Periodicals... -- Government policy -- Periodicals. | Aboriginal Australians Treatment ...A bi-monthly news sheet distributed by "Aboriginal Affairs" a voluntary association which acts as an exchange for items relating to the welfare and advancement of people of Aboriginal descent. Aboriginals, Australia - Land, history. No. 12Cummeragunga - new policy no. 11.Assimilation - issues - National Missionary Council No. 917 no. ; 22 cm.A bi-monthly news sheet distributed by "Aboriginal Affairs" a voluntary association which acts as an exchange for items relating to the welfare and advancement of people of Aboriginal descent. Aboriginals, Australia - Land, history. No. 12Cummeragunga - new policy no. 11.Assimilation - issues - National Missionary Council No. 9aboriginal australians -- social conditions -- periodicals. | aboriginal australians -- government policy -- periodicals. | aboriginal australians, treatment of -- periodicals. -
Koorie Heritage Trust
Journal - Serials, Department of Pacific and Southeast Asian History, Australian National University, Aboriginal History - Volume 06. 1-2 1982, 1982
... pendants etc. | Colonisation | Government policy... and clothing - Necklaces pendants etc. | Colonisation | Government ...A series of articles by leading writers on Aboriginal History.178 P.; tables; figs.; ports.; footnotes; bibs.; 24 cm.A series of articles by leading writers on Aboriginal History.aboriginal australians -- periodicals. | ethnology -- australia -- periodicals. | hunting, gathering and fishing | social organisation - avoidance rules - avoidance relationships | socioeconomic conditions - living conditions | law enforcement - police conduct and attitudes | race relations - racial discrimination - courts | race relations - racial discrimination - legislative | transport - air - aircraft | settlement and contacts - 20th century | stories and motifs - eagles / hawks / crows | settlement and contacts - explorers | costume and clothing - necklaces, pendants etc. | colonisation | government policy - initial period and protectionism | race relations - racism - stereotyping | sites - dreaming tracks | technology - stone - knapped | literature and stories - authors | literature and stories - fiction | literature and stories - plays | literature and stories - poetry | -
Koorie Heritage Trust
Journal - Serials, Department of Pacific and Southeast Asian History, Australian National University, Aboriginal History - Volume 02. 1-2 1978, 1978
... George (1886-1968) | Government policy - Self... (1886-1968) | Government policy - Self determination - 1972-1984 ...A series of articles and reviews on Aboriginal History by leading historians.188 P.; ports.; bib.; footnotes; tables; 25 cm.A series of articles and reviews on Aboriginal History by leading historians.aboriginal australians -- periodicals. | ethnology -- australia -- periodicals. | dutton, george (1886-1968) | government policy - self determination - 1972-1984 | race relations - violent - massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - to 1900 | settlement and contacts - colonisation - 1788-1850 | religions - christianity - missionaries | religions - christianity - missions -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Nuna seeks to opt out of Vic Code 2, 1994
Nunawading Council has called on the State government to exclude it from the jurisdiction of Vic Code 2 - the government's controversial multi-dwelling development policy.Nunawading Council has called on the State government to exclude it from the jurisdiction of Vic Code 2 - the government's controversial multi-dwelling development policy.Nunawading Council has called on the State government to exclude it from the jurisdiction of Vic Code 2 - the government's controversial multi-dwelling development policy.city of nunawading, town planning -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Shire of Blackburn and Mitcham Coronation Celebrations Committee, 1937
Accounts, etc pertaining to coronation celebrations committee including SSB book, insurance policies and receipts.Accounts, etc pertaining to coronation celebrations committee including SSB book, insurance policies and receipts.Accounts, etc pertaining to coronation celebrations committee including SSB book, insurance policies and receipts.local government, shire of blackburn and mitcham, coronation celebrations, state savings bank of victoria, financial documents -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - Article, City of Nunawading open space study, 27/11/1985
Policy principles for providing open space including range of categories, locations and developments. Efficiency and effectiveness of open space and fostering of recreational developments to be taken into consideration.local government, city of nunawading, reserve development fund, parks and reserves -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Pamphlet, Barnard, Jill and Jennings Sonia, People and Parliament, 2006
... of 150 years of Victorian Government landmark policy decisions ...A 24 page booklet of landmark decisions by the Victorian Government between 1855 - 2006 was published to celebrate their 150th anniversary.24 pp, A4non-fictionA 24 page booklet of landmark decisions by the Victorian Government between 1855 - 2006 was published to celebrate their 150th anniversary. aborigines, coranderrk, victorian government, suffrage, land settlement, farming, water, gardening, land use -
Unions Ballarat
Labor Essays 1980, Evans, Gareth, 1980
Annual collection of essays.Significant to Labor platform and policy.Paper; book. btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, alp, australian labor party, politics, government, periodicals -
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Labor Essays 1983, Reeves, John, 1983
Annual collection of essays. Policies and programs for the Labor Government.Significant to ALP future planning and policy platform. Copy 2 forms part of the D.J. Spiers Collection.Paper; book. Cover: lilac, white and black. Front cover: names of editors and contributors, title. Title page: in black ink, "D.J. Spiers". (In copy 2.)btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, alp, australian labor party, politics, government -
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Labor Essays 1997: Renewing and Revitalising Labor, Jungwirth, Gary, 1997
Annual collection of labor essays.Significant to ALP policy platform.Paper; book; green, black and orange cover.Front cover: title; editor's and contributors' names. btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, alp, australian labor party, politics, government, periodicals -
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Labor Essays 1998: New Visions for Government, Jungwirth, Gary, 1998
Annual labor essays periodical. Essayists include leaders Kim Beazley and Gareth Evans, Mark Latham and Lindsay Tanner, Cheryl Kernot and Mary Delahunty, ACTU President Jennie George, Simon Crean and Bob McMullan, and John Button. Theme: New Visions for Government.Relevant to ALP forward planning and policy platform.Paper; book; black, white and blue cover.Front cover: editors' name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, alp, australian labor party, government, parliament, leadership -
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Secrets of State: A Detailed Assessment of the Book They Banned, Munster, George, 1982
... (leaked) government documents dealing with East Timor, US military ...Secret (leaked) government documents dealing with East Timor, US military bases in Australia, the Soviet Navy in the Indian Ocean, the Shah’s regime in Iran and the Vietnam War. Originally published as "Documents on Australian Defence and Foreign Policy 1968-1975" - this edition was previously banned and all unsold copies were destroyed by the government.Significant to Australian foreign relations in the period 1968-1975.Paper; book. Front cover: black background; pictures of newspapers and a book; red and white text.Front cover: author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, east timor, us military bases, soviet navy, vietnam, iran, vietnam war, documents on australian defence and foreign policy, government leaks, shah of iran -
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Power and terror : post 9/11 talks and interviews, Junkerman, John, 2003
The book comes from public talks given by Chomsky in 2002 (as a follow up to 9/11) and a previously unpublished interview. Chomsky reflects upon terrorism, US foreign policy and offers different non-violent solutions. Contents: Part I: Interview with Noam Chomsky for the film Power and Terror Part II: U.S. arms, human rights, and social health Part III: Talks and conversations "Why do they hate us, when we're so good?" Visiting the West Bank with Azmi Bishara Media bias and Palenstine How should we respond? The United States and the world Part IV: More information Further reading: a selection of books by Noam Chomsky About the film Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in our times About the author About the editor About the publishers. Relevant to 9/11 and to US foreign policy and terrorism.Paper; book. Front cover: colour photograph of a military officer with gun and children looking on; black and red lettering. Front cover: author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, 9/11, terrorism, foreign policy - united states, chomsky, noam, interviews, violence, government -
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Triumph and demise: the broken promise of a labor generation, Kelly, Paul, 2014
The book principally provides an account of the Rudd-Gillard government years (2007-2013), including the conflicts that arose and the ultimate victory of the Abbott Coalition government.Significant to governance of Australia and its party politics. Especially pertinent to Labor Party history during the period 2007-2013.Paperback book. Front cover: red background; black and white lettering. Author and title and media comment. Back cover: white background; red and black text. ballarat trades hall, ballarat regional trades and labour council, btlc, kelly, paul, paul kelly, deputy prime minister, prime minister, politicians, politics and government, elections, gillard, julia, rudd, kevin, abbott, tony, howard, john, liberal party australia, australian labor party, greens party, policy, parliament -
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For the record: Selected statements 1977-1980 (Don Woodward Collection), Kissinger, Henry, 1981
Speeches, articles and interviews from Dr Kissinger from 1977-80. Dr Kissinger was Secretary of State in the United States. The book reveals his views on national and international matters, including foreign policy, communism, energy, business, Golda Meir, the middle east, Nelson Rockefeller, Iran, Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), NATO and oil.World politics - international issues.Book; 332 pages. Dust jacket: blue background; white and gold lettering; author's name and title. Cover: blue and white; gold lettering; author's name and title.Pink highlighting in parts of the text with fluoro pen.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, kissinger, henry, politics and government - usa, secretary of state - usa, foreign policy, communism, energy, meir, golda, middle east, rockefeller, nelson, iran, strategic arms limitation treaty (salt), nato -
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Afternoon light: Some memories of men and events (Don Woodward Collection), Menzies, Robert, 1967
Reflections by Sir Robert Menzies (former Australian Prime Minister) upon past USA and UK prime ministers, White Australia Policy, Suez Canal, the monarchy, cricket, governance and more.Politics and government - world. Sport.Book; 384 pages. Cover: green background; gold lettering; author's name and title on the spine.Inside pages: Don Woodward's name inscribed in blue ink.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, prime ministers - menzies, robert, liberal party australia, lpa, politics and government, politics and government - international, monarchy - united kingdom, white australia policy, suez canal, international relations -
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The end of certainty: The story of the 1980s (Don Woodward Collection), Kelly, Paul, 1992
Australian politics in the 1980s and the consequences. Includes: - Hawke-Keating leadership; - 1990s recession; - ALP leadership coup; - deregulation of financial systems; - John Hewson's bid for the prime ministership; - rivalry between John Howard and Andrew Peacock; - John Elliott's push for Liberal Party leadership; - Joh for PM campaign; - industrial relations and the Accord. Politics, industrial relations, economy and leadership issues.Book; 755 pages. Cover: red and purple background; photographs of Bill Kelty, Bob Hawke, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, John Elliott, John Howard, Paul Keating and John Hewson; white lettering; author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, politics and government, prime ministers - australia, political parties, hawke, bob, premiers - bjelke-petersen, joh, elliott, john, kelty, bill, howard, john, keating, paul, peacock, andrew, hewson, john, economy - australia, actu, anthony, doug, country party, liberal party australia, national party, immigration, industrial relations, alp, australian labor party, trade unions, white australia policy, accord -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Photograph - Colour, Burning of an Effigy of Pauline Hanson, 03 December 2016, 03/12/2016
Media Release 29 January 2016 Advocate of Racism to burn at Eureka Dawn A cardboard effigy of Senator Pauline Hanson, will burn at the Ballarat Eureka Stockade Memorial next Eureka Dawn 3 December. For eight years now effigy burning has become an integral and flamboyant part of the annual 3 December Eureka remembrance, part of the Reclaim the Radical Spirit of the Eureka Rebellion program organised by Dr Joe Toscano, medical practitioner, broadcaster on Melbourne community radio 3CR and Australia's best known anarchist. Colour photographs of the burning of a cardboard effigy of Pauline Hanson at dawn on Eureka Day, 03 December 2016. Pauline Hanson was chosen as the effigy to be burnt by the Anarchist Media Alliance at Eureka Dawn because she was an advocate of racism. eureka stockade, anniversary, joe toscano, reclaim the radical spirit of the eureka rebellion, graeme dunstam, pauline hanson, effigy burning, pauline hanson effigy -
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Profiles in courage (Don Woodward Collection), Kennedy, John F, 1956
The book profiles various American senators who went against party policy and community sentiment and acted according to conscience. Stories include the following senators: John Quincy Adams Daniel Webster Thomas Hart Benton Sam Houston Edmund G. Ross Lucius Lamar George Norris Robert A. TaftRelevant to US political and parliamentary history.Book; 245 pages. Cover: blue background; white lettering; author's name and title. In blue ink, "Deptford Mall, N.J., April 1978."btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, senators - usa, adams, john quincy, government, politics, webster, daniel, benton, thomas hart, houston, sam, ross, edmund g, lamar, lucius, norris, george, taft, robert a. -
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Elect the ambassador! Building democracy in a globalised world, Kerr, Duncan, 2001
The author argues for democracy in all countries and questions the right of unelected international organisations to make critical decisions (e.g. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund). The book is pro-globalisation.Relevant to world politics, democracy and globalisation. Kerr is a former Labor politician and served as Attorney General and Minister for Justice in the Hawke/Keating government.Paper; book.Front cover: author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, politics, democracy, alp, australian labor party, attorney general, minister for justice, globalisation, world bank, hawke, bob, keating, paul, international monetary policy -
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Be just and fear not (Don Woodward Collection), Calwell, AA, 1972
An autobiography of Arthur Calwell a former public servant, Minister for Immigration (in the Chifley government) and Labor Leader of the Opposition. Includes views on immigration, Gough Whitlam and Archbishop Mannix. He resigned as Leader of the Opposition in 1967, at which time Gough Whitlam assumed the ALP leadership.Relevant to Australian political history, particularly that of the Labor movement. Autobiographical interest.Book; 274 pages. Paperback cover: green, black and white; photograph of Arthur Calwell; white and black lettering; author's name and title. Hardcover cover: green background; gold lettering; author's name and title. Dustjacket (hardcover): cover: green, black and white; photograph of Arthur Calwell; white and black lettering; author's name and title.calwell, arthur, btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, public servants, minister for immigration, immigration, chifley, ben, leader of the opposition, government, politics, whitlam, gough, mannix, archbishop, alp, australian labor party, parliament, members of parliament, white australia policy -
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Perestroika: New thinking for our country and the world (Don Woodward Collection), Gorbachev, Mikhail, 1988
Mikhail Gorbachev was the eighth leader of the Soviet Union from 1988 to 1991. He is particularly known for the policies of glasnost ("openness") and perestroika ("restructuring") and his reorientation of Soviet strategic aims that contributed to the end of the Cold War.History and politics of the former Soviet Union. Biographical interest - Mikhail Gorbachev.Book; 296 pages. Cover: blue background; colour photograph of Mikhail Gorbachev; yellow and white lettering; author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, gorbachev, mikhail, politics and government - ussr, glasnost, perestroika, soviet union, cold war, foreign relations -
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Book - Readings in Australian Labour Economics (D.J. Spiers Collection), King, J.E
A selection of articles by various authors. Labour economics for Australian students - international and Australian context. Covers unemployment, inflation, labour market policy, deregulation, and the future of the Accord. (Note: published in 1992. The book precedes the Howard coalition government, GST, WorkChoices, Fair Work Act, etc.)Informative analysis about past industrial relations and economic practices/policy in Australia. (Published 1993)Book; paper.Front cover: editor's name and title. Title page: in blue ink, "DJ Spiers, Ballaarat University, May 1983".btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, economics - labour, industrial relations - australia, wages, unions -
Unions Ballarat
Transforming Labor: Labour Tradition and the Labor decade in Australia
... government policy (at '83-'93), industrial relations and reform. btlc ...The Labor decade covers the period of 1983 to 1993 - the Hawke Keating government. Table of contents: Machine derived contents note: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Labourism and imagination: tradition and innovation 3. The labour tradition 4. The Whitlam era: memory's frame 5. Labor's Accord: the policy turn 6. Arguing about the Accord: the spectre of corporatism 7. Transforming the Left: the end of the party? 8. Conclusions ReferencesRelevant to ALP government policy (at '83-'93), industrial relations and reform.Book; paper.Front cover: author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, labour movement, australian labor party - alp, politics, industrial relations - the accord, whitlam, government -
Ballarat and District Irish Association
Image, Charles Parnell, c1864, 1864
Parnell was an Irish nationalist and statesman who led the fight for Irish Home Rule in the 1880s. Charles Stewart Parnell was born on 27 June 1846 in County Wicklow into a family of Anglo-Irish Protestant landowners. He studied at Cambridge University and was elected to parliament in 1875 as a member of the Home Rule League (later re-named by Parnell the Irish Parliamentary Party). His abilities soon became evident. In 1878, Parnell became an active opponent of the Irish land laws, believing their reform should be the first step on the road to Home Rule. In 1879, Parnell was elected president of the newly founded National Land League and the following year he visited the United States to gain both funds and support for land reform. In the 1880 election, he supported the Liberal leader William Gladstone, but when Gladstone's Land Act of 1881 fell short of expectations, he joined the opposition. By now he had become the accepted leader of the Irish nationalist movement. Parnell now encouraged boycott as a means of influencing landlords and land agents, and as a result he was sent to jail and the Land League was suppressed. From Kilmainham prison he called on Irish peasants to stop paying rent. In March 1882, he negotiated an agreement with Gladstone - the Kilmainham Treaty - in which he urged his followers to avoid violence. But this peaceful policy was severely challenged by the murder in May 1882 of two senior British officials in Phoenix Park in Dublin by members of an Irish terrorist group. Parnell condemned the murders. In 1886, Parnell joined with the Liberals to defeat Lord Salisbury's Conservative government. Gladstone became prime minister and introduced the first Irish Home Rule Bill. Parnell believed it was flawed but said he was prepared to vote for it. The Bill split the Liberal Party and was defeated in the House of Commons. Gladstone's government fell soon afterwards.(http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/parnell_charles.shtml, accessed 21 January 2014) The Irish National Land League (Irish: Conradh na Talún) was an Irish political organisation of the late 19th century which sought to help poor tenant farmers. Its primary aim was to abolish landlordism in Ireland and enable tenant farmers to own the land they worked on. The period of the Land League's agitation is known as the Land War. Within decades of the league's foundation, through the efforts of William O'Brien and George Wyndham (a descendant of Lord Edward FitzGerald), the 1902 Land Conference produced the Land (Purchase) Act 1903 which allowed Irish tenant farmers buy out their freeholds with UK government loans over 68 years through the Land Commission (an arrangement that has never been possible in Britain itself). For agricultural labourers, D.D. Sheehan and the Irish Land and Labour Association secured their demands from the Liberal government elected in 1905 to pass the Labourers (Ireland) Act 1906, and the Labourers (Ireland) Act 1911, which paid County Councils to build over 40,000 new rural cottages, each on an acre of land. By 1914, 75% of occupiers were buying out their landlords, mostly under the two Acts. In all, under the pre-UK Land Acts over 316,000 tenants purchased their holdings amounting to 15 million acres (61,000 km2) out of a total of 20 million acres (81,000 km2) in the country. Sometimes the holdings were described as "uneconomic", but the overall sense of social justice was undeniable. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_National_Land_League, accessed 21 January 2014) The Irish National Land League was founded at the Imperial Hotel in Castlebar, the County town of Mayo, on 21 October 1879. At that meeting Charles Stewart Parnell was elected president of the league. Andrew Kettle, Michael Davitt, and Thomas Brennan were appointed as honorary secretaries. This united practically all the different strands of land agitation and tenant rights movements under a single organisation. The two aims of the Land League, as stated in the resolutions adopted in the meeting, were: ...first, to bring out a reduction of rack-rents; second, to facilitate the obtaining of the ownership of the soil by the occupiers. That the object of the League can be best attained by promoting organisation among the tenant-farmers; by defending those who may be threatened with eviction for refusing to pay unjust rents; by facilitating the working of the Bright clauses of the Irish Land Act during the winter; and by obtaining such reforms in the laws relating to land as will enable every tenant to become owner of his holding by paying a fair rent for a limited number of years. Charles Stewart Parnell, John Dillon, Michael Davitt, and others including Cal Lynn then went to America to raise funds for the League with spectacular results. Branches were also set up in Scotland, where the Crofters Party imitated the League and secured a reforming Act in 1886. The government had introduced the first ineffective Land Act in 1870, then the equally inadequate Acts of 1880 and 1881 followed. These established a Land Commission that started to reduce some rents. Parnell together with all of his party lieutenants, including Father Eugene Sheehy known as "the Land League priest", went into a bitter verbal offensive and were imprisoned in October 1881 under the Irish Coercion Act in Kilmainham Jail for "sabotaging the Land Act", from where the No-Rent Manifesto was issued, calling for a national tenant farmer rent strike which was partially followed. Although the League discouraged violence, agrarian crimes increased widely. Typically a rent strike would be followed by evictions by the police, or those tenants paying rent would be subject to a local boycott by League members. Where cases went to court, witnesses would change their stories, resulting in an unworkable legal system. This in turn led on to stronger criminal laws being passed that were described by the League as "Coercion Acts". The bitterness that developed helped Parnell later in his Home Rule campaign. Davitt's views were much more extreme, seeking to nationalise all land, as seen in his famous slogan: "The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland". Parnell aimed to harness the emotive element, but he and his party preferred for tenant farmers to become freeholders on the land they rented, instead of land being vested in "the people".(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_National_Land_League, accessed 21 January 2014)Image of bearded man known as Charles Stewart Parnellballarat irish, parnell, charles parnell, home rule -
Melbourne Legacy
Photograph - Photo, Conference, Interstate Visitors, 1973
Four gentlemen at a afternoon tea event, presumably two are visiting Melbourne. Two have Legacy name tags, one says "Frank Meldrum, Melbourne". Other names and date unknown. It is possible it was the Legacy Conference held in Melbourne in 1973 which was the Golden Jubilee year, celebrating 50 years of Legacy. The general aim of the Australia-wide conferences was an exchange of ideas and methods of carrying out Legacy functions, and to form general policy for cooperation between clubs and groups. In 1973 it was also a celebration of their first 50 years.A record of a Legatee event hosting interstate visitors for a Legacy Conference.Black and white photo of 4 Legatees at an event.Front of photo has a typed label saying: "Interstate Visitors". The back "Interstate Guests" in black ink. Stamped "This Photograph is the compliments of the Ministry of Tourism, Government of Victoria. Please acknowledge / Photo: Michael Cheshire"golden jubilee, conference, legatee event -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Booklet (Item) - Ansett Booklet on Airline Services in Western Australia, Airline Policy and the Public Interest in Australia
The booklet was produced in response to TAA proposal to serve the Perth-Darwin route with DC-9s. Reginald Ansett published this booklet to argue against this proposal, as the West Australian government had originally required Ansett to fly less popular routes. This required the purchase of new, smaller Fokker F.28 aircraft. Ansett was hoping to protect his monopoly on travel in West Australia and thereby protect his investment in new aircraft. He considered it unfair that TAA was not required to provide (less economical) services to smaller airfields in the same manner that Ansett was.