Don Watson grew up on a farm in Gippsland, took his undergraduate degree at La Trobe University and a PhD at Monash University and was for ten years an academic historian. He wrote three books on Australian history before turning his hand to TV and the stage. For several years he combined writing political satire for the actor Max Gillies with political speeches for the then Premier of Victoria, John Cain. In 1992 he became Prime Minister of Australia Paul Keating's speech-writer and adviser and his best-selling account of those years, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM, won both The Age Book of the Year and non-fiction Prizes, the Brisbane Courier Mail Book of the Year, the National Biography Award and the Australian Literary Studies Association's Book of the Year. In addition to regular books, articles and essays, in recent years he has also written feature films, including The Man Who Sued God, starring Billy Connolly and Judy Davis, and Passion, a film about Percy Grainger starring Richard Roxburgh. His 2001 Quarterly Essay Rabbit Syndrome: Australia and America won the inaugural Alfred Deakin Prize in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Death Sentence, his book about the decay of public language, was also a best seller and won the Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year. Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words was published in 2004 and continued to encourage readers to renounce what he perceives to be meaningless corporate and government jargon that is spreading throughout Australia, and to embrace meaningful, precise language. More recently, Watson contributed the preface to a selection of Mark Twain's writings, The Wayward Tourist. In 2014 "The Bush; Travels in the heart of Australia" was published to critical acclaim for its content and for the beauty and effectiveness of Watson's writing. [6] It is a combination of personal and family memoir, travelogue, history, natural history and reflection in which Watson invites readers to ponder the bush and its place in the story of Australia and Australians, both Indigenous and post-1788 arrivals and their descendants, those of the past and those of today.The publication is historically and socially significant as it documents the impact of Scottish settlers in the Gippsland area.Cream cardboard bound book with colourised picture of highland settlers as well as mirrored picture of an aboriginal holding a spear.Donated by Bob Ayresbook, gippsland, scottish, settlers, don, watson, caledonia, australis

Yellow book with photographs on front cover. 214 pagesnon-fictionThe Highlanders at Home, The Kurnai at Home, Pioneers, Exploring. Conflictpioneers, aboriginals

Photographic history of Australian federal politics from 1970s to 2000s.Relevant to history of Federal government over fifty years.Hardback. Front cover: author and title; black background; red, silver and white lettering. Back cover: black background; quotation from Don Watson; white lettering.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat regional trades and labour council, politics, federal government, whitlam, gough, shorten, bill, hawke, bob, prime minister, prime minister - caretaker, fraser, malcolm, abbott, tony, crean, simon, beazley, kim, rudd, kevin, keating, paul, gillard, julia, snedden, billy, hayden, bill, peacock, andrew, hewson, john, downer, alexander, howard, john, latham, mark, nelson, brendan, turnbull, malcolm, leader of the opposition, deputy leader of the opposition, brumby, john, carr, kim, faulkner, john, bishop, bronwyn, costello, peter, hanson, pauline

An account of some of Australia's best economic, political and social reform, including interviews with Fraser, Hawke, Keating, Howard, Rudd and Whitlam's confidant Graham Freudenberg. Table of contents: Three years late to the party The Gough shock A gathering crisis The ingredients for a crack-up Testing the nation's constitution The age of the rorter The siren song of the quarry The drover's dog has his day Learning to let go A license to reform Getting ahead of the game The cult of property Recession as nation-builder The dynamic duo dissolves The last serious election Rolling back the years Passing the tests He of the never ever Tuning in to globalisation The last rich nation standing. Relevant to Australian history, economics, social reform and politics.Paper; book. Front cover: white background; colour photographs of Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, John Howard, Kevin Rudd and the character Kath (from the TV show Kath and Kim); red, black and blue lettering.Front cover: author's name and title; quotes from Annabel Crabb and Don Watson.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, economics, politics, social history, alp, australian labor party, liberal party australia, rudd, kevin, fraser, malcolm, whitlam, gough, howard, john, hawke, bob, freudenberg, graham, social reform, prime minister, society and culture

Audio recording of the 2002 Vision Australia Foundation library awards held at Kooyong.2 CDs with 1 sound file eachvision australia, awards, caroline baum, don watson, peter rose, agnes nieuwenhuizen, irini savvides, robert stillwell, paul english, hilary mcphee

List of Course Students' 1931, Editorial, Obituary, Personal Column, Fumes from the Lab, Arts & Crafts Gossip, Sport, Echoes of the Past, Commercial Notes, The Junior TechsOrange soft covered magazine of 48 pages. 1931 Artworks * Not to be drawn to busy Sammy - By Levi Molineux * K.Don Mayor of Navigator - By Colvin Smith * Mr Williams' Motto "Optimism is life" - Edith Curnow * The Tuck Mistress - By Levi Molineux * I'm Molineux - By Don Refshauge * " Come on, Tsst!" - By Colvin Smith * Ballaerina - By Nornie Gude * Smith the connoisseur (?) of female line - By Don Refshauge Signed on front cover by "Allan D. Pound, Signed on back autograph page by Olga E. Dulfer, H. R. Murphy, G. R. King, J. Allan, R. W. Elsworth, H. E. Dimsey, C. H. Martinballarat school of mines, magazine, o. dulfer, j. hulse, a. williams, h. symons, h. dimsey, m. manett, m. fogarty, r. morrison, dr. j. r. pound, a. j. bell, j. g. young, r. elsworth, a. raworth, k. jones, j. walters, r. downey, a. richards, a. hall-jones, l. prendergast, a. sussex, j. downey, d. ferguson, l. frees, j. allan, f. penney, w. usebach, a. capuano, s. hillman, j. muntz, a. lindsell, f. longhurst, j. clarke, e. george, e. curnow, g. dunstan, a. duggan, m. whitehand, k. windsor, a. bosher, o lyons, edwin a. brophy, w. v. lloyd, edith curnow, fred longhurst, j.bosher, nornie gude, levi molineux, olga dulfer, jesse hopwood, stan hillman, jean roff, don refshauge, alice watson

Table of Contents: Editorial, Open Night, Process in Ore Treatment at Kalgoorlie, Notes on Surveying, Artesian Wells, Concrete: Its use in mining, Description of the I. R. Process, "Old Boys" at Mt Morgan, News and Notes, Past Students, Correspondence, Answers to Correspondents, Handy to Know, Sporting Notes, Discovery of Chloroform, Say!, A Tragedy, The Berdan Pan, Editorial Notes. Orange coloured booklet of 28 pages.ballarat school of mines, students' magazine, king edward vii, m. w. bernewitz, angus a. gibson, r. ingram-moore, philpot f. brown, w. avery, e. prendergast, godfrey stephen hart, t. s. hart, l. westcott, a. r. booth, w. t. lakeland, lewis westcott, leo m. seward, reginald williamson, stanley white, clyde allan, charles laird, w. e. eyres, virgil tucker, h. hawkesworth, h. j. saw, h. meadows, fred g. brinsden, c. stephenson, fred treloar, j. peart, e. m. weston, dick galloway, h. b. bennetts, g. r. curry, will watson, don cameron, eric bieske, cliff garrard, lindsay d. cameron, phil brown, w. p. avery, j. foster, j. bickett, f. h. inglis, g. davenport, l. c. courbould, t. lennon, h. wilkins, g. h. reid, c. hesselmann, e. fraser, e. c. hurdsfield

Table of Contents: Editorial, Annual Report of the S.M.B.S.A. 1910, Annual Dinner, S.M.B.S.A. Notes, Sports, Correspondence, Motor Maxims, Answers to Correspondents, Little Drama, Radium in Australia, Shaft Sinking as practised in Ballarat, Mining Notes, Geological Notes, Treatment by Clancy Process, Mining in Bendigo, Cyanimid, A Locally made Gramophone, The Miners' Chorus, Past Students, Editorial Notices.Green coloured booklet of 21 pages plus advertisements.ballarat school of mines, students' magazine, geo. g. sams, professor t. h. laby. past students': j. r. booth, w. t. lakeland, lewis westcott, leo. m. seward,, reginal williamson, stanley white, clyde allan, charles laird, w. e. eyres, virgil tucker, h. hawkesworth, h. j. saw, fred. g. brinsden, c. stevenson,, j. peart, e. m. weston, dick galloway, h. b. bennetts, g. r. curry, h. meadows, will watson, don. cameron, eric bieske, cliff. garrard, lindsay d. cameron,, phil brown, w. p. avery, j. foster, j. bickett, f. h. inglis, g. davenport, l. c. courbould, t. lennon, h. wilkins, g. h. reid, c. hesselmann, e. fraser,, reg. callister, f. bicknell, leslie blick, w. t. sayer, h. f. hall, o. e. jager, w. geldard, p. c. downes, g. sides, f. bruce, chas. stubbs, ralph ingram-moore.

This file contains 13 official documents pertaining to the Rotary Club of Caulfield: 1/A typewritten copy of the constitution of the Rotary Club of Caulfield (undated). Said document is essentially an instruction manual detailing how the Club is to be administered and the duties of officials. 2/A page (unclear if intended for use as a poster or letter) announcing a Business Persons Breakfast to be held at St. Anthony’s Parish Hall on 19/11/1986, wherein Jeff Kennett, M.L.A., Leader of the Opposition of the Parliament of Victoria, will deliver a speech titled ‘Responsibility Before Rights’. 3/A booklet announcing the 25th anniversary celebration of the Rotary Club of Caulfield, to be held at Tudor Court on 24/02/1987. Contains the menu, national anthem, programme, and two lists – one of the founding members of the Club and one of the extant members of the Club. 4/Two copies of a booklet announcing a dinner, to be held at Tudor Court on 10/11/1987, wherein charter will be presented to the Rotary Club of Caulfield-Rosstown by District Governor Ian Knight. Contains a list of extant staff, the menu, the programme, a description of the history of the ‘Wembley Wheel of Friendship’, a list of charter members, and an account of the etymology of the name ‘Rosstown’. 5/Two copies of a page featuring four items of relevance to the Rotary Club of Caulfield. The first is an article (titled ‘Rotary scholar makes it’, author unspecified, source unspecified, undated) about Club scion Mark Collard receiving an MBA from Clarkson University. The second is an article (titled ‘New Caulfield Rotary’, author unspecified, source unspecified, undated) about the presentation dinner to which item 7 pertains. (This article is not present in its entirety, trailing off at the end.) The third is an announcement of a ‘progressive dinner’ to be held on 28/11/1987, also containing an announcement of a bicentennial conference to be held on 19/03/1988. The fourth is an announcement of what appears to be the initiation of some sort of historical re-enactment, the proceeds of which will fund the Rotary Club’s ‘Polio Plus’ project. A title (‘A Long Haul Through Caulfield’) suggests this item may be the header section of an article about said event, but if so, the remainder is not present. Contains three black-and-white photographs; one of Collard with an unidentified woman (presumably his wife), one of Club President Howie Dunlop congratulating Charter President Geoff Oscar, and one of some men riding on a horse-drawn cart. 6/Two copies of a booklet announcing a President Changeover Dinner, to be held on 28/06/1988. Contains the menu, programme, and a list of extant members. 7/Two copies of the weekly bulletin of the Rotary Club of Caulfield, dated 28/06/1988. Contains lists of faculty, notification of the Club’s decision to admit women, notification of upcoming events, a biography of guest speaker Fred Epstein, and a list of the times and places of alternative meetings. 8/Two photocopied statements of the receipts and expenditure of the Rotary Club of Caulfield, one for the period 01/10/1989 – 30/06/1990, and one for the period 01/07/1990 – 27/08/1990. 9/The photocopied minutes of a New Members Committee Meeting of the Rotary Club of Caulfield, dated 02/08/1990. Objects of discussion include fundraising methods and application of funds. 10/A booklet announcing Change Over Night, dated 21/06/1994. Contains the programme, menu, national anthem, and a list of extant faculty. 11/4 unbound pages announcing the winners of the Rotary Youth Photographic Awards, dated 1995 (a more specific date than this is not given). (Pages contain no photographs.) 12/A small note announcing the Murrumbeena Community Market, to be held on 04/12/2010, of which the Rotary Club of Caulfield is one of the sponsors. 13/A booklet announcing a dinner to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Rotary Club of Caulfield, to be held on 23/02/2012. Contains the programme, menu, a list of past presidents, a description of the history of the Gifu Vase (a trophy in the Club’s possession), and a list of some of the charity projects the Club has been engaged in.rotary club of caulfield, clubs and associations, charitable organisations, kennett jeff m.l.a., st. anthony’s parish hall, grange road, neerim road, glenhuntly, festivals and celebrations, tudor court, gray robin, baird jack, lord john, king john, crittenden doug, gelme anthony, hunkin ed. rev., fryer roy, quine john, bedford f., bell jim, bunny d., cripps e., don john, epstein fred, hattam j., howard w., kerry g., kumnick j., kurrie s., lord l., morrison charles, nelson h., parton willis, perry bruce, pollard r., price f., skuse e., stillwell g., tilley norman, tomlinson charles, watson don, webster j., wilson duncan, fincher roy, wheller john, allen selwyn, christopher don, cohen godfrey, davis keith, davis lloyd, dornbierer w., dunlop howie, fillmore wally, ford john, ford peter, forshaw ken, gales brian, green myer, hind jim, humphreys john, hunter ian, lewis ray, melville jack, oscar geoff, penaluna harry, perlen louis, rampling ross, ronaldson keith, sherlock max, sicklemore graham, smith barry, stapleton ted, summers ron, tovey david, rotary club of caulfield-rosstown, knight ian, tudor court, kooyong road, bellmaine mark, langfelder kurt, morris rob, rome graeme, alma club, wilks street, wills david, blankfield mark, awards, wembley wheel of friendship, bellmaine loretta, cunningham david, cunningham jean, davis pam, davis rex, davis judith, forshaw hannah, graham jeremy, graham kara, hassing andre, hassing arlette, jacobs frank, jacobs june, langfelder judy, morris robert, morris angela, nettlebeck rosalie, oscar enid, rattray john, rattray diana, rome lorraine, sarah ted, sarah denise, sherlock helen, smith suzanne, stapleton jackie, turner brook, turner vicki, tuhiwai tamati, tuhiwai ravina, will arnold, will claire, rosstown, ross william murray, rosstown sugar works, collard mark, rotary foundation, keller chuck, campbell felicitie mrs., campbell jack cr., knight genny, albury civic centre, green tess, tantram avenue, quine gwen, beaver street, rosalind ray, rosalind lweis, devon street, little company of mary hospital, polio plus, smith ian, jackson adrian, miller peter, spence bert, wheller denise, coffey bill, financial documents, receipts, gilmartin e., moran d., kaan a., fillmore wal, coleman peter, coleman moyrha, wesley college elsternwick big band, puddy mark, fradkin barry, fitzgerald gerald, renton robert, herschberg gedeon, kinston david, montgomery peter, dawes shane, silberberg henry, zazryn ben, cohen michael, rotary youth photographic awards, photographic competitions, photography, terry ted mr., terry e. a. mr., eldridge hannah, cottral anne, abdullahi khalid, gostin cassie, podlabeniouk lena, diyab ahmed, draca julijana, pevkoski danilla, wooster heath, lesar dion, sansoni rachel, leatham chelsea, townsend jessie, barker megan, fitzgerald megan, maokhamphiou anthony, smith naomi, fraser sue-ellen, white tanya, murrumbeena community market, koornang uniting church, murrumbeena road, welsh heather, robinson david, kesselschmidt sima, potasz sophie, southwick david, cheyne gordon, ryall keith, arianti listy, westbrook natasha, pollard bob, hancock irey, lovett jack, cooper alby, rundle john, patkin nehama, mcmullen adele, douglas jennie, preston mark, resubal loreto, gifu vase, aoki seiichi, operation firewood, alfred hospital, bus of knowledge, australia day breakfast, bethlehem hospital, caulfield hospital

Peterborough Tennis Club were a very active group, over the years. This tournament ran from 1979 to 1993 and records the names of local people and visitors who won. 1979 Don Bradshaw Joy McNab 1980 Richard Cumming Julie Gladstone 1981 Richard Cumming Tiffany McNab 1983 Greg Lawes Sue Exell 1982 Michael Moore P Hindhaugh, 1984 David Spittle Deborah Smith 1985 Richard Cumming Michelle Maschio 1986 Phillip grey Jill Gretton- Watson 1987 Don Bradshaw Jill Gretton- Watson 1988 Richard Cumming Pru Gray 1989 Michael Moore junior Mandy Yencken 1990 Phillip Gray Jill Gretton- Watson 1991 Paul Bayne Deborah Smith 1992 Don Bradshaw Jill Gretton- Watson 1993 Brett Salajan Sue Coldham 1994 Brett Salajan Jill Gretton-Watson Significant because it was a popular event on the Labour Day weekend and records names of local people and visitors who were winners.Silver cup with 2 handles and a lid atop a plastic plinthEngraved with the name of the competition and the names of the winnerspeterborough, peterborough tennis club, tennis

Laminated black and white photographic portraits of Ballarat School of Mines staff members.xballarat school of mines, ian aitken, anne wood, roger macfarlane, des cooper, malcolm vallance, mal vallance, lyn pitt, floss stephenson, shane everard, lily saylor, linda bland, lyndall cooper, don doulton, julie baulch, peter gunn, malcolm gaunt, steven medelson, jan reeves, trevor slater, tracey cummins, ray martland, ann kerr, kieran jones, mandy rhook, john gibson, iam pym, patti mcnulty, janice shepherd, lindy hamill, bob feary, philip dixon, ron lucas, glen mcgregor, gordon whitefield, david fithall, bill bridges, doug symons, keith howlett, bernie stevens, norm howard, ray barnes, peter kelly, garry christie, paul clarke, robert munt, shaun tope, james mddonald, graeme tyrell, bruce wallis, tracey coleman, bradley rae, phillippe theatre, don lawless, bill whittle, geoff nicholls, maureen carli, keith boast, fiona watson, sonia davis, manfred hacker, ian robinson, jeff fletcher, angela murray, angela smith, lyn peucker, rosemary moorhouse, keith hankin, judy mills, brian webber, jan o'toole, veronica black, fleur haller, lorelli huggins, karen cook, len wilson, bruce staley, lynne beaumont, dzintra crocker, faye hunt, leonie hines, sally smith, jenny leviston, heather durant, barrie firth, john van dreven grant curnow, ron sutton, lynne schepis, pam merrett, fran harrison

Newspaper cuttings relating to Ballarat College of Advanced Education. These are from various newspapers and include The Age, Ballarat Courier, The Australian, The Herald. The cuttings cover the period from 15 February 1986 to 28 June 1986. Mention of the Solutions Data Bank developed within the VIOSH program conducted at Ballarat College of Advanced Education. . Book with beige cover, front. Spiral bound.employment advertisements, application for enrolment, outline of courses, ballarat college of advanced education, bcae, dr ray watson psychologist, moneghetti for world events, musical cultural exchange, annie begonia queen, "cool burn" may save animals, wombat state forest, trainees at queen elizabeth centre, course will benefit sport, council president to national organisation, dr don watts, engineering study awards, ricky calvert, barry walker, indian brewer returns, n c mohan ram, metallurgy medal to ian mckee, political desert images, geoff bonney, jack coman, garry kinnane lecturer, biography of george johnston, mayor crebbins graduates, education for the nation, degrees for dad and daughter, paul hotchin a busy man, robert morrow mining engineer, the flab kids, speech problems rife, brett sinclair wins $1000, roderick ramsay top geology student, pro david klein revisits, merit for geologist, filipino academic at bcae, method to assess skills, student nurses meet patients, schools compete for environment awards, students set to join vsu, victorian student union, first for local sculpture students, adrian thomas, head of perfoming arts, key role in inventions, head questions government plans, saga of survival on the ice, dick richards, dr jim thyer physics lecturer, old u s defence 'secret', safety solutions data bank, dennis else

The Ballarat Technical Art School was a division of the Ballarat School of MinesA hard covered ledger with marbled cover and brown tape spine. It includes students names. A selection of names can be found in the keywords.ballarat technical art school, frank young, r. hager, g.w. kelly\drawing, carpentry, smelting, treatment, assay, w. wilson yong, treatment of pyrites, g.m. vare, alfred seely, t. trengrove, w. pearce, c.v. day, john heinz, m. ditchburn, d. ditchburn, w. baragwanath, g. cornell, chemistry, w. wardle, j.j. carroll, julia carroll, h. murphy, d.m. lenehan, joh caley, h. fleahy, alfred gordon, effie dulfer, b. lloyd, p. papenhager, h.j. waller, k. malcolm, esther daniel, john watson, harry leggo, r. john allan, basil reid, e. wasley, w. richard, edgar lamb, rita webb, sophia mccartney, arnold cowdell, thomas glover, m. hamburger, r. allan, r.w. holmes, a. dobbie, a. slade, w. pepper, r. gilpin, w.a. gossman, james a. bass, w.t. bass, thomas lynch, stanley batten, murial hart, essie herbert, david o. nightingale, george p. hayes, j.a. powell, w. amor, c.f. wilson, bertram g. wheal, thomas wade, h. woodward, v. symons, robert j. allan, thomas woolcock, john w. williams, r. shand, william caldwell, charles lyons, ruby webb, a. trehowan, nicholas white, thomas commons, otto rieglhuth, james kidd, james bass, justus angwin, john munro, james ronaldson, a.b. osborne, g.j. boudry, john sprague, leslie c. langsford, john don, waller e. hearman, j.c. pickford, edwinn penn, w.g. price, thomas mann, william brokenshire, john blayney, arthur mccooey, samuel walmsley, matilda lees, e.w. campbell, ernest wiliams, william john pearce, w.l. bailleu, thomas proctor, daisy ditchburn, maurice hamburger, james dando, nelson humphrey, james pyke, james c. pickford, john coad, george richard pratt, ferguson boyce, ernest whettle, william lamb, john cawley, christina watson, ivor davies, percy la gerche, norman gaunt, william bolte, leonard p. seal, alex young, george penny, w. caircross, harold frew, robert allan, james h. holst, george green, herbert semmens, john ronaldson, william robinson, james paterson, walter douglas, louisa roberts, james swenson, austin woods, herbert hillman, william cairncross, harry blyth, john craford, william h. callister, clare gartery, daisy batten, j. attenborough, herbert o'neilk, j.f. lynch, fred holst, a. doepel, horace giles, john perry, samuel morrow, thomas hawthorn, george britnall, alan j. acton, jessie cantwell, franci a. horsfall, william stubbs, john sutherland, percy russell, richard walsh, oliver jager, garfield bolton, thomas vincent, james holst, j.a. hill, william charles hughes, a. vale, james lonie, karl moore