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INSIDEAustralian Literature ..................................... 2

Australian History ......................................... 3

Victoria .......................................................... 3

New South Wales .......................................... 5

Northern Territory ........................................6

Queensland ...................................................6

Western Australia .........................................6

Art and Artists ...............................................6

Biographies .................................................... 7

Company Histories .......................................8

Family History ...............................................8

Food and Wine ..............................................9

Immigrants and Immigration ......................9

Indigenous Australians .................................9

Military Histories ..........................................9

Natural History .............................................9

Politics and Government .............................10

Railways and Transport ...............................10

Sport ..............................................................11

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AUSTRALIAN LITERATUREBooksLucky Ticket / Joey Bui (2019)

Diving Into Glass / Caro Llewellyn (2019)

When One Person Dies The Whole World Is Over / Many Orr (2019)

There Was Still Love / Favel Parrett (2019)

Here Until August / Josephine Rowe (2019)

This Is How We Change The Ending / Vikki Wakefield (2019)

Shirl / Wayne Marshall (2020)

The Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978 / Helen Garner (2019)

Room for a Stranger / Melanie Cheng (2019)

A Testament of Character / Sulari Gentill (2020)

PeriodicalsAustralian Book Review: ABR P 028.1 ABR

No.419 MARCH 2020: Season of reckoning [Black Summer bushfires] / Tom Griffiths p9. ‘Australian Soul’: a stellar work of Australian history [Attending to the national soul: Evangelical Christians in Australian History 1914-2014 by Stuart Piggin and Robert D. Linder] / Hugh Chilton p14. Crisis lexicon [words used in a crisis] / Amanda Laugesen p17. A multifarious mind [Aftershocks: selected writings and interviews by Anthony Macris] / Kari Gislason p18. Rewriting Lawson [The Drover’s wife: the Legend of Molly Johnson by Leah Purcell] / Ellen van Neerven p24. Larrikins [Collected stories by Louis Nowra] / Gerard Windsor p25. City of shadows [True West by David Whish-Wilson] / Stephen Dedman p28. Inner worlds: three debuts about female experience [Melting Moments by Anna Goldsworthy, The Light After the War by Anita Abriel, Wearing Paper Dresses by Anne Brinsden] / Susan Midalia p29. Suddenly last summer: the politics of climate change in Australia / David Holmes p36. Insights [Chis: the life and work of Alan Rowland Chisholm 1888-1981 by Stanley John Scott p45. ‘dripping with gum’: a lavish account of Australian Botany [Botanical revelation: European cncounters with Australian plants before Darwin by David J. Mabberley] / Danielle Clode p46. Shaping the land: Indigenous fire management in Australia [Fire country: how Indigenous fire management could help save Australia by Victor Steffensen] / Tim Low p52. Surging into the spotlight: Writing trans and gender-diverse lives [Over the top by Jonathan van Ness, About a girl: a mother’s powerful story of raising a transgender child by Rebekah Robertson, Not just a tomboy by Caspar J. Baldwin] / Yves Rees p54. Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam [play] / Susan Lever p60. The Deep Blue Sea [play] Ian Dickson p61. True History of the Kelly Gang [film] / Jordon Prosser p62. Fidelio [play] / Elizabeth Kertesz p63. Stage Whispers [Klippel at TarraWarra Museum of Art, Visitations, Disgustedly yours] p64. Surveying the musical [The Australian Musical from the Beginning by Petter Pinne and Peter Wyllie Johnston] / Gillian Wills p67.

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AUSTRALIAN HISTORYBooksBack Roads: The stories behind some of Australia’s most remarkable and inspiring

rural communities / Heather Ewart and Karen Michelmore (2018)

Being Left Wing in Australia: Identity culture and politics after socialism / Geoff Robinson (2019)

Out of the Madhouse: From asylums to caring community / Sandy Jeffs and Margaret Leggatt (2020)

Banking Bad / Adele Ferguson (2019)

PeriodicalsEphemera Society Australia Inc.: ephemera journal of Australia P 027 EPH JOU

No.5 MARCH 2020: Ida who? [Ida Sherborne Rentoul, 1888-1960] p1. Wild about Ida [about her commercial works] / Andrew N. with Amanda Bede p2. Swing high [about a form of ephemera called Swing Tags, which the author collects] / Wendi Bradshaw p25. Been there! [Information about pennants] / Dr Anette Shiell p29.

VICTORIABooksBendigo Pride of Place: The first 60 years of building in Bendigo and surrounds / Bendigo Post Office

Gallery (2011) [donated by Bendigo Post Office Gallery]

Bendigo Hidden Worlds: Glimpses from Bendigo’s Forest Street archaeological excavation / Bendigo Post Office Gallery (2012) [donated by Bendigo Post Office Gallery]

Bendigo Childhood: Growing Up in Bendigo / Bendigo Post Office Gallery (2012) [donated by Bendigo Post Office Gallery]

Bendigo Mapping Great Change: The landscape of central Victoria / Bendigo Post Office Gallery (2013) [donated by Bendigo Post Office Gallery]

Bendigo Art for the People: Bendigo Art Gallery 1887-2013 / Bendigo Post Office Gallery (2013) [donated by Bendigo Post Office Gallery]

Bendigo A Cure for All Ills: Medicine in Bendigo / Bendigo Post Office Gallery (2014) [donated by Bendigo Post Office Gallery]

Bendigo Crime and Punishment: A history of Bendigo’s law and order / Bendigo Post Office Gallery (2014) [donated by Bendigo Post Office Gallery]

Bendigo Taverns to Temperance: Pubs of Bendigo / Bendigo Post Office Gallery (2017) [donated by Bendigo Post Office Gallery]

Bendigo Vale – Mourning, Remembrance & Spiritualism in Bendigo 1851-1901 / Bendigo Post Office Gallery (2019) [donated by Bendigo Post Office Gallery]

Bendigo The Legend of Buz-E-Chini / Afghan families of Bendigo (2018)

Bendigo Counting With Karen Culture / Karen families of Bendigo (2018)

Carlton Through The Eyes of a Child: A street in Carlton 1939-45 / Paintings and commentary by Des Norman (2013)

Caulfield The Old School: A portrait of Caulfield Grammar School in 50 lives / David Thomson (2019)

Kew A Better, Gentler School: Music at Xavier College / Fiona Walters (1999) [donated by HistorySmiths Pty Ltd]

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Kew Xaverians On Active Service: From South Africa to Vietnam / Catherine Waterhouse (2001) [donated by Xavier College]

Melbourne Discovery, Survey and Settlement of Port Phillip / GW Rusden (1871)

Melbourne Angry Penguins: And realist painting in Melbourne in the 1940s / NGA (1989)

Melbourne Album of Melbourne Views / Advance Australia (1888)

Melbourne Carhitecture in Melbourne / Derham Groves (2017) [donated by Mary Louise Phillips]

Murchison Thornebridge: The Bridge Hotel at Murchison / Jennifer F. O’Donnell (2019) [donated by Jennifer O’Donnell]

Periodicals National Trust Victoria P 363.69 TRU

No.17 AUTUMN 2020: Making news [Como appeal, Australian Heritage Festival, Indigenous dwelling at McCrae Homestead, Gulf Station Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Survey, Collections Databse, The Labassa story] p10. The Vintage Clothing Sale - Celebrating 10 years [21-22 March 2020] p16. Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears - The Exhibition [At Rippon Lea Estate 20 March - 19 July] p21. The Cat, Spivs and Crime [Collection of objects at Old Melbourne Gaol] p24. The Pryor House [Residential property in Glen Iris] p28. Conservation projects in 2020 p30. Advocacy Watchlist [History of LGBTIQ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects, Federation Square, Lake Tyrrell, Esme Johnston House, Moreland Significant Tree Register, Mary Immaculate Church--Ivanhoe, Sturt Street Gardens--Ballarat, Bacchus Marsh Avenue of Honour, Central Pier--Docklands, Beaconsfield Avenue of Honour, Queen Victoria Market, Tower Hill State Game Reserve] p40. 5 Top Australian Nature Walks [Bridle Track--Norfolk Island, Bald Head Walk Trail--Torndirrup National Park, Lake Dove Circuit--Cradle Mountain National Park, Wineglass Bay Beach to Hazards Beach, Giant Stairway--Katoomba] p44. Living in the Landscape [Tree of Knowledge at Barcaldine, Western QLD] / Justin Buckley p46. Vale [obituary for Bryan Powyer and Trevor Horman] p51.

Ararat Ararat Genealogical Society: newsletter P 994.57 ARAR ARA FEBRUARY 2020: Continuing our 100 years ago from the Ararat Advertiser [Sad fatality at Tulkara, Obituary--Mr W.G. Moorfoot, Tatyoon, Hospital for insane, Housing crisis, W.J. Foster--new owner of Albion Hotel, Memorial at Mount Cole, Obituary--Mr C.H. Lyne, Frederick Sydney Carter--died from typhoid fever, Working over hours--Case at Ararat Court, Licensing Act Prosecutions--Scott’s Hotel & Hopkins Hotel, Presbyterian Sunday School Picnic, Obituary--Mr Daniel Smith, Social notes--Johnson-Clark, Mr W.B. Radley’s Tender accepted, Albert Pianta--Local champion Axeman injured, Soldier’s wife disappears, Incident at Navarre causes divorce to follow, Landsborough--Mr A. Perry passed away in Stawell Hospital, Architect J. Irwin accepted tender of E.W. Bulte for construction of a shop, Bush Fires at Grampians, Obituary--Mr A.H. Holmes] p1.

Avoca Avoca and District Historical Society: Pyrenees pioneers P 994.54 AVOC PYR No.293 FEBRUARY 2020: President’s report [Mention of research into branch stores established in former gold field towns] p1. Avoca avenue of honor: Place of contemplation p2. The Curtis Ancestry: the early days. James Foulkes, Convict (continued from Edition 292) p4.

Balnarring Balnarring Historical Society: snippets from our collection P 994.52 BALN SNI FEBRUARY 2020: Leicester’s Day [Account of bullocks misbehaving, others mentioned are Flump and Roger] / Mary Karney p1. Balnarring days [memoir extract] / Margaret (Nobelius) Ross p2. The Fritsch family [Charles, Andrew, August] / Mary Karney p5. Fauconshawe [Street in Balnarring] p6. Floods -- November 1934 p7. Dyson’s Tunnel [photograph] p8.

Bendigo Bendigo Historical Society: marunari P 994.54 BEND MAR

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Vol.46 no.2 MARCH 2020: Lockwood Road (Camp Street) Conservation and Preserving History / Tom Luke p3. Nicholas Caire’s 1880s photograph of the corner of Wilamson Street and Myers Street shows the factory of G F Pickles and Sons - The British & American Carriage Works p4. From ouGraydon Family [Charles Wallace Gordon Graydon, Elizabeth Graydon, Susan Emily Graydon, Elizabeth Constance Graydon, Amelia Amy Graydon, Ada Maud Mary Graydon, Newenham Edward Eustace Graydon] p6.

Camperdown Camperdown Historical Society: newsletter P 994.57 CAMP CAM vol.30 no.1 JANUARY 2020: 2020 International Year of the Nurse / Jan Whamond [includes very brief history of nurses in Australia] p1. Larra Golden Anniversary - Jubilee of Mr. J.L. Currie at Larra / Gillian Senior p4. A visit to Chocolyn Homestead / Bob Lambell [includes some background about the homestead] p6.

Hastings and Western Port Hastings Western Port Historical Society: newsletter P 994.52 HAST HAS No.101 MARCH 2020:The Great Air Race of 1919: England to Australia p2.

Inverloch Inverloch Historical Society: newsletter P 994.56 INVE INV No.249 MARCH 2020: Coal to Inverloch Pier [1908] p2.

Kilmore Kilmore Historical Society: Kilmore connections P 994.53 KILM KIL No.83 MARCH 2020: The Catholic history of Kilmore: an interesting historical survey [From The Advocate 22 December 1932] p4. Reverend Robert Hunter 1837-1878 [biography] / Barbara Wilson p6. Seeking information on Robert Bowerman p10.

Mortlake Mortlake and District Historical Society: Shadwell stories P 994.57 MORT MOR FEBRUARY 2020: 2020 Welcome to the New Year [Clarke’s Clover Leaf Café now called Clarke’s Café, building historical society situated in has been renovated] p1. The Dispatch [newspaper] p2. Looking back at Mortlake 100 years: The Great War Remembered [Jan. 1920: Soldier’s memorial, RSL formed] p3. Looking back at Mortlake 100 years: Mr Thomas Montgomery p4. A wonderful childhood recalled / Glenda Lehmann (nee Lasker) p5. Mortlake 100 years ago [March 1920 Land Sub-Division Mortlake, Botanical Reserve 1891, Market Square 1890] p6. Disastrous house fire: ‘Kilymard’ totally destroyed [Home, destroyed 1950] p7. Hopkins River at Ellerslie [flooding] p7.

Phillip Island Phillip Island and District Genealogical Society: Reflections newsletter P 994.52 PHIL REF No.112 FEBRUARY 2020: Phillip Island in the news [The Australasian, Saturday 17 April 1920] p2. St Patrick’s Day: March 17 [In Australia] p3.

Port Fairy Port Fairy Historical Society: Port Fairy post P 994.57 PFAI POR Vol.9 no.1 MARCH-APRIL 2020: Port Fairy Gazette 1920 [An up-to date homestead, Melbourne smokers’ plight, Skeleton dug up, Holiday visitors, Local post office, The weather, Beer ‘black’ in Ballarat, Seaside Association’s position p7. From The Belfast Gazette in 1870 [The harbour works, Valuable Freehold Building allotments for sale in Belfast, Free library, Death from drowning, Town water supply, The Aurora Australis, Fatal accident, Water supply p8. East Beach old tip information sessions [Compilation of photographs of East Beach] p10. East Beach Tip Site 1980’s [photographs of the old tip] p11.

Warracknabeal Warracknabeal and District Historical Society: Warunda review P 994.58 WARR WAR Vol.55 No.2 MARCH 2020: Easter Rally goes “American” p1. Last General Meeting [Member brought a small white dish with “Café Dal Monte - Warracknabeal” written on it] p2.

NEW SOUTH WALESPeriodicalsRoyal Australian Historical Society: History P 994 HIS

No.143 MARCH 2020: Not a motley throng: Australians on the Klondike, 1898 [Goldfields in Canada] / Dr Robin McLachlan p2. Thinking big: Australia’s unique roadside attractions [‘Big’ objects] / Dr Rosemary Kerr p5. Penal servitude, social reform and lady travellers: Rosamond and Florence

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Hill in Australia, 1873-1874 / Dr Noeline Kyle p8. Ann Elizabeth Walker’s silk shawl: a question answered [Whether she wore the scarf/shawl at her wedding] / Christine Yeats p11.

NORTHERN TERRITORYPeriodicalsHistorical Society of the Northern Territory: Newsletter P 994.2 NEW

FEBRUARY 2020--Newsletter 2: Paul Foelsche Memorial Service 31/1/20 p5.

QUEENSLANDPeriodicalsRoyal Historical Society of Queensland: RHSQ Bulletin P 994.3 BUL

No.849 MARCH 2020: Cooktown cannon to be silenced p1. Queensland news [Cooktown, Kulangoor near Yandina, Mackay War Memorial Swimming Pool] p2.

WESTERN AUSTRALIAPeriodicalsRoyal Western Australian Historical Society: History West P 994.1 HIS

MARCH 2020: Stories from the storerooms: Life at ‘Pyrton’ [Homestead] / Dorothy Erickson p4. A tribute to Jill Maughan, Honorary Librarian / Val Krantz p5. Behanging Well: a New Norcia monks’ well [well situated on the Wye Wye at Piawaning property] p6.

ART AND ARTISTSBooksOlive Cotton / Helen Ennis (2019)

Step into Paradise / Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson (2019)

Catterpillars & Computers: Keith Haring in Australia / NGV (2012)

What Is Appropriation?: An anthology of writings on Australian art in the 1980s and 1990s / Rex Butler (2004)

Roger Kemp: Visionary modernist / NGV (2019)

The Vizard Foundation Collection: And other important Australian gold and silver 4 April 2012 / Lawson Menzies (2012) [donated by Professor Andrew Vizard Chairman, The Vizard Foundation]

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Nineteenth Century Australian Silver Vol.1 / JB Hawkins (1990) [donated by Professor Andrew Vizard Chairman, The Vizard Foundation]

Nineteenth Century Australian Silver Vol.2 / JB Hawkins (1990) [donated by Professor Andrew Vizard Chairman, The Vizard Foundation]

PeriodicalsAjazz: Proactively Collecting, Archiving and Disseminating Australian Jazz P 781.65 AJA

No.85 FEBRUARY 2020: Wartime jazz on 2KY / Jack Mitchell p4. Seein’ Red [Ernest Noring ‘Red’ Nichols, The Five Pennies] / Bill Brown p5. C. Ian Turner and the Jelly Roll Label / Ken Simpson-Bull p6. Multi Talented Verdon Morcom [obituary and his life] / Bill Haesler OAM p8. How to act at a jazz concert [from Norman Granz’ Jazz at the Philharmonic 17 national tour program] p10.

Cinema and Theatre Historical Society: cinema record P 792 CIN No.105 2020: A life in projection [Record of where author worked in different theatres, including: Barkly Theatre, The Trocadero, La Scala] / Ross King p5. The Eclipse Theatre Deepwater and Carl Wilhelm Baer [obituary] / Eve Chappell p10. My life in cinema [where author worked and where he opened different theatres, including: Waverley Theatre, Regent Theatre, Melbourne Cinema Centre, Century Cinemas Cranbourne, Village Twin] / Graeme Hodges p12. Back in the day [history of pre-digital projectionists] / Allan Webb QSM p14. The Cairo: St Kilda’s short-lived picture show / Ian Smith p16. The GUO Film Exchange - Melbourne / George Florence and Greg Lynch p17. The Theatre Cowra [AKA the Centennial Hall and Majestic Pictures] / Les Tod p19. The Minerva Theatre, Kings Cross (part 2) / John Stephen Clark p23. The Theatres of Victoria Park, WA / Ken McKay p26. Theatre Royal, Geelong / Richard Twentyman p28. The travelling picture show [early life of Harold Parsons] / Barbara Kiefer p30. Casterton Town Hall (Regal Theatre) / Richard Twentyman p31. The Camden Theatre: Hidden in plain sight / Royce Harris p32. Moe’s first cinema - The Mechanics Institute / Graham Goulding p34. Altona Picture Theatre or Strand Theatre / Les Tod p37. Bundaberg’s cinema relics in pictures / Steve Malone p39.

National Gallery of Victoria: NGV Magazine P 708 NGV No.21 MAR-APR 2020: Melbourne Design week [2020] p19. Melbourne Art Book Fair [2020] p26. Leading the change: women in publishing [Beth Wilkonson--Lindsay Magazine, Olivia Radonich--ReadingRoom, Daphne Taranto--Fully Booked, Fayen d’Evie--3-ply, Renee Ting--Singapore Art Book Fair] p30. Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office [Architects: Aaron Roberts & Kim Bridgland, art piece In Absence] p37. Blak lik mi [Destiny Deacon, whose art is being exhibited at NGV starting on 27 March 2020] / Myles Russell-Cook p42. Her story: A closer look at the experiences of women in the NGV Collection [Constance Jenkins, Mary Beale, Jenny Watson, Elizabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, Lucy Kemp-Welch, Ruth Hollick, Sonia Delaunay, Maria Margaretha la Fargue, Eva Hesse, Seulgi Lee, Lily Karadada] p50. Library and archives: the Seymour Album [recent edition to the NGV’s Shaw Research Library, an album assembled by suffragette Isabel Seymour] / Sigourney Jacks p62. Unworldly goods [religious influences on design of objects, specifically on items in the NGV collection] / Glenn Adamson p69. Artist profile: Pirjo Haikola p74. Legacies: Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat p80. Art for Change: World AIDS Day [2019] p84.

BIOGRAPHIESBooksTen Feet Tall and Not Quite Bulletproof / Cameron Hardiman (2020)

Jessie Traill: A biography / Jo Oliver (2020)

Chis: The life and work on Alan Rowland Chisholm (1888-1981) / Stan Scott (2020) [donated by Wallace Kirsop]

Ten Doors Down: The story of an extraordinary adoption reunion / Robert Tickner (2020)

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C.R Long: Victorian educationalist 1860-1944 / Geoff Pryor (2019)

Idling in Green Places: A life of Alec Chisholm / Russell McGregor (2019)

Gulpilil / Derek Rielly (2019)

The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory / Corey White (2019)

Your Own Kind of Girl / Clare Bowditch (2019)

When All is Said & Done / Neale Daniher (2019)

Fake / Stephanie Wood (2019)

Stuart Stoneman: A life in the grocery trade / Barbara Pertzel (2005) [donated by HistorySmiths Pty Ltd]

The Sincere Gift of Himself: A biography of Eldom Hogan / Eldon Hogan Trust (1999) [donated by HistorySmiths Pty Ltd]

PeriodicalsC.J. La Trobe Society: La Trobeana P 351.6 LAT

Vol.19 no.1 MARCH 2020:La Trobe: then and now--The La Trobe Oration / by The Honourable Linda Dessau AC p5. Absent from the ceremony: Freemasons and the founding of the University of Melbourne / by Leon J Lyell p15. The La Trobe era origins of Flemington Racecourse / by Dr Andrew Lemon AM p24. The Reynolds family: Cornish bounty emigrants of 1849 / by Lorraine Finlay p32. The La Trobes’ Music / by Helen Botham p40. The La Trobe family in New Zealand / by Helen Armstrong p43.

COMPANY HISTORIESBooksIngrained: A history of Reid Stockfeeds / Sophie Church and Helen Penrose (?)

To Build A Firm: The Maddocks story / Helen Penrose (2009)

History Captured: Celebrating 25 years of History Smiths / Barbara Pertzel and Helen Penrose (2019)

Ginger Matches / Derham Groves (2017) [donated by Mary Louise Phillips]

FAMILY HISTORYBooksHazeltine family: Its rhythms and syncopation in G / Robert Harold Hazeltine (2018)

John Anderson Irwin Elenora and Their Descendants / Anne Irwin (2019) [donated by Anne Irwin]

PeriodicalsGenealogical Society of Victoria: ancestor P 929.1 ANC

Vol.35 no.1 MARCH 2020: Finding Johanna [Johanna Spicer formerly Kennedy nee Ryan] / Victoria Spicer p4. Erin Go Bragh: a stitch in time / Michael Considine p8. Following a thread: the search for Ann and Angus McDonald / Darryl Grant p13. A tale of two women: Annie Greenwood and Maria Rye / Margaret Wilson p16. A guide to researching Canberra, ACT Records and National Organisations / Martin J Playne p26. Research Corner: TheGenealosit - A guide to ‘overseas records’ p30.

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FOOD AND WINEBooksAustralian Gin / David Box (2020)

IMMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRATIONBooksDonkeys Can’t Fly On Planes: Stories of survival from South Sudanese refugee children living in

Australia / Kids’ Own Publishing (2012)

In My Kingdon: South Sudanese parents’ stories for their children in Australia / Kids’ Own Publishing (2014)

All The Way Home: South Sudanese parents’ stories for their children in Australia / Kids’ Own Publishing (2015)

INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANSBooksFire Country: How indigenous fire management could save Australia /

Victor Steffensen (2020)

Crosscurrents: Law and society in a Native Title claim to land and sea / Kate Glaskin (2017)

Remembering Aboriginal Heroes / John Ramsland and Christopher Mooney (2006)

Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia: Second Edition (2019)

Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse / Cassandra Pybus (2020)

How Aborigines Invented The Idea of Contemporary Art / Ian McLean (2011)

MILITARY HISTORIESBooksWhere Soldiers Lie: The quest to find Australia’s missing war dead / Ian McPhedran (2019)

The Lost Boys: The untold stories of the under-age soldiers who fought in the First World War / Paul Byrnes (2019)

NATURAL HISTORYPeriodicalsAustralian Geographic Pty. Ltd: Australian Geographic P 994 NAT GEO

MARCH-APRIL 2020: Big picture: Charred Isle [photograph of Kangaroo Island after the summer bushfires] / by Quentin Chester p16. The butterfly effect: in Brisbane’s weset, communities spanning generations come together to help save one of our endangered butterfly species [Birdwing butterflies: Northern birdwing, Cairns birdwing, Richmond birdwing] / Fiona McMillan p18. Bird nerd - Fire: Friend and foe [effect of bushfires on birds, examples including: Eastern bristlebird, orange-bellied parrot, black kite, brown falcon] / Peter Rowland p21. Traces: Sugar Wharf, Port Douglas p22. Snapshop: Front Page Hurley [Adelie Hurley, arguably Australia’s first female press photographer] / Linda Brainwood p24. Aussie towns: Jericho, QLD [includes timeline of Jericho. Places of interest: Crystal Trumpeters, Jericho Drive-In Theatre, The Palace, pavers commemorating the centenary of

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Anzac along Darwin Street, Town mural on Darwin Street] / Bruce Elder p29. Defining moments in Australiah history: First ANZAC Day [25 April 1916] p30. The case of the roaring bunyip [look at the history of the Burrawung Bunyip] / Tim the Yowie Man p31. 2019/2020 Bushfire Crisis: How climate change ignited a monster / John Pickrell p32. Pearls of promise: a nascent pearl industry is offering hope to oyster farmers in New South Wales / Esther Beaton p38. 2019/2020 Bushfire Crisis: a black summer p44. 2019/2020 Bushfire Crisis: Unbearable loss [documents the koalas lost to the bushfires and preventing their extinction] / Karen McGhee p54. 2019/2020 Bushfire Crisis: This Island’s life [Kangaroo Island] / Quentin Chester p65. Into the far west [Exploration of outback New South Wales] / Tim the Yowie Man p72. Cook: 250 years - Finding Endeavour [possible location of the shipwreck of the HMB Endeavour] / John Pickrell p84. Cook: 250 years - The faraway nearby [Agnes Water and the Town of 1770] / Phil Jarratt p92. The art of Australian Geographic [Watson’s Pier by Ev Shipard] p130.

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENTBooksReds Under The Bed / Michael Komesaroff (2018)

Inside The Greens: The origins and future of the party, the people and the politics / Paddy Manning (2019)

RAILWAYS AND TRANSPORTPeriodicalsAustralian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division): newsrail P 385 NEW

Vol.48 no.2 FEBRUARY 2020: A day return to Kulwin / Bob Wilson [author’s journey on the line between Mittyack and Kulwin in 1974] p38. Measurement of distance on the Victorian railways [past and present] / Greg Michael p44.

Australian Railway Historical Society: Australian railway history P 385 AUS Vol.71 no.988 FEBRUARY 2020: Inaugural journey of the Indian Pacific, February 1970 [Operates between Sydney and Perth] / David Matheson p4. The path to linking a nation / Col Gilbertson [provides supporting information to previous article and follows on from the two articles ‘It’s through’ (ARH December 2019) and ‘Peterborough Narrow Gauge - Looking back, 50 years on’ (January 2020) p14. The long straight: an Englishman’s view on the Indian Pacific / Ben Barnes p22. Explorer page: Stannary Hills and Irvinebank, Queensland [mining tramways of Northern Queensland] p27.

Aviation Historical Society: Aviation Heritage P387.7 AVI Vol.51 no.1 MARCH 2020: Oswald Watt medal: Marj Gillespie 2013 p3. Memorial page: ‘Kelburn’ property, Braidwood Road, Goulburn, NSW [memorial plague for Sergeant Leon Patrick Gilbert, Pilot and Sergeant Alan Kenneth Fleay, Wireless Air Gunner] p4. The arrivals [Oscar Garden] p5. The starters [H.F. ‘Jim’ Boadbent] p8. The Harrison Air Log 1943-44 p9. Sudden turbulence in the early 1970s: Australian Air Transport and the Whitlam Government / Leigh Edmonds p12. Airlines of South Australia (ASA): Fokker F.27 Friendship operations 1966-1986 / Nigel Daw p19. Ripples from Clipperton: P G Taylor, the trans-Pacific air route and President Roosevelt / Steve Dyer p31. Medical supplies by parachute: Moorabbin Airport. 26 November 1950 p37. Australia’s little known commuter airlines: Science Aids (Australia) Pty Ltd - Arkaroola Air Services p40.

The Times: a journal of transport timetable history and analysis P 388.041 TIM Vol.37 no.1 JANUARY 2020: Busselton or bust / James T. Wells p13.

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Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division): newsrail P 385 NEW Vol.48 no.3 MARCH 2020: Centenary of the opening of the line from Piangil to Kooloonong [In rural Victoria] / Mark Cauchi p70. Swan Hill: Swan Song [Bendigo to Swan Hill line] / Norman Houghton p76. Off the rails at Castlemaine [Derailing of a 4-6-0 A2 Class locomotive on 10 June 1919 on the Bendigo Line, and brief mention of a similar incident on 7 February 1983] / Jim Foley p78. Newsrail index 2018 between p.80-81. Off the rails...Again!: more troubles on Castlemaine’s tracks [incidents in 1924, 1952 & 1968] / Jim Foley p81. Book review: Along the Line--Caulfield to Oakleigh Rail Stories / John Dare p89.

Australian Railway Historical Society: Australian railway history P 385 AUS Vol.71 No.989 MARCH 2020: A dream achieved: helping to bring the Darwin Railway to fruition [Alice Springs to Darwin Railway] / Phil Cross p4. Days at Darnick [railway station on the Parkes-Broken Hill section of the Sydney-Perth transcontinental railway] / Barry Banks, as told to Neville Pollard p18. NSW Railway: combination stations & residences [Fairfield, Branxton, Menangle, Mulgrave, Riverstone, Marulan, Wallerawang, Rydal, Tarana, Bowning, Blayney, Orange, Georges Plains, Yass junction, Quirindi, Emu Plains] / Jim Longworth p23.

World Ship Society Victoria Branch: newsletter P 387.205 WOR Vol.51 no.3 MARCH 2020: ANL - A fleet history of Australian National Line 1957-1999 [book review] p4. Around the ports [Port of Melbourne, Port of Geelong, Port of Portland, Port of Hastings] p5. Yarra River Memories no.39: Cape Kennedy p19. The tragic sinking of HMAS Goorangai / Maurie Hutchinson p20.

SPORTBooksOn A Wing And A Prayer: The race that stopped the world / Di Websdale- (2019)

Always Striving: The key moments that made Essendon Football Club since 1872 / Dan Eddy (2017)

The Shinboners: The complete history of the North Melbourne Football Club (2017)

GOVERNANCEThe PMI is incorporated under the Prahran Mechanics’ Institute Act No 1617 (1899) and operates under the Rules of the Prahran Mechanics’ Institute and Circulating Library, gazetted in the Victorian Parliament on 24 July 2007.Members are provided with copies of the PMI legislation, Library Policy and committee meeting minutes upon request.

CommitteeThe PMI is administered by a committee of seven people. Six Committee members are elected by the members of the PMI at the annual general meeting for a four year term of office and one person appoint-ed by the City of Stonnington. The current PMI Committee Members are:

f Dr Judith Buckrich (President)

f Cr Steve Stefanopoulos (Vice President & City of Stonnington representative)

f Mr Ben Quin, CPA (Treasurer)

f Cr John Chandler OAM

f Dr Michelle Negus Cleary

f Mr Chris Michalopoulos

f Mr Tim McKenna

THE PMI LIBRARY STAFF f Steven Haby, (BASocSci Librarianship) (Secretary Librarian)

f Ellen Coates (BA (Hons); MA (Info. Stud.)) (Collections Librarian/Volunteer Coordinator)

f Vanessa O’Farrell (BA (Hons); (GradDipLbryInfMgmt) (Marketing and Communications Coordinator)

The Prahran Mechanics’ Institute is an institutional member of the Australian Library & Information Association and is a member society of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria.

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Parking Parking is available at the institute on a first-come-first-serve basis.

There are 3 spaces at the front of the building and a further 7 spaces in the garage (accessed from the front of the building on St Edmonds Road) – please park in the numbered spaces to avoid blocking cars in. If all spaces are taken, there is 1 hour parking in St Edmonds Road and Greville Street. There are 500 undercover paid car parking space at Prahran Square, located on Izette Street.

TrainsThe Institute is one block from Prahran Station (Sandringham Line), turn right into Greville Street and then right again into St Edmonds Road.

TramsThere is the #6 tram running along High Street, the #72 tram along Commercial Road and the #78 tram along Chapel Street.

BusesBuses #603 and #604 run along Commercial Road. You can alight at the Prahran Market stop.