DOCSLIB.ORG

Page 1 of 179

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Page 1 of 179 Page 1 of 179 FUTURE MELBOURNE (PLANNING) COMMITTEE Agenda Item 5.1 REPORT CITY OF MELBOURNE HERITAGE STRATEGY AND A HISTORY OF THE CITY OF 4 September 2012 MELBOURNE’S URBAN ENVIRONMENT Presenter: David Mayes, Manager Strategic Planning Purpose and background 1. The purpose of this report is to seek the Future Melbourne Committee’s endorsement of the draft City of Melbourne Heritage Strategy 2012 (Attachment 2) for public consultation, and for the Committee to note the Thematic History - A History of the City of Melbourne’s Urban Environment 2012 (Attachment 3). 2. The City of Melbourne Heritage Strategy 2012 is a KSA1 (Planning for Future Growth) deliverable. 3. The proposed strategy is a whole of Council policy which seeks to provide a framework for the identification, conservation and management of the city’s heritage. The Heritage Strategy will help strengthen the community’s understanding, appreciation and recognition of the city’s heritage. Key issues 4. The City of Melbourne commissioned historian Helen Doyle to write the thematic history, A History of the City of Melbourne’s Urban Environment 2012 and appointed an external reference group to assist in its development. The history describes the major themes which influenced the city’s past growth and development, and explains how and why the city looks as it does today. The document is a resource that can be used to help with the identification of historically significant places. 5. Context Planning consultants were engaged to help prepare the draft Heritage Strategy. Council’s roles and functions across the organisation in relation to heritage were reviewed and analysed. All areas of the City of Melbourne with a role in knowing, protecting, managing, or communicating the City’s heritage participated. The draft Strategy acknowledges Council’s substantial heritage achievements to date and identifies objectives and actions for future work. 6. The draft Heritage Strategy contains an action plan to be reviewed after four years. Implementation of the actions will be subject to Council’s annual budgets. 7. The public consultation will seek the views of the community and stakeholders on the draft Strategy. See Melbourne Heritage Strategy Consultation and Engagement Plan (Attachment 4). The public consultation outcomes will be reported to the Future Melbourne Committee together with a revised, reformatted and graphically polished Heritage Strategy for adoption. Recommendation from management 8. That the Future Melbourne Committee: 8.1. notes the document entitled Thematic History - A History of the City of Melbourne’s Urban Environment 2012 and thanks the external reference group for their contribution; and 8.2. approves release of the draft City of Melbourne Heritage Strategy 2012 for public consultation in November 2012. Attachments: 1. Supporting Attachment 2. Draft City of Melbourne Heritage Strategy 2012 3. A History of the City of Melbourne’s Urban Environment 2012 4. Melbourne Heritage Strategy Consultation & Engagement Plan Page 2 of 179 Attachment 1 Agenda Item 5.1 Future Melbourne Committee 4 September 2012 SUPPORTING ATTACHMENT Legal 1. There are no direct legal implications arising from the recommendations made in this report. Finance 2. Funding for public consultation on the draft Heritage Strategy is included in the 2012-2013 KSA1 budget. Any initiatives that arise from adoption of the Strategy or consultation process will be subject to approval as part of the annual budget approval process. Conflict of interest 3. No member of Council staff, or other person engaged under a contract, involved in advising on or preparing this report has declared a direct or indirect interest in relation to the matter of the report. Stakeholder consultation 4. An external reference group assisted in the development of the thematic history and the vision for the draft Heritage Strategy. This group included representatives from Heritage Victoria, National Trust, Aboriginal Affairs Victoria, Professional Historians Association (PHA), Royal Historical Society of Victoria (RHSV), Places Victoria, historians from the University of Melbourne and RMIT, and the City of Melbourne’s heritage advisors. 5. An internal working group assisted with the preparation of the draft Heritage Strategy. This group included representatives within Council from Strategic Planning, Statutory Planning, Tourism, Urban Design, Urban Landscapes, Arts and Culture, Community Strengthening, Heritage and Collections, Capital Works, Engineering Services Group and Library Services. 6. The proposed public and stakeholder consultation will take place in November 2012. Information will be provided on the City of Melbourne website in relation to the consultation process, the draft Heritage Strategy and directions on how to make a submission. 7. Stakeholder groups including, adjoining Councils, resident associations, friends of the parks, local historical groups, Aboriginal Affairs Victoria, Australian Institute of Architects, Coalition of Resident and Business Associations, Heritage Victoria, Master Builders Association, National Trust, Planning Institute of Australia, Property Council of Australia, PHA, RHSV and Victorian Employers’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VECCI), will be advised of the consultation by mail. There will also be meetings with key stakeholders including the National Trust and Heritage Victoria. 8. Residents, property owners, business owners and the general public will be advised through the media about the consultation, how to make a submission and the date, time and location of the consultation sessions. Relation to Council policy 9. The draft Heritage Strategy is consistent with goals of Future Melbourne and consistent with the draft Municipal Strategic Statement. Environmental sustainability 10. The identification, conservation and integration of the heritage fabric can reduce building demolition and new construction waste and conserve the embodied energy of existing buildings. 1 Page 3 of 179 Attachment 2 Agenda Item 5.1 Future Melbourne Committee 4 September 2012 June 2012 Draft Page 4 of 179 Foreword Heritage places reflect the many peoples and cultures that have shaped Melbourne’s landscape. Indigenous Australians were the first people, and the City of Melbourne acknowledges and respects their customs and traditions and their special relationship with the land. Their heritage – both ancient and contemporary – is uniquely important. So many peoples from across the world have influenced the shape of today’s city, introducing new ideas, technologies and ways of life. Melbourne is a culturally rich place. This Heritage Strategy will provide the overarching framework and strategic direction for heritage planning in the City of Melbourne for the next 15 years. The City of Melbourne is one of the world’s most liveable cities, renowned for its heritage fabric and collections. These elements contribute greatly to Melbourne’s character and are integral to its social, cultural and economic life. This strategy anticipates that Melbourne will continue to be one of the world’s most liveable cities and that the heritage fabric will play an important role in the urban environment. The City of Melbourne’s heritage is facing the challenge of urban growth inherent in any modern city. Urban growth will see significant residential, employment and visitor populations within the city, as well as densification of built form. These challenges will place pressure on the existing built fabric of the city. Through the development of this Heritage Strategy, the City of Melbourne recognises the importance of an holistic approach to understanding and managing this invaluable resource. On behalf of the City of Melbourne, I welcome your comments on this draft strategy. (signed) Name Title THE MELBOURNE HERITAGE STRATEGY 2012: DRAFT FOR CONSULTATION 2 Page 5 of 179 Contents FOREWORD 2 CONTENTS 3 INTRODUCTION 4 What is heritage? 4 Why is it important? 5 The City of Melbourne’s role 5 Purpose 6 Achievements and actions 6 Scope 7 Knowing our heritage 7 Protecting our heritage 7 Managing our heritage 8 Communicating and celebrating 8 MELBOURNE’S HERITAGE 9 Action plan 12 1 Knowing 12 2 Protecting 13 3 Managing 14 4 Communicating 16 REVIEW AND MONITORING 17 REFERENCES 18 Heritage principles and practice guides 18 Strategic planning and policy documents 18 Heritage studies 18 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 21 Internal Working Group 21 External Reference Group 21 City of Melbourne Project Management Team 22 Context Team 22 APPENDIX 1: BENCHMARKS FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT HERITAGE ACTION 23 THE MELBOURNE HERITAGE STRATEGY 2012: DRAFT FOR CONSULTATION 3 Page 6 of 179 Introduction The City of Melbourne has a remarkably rich and diverse heritage, which is of importance locally, nationally and internationally. Traditionally the country of the Kulin Nation, the land on which the City of Melbourne was built retains many places of importance to Aboriginal people, some relate to the ancient past and some are more recent. Melbourne was the place where Victoria’s colonial settlement officially started, and the first seat of government in Australia. It is renowned as one of the great Victorian-era cities in the world. The city has retained many intact streetscapes, parks and buildings recognised as important heritage places. In addition to this, the city has some outstanding architecture and collections from the 20th century. Much of what makes the City of Melbourne distinctive comes from its rich history as a capital city. The urban fabric of the city
Load more

Recommended publications
  • An Antipodean Imaginary for Architecture+Philosophy
    69 An Antipodean Imaginary for Architecture+Philosophy: Fictocritical Approaches to Design Practice Research Hélène Frichot, Julieanna Preston, Michael Spooner, Sean Pickersgill, Zuzana Kovar, Ceri Hann, Megg Evans As a collective of PhD researchers (past and fictocriticism will be ventured and reframed for archi- present) provisionally gathered within the tecture. This approach will be elaborated by Hélène Architecture+Philosophy Research Group, RMIT Frichot who has had the opportunity to offer super- University, we will present a series of design visorial guidance to researchers presenting their explorations that are representative of our design design research below. Fictocriticism for architec- practice research.1 With the conjunctive capacity ture assumes the constructive, creative and critical of architecture and philosophy we emphasize the situatedness of the thinking-designer in the midst ongoing importance of the relay between these of their problematic field.2 We place an emphasis disciplines, also activated in our work through the on critical and creative invention and the structured productive relations between critical theory and indeterminacy that manifests in the wild association practice. We assume an expanded definition of of images and ideas that procure innovative as well architectural design practice, which includes digital as politically engaged minoritarian architectures. immersive environments, unbuilt (even unbuildable) There endures an engagement with minorities, and architectures, installation and participatory perform- minor literatures (including sub-canonical architec- ance-based works, and also, importantly, includes tures), feminist approaches, queer intertextualities, the critical and creative practice of writing-architec- as well as teratological mixtures of the natural and ture, often through the deployment of fiction. These the cultural.
    [Show full text]
  • Building 8, RMIT University
    Nationally Significant 20th-Century Architecture Revised 9/01/2012 Building 8, RMIT University Address 368 Swanston Street, Melbourne 3000 Practice Edmond and Corrigan in assoc. with Demaine Designed 1990 Completed 1993 Address History & Sitting on top of John Andrew’s incomplete four storeyed Union Description building, Edmond & Corrigan’s additions to Building 8 make a 368 riotously colourful signpost for RMIT along Swanston Street. ‘Built on a tight budget and with the constraints of the the existing buildings beside and below, Building 8 is like a magic castle. A new Swanston Street lift and service core were built and account for the medieval passage accessing the upper floors. The deep floor plate was Melbourne maximised, resulting in a rabbit warren of rooms to the upper floors. Balustrade details, handrails and dadoes are built to last and the 3000 entire interior has the chaotic vibrancy of a pre-Renaisance city. From various points along Swanston Street , the expressionistic roofscape reveals more and more formal fantasy from the crystalline cornice and Darth Vader exhaust hoods over the fire escape stairs, to the corrugated Matterhorn of the lift overrun. The coloured stone facade and its knitting needle, steel pipe strut supports continue the bastion theme, whilst on the back elevation, a polychrome and polygonal brick fire stair turret acknowledges Percy Everett’s 1930s workshops and provides the visual focus for one of RMIT’s few outdoor spaces.’ (extracts from Philip Goad, Melbourne Architecture, p223) RAIA Nº Corrigan’s aim was to delight and break down the dominant and The medieval access corridor seamless city-wall 'mood' RMIT presented on Swanston Street.
    [Show full text]
  • 1993 Monash University Calendar Part 1
    Monash University Calendar 1993 Part I- Lists of members Part II-Legislation Monash University Calendar is published in January each year and updated throughout the year as required. Amendments to statutes and regulations are only published following Council approva1 and promulgation. The Publishing Department must be advised throughout the year of all changes to staff listings on a copy of the 1993 Amendments to staff details form located in Part I and approved by the appropriate head of department. Caution The information contained in this Calendar is as correct as possible at the publication date shown on each page. See also the notes at the start of Part I and Part II. Produced by. Publishing Department, Office of University Development Edited by: David A. Hamono Inquiries: Extn 75 6003 Contents Part I- Lists of members Officers and staff Principal officers ................................. 1 Members of Council ............................. 1 The Academic Board ............................ 2 Emeritus professors .............................. 3 Former officers ................................... 5 The professors .................................... 8 Faculty of Arts .................................. 12 Faculty of Business ............................. 18 Faculty of Computing and Information Technology ................................... 21 Faculty of Economics Commerce and Management ................................. 24 Faculty of Education ........................... 27 Faculty of Engineering ......................... 29 Faculty
    [Show full text]
  • VICTORIA in PRINT Catalogue 116 November 2007
    P.O. Box 1178 Hartwell 3124 Victoria Australia Telephone: (03) 9809 1367 Facsimile: (03) 9889 0852 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.hincebooks.com.au VICTORIA IN PRINT Catalogue 116 November 2007 The Arts & Crafts Movement in Melbourne Margaret CHAPMAN of the Craftsman Bindery, Sassafras, exhibiting at the First Australian Exhibition of Women's Work, 1907 1. THE BINDERY SASSAFRAS women artists such as Edith Alsop, A.M.E. Bale, 3. Grant ALDOUS Vic., From the Gully. Watercolour, c. 24 x 15 Margaret Baskerville, May Gibbs, Ruby Lindsay, The Stop-Over that Stayed: A History cm., depicting timber cottage, with garden in Ida Rentoul [Outhwaite], Jean Sutherland, of Essendon. City of Essendon, n.d. fore-ground, flowers around the building, a Violet Teague, Jessie Traill, and the like. Octavo, plates, pp. x + 150, boards, dust- woman standing in the garden, eucalypts in Together with six titles in bindings stamped by wrapper, a fine copy. $45 the background, dated 1909 and signed R. J. Chapman, and three bindings in the Chapman H., mounted, framed and glazed. Fitted to the style (unstamped) from the same collection, 4. K.S. ANDERSON rear of the picture is a printed label This book including C. J. Dennis’s rare 1935 work The A Port is Built. Portland,The Portland Harbor has been bound by Margaret Chapman at the Singing Garden. An attractive collection of ten Trust, 1981. Octavo, pp.83, illustrated, small Craftsman Bindery, Sassafras, with red monogram books and one watercolour, showcasing the piece missing from top edge of dust-wrapper. upper left.
    [Show full text]
  • NOTES on the TASMANIAN "BLACK WAR" 1827 • 1830 [By J
    495 NOTES ON THE TASMANIAN "BLACK WAR" 1827 • 1830 [By J. C. H. GILL, B.A., LL.B.] (Read to a meeting of The Royal Historical Society of Queensland on 23 May 1968.) (AU Rights Reserved) The Tasmanian Aboriginal, in general, and my topic, in particular, have an extensive bibliography and much archival material is also avaUable in the State Archives of Tasmania and in the Mitchell and Dixson Collections in the PubUc Library of New South Wales. James Bonwick (in 1870), J. E. Calder (1875) and C. TumbuU (1948) aU wrote accounts of the Black War con­ jointly with an account of the extirpation of the Tasmanoids.* It is obvious that to cover the subject properly one would require 900 pages instead of the 9,000 words to which I am Umited. Furthermore, unlimited time to research amongst archival material would be needed and research of this nature has not been possible at all. However, before Bonwick's work in 1870 there had already been written a number of Histories of Tasmania, as you will note from my own bibliography. MelvUle and Bischoff are virtuaUy contemporary with the topic and West little more than twenty years after the event. With these as my principal sources for the events of 1827-1830 I have sought briefly to recapitulate the sad story from its sorry beginning to its tragic aftermath with some observations on possible causes and effects. AN ENIGMA The Tasmanian aborigines, like all extinct peoples, must remain perforce something of an enigma, despite the fact that the last of them died within living memory.
    [Show full text]
  • Archival Backgrounds in New South Wales 41
    Archival Backgrounds in New South Wales Downloaded from http://meridian.allenpress.com/american-archivist/article-pdf/22/1/39/2743910/aarc_22_1_04144142624tgn0r.pdf by guest on 23 September 2021 By ALLAN HORTON1 Public Library of New South Wales OME time ago in the American Archivist David S. MacMillan gave his view of the situation of archives in the State of New S South Wales in 1956.2 The following article is a documented statement of the historical background of the development of the State's archival organization. It will show that for almost a century the only body consistently interested in the preservation and management of both public and private archives has been the State Library, called the Public Library of New South Wales. The library was the first institution in the State to preserve the records of Australian history. It had its origins in the Australian Subscription Library, founded in 1826; and by the 1850's it had developed a strong interest in Australiana.3 When well-informed men thought of establishing a record office they naturally expected it to be associated with the State Library. In 1882 J. H. Heaton, journalist, historian, and statesman, had suggested to the Premier, Sir Henry Parkes, the establishment of a record office at the State Library and the appointment "of a group of learned gentlemen . to select material for a Record Office from European sources." * In the 1860's David Scott Mitchell had begun collecting Australiana concurrently with the trustees of the library, and in 1898 he officially announced his intention to give his collection to the State as the Mitchell Library, a department of the State Library.5 James Bonwick, who had the title of Archivist of New South Wales, went to England in 1884, and in September of that year he was writing to Premier Parkes, proposing that transcripts of material in London be preserved in the State Library.6 In 1888 1 The author is Archivist, Archives Department, Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
    [Show full text]
  • Virtudes Epistêmicas Fundamentais Para Nomear Um Historiador No Dicionário Bibliográfico Australiano De 1949
    VIRTUDES EPISTÊMICAS FUNDAMENTAIS PARA NOMEAR UM HISTORIADOR NO DICIONÁRIO BIBLIOGRÁFICO AUSTRALIANO DE 1949. LETHICIA QUINTO CIRERA*1 Introdução: Esta comunicação explora as virtudes epistêmicas fundamentais para nomear um escritor como historiador na Austrália em meados do século passado. Trata-se de um trabalho exploratório sobre a história da historiografia australiana que nos auxilia na busca pelos primeiros manuais de introdução à história, produzidos naquele país. A pesquisa está integrada ao projeto “Teoria da história e Didática da história” (1860-1930), desenvolvida no Departamento e no Programa de Pós- Graduação em História da Universidade de Brasília. Nesse projeto procuramos mapear a profissionalização do historiador e a transnacionalização do método histórico na passagem do século XIX ao XX. Partimos da iniciativa de Percival Serle (1871-1951), que coletou sistematicamente informações biográficas desde 1929 na produção da obra que contém biografias de australianos, ou homens que estavam intimamente ligadas a Austrália, que morreram antes do final de 1942. Sua empreitada resultou no Australian Dictionary of National Bibliography, publicado em primeira edição no ano de 1949, em 2 volumes. Essa se tornou uma obra de referência por mais de 40 anos e apresenta grande importância não só para o período, mas também para as gerações posteriores. Contém diversas biografias feitas com o devido cuidado de aprofundar ao máximo em cada uma. É de grande importância, também, a possibilidade e facilidade de acesso a obra por meio do Projeto Gutenberg Australiano que disponibiliza hoje integralmente à obra em seu Website. Por essas razões e pelo seu corte cronológico o Australian Dictionary of National Bibliography foi escolhido como obra de referência para esta pesquisa.
    [Show full text]
  • The Friends' School Hobart : Formation and Early Development
    THE FRIENDS' SCHOOL HOBART : FORMATION AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT THE FRIENDS' SCHOOL HOBART : FORMATION AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT by William Nicolle Oats, B.A. (Hons.Adel.), B.ED. (Melb.) submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education University of Tasmania Hobart. October, 1976. I hereby declare that this thesis, The Friends' School Hobart Formation and Early Development, contains no material which has been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma in any university, and that to the best of my knowledge and belief, this thesis contains no copy or paraphrase of material previously published or written by another person, except where due reference is made in the text of the thesis. (signed) 611/ (W.N . Oats) %S. ▪• TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Introduction • • • • • • 1 PART ONE FORMATION : 1832-1887 Ideas and events leading to the foundation of The Friends'School Hobart in 1887. 4 CHAPTER 1 : The Influence of James Backhouse and George Washington Walker .. CHAPTER 2 : A Question of Survival 30 Initial difficulties 31 The education and alienation of a young Quaker 49 Education - a key to survival 62 CHAPTER 3 : Moves to Establish a Friends' School 1864-1886 •• • • 74 PART TWO EARLY DEVELOPMENT : 1887-1900 CHAPTER 4 : Curriculum and Methods ,• 107 CHAPTER 5 : Problems of Development Accommodation, Finance and Staffing 146 CHAPTER 6 : The Anatomy of a Crisis 171 CHAPTER 7 : Impact 208 Appendix 1 : Particulars of Donations and Loans to The Friends' School Hobart 1887-1900 • • • • 239 Appendix 2 : Statement of Assets and Liabilities to December 1900. Working Account for 1900 Schedule of fees 1900 241 (iv) pa_fae Appendix 3 : Staffing from England and Australia 1887-1900 243 References • • .
    [Show full text]
  • FIRST CONTACT in PORT PHILLIP Within This Section, Events Are Discussed Relating to the Colonisation of Port Phillip in 1835
    READINGS IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY -The History you were never taught THEME 6: FIRST CONTACT IN PORT PHILLIP Within this section, events are discussed relating to the colonisation of Port Phillip in 1835. The names of the principal characters involved, that of William Buckley, John Batman, John Pascoe Fawkner and William Barak are well known to the public. However as the saying goes, history is written by the winners. This section therefore endeavours to lift the veil on this period of our colonial history through an understanding of the Aboriginal perspective. A little understood narrative dictated by William Barak in 1888 is examined to reveal new insights about the influence of William Buckley on Aboriginal thinking, and the location of the 1835 treaty meeting with Batman. AH 6.1 Buckley’s Adjustment to Tribal Life AH 6.2 Murrungurk’s Law AH 6.3 Barak’s meeting with Batman AH 6.4 Interpreting Barak’s story AH 6.5 Batman’s second bogus treaty AH 6.6 The Naming of the Yarra River in 1835 AH 6.7 Melbourne’s feuding founding fathers THEME 6 QUESTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION 1. If Buckley survived 32 years in Aboriginal society, was he as dumb as he was painted by some colonists? 2. If Batman had his treaties signed by eight Aboriginals, in ink, on a log, in middle of winter, how come there is not one ink blot, smudge, fingerprint or raindrop? 3. Who was the nicer person, John Batman or John Pascoe Fawkner? BUCKLEY’S ADJUSTMENT TO TRIBAL LIFE William Buckley is of course firmly entrenched in Australian history and folklore as ‘The Wild White Man’.
    [Show full text]
  • List of Multiple Killings of Aborigines in Tasmania: 1804-1835 Ryan, Lyndall Wednesday 5 March 2008
    List of multiple killings of Aborigines in Tasmania: 1804-1835 Ryan, Lyndall Wednesday 5 March 2008 Stable URL: http://www.massviolence.org/Article?id_article=106 PDF version: http://www.massviolence.org/PdfVersion?id_article=106 http://www.massviolence.org - ISSN 1961-9898 List of multiple killings of Aborigines in Tasmania: 1804-1835 Introduction Tasmania (known as Van Diemens Land until 1855) was occupied for at least 30,000 years by a hunter-gatherer people, the Tasmanian Aborigines, whose population in 1803 was estimated at 7,000 (Lourandos 1997:244; Calder 1875:17). Contrary to a long and widely held belief that they were a stone age people who were destined to die out as a result of 10,000 years of isolation from the Australian mainland, more recent research indicates that they were a dynamic people who not only reshaped their culture and society during the Holocene, but were increasing in population at British colonisation in 1803. (Lourandos 1997:281) By 1835 only one family remained in Tasmania. The vast majority had been killed, or had died from introduced disease, or had been forcibly removed from their homeland. The only survivors were those who escaped government control - in a sealing community on the Bass Strait islands. 1803-1821: British colonisation of Tasmania 1803: Informal colonisation commenced when small groups of British men employed in the sealing industry on the Bass Strait islands, initiated seasonal contact with Aboriginal groups along Tasmanias northern coastline. They traded seal carcasses and dogs in exchange for Aboriginal women for sexual and economic purposes. Sporadic conflict over women took place but few records exist of the details.
    [Show full text]
  • Australian Jewish Historical Society
    IBRARH .:as. 6 » Attatraliati orotg׳ VOL. IV. PART VII. CONTENTS. THE EARLY JEWISH SETTLERS IN VICTORIA AND THEIR PROBLEMS (PART 1) 335 By Rabbi L. M. Goldman, M.A. OBITUARIES 413 Illustrations : LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE MONTEFIORE HOME, 1870 342 THE OLD EAST MELBOURNE SYNAGOGUE 350 D. AND S. BENJAMIN'S STORE, COLLINS STREET 357 THE OLD MELBOURNE SYNAGOGUE, BOURKE STREET : 365 THE OLD ST. KILDA SYNAGOGUE 372 CHIEF RABBI SOLOMON HERSCHEL 383 THE FIRST MELBOURNE SYNAGOGUE AND ST. PATRICK'S HALL 391 MICHAEL CASHMORE 399 • SYDNEY : May, 5718—1958 AUSTRALIAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. (Founded August 81st, 1938-5698.) Patron-Members : The Hon. Mr. JUSTICE SUGERMAN. The Hon. Sir ARCHIE MICHAELIS, Kt. President: Rabbi Dr. ISRAEL PORUSH, Ph.D. Vice-Presidents: HERBERT 1. WOLFF. Rabbi Dr. H. FREEDMAN, B.A., Ph.D. Hon. Treasurer : ARTHUR D. ROBB, F.C.A. (Aust.) Hon. Secretary : SYDNEY B. GLASS. Editor of Publications: DAVID J. BENJAMIN, LL.B. Committee : Mrs. RONALD BRASS, B.A. M. Z. FORBES, B.A., LL.B. M. H. KELLERMAN, B.Ec. ALFRED A. KEYSOR Rev. R. LUBOFSKY, B.A. Dr. G. F. J. BERGMAN, D.Econ. E. NEWMAN VICTORIAN BRANCH—OFFICERS. Chairman : Sir ARCHIE MICHAELIS. Liaison Officer : Rabbi L. M. GOLDMAN, M.A. Hon. Treasurer : STUART COHEN. Hon. Secretary: L. E. FREDMAN, M.A., LL.B. Committee : Dr. H. SHANNON, M.D., Dr. J. LEON JONA, M.D., D.Sc., A. N. SUPER, M.A., LL.B., W. JONA, H. MUNZ, R. APPLE, I. SOLOMON, Miss H. FUERMAN, Miss F. ROSENBERG, S. BENNETT. Hon. Auditor : DAVID BOLOT, A.F.C.A., A.F.I.A.
    [Show full text]
  • Remembering the Debate About Massacre in the Black War in Tasmania
    Coolabah, Vol.3, 2009, ISSN 1988-5946 Observatori: Centre d’Estudis Australians, Australian Studies Centre, Universitat de Barcelona ‘The long shadow of remembrance’: Remembering the debate about massacre in the Black War in Tasmania Lyndall Ryan Copyright ©2009 Lyndall Ryan. This text may be archived and redistributed both in electronic form and in hard copy, provided that the author and journal are properly cited and no fee is charged Abstract: The Black War in Tasmania 1823-1834, is widely accorded by historians as one of the best documented of all Australia’s colonial frontier wars. Yet debate still rages about whether massacre was its defining feature and whether it accounted for the deaths of many Aborigines. As Keith Windschuttle pointed out in 2002, this is an important debate because it reflects on the character of the Australian nation and the behaviour of its colonial forbears in seizing control of Aboriginal land. To understand how the debate took shape and where it stands today, this paper reviews its origins in 1835 and then shows how it was played out over three historical periods: 1835- 1870; 1875-1939; and 1948-2008; by focussing on the key protagonists and how they used the available sources and methods and explanatory frameworks to make their case. The paper finds that in the first period, the belief in widespread massacre dominated the debate, drawn from oral testimony from the victorious combatants. In the second period, the belief in massacre denial took hold, based on the doctrine of the self-exterminating Aborigine. In the third period however, the protagonists engaged in a fierce contest for control of the debate.
    [Show full text]