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ANZAC Memorial Visit
ANZAC Memorial Hyde Park June 2013 On Thursday 27th June the Scouts from 1st Ermington had the opportunity to visit the ANAZ Memorial at Hyde Park in the city. We caught the train from Eastwood station for the journey into Sydney - alighting from the train at Town Hall station. Fortunately the weather was kind and we had a nice walk up to the memo- rial through Hyde park. Although it was early evening and dark the memo- rial looked terrific. The curator for the evening introduced himself to the troop and there was much interest in his background as he was both a Vietnam veteran and a former scout. The evening started with a short video and the scouts were surprised at the footage of the opening because at the time the memorial was the tallest building in the city and the opening was attending by 100,000 people. We were given a tour of the different parts of the memorial (inside and out). Learning about the different parts of the memorial was extremely in- teresting. The Scouts were invited to release a Commemorative star representing an Australian service man or woman killed while serving their country or since deceased - a very humbling experience Another highlight of the evening was the Scouts being able to see a banner signed by Baden Powell. We departed the memorial at 8:20 for our return trip, arriving back into Eastwood at 9:10pm. A big thank you to the Scouts and Leaders that were able to participate in this activity. The ANZAC War Memorial, completed in 1934, is the main commemorative military monument of Sydney, Australia. -
The Paragon, Katoomba
The Paragon, Katoomba McLaughlin Lecture, Wentworth Falls, 1 March 2014 Ian Jack Fig.1 The Upper Mountains are well supplied with icons both of the natural environment and of the European built environment. The built environment from the later nineteenth century onwards relates overwhelmingly to the tourist industry: the railway which brought city-dwellers up here for holidays, the hotels and guest-houses, the cafés and restaurants and the homes of those who serviced the visitors. I want to talk about one particular café, its local setting and its wider ethnic context, its aesthetics and its archaeology. The Paragon in Katoomba was presciently named by Zacharias Simos in 1916. There are quite a lot of Greek cafés in New South Wales, forming an important heritage genre. But I can think of no other surviving Greek café in the state which has comparable stylishness, integrity and wealth of aesthetic and industrial heritage. The Paragon dates from quite near the beginning of a new phenomenon in Australian country towns, the Greek café. Fig.2 This is the Potiris family café in Queanbeyan 1914. Although the Greek diaspora, especially to America and Australia, had begun early in the nineteenth century, it had gained momentum only from the 1870s: over the following century over 3 million Greeks, both men and women, emigrated. The primary reason for many leaving their homeland in the late nineteenth century was economic, exacerbated by a sharp decline in the price of staple exports such as figs and currants and the wholesale replacement in some places of olive-groves by 1 vineyards. -
Bruxelles, 2015 Art and Literature Scientific and Analytical Journal
Art and Literature Scientific and Analytical Journal Texts 4.2015 Bruxelles, 2015 EDITORIAL BOARD Chief editor Burganova M. A. Bowlt John Ellis (USA) — Doctor of Science, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures in University of Southern California; Burganov A. N. (Russia) — Doctor of Science, Professor of Stroganoff Moscow State Art Industrial University, Full-member of Russia Academy of Arts, National Artist of Russia, member of the Dissertation Council of Stroganoff Moscow State Art Industrial University; Burganova M. A. (Russia) — Doctor of Science, Professor of Stroganoff Moscow State Art Industrial University, Full-member of Russia Academy of Arts, Honored Artist of Russia, member of the Dissertation Council of Stroganoff Moscow State Art Industrial University, editor-in-chief; Glanc Tomáš (Germany) — Doctor of Science of The Research Institute of East European University of Bremen (Germany), and assistant professor of The Charles University (Czech Republic); Kazarian Armen (Russia) — Architectural historian, Doctor of Fine Arts in The State Institute of Art History, Advisor in Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences; Kravetsky A. G. (Russia) — Candidate of Sciences, research associate of Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lavrentyev Alexander N. (Russia) — Doctor of Arts, Professor of Stroganoff Moscow State Art Industrial University and Moscow State University of Printing Arts; Alessandro De Magistris (Italy) — PhD, Full-Professor of History of Architecture Politecnico di Milano Department of Architecture and Urban Studies; Misler Nicoletta (Italy) — Professor of Modern East European Art at the Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples; Pavlova I. B. (Russia) — Candidate of Sciences, Senior Researcher of Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences; ISSN 2294-8902 © TEXTS, 2015 Pletneva A. -
Guy & Joe Lynch in Australasia
On Tasman Shores: Guy & Joe Lynch in Australasia MARTIN EDMOND University of Western Sydney The Tasman Sea, precisely defined by oceanographers, remains inchoate as a cultural area. It has, as it were, drifted in and out of consciousness over the two and a half centuries of permanent European presence here; and remains an almost unknown quantity to prehistory. Its peak contact period was probably the sixty odd years between the discovery of gold in Victoria and the outbreak of the Great War; when the coasts of New Zealand and Australia were twin shores of a land that shared an economy, a politics, a literature and a popular culture: much of which is reflected in the pages of The Bulletin from the 1880s until 1914. There was, too, a kind of hangover of the pre-war era and of the ANZAC experience into the 1920s; but after that the notional country sank again beneath the waves. Recovery of fragments from that lost cultural zone is a project with more than historical interest: each retrieval is a prospective act, contributing to the restoration of a world view which, while often occluded, has never really gone away. There is of course much which is irrecoverable now; but that is in itself a provocation; for a mosaic made out of dislocated pieces might disclose something unprecedented, neither existent in the past nor otherwise imaginable in the present: the lineaments of the new world, at once authentic and delusive, that so entranced the earliest explorers of the Antipodes. What follows, then, is an assembly of bits of one of those sets of fragments: the story of the Lynch brothers, Guy and Joe, a sculptor and an artist; and the milieu in which they lived. -
Art Gallery of New South Wales Annual Report 2001
ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES ANNUAL REPORT 2001 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES HIGHLIGHTS PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2 NEW ATTENDANCE RECORD SET FOR THE POPULAR ARCHIBALD, WYNNE AND SULMAN PRIZES, WHICH HAD MORE THAN 98,000 VISITORS. DIRECTOR’S REPORT 4 1 YEAR IN REVIEW 8 TWO NEW MAJOR AGNSW PUBLICATIONS, AUSTRALIAN ART IN THE ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES AND PAPUNYA TULA: GENESIS AIMS/OBJECTIVES/PERFORMANCE INDICATORS 26 2 AND GENIUS. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 32 DEDICATION OF THE MARGARET OLLEY TWENTIETH CENTURY EUROPEAN LIFE GOVERNORS 34 3 GALLERIES IN RECOGNITION OF HER CONTINUING AND SUBSTANTIAL SENIOR MANAGEMENT PROFILE 34 ROLE AS A GALLERY BENEFACTOR. ORGANISATION CHART 36 COLLECTION ACQUISITIONS AMOUNTED TO $7.8 MILLION WITH 946 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 41 4 PURCHASED AND GIFTED WORKS ACCESSIONED INTO THE PERMANENT COLLECTION.TOTAL ACQUISITIONS HAVE GROWN BY MORE THAN $83.4 APPENDICES 62 MILLION IN THE PAST 10 YEARS. INDEX 92 MORE THAN 1.04 MILLION VISITORS TO OVER 40 TEMPORARY, TOURING GENERAL INFORMATION 93 5 AND PERMANENT COLLECTION EXHIBITIONS STAGED IN SYDNEY, REGIONAL NSW AND INTERSTATE. COMMENCED A THREE-YEAR, $2.3 MILLION, NSW GOVERNMENT 6 FUNDED PROGRAMME TO DIGITISE IMAGES OF ALL WORKS IN THE GALLERY’S PERMANENT COLLECTION. Bob Carr MP Premier, Minister for the Arts, and Minister for Citizenship DEVELOPED GALLERY WEBSITE TO ALLOW ONLINE USERS ACCESS TO Level 40 7 DATABASE INFORMATION ON THE GALLERY’S COLLECTION, INCLUDING Governor Macquarie Tower AVAILABLE IMAGES AND SPECIALIST RESEARCH LIBRARY CATALOGUE. 1 Farrer Place SYDNEY NSW 2000 CREATED A MAJOR NEW FAMILY PROGRAMME, FUNDAYS AT THE 8 GALLERY, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH A FIVE-YEAR SPONSORSHIP FROM THE Dear Premier, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH. -
Melbourne Press Club Laurie Oakes Address 15 September 2017
MELBOURNE PRESS CLUB LAURIE OAKES ADDRESS 15 SEPTEMBER 2017 Thank you all for coming. And thank you to the Melbourne Press Club for organizing this lunch. Although I’m based in Canberra, I’ve long felt a strong link with this club and been involved in its activities when I can-- including a period as one of the Perkin Award judges. Many of the members are people I’ve worked with over the years. I feel I belong. So this farewell means a lot to me. When I picked up the papers this morning, my first thought was: “God, I’m so old I knew Lionel Murphy.” In fact, I broke the story of his terminal cancer that shut down the inquiry. But making me feel even older was the fact that I’d even had a bit to do with Abe Saffron, known to the headline writers as “Mr Sin”, in my brief period on police rounds at the Sydney Mirror. Not long after I joined the Mirror, knowing nothing and having to be trained from scratch, a young journo called Anna Torv was given the job of introducing me to court reporting. The case involved charges against Mr Saffron based on the flimsy grounds, I seem to recall, that rooms in Lodge 44, the Sydney motel he owned that was also his headquarters, contained stolen fridges. At one stage during the trial a cauliflower-eared thug leaned across me to hand a note to Anna. It was from Abe saying he’d like to meet her. I intercepted it, but I don’t think Anna would have had much trouble rejecting the invitation. -
Inside the Canberra Press Gallery: Life in the Wedding Cake of Old
INSIDE the CANBERRA PRESS GALLERY Life in the Wedding Cake of Old Parliament House INSIDE the CANBERRA PRESS GALLERY Life in the Wedding Cake of Old Parliament House Rob Chalmers Edited by Sam Vincent and John Wanna THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY E PRESS E PRESS Published by ANU E Press The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Email: [email protected] This title is also available online at: http://epress.anu.edu.au National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Author: Chalmers, Rob, 1929-2011 Title: Inside the Canberra press gallery : life in the wedding cake of Old Parliament House / Rob Chalmers ; edited by Sam Vincent and John Wanna. ISBN: 9781921862366 (pbk.) 9781921862373 (ebook) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Australia. Parliament--Reporters and Government and the press--Australia. Journalism--Political aspects-- Press and politics--Australia. Other Authors/Contributors: Vincent, Sam. Wanna, John. Dewey Number: 070.4493240994 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Cover design and layout by ANU E Press Back cover image courtesy of Heide Smith Printed by Griffin Press This edition © 2011 ANU E Press Contents Acknowledgments . vii Foreword . ix Preface . xi 1 . Youth . 1 2 . A Journo in Sydney . 9 3 . Inside the Canberra Press Gallery . 17 4 . Menzies: The giant of Australian politics . 35 5 . Ming’s Men . 53 6 . Parliament Disgraced by its Members . 71 7 . Booze, Sex and God . -
Some Notes on DTE and Confest
ConFest and the Next 250 Years Past and Future Possibilities Dr Les Spencer, 1992. Revised 2014. Use within grassroots mutual-help processes for non-profit purposes 1 Contents Contents .................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. Pre-Confest Speech By Dr Jim Cairns ...................................................................... 4 Manifesto From The First Confest – Cotter River 1976 ............................................. 5 The Evolving Of The First Confest ............................................................................ 7 Founding History Of Social Transforming Action ....................................................... 6 T2 Mobilising Transnationals – Visits To Confest & Follow-On ................................. 6 Dte Visits: .............................................................................................................. 6 International Natural Nurturer Networking ................................................................ 6 The Evolving Of The First Confest ............................................................................ 7 Wellbeing Action Using Festivals, Gatherings And Other Happenings ..................... 9 The Watsons Bay Festival ......................................................................................... 9 Working With Free Energy ...................................................................................... 10 The Second Festival – The Paddington Festival .................................................... -
ON the ROAD City Moscow
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Anzac Memorial Considered for State Heritage Listing
3 March, 2010 ANZAC MEMORIAL CONSIDERED FOR STATE HERITAGE LISTING The ANZAC Memorial in Sydney’s Hyde Park is to be considered for listing on the State Heritage Register. Minister for Planning, Tony Kelly, said since its completion in 1934, the iconic building had been an important place of commemoration, especially on ANZAC Day. “As well as being a monument to the sacrifices of Australian servicemen and women, the ANZAC Memorial building has long been considered one of Australia’s greatest works of public art,” the Minister said. “The result of a creative collaboration between architect Bruce Dellit and sculptor Rayner Hoff, the ANZAC Memorial is arguably the finest expression of Art Deco monumentality in Australia. “It’s also closely linked to the landing of Australian troops at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, with fundraising for the memorial established on the first anniversary of the landing.” The building is associated with returned servicemen and women and their various organisations, including the RSL, which lobbied for the erection of the monument and occupied offices within it. Mr Kelly said the memorial represents NSW’s contribution to the group of national war memorials developed by each State capital during the inter-war period. “As a result, its heritage importance has a number of different dimensions including historical, aesthetic and social significance, and should it be considered for the State’s highest form of heritage protection,” the Minister said. The proposed listing, which follows the Government’s recent listing of three other iconic Sydney buildings – the Sydney Town Hall, the Queen Victoria Building and Luna Park – will be exhibited for public comment until Monday, March 22. -
Annual Report 2008–09 Annu Al Repor T 20 08–0 9
ANNUAL REPORT 2008–09 ANNUAL REPORT 2008–09 REPORT ANNUAL ANNUAL REPORT 2008–09 The National Gallery of Australia is a Commonwealth authority established under the National Gallery Act 1975. The vision of the National Gallery of Australia is the cultural enrichment of all Australians through access to their national art gallery, the quality of the national collection, the exceptional displays, exhibitions and programs, and the professionalism of Gallery staff. The Gallery’s governing body, the Council of the National Gallery of Australia, has expertise in arts administration, corporate governance, administration and financial and business management. In 2008–09, the National Gallery of Australia received an appropriation from the Australian Government totalling $78.494 million (including an equity injection of $4 million for development of the national collection and $32.698 million for Stage 1 of the building extension project), raised $19.32 million, and employed 256.4 full- time equivalent staff. © National Gallery of Australia 2009 ISSN 1323 5192 All rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Produced by the Publishing Department of the National Gallery of Australia Edited by Eric Meredith Designed by Carla Da Silva Printed by Blue Star Print, Canberra National Gallery of Australia GPO Box 1150 Canberra ACT 2601 nga.gov.au/reports -
Chapter 1 Douglas Stewart
CHAPTER 1 DOUGLAS STEWART: THE EARLY YEARS 1925-1938 Throughout the many scholarly works that focus on Stewart’s place in Australian literature, the word that recurs in respect of Douglas Stewart’s creative work is ‘versatile’. One of its first appearances is in Nancy Keesing’s Douglas Stewart, which begins with the precise statement: ‘Douglas Stewart is the most versatile writer in Australia today ⎯ perhaps the most versatile who ever lived in this country. He is a poet whose poetry and nature as a poet are central to everything in which he excels’.93 Stewart was not only a poet whose early philosophy that the closer one moves towards nature the closer one moves towards the spirit of the earth, developed as a line of continuity which contributed to his total philosophy; this chapter focuses on Stewart’s life and poetic ambition in New Zealand until his move to Australia as an expatriate in 1938. As a mature poet he was then concerned to apply this pantheism to modern responses regarding humans and their experiences. The purpose of the introductory part of this chapter is to clarify the theme of the dissertation ⎯ Douglas Stewart’s creative impulse; the second part involves a discussion of the poet’s visit to England where he met poets Powys and Blunden. At this time he also journeyed to his ancestral home in Scotland. Upon his return to Australia in 1938 he was offered a position with Cecil Mann at the Bulletin. Stewart was also a distinguished verse dramatist, a successful editor, particularly of the Red Page of the Bulletin from 1940 to 1960,94 and a participant of some repute in journalism and publishing.