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MORETON BAY HISTORY SEMINAR WEDNESDAY 16 MAY 2018 Uncover the history of our region, with four eminent historians exploring key people and events

Reminders of Peoples Past Native Police headquarters for all southern being established Peter Ludlow will look at some of the at Sandgate in 1862. people who helped form the communities that now make up the Region First World War Queensland Military – and how we remember them today. Hospitals, Repatriation, and the ‘Spanish When explorer John Oxley recommended Flu’ Pandemic, 1918-1919 Redcliffe Point as the site for settlement, he ushered in a great influx of immigrants. This talk, by Dr Cliff Pollard & Jeff Here, Peter highlights the lives and Hopkins-Weise, will look at the role, influences of those who followed Oxley service and locations of military hospitals and who called the region home. in Queensland during and after World War One. An important aspect of military Frontier Front: the medicine was both the short-term care in the 1840s-1850s and long-term repatriation of military personnel who suffered illness, injury or This presentation considers how the wounds (both physical and mental). Moreton Bay Region acted as the ‘frontline’ in the battle to establish The talk will also explore the Returned free settlement north of . Ray Soldiers’ Transport Corps which operated Kerkhove combines mapping and early between 1916-1921. accounts to demonstrate how the region was perceived at this time. The settlers conflicts and fears culminated in the Jeff Hopkins-Weise This he shares with the community Jeff Hopkins-Weise is a historian and curator through his books, lectures to local with a strong fascination for, and background community groups, and since 1997, in, Queensland, Australian, New Zealand and by maintaining an internet web page at Pacific history. Areas where Jeff has researched www.moretonbayhistory.com include the role and experience of the British Clifford Pollard Army in colonial Australia and New Zealand, the trans-Tasman dimensions of Australian Clifford Pollard is former Chair of the involvement in the New Zealand (or Maori) wars State-wide Trauma Clinical network, and during the 1840s and 1860s, and Australasian previous Director of Trauma Services humanitarianism and memorialisation in at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s association with conflict, the British Army and Hospital, and Director of the Queensland Royal Navy. Trauma Registry at the Centre of National Research in Disability and Rehabilitation Ray Kerkhove Medicine, University of Queensland. Ray Kerkhove (PhD, University of Queensland) Cliff did his surgical training in Queensland is an independent consultant and cultural and obtained post Fellowship experience researcher, currently a visiting Fellow at Griffith in the United Kingdom. He was initially University. He specialises in the Colonial history Staff Surgeon and then Director of Surgery and material culture of Aboriginal peoples in at Redcliffe Hospital before becoming a Southern Queensland. Ray has worked with Visiting Medical Officer in general surgery. various Aboriginal families and organisations for over 30 years and has been developing mapping of Aboriginal resistance.

Peter Ludlow Browse displays from Local A former hospital pharmacist, Peter is now a Historical Societies. professional researcher, biographer, and author Light refreshment included. collecting local history in the Moreton Bay area.

JEFF HOPKINS-WEISE RAY KERKHOVE PETER LUDLOW CLIFFORD POLLARD

FREE! BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL. MORETON BAY HISTORY SEMINAR NORTH LAKES COMMUNITY CENTRE WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018 9.30AM-12NOON 9.30am Introduction 11.10am Jeff Hopkins-Weise 9.40am Peter Ludlow & Clifford Pollard 10.20am Ray Kerkhove 11.40am Question time 11.00am Break 12.10pm Light refreshment

HOW TO BOOK LOCATION ONLINE Go to NORTH LAKES COMMUNITY CENTRE moretonbay.qld.gov.au/libraries/ Level 2, The Corso local-family-history/ North Lakes QLD 4509 select this event, make your booking and print your ticket. Endeavour Blvd Endeavour Blvd

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This event is part of the National Trust sponsored Australian Heritage Festival.

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