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While many Australians were heading to the beach during the mid-January heatwave, La Trobe archaeologist Dr Jillian Garvey was undertaking an archaeological dig west of Mildura in outback Victoria. The dig is part of a six-year project led by Dr Garvey at Ned’s Corner Station and in the Murray-Sunset National Park close to the South […]
December 3, 2013
Hear the phrase ‘Eureka Stockade’ and chances are you’ll think of burly male miners confronting the local constabulary. But this leaves out half of the participants on the miners’ side of the fence: the women. It’s the story of these women that is told in a new book by La Trobe historian Clare Wright, The […]
September 13, 2013
La Trobe University historian and author Dr Janet Butler has won this year’s NSW Premier’s Australian History Prize for her book Kitty’s War, based on the diaries of World War One army nurse, Sister Kit McNaughton. The $15,000 award, one of Australia’s top history prizes, was announced last night. The judges described Dr Butler’s work […]
May 28, 2013
West Australian Nyungar Aboriginal elder Dulcie Donaldson is finalising a book that reopens an extremely contentious part of our history – the fate of Indigenous people who in the 1950s lived on the nuclear weapons test range of Maralinga in South Australia. Ms Donaldson recently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in creative writing […]
February 21, 2014
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