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Miller Legacy confirmed

Miller Legacy confirmed

Annie Wakeford (extreme left) and Norma May Mawson (second left) welcome the Victorian Minister for Housing, Wendy Lovell (cemtre) to the new Miller homes in Highton, 13 July 2011. Alexander Miller: The unknown philanthropist and his legacy Dr Jennifer Kloester, Dr Al...

The Edinburgh Conspiracy

The Edinburgh Conspiracy

The Edinburgh Conspiracy is a political thriller set in the near future. Scotland is independent and Edinburgh has been chosen as the site of a major international congress of heads of state. It will finalize a settlement of the Israel–Palestine dispute. A group of...

Catherine Wells: An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman

Catherine Wells, with the assistance of Roy and Frances Hay, Catherine Wells: An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman The biography of Catherine Wells, born in 1914, who left school in Easter Ross at 14, worked in domestic service and brought up a family in wartime when her...

Andrew Fisher: The Forgotten Man

Andrew Fisher was Prime Minister of Australia three times—1908–09, 1910–13 and 1914–15. His second government controlled both Houses of Parliament and it was, until the 1940s, Australia’s most reformist administration. In these three years, 113 Acts were placed on the...

Déjà vu, all over again

Déjà vu, all over again By Roy Hay The Australian Society for Sports History has made significant contributions to sports history over the years, but it probably caused its greatest stir in the wider world in 1991 when the Bulletin carried an article by Professor Ling...

Teaching, redundancy, technological change and globalisation

Talk to U3A tutors 23 November 2005 by Roy Hay, Sports and Editorial Services Australia and Deakin University. I am extremely privileged to be here to talk to you tonight. That is not just a conventional sentiment, I assure you. For it is very humbling to be in the...