Two jet fighter planes – a Macchi and a Mirage – are making their home at Scone Regional Airport. Restored by volunteers. they will become part of the Warbird Visitor Attraction. The Mirage A3-44 will travel by road from the
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Priceless collection of 100-year-old films digitally restored by NFSA. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) has digitally restored The Corrick Collection, containing 135 of the world’s earliest films, which formed part of the Corrick Family Entertainers variety act
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Australia Daze: Restored Bicentenary Documentary to Screen Across Australia. Award-winning film Australia Daze, which documented the bicentenary of European settlement in Australia, has been digitally restored by the NFSA and will screen in cinemas across the country on 26 –
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The Healing Foundation urges all schools to teach the Stolen Generations story and Australia’s full history. The Healing Foundation is urging all Australian schools to include the story of the Stolen Generations in their curriculum to ensure students have a
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Suburb’s colourful history revealed with new heritage trail at Warners Bay. A new heritage walk in Warners Bay reflects on a time when the town centre was little more than an overnight camp for bullock teamsters, and when a billabong
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Professor Sarah Wright, a human geographer from the University of Newcastle is part of a collective of women who were joint winners of the Prime Minister’s literary awards non-fiction category. The Gay’wu Group of Women, including Professor Sarah Wright (standing
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Over the past week, the Aboriginal-owned Worimi Conservation Lands north of Newcastle has hosted a series of Aboriginal Site Identification Courses, to improve understanding and protection of Worimi cultural sites. NPWS officer Craig Wall and Worimi Visitor Service Assistant Rachel
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Author talk reflecting on the Hunter’s rich colonial heritage and traditional Aboriginal owners. In a bicentennial year hampered by the global pandemic, the Back to Singleton 2020 program will culminate with an author talk by respected public historian and Singleton
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Port unveils next phase in historic Carrington Engine House restoration. An additional $850,000 will be invested in ongoing restoration of the 143-year-old Carrington Hydraulic Engine House. Built in 1877 and operating until 1967, the building housed the first large scale
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Caring for Country in schools reconciliation challenge. The annual Schools Reconciliation Challenge has an online exhibition with the theme Caring for Country. Minmi Public School students Lachlan, Lily and Giselle show their artwork with teacher Mr James Griffiths. Student artwork
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Cessnock City Council announces dollar for dollar grants for heritage projects. Owners and managers of heritage listed properties and residencies in Heritage Conservation Areas may be eligible for up to $2,000 financial assistance. Rising Sun Inn on Wollombi Road after
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Cook’s Secret Instructions on display to mark 250 years since east coast charting. As part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Encounters 2020 program to mark the 250th anniversary of James Cook’s charting of the east coast of Australia in
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Newcastle Council has updated its heritage strategy. The document aims to promote and restore the city’s 700 heritage items, eight heritage conservation areas and 23 archaeological sites, following the adoption of an updated Heritage Strategy. The Heritage Strategy 2020-2030 was
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F/A-18A Hornet on it way to Australian War Memorial. The first of two ‘Classic’ Hornets allocated to the Australian War Memorial for heritage display is being transported by road from RAAF Base Williamtown to Canberra. F/A-18A Hornet A21-022 is lifted
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Redfern rising: the story of Aboriginal activism in the 1970s. By Adam Phelan New book explores the people, places and achievements at the centre of Aboriginal activism and self-determination in the 1970s. Redfern: Aboriginal activism in the 1970s is published
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The Orana Foundation launches their Indigenous Food Database. The Foundation commissioned The University of Adelaide as their research partner to deliver on four key projects: Indigenous Food Database: to build a native food database to collate knowledge of Australian plants
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Stegga’s City Emporium survives today (2019) at 517 to 529 Hunter Street, Newcastle. I visited Antiques on Hunter at this address to shop, some time in 2001, and a few years later they moved to King Street, where they were
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$630,000 boost for Newcastle Museum and Art Gallery. Newcastle Museum at Honeysuckle. Photo: Gerson008. Local stories will increase at Newcastle Museum with a multiyear funding allocation from the NSW Government. The museum will receive $135,000 each year for three years
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With the impending dissolution of the Newcastle Maritime Museum Society (NMMS), council has offered a tough stop-gap proposal. City of Newcastle will purchase items from the NMMS, which will use the money to pay creditors. Those items will go on
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Council adopts the future vision for Maitland Gaol. Maitland Council adopted the Maitland Gaol Development Plan and Site Master Plan after a prolonged community and stakeholder engagement process. After a 28 day exhibition period which attracted 15 community submissions, Council
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Redevelopment of Newcastle’s No.1 Sportsground should be ready for its 100th anniversary next year. Artists impression of the upgraded No.1 Sportsground with enlarged field, floodlights, and bleachers. The project includes enlarging the playing field, upgrading floodlighting, and new tiered seating.
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History Illuminated recalls halcyon (or not) days gone by. Revellers throwing back schooners at Dozens Day in 1980s Swansea had little idea they were making Lake Mac’s long and lively history. That’s exactly what has happened. Eventually banned due to
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Donation of private collection lets students preserve an important piece of history. Mt Gambier Freemasons in 1894 ~ Image Trove. A collection of fraternal society memorabilia – the largest of its kind in Australia – has been donated to the
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History Illuminated 2020 asks the question: “What is history good for?” Rathmines Theatre, renovated and opened in 2020. With the year packed with bushfires, protests ,and pandemics, these events from the present back to the past have roots linked in
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NFSA To Preserve Broad-Ranging Audiovisual Record Of Australia During COVID-19. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) will collect and preserve key moments in Australian history such as the COVID-19 crisis. The National Film and Sound Archive of
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Awaba House to rise from the ashes with new concept plan. A terrace for outdoor dining, a boutique dining and restaurant space and a new covered walkway are part of a proposed concept design for to resurrect Awaba House, gutted
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New film captures historical story of Scott Sisters of Ash Island. Harriet and Helena Scott worked and grew up during the 1840s-1860s on Ash Island, which is now part of Kooragang Island, learning to be scientific illustrators. Up until that
Read more...Stephen Oliver in conversation with Alison Page. For the real story of this continent, you’ve got to have both histories. The whole story of Cook has not finished. It will never finish until we add the bookend. Our story. To
Read more...Parkes Observatory added to National Heritage List. Throsby Jnr forced to model at Parkes Observatory in 1990. The most famous dish in the nation, the CSIRO Parkes Observatory, will be conserved and protected under National Heritage status. The observatory’s 64-metre
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Arborists hope to save a historic 100-year-old Port Jackson fig tree in Gregson Park that was facing the chop. Councillor Carol Duncan and Lord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes at Gregson Park with the 100yo Port Jackson fig tree. A recent branch
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