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Melbourne, Sydney, and the Population Prize

24 April 2023 admin Comment

You’ve probably heard that Melbourne has overtaken Sydney as Australia’s most populous city. This demographic milestone has come about earlier than predicted due to the re-drawing of statistical boundaries, somewhat deflating the weightiness of this momentous moment. But Melbourne overtaking Sydney in population terms is still history making. Since Sydney first overtook Melbourne in population around 1901, both cities have swelled ten-fold to almost 5-million people today. These evolutions speak to enduring contests around cities and rivalries.

Moreland Report Receives Victorian Community History Award

24 October 2022 admin Awards

My report on “Place Name “Moreland”, prepared for the City of Moreland, in the inner north of Melbourne, has received the Victorian Community History Award, Small History Publication Project, 2022.

Values in Cities: Urban Heritage in Twentieth-Century Australia – Book Published

29 September 2022 admin Publications

My book Values in Cities: Urban Heritage in Twentieth-Century Australia has now been released.

Frozen in time, we’ve become blind to ways to build sustainability into our urban heritage

29 September 2022 admin Comment

Adopting new perspectives won’t only preserve our historic buildings and places by enabling us to shape them for today’s needs. It will also mean urban heritage can contribute to cities becoming more socially, economically and environmentally sustainable.

Establishing Australia’s Heritage Mafia

14 September 2022 admin Comment

How was Australia’s heritage mafia established? To answer, let’s unpack urban heritage in 1990s Australia.

Event: ‘A New History of the Australian Heritage Movement: In Conversation’

25 July 2022 admin Events

Chaired by Professor Philip Goad (University of Melbourne), join Sharon Veale (GML Heritage), Maddi Miller (University of Melbourne) and Dr James Lesh (Deakin University) for a discussion panel on urban heritage in twentieth- and twenty-first century Australia.

Release of “Report on the Place Name: Moreland”

13 April 2022 admin Publications

My report on “Place Name “Moreland”, prepared for the City of Moreland, in the inner north of Melbourne, has now been released. Adopting a historical archival approach, the report explores the links between the “Moreland” name and British Caribbean Slavery.

Conserving Melbourne’s creative heritage: The Nicholas Building

19 January 2022 admin Comment

In mid-2021, the owners of the historic Nicholas Building in the heart of Melbourne put the landmark on the market.

Slave names have no place in modern Melbourne

2 December 2021 admin Comment

The City of Moreland in Melbourne’s inner north is named after the late 18th-century Jamaican slave plantation of the McCrae family. Including the suburbs of Brunswick, Coburg and Pascoe Vale, the municipality’s name valorises slavery and colonialism. Moreland’s councillors are considering a new name for the local government area after being made aware of the links.

War on the demolishers? Probably not, and timing of NSW heritage review is curious

25 May 2021 admin Comment

The New South Wales government has released a discussion paper expressing its ambition to review and “modernise” the Heritage Act (1977).