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Forums, talks, symposiums, conferences and other events held at the National Museum of Australia, exploring Australia's land, nation and people.
National Museum of Australia – Audio on demand program
English, Nature/Natural sciences, 1 season, 465 episodes, 1 day, 5 hours, 25 minutes
National Museum of Australia – Audio on demand program
English, Nature/Natural sciences, 1 season, 465 episodes, 1 day, 5 hours, 25 minutes
3/2/2022 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 43 seconds
3/2/2022 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 25 seconds
Fred's Vision
3/8/2021 • 6 minutes, 44 seconds
Stolen
3/8/2021 • 10 minutes, 14 seconds
Ðàn Tre
3/8/2021 • 7 minutes, 53 seconds
Love and Forgiveness
3/8/2021 • 7 minutes, 48 seconds
Journey Women
3/8/2021 • 7 minutes, 49 seconds
Hidden Past
3/8/2021 • 9 minutes, 17 seconds
Our Land
3/8/2021 • 9 minutes, 24 seconds
Southern Sky
3/8/2021 • 7 minutes, 2 seconds
Desperation
3/8/2021 • 7 minutes, 55 seconds
Song For The Road
3/8/2021 • 8 minutes, 31 seconds
Defining Moments: True Crime
9/26/2019 • 59 minutes, 25 seconds
Paul Tapsell: Maori experience
9/2/2019 • 52 minutes, 39 seconds
General discussion
8/28/2019 • 15 minutes, 2 seconds
Amber Aranui: Maori experience
8/28/2019 • 44 minutes, 35 seconds
Ainu experience: Interpretation by Jeffry Gayman
8/28/2019 • 44 minutes, 37 seconds
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experiences
8/28/2019 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 5 seconds
Native Hawaiian experience
8/28/2019 • 32 minutes, 48 seconds
Welcome to Country and Museum Executive welcome
8/28/2019 • 15 minutes, 49 seconds
Tracking Apollo: 50 Years since the Moon Landing panel discussion
8/1/2019 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 48 seconds
National Endangered Skills and Trades seminar
7/29/2019 • 2 hours, 29 minutes, 24 seconds
Over the Rainbow: the other world seen by animals
6/13/2019 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 2 seconds
Defining Moments: Fire
6/13/2019 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 59 seconds
Historical Expression of Chinese Art
5/30/2019 • 1 hour, 34 minutes, 55 seconds
Beyond buildings and sites
4/23/2019 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 12 seconds
Ancient DNA and the origins of Pacific peoples
3/13/2019 • 1 hour, 36 minutes, 28 seconds
A dialogue of objects: Implications of Islamic art
3/13/2019 • 58 minutes, 15 seconds
Future-proofing: literature and art
2/27/2019 • 1 hour, 43 minutes, 6 seconds
Songlines symposium: conversation
2/27/2019 • 49 minutes, 47 seconds
Future-proofing: retelling story case studies
2/27/2019 • 1 hour, 58 minutes, 10 seconds
Future-proofing: through technology
2/27/2019 • 59 minutes, 33 seconds
Penicillin to wi-fi and beyond: how Australia shapes the world
2/26/2019 • 1 hour, 11 minutes
The Plain of Jars, Laos
2/18/2019 • 59 minutes, 30 seconds
Scott Rankin: Cultural justice and the right to thrive
2/12/2019 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 9 seconds
In conversation with Michelle Simmons, Australian of the Year 2018
2/12/2019 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 1 second
Global security through nuclear weapons?
12/17/2018 • 2 hours, 26 minutes, 37 seconds
Reflecting on Anthropocene Day
12/5/2018 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 33 seconds
Pride and Prejudice: the history of LGBTQIA+ politics in Australia
6/10/2018 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 28 seconds
Silk, gold and sublime artistry: The inimitable world of Islamic textiles
5/31/2018 • 58 minutes, 58 seconds
In conversation with the Hon John Howard
5/23/2018 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 20 seconds
Midawarr (Harvest) artist talk with John Wolseley
5/15/2018 • 49 minutes, 17 seconds
So That You Might Know Each Other
5/8/2018 • 1 hour, 21 seconds
In conversation with Alan Mackay-Sim, Australian of the Year 2017
5/6/2018 • 54 minutes, 55 seconds
Fall of Singapore session three: An enduring legacy
5/3/2018 • 54 minutes, 50 seconds
Fall of Singapore session one: Museums and memory
4/22/2018 • 1 hour, 47 minutes, 36 seconds
Fall of Singapore session two: Personal stories
4/22/2018 • 59 minutes, 19 seconds
The Tuggeranong Schoolhouse Museum
4/16/2018 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 18 seconds
Word for word — Songlines
4/12/2018 • 57 minutes, 7 seconds
Songlines: the foundational Australian story
4/12/2018 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 11 seconds
The enigmatic Mr Deakin
4/8/2018 • 55 minutes, 1 second
Telling the story of Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters
4/8/2018 • 50 minutes, 56 seconds
Creating and curating Songlines
2/4/2018 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 49 seconds
Deep Time
12/31/2017 • 8 minutes, 16 seconds
12/31/2017 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 15 seconds
Love Token
12/31/2017 • 7 minutes, 59 seconds
Behind the technology - creating the dome
12/21/2017 • 58 minutes, 21 seconds
Failures, disasters, fractures and lithic technology
12/20/2017 • 1 hour, 38 minutes, 44 seconds
Archaeology of Lake George
12/20/2017 • 57 minutes, 52 seconds
Songlines audio journey
11/29/2017 • 37 minutes, 45 seconds
Women's Defining Moments in Australian History
10/15/2017 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 48 seconds
The cultural riches of ancient south-east Australia
10/12/2017 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 1 second
Trading tales of the silk road
9/18/2017 • 53 minutes, 58 seconds
Defining Moments millennials panel discussion
9/7/2017 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 15 seconds
Before the new world
9/7/2017 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 46 seconds
Today's Ngunawal culture and country: archaeology from an Aboriginal perspective
8/28/2017 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 18 seconds
Defining Moments 1967 referendum panel discussion
6/28/2017 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 8 seconds
Rise of the empires
6/1/2017 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 50 seconds
Cradle of civilisation
4/20/2017 • 57 minutes, 16 seconds
New Encounters Patsy Cameron presentation
4/5/2017 • 9 minutes, 18 seconds
Wires, wi-fi and the future
4/2/2017 • 59 minutes, 9 seconds
Defining Moments in postwar immigration panel discussion
3/20/2017 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 57 seconds
In conversation with David Morrison, Australian of the Year 2016
2/9/2017 • 45 minutes, 5 seconds
New Encounters Greg Lehman presentation
2/8/2017 • 13 minutes, 13 seconds
New Encounters Sandy O'Sullivan presentation
2/8/2017 • 25 minutes, 5 seconds
New Encounters Eleanor Bourke and Rodney Carter presentation
2/8/2017 • 33 minutes, 52 seconds
New Encounters Shayne Williams presentation
11/22/2016 • 16 minutes, 8 seconds
A History of the World in 100 Objects panel discussion
11/21/2016 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 18 seconds
New Encounters David Garneau keynote presentation
9/21/2016 • 35 minutes, 22 seconds
Defining Moments in sports panel discussion
9/21/2016 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 1 second
New Encounters Jim Enote keynote presentation
9/19/2016 • 26 minutes, 12 seconds
New Encounters public panel discussion
9/19/2016 • 49 minutes, 30 seconds
New Encounters Jennifer Kramer keynote presentation
9/18/2016 • 34 minutes, 55 seconds
New Encounters Mathew Trinca keynote presentation
9/15/2016 • 23 minutes, 59 seconds
New Encounters Richard West Jr keynote presentation
8/1/2016 • 27 minutes, 2 seconds
New Encounters June Oscar keynote presentation
8/1/2016 • 40 minutes, 45 seconds
Remembering Fred Hollows
7/11/2016 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 23 seconds
Landmark women: Diane Kargas AM
12/13/2015 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 14 seconds
Landmark women: Robyn Hendry
12/13/2015 • 53 minutes, 53 seconds
Landmark women: Christine Waring
11/4/2015 • 43 minutes, 45 seconds
Landmark women: Dr Judy West
10/22/2015 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 11 seconds
Landmark women: Marion Le AM
9/10/2015 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 29 seconds
The August Offensives on Gallipoli and their echoes in Australia
9/6/2015 • 55 minutes, 57 seconds
War and Peace on the Home Front
9/6/2015 • 43 minutes, 56 seconds
The Shattered Anzac
9/6/2015 • 43 minutes, 25 seconds
Internment during World War I in Australia
9/6/2015 • 45 minutes, 22 seconds
Censorship, suffering, and shellshock in World War I reporting
9/6/2015 • 47 minutes, 50 seconds
Landmark women: Dr Jennifer Gall
7/30/2015 • 48 minutes, 52 seconds
The Water Diviner: screen to page
6/28/2015 • 59 minutes, 2 seconds
Landmark women: Amanda Whitley
6/25/2015 • 1 hour, 51 seconds
In the Shadow of Ebola film screening and discussion
5/28/2015 • 29 minutes, 16 seconds
The making of The Home Front: Australia during the First World War
5/21/2015 • 52 minutes, 26 seconds
Landmark women: Felicity Packard
5/20/2015 • 1 hour, 30 seconds
Landmark women: Heather Reid AM
4/15/2015 • 53 minutes, 52 seconds
Landmark women: Julie Nichols and Rachel Evangelou
3/11/2015 • 49 minutes, 12 seconds
Is cycling normal? The past, present and future of the bicycle in Australia
3/4/2015 • 1 hour, 47 seconds
Equitation science: understanding how horses think and learn
1/21/2015 • 1 hour, 40 seconds
Landmark women: Michelle Hetherington
12/17/2014 • 49 minutes, 39 seconds
Remembering Barak
12/14/2014 • 24 minutes, 50 seconds
Word pictures: cultural stories by William Barak
12/14/2014 • 23 minutes, 27 seconds
'Without the aid of a master': the Dawn of Art drawings and their artists
12/11/2014 • 25 minutes, 57 seconds
Following the line: establishing south-east artists practice
11/27/2014 • 23 minutes, 50 seconds
Between the lines
11/26/2014 • 25 minutes, 4 seconds
Drawing Life: Warlpiri lines on a changing world
11/26/2014 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 33 seconds
Panga: a Paakantye draughtsman on the Paroo in the 1870s
11/26/2014 • 18 minutes, 51 seconds
Landmark women: Dr Sue Packer AM
11/26/2014 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Spearing fish, turtle and swan
11/26/2014 • 21 minutes, 33 seconds
Body and spirit: Australian horse welfare
11/23/2014 • 1 hour, 9 seconds
Spirited: behind the scenes
11/23/2014 • 58 minutes, 11 seconds
Landmark women: Alex Sloan
11/20/2014 • 58 minutes, 54 seconds
Landmark women: Susie Beaver
11/20/2014 • 37 minutes, 17 seconds
Introduction and Welcome to Country
10/16/2014 • 8 minutes, 41 seconds
Landmark women: Elizabeth Truswell
9/4/2014 • 52 minutes, 41 seconds
Landmark women: Julia Newton-Howes
7/9/2014 • 52 minutes, 24 seconds
Individual inspiration and social connection in western Arnhem Land
7/2/2014 • 56 minutes, 2 seconds
Landmark women: Mary-Jane Mountain
6/5/2014 • 1 hour, 34 seconds
Landmark women: Kaarin Anstey
6/1/2014 • 58 minutes, 44 seconds
Landmark women: Carolyn Forster
5/7/2014 • 44 minutes, 40 seconds
Meaning in Yolngu bark paintings
4/30/2014 • 57 minutes, 41 seconds
'Seeing barks'
4/3/2014 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 40 seconds
Landmark women: Catherine Carter
3/30/2014 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 43 seconds
Australians dream of speed
1/5/2014 • 47 minutes, 26 seconds
Door to store: Caring for your watercolours and paintings
12/18/2013 • 47 minutes, 54 seconds
Landmark Women: Ruth Pearce
12/4/2013 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 11 seconds
Award-winning urban farmers
11/14/2013 • 55 minutes, 42 seconds
One River artists' talks facilitated by Dr George Main
11/10/2013 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 45 seconds
One River artists' talks facilitated by Barbara Paulson
11/7/2013 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 45 seconds
Landmark Women: Elizabeth Reid
11/6/2013 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 18 seconds
Panel discussion led by Malcolm McKinnon
10/31/2013 • 1 hour, 50 minutes, 42 seconds
'Adulation, fame and money': Sport and celebrity in 1913
10/30/2013 • 47 minutes, 23 seconds
Welcome and introduction to Critical Undercurrents – a One River symposium
10/27/2013 • 32 minutes, 37 seconds
Women in White Australia
10/3/2013 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 45 seconds
Landmark Women: Daryl Karp
10/3/2013 • 47 minutes, 5 seconds
Landmark Women: Catriona Jackson
9/22/2013 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 49 seconds
Landmark Women: Louise Page
9/4/2013 • 41 minutes, 29 seconds
Leisure time, 1913
9/1/2013 • 54 minutes, 56 seconds
'Gone to Navy': Defending Australia, 1913
8/18/2013 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 7 seconds
Door to store: Caring for your family history documents
8/4/2013 • 52 minutes, 38 seconds
Joy flights, feats and disasters: A journey through 1920s and 1930s aviation in the National Historical Collection
7/28/2013 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 17 seconds
'Part of the Feast': The life and legacy of Val Plumwood
7/14/2013 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 3 seconds
Door to store: Caring for your photographic collection
7/11/2013 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 13 seconds
The state of photography in 1913 with historian Helen Ennis
7/3/2013 • 57 minutes, 48 seconds
Role of Australians in Antarctica in 1913
6/6/2013 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 16 seconds
Australian art and artists in 1913
5/8/2013 • 54 minutes, 33 seconds
Surveyors at the snowline: surveying the ACT-NSW border 1910-15
4/28/2013 • 57 minutes, 47 seconds
Australia's place in the world - 1913 lecture
4/11/2013 • 52 minutes, 36 seconds
A stratigraphy of an archaeologist
4/9/2013 • 55 minutes, 51 seconds
Open mike session
4/9/2013 • 49 minutes, 30 seconds
Inventing Australia's desert archaeology
4/9/2013 • 43 minutes, 53 seconds
Museums, Mike and more
4/9/2013 • 45 minutes
Door to store: Caring for your collection of hats and shoes
4/3/2013 • 44 minutes, 16 seconds
The Human Motor: Sir Hubert Opperman and endurance cycling in Australia
4/3/2013 • 56 minutes, 57 seconds
Glorious Days: Australia 1913 - exhibition opening
3/14/2013 • 25 minutes
Photographs by Peter Eve
3/14/2013 • 2 minutes, 41 seconds
A portrait of Mike Smith
3/13/2013 • 7 minutes, 8 seconds
Paintings by Mandy Martin
3/13/2013 • 6 minutes, 27 seconds
A tribute to Dr Mike Smith AM
3/7/2013 • 20 minutes, 43 seconds
Door to store: Registration and the Springfield collection
2/14/2013 • 44 minutes, 11 seconds
Door to store: Caring for your collection of paper and textiles
2/14/2013 • 53 minutes, 47 seconds
Warakurna: All the Stories Got Into Our Minds and Eyes - exhibition opening
1/8/2013 • 19 minutes, 44 seconds
Door to store: Caring for your collection of medals and trophies
1/8/2013 • 55 minutes, 58 seconds
Door to store: Caring for the Saw Doctor's wagon
1/2/2013 • 57 minutes, 19 seconds
Big objects and Museum Workshop: exhibition opening
12/13/2012 • 25 minutes, 37 seconds
Marion Mahony Griffin Annual Lecture 2012: presented in assocation with the Walter Burley Griffin Society Inc.
10/11/2012 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 10 seconds
A way through: a forum for Rick Farley
9/9/2012 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 35 seconds
Why we love our gardens by Hugh Mackay
8/26/2012 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 34 seconds
Welcome to Menagerie
8/9/2012 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 1 second
Menagerie: Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture: exhibition opening
7/15/2012 • 28 minutes, 27 seconds
Mabo 20 years on: a celebration
7/11/2012 • 36 minutes, 56 seconds
Travelling the Silk Road: public conversation
7/4/2012 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 57 seconds
Inside Children's Homes forum panel discussion
4/26/2012 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 33 seconds
Inside Children's Homes with Dr Joanna Penglase
4/19/2012 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 33 seconds
The Identity Game or How Irish is Australia?
4/11/2012 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 1 second
Contemporary Chinese art
4/11/2012 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 55 seconds
Landmarks: behind the scenes with conservators
3/18/2012 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 59 seconds
Mick Gooda joins the conversation
3/15/2012 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 11 seconds
Rachael Romero on In the Shadow of Eden
3/15/2012 • 36 minutes, 37 seconds
Inside: Life in Children's Homes and Institutions: exhibition launch
2/29/2012 • 33 minutes, 44 seconds
Not Just Ned: what sort of history of the Irish in Australia?
12/4/2011 • 50 minutes, 44 seconds
The National Museum of Ireland: an ideological history
11/23/2011 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 50 seconds
Off the walls: Art from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Agencies 1967-2005: Exhibition launch
11/2/2011 • 25 minutes, 13 seconds
Sorting out the Irish immigrants of colonial Australia
10/30/2011 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 2 seconds
Life inside Westbrook Children's Home, from the perspective of a survivor
10/26/2011 • 55 minutes, 34 seconds
Exhibition launch: A New Horizon: Contemporary Chinese Art
10/26/2011 • 44 minutes, 11 seconds
Exhibition launch: Bipotaim: Stories from the Torres Strait
10/12/2011 • 30 minutes, 46 seconds
How ethical is Australia?
9/21/2011 • 1 hour, 43 minutes, 50 seconds
A few of my favourite things: some objects from the Not Just Ned exhibition
9/21/2011 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 12 seconds
In Memory of Malawan presented by Ian Dunlop
8/31/2011 • 38 minutes, 50 seconds
Book launch: Exploring the Legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition
8/11/2011 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 40 seconds
Constitutional recognition — so what?
8/10/2011 • 1 hour, 37 minutes, 56 seconds
Yalangbara: Art of the Djang'kawu: exhibition launch
8/7/2011 • 38 minutes, 24 seconds
Irish immigrants from Australian records: the real keys to finding them in Ireland
7/10/2011 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 58 seconds
Ancestry.com.au: Where do we start?
7/10/2011 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 48 seconds
Gallery launch: Landmarks: People and Places across Australia
6/22/2011 • 14 minutes, 17 seconds
Foundation of the Aboriginal Arts Board
6/14/2011 • 53 minutes, 27 seconds
Collectorfest: a right royal celebration
5/15/2011 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 21 seconds
Bringing the world's heritage to Australia
5/11/2011 • 29 minutes, 11 seconds
A portrait of Bob Edwards
5/11/2011 • 14 minutes, 10 seconds
A tribute to Dr Robert Edwards AO: welcome and keynote address
5/11/2011 • 33 minutes, 1 second
Contributions from friends and colleagues
5/11/2011 • 33 minutes, 17 seconds
Flora Pell: the cook and her turbulent career
5/5/2011 • 55 minutes, 20 seconds
Exhibition launch: Not Just Ned: A true history of the Irish in Australia
4/27/2011 • 37 minutes, 47 seconds
Early curatorial career at the South Australian Museum
4/27/2011 • 20 minutes, 36 seconds
Bob Edwards: museums and archaeology
4/20/2011 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 33 seconds
Bob Edwards: from orchardist to ethnographer
4/17/2011 • 10 minutes, 30 seconds
The future of museum multimedia
4/17/2011 • 1 hour, 37 minutes, 38 seconds
Stirring the pot: women in the business of food
3/27/2011 • 1 hour, 45 minutes, 47 seconds
In the national interest: the National Museum of Australia
3/17/2011 • 55 minutes, 38 seconds
Question and answer session with Archie Roach and friends
3/2/2011 • 31 minutes, 3 seconds
Aboriginal treasures at the Vatican
2/7/2011 • 46 minutes, 7 seconds
Country, memory and art: Understanding Indigenous art
2/6/2011 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 19 seconds
Walyja: family and art history in the Canning Stock Route Collection
11/28/2010 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 48 seconds
The Melbourne Cup: 150 years of history
11/17/2010 • 28 minutes, 19 seconds
The Big Wet: history, art, science and community in the Desert Channels
11/14/2010 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 14 seconds
Letter readings from the Voyages of Discovery
11/11/2010 • 35 minutes, 21 seconds
Question and answer session from Understanding and representing trauma
11/11/2010 • 41 minutes, 54 seconds
Understanding and representing trauma: speaker presentations
11/11/2010 • 45 minutes, 43 seconds
The Pigott inquiry and country museums in Australia
10/24/2010 • 29 minutes, 53 seconds
September 11: Museums, spontaneous memorial and history
10/11/2010 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 48 seconds
Exploration and Endeavour: The Royal Society of London and the South Seas: exhibition launch
10/10/2010 • 14 minutes, 37 seconds
Barbados: More than a beach
10/6/2010 • 52 minutes, 28 seconds
Sinners, Saints and Settlers: book launch
9/19/2010 • 32 minutes, 2 seconds
On the Punt: Chance, racing and the horse in Australian life and culture
9/16/2010 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 32 seconds
What the Melbourne Cup means to me
9/8/2010 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 15 seconds
Albert Namatjira, camels and cars: the evolution of Indigenous art economies in Central Australia
9/6/2010 • 24 minutes, 52 seconds
Evidently not!
9/2/2010 • 25 minutes, 35 seconds
The Melbourne Cup: Is it all about the gamble?
9/1/2010 • 24 minutes, 30 seconds
150th running of the Melbourne Cup: special events
8/29/2010 • 8 minutes, 4 seconds
The Melbourne Cup: what it means to me and what it means to Australia
8/29/2010 • 15 minutes, 3 seconds
The Melbourne Cup: Why has it endured into the twenty-first century? Good luck or good management?
8/29/2010 • 17 minutes, 12 seconds
Where does the Melbourne Cup belong in Australian culture – and why has it endured?
8/29/2010 • 8 minutes, 56 seconds
Welcome to 'The Heart of Australian Racing: the Melbourne Cup' symposium
8/29/2010 • 13 minutes, 31 seconds
The Melbourne Cup: why?
8/29/2010 • 39 minutes, 17 seconds
Understanding Indigenous enterprise on Palm Island: Is resilience more than a metaphor?
8/26/2010 • 29 minutes, 1 second
A life in dictionaries
8/16/2010 • 37 minutes, 50 seconds
Bendable learnings
8/15/2010 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 23 seconds
The language of power and persuasion
8/15/2010 • 41 minutes, 15 seconds
Symbols of Australia public forum with Rod Quantock
8/11/2010 • 1 hour, 51 minutes
Public conversation: Bowled over by Gideon Haigh
8/11/2010 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 12 seconds
Living language
8/11/2010 • 53 minutes, 27 seconds
Curating Australian histories
8/1/2010 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 47 seconds
The Chinese in Bendigo
8/1/2010 • 34 minutes, 9 seconds
Love of language
8/1/2010 • 50 minutes, 29 seconds
'Afghans' and Aborigines in Central Australia
7/28/2010 • 25 minutes, 9 seconds
Small Aboriginal community incorporations on shifting ground: A perspective from Ltyentye Apurte Community, Santa Teresa
7/28/2010 • 24 minutes, 42 seconds
Between locals: Interpersonal histories and the Papunya art movement
7/28/2010 • 22 minutes, 58 seconds
How can museums help history teachers?
7/25/2010 • 43 minutes, 1 second
Settler economies and Indigenous encounters
7/25/2010 • 22 minutes, 45 seconds
Animal spirits in the Dreaming and the market: The economic development of caring for country
7/25/2010 • 18 minutes, 34 seconds
Demand responsive services and culturally sustainable enterprise in remote Aboriginal settings
7/18/2010 • 22 minutes, 16 seconds
The 1968-69 introduction of equal wages for Aboriginal pastoral workers in the Kimberley
7/18/2010 • 20 minutes, 49 seconds
From barter to award wages: Aboriginal labour and Methodist missions in Arnhem Land
7/18/2010 • 18 minutes, 55 seconds
Options for developing a natural resource-based economy in Arnhem Land: Payments for environmental services
7/18/2010 • 24 minutes, 39 seconds
Risk management and light levels
7/11/2010 • 22 minutes, 13 seconds
Policy mismatch and Aboriginal art centres: The tension between economic independence and community development
7/11/2010 • 20 minutes, 13 seconds
Love tokens performance and talk with Elena Kats-Chernin
7/11/2010 • 21 minutes, 8 seconds
Kimberley points performance and talk with Elena Kats-Chernin
7/11/2010 • 28 minutes, 12 seconds
The art of cutting stone: Aboriginal convict labour in 19th-century New South Wales and Van Diemen´s Land
7/11/2010 • 17 minutes, 58 seconds
Language and identity
7/11/2010 • 30 minutes, 50 seconds
Parliament for the people
7/7/2010 • 50 minutes, 16 seconds
Before the mission station: The incorporation of settlers into a seasonal economy
7/4/2010 • 21 minutes, 9 seconds
Matthew Flinders in the Recherche Archipelago
6/27/2010 • 38 minutes, 22 seconds
Wrap-up and discussion
6/27/2010 • 4 minutes, 20 seconds
Reflections on the day
6/27/2010 • 1 hour, 34 seconds
Reflecting on 30 years in conservation
6/20/2010 • 8 minutes, 37 seconds
A curatorial perspective
6/20/2010 • 15 minutes, 41 seconds
`Always Anangu´ - always enterprising´
6/9/2010 • 14 minutes, 44 seconds
Remembering the goal
6/9/2010 • 11 minutes, 37 seconds
Centre for the National Museum of Australia Collections
6/9/2010 • 21 minutes, 57 seconds
Access all areas -- Powerhouse Discovery Centre case study
6/9/2010 • 24 minutes, 3 seconds
The economy of shells: A history of Aboriginal women at La Perouse making shellwork for sale
6/6/2010 • 28 minutes, 53 seconds
A financial scandal
6/6/2010 • 25 minutes, 48 seconds
Restoring the Royal Daimler
5/30/2010 • 17 minutes, 59 seconds
Museums and 'open collections'
5/30/2010 • 22 minutes, 10 seconds
Caring for collections -- welcome and keynote address
5/30/2010 • 28 minutes, 40 seconds
Chasing shadows -- acquiring and managing virtual collections
5/30/2010 • 19 minutes, 23 seconds
A question of significance
5/30/2010 • 19 minutes, 11 seconds
The Sunshine harvester
5/23/2010 • 49 minutes, 14 seconds
The science of recycling water
5/3/2010 • 13 minutes, 45 seconds
Tasting and discussion
5/3/2010 • 41 minutes, 21 seconds
Water and the spirit
5/3/2010 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 15 seconds
Public opinion on recycled water
5/3/2010 • 13 minutes, 6 seconds
The case against recycling water for drinking
5/3/2010 • 18 minutes, 42 seconds
The Age of Stupid - film screening and discussion
4/11/2010 • 56 minutes, 6 seconds
Terra incognito no more - reflecting on change
4/11/2010 • 50 minutes, 32 seconds
Necessity entrepreneurship within a dominant society
3/16/2010 • 25 minutes, 11 seconds
Workfare, welfare and the hybrid economy: The Western Arrernte in Central Australia
3/16/2010 • 31 minutes, 33 seconds
Social and cultural factors in remote area Indigenous enterprise development
3/16/2010 • 25 minutes, 8 seconds
Unfair pay: Tracing tracker wages in New South Wales, 1862-1950
3/16/2010 • 17 minutes, 6 seconds
Indigenous modes of exchange and participation in the Indonesian trepang industry
3/15/2010 • 18 minutes, 51 seconds
Launch of Collecting Cultures, a book about the 1948 expedition
3/15/2010 • 15 minutes, 5 seconds
The hybrid economy as political project
3/15/2010 • 44 minutes, 39 seconds
Force for good: how Indigenous Australians have enriched football
3/8/2010 • 2 hours, 23 minutes, 57 seconds
Australians in the Himalayas
2/28/2010 • 1 hour, 49 minutes, 22 seconds
Layers of significance - Reconciliation Place and the Acton Peninsula, Canberra
2/22/2010 • 2 hours, 28 minutes, 39 seconds
The Smithsonian's participation in the Arnhem Land Expedition
1/31/2010 • 14 minutes, 41 seconds
Memorials and sacred sites
1/18/2010 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 37 seconds
What is a memory?
1/18/2010 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 17 seconds
Hidden for 60 years: The motion picture films of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land
1/17/2010 • 17 minutes, 7 seconds
Beneath the billabongs: The scientific legacy of Robert Rush Miller
12/23/2009 • 34 minutes, 52 seconds
From Fish Creek to the Mann River: Hunter-gatherer transformations in western Arnhem Land, 1948-2008
12/22/2009 • 26 minutes, 42 seconds
The responsibilities of leadership: The records of Charles P Mountford
12/22/2009 • 38 minutes, 53 seconds
The 'exciting thing was the landscape': Raymond Specht, a botanist in the field
12/22/2009 • 25 minutes
Appraising the legacy of the Arnhem Land Expedition: An insider's perspective
12/22/2009 • 43 minutes, 2 seconds
Forget the barks! Bring on the string figures! The String Figures of Yirrkala: Activating a legacy
12/22/2009 • 25 minutes, 28 seconds
Unpacking the testimony of Gerald Blitner: An Indigenous perspective on the Arnhem Land Expedition
12/22/2009 • 35 minutes, 9 seconds
Birds on the wire: Colin Simpson and the emergence of the radio documentary feature
12/22/2009 • 25 minutes, 21 seconds
Missing the revolution! Negotiating disclosure on the Pre-Macassans (Bayini) in North-East Arnhem Land
12/22/2009 • 36 minutes, 13 seconds
Closing remarks
12/22/2009 • 7 minutes, 37 seconds
Inside Mountford's tent: paint, politics and paperwork
12/22/2009 • 25 minutes, 59 seconds
The forgotten collection: Baskets reveal histories
12/22/2009 • 32 minutes, 2 seconds
Fossicking memories
12/22/2009 • 35 minutes, 16 seconds
A history of the 1948 expedition
12/22/2009 • 29 minutes, 54 seconds
Yolngu ways of knowing Country: Insights from the 1948 Expedition to Arnhem Land
12/22/2009 • 23 minutes, 56 seconds
Collecting Australia at the Smithsonian: 150 years and still going
12/22/2009 • 22 minutes, 42 seconds
'A Robinson Crusoe in Arnhem Land ...': Howell Walker, National Geographic, and the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition
12/22/2009 • 22 minutes, 30 seconds
'Bastard barks': A gift from the 1948 Arnhem Land expedition
12/22/2009 • 25 minutes, 38 seconds
Making a sea change: Rock art, archaeology and the enduring legacy of McCarthy's research on Groote Eylandt
12/22/2009 • 26 minutes, 48 seconds
The forbidden gaze: The 1948 Wubarr ceremony performed for the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land
12/22/2009 • 27 minutes, 12 seconds
Locating the expedition politically: 1948 American-Australian Relations
12/22/2009 • 37 minutes, 22 seconds
Stories of the sea: travellers across the Pacific
10/27/2009 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 46 seconds
Creating a colony: the European settlement of Tasmania 1803-1853
10/26/2009 • 59 minutes, 46 seconds
Ocean crossings: the material traces of voyaging
10/5/2009 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 39 seconds
Get Up, Stand Up public forum
9/29/2009 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 39 seconds
Irish in Australia
8/17/2009 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 21 seconds
Violent ends: the arts of environmental anxiety
8/16/2009 • 2 hours, 4 minutes, 40 seconds
Tattoos, lashing, house and canoe building
8/13/2009 • 47 minutes, 26 seconds
In coral seas: ships, cargo and people in the South Pacific 1930 to 1960
8/13/2009 • 31 minutes, 49 seconds
Heavens above!
8/2/2009 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 45 seconds
The 'spirit of inquiry' in Port Macquarie
7/30/2009 • 37 minutes, 6 seconds
Robe is not famous for robes
7/30/2009 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 52 seconds
Research in free-choice learning
7/28/2009 • 1 hour, 34 minutes, 8 seconds
Investigation into the collections of Dr Herbert Basedow
7/28/2009 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 24 seconds
Stories of sadness and loss
7/19/2009 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 6 seconds
Before the badges, before the T-shirts, before the flag
6/14/2009 • 14 minutes, 3 seconds
Writing Captain Cook symposium
6/14/2009 • 1 hour, 47 minutes, 4 seconds
Design inspirations behind the Museum building
5/24/2009 • 33 minutes, 44 seconds
Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time (1942)
5/18/2009 • 8 minutes, 47 seconds
Arvo Pärt, Spiegel im Spiegel (1978)
5/18/2009 • 10 minutes, 25 seconds
Peter Sculthorpe, Threnody (1991)
5/18/2009 • 7 minutes, 23 seconds
David Pereira, Unity is Strength (2008)
5/18/2009 • 10 minutes, 23 seconds
Carl Vine, Inner World for Solo Cello and Electronics (1994)
5/18/2009 • 13 minutes, 23 seconds
Bach, Suite No. 3 in C Major BWV 1009 (c. 1720)
5/18/2009 • 19 minutes, 31 seconds
Bach, Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major BWV 1010 (c. 1720)
5/18/2009 • 20 minutes, 7 seconds
No presence in the case: looking for Tahiti in world museums
5/17/2009 • 19 minutes, 56 seconds
Objects to stories: using thematic studies to develop exhibitions at volunteer museums in the Port Macquarie-Hastings region
5/17/2009 • 13 minutes, 39 seconds
From collections to exhibitions -- welcome and keynote address
5/14/2009 • 36 minutes, 45 seconds
From flat things big things grow!
5/10/2009 • 12 minutes, 4 seconds
What was it like: a perspective on history in museums
5/10/2009 • 17 minutes, 19 seconds
Guna Kinne and Carmelo Mirabelli's stories
5/10/2009 • 32 minutes, 4 seconds
Into the light
5/5/2009 • 16 minutes, 8 seconds
Introduction to the Creating a Country gallery
5/5/2009 • 53 minutes, 10 seconds
'Never enough grass' and Bowen Downs
5/5/2009 • 57 minutes, 8 seconds
A cast of thousands: redevelopment of Circa
5/5/2009 • 44 minutes, 3 seconds
Review of the National Museum of Australia's Australian Journeys gallery
5/5/2009 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 11 seconds
Conversation with Peter Cundall
5/5/2009 • 1 hour, 34 seconds
Food and space: the Australian nation in the British Empire
5/3/2009 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 41 seconds
Victoria Police Museum: collecting crime
5/3/2009 • 15 minutes, 19 seconds
Dead museum animals: from 'order of nature' to chaos of culture
5/3/2009 • 16 minutes, 49 seconds
Flora Pell: Australia's first domestic goddess
5/3/2009 • 12 minutes, 8 seconds
A load of old rubbish: displaying archaeology of the modern city
5/3/2009 • 19 minutes, 5 seconds
Rugged Beyond Imagination: Stories from an Australian mountain region
5/3/2009 • 53 minutes, 41 seconds
Online exhibitions
5/3/2009 • 11 minutes, 25 seconds
A lunatic idea: British science and evolution on the eve of Darwin's Origin of Species
4/29/2009 • 26 minutes, 5 seconds
Darwin and social Darwinism: the political use and abuse of natural selection
4/29/2009 • 20 minutes, 41 seconds
Charles Darwin symposium welcome and introduction
4/29/2009 • 11 minutes, 32 seconds
Social reactions to Origin
4/29/2009 • 18 minutes, 38 seconds
Darwin's experiences in Australia
4/29/2009 • 22 minutes, 27 seconds
Evolution and creationism
4/29/2009 • 19 minutes, 5 seconds
Charles Darwin symposium closing address
4/29/2009 • 12 minutes, 15 seconds
'A theory to work with': On The Origin of Species and its contemporary reception
4/29/2009 • 22 minutes, 40 seconds
Charles Darwin: his character and convictions
4/29/2009 • 18 minutes, 58 seconds
Human evolution: fossils surprising, fossils predicted
4/29/2009 • 30 minutes, 1 second
Evolutionary change in agriculture - the past, present and future
4/29/2009 • 24 minutes, 4 seconds
'If it wasn't for them ...' -- remembering the activists of the 1920s and 1930s
4/2/2009 • 1 hour, 50 minutes, 38 seconds
Clash of the codes: rugby union vs rugby league
3/29/2009 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 27 seconds
History meets poetry
3/22/2009 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 57 seconds
Environmental history beyond the ivory tower
3/16/2009 • 39 minutes, 2 seconds
Animated conversation with Geoff Pryor
3/10/2009 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 42 seconds
Japanese responses to the Emily exhibition
3/10/2009 • 47 minutes, 19 seconds
Emily Kame Kngwarreye: her place in Australian art
3/10/2009 • 24 minutes, 36 seconds
The Port of Aran
3/10/2009 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 32 seconds
Late-style modernist: a 'boundary rider' view
3/10/2009 • 27 minutes, 35 seconds
Who you callin' urban?
3/2/2009 • 2 hours, 33 minutes, 5 seconds
Writing onto public record our stories
3/2/2009 • 1 hour, 36 minutes, 49 seconds
These are modern dreamtime stories!
3/2/2009 • 1 hour, 35 minutes, 2 seconds
History in the baking
1/20/2009 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 54 seconds
Introduction to the AE Smith collection
1/20/2009 • 4 minutes, 51 seconds
Darwin exhibition opening
12/17/2008 • 31 minutes, 22 seconds
Janet on the spot
12/17/2008 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 49 seconds
Emily: the impossible modernist
11/30/2008 • 59 minutes, 34 seconds
The making of Australian Journeys
11/30/2008 • 54 minutes, 59 seconds
Ninety years ago on a French hillside: a story of Mont St Quentin
10/28/2008 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 46 seconds
New directions
10/26/2008 • 23 minutes, 51 seconds
Emily as located historian: the Camel Lady narrates a history of discovery without 1788
10/26/2008 • 40 minutes, 19 seconds
George Reid: a journey through three parliaments
10/21/2008 • 49 minutes, 39 seconds
Moving stories: women's lives, British women and the postwar Australian dream
10/12/2008 • 41 minutes, 47 seconds
Into the west: Torres Strait Islander railway workers, migration and belonging
10/12/2008 • 45 minutes, 34 seconds
100 years of rugby league in Australia panel discussion
10/12/2008 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 3 seconds
Captured in Staffordshire
10/7/2008 • 21 minutes, 5 seconds
A new ritual in contemporary Aboriginal art
10/7/2008 • 33 minutes, 25 seconds
From Makassar to Marege to the Museum
10/7/2008 • 38 minutes
Emily Kngwarreye's practice of painting: an international perspective
10/7/2008 • 49 minutes, 40 seconds
Guna Kinne and her Latvian national dress
10/7/2008 • 32 minutes, 4 seconds
The Baden journals
10/7/2008 • 24 minutes, 42 seconds
Outback archive: unorthodox historical records
9/18/2008 • 55 minutes, 24 seconds
Footprints in the sand: Banks' Maori collection, Cook's first voyage 1768-1771
9/16/2008 • 41 minutes, 9 seconds
An artist first and foremost
9/16/2008 • 44 minutes, 48 seconds
Showcases II - examples of material culture research in museums
9/10/2008 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 5 seconds
Looking across the beach -- both ways
9/7/2008 • 41 minutes, 47 seconds
'Why do those fellas paint like me ...?' Emily Kame Kngwarreye symposium welcome and introduction
9/7/2008 • 23 minutes, 45 seconds
The impossible modernist: an 'outsider' view
9/7/2008 • 20 minutes, 29 seconds
The possible modernist: an 'insider' view
9/7/2008 • 24 minutes, 47 seconds
Discovering Cook: Georg Forster and the image of Captain Cook
9/1/2008 • 37 minutes, 37 seconds
Encounters with wondrous things: the historical significance of the Cook-Forster Collection
9/1/2008 • 51 minutes, 17 seconds
Brushed with fame: museological investments in the Cook voyage collections
9/1/2008 • 42 minutes, 47 seconds
To attempt some new discoveries in that vast unknown tract
9/1/2008 • 43 minutes, 37 seconds
Showcases I - examples of material culture research in museums
8/31/2008 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 38 seconds
Collections used to interpret the past: panel and audience discussion
8/31/2008 • 49 minutes, 20 seconds
Viewpoints on material culture
8/31/2008 • 1 hour, 43 minutes, 1 second
All along the line
7/31/2008 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 11 seconds
A market for memories: understanding public history at the Mindil Beach site in Darwin
7/31/2008 • 31 minutes, 21 seconds
John Gore's telescope
7/15/2008 • 39 minutes, 29 seconds
Creating child-friendly cities: lessons from Monstropolis
5/4/2008 • 44 minutes, 23 seconds
Collecting Papunya art
4/8/2008 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 28 seconds
Mutukayi: motor cars and Papunya painting
4/7/2008 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 9 seconds
Into the desert
3/30/2008 • 48 minutes, 35 seconds
Leichhardt panel discussion
3/13/2008 • 59 minutes, 30 seconds
'A very tolerable addition': Leichhardt's mapping of the Balonne River
3/13/2008 • 31 minutes, 49 seconds
Leichhardt as scientist and diarist
3/13/2008 • 36 minutes, 37 seconds
Deepening the mystery: the 1938 South Australian government Leichhardt search party
3/13/2008 • 26 minutes, 58 seconds
Ludwig Leichhardt: a loss to science and Australian culture
3/13/2008 • 33 minutes, 43 seconds
Leichhardt: the motivations of an explorer
3/13/2008 • 31 minutes, 42 seconds
Scientific analysis of the Leichhardt plate
3/13/2008 • 36 minutes
He nearly made it: Leichhardt's 'grand plan' of 1848
3/13/2008 • 36 minutes, 26 seconds
Overview of the National Museum of Australia's purchase of the Leichhardt nameplate
3/13/2008 • 9 minutes, 32 seconds
Leichhardt in Australian literature
3/13/2008 • 35 minutes, 55 seconds
Nomadic cultures, journeys and coming home
3/11/2008 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 34 seconds
The last man: the making of Andrew Fisher and the Australian Labor Party
3/11/2008 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 52 seconds
The dàn tre: a musical migration story
1/20/2008 • 20 minutes, 54 seconds
Photographer Richard Daintree's glass plates
1/20/2008 • 52 minutes, 25 seconds
Examining the intersections of historical research and fictional writing
1/10/2008 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 36 seconds
The natural world as a character
1/9/2008 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 31 seconds
Conversation with Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton
12/6/2007 • 1 hour, 45 minutes, 13 seconds
Conversation with Jenny Kee
10/28/2007 • 1 hour, 24 seconds
Reflections on the history of the National Historical Collection
9/18/2007 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 44 seconds
Australia's Official Papuan collection: Sir Hubert Murray and the how and why of a colonial collection
9/12/2007 • 19 minutes, 59 seconds
Life and art? Relocating Aboriginal art and culture in the museum
9/12/2007 • 35 minutes, 29 seconds
Weird and wonderful: the first objects of the National Historical Collection
9/12/2007 • 23 minutes, 45 seconds
Collecting for the future: a collections development plan for the National Historical Collection
9/12/2007 • 23 minutes, 14 seconds
Singular or plural? Social history and national collections
9/12/2007 • 21 minutes, 37 seconds
Professionals and amateurs: different histories of collecting in the National Ethnographic collection
9/12/2007 • 24 minutes, 40 seconds
A sum of many parts: the history of the National Historical Collection
9/12/2007 • 24 minutes, 52 seconds
Springfield transformed: family collection into national treasure
9/12/2007 • 31 minutes, 7 seconds
Cook, his mission and Indigenous Australia: a perspective on consequence
9/1/2006 • 43 minutes, 33 seconds