National Museum of Australia – Audio on demand program
Forums, talks, symposiums, conferences and other events held at the National Museum of Australia, exploring Australia's land, nation and people.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 468
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
Overview of the National Museum of Australia's purchase of the Leichhardt nameplate
Date recorded: 15 June 2007.
Curator Matthew Higgins outlines the work undertaken to establish the authenticity of a small brass nameplate, the first object with a corroborated provenance from expl…
00:09:32 |
Thu 13 Mar 2008
Leichhardt panel discussion
Date recorded: 15 June 2007.
Alice Springs historian Dick Kimber proposes an alternative theory for the fate of Ludwig Leichhardt's expedition, arguing that it was lost in the Simpson Desert, in a …
00:59:30 |
Thu 13 Mar 2008
Deepening the mystery: the 1938 South Australian government Leichhardt search party
Date recorded: 15 June 2007.
Historian Philip Jones re-examines evidence found in the Simpson Desert in 1938, which prompted a search for the Ludwig Leichhardt's lost expedition. He argues the sear…
00:26:58 |
Thu 13 Mar 2008
'A very tolerable addition': Leichhardt's mapping of the Balonne River
Date recorded: 15 June 2007.
Curator Martin Woods examines a rare map drawn by Ludwig Leichhardt. Woods says the map of the Balonne and Condamine rivers in Queensland raised hopes of an expanded Da…
00:31:49 |
Thu 13 Mar 2008
He nearly made it: Leichhardt's 'grand plan' of 1848
Date recorded: 15 June 2007.
Darrell Lewis examines German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt's intended route for his attempted east-west crossing of Australia. Lewis argues that Leichhardt followed his p…
00:36:26 |
Thu 13 Mar 2008
Scientific analysis of the Leichhardt plate
Date recorded: 15 June 2007.
Conservator David Hallam outlines the metal and corrosion analysis which helped to authenticate the Leichhardt nameplate. The plate is the only known artefact from Ludw…
00:36:00 |
Thu 13 Mar 2008
Ludwig Leichhardt: a loss to science and Australian culture
Date recorded: 15 June 2007.
Scientist Henry Nix argues that had explorer Ludwig Leichhardt lived, he could have published the results of his scientific observations and joined the company of peers…
00:33:43 |
Thu 13 Mar 2008
Leichhardt as scientist and diarist
Date recorded: 15 June 2007.
Dr Tom Darragh uses Ludwig Leichhardt's diaries to show the skill and accuracy with which the explorer recorded information about plants and geological specimens and hi…
00:36:37 |
Thu 13 Mar 2008
Leichhardt: the motivations of an explorer
Date recorded: 15 June 2007.
Professor Rod Home looks at Ludwig Leichhardt's family background, financial situation and formal scientific training to argue the explorer was also a perceptive natura…
00:31:42 |
Thu 13 Mar 2008
Leichhardt in Australian literature
Date recorded: 15 June 2007.
The fascination of Australian writers with explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, including Patrick White´s Voss, earlier elegiac poems and Lemurian novels, is examined by English…
00:35:55 |
Thu 13 Mar 2008
Nomadic cultures, journeys and coming home
Date recorded: 16 September 2007.
Adventurer and author Robyn Davidson joins desert archaeologist Mike Smith for a discussion about her travels in Australia, India, China and Tibet, and 30 years si…
Tue 11 Mar 2008
The last man: the making of Andrew Fisher and the Australian Labor Party
Date recorded: 25 October 2007.
Historian and National Museum Director's Fellow David Day argues that Australian prime minister Andrew Fisher should be remembered for social reforms and infrastruct…
Tue 11 Mar 2008
Photographer Richard Daintree's glass plates
Date recorded: 10 October 2007.
A set of ten rare glass plates depicting people and places in north Queensland in the mid-1800s reveal much about pioneering geologist and photographer Richard Daint…
00:52:25 |
Sun 20 Jan 2008
The dàn tre: a musical migration story
Date recorded: 10 October 2007.
An original bamboo musical instrument made by Minh Tam Nguyen, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, illustrates a meeting of European and Asian traditions and a life c…
00:20:54 |
Sun 20 Jan 2008
Examining the intersections of historical research and fictional writing
Date recorded: 20 May 2007.
The convergence of history and fiction and the power of archives and objects to inform their work on Australian women and the League of Nations is explored by political …
Thu 10 Jan 2008
The natural world as a character
Date recorded: 24 June 2007.
Environmental historian Libby Robin and novelist Nicholas Drayson share an interest in nature and the history of science and discovery. They explore the dynamic relatio…
Wed 09 Jan 2008
Conversation with Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton
Date recorded: 14 October 2007.
Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton recounts events since her daughter Azaria was taken from a tent in Australia's Northern Territory in 1980. She speaks about the National …
Thu 06 Dec 2007
Conversation with Jenny Kee
Date recorded: 19 August 2007.
Fashion designer Jenny Kee, whose story features in the National Museum, explains how her chance survival in the Granville Train Crash in Sydney in 1977 became a cata…
Sun 28 Oct 2007
Reflections on the history of the National Historical Collection
Date recorded: 21 March 2006.
Six expert speakers - each involved with shaping the National Historical Collection over time - reflect on their personal experiences with the National Museum of Austr…
Tue 18 Sep 2007
Weird and wonderful: the first objects of the National Historical Collection
Date recorded: 21 March 2006.
Libby Robin tells the story of the zoological specimens, collected by Sir Colin MacKenzie, that were among the first objects in the National Museum of Australia's Nati…
00:23:45 |
Wed 12 Sep 2007
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