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
Landmark Women: Elizabeth Reid
Date recorded: 18 October 2013.
Elizabeth is a development practitioner, feminist and academic with a distinguished career in national and international public service and was appointed the world's…
Wed 06 Nov 2013
Panel discussion led by Malcolm McKinnon
Date recorded: 25 August 2013.
Panel discussion with artists, activist, author and Ngarrindejeri elder about the Murray-Darling Basin and their involvement in the One River project.
Thu 31 Oct 2013
'Adulation, fame and money': Sport and celebrity in 1913
Date recorded: 8 October 2013.
In 1913, just like today, Australia loved its sporting heroes. Victor Trumper, Dally Messenger and Snowy Baker were celebrities and entrepreneurs as well as elite ath…
00:47:23 |
Wed 30 Oct 2013
Welcome and introduction to Critical Undercurrents – a One River symposium
Date recorded: 25 August 2013.
Robyn outlines how she conceived One River as a means to recognise and explore Canberra's status as the largest city in the Murray-Darling Basin and then Kirsten outl…
00:32:37 |
Sun 27 Oct 2013
Landmark Women: Daryl Karp
Date recorded: 27 September 2013.
Daryl is an internationally recognised, award-winning executive with a passion for science media. In addition to her role as director of MOAD, she is director of t…
00:47:05 |
Thu 03 Oct 2013
Women in White Australia
Date recorded: 24 September 2013.
Throughout Australia, the women of 1913 were fighting to have their voices heard. Professor Rae Frances tells their story and outlines how women pursued their drea…
Thu 03 Oct 2013
Landmark Women: Catriona Jackson
Date recorded: 19 July 2013.
Science and Technology Australia chief executive officer Catriona Jackson speaks about her career in politics, public affairs, tertiary education and journalism, in thi…
Sun 22 Sep 2013
Landmark Women: Louise Page
Date recorded: 16 August 2013.
Soprano Louise Page, one of Australia's most highly regarded singers, talks about her work in opera, cabaret, recitals and broadcasts, as well as bringing up her fami…
00:41:29 |
Wed 04 Sep 2013
Leisure time, 1913
Date recorded: 27 August 2013.
Historian Professor Jill Julius Matthews surveys magazines and movies from 1913 to look at how people in Australia spent their leisure time a century ago.
00:54:56 |
Sun 01 Sep 2013
'Gone to Navy': Defending Australia, 1913
Date recorded: 30 July 2013.
A lively look at the way Australia gained its navy in 1913, with historians Peter Stanley and David Stevens revealing how the acquisition was much more than just a coll…
Sun 18 Aug 2013
Door to store: Caring for your family history documents
Date recorded: 11 July 2013.
Are you keen to know where your family history came from or how to record history for the next generation? Learn how to search for your past using family history docume…
00:52:38 |
Sun 04 Aug 2013
Joy flights, feats and disasters: A journey through 1920s and 1930s aviation in the National Historical Collection
Date recorded: 18 July 2013.
Curator Jennifer Wilson shares the stories of some rarely-seen aviation objects, from plane parts to photos, to illustrate the realities and romanticism of the foundati…
Sun 28 Jul 2013
'Part of the Feast': The life and legacy of Val Plumwood
Date recorded: 7 May 2013.
In 1985 the Australian environmental philosopher Val Plumwood was almost killed by a saltwater crocodile as she canoed in Kakadu National Park. This forum talks about Pl…
Sun 14 Jul 2013
Door to store: Caring for your photographic collection
Date recorded: 9 May 2013.
Learn about the importance of photos in the National Museum's collection and the best ways for managing, storing and protecting your digital and printed photographs at ho…
Thu 11 Jul 2013
The state of photography in 1913 with historian Helen Ennis
Date recorded: 25 June 2013.
Photographic curator, historian and author Helen Ennis discusses the rise of photography in 1913 and its use by professionals, amateurs, ethnographers and scientific ex…
00:57:48 |
Wed 03 Jul 2013
Role of Australians in Antarctica in 1913
Date recorded: 28 May 2013.
Professor Griffiths tells the story of the young Australians who set out to explore the frozen continent in the name of scientific curiosity and how 1913 was an unexpect…
Thu 06 Jun 2013
Australian art and artists in 1913
Date recorded: 30 April 2013.
This lecture highlights the new directions being explored by important Australian artists around 1913 - many of whom are little-known today - and examines the role of …
00:54:33 |
Wed 08 May 2013
Surveyors at the snowline: surveying the ACT-NSW border 1910-15
Date recorded: 12 April 2013.
Canberra historian Matthew Higgins tells a story of adventure and discovery by three young men, Percy Sheaffe, Harry Mouat and Freddie Johnston, working in Australia's…
00:57:47 |
Sun 28 Apr 2013
Australia's place in the world - 1913 lecture
Date recorded: 26 March 2013.
Historian Dr Nicolas Brown reflects on the emerging world of modernity of Australia in 1913, and the world lost to looming international pressures and the threat of wa…
00:52:36 |
Thu 11 Apr 2013
Inventing Australia's desert archaeology
Date recorded: 8 February 2013.
A tribute to pioneering desert archaeologist Dr Mike Smith. Speakers June Ross, John Mulvaney, Barry Cundy, Giles Hamm and Chris Turney reflect on their time teachin…
00:43:53 |
Tue 09 Apr 2013
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