June 3, 2025
by Sonia Jennings
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It’s May 2025 and Living Histories partners gather for a catch-up dinner at an East Brunswick restaurant. It’s a convivial occasion but includes a fierce (but friendly) debate between founding partners, Mary Sheehan and Jill Barnard, as to when we … Continue reading
September 6, 2023 by Sonia Jennings
The 2023 referendum is history in the making and a rare opportunity for Australian people to vote yes to recognise First Peoples by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice in the Constitution.
We consider it highly appropriate that an advisory body, known as ‘The Voice to Parliament’ comprised of First Nations people be formed and consulted in relation to all affairs pertinent to Indigenous Australians.
We believe this should be enshrined in the Australian constitution.
We view with hope and optimism the idea that historians and members of the Australian community will one day, through reforms such as the Voice to Parliament, listen, hear and tell the truths of both colonial and post-colonial Australian history, particularly the extraordinary suffering, disenfranchisement, and systemic racist policies enacted against the First Peoples of this land.
The Uluru Statement from the Heart invites all Australians to undertake the journey of reformation and is a heartfelt appeal for reconciliation.
Voting ‘yes’ [on 14 October 2023] is personally endorsed by the partners of Living Histories – Jill Barnard, Sonia Jennings, Mary Sheehan and Dr Karen Twigg.
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June 20, 2020
by Sonia Jennings
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Living Histories is extremely proud to announce that our partner, colleague, friend and all-round great historian Karen Twigg, is now the newly anointed ‘Dr’ Karen Twigg. Karen recently completed her PhD at La Trobe University with her thesis: ‘Along Tyrrell … Continue reading
March 12, 2020
by Mary Sheehan
Comments Off on Were these the good old days?
Watching the rapid spread of the Coronavirus today seems like a re-enactment of events a century ago. But then too, many things were very different in 1919 when the ‘Spanish’ influenza virus arrived in Australia. The nation was recovering from … Continue reading
