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For Book Week: a brief history of Camberwell and Ashburton libraries
It’s Book Week! Or, as I call it in my house, F#@king Book Week. I love books. I love them so much I wrote one. You don’t become a...
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- May 27, 2022
- 12 min
Neville Lee and the fight for Ashburton's kindergartens
When I first started writing this local history blog, a major resource was a document I found called ‘Ashburton through the Ages’, by...
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- May 25, 2022
- 10 min
How to run an Election Day ‘Democracy’ Sausage Sizzle and Cake Stall
For the 2022 Federal Election, the parents of Ashburton Primary School (located in Melbourne's Eastern Suburbs) ran a Sausage Sizzle and...
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- Apr 22, 2022
- 19 min
Why there is no High School in Ashburton
If you’ve lived in Ashburton awhile, you’ll know there is no public or private high school in the suburb. The closest option is Ashwood...
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- Mar 1, 2022
- 10 min
The little School that Could: a brief history of Solway Primary School
"No one actually knows where Solway is” (Julie Wilkinson, Principal 2007) The idea for a school on the hill between Karnak Road and...
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- Jan 25, 2022
- 8 min
A Brief History of St Michaels Parish School
The 1920s heralded significant social changes in Melbourne. Before then, Victoria’s Protestant majority – represented by English settlers...
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- Dec 7, 2021
- 9 min
A brief history of Ashburton Primary School
A couple of years ago, back when Ashburton Primary School used to have a School Fair, I walked through the small history display. In...
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- Sep 5, 2021
- 6 min
A Short History of the Development of Ashburton
Having walked the streets of Ashburton for days and weeks now (or is it months - what is time anyway during these lockdown days?) it...
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- Aug 3, 2021
- 11 min
Wurundjeri history in Ashburton
The other day I received an email from Boroondara Council seeking my thoughts on its proposed reconciliation process over the area’s...
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- May 28, 2021
- 11 min
The Epic Battle over the Markham Reserve Re-development
A summary of the fight between residents and the State Government over the Markham Estate re-development.
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