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August 6 Lecture Report
The National Wool Museum: A Museum of and for Geelong. Listen to the August 6 Report or just read on. At our August 6 meeting, Padraic Fisher, the Director of the National Wool Museum, delivered an engaging presentation – “A Museum of and for Geelong.” His talk outlined the Museum’s evolving vision as a dynamic…
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Flinders and Port 16
Port 16 … is this Matthew Flinder’s most important discovery? In 1802 when Matthew Flinders began his journey that resulted in the first circumnavigation of our continent he made one discovery that he prosaically labelled as Port 16. We know it better as Port Phillip. Following maps and guides provided by George Bass, Flinders at…
Geelong Historical Society Honoured at 2025 Heritage Awards
You can listen to a reading of this article by clicking the following link: We are proud to inform members that the Geelong Historical Society has received the Heritage Interpretation and Promotion Award “celebrating excellence in heritage” at the 2025 City of Greater Geelong Heritage Awards. The presentation took place on the evening of October…
November 5 2025 Speaker Report
You can listen to a reading of this article by clicking the following link: Enlisting and Resisting At our November Society meeting, we were privileged to hear from Dr Bart Ziino of Deakin University, whose talk, Enlisting and Resisting: Why Did Australian Men Decline to Enlist in the Great War?, offered a compelling exploration of…
Hidden Heroes of the Ash Wednesday Fires
On 16 Feb 1983 the Ash Wednesday bushfires ravaged much of Victoria including the Otway Ranges and the Western District. Geoff Hall was an engineer working for the Field Engineering South West Section of the then Telecom Australia in Geelong and part of his role was as an Emergency Services Liaison Officer (ESLO). Both the…
