VU Special Collections - How to access and use: 2024 Current Exhibition at VU

People, Place and Culture

 

This exhibition centre around viewing the material in stored in Archive Boxes from located in the Special Collections held at VU Library.

The People, Place and Culture Archive has a collection focus on Australian material highlighting the activities of individuals and groups who work to achieve positive change.

The material selected from the collection:

  • FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: CHAIN REACTION PUBLICATION MATERIAL
  • FRIENDS OF THE EARTH CAMPAIGNS
  • DAVID UNAIPON: TOWARDS PUBLICATION OF “LEGENDARY TALES OF THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES (2001)”
  • BIKE PATHS IN THE WEST.

 

View the items at Footscray Park Campus, building P, Level 2 of the library from 1st April to 30th June 2024.

 

Below is a list of the selected items:

 

Selected material

Friends of the Earth (FOE) Chain Reaction Publication Material
  • World Bike Ride Newsletter Nov 19843
  • Aboriginal Housing in Australia a hidden agenda?
  • Nuclear Free Pacific News, issue 2, May/Jun 1982
  • Pacific Peacemaker, no. 7, June 1982
  • Endangered Species Product List
  • Bumper Sticker: Stop killing whales
  • World Bike Ride for a Nuclear Free Future 1982
  • Bush Telegraph
  • The Melbourne Times – the freeways are coming​​​​​

 David Unaipon: Towards publication of Legendary tales of the Australian Aborigines

  • Bostock, Gerry ‘The Movement’ (Television script)
  • Adam Shoemaker ‘The discovery of black Australian drama’
  • David Unaipan Award
  • Newspaper clip $50 note
  • UTS News Nov/Dec 1998 article
  • Australia’s new $50 note
  • Oct 1991 Unaipon Lectures – University of South Australia Awards
  • Language Lists

Energy Campaigns

  • Assessment Report Alcoa Smelter Portland
  • Newport Abuse of Power
  • Newport D Power Station
  • Submission to Parliamentary public works committee

Streets for People Campaigns

  • Reclaim the streets street press
  • Melbourne City Link x 2 - Citylink leaflets and posters

Transport Campaigns

  • Save Glebe and Lilyfield and Drummoyne from The North Erst’ Freeway
  • Buying a bicycle
  • Friends of the Earth Newsletter
  • Public Transport want it? Staff it!
  • A Community survey of transport needs
  • North Fitzroy and surrounding area traffic study
  • People Before Freeways
  • Traffic in Melbourne Survey

Bike Paths in the West

  • Photos Inner West
  • Footscray Bicycle Study
  • Altona Bicycle Study
  • Report on the proposed bicycle track along the Maribyrnong River

Barmah-Millewa Campaign

  • Barmah-Millewa Collective Cultural Flow
  • Cultural Flows – A Wadi Wadifilm
  • The Legend of Biami
  • Nuclear Freeways
  • Managing in two worlds
  • Worker review process and forms
  • Mapping the current condition of River Red Gum
  • River Red Gum Forests