VHJ DECEMBER 25 DIGITAL. VICTORIAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL ISSUE 304 VOLUME 96, NUMBER 2

Description DIGITAL COPY – If you would like to purchase a physical copy, please Click Here.    CONTENTS: Introduction by Judith Smart and Richard Broome   UNDERSTANDING VICTORIA Discussions at Government House Part 4: ‘A Wage Earners’ Welfare State’: From the Eight-hour Day to Harvester Background and Introduction by Professor the Hon. Margaret Gardner AC, Governor of Victoria Introduction by Maxine McKew The Wage Earner’s Welfare State: An Early Chapter in the History of Human Rights by Marilyn Lake Winning Back Time: A Century of Reducing Time at Work, from the 1850s to the 1950s by Sean Scalmer How Did Victorian Workers Assert their Fundamental Humanity and Reframe Understandings of Industrial and Economic Rights? by Liam Byrne   THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORIAN HERITAGE REGISTER Introduction by Charles Sowerwine The Victorian Heritage Register: The Founding Years by Graeme Davison What Makes a Register Historic? The Victorian Heritage Register in 2025 by Marina Jansen The Victorian Heritage Register: A Personal View by Ray Tonkin Social Value in the Age of Fabric-first Heritage: Some Reflections on 21st-Century Cultural Heritage Challenges and Debates by Andrew J. May   LECTURES Melbourne from the Air by Graeme Davison A Contemporary Perspective on Colonial Land Theft: Battlefields, Bar Tables, Bribery and Ballots by Kate Auty Rapprochement with China by Marilyn Lake   ARTICLES Locating Malcolm: A Breastplate, Boundaries, and a Problematic Colonial Archive by Jack T. Norris and Rachel Standfield A Survey of Conscience: Published Accounts of the Impact of Colonisation on Aboriginal People during the Settlement of the Port Phillip District, 1840–1900 by Frances M. Thiele Gender and Little Italy: Richmond, Victoria, and Boston’s North End by Robert Pascoe and Chris McConville When Your Homeland Becomes the Enemy: A German Seeks Sanctuary in Melbourne, 1939 by John Schauble   HISTORICAL NOTES Church on a Postcard—Church of England, Dromana by Hong Wagg North by West: The Mount Macedon Road 1835–1849 by Peter Parsons   REVIEWS Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A History of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne, Volume 1: Truth. Edited by Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton, reviewed by Richard Broome Battle of the Banks: How Ad men, Barristers and Bankers Ended Ben Chifley’s Boldest Plan. By Bob Crawshaw, reviewed by Geoffrey Robinson Finding Menzies: A New Generation’s Inspiration for Foreign Affairs, Social Policy and Political Thought. By Damien Freeman, reviewed by Geoffrey Robinson The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894–1942. Edited by Zachary Gorman, reviewed by Ben Wilkie The Menzies Ascendency: Fortune, Stability, Progress 1954–1961. Edited by Zachary Gorman, reviewed by Ben Wilkie Once Upon an Island: The Early Days of Phillip Island. Collated by Anne Oswin, Eleanor McKay and Sarah Hudson, reviewed by David Nichols Letters to a Critic: Alan McCulloch’s World of Art. By Rodney James, reviewed by Anthony White