Search Results for: Ah Lem

1. The Search for a Certain Cure:

   Written by Provenance on September 22, 2011

   By Susanne Davies Print friendly version Susanne Davies is the Convenor of Legal Studies in the School of Social Sciences at La Trobe University. An historian by training, her teaching, research and writing interests span critical criminology, cultural studies, socio‑legal history and gender and sexuality studies. She is the co‑editor of two volumes, A nation of rogues: crime, law and punishment in colonial Australia (Melbourne University Press,…

2. The Trouble with Otway Maps:

   Written by Provenance on September 16, 2011

   …overlap problems with the Land Act 1869 selections, and knowing that selectors under Land Act 1884 could not move onto their recommended allotments until they had been properly surveyed, they might have expected clear sailing ahead. The map method, however, fundamentally changed the process of selection and led to some unexpected difficulties, which in turn led to widespread failure for the selectors. The Survey Process To begin with, the inacce…

3. A Problem of Value

   Written by Government_Services_Team on February 2, 2012 —Leave a Comment

   It is my understanding that one result applying the existing hardcopy disposal paradigm to electronic information and records is the actual loss of a significant proportion of digital records that have been identified as having “permanent” value. Without a change to the management of records, the retention/disposal of digital records will result in a “skewed” outcome.  Effectively only a small proportion of the digital records identified as perm…

   Posted in Blog only, Digital Records | Tagged critical records, Digital records, electronic document management, electronic records management, evidentiary value

4. Mud, Sludge and Town Water:

   Written by Provenance on October 31, 2012

   Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria, issue no. 11, 2012.ISSN 1832-2522. Copyright © Elizabeth Denny. by Elizabeth Denny Elizabeth Denny studied Chinese history and Chinese language in Melbourne and spent a year at the Beijing Language Institute in 1979. After teaching in inner‑city Melbourne, she moved to Ballarat where she has become fascinated by the local records of early Chinese communities on the goldfields.Email author…

5. ‘In future, only female teachers’:

   Written by Provenance on October 29, 2012

   …of Victoria, Manuscript file 10401, Inspector’s register book, 1871-1874, Ramahyuck School, n.p. [25]. ibid. [26]. JE Hutton, A history of Moravian missions, Moravian Publications Office, London, 1922, p. 345. [27]. See AH Keane, ‘The Australian and Tasmanian races’. [Review of The Aborigines of Victoria, with notes relating to the habits of the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania, compiled from various sources for the Governme…

6. The Year so far – Electronic Records Research and Development (VERS) (Part 2)

   Written by Government_Services_Team on November 29, 2012 —Leave a Comment

   The electronic information environment is a rapidly changing space, where Government technology, and business applications are regularly updated to ensure they remain relevant. Over the last few years alone, the Victorian Government has strengthened their position in electronic information, by moving to an E*Gov model, and supporting a Gov 2.0 agenda. In responding to these pressures on Government, the VERS Refresh project has delivered a new V…

   Posted in Blog only, Government Recordkeeping

7. Goldfields Settler or Frontier Rogue?

   Written by Provenance on August 31, 2012

   …on the other the European administration, he is a liminal figure.5   John Bartholomew, Early sketch map of the Mount Alexander diggings, A & C Black, Edinburgh, 1853. Courtesy of Keir Reeves Acoy, also known as Ah Coy, had departed from the Portuguese port of Macau and was 22 years old when he arrived in Sydney in 1852 on a barque named either Eagle or Grey Eagle.6 There is some conjecture over this date as both Cronin and Rolls ha…

8. Making Their Case:

   Written by Provenance on October 29, 2012

   Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria, issue no. 11, 2012.ISSN 1832-2522. Copyright © Shurlee Swain. by Shurlee Swain Dr Shurlee Swain is a professor at Australian Catholic University. She is a social historian with a particular interest in the history of women and children. Current projects include a history of adoption in Australia, and she is the historian chief investigator working on the development of the national Find a…

9. In Pursuit of the Kelly Reward:

   Written by Provenance on September 22, 2011

   …Wales, emerging to commit spectacular bank robberies at Euroa and Jerilderie. The gang were ably supported in their activities by a rural network of sympathisers – a ‘bush telegraph’ that helped to keep them ahead of their pursuers. By early 1879, the Victoria Police, hardly a highly regarded institution in its early years, now lay exposed as an inefficient and bumbling force seemingly incapable of catching violent offenders, pa…

10. Editorial – Provenance 2011

    Written by Provenance on October 7, 2011

    Australia’s ever-green infatuation with Ned Kelly recently received new impetus through the findings of archaeological work done on burial sites at Pentridge Prison. In his article on this long-term project that has just come to fruition, Jeremy Smith from Heritage Victoria recounts the processes and investigations involved in sorting out the bones in the burial site, and the remarkable discovery that a stolen skull returned to Heritage Vi…