Search Results for: Backhaus Street, Bendigo, victoria
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The King vs. Bruin and Morris – Homosexuality in 1920s Melbourne
The 22nd Melbourne Queer Film Festival (15th-25th of March) is a great reminder of some of the unique records to be found at PROV that relate to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex (GLBTI) Victorians. One example, from the Criminal Trial Briefs series, contains a brief (VPRS 30 / Consignment P0 / Unit 1877 / Item 100) relating to charges against two men, Harry Bruin and Benjamin Morris, who in 1920 were accused of ‘committing unnat…
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Twelve months on from the Victorian floods
In early 2011, Rochester Historical Society, Charlton Golden Grains Museum and Skipton Historical Society were all affected by floods. Public Record Office Victoria provided assistance through volunteering in Charlton to help clean up and salvage objects, organising freeze-drying of flood-affected items at Steamatic and maintaining an online database of flood-affected organisations which was accessed by arts and culture agencies. Twelve months…
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Current Sir Rupert Hamer Award Winners
On Thursday 16 May 2013 the Keeper of Public Records Justine Heazlewood presented the 2012 Sir Rupert Hamer Records Management Awards. The Awards, now in their 15th year, recognise excellence and innovation in records management within the Victorian Public Sector, and seek to highlight the importance of good recordkeeping in ensuring the effective accountability of governments and the efficient operation of public administration in the state of…
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PROVguide 52: Immigration Records
Transport – Immigration Records Records held by Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) provide information about the administration of immigration to Victoria, passenger lists, and the arrival and departure of ships. The records relate to both assisted immigrants and those who came unassisted or were privately sponsored. For passenger lists created after 1923 please contact the National Archives of Australia. For detailed information about the…
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Why ICT Projects Fail
…ions to allow ICT projects to be delivered successfully. However this Report (and others such as November 2009 Report “Own motion investigation into the tendering and contracting of information and technology services within Victoria Police[2]”) should be read in conjunction with the State Services Authority Report “Inquiry into the command, management and functions of the senior structure of Victoria Police[3]”. The SSA Report provides the sec…
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Flagstaff Gardens
Flagstaff Gardens These gardens in the city’s west end were laid out in the early 1860s on Flagstaff Hill, named after the flagstaff erected in 1840 at its highest point to send messages between the town and harbour. For the first few years of European settlement, the hill accommodated Melbourne’s first burial ground until a cemetery was established nearby on the site of the present Queen Victoria Market. An early resident, George Go…
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Showcase Record – January 2013
The gift of a school to Villers Bretonneux by Melbourne school children. The Villers-Bretonneux School Photograph Collection features items of various formats documenting the role of the Victorian Department of Education and the school children of Victoria in the rebuilding of the school at Villers-Bretonneux, France after its destruction in 1918 during World War 1. Re-named ‘Victoria College’, the Ecole de Garcons (Boys School) in V…
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Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission wins records management award
The Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission won a Sir Rupert Hamer Records Management Awards for the management and transfer of Royal Commission digital records. The Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission was established to investigate the causes and responses to bushfires which swept through parts of Victoria in January and February of 2009. From its very beginning, the Commission employed technology and systems to capture and manage digital and har…
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Volunteers celebrate 22 years of research
Volunteer Leonie Marshall writes of an extraordinary milestone in Public Record Office Victoria and her experience researching original records. A little celebrated anniversary passed through our Volunteers’ Room last week. This marked the 22nd year of transcription of the Passenger Lists and other volunteer activities at the Public Record Office. The volunteer program has seen changes of venue from Casselden Place CBD to Sheil Street North Me…
