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Australia will have a Holocaust memorial in each state and territory after the Morrison Government committed $750,000 toward the establishment of a Holocaust museum in Darwin. Acting Minister for Education and Youth Stuart Robert said the Holocaust was not just a crime committed against the Jewish people, but a crime against all of humanity that…
This book is about Magda Hellinger. It is an amalgam of materials both from writings and stories shared by Magda as well as those she recounted through the oral histories programs of both Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre and the Visual History Foundation [often described as the Spielberg project]. Maya Lee is Magda’s daughter and the…
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When Sue Course looked out on what is now Darebin Parklands in 1973, she saw a wasteland â a tip that was earmarked for a freeway. She was appalled that some of the remaining trees along Darebin Creek were being bulldozed.
It inspired her, her husband Laurie and other locals to form a residentsâ group. Their decades of lobbying politicians to give the land to the public â and their hard labour removing weeds and rubbish and planting trees â was the basis of todayâs 33-hectare urban oasis in Alphington, in Melbourneâs north-east.
Urban oasis: Sue Course receives an OAM for her work creating Darebin Parklands.