NEWSLETTERS

After a hectic and very successful end to 2019, with our Symposium on Historians and Truth Telling in November and our Christmas Sundowner in December, your History Council Committee has enjoyed some relaxation and reinvigoration over summer. Reports on those events follow in this newsletter, plus discussion of some heritage issues particularly in relation to rezonings across Perth, and early notice of our next Symposium, this time on Historians and the Environment, now in the planning stage.

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‘Historians and the Environment’ Symposium presented by History Council of WA and Professional Historians Association WA.

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What a fabulous venue for a Sundowner. About twenty of us from the History Council and the Professional Historians Association enjoyed some great hospitality at the National Hotel, corner High and Market Street, Fremantle on the evening of 5 December 2019.

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On Sunday 10th November 2019 the History Council of WA and Reconciliation WA hosted a Truth Telling Symposium at the State Library of Western Australia with the generous support of BHP and Herbert Smith Freehills. Alan Carter from Reconciliation WA opened the event, followed by a Welcome to Country from Sandra Harben.

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A reflection by Cindy Solonec of the evolution of the phrase ‘Truth Telling’ and how it informed the Historians and Truth Telling Symposium.

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Directed by Sam Mendes. Starring George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Colin Firth, Andrew Scott, Mark Strong, Richard Madden, Benedict Cumberbatch.

The fate of hundreds of soldiers depends on the desperate journey of just two in Sam Mendes’ critically-acclaimed First World War epic 1917. It’s a road well worth travelling.

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The winners of the 2019 Walkley Award for Coverage of Indigenous Affairs was “The Killing Times”, a collaboration between Lorena Allam, Guardian Australia Team and the University of Newcastle’s Colonial Frontier Massacres research team.

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