The OHA national committee has had some changes. At last month’s Annual General Meeting Elisabeth Gondwe (Oral History Queensland) was elected as National President and Alison Atkinson Phillips (Oral History Western Australia) became the new Vice President. Elisabeth Gondwe succeeds…
A short documentary about pioneering oral historian Wendy Lowenstein and her involvement in the Australian folk music scene will be available for free viewing in a webinar on 8 October 2023. The 25-minute documentary ‘What Wendy found’ was produced by…
In recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field of oral history over many years, Oral History Western Australia has issued the following tribute to Doug Ayre who passed away early last month. Western Australia lost one of its most…
Congratulations to our own Alexandra Dellios for recently winning the Community Diversity Award in the Victorian Community History Awards for her book Heritage Making and Migrant Subjects in the Deindustrialising Region of the Latrobe Valley. Published by Cambridge University Press,…
Oral History Australia is delighted to announce the winners of our three big awards. They are: the 2022 Hazel de Berg Award for Excellence in Oral History goes to community oral historian and Oral History Victoria life member Gwlad McLachlan…
The National Library of Australia will next week farewell one of its leading oral history professionals when Shelly Grant retires after more than three decades of public service. Shelly began work at the National Library of Australia (NLA) in 1984 when…
Congratulations to Dr Sue Anderson on being elected President of the International Oral HistoryAssociation at the biannual conference in Finland last week. Sue is the immediate past president of Oral History Australia and editor of the OHA Journal. A lecturer…