The following is the transcription of the 26th January 2023 speech at Nillumbik Shire Council citizenship ceremony by the Nillumbik Reconciliation Group. 26 January Flag Raising JAN Congratulations to you all on your decision to become Australian citizens. You are in the beautiful Nillumbik Shire on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung people of the […]
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My Scout Blanket (bedspread)
During my fifty one years in the Scouting movement I collected many scout badges from within Australia and overseas whilst attending numerous scouting, functions, conferences and jamborees. A number representing the groups I was connected with and others for the various positions I held over the years. A friend from the United Kingdom, Mr Peter […]
Our Eltham Artistic Recollections
Our Eltham Artistic Recollections is a collection of panels that was commissioned by the Eltham Cemetery Trust as part of its vision to offer the community a fresh and unique relationship to the Cemetery. 31 panels were produced depicting historical images of Eltham and the nearby area with images of indigenous flowers and plants. A […]
The Primitive Methodist Church, Arthurs Creek
Arthurs Creek Methodist Church building is entering a new phase – the building over to the community. A small history group meets monthly, still in the church, organised by Malcolm Macmillan relating to the local Arthurs creek community and its pioneers. The ACCC refers to Arthurs Creek Community Centre. This presentation was given to this […]
Mary Garead
Mary Garead, Yarra Flats, was born in Ireland, and came to Australia in 1853. On her arrival in Melbourne, she went to live near Heidelberg, and shortly afterwards married the late Mr. Samuel Trier, who resided at Kangaroo Ground. On his death there, in 1863, she moved to Yarra Flats and selected 80 acres on […]
Was the 1839 arrival of the David Clark “Victoria’s Mayflower”?
The October 1839 arrival of the David Clark brought the first British assisted immigrants direct to the Port Phillip District. Speaking at a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the arrival, a descendant described the ship as “Victoria’s Mayflower.” At that time, the descendants of the 229 passengers were estimated at 3,000, “and its passengers […]
J.M. Conolly
J.M. Conolly of Christmas Hills, came to Australia in 1842, and landing in Melbourne went as a manager of a station to Portland in the Western District. He then purchased a station on the Upper Goulburn, where he remained for seven years, engaged in pastoral pursuits, after which he carried on dairy farming at Essendon […]
Preserving the story of Black Saturday
The Black Saturday bushfires were a series of bushfires that ignited or were burning across Victoria on and around Saturday, 7 February 2009 and were among Australia’s all-time worst bushfire disasters. Areas within the City of Whittlesea and Shire of Nillumbik were directly impacted including Kinglake West and Strathewen.Local historian and photographer Matt Dickinson took […]
Michael Brennan
Early pioneer at Hazel Glen, now known as Doreen, Michael Brennan ‘was born in 1830 in the county of Kilkenny, Ireland, and arrived in Australia in 1855, landing in Queensland, whence he drove sheep to Victoria. He reached the Sand Hills towards the end of 1856, and went thence to the Bendigo diggings, afterwards visiting […]
James Charlton
James Charlton, Christmas Hills, a native of Ireland, who came to Victoria in 1854, was up to the latter part of 1855 employed on a farm, after which he proceeded to the Ballarat gold diggings where he remained until 1877, being fairly successful. In that year he went to Christmas Hills, and purchasing 160 acres, […]