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Manning Clark House Inc

Locality: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Phone: +61 2 6295 9433

Address: 11 Tasmania Circle 2603 Canberra, ACT, Australia

Website: http://www.manningclark.org.au

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25.01.2022 CHATS: a series of small group discussions at MCH. Now that spring is coming we can welcome small, well-spaced, COVID-19 compliant, seated groups to the MCH garden. ... A program of Monday lunchtime talks has been organised by Fleur Millar. Each will start at 1.00 pm, run for an hour (including Q&A), will be strictly limited to an audience of ten, and will be called off should it rain. Admission will be $5.00 and booking is essential. You will need to bring your own lunch. 5 October Dr Andrew Glikson, earth and paleo-climate scientist, ANU The lungs of the earth: climate trends and their consequences in the 21st century 19 October Helen Musa, journalist specialising in the arts Experiences touring with journalists in Indonesia and Timor Leste 26 October Anni Doyle Wawrzynczak How local art made the National Capital 2 November Luke Whitington, poet Leaving isolation: a poet’s journey from DFAT, Italy, Ireland and beyond 9 November Amy Jarvis, Heritage Adviser, ANU, and Canberra Modern mover and shaker Canberra modernism and how we could better advocate for its preservation Please book early for any or all of these sessions through Fleur Millar on 0421 187 688 or [email protected] Payment at the door (or gate)

25.01.2022 ***NEWSFLASH**** We can confirm that John Pilger will be in Conversation with Dr Alison Broinowski AM about Julian Assange and the current extradition hearings, at Manning Clark House Via Zoom, 7pm, Saturday 19 September. Stand by for booking details.

23.01.2022 Stand by! Pilger is coming to MCH via zoom. Details to follow.

23.01.2022 Julian Assange - A conversation between John Pilger and Dr Alison Broinowski AM 1900 AEST (7.00pm) Saturday 19 September 2020, via Zoom... On Tuesday 8 September two Australian Journalists were rescued by their Government when China attempted to question them on the work of detained journalist Cheng Lei. In stark contrast and at the same time in the UK, an Australian Journalist is in detention and subject to extradition proceedings where he fights for his life not to be sent to face a 175 year prison sentence in an American prison. Dr Alison Broinowski AM and John Pilger will speak about this and the progress of the current extradition hearing in London against Julian Assange, the likely outcome and what it means for media freedom and democracy. John Pilger is an Australian-British journalist and filmmaker based in London. His decades long work in print and film have made him one of the most successful and awarded Australian journalists. He was twice winner of Britain’s Journalist of the Year Award, and has won many other awards for his work, including the UN Media Peace Prize, Best Documentary, One World Awards for ‘The War on Democracy’. He won the Sydney Peace Prize in 2009. John met Julian Assange over 10 years ago and has been one of his biggest supporters since. He asked Assange why he started WikiLeaks and Julian replied, Transparency and Accountability are moral issues that must be the essence of public life and journalism. Dr Alison Broinowski AM is Vice-President of Australians for War Powers Reform. She joined the Australian Foreign Service in 1963 where she remained until 1993, working alternately as an author and Australian diplomat. Since leaving the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, she has received a PhD in Asian Studies from ANU, and has continued to lecture, write, and broadcast in Australia and abroad on Asian affairs and cultural and political issues and has published 14 books on those subjects. In 2013 she stood as a Wikileaks Party candidate for the Senate in NSW. Ticket price for this event is AU$7. Trybooking: https://www.trybooking.com/BLLQE

22.01.2022 CHATS: A series of small group discussions at MCH Now that spring is coming we can welcome small, well-spaced,... COVID-19 compliant, seated groups to the MCH garden. A program of Monday lunchtime talks has been organised by Fleur Millar. Each will start at 1.00 pm, run for an hour (including Q&A), will be strictly limited to an audience of thirty, and will be called off should it rain. Admission will be $5.00 and booking is essential. You will need to bring your own lunch, drink and hat. 19 October Helen Musa, journalist specialising in the arts Experiences touring with journalists in Indonesia and Timor Leste Discussion Leader: Jack Waterford Booking https://www.trybooking.com/BMBDX 26 October Anni Doyle Wawrzynczak How local art made the National Capital Booking https://www.trybooking.com/BMBEG 2 November Luke Whitington, poet Leaving isolation: a poet’s journey from DFAT, Italy, Ireland and beyond Booking https://www.trybooking.com/BMBEF 9 November Amy Jarvis, Heritage Adviser, ANU, and Canberra Modern mover and shaker Canberra modernism and how we could better advocate for its preservation Booking https://www.trybooking.com/BMBGW Please book early for any or all of these sessions through Fleur Millar on 0421 187 688 or [email protected] or through trybooking refer relevant links above. Payment at the door (or gate) or on line through trybooking.

16.01.2022 The Palace Letters 2020 Dymphna Clark Lecture with Prof Jenny Hocking Wednesday 18 November at 6.00pm, by Zoom... Dymphna Clark (19162000) was a noted linguist, language teacher, translator, scholar, environmentalist and campaigner for Indigenous rights. Manning Clark House Inc was founded by her in 1997 to ensure that the kind of cultural and intellectual activities that had occurred in the house during her and Manning’s lives would continue into the future. To honour her memory the Dymphna Clark Lecture has been held annually or biennially since the inaugural oration in 2002; this will be the 16th in the series. Janusz Molinski Photography Speaker: Emeritus Professor Jenny Hocking is an award-winning biographer, the inaugural Distinguished Whitlam Fellow with the Whitlam Institute at Western Sydney University and Emeritus Professor at Monash University. She is the author of several biographies including the two-volume biography of former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam Gough Whitlam: His Time and Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History Winner of the Fellowship of Australian Writers Barbara Ramsden Award and shortlisted for several major literary awards including the National Biography Award, The Age Book of the Year, the Magarey Medal for Biography, and the Prime Minister’s Award for Literature. In 2017 Jenny wrote The Dismissal Dossier: Everything You Were Never Meant to Know about November 1975 the Palace Connection (2017). Her case against the National Archives of Australia, seeking access to the ‘Palace letters’ between the Queen and the Governor-General at the time of the dismissal of the Whitlam government, succeeded at the High Court of Australia in May 2020 which found in her favour in a 6:1 decision. Professor Hocking’s new book The Palace Letters tells what those letters reveal. All tickets $10.00 A special ticket-plus-book price for Canberra-based MCH members $38.05, for Canberra-based non-MCH members $42.00 Booking: https://www.trybooking.com/BMEEM

15.01.2022 See the Manning Clark House Winter Newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/e6/manning-clark-house-winter-newsletter

13.01.2022 Sunday 1 November 2020, 4:00pm Live at Manning Clark House - 11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest, ACT The anti-left McCarthyism era in Australia had a significant impact on the children of parents identified in a witch-hunt by authorities. With the 1951 referendum leading to the possible imprisonment of CPA members and fellow travellers, followed by the Petrov Royal Commission, times were uncertain for these families.... Come and hear all about it from the daughters of John Burton (Pamela Burton and Meredith Edwards), Pam and Jack Beasley (Margo Beasley) and Rupert Lockwood (Penny Lockwood) McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, especially of pro-Communist activity, in many instances unsupported by proof or based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence. dictionary.com. MCH members $5.00 Concession (government support) and full-time students $5.00 Non-members $7.00 Booking essential https://www.trybooking.com/BLWJB

10.01.2022 ‘For the sake of the Monarchy: How the Palace letters have recast the history of the dismissal of the Whitlam government’ Professor Jenny Hocking 2020 Dymphna Clark Lecture ...Continue reading

10.01.2022 Please don't miss out. Spots are limited and selling. Book Now. Julian Assange - A conversation between John Pilger and Dr Alison Broinowski AM ... 1900 AEST (7.00pm) Saturday 19 September 2020, via Zoom On Tuesday 8 September two Australian Journalists were rescued by their Government when China attempted to question them on the work of detained journalist Cheng Lei. In stark contrast and at the same time in the UK, an Australian Journalist is in detention and subject to extradition proceedings where he fights for his life not to be sent to face a 175 year prison sentence in an American prison. Dr Alison Broinowski AM and John Pilger will speak about this and the progress of the current extradition hearing in London against Julian Assange, the likely outcome and what it means for media freedom and democracy. John Pilger is an Australian-British journalist and filmmaker based in London. His decades long work in print and film have made him one of the most successful and awarded Australian journalists. He was twice winner of Britain’s Journalist of the Year Award, and has won many other awards for his work, including the UN Media Peace Prize, Best Documentary, One World Awards for ‘The War on Democracy’. He won the Sydney Peace Prize in 2009. John met Julian Assange over 10 years ago and has been one of his biggest supporters since. He asked Assange why he started WikiLeaks and Julian replied, Transparency and Accountability are moral issues that must be the essence of public life and journalism. Dr Alison Broinowski AM is Vice-President of Australians for War Powers Reform. She joined the Australian Foreign Service in 1963 where she remained until 1993, working alternately as an author and Australian diplomat. Since leaving the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, she has received a PhD in Asian Studies from ANU, and has continued to lecture, write, and broadcast in Australia and abroad on Asian affairs and cultural and political issues and has published 14 books on those subjects. In 2013 she stood as a Wikileaks Party candidate for the Senate in NSW. Ticket price for this event is AU$7. Go to https://manningclark.org.au/2020/09/13/julian-assange/ to book your tickets today.

09.01.2022 We wonder what the differences are between Bill Birtle and Mike Smith running for their lives out of China and Assange fighting for his life with America? What are your thoughts?

04.01.2022 Fred Briggs, a Gumbaynggirr man, was born at Farquarhar’s Creek near Nymboida in about 1866 to Thomas Briggs and Mary. His tracking prowess came to prominence ...when he found Edward Blaxland, his employer, in mountainous country on Marengo Station in the mid-1880s. Briggs was working as a stockman at the time. His first official employment as tracker was at Blicks River between 1886 and 1888. He was sent to pursue a notorious outlaw known as the Hairy Man in wild country near Dorrigo. Briggs arrested the Hairy Man at his bush lair and took him to Dorrigo Police Station. The criminal promptly escaped and Briggs was put on the trail again. He tracked the fugitive through a forest, over a ridge and into a ravine before recapturing him. Briggs was soon seconded to Grafton Police Station. His most prominent case was the pursuit of Tommy Ryan. He first arrested Ryan at Cunglebung in 1889 who was wanted for assaulting another Aboriginal man named Napoleon. Ryan escaped Grafton Gaol in January the following year and Briggs was sent after him again. He was part of the team that arrested Ryan at Yulgilbar on the Clarence River. Fred Briggs never worked officially as a tracker again. He settled with his wife Mary Harvey and son James Briggs on the Nymboida Aboriginal Reserve several kilometres to the south of the village. The police station sat on a rise overlooking the reserve. The local constable sometimes called upon Briggs to look for people lost in the bush, including two forestry officers who had walked into a remote wooded area. In 1932, the police relied on Briggs’ supreme bush skills to locate the body of a miner who had drowned at Clouds Creek, about 25km from Nymboida. The inaccessible country meant that the miner had to be buried close by to where he was found. Briggs remained a resident of the Nymboida Aboriginal Reserve until passing away at Grafton Hospital in February 1935. He was buried in Nymboida Cemetery. Guyra Argus 14 March 1935: 4; Death Certificate of Frederick Briggs 1935/005098 Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser 16 February 1932.