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The History Council of Victoria is a public advisory body with representatives from cultural institutions and heritage bodies, history teachers and curriculum advisors, academic and professional historians, local indigenous and community history organisations.
HCV Annual Lecture 2009
Martin Flanagan: A Tasmanian in Victoria Tasmania and Victoria: two different states; two different histories; two very different psyches. Martin Flanagan was born in Tasmania in 1955 and graduated in law from the University of Tasmania in 1975. In 1985, he settled in Melbourne to work at The Age (where he has been ever since). Growing up in Tasmania, Flanagan was acutely aware of the great absences that define so much of the island state’s history – of histories buried, denied and hidden. On the mainland, by contrast, Victoria’s history seemed populated by great, grand narratives. Learn how, ultimately, Flanagan’s origins and his time in Melbourne came to influence and inform his view of contemporary Australia – and even his sports writing. Martin Flanagan is an award-winning sports journalist, a poet, a public speaker and an established author. His books comprise several works of non-fiction, a novel and memoirs, including The Call, about Australian football founder Tom Wills and 1970 and Other Stories of the Australian Game. Although best known as a sports writer, Martin describes his special interest as Australian culture with particular emphasis on the relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. He is also a great believer in the capacity of newspapers to act as vehicles for non-fiction story-telling.
Paul Bateman is a freelance writer, former State Library Journalist, and Communications and Media Coordinator at the Victoria Law Foundation. His work has appeared on the ABC, in The Age and in various other publications and outlets. Making Public Histories
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