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Royal Society of New South Wales

Real Secret River: Dyarubbin project

Colombo Plan

Royal Society of New South Wales

Butlin, Syd

Carslaw, Horatio S

Janisewski, Leonard

Konishi, Shino

Kwiet, Konrad

Nakata, Martin

Indonesian Colombo Plan students 1965

Indonesian Colombo Plan students marrying Australians: Memo to the Secretary of the Department of Immigration 1961

Interior of the Mitchell Library reading room July 1942

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Education and Research

Royal Society of New South Wales

Growing out of earlier societies which endeavoured to further the cause of science in the colony, the Royal Society fostered discussion, learning and research from its formation in the mid-nineteenth century.

Real Secret River: Dyarubbin project

Collaborative research project led by Professor Grace Karskens as the Coral Thomas Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales 2018-2019. Once every place on Dyarubbin and its tributaries had an Aboriginal name, reflecting ways in which this Country was understood, used and experienced. Now only a handful survive on maps and in common usage. Using a list made by Reverend John McGarvie in 1829 that records the place names used by the Aboriginal people along the Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin), a team of Darug people, historians, archaeologists and linguists identified the original locations, allowing for the recovery, recognition and revitalisation of the river's Aboriginal history, culture and Language.

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Colombo Plan

Regional organisation formed in 1950 to strengthen economic and social development of member countries across Asia-Pacific. Many students came from across the region to study in Australia.

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Royal Society of New South Wales

The first scientific society formed in the colony, based on the model of the Royal Society of London.

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Butlin, Syd

Professor of Economics at Sydney University.

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Carslaw, Horatio S

Professor of Mathematics at the University of Sydney who worked on the theory of conduction of heat.

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Janisewski, Leonard

Academic and writer.

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Konishi, Shino

Yawuru woman who is a historian at the University of Western Australia. In 2020 she led an ARC Discovery Indigenous project with Dr Malcolm Allbrook and Professor Tom Griffiths from ANU to double the number of Indigenous biographies in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

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Kwiet, Konrad

Professor of history and political science who became chief historian of the Australian war crimes commission.

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Nakata, Martin

Professor Nakata Martin has worked in the area of Indigenous education for several decades, and is a leading Indigenous academic in Australiat. He is the Pro-Vice Chancellor (Indigenous Education & Strategy) at James Cook University.

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