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ItemThe settlement of Melbourne 1851-1893: selected aspects of urban growth( 1970-02)Melbourne was the obvious choice as a prototype of a nineteenth century colonial city in the following study in urban history. It succeeded early to a pre-eminent position within Victoria, indeed of the entire Australian continent and its position of supremacy went unchallenged until the twentieth century. It was never seriously threatened by the claims of rival cities such as Ballarat, Sandhurst or Geelong. In this respect, Melbourne was a classic primate city with a whole-state hinterland and was justly described as "the commercial metropolis of the South". Its favourable geographic location, centrally placed between eastern and western halves of the colony, together with its position at the northern end of Port Phillip Bay provided the logical point of convergance for a railway network spanning the reaches of the interior. This gave a nodal quality to the city which made it the sole effective input-output point for all commerce with the mainland interior.(For complete abstract open document)
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ItemThe hospital south of the Yarra: a history to celebrate the centenary of Alfred Hospital Melbourne 1871-1971( 1972-02)Although this work was commissioned for the purpose of celebrating Alfred Hospital’s first one hundred years, I have made no effort to cover all of those years. I have set out: 1. To isolate the historical precedents for current hospital procedures and in particular to explore the relationship between Alfred Hospital and the State Government. This task was burdened by the scarcity of early hospital records and of research in related fields of charitable and social welfare - which emphasizes the value of rescuing the hospital’s fast vanishing past from oblivion. 2. By attention to human relationships (that constantly inconsistent element in all institutional affairs) to evoke those unique qualities which distinguish Alfred Hospital from other similar hospitals. 3. To convey what the Alfred meant to the greatest number of people associated with it. 4. To provide a useful source of reference.
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ItemGerman and Austrian refugees in Melbourne 1933-1947: a study of their migration, reception and integration into the Melbourne community( 1965)The group of people who have been studied in this thesis are people who left Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1939, because Hitler’s policies made life intolerable or impossible and came to Australia as immigrants or internees between 1933 and 1942. These immigrants who were labelled Refugees or “reffos” in colloquial Australian, were distinct from the group of post war refugee immigrants known as S.Ps (Displaced Persons) – not necessarily in origin for many of the immediate post war refugees had similar German and Austrian Jewish backgrounds – but the later group had different war time experiences and faced a different situation when they arrived in Australia. The first victims of Hitler’s policies were his political and ideological opponents and especially those who had been publically anti-Nazi, members of opposition political parties, Trade Unionists, writers and publicists. But for the most part those who came to Australia were the victims – or they would have been the victims – of his anti-semitic racial policies which increasingly endangered the livelihood of all those of Jewish faith and of Jewish descent though this does not mean they were not often his political opponents too. After September 1935 Jewish descent included all those whose parents or one parent, grandparents or one grandparent had professed the Jewish religion; Nazi anti-semitic measures also victimised those married or engaged to anyone in the above categories even if they had no “Jewish blood” in their veins. Baptised Christians, half, quarter and one-eighth Jews were known as “non-Aryans.” (From Introduction)