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Other News

• Smiths in Stasiland: Archival Reminders of an Uncomfortable Australian Past. Dr Peter Stanley will deliver the ninth Annual Archives Lecture of the ANU Archives Program. Tuesday 14 September 2010, 5.30-7pm, McDonald Room, Menzies Building, Fellows Road, ANU.
• Labour in Politics – Past and Present. A symposium by the Brisbane Labour History Association. Saturday 2 October 2010. State Library of Queensland. Please RSVP by 15 September with an email to Avalon Kent: Avalon.Kent@lhmu.org.au
• Democracy vs Communism: Remembering the 1951 Referendum on the Banning of the Communist Party. Call for Papers. A conference to commemorate this historic event will be held in Melbourne on Thursday 22nd September 2011. A wide variety of perspectives are invited, including legal, political, social, cultural, transnational and autobiographical. If you would like to give a paper, please send proposals (with a title, short abstract and biographical note) by 30 November 2010 to Joy Damousi (j.damousi@unimelb.edu.au) or Ann Curthoys (Ann.Curthoys@sydney.edu.au). We hope to have an oral history section, so if you have personal memories of these events and would like to talk about them briefly, or if you know of someone else who fits in this category, please let us know.
• Globalisation and Labour in the Pacific: Re-evaluating the 1890 Maritime Strike. A symposium to be held at AUT University, Auckland City, Thursday 4 November 2010. Click here to see the program and registration form.