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Sam Campbell – Window Sucker

Odd comedian Sam Campbell is en route to shed new light on all of the funniest topics before your very (beautiful) eyes. This guy is the full package but not the full dollar. Beneath every seat, we will place a loaded syringe, just in case he gets too carried away. Try to inject him near his spinal column if you dare or indeed can catch him.

Green Faces Finalist and Mo Award Nominee.

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Selden Society 2025 lecture two—50 years of the Family Law Act

Selden Society 2025 lecture two

50 years of the Family Law Act
Presented by the Hon Mary Finn
Thursday 26 June
5.15 for 5.30pm
Banco Court, Level 3, QEII Courts of Law

This lecture will explain broadly the fundamental changes to divorce and matrimonial causes law introduced by the Family Law Act in 1975, and will demonstrate how the many changes to the Act over the past 50 years have transformed family law as much as, if not more than, the original changes introduced in 1975.

Register to attend this free event and stay for refreshments and networking after in the Portrait Gallery, or register for the livestream.
Visit www.sclqld.org.au/selden for more information.

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Josephine Wants to Dance

This winter school holidays, Jackie French and Bruce Whatley’s beloved story leaps from page to stage in ‘Josephine Wants to Dance’.

Join a determined kangaroo as she chases her dreams in this fun-filled, heartwarming musical for young audiences.

“A complete delight” ★★★★ Jo Litson, Daily Telegraph

Playing at Brisbane Powerhouse on Tuesday 8 and Wednesday 9 July 2025.

Suitable for ages 5+
Tickets from $32 + booking fee
AUSLAN performance – Wednesday 9 July, 10am

Presented by Brisbane Powerhouse and Monkey Baa Theatre Company

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Stories through time, National Reconciliation Week 2025 Exhibition Tours

In the spirit of considering the 2025 National Reconciliation Week (NRW) theme, Bridging Now to Next, which reflects the ongoing connection between past, present and future, please join UQ Anthropology Museum staff for a guided tour of Stories through time: Living cultures, enduring connections

Various tours available throughout the week, subject to numbers.

Generations of Indigenous Australian and Pacific peoples have worked to preserve and celebrate cultural continuity through making, sharing and documenting the everyday objects and practices of Country and Custom.

Over the past seventy-five years thousands of objects have made their way into the Anthropology Museum’s custodianship. The Museum has been a place for critical discourse and this exhibition celebrates the collaborative relationships forged between Indigenous and non-Indigenous producers and scholars.

Since the 1950s makers, storytellers and knowledge holders have connected with their material culture in the collection, to re-imagine cultural continuity for future generations. This exhibition presents key collections which contain and convey some of these deeply significant social, spiritual and economic ties.

This public program is held in conjunction with National Reconciliation Week, as we value and celebrate the uniqueness of knowledges, culture, histories and languages that have been created and shared for millennia.

Featuring works by artists, photographers, craftspeople, cultural knowledge holders and researchers from across Australia and the Pacific:

Aspasia Gadai (Yewo) / Eeng Ampeybegan / Esther Ngala Kennedy (1948-2005) / Ivy-Rose Sirimi / Irene Mbitjana Entata (1946-2014) / Kamaki Isaga / Kauindu / Kelly Kanti / Larry Gavenor / Maude Jowrth / Mede / Mikompa Peemuggina / Nanganarralil (c.1938-94) / Napolean Oui / Narritjin Maymuru (c.1916-81) / Peter Mondjingu (2) (c.1931-95) / Richard Birrinbirrin / Wadubu Bawadi /
Yirrkala artists: Marriwana (Djirrmurmur) Marika / Multhara Mununngurritj / Marrnyula Mununngurr / Gunariny Wanambi / Mulmulpa Gurruwiwi
Kamana clay pot artists: James Yamran / Clement Saun / Ruben David / Carolyna Alois / Rubina Tup / Egnas Wapi / Goffred Kanji
Photographs by: Arthur Power Lyons (1879-1965) / Professor Bob MacLennan (1931-2013) / Tony Crawford

Image: Untitled 2010. Irene Mbitjana Entata (1946-2014) Arrernte. UQ Anthropology Museum Collection

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Spread the sand in the Balmoral Cemetery

After Cyclone Alfred, locals delivered used sandbags to the Balmoral Cemetery for us to use to fill holes in pathways etc. Come along and help us ‘spread the sand’ over 2 weekends, Saturday 24 May 2025 and Saturday 31 May 2025 -Time- 8:30 to 11:30am.

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Balmoral Art Month in June

Balmoral Art Month events on Sundays in June- 2pm-4pm from 8/6/2025 Smartphone photography workshop; 15/6/2025 sketching in the cemetery; 22/6/2025 Celtic crosses walking trail and 29/6/2025 Walk and talk to a stonemason, together with a month long photography competition. See poster for details.

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Stories through time: Living cultures, enduring connections at UQ Anthropology Museum

Generations of Indigenous Australian and Pacific peoples have worked to preserve and celebrate cultural continuity through making, sharing and documenting the everyday objects and practices of Country and Custom.

Over the past seventy-five years thousands of objects have made their way into the Anthropology Museum’s custodianship. The Museum has been a place for critical discourse and this exhibition celebrates the collaborative relationships forged between Indigenous and non-Indigenous producers and scholars.

Since the 1950s makers, storytellers and knowledge holders have connected with their material culture in the collection, to re-imagine cultural continuity for future generations. This exhibition presents key collections which contain and convey some of these deeply significant social, spiritual and economic ties.

Reflecting on these collaborations, the Anthropology Museum acknowledge the many artists and community researchers who continue to share valuable insights into the dynamism of living cultures with deep connections to Country and Custom.

Featuring works by:
Aspasia Gadai (Yewo)
Eeng Ampeybegan
Esther Ngala Kennedy (1948-2005)
Ivy-Rose Sirimi
Irene Mbitjana Entata (1946-2014)
Kamaki Isaga
Kauindu
Kelly Kanti
Larry Gavenor
Maude Jowrth
Mede
Mikompa Peemuggina
Nanganarralil (c.1938-94)
Napolean Oui
Narritjin Maymuru (c.1916-81)
Peter Mondjingu (2) (c.1931-95)
Richard Birrinbirrin
Wadubu Bawadi

Yirrkala artists:
Marriwana (Djirrmurmur) Marika
Multhara Mununngurritj
Marrnyula Mununngurr
Gunariny Wanambi
Mulmulpa Gurruwiwi

Kamana clay pot artists:
James Yamran
Clement Saun
Ruben David
Carolyna Alois
Rubina Tup
Egnas Wapi
Goffred Kanji
Photographs by:
Arthur Power Lyons (1879-1965)
Professor Bob MacLennan (1931-2013)
Tony Crawford

 

 

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A Dart Centenary – Professor Raymond Dart & the Origins of Humanity

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Join us for a day of academic talks focused on the life of Professor Raymond Dart, discoverer of the species of pre-homo Australopithecus africanus. In 1925, he published his findings in Nature on the Taung Child, uncovered in South Africa. His article was groundbreaking and a huge leap forward in our collective understanding of the origins of humanity.

 

Programme:

8:30am 🔹 Registration

9:00am 🔹 Welcome by Prof. Michael Westaway

9:15am 🔹 “Raymond Dart – of Brisbane and the World” by Prof. John Pearn

9:45am 🔹 Keynote Address – “Raymond Dart and Taung – A Personal Memoir of His Paradigm Shift on Human Evolution” by Em. Prof. Laurence Geffen

10:30am 🔹 MORNING TEA

11:00am 🔹 Keynote Address – “Raymond Dart – the Taung Discovery and its Implications” by Prof. Michael Westaway

11:35am 🔹 “Raymond Dart – Schooling and University Alumnus” by Simon Farley Esq.

11:55am 🔹 Keynote Address – “Human Origins – A Century Perspective of the Discovery of Taung” by Prof. Jackson Njau

12.30pm 🔹 LUNCH

1.30pm 🔹 “Stone Tools – Australopithecus and early Homo” by Prof. Mark Collard (TBC)

2.00pm 🔹 “The Osteodentokeratic Culture and Taphonomy” by Assoc. Prof. Tiina Manne

2.30pm 🔹 “The Dart Legacy” by Prof. John Pearn

3.00pm 🔹 CLOSE

 

Further Information:

In February 1925, the scientific journal Nature published Professor Raymond Dart’s paper titled ‘Australopithecus africanus — the ape-man from South Africa’. In 1984, the popular Journal, Science 84, included Dart’s paper as one of the “20 Discoveries That Changed Our Lives”. The authors included Dart’s work with other scientific discoveries which included nuclear fission and the discovery of DNA, the computer and the contraceptive pill.

It was said that Dart’s discovery had: ‘ … a significant impact on the way we live and the way we think about ourselves’.

Two decades later, in December 2003, the publishers of Nature published a book titled A Century of Nature: 21 Discoveries That Change Science and the World; and included Dart’s discovery of Australopithecus africanus as Chapter One in a series which included, inter alii, the first laser, Dolly the sheep (the creation of viable offspring from fetal mammalian cells) and the discovery of continental drift. By 2009, it was written that ‘The story of the discovery of the Taung skull [of Australopithecus africanus] is well known and is now part of the history, even the folklore, of studies of early man’.

Of equal import to the professions of anthropology and archaeology, Dart’s discovery was also to have a profound influence in other domains, including those of philosophy and theology.

Following the publication of his paper in Nature, Dart was immediately confronted with two challenges — one scientific and one personal. The scientific confrontation in turn included two distinct themes. One was his proposal that hominid ancestors derived from Africa, and not from Europe or Asia . The other was a professional challenge that Dart did not have the experience or technical gravitas, and certainly not a background in anthropology or archaeology, to make the evolutionary claims that he proposed; and therefore, that his interpretations were, at best, doubtful. Much has been written about the 20-year controversy which followed the publication of his Nature paper. It transpired that Dart was correct.

Raymond Dart was born in Toowong, in Brisbane at the height of the 1893 flood. His family had owned the land at St Lucia on which the University of Queensland stands today. He studied at the Toowong State School and at the Ipswich Grammar School; and was the first Honours graduate at the newly-established University of Queensland . In the centenary year of Dart’s seminal paper, the University of Queensland and the Royal Historical Society of Queensland is hosting a Dart Centenary Seminar at which world authorities on archaeology, anthropology and history will be speaking — on Friday, 20 June 2025 at the UQ Centre, 308 Queen Street, Brisbane . All are welcome at this special event.

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Queensland Day Dinner 2025

Info: The President and Members of The Royal Historical Society of Queensland request the pleasure of your company at the 2025 Queensland Day Dinner and the presentation of the John and Ruth Kerr Medal for Distinction.

Special Guest Speaker: Vicki McDonald AM FALIA of the State Library of Queensland

Dress: Lounge Suit / Cocktail

Two course meal and drinks included with tickets.

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