Congratulations Helen Gobbi OAM
It is a great pleasure to announce that Helen Gobbi, the History Monash Inc historian and Vice-President, was awarded a Medal (OAM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List on 8 June 2020. Helen’s award is for “service to community history”. Her award is very well deserved, as Helen has contributed
DOROTHY GIBSON: GARDEN PARTIES IN OAKLEIGH FOR COMMUNISM
Few people nowadays would recognise the name of Dorothy Gibson from Oakleigh, Victoria. Yet this woman was hailed by Australian historian Stephen Murray-Smith as a person whom history should not forget, and a “kind of latter-day saint”.[1] Dorothy Gibson had a remarkable life of political action dedicated to world peace
