NAMATJIRA PARK
Namatjira Park in Springs Road, Clayton South, was named as it suggests for Albert Namatjira. It was named in the 1960s along with a rash of name changes for streets, mostly in the Clayton area, to indigenous names. None of the names in a fast-developing Clayton appear to be indigenous
FIRST NATIONS MURAL IN OAKLEIGH
A mural commissioned by the City of Monash and painted by Gunditjmara, Yorta Yorta and Wemba Wemba artist Tom Day, has been painted on a previously blank canvas ─ the southern wall of Monash Council’s Atkinson Street carpark in Oakleigh. Titled Nanyubak artist Tom Day explained his concept at a
‘READ ALL ABOUT IT!”: NEWSAGENCIES IN THE 1950s TO 1970s.
“Read all about it! He-r-ald!” The once-ubiquitous call of the newsboy at busy intersections is long gone, as is the sight of heavily-laden bikes bearing paperboys around the suburbs. Newsagencies, in the last fifty years in Australia, have undergone great changes. This article focusses upon newsagencies from the 1950s until
