Hunter Living Histories – July 2024 Showcase – Public Housing & Planning

Hunter Living Histories Showcase
Monday, 1 July 2024

Join us for the University Library’s monthly Hunter Living Histories showcase. All Welcome.

WHERE: via (ZOOM link HERE) or in person Room L326, Auchmuty Library, Callaghan Campus, Newcastle. (Type Room no. into ONLINE MAP)

WHEN –  Monday 1 July 2024 (1.00pm-2.30pm)

• • Welcome & Acknowledgement of Countries (Gionni di Gravio OAM)

  

   

  • Planning and “Public Housing”  – The aim of the discussion is to understand how public/affordable housing once worked, why it went belly up, and what we need to do to get it back on track.

  • Presenters:

  • • Mr Joe Flood  – Principal Research Scientist and leader of housing research at CSIRO. Joe Flood is a policy, data analyst and mathematician. He has made contributions to mathematics, housing and urban economics, urban indicators, slum studies, climate change and genetic genealogy. Flood worked in CSIRO from 1977 to 1993, where he conducted about 25 research projects for every level of government in Australia during 1984-93. His research contributed to several major changes in Australia’s housing policy. With university partners, he established the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) in 1993. – See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Flood_(policy_analyst)
      

  

   

  • • Enzhuo Gai – Enzhuo Gai, also known as Jason, is an architecture graduate from the University of Newcastle. He founded Enzhuo Studio, a boutique design firm with 14 years of industry experience. Jason successfully leads and completes a wide range of projects, from residential to commercial. Such as residential homes, medium-density housing, childcare centres, mixed-use commercials, town centre design and planning projects. With a strong background in art, Jason brings a creative and artistic approach to every project. His dedication to excellence and passion for design have earned him numerous accolades and a loyal client base. ENZHUO Studio Pty Ltd

   

  

   

  • • Dr John Mackenzie – Consultant. The Institute for Regional Futures. John is a consulting researcher at the University of Newcastle’s Institute for Regional Futures, one of the University’s flagship research institutes. Building on the legacy of the Hunter Research Foundation, the Institute partners with governments, industries and communities providing social, economic and spatial evidence to strategic planning and decision-making. John chairs the City of Newcastle’s Liveable Cities Committee and is a member of the Hunter Central Coast Regional Planning Panel, both of which inform key decisions in planning and housing in the City of Newcastle.

  

   

  TOPIC DISCUSSION : Planning for Public Housing

  Heritage and environmental groups are expressing concern at the housing issue. Everyone wants something done about getting people into affordable housing but are worried that the mad rush is trashing proper planning; they simply fear that replacing poor planning (that got us into this housing mess) is not going to be solved by more poor planning rushed through to get us out of it.

  Join in a discussion  on this planning and public housing issue. With key presenters, representatives from heritage and environmental groups, and UON Students.

   

  Housing in the Hunter – Larry Short – Aug 1988 by UONCC

  
  UPDATES FROM THE REGIONS

  • Regional GLAM Institutions Updates
  • Hunter Regional Committee Hunter National Trust Updates

  RECENT NEWS

  • Talk “A Closer Look at Central Maitland’s Past” with Historian Peter F Smith, presented by Maitland Historical Society. Monday 1 July at 5.30, East Maitland – Further details available HERE
  • NSW History Week 2024 on 7-15 September, with the theme, “Marking Time”. Further details HERE 
  • Wallsend 150th Celebrations – see Facebook page ‘Wallsend Area Then and Now’
  • Descendants’ Day at Dalwood 2024. The 194th anniversary of the planting of Australia’s oldest continuous commercial vineyard will be celebrated at Dalwood, Branxton on Saturday 7 September 2024.HERE

  HUNTER LIVING HISTORIES

  • “Presents, crafts, art, and collecting in the extended Rusden family” by Dr Paula Jane Byrne
    https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2024/06/12/crafts-art-pjb/

  • Do the Shipwrecks on Jeffreys’ 1816 Survey of Hunter’s River Still Exist?
    https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2024/06/13/jeffreys-1816/

  • Resting Place of the Waves.. https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2024/05/03/whibayganba/
    And, if you adore explorations into ancient Aboriginal words, then check out the post on the Whibayganba film and the wonderful new research into the meanings of the Aboriginal names of Whibayganba (Nobbys), Burrabihngarn, (Original Aboriginal Name of Coastline Around Stockton Oyster Bank), and Corengorra/Gorengorra, “Resting Place of the Waves” .. (Original Aboriginal Name of Big Ben Reef).

    This information subsequently came out after the film, thanks to GLAMx Volunteer Leigh Budden, but we may be able to use it in the shipwrecks film, as there is a dramatic and mythical dimension to these ancient landmarks attacking, sinking and defending our land from invader vessels, just as you find within the monsters of ancient Greek myths. Enjoy!

    “Rewind – A Hunter Region NBN Television Retrospective“ – A University Library Exhibition, Level 2 Auchmuty Library Callaghan Campus. Starts 1 July, 2024 to 15 September 2024.

    

    Stories of Our Town

    

  A coloured engraving of an original that was published in the Illustrated Sydney News. Full Ref: THE RECENT GALE. (1866, August 16). Illustrated Sydney News (NSW : 1853 – 1872), p. 8. Retrieved June 25, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63513073.

  The Schooner Lismore was stranded and eventually wrecked on Stockton Beach in the same storm that wrecked the Cawarra with all lives lost bar one on the 13th July 1866. All lives were saved on the Lismore due to the efforts of the Rocket Brigade. See: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166666532

  
  End : (2.30 pm)