Spiritualism – the religion that communicates with the dead – found one of its earliest and strongest footholds in Australia in Melbourne, which quickly became the movement’s national centre. Alfred Deakin was a well-known follower. From the late nineteenth century, séances, mediums and churches flourished across the city, making it a heartland of spirit communication. …

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Professor Joan Beaumont (author of Australia's Great Depression) will conduct a walking tour of places of significance to Brunswick during the Great Depression of the 1930s.  As an industrial suburb, Brunswick was badly affected by unemployment and was also a centre for political activity.  This included the artist Noel Counihan famously having himself locked in …

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