MATERIAL CULTURE CONSERVATION SEMINAR AND NETWORKING EVENT – Presented by Karina Acton (Senior Objects Conservator, International Conservation Services) Date: 24 July 2018 (Tuesday) Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM Location: Bells Hotel (157 Moray Street, South Melbourne)

Aboriginal Heritage Management in WA's Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage – Cesar Rodriguez and Robert Reynolds, Heritage Officers are at the WA Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage, will speak about the non-statutory application of Aboriginal heritage management within the department (details below)

Sydney Ideas - The find of the century for archaeology? – Are archaeologists missing out on a valuable discovery channel? In the latest Tom Austen Brown lecture Dr Mark Collard, an evolutionary anthropologist, argues that comparative ethnology – comparing and contrasting the features of large samples of human societies – should be a key archaeological tool.