Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
The P Tobin Oration is held each Eureka Day to honour the significant contribution of the late P Tobin OAM to the commemoration and interpretation of the Eureka Stockade and its legacy.
We were honoured to welcome David Bannear to deliver the 2020 P Tobin Oration on the 166th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade. The 2020 lecture was livestreamed to Facebook 03 December.
David covers the archaeology of the Eureka Stockade Memorial Park surviving mining relics of Ballarat and other central Victorian goldfields, and their contribution to the proposed UNESCO World Heritage bid. David was involved in early development of the case for World Heritage nomination of the Central Victorian Goldfields and continues to be vitally interested in the success of that bid.
The P Tobin Oration is held each Eureka Day to honour the significant contribution of the late P Tobin OAM to the commemoration and interpretation of the Eureka Stockade and its legacy.
We were honoured to welcome David Bannear to deliver the 2020 P Tobin Oration on the 166th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade. The 2020 lecture was livestreamed to Facebook 03 December.
David covers the archaeology of the Eureka Stockade Memorial Park surviving mining relics of Ballarat and other central Victorian goldfields, and their contribution to the proposed UNESCO World Heritage bid. David was involved in early development of the case for World Heritage nomination of the Central Victorian Goldfields and continues to be vitally interested in the success of that bid.




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