Woodworking Machinery Induction (Blue Dot) – Phases 1 & 2 All Members who wish to use the woodworking machinery in the Machine Room will need to complete Phase 1 & Phase 2 of the Woodworking Machinery Induction Training. Please Note that Members must have completed the Red Dot course before enrolling in this Blue Dot course? This Course will be conducted in two Phases over two consecutive weeks (9am - 12pm) so you must be able to commit to both sessions before purchasing a ticket. Each Phase will be approximately a three hour duration. There will be a maximum of 3 persons for each Session. The Cost of this course (for both Phases) is $20.  If after booking, for some reason you cannot attend the training, please advise Michael Cahill on 0459062090 as soon as possible, so we can arrange another session for you.  If you cancel or are a “no show” on the day you will lose your $20 fee so please, only book if you can commit to the two consecutive weeks. Payments can be made online by secure credit card.  Once you have completed both phases of the Woodworking Machinery Induction your Membership Badge will be updated to replace the Red Dot with a Blue Dot.  This will reflect that you have completed all the necessary Woodworking Training and are ready to undertake any Woodworking projects in the Shed. 

All Members who intend to be part of the Woodworking Group will need to complete this Power Tools Induction Training. There is a once off Cost of $10 for this Training Course, which can be paid when you purchase a ticket. Note: Members are required to complete the 'Yellow Dot' Shed Introduction session before taking part in a Red Dot training session. There will be a maximum of 3 persons for each Training Session.  If after booking, for some reason you cannot attend the training, please advise the acting Red Dot coordinator, Lars Schmidt, on 01414332730 (SMS please), or email (palshs10@gmail.com) as soon as possible, so we can arrange another session for you.  If you have trouble booking please contact Jeremy by SMS. The successful completion of the Red Dot Training is a pre-requisite to booking the Blue Dot Woodwork Machinery Course. Once you have completed this Training, your Membership Badge will updated to show a Red Dot and enable you to undertake any projects in the Main Workshop that utilise only Power Tools. 

We are in for a real treat for this talk. Here is a synopsis to entice our members and friends. Title:  From the Eendracht to the Leeuwin: Dutch Maritime Connections with Western Australia from 1616 to circa 1650 While 2029 marks 200 years since a British colony was established in Western Australia, it is also 400 years since the VOC ship Batavia was wrecked on the Abrolhos Islands. Dutch connections with Australia, however, stretch back much further. From the first recorded Dutch sighting of Australia in 1606, the Dutch have had maritime, military, migration and mercantile connections with Australia—and, since Dirk Hartog’s landing on the Western Australian coast in 1616, with WA in particular. In this talk, I explore the activities of the Dutch Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC, or Dutch East India Company) in the Indian Ocean during the Netherlands’ Golden Age, and how Western Australia first became part of this much larger story. I examine the four Dutch VOC shipwrecks along the WA coast, Batavia (1629), Gilt Dragon (1656), Zuytdorp (1712) & Zeewijk (1727) and consider the intriguing possibility of interaction and cohabitation between shipwreck survivors and Aboriginal peoples. I also take you behind the scenes of historical research: how can we trace information of the ships and sometimes people who sailed them across four centuries? This includes my research into the Leeuwin (1622) and the discovery of its skipper in 2022. These voyages reveal not only what the Dutch encountered along the Western Australian coast, but also why, despite their early discoveries, Dutch maritime exploration and contact with the WA coastline eventually ceased. Nonja Peters (PhD UWA) is an anthropologist, historian and curator specialising in transnational migration, migrant heritage and the social and cultural histories of postwar migration. She was Founding Director of the Migration Experiences Research Centre (MERC) at Curtin University and has pioneered research, digital preservation and public humanities initiatives documenting migrant histories and experiences. She is currently Adjunct Professor at Edith Cowan University’s SAGE Futures Lab and Adjunct Research Fellow at the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, Curtin University.