Oral History Australia [OHA] is a non-profit body whose members practice and promote oral history. The aims of OHA are:
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- promote discussion and training on all aspects of the methodology and ethical practices of oral history as a discipline and a means of gathering and preserving social and cultural history
- foster preservation access and use of oral history collections
- support State and Territory Oral History associations
- provide a national voice on all aspects of oral history, and
- link Australian oral historians to the international oral history movement.
Find out more about other branches here.
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Do you need the services of an Oral History Practitioner, or a Transcriber?
Check out our Links page.
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Call for Papers Journal 2027
Contributors are invited to submit articles for peer review and reports for the 2027 issue of Studies in Oral History, the journal of Oral History Australia (OHA). The deadline for peer review is 3 December 2026 and for reports, 31 January 2027.
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OHA 2026 Conference Awards Update
The 2026 OHA Biennial Conference is getting closer. Registration is scheduled to open in early August and applications and nominations for the OHA awards will be closing soon. Find out more here.
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Oral Historians Honoured
Prominent oral historians Alistair Thomson and Heather Goodall have been honoured with lifetime achievement awards by the Australian Historical Association (AHA). Past Oral History Australia (OHA) president Alistair Thomson and Professor Heather Goodall were two of three historians to be honoured.
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OHV Symposium 2026
Victoria’s Precarious Oral History Collections: from identification to preservation
Date: Friday 21 August 2026
Time: 9:30am-12:30pm
Venue: Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 239 A’Beckett St, Melbourne.
Note this is a Hybrid event (face to face and online).
Symposium booking link: https://events.humanitix.com/victoria-s-precarious-oral-history-collections-from-identification-to-preservation
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NOMINATION FORM 2026 -2027
Election of Office Bearers and Committee Members
Please complete the form and email to info@ohq.org.au.
Our Annual General Meeting and General Meeting will take place on 29 August 2026. All Executive positions are up for nomination.
OHA Biennial Conference
Next conference: 3 to 6 December 2026
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Go to: Conference website
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