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23 Feb 2012

Stef Nowak

  • Manager
  • Telstra Museum Hawthorn
  • Stef manages the Telstra Museum at Hawthorn in Melbourne. He is also the president of the Victorian Telecommunications Museum Inc established in 2003. This is the volunteer affiliate under Heritage Telstra that is charged to managing and exhibiting the vast collection of artefacts held in Melbourne.

    Stef has had almost 25 years in ‘the job’ and his historical interest was sown as a 9 year old when an old technician gave him an old black telephone, not mention his dad and brother were in the PMG too!

    It is an understanding by Stef that the opportunity to be involved with a significant and important part of Australia’s heritage is indeed a privilege.

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Mobile memories – in celebration of 25 years of hand-held phones

23 Feb 2012

Author: Stef Nowak.
It’s hard to believe it has been 25 years since the launch of the first hand-held mobile phone. Whereas today I wouldn’t dream of leaving home without my trusty handset in my pocket, I recall 25 years ago when I was a trainee technician in the Mornington Peninsula, and we first launched the ‘Walkabout’ things were very different……


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Aspiring Dj Charlie Munns Visits The Telstra Museum

21 Oct 2011

Author: Stef Nowak.
When 10 year old Charlie Munns of Revesby Heights grows up he’d like to start a career in Radio. Young Charlie is pictured here at the working ex-ABC announcers’ console on display in the Telstra Museum at Bankstown with his mother Julie-Anne, his grandmother, and his volunteer Ralph McIlwraith and Museum manager Brian Mullins.


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Telstra Museum virtual tour

12 Aug 2011

Author: Stef Nowak.
This week marks 30 years since the first phone call was made on Australia’s very first public mobile network – built by Telstra (or Telecom, as we were known back then).


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