on 3 May 1972. An annual oration has been instituted in memory of him. The first F. Oswald Barnett Oration was delivered by Associate Professor Renate Howe of Deakin University at St Kilda on 21 October 1994. The oration seeks to acknowledge the contribution Barnett made to eliminating poor housing conditions and is organised by Housing Choices Australia, a national not-for-profit housing provider who creates safe, quality, affordable housing for people who are struggling to find a home in Australia's challenging private rental market. Prior to Housing Choices Australia, it was jointly sponsored by Ecumenical Housing, (a commission of the Victorian Council of Churches) and Copelen Child and Family Services (formerly Methodist Babies’ Home). Publications Articles and treatises ‘The Economics of the Slums’, M Comm thesis, University of Melbourne, 1931. The Unsuspected Slums, The Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne, 1933. Housing Investigation and Slum Abolition Board, 1936-37. First Progress Report, Victoria, Parliamentary Papers, 1937 (with WO Burt, M Barlow et al.). The Making of a Criminal, Melbourne, 1940. The New Testament Basis of Pacifism, Melbourne, 1940. Housing the Australian Nation, Left Book Club Research Group, Melbourne, 1942 (with WO Burt). Housing and the Church, Christian Social Order Movement, Sydney, 1944 (Ecumenical Housing Collection). The Poverty of the People in Australia, Good Companions’ Christian Social Order Group, Melbourne, 1944 (with AG Pearson). We Must Go On: A Study of Planned Reconstruction and Housing, Melbourne, 1944 (with WO Burt and FN Heath). ‘The Flesh and Blood Aspects of Planning’, Twentieth Century: An Australian Quarterly Review, March, 1948. Is it Safe to Adopt a Baby? A Social Study, Melbourne, 1949, Ministry of Planning and Housing Library. The Divinity of Christ from a Layman’s Point of View, The Book Depot, Melbourne, 1949 (Ecumenical Housing Collection). I Remember. Reminiscences, typescript, Ministry of Planning and Housing Library,(1964). Poetry Prayers Before I Sleep, 1945. Prayers When I Awake, 1945. I Hear the Tramp of Millions, 1945. Happy Endings to Old Nursery Rhymes - Rhymes by F. Oswald Barnett Pictures by Dorothy Dibdin, The Book Depot Melbourne 1945. Prayers for Those Who Cannot Sleep, 1946. How Lovely is This World and other Poems, NH Seward Pty, Melbourne, 1961 See also Dudley Flats Public housing in Australia Housing Commission of Victoria References External links Barnett, Frederick Oswald - Australian Dictionary of Biography Entry Culture Victoria – images and the story of campaigner Fredrick Oswald Barnett 1883 births 1972 deaths