Jean’s story continues about her experiences as a Voluntary Aide at the Walker Hospital in 1919 Came off duty at 9pm but we get up at 5.45. I have already seen enough to know influenza is a tragic thing and it seems callous to be cheerful up here. But everyone is cheerful, friendly and efficient…
Our COVID-19 Safety plan has been lodged with Council and we are permitted to open to the public. All precautions are being taken to protect our members, volunteers and visitors. Regular rules of social distancing and regular cleaning are being monitored by our COVID Safety Officer. With travel and other restrictions now is the time…
Before the reform of Australia’s marriage laws in 1975, getting divorced was a difficult and generally humiliating experience. One party had to prove their spouse was at fault in an open court of law. Lawyers could challenge the other side’s deposition, while seeking to show their client as the aggrieved party. This often exposed intimate…
Monday, July 21, 1969. : The CSIRO Observatory in Parkes, Australia, transmits the first pictures of the Apollo 11 Moon walk to the world. Parkes is a rural town in the central west of New South Wales, located about 265km west of Sydney. The region was originally settled by pastoralists in 1865. Known as Bushmans…
THE story of Australian bushranging divides itself naturally into three periods — that of the runaway convicts whom the terrors of the “System” drove to seek escape from its cruelties in the bush; that which had its beginnings about the time of the gold discoveries, when the bushrangers were generally free men of an adventurous…
BURIED IN BUSH AT CABARITA Two Aero Club pilots, F.R. Maguire and J. Pollack, had an amazing escape this afternoon when a Moth plane they were flying crashed on to a narrow strip of scrubland at Cabarita Point. The plane came down within a few yards of the roadway and narrowly missed diving into Kendall…
Here we are past halfway through 2020 and what a year we have had so far with the worst bushfire season on record following a drought (still on going in some areas) and that in some areas was followed by floods when the rains finally came. Add to this the COVIO -19 pandemic which has…
Alexander Vindex Vennard (1884-1947), collected yarns, ballads and anecdotes about bush life, which were published for about twenty-five years in a regular column ‘On the Track’ for the “North Queensland Register” and “Townsville Daily Bulletin”. He adopted the pseudonym ‘Bill Bowyang’ after the straps buckled over trousers below the knees. The following article was written…
Jean’s story continues about her experiences as a Volunary Aide at the Walker Hospital in 1919: Much coming and going of masked and bewildering figures, among which a tall, straight, young doctor (a returned soldier named Percival Davenport) stood out clearly. He spoke to me curtly once and later unexpectedly apologized. The house matron, Newman,…
I dream of a better tomorrow… where chickens can cross roads and not have their motives questioned. Early to bed and early to rise — till you get enough money to do otherwise.” “The sun shines on the rich and the poor alike. But when it comes to rain, the rich have better umbrellas.” –…
Picture this. It’s 1932 and Australia was in the grip of the Great Depression. One in three workers were unemployed Decrepit shanty town hugged the outskirts of the big cities. A scrawny rabbit, caught in a trap, would feed a family for a week. Country roads were filled with broken men walking from one farmhouse…
Nu-Dry, your Mechanical Laundress Clothes dryer and Automatic rinser.The turn of a tap and your clothes are rinsed and ready for the line in three minutes.No electricity. No Gas. No gears. Operates from a water tap and lasts a lifetime. Their instruction book reads . . . Your Greatest Problem is answered, Mrs. Housewife! Yes,…
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