Have you ever looked closely at the different notes in your wallet, or do you just glance superficially, interested only in the denomination?
You all know and recognise the persons depicted on each note, but have you ever looked more closely at the rest of the decorations surrounding the portrait?
I must confess that I hadn’t. Not until I was preparing last month’s newsletter and the articles on the Royal Flying Doctor Service, when I came across the following diagram.
The design also incorporates innovative security features including a patch with a rolling-colour effect and microprint of excerpts from Flynn’s book.
This debate was a famous dispute in The Bulletin magazine from 1892–93 between two of Australia’s most iconic writers and poets: Henry Lawson and Andrew Barton “Banjo” Paterson. At the time, The Bulletin was a popular and influential publication, and often supported the typical national self-image held by many Australians, sometimes termed the “bush legend.” Many Australian writers and poets, such as “Banjo” Paterson,…
Set on a picturesque headland overlooking the harbour, Sydney’s quarantine station housed close to 16,000 people from 1835 to 1984. it served as a holding station for passengers on inbound ships to New South Wales arriving from well-known hotspots for contagious diseases. Interned for diseases that terrified the community, people held in quarantine left their…
You never know what you might find on a leisurely stroll. This is the inscription on a plaque I found recently . . . This is the site of the first settlement on 10th January 1792ByWilliam Careless and James Weaversin the locality set up by Governor Phillip asfarms of the eastern boundary (later called Kissing…
Dr John Cade was educated at Scotch College and the University of Melbourne, graduating with honours in Medicine in 1934. The son of a physician who worked as a superintendant at several mental hospitals, Dr Cade joined St Vincent’s Hospital as a Resident Medical Officer in 1935 and the Royal Children’s Hospital in 1936. Later that year…
Make it idiot proof, and someone will make a better idiot.He who laughs last thinks slowest!Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.When there’s a will, I want to be in it.Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.Every morning is the dawn of a new error…There cannot be a crisis today; my schedule is already full.Car…
At a meeting of the Australian Soccer Football Association in January 1927, it was decided to declare its bid for a spot at the Amsterdam Olympiad. Shortly after, a Darwin-born Chinese man arrived with a few football ideas of his own.Professor Kwang Lim Kwong came to Australia as a representative of the Shanghai Football Association…
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