There were a few isolated pockets with long distances including Badgerys Creek (Western Sydney International Airport construction site), the Holsworthy Army Barracks, and Waterfall (maybe related to a rail depot). Here’s the proportion of workers who were employed in central Sydney (including Sydney...
Army base doing dodgy tests on humans. Lupita Nyong'o is in the lead as a ukulele-playing kindergarten teacher, tasked with keeping her adorable class of pint-sized children uneaten and unaware of the danger they're in. But she's not alone, being accompanied by one of the kids' uncles...
So the people were often recorded as wearing a variety of clothes such as army or navy jackets, trousers, petticoats and blouses (etc). From the 1830's a number of Governors issued English blankets to the Aborigines through Magistrates and well respected settlers in various parts of the co...
8-10 DAVID SHORT TUESDAY RECORDS, EP DEE WHY SALVATION ARMY MUSIC FESTIVAL: 28TH NOVEMBER 1970 LP REUBERT HAYES PLAYS THE CONN 'RHAPSODY' ELECTRIC ORGAN PR 003, LP ST LUCY'S SCHOOL FOR BLIND CHILDREN NORTH SYDNEY TECHNICAL HIGH 1968 CAST OF BRISBANE GANG SHOW 1970 GLENN, USTINOV, OLIPHANT...
They looked for him for five days. On the sixth, his father and another came upon something, lying, half-hidden, in the long grass at the bottom of a gully in the ranges, A little army of crows flew heavily away. The father sprang to earth with a white face. Pretty Dick was lying...
—The deathless army(21 Apr 1933, poem; A tribute to the Anzacs ) —Gallipoli(1931, poem) —Killed in action(29 Apr 1932, poem; For the children page) —The landing(29 Apr 1936, poem) —Lines for Violet Memory Day(1932, poem) ...
supplied with most amenities, but were running short of reading material. They had, says the report, “ample supplies of newspapers and regularly published magazines” but “novels, other books and paperbacks [were] in short supply”. Donations were being called for, and the Army would deliver...
Enjoyed for Generations, the History of Haigh’s Chocolates, by Barbara Santich. Everybody likes chocolate, right?Available from Wakefield Press. Cape Aridby Philippa & Alex Nikulinsky. For anyone who loves botanical art like I do but has no intention of venturing into remote places to see it...
where the Fenians hoped to turn the British army against itself. By 1866, estimates put the number of Fenian recruits at 80,000—but informers alerted the British to an impending rebellion, and Devoy was exposed, convicted of treason and sentenced to 15 years’ labor on the Isle of Portland...