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The hated Protector
Telling for the first time the extraordinary experiences of Charles Sievwright, Assistant Aboriginal Protector from 1839-42 in what…
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History
History · Journalism
Steve Pappas
As the Wet Season approached in the Northern Territory late in 1929, Stavros Papavassiliou had fallen in love…
History
History · Journalism
Joe Saffigna
In the sugar cane fields of tropical north Queensland in the early 1930s, men were dropping dead at…
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Ella, Queen of the Air
A new biography of Ella Zuila, the Sydney girl who entertained the world on a wire…coming soon!
History
History · People
“A small match-box full of gold…”
The birth of Bendigo, and a nominee for Aussie iconography… Christian Asquith began life in one of the…
History
History · People
A top hat, five tame rabbits and a plank
A top hat, five tame rabbits and a plank. In another time and place, they’d be a magician’s…
History
History · People
Grace Vale: pioneer female doctor
Grace Vale (1860-1933) was a pioneer Australian female doctor and suffragist who devoted much of her career to…
History
History · People
Amy Castilla: pioneer female doctor
In the 1890s, when women cyclists in Melbourne were uncommon, and women doctors very rare, for several years…
History
History · Issues
Lucinda Musgrave: charity worker and anti-suffragist
Born Jeanie Lucinda Field (1833-1920), Lady Lucinda Musgrave was a prominent American-born promoter of women’s charitable projects in…
History
History · People
Bob ‘Doc’ Cunningham: magician
Robert (Bob) ‘Doc’ Cunningham (1873-1951), was an American illusionist, stunt performer, and showman whose stage names included Zante,…