In the press
Click to introduce the journalism — decades of reporting, features and photography. Add pieces as normal posts in a “Journalism” category and they’ll gather below.
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Jimmy Anastassiou
On the humid last day of February in 1951, a young Cypriot carpenter walked out of the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne with a precedent-setting victory over rough bush injustice. Judge Arthur Dean had just ruled that the trial of Demetrius Anastassiou in a cramped police office in Yallourn in Gippsland had not been…
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Clam shell axe head, Solomon Islands
This is an axe head made from part of a giant claim shell. It was found on Nendo island, the largest in the Santa Cruz group in Solomon Islands. It measures about 8 cm x 5 cm. It is impossible to tell how old it may be. The Spanish navigator, Alvaro de Mendana y Neira,…
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Jumma indigenous people, Bangladesh, 1979
A father and son of the Jumma indigenous people of Bangladesh, photographed in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, bordering India and Myanmar. The photo was taken in 1979, when an insurgency was underway led by the Shanti Bahini group. The insurgency was sparked by displacement the Jumma people from the Hill Tracts, and settlement of Bengali…
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Senna auriculata
Flowers of the senna auriculata tree, also known as the avaram senna or ranawara tree. It is common in dry regions of India and Sri Lanka, and is the state flower of the south-central Indian state of Telangana. The flowers have been reported to be effective in the treatment of hyperglycemia and associated hyperlipidemia. The…
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‘There was literally a ring of fire about us’
A rare audio recording from 1967 of 11-year-old Tasmanian boy Bob Elliston, talking about his family’s successful efforts to save their rural home during the Black Tuesday bushfires on 7 February. The Black Tuesday fires claimed 62 lives, making them the deadliest in Tasmanian history. Hundreds of other people were injured, and 7000 people were…
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Bamiyan, Afghanistan, 1978
Bamiyan village, Afghanistan, 1978.
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‘Jeannette and Jeannot’, 1848
This drawing depicts the separation of two young lovers, as one leaves to fight in the French Revolutionary wars as an army conscript. A new French system of conscription introduced in 1798, making men aged 20 to 25 liable for five years of army service, is seen as the beginning of modern conscription. (1) Throughout…
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Camel, central Australia
A camel in central Australia
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Peppers
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‘A Panama Makes a Man-o’-pa!’
‘A Panama Makes a Man-o’-pa!’ by A. H. Lennie (c. 1905). Alexander Henderson Lennie (1890-1968) was a Glasgow-born artist.
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Boon Juat Lee
Former Chinese seaman Boon Juat Lee served in both the Australian and US armies in WW2, but he was refused citizenship despite having an Australian-born wife and two Australian-born children. In July 1942, with the Australian mainland coming under regular Japanese attack, Boon Juat Lee and his fellow Chinese crew members on the Gorgon passenger-cargo…
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Boer POW memorial, Sri Lanka
‘In memory of the Prisoners of War who died at Diyatalawa Camp who were buried near this stone. Erected by the Government of United South Africa, 1918’. The names of 133 Boer Prisoners of War were inscribed on this memorial at Diyatalawa in Sri Lanka. They were among about 5000 Boer POWs sent to Ceylon…