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Gold Rush and The Life and Death of Mafeking
In 1900 two brothers discovered gold, founding Mafeking, Ladysmith and Spion Cop in the Gampian mountains of Australia. Now all that remains is a commemorative cairn.
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Gatton Murders, 1898, Queensland, Australia
On Boxing Day 1898, one of Queensland's infamous murders took place near the small town of Gatton. A young man and his two sisters were brutally slain in a paddock.
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History of Moreton Island Whaling, Queensland
Whaling in Brisbane in 1950's was done from the Tangalooma Whaling Station on Moreton Island and ended in 1962. The whaling station is now the Tangalooma Island Resort.
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European History of Queensland's Moreton Island
Moreton Island is a 200 square kilometre sand island that, with Stradbroke Island, is the protective buffer that forms Moreton Bay, in southern Queensland, Australia.
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History St Helena Island, Queensland, Australia
St Helena, a small island in Moreton Bay, was a prison during early European settlement in Brisbane, Queensland. Its convict ruins are now a tourist attraction.
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Severing a Limb to Save a Life When Trapped
People severing limbs to free themselves after getting the limb stuck have been happening for while. An incident occurred in 1912 in central Queensland, Australia.
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Australia's Role in the Abdication Crisis
The Australian Government also insisted Edward VIII abdicated rather than marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
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Gallipoli 1915
Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered a bombardment of the Dardanelles in October 1914 - a month before the Ottoman Empire formally entered the war.
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Edmund Barton Australia's First Prime Minister
Edmund Barton helped write the Australan Constitution before Ferderation, administered it as Prime Minister, and interpreted it as a High Court judge.
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Nancy Bird Walton Australian Aviator
A love of life above the clouds took Nancy Bird Walton around the world, fulfilling dreams that began in childhood.
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Book Review: Churchill and Australia
Winston Churchill's relationship with Australia was a troubled one from 1909, as a junior minister, to bitter disputes regarding Australian troops during World War II.
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Henry Duke of Gloucester
Prime Minister Curtin believed appointing a member of the royal family would improve chances Britain maintained its commitment to Australia's defence during World War II.
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The Bombing of Darwin
The Bombing of Darwin was the largest attack against Australia by a foreign power, and the worst wartime disaster. It became known as Australia's Pearl Harbour.
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Narrabri's Australia Telescope Compact Array
The Australia Telescope Compact Array at Narrabri is the first millimetre-wave interferometer in the Southern Hemisphere. It celebrated 20 years with an Open Day in 2008.
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Parkes Radio Telescope
The Parkes Radio Telescope celebrates the 40th anniversary of the moon landing on 21 July 1969.
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Bribie Island, QLD, Australia - Local History
Bribie Island was a fertile home to the Gubbi Gubbi Aboriginal people until European settlement in the 1860s. Today, Bribie is a Brisbane island tourist playground.
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Pioneering Outback Northern Australia
In the 1880s pastoralists took ownership of the Victoria River area. Their goal was to make a profit. But the land was not easily owned and profit not so easily made.
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Waltzing Matilda - Brand Marketing for Billy Tea
Australia's national song, Waltzing Matilda, was deployed by the makers of Billy Tea as a jingle, a neat piece of brand marketing. The lyrics were subtly altered to suit.
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Waltzing Matilda Lyrics- Andrew 'Banjo' Paterson
Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson wrote Waltzing Matilda while holidaying at Dagworth Station near Winton, QLD. The origin of Waltzing Mathilda may have been based on fact.
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Waltzing Matilda - Meaning of Australian Words
An explanation for people all over the world - and many new Australian citizens - who are baffled by the Australian slang and idiom used in the words to Waltzing Matilda.
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Crossing the Blue Mountains
Although beautiful, the Blue Mountains hindered the expansion of colonial Sydney. Many tried to cross but it was Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth who suceeded.
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Australian National Flag
At Federation, Australia still did not have its own national flag, the Union Jack continued to fly. It was1953 before Australia's current flag was offically recognised.
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Australian Aborigine Creation Myth
As in many ancient Creation stories, the Aboriginal myth details a sequence that begins with the coming of light and ends with the formation of male and female.
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Edmund Banfield Was The Original Beachcomber
Banfield didn't want to follow the standard beat of society in the late 1800s, so with wife Bertha, moved onto deserted Dunk Island off the Queensland coast, Australia.
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The Ghosts of Lady Elliot Island
A number of human tragedies have occurred on Lady Elliot Island, a coral island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. From these tragedies ghosts may now inhabit the island.
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