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Post by Barney » January 18, 2022, 6:09 am

ON THIS DAY – 18th January

1788 – HMS Supply of the First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay.

1825 – Hume and Hovell returned from their successful exploration overland to Port Phillip.

1878 – Construction of The Ghan railway line started in Port Augusta, South Australia.

1912 – Tramway Employees Association members were dismissed for wearing union badges to work—the ensuing protest marked the beginning of the 1912 Brisbane general strike.

1929 – Sir John Longstaff won the 1928 Archibald Prize for his portrait of Alexander Leeper.

1934 – Qantas and Imperial Airways joined forces and established Qantas Empire Airways.

1977 – Australia experienced its worst railway disaster at Granville, near Sydney, in which 83 people died.

1978 – New South Wales Premier Neville Wran met with prison union officials about their demand that Bathurst Jail be reopened to relieve overcrowding and staff shortages in other prisons.

1982 – Sons and Daughters premiered on the Seven Network.

1985 – First day of the 1985 World Indoor Games in Paris, France, where six Australian athletes were competing: Michael Hillardt (1500 metres), Clayton Kearney (60 and 200 metres), Dave Smith (5000m Walk), Nicole Boegman (Long Jump), Gael Martin (Shot Put), and Deann Mayfield (High Jump). Hillardt wins the gold in the 1500 metres, while Smith claims bronze.

1990 – A fateful outback trip in scorching conditions claimed the lives of seven Aboriginal people from the Punmu community in the Great Sandy Desert.

1994 – Blue Heelers premiered on Channel 7.

1995 – Pope John Paul II began his visit to Australia.

2003 – A bushfire killed 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.

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Air hangar for Qantas Empire Airways Ltd (Wiki) – Top
Sons and Daughters Seven Network, 1982-1987 (Broadcast Now) – Bottom Left
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

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ON THIS DAY – 19th January

1900 – Bubonic plague broke out in Sydney.

1907 – A tropical cyclone hit Cooktown, Queensland, killing six people.

1955 – Australian debut of Scrabble.

1957 – The last edition of The Argus newspaper was published.

1957 – GTV-9 television station was officially opened in Melbourne.

1968 – William Pidgeon won the Archibald Prize with his portrait of Lloyd Rees.

1970 – Prime Minister John Gorton announced that Federal Cabinet had accepted the recommendation of a Senate select committee for Australia to adopt the metric system of weights and measures.

1975 – 2JJ, the predecessor of youth radio Triple J, commenced broadcasting in Sydney.

1985 – A hailstorm accompanied by severe winds swept through Brisbane and surrounding areas, causing an estimated $110 million of property damage.

1990 – A fire broke out in the historic Wool Store building in Brisbane.

1991 – Peace marches across Australia demanded the withdrawal of Australian forces from the Gulf.

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Rat catchers with a pile of dead vermin in Sydney in 1900. Rats were fetching up to six pence a head during the outbreak. (State Library of NSW) – Top
2JJ (Double-Jay) Radio (NostalgiaCentral) – Middle
The dust cover photo. Telescopic Aerial Pumper 550 (ACCO1950C) in attendance at the fire that destroyed the Mactaggart woolstore in 1990. Photographer Senior Sergeant Kevin Darch Queensland Police Service (Your Brisbane Past and Present) – Bottom
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

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ON THIS DAY – 20th January

1803 – Superintendent of Public Works, Charles Grimes, arrived at the Mornington Peninsula, now a popular holiday spot, where he pronounces it unsuitable for settlement.

1880 – Bushranger Captain Moonlite (real name Andrew George Scott) was hanged in Sydney.

1942 – Charles Groves Wright Anderson won a Victoria Cross at Muar River, Malaya. His VC citation, as listed in the London Gazette on 13 February 1942, states: "...for setting a magnificent example of brave leadership, determination and outstanding courage. He not only showed fighting qualities of very high order but throughout exposed himself to danger without any regard for his own personal safety".

1944 – Seventeen people were killed at Brooklyn, New South Wales when a mail train and a bus collide at a level crossing. There is only one survivor, Gloria Iren Silvia.

1952 – The first express train run between Melbourne and Adelaide, following the completion of a railway between the two cities.

1958 – The Royal Australian Naval College was moved back to Jervis Bay Territory from Flinders Naval Depot in Victoria.

1961 – Disastrous bushfires affected Western Australia, completely destroying a number of towns.

1980 – ATV-0 becomes ATV-10. This move prompts the 0–10 Network to change its name to Network Ten, although Brisbane's TVQ-0 would continue to broadcast on Channel 0 until 1988. On the same night, Ten's new drama series Arcade premieres. It is regarded as the biggest flop in Australian television history, costing over $3 million to make and being axed after 49 episodes.

1986 – Neighbours made its debut on Network Ten & went on to dominate the 7 pm weeknight timeslot.

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Charles Grimes. (Walking Tours of Melbourne) – Top Right
Andrew George Scott aka Captain Moonlite c. 1879 (National Portrait Gallery of Australia) – Bottom Left
Administration Building. Now Museum of Creswell (NavyHistory.org) – Bottom Right
Neighbours (Neighbours: The Perfect Blend) – Top Left
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ON THIS DAY – 21st January

1815 – The first road is completed over the Blue Mountains in NSW, under the direction of William Cox.

1863 – Victoria's first-ever state funeral was held in honour of explorers Burke and Wills.

1887 – Brisbane received a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian capital city.

1918 – Thirty people were killed when the Mackay cyclone struck the town of Mackay in Queensland.

1931 – Isaac Isaacs became the first Australian-born Governor-General.

1941 – WWII - Australian and British troops attacked Tobruk, Libya.

1949 – William Dobell won the Archibald Prize and the Wynne Prize.

1969 – Australian Boxer Johnny Famechon became a world featherweight champion, when he defeats Cuban Jose Legra in a bout at the Albert Hall in London.

1970 – A thunderstorm in Brisbane caused damage to 1,000 homes, widespread power blackouts and peak-hour traffic chaos.

1991 – A mini cyclone left a trail of destruction in Sydney.

1991 – Sydney's Australia Square was evacuated after a parcel bomb scare.

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The First Stone Bridge Built in NSW - Road from Emu Plains, Over the Blue Mountains, Captain Robert Marsh Westmacott (Remembering the Past Australia) – Top Right
Burke and Wills Monument, Melbourne; "Australia"; Edwin Carton Booth F.R.C.I.; Illustrated: with drawings by [John] Skinner Prout, N. [Nicholas] Chevalier, &c. &c.; Volume: I ; 1873; (The British Library) – Top Left
Isaacs in his viceregal uniform, standing with his wife (State Library NSW) – Bottom Right
William Dobell, 1942, photograph by Max Dupain (Wiki) – Bottom Left
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by Barney » January 22, 2022, 8:27 am

ON THIS DAY – 22nd January

1788 – Captain Arthur Phillip named Manly Cove in Sydney after being impressed by the "confidence and manly behaviour" of a group of Aboriginals who unarmed and curious, had approached his boats.

1793 – The French d'Entrecasteaux expedition returned to Recherche Bay, Tasmania, to rewater and rest.

1853 – University of Melbourne was formally established by Act of Parliament.

1899 – Leaders of the six Australian colonies met in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
1920 – The national Country Party of Australia was formed.

1931 – The Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration announced a 10% reduction in the basic wage, in addition to reductions made in accordance with the fall in the cost of living index, effective from 1 February.

1941 – WWII - British and Australian troops captured Tobruk from the Italians.

1943 – WWII - HMAS Patricia Cam was sunk by Japanese aircraft near the Wessel Islands. In January 1943, the vessel sailed through the islands off Arnhem Land. At one stop, they picked up six passengers: five Yolngu Aborigines and Reverend Leonard Kentish, chief of the Methodist mission stations in the Northern Territory. HMS Patricia Cam then sailed for the Wessel Islands. On 22 January, while en route, a Japanese floatplane located the unaware vessel and attacked. The first bomb landed in the hold, killing one sailor. A second bomb killed another sailor and two of the passengers and caused the boat to sink. The floatplane made several strafing runs, before landing near the survivors. After failing to encourage the survivors to surrender, one of the Japanese crew captured Kentish at gunpoint (the only Australian prisoner-of-war captured inside Australian territory). Kentish was flown to Dobo in the Aru Islands where he was interrogated, including the frequent use of beatings, for several weeks, before being executed by his captors on or about 4 May. All but two of the remaining survivors were on a life raft. Clinging to debris and drifted away, the remains of one was found nine years later in a cave on Valencia Island, 320 kilometres (200 mi) from the point of sinking. The life raft drifted for 15 hours before coming to an islet off Guluwuru. The survivors swam ashore and fell asleep on the beach, waking to find that one of the crew had died from his wounds during the night. Another of the passengers died the next day, with both bodies buried on the beach. Fires lit by the survivors were spotted by natives of the Wessel Islands, who came across in canoes to render assistance. Two groups left to find help, one group of natives paddling south, the other leading Patricia's captain to the Marchinbar Island radar station. Supplies were dropped to the survivors by an RAAF reconnaissance plane, and they were rescued on 29 January by HMAS Kuru. The vessel's military service was later recognised with the battle honour "Darwin 1942–43".

1970 – Federal Cabinet reached a final agreement on the introduction of common health fees acceptable to the Australian Medical Association.

1990 – John McEnroe was thrown out of the Australian Open Tennis Championships.

1993 – Shell Australia announced plans to close more than half of the nation's oldest colliery, the South Bulli Mine, leading to 230 job losses for New South Wales coal miners.

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Manly Cove from North Harbour, after 1855 (State Library of NSW) – Top
The premiers’ conference, Melbourne, 29 January – 2 February 1899. Left to Right: John Forrest [Western Australia]; Charles Kingston [South Australia]; George Reid [New South Wales]; George Turner [Victoria]; James Dickson [Queensland]; Edward Braddon [Tasmania] (National Archives of Australia) – Middle
John McEnroe argues with an umpire during his fourth-round match against Mikael Pernfors of Sweden at the Australian Open on Jan. 21, 1990.Credit...Mark Baker/Reuters (New York Times) – Bottom
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

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ON THIS DAY – 23rd January

1796 – The distilling of spirits was prohibited.

1833 – Bathurst was gazetted as a town.

1942 – WWII - Battle of Rabaul: Japanese attacked Australian air base in Rabaul, New Britain.

1948 – De Havilland Australia conducted the first flight of its 3-engined Drover transport aircraft at Bankstown Airport.

1970 – Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (California).

1990 – The industrial tram dispute continued as 250 trams blockade the city of Melbourne.

1991 – Fierce storms lashed Adelaide and Melbourne.

1991 – Billy Joel arrived for his Australian Tour.

1992 – The Australian movie Spotswood starring Anthony Hopkins, Russell Crowe and Toni Collette was released.

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Parafrag bombs falling in Rabaul harbor, New Britain (2EyesWatching) – Top
de Havilland Australia DH(A)-3 Drover VH-DHM airborne at Royal Australian Navy Air Station HMAS Albatross near Nowra, New South Wales (Wiki) – Bottom Right
Billy Joel - Live @ Entertainment Center, Sydney, Australia, 1991 (LiveBootlegConcert) – Middle Right
Spotswood (Alchetron) – Bottom Left
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ON THIS DAY – 24th January

1788 – French ships were noted outside Botany Bay just two days before Captain Arthur Phillip takes formal possession of New South Wales.

1903 – The Golden Pipeline, a massive engineering undertaking bringing vital water to the Western Australian goldfields, was opened.

1908 – The Eastern Suburbs Rugby League Football Club, now known as the Sydney Roosters, were formed at Paddington Town Hall.

1967 – Members of 1st Australian Task Force in Vietnam made contact with the enemy for the first time in the area of the Bien Hoa.

1968 – Operation Coburg, an Australian and New Zealand military action during the Vietnam War, began.

1974 – Cyclone Wanda made landfall near Double Island Point. Large parts of South East Queensland, particularly Brisbane, and northern New South Wales were flooded.

1980 – The first section of Melbourne's underground railway loop was opened.

1988 – Network Ten unveiled its new logo, the "X" logo.

1990 – A fireworks explosion occurred at an amusement park on the New South Wales Central Coast.

1991 – Ford announced plans to retrench 1,600 works at its Geelong and Broadmeadows factories.

1999 – A full size replica of the Duyfken, built by the "Duyfken 1606 Replica Foundation" and the Maritime Museum of Western Australia, was launched in Fremantle.

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Botany Bay. Sirius & Convoy going in: Supply & Agents Division in the Bay. 21 Janry 1788 (Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW) – Top
Laying the golden pipeline from Perth to Kalgoorlie. (National Trust WA) – Middle
Looking over South Brisbane during the floods, 1974 (John Oxley Library, SLQ) – Bottom
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ON THIS DAY – 25th January

1865 – Confederate raider CSS Shenandoah arrived in Melbourne, Australia. Over 7000 people flocked to see the ship and 40 men stowed away and enlisted with the Confederates.

1885 – One of Australia's earliest rail disasters occurred at Cootamundra in New South Wales.

1886 – The first assembly of the Federal Council of Australasia was held in Hobart.

1900 – State Labor politicians met in Sydney to formally found the federal Labor party.

1930 – Harry Hopman and Jack Crawford won the Australian Doubles Championship at Kooyong, Victoria.

1950 – The Tank Landing Ship HMAS Tarakan exploded at Garden Island in Sydney, killing 8 people.

1952 – Test debut of Australian Richie Benaud, v West Indies at the SCG.

1991 – Australia sent Navy divers to join the Gulf task force.

2013 – Tropical cyclone Oswald made landfall in Queensland, Australia, causing mass flooding.

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The Confederate raider, CSS Shenandoah in Hobsons Bay off Williamstown (State Library of Victoria) – Top
1885 train derailment, Salt Pan creek (Museums and Galleries of NSW) – Bottom Left
Australian tennis player and coach Harry Hopman in New South Wales c. 1930 (NLA) – Bottom Right
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ON THIS DAY – 26th January

1788 – The First Fleet lands in Port Jackson, Australia from Portsmouth, England, and established the English penal colony of New South Wales – the first European settlement in Australia.

1798 – The koala and lyrebird observed by John Price on an expedition led by John Wilson.

1808 – John Macarthur was arrested sparking the Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia. Military officers supporting Macarthur arrested Governor Bligh.

1838 – The 50th anniversary of the colony of New South Wales was celebrated with a regatta on Sydney Harbour and other festivities.

1849 – The Australasian Anti-Transportation League was formed during a public meeting at Launceston, Tasmania; later branches were formed in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Canterbury (New Zealand).

1850 – The Irish Exile, a weekly newspaper, started publishing in Hobart by Patrick O'Donoghue, aimed mainly at fellow Irish prisoners and deportees.

1865 – Bushrangers Ben Hall, Johnny Gilbert and John Dunn held up Kimberley's Inn in the town of Collector, New South Wales. Dunn shot and killed the local police officer, Constable Samuel Nelson.

1924 – 3AR, Victoria's first radio station, began broadcasting.

1925 – Australia's oldest commercial radio station, 2UE, began broadcasting in Sydney.

1943 – The Defence (Citizen Military Forces) Act (1943) was passed which provided for the use of conscripts in the South-Western Pacific Zone (SWPZ) during the period of war.

1949 – The Nationality and Citizenship Act was passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship.

1958 – Thousands of Greek men rioted in Melbourne when the bridal ship Castel Felice was nine hours late.

1959 – Darwin was granted city status.

1960 – The first Australian of the year awards were granted.

1966 – Robert Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, retired and was succeeded by Harold Holt.

1966 – The Beaumont children were abducted during a visit to Glenelg beach in Adelaide and were never seen again.

1971 - In the capital city of Australia, four children and three young adults were killed in the 1971 Canberra flood.

1975 – The Workers' Party was launched at a banquet at the Sydney Opera House. The WP was libertarian in principle, demanding less government intervention, as well as being virulently anti-Socialist. The name was subsequently changed to the Progress Party in 1977.

1981 – The Australian Institute of Sport was opened.

1984 – Aboriginal leader Lowitja (Lois) O'Donoghue was awarded Australian of the Year.

1989 – Test debut of Mark Taylor, Australia v West Indies, Sydney.

1991 – Monica Seles became the youngest winner of the Australian Open Tennis Championship.
1991 – Professor Fred Hollows was named Australian of the Year.

1992 – The first Big Day Out music festival was held at the Sydney Showground, headlined by Violent Femmes and Nirvana.

1992 – Prime Minister Paul Keating gave his Australia Day address in Canberra, saying that Australia must adapt to a changing world and look to Asia if it was to survive economically.

1994 – Student David Kang fired two blank shots from a starting pistol at Prince Charles in Sydney, Australia.

1997 – Nobel Prize winner Peter Doherty was named Australian of the Year.

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Rum Rebellion of 1808-1810, Artist unknown (Wiki) – Middle Right
Ben Hall, Johnny Gilbert and John Dunn (Canberra Times) – Top
Lowitja O'Donoghue at a ceremony to unveil a mural at the site of the former Colebrook Children's Home at Eden Hills, South Australia, 6 November 2013 (Wiki) – Bottom Left
Fred Hollows, date unknown (Wiki) – Bottom Right
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Post by Barney » January 27, 2022, 10:27 am

Some true facts about us. As penned by someone.

AUSTRALIA AND AUSTRALIANS

The following has been written by the late Douglas Adams of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" fame.

"Australia is a very confusing place, taking up a large amount of the bottom half of the planet. It is recognisable from orbit because of many unusual features, including what at first looks like an enormous bite taken out of its southern edge; a wall of sheer cliffs which plunge into the girting sea.

Geologists assure us that this is simply an accident of geomorphology, but they still call it the "Great Australian Bight", proving that not only are they covering up a more frightening theory but they can't spell either.

The first of the confusing things about Australia is the status of the place. Where other landmasses and sovereign lands are classified as continent, island or country, Australia is considered all three.

Typically, it is unique in this.

The second confusing thing about Australia is the animals. They can be divided into three categories: Poisonous, Odd, and Sheep. It is true that of the 10 most poisonous arachnids on the planet, Australia has 9 of them. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that of the 9 most poisonous arachnids, Australia has all of them.

Any visitors should be careful to check inside boots (before putting them on), under toilet seats (before sitting down) and generally everywhere else.

A stick is very useful for this task.

The last confusing thing about Australia is the inhabitants.

A short history: Sometime around 40,000 years ago some people arrived in boats from the north. They ate all the available food, and a lot of them died.

The ones who survived learned respect for the balance of nature, man's proper place in the scheme of things, and spiders. They settled in and spent a lot of the intervening time making up strange stories. They also discovered a stick that kept coming back.

Then, around 200 years ago, Europeans arrived in boats from the north.

More accurately, European convicts were sent, with a few deranged people in charge. They tried to plant their crops in autumn (failing to take account of the reversal of the seasons), ate all their food, and a lot of them died.

About then the sheep arrived, and have been treasured ever since. It is interesting to note here that the Europeans always consider themselves vastly superior to any other race they encounter, since they can lie, cheat, steal and litigate (marks of a civilised culture they say), whereas all the Aboriginals can do is happily survive being left in the middle of a vast red-hot desert - equipped with a stick.

Eventually, the new lot of people stopped being Europeans on 'extended holiday' and became Australians. The changes are subtle, but deep, caused by the mind-stretching expanses of nothingness and eerie quiet, where a person can sit perfectly still and look deep inside themselves to the core of their essence, their reasons for being, and the necessity of checking inside their boots every morning for fatal surprises. They also picked up the most finely tuned sense of irony in the world, and the Aboriginal gift for making up stories. Be warned.

There is also the matter of the beaches. Australian beaches are simply the nicest and best in the world, although anyone actually venturing into the sea will have to contend with sharks, stinging jellyfish, stonefish (a fish which sits on the bottom of the sea, pretends to be a rock and has venomous barbs sticking out of its back that will kill just from the pain) and surfboarders. However, watching
a beach sunset is worth the risk.

As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a sour lot. Instead, they are genial, jolly, cheerful and always willing to share a kind word with a stranger. Faced with insurmountable odds and impossible problems, they smile disarmingly and look for a stick. Major engineering feats have been performed with sheets of corrugated iron, string and mud.

Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence. They call the land "Oz" or "Godzone" (a verbal contraction of "God's Own Country"). The irritating thing about this is... they may be right.

TIPS TO SURVIVING AUSTRALIA

Don't ever put your hand down a hole for any reason - WHATSOEVER.

The beer is stronger than you think, regardless of how strong you think it is.

Always carry a stick.

Air-conditioning is imperative.

Do not attempt to use Australian slang unless you are a trained linguist and extremely good in a fist fight.

Wear thick socks.

Take good maps. Stopping to ask directions only works when there are people nearby.


If you leave the urban areas, carry several litres of water with you at all times, or you will die. And don't forget a stick.

Even in the most embellished stories told by Australians, there is always a core of truth that it is unwise to ignore.


HOW TO IDENTIFY AUSTRALIANS


They pronounce Melbourne as "Mel-bin".

They think it makes perfect sense to decorate highways with large fibreglass bananas, prawns and sheep.


They think "Woolloomooloo" is a perfectly reasonable name for a place, that "Wagga Wagga" can be abbreviated to "Wagga", but "Woy Woy" can't be called "Woy".

Their hamburgers will contain beetroot. Apparently it's a must-have.


How else do you get a stain on your shirt?

They don't think it's summer until the steering wheel is too hot to handle.

They believe that all train timetables are works of fiction.

And they all carry a stick..


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Post by Sport » January 27, 2022, 1:39 pm

555 Some funny ones there Barney except you cannot call Wagga Wagga just Wagga. If you say Wagga in the main street of Wagga Wagga you will be stoned and sent to a penal colony. Also you can get away with Wollongong, by calling it the just The Gong, no problem. Do you mean some countries dont have beetroot on burgers, shocking news. Yep a funny and lovely country.

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Post by Barney » January 28, 2022, 12:09 pm

ON THIS DAY – 28th January

1802 – Matthew Flinders named Fowlers Bay in South Australia.

1915 – The Sinai and Palestine Campaign began during the Middle Eastern Theatre of World War I.

1958 – Harold Macmillan visited Australia, the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to do so while in office.

1968 – Members of English rock groups The Who and Small Faces were escorted by police from a plane at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, after the pilot diverted the flight citing the bands' behaviour.

1990 – Lisa Curry won a gold medal at the Auckland Commonwealth Games.

1990 – Police arrested a man in Melbourne alleged to be the infamous loaded note bandit.

1992 – Colin White and David Trimmer were charged over their alleged involvement in a multimillion-dollar tobacco scam in Brisbane.

2014 – Peter Cosgrove was named the next Governor-General of Australia.

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The Who 1968 (TheWho) – Top
Lisa Curry and daughter Jaimi celebrate after Lisa won the gold at the Commonwealth Games in 1990 (Wellington Times) – Bottom Left
At Parliament House, Canberra, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Retd) attended a ceremony at which General Cosgrove was sworn-in as the twenty-sixth Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia (Office of the Official Secretary to the Governor-General) – Bottom Right
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ON THIS DAY – 29th January

1817 – NSW Governor Lachlan Macquarie signed the charter to incorporate Australia's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales.

1850 – Lawrence Hargrave, Australian inventor of the box kite, was born.

1939 – Academic, writer, and broadcaster Germaine Greer was born in Melbourne.

1964 – The Royal Australian Air Force took delivery of its first two Mirage fighter jets.

1969 – Sheahan & Connolly hung on for exciting draw Australia v West Indies.

1985 – Federal Cabinet endorsed an earlier decision to provide refuelling facilities to United States aircraft monitoring MX missile tests in the Pacific. Strong anti-American and anti-nuclear reaction soon forced Prime Minister Bob Hawke to withdraw the offer.

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Receipt issued by the Bank of New South Wales to Gregory Blaxland, 5 April 1817 (State Library of NSW) – Bottom Right
Lawrence Hargrave portrait (Monash University Engineering Faculty archive website) – Bottom Left
Hargrave (seated) and Swain demonstrate the manlift kites (labelled A, B, D, & E), sling seat and spring balance in the parkland behind Stanwell Park beach, November 1894 (Wikipedia) – Top
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ON THIS DAY – 30th January

1774 – Captain Cook sailed closer to the South Pole than any known person had previously sailed.

1854 – The first Cobb & Co coach departed Melbourne for the Forest Creek goldfields.

1883 – England defeated Australia 2–1 in the 1882–83 Test cricket series, reclaiming "The Ashes" of English cricket.

1888 – The Presbyterian Church of New South Wales established its first school, the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney.

1893 – The Federal Bank collapsed, starting the Australian banking crisis of 1893.

1895 – C J Eady (Tas), the first Australian to score twin centuries (v Vic).

1924 – The first Cabinet meeting was held in Canberra. The ministers met and also lodged at Yarralumla House, later the residence of the Governor-General.

1941 – WWII - Australian troops conquered Derna, Libya.

1945 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester became Australia's first royal Governor-General.

1980 – Kingswood Country debuted on the Seven Network.

1984 – Perfect Match was launched in the 5:30 pm timeslot, bringing in record ratings for that timeslot & ensuring Ten's Eyewitness News won the 6–7 p.m. timeslot.

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Captain Cook [picture] / J. Chapman, engraver; c. 1850. (State Library of Victoria) – Bottom Left
Cobb & Cos. Leviathan coach carrying 89 passengers, running between Ballarat & Geelong [Vic.] [picture] / H. Deutsch c. 1862 (State Library of Victoria) – Top
Cast of Kingswood Country (Bob Byrne’s Australia Remember When) – Bottom Right
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Post by Barney » January 31, 2022, 10:43 am

ON THIS DAY – 31st January

1798 – Australia's first public clock tower was completed.

1814 – The "holey dollar" and "dump" went into circulation.

1839 – Gawler, South Australia's first inland country town was established.

1880 – The Bulletin magazine was first published.

1945 – A Stinson aircraft crashed in Victoria, killing all 10 on board.

1974 – Private banks asked for immediate arbitration in the bank officers' salaries dispute which had spread to all States except Queensland. The bank officers were refusing to handle commercial cheques until they were successful in their claim for a 25 per cent pay rise.

1990 – A freak storm tore a path of destruction across Mount Isa, Queensland.

2003 – The Waterfall rail accident occurred near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.

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Front page of Issue 1, Number 1 of The Bulletin, Saturday 31 January 1880 (NLA) – Top
Lithograph of 'Gawler Town, S.A. from the south', based on a drawing by James Shaw. Drawn upon stone & printed by Penman & Galbraith. It is a panoramic view showing the roads, buildings, fields and gardens of the township. A couple out walking wave to a man with his horse and cart. In the foreground a goat surveys the scene. [On back of photograph] 'Gawler from the south / 1866-67'. The Gawler Institute has an oil painting of this scene. (State Library of South Australia) – Middle
St. Phillip's Church, Sydney, ca. 1852-1853 / possibly Rev. Alberto Dias Soares c. 1852 (SLNSW) – Bottom
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ON THIS DAY – 1st February

1811 – John Oxley was appointed Surveyor-General of New South Wales.

1858 – The first hot air balloon flight in Australia occurred in Victoria.

1870 – A state flag of Victoria was adopted, although with no crown like the current flag.

1915 – Opal was first discovered in Coober Pedy, Australia.

1924 – The Australian Loan Council met for the first time.

1927 – The North Australia Act of 1926 was enforced and the territory of Central Australia was created.

1955 – The six o'clock swill was abolished in NSW.

1976 – Five people were killed when two light planes collide above Parafield Airport, 16 km north of Adelaide.

1977 – The Federal Court of Australia began to exercise its jurisdiction.

1981 – Trevor Chappell bowled underarm in the final delivery of the game against New Zealand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). The delivery led to the banning of underarm deliveries in cricket.

1984 – Medicare came into effect in Australia.

1985 – AM stereo broadcasting started in Australia.

1989 – The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamated to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

1992 – One and two-cent coins began to be withdrawn from circulation.

1999 – An unprecedented rush for Telstra shares helped vault Australian share prices to a record high, as investors focused on the continued strong performance of the local economy. The all ordinaries index surged 29.9 points.

1999 – QSTV became an affiliate of the Seven Network, becoming known as Seven Central.

2004 – The first Ghan passenger train across Australia from Adelaide to Darwin set off on its three-day journey.

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Coppin's balloon medal, 1858 (Twisted History) - Top
Members of the New Colorado Prospecting Syndicate in Coober Pedy in 1915. The party was led by James Hutchison, whose son Willie discovered opal in what is now known as Coober Pedy. (Department of State Development, Government of South Australia) – Right Middle
A Barmaid at Work in Wartime Sydney. Petty's Hotel, Sydney, 6 pm, 1941, by Max Dupain. (Wiki) – Right Bottom
Australia's Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to New Zealand's Brian McKechnie observed by keeper Rod Marsh and non-striker Bruce Edgar 1981 (Wiki) – Left
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ON THIS DAY – 2nd February

1803 – Charles Grimes, Surveyor general, sighted the Yarra River.

1808 – William Paterson sailed to Sydney from Port Dalrymple, Van Diemen's Land to take over the administration of New South Wales following the removal of Bligh.

1880 – The first successful shipment of frozen beef and mutton from Australia arrived in London aboard the SS Strathleven.

1882 – A cyclone caused considerable damage to the town of Cardwell, Queensland.

1895 – Queen Victoria gave Royal assent to the Bill allowing South Australian women the right to vote.

1899 – The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decided to locate Australia's capital (Canberra) between Sydney and Melbourne.

1908 – The Limelight Department of the Salvation Army filmed Grand Memorial Service, a film of the funeral of Major Kenneth McLeod, the Director of the Bayswater Boys' Home. The funeral was held at the Kew Cemetery in Melbourne.

1918 – The Brighton tornado, the strongest storms ever recorded in Melbourne, struck the suburb of Brighton, killing two people.

1990 – Cyclone Nancy hit the town of Maryborough in Queensland.

1991 – Public Service criticism of the Public Service Management Commission erupted in mass demonstrations in Queensland.

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Women’s Suffrage League secretary, Mary Lee. "It follows that it is an arbitrary and unjust Government which compels its support from those whose will in relation to it is never consulted. That as women assist in maintaining the Government they have a right to say how and by whom they shall be governed, in other words—to the vote." - Mary Lee, South Australian Register, 14 April 1890. (National Museum Australia) – Bottom Left
Election day in Adelaide, 25 April 1896 – the first Australian election and referendum in which women could cast a vote. Photographer unknown. (National Museum Australia) – Bottom Right
The Methodist Church, Hawthorn Road, Brighton, Australia, destroyed in the Brighton tornado on February 2nd, 1918 (Brighton Historical Society) – Top
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by pepesgrill » February 2, 2022, 7:35 pm

* i support aussie beef products* definitely

makes for a better burger. wherever can be found

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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by Barney » February 2, 2022, 8:46 pm

pepesgrill wrote:* i support aussie beef products* definitely

makes for a better burger. wherever can be found

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Correct if your in australia.
Can’t tell you how many 1,000’s of hamburgers I’ve eaten in my lifetime. A hamburger with the lot was a staple for our group after a long morning surf.
My mum and dad ran a place called the Busy Bee cafe in Helensburgh and they had the best burgers around. Secret was a oversized large bun to hold all the ingredients , chuck steak mince, and anything you wanted in between. Local mushrooms were a favorite. You had to say no beetroot if that’s what you preferred. 1 was plenty.
Truckies on the highway would CB in their meal orders to be ready on arrival.


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