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Post by Barney » December 15, 2021, 10:20 am

ON THIS DAY – 15th December

1810 – Governor Lachlan Macquarie introduced a building code into the New South Wales colony.

1838 – John individual, the sole survivor of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition, was born at Moy in the county of Tyrone, Ireland.

1851 – 14,000 gold miners met at Forest Creek near Castlemaine. The Miners Flag or 'Diggers Banner' was flown for the first time at this meeting.

1900 – Upon his arrival in Australia, the first Governor-General, Lord Hopetoun, committed the so-called Hopetoun Blunder. John Hope's, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, initial task on arriving in Australia on 15 December 1900 was to appoint a Prime Minister to lead the interim government. Hopetoun had little knowledge of the Australian political scene and had no formal instructions from the Colonial Office. On 19 December, following the precedent of the Canadian Confederation, Hopetoun commissioned the Premier of the most populous colony to form a government. That state was New South Wales, and its premier was Sir William Lyne. This was a controversial choice as Lyne had become premier in September 1899 only after the government of the more popular and experienced George Reid had lost its majority in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Lyne supported federation only at the last minute after long being a strong opponent and, as a result, he was unpopular with other leading colonial, pro-federation politicians including Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin.[citation needed] The Bulletin summed up many people's view when it editorialised, "Among the men who can claim by merit or accident, to be front-rank politicians of Australia, Lyne stands out conspicuously as almost the dullest and most ordinary".

1905 – Women in Queensland were given the right to vote in state elections.

1983 – Legendary Australian band Cold Chisel played its farewell show at the Sydney Entertainment Centre after more than a decade together.

1985 – Rural discontent at soaring interest rates and falling commodity prices was symbolised by the rally in Canberra of 9,000 farmers for the court appearance of a farmer who had dumped 35 tonnes of wheat on the steps of Parliament House.

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John individual the sole survivor of Burke and Wills expedition, c 1861 (SLNSW) – Top Left
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

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ON THIS DAY – 16th December

1824 – Explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell arrived in Corio Bay.

1845 – Thomas Mitchell departed Orange, New South Wales, in search of a great river flowing to the Gulf of Carpentaria.

1861 – Burke, of the Burke and Wills expedition, made the fateful decision to push on to the Gulf from Cooper Creek, despite waterless country and searing summer heat.

1903 – Australia's second federal election was held, the first in the world in which women were permitted to vote and stand for parliament. The incumbent Protectionist Party led by Alfred Deakin defeated the opposition Free Trade Party led by George Reid. Selina Anderson, Vida Goldstein, Nellie Martel, and Mary Moore-Bentley become the first women in the British Empire to stand for a national parliament; none are successful.

1929 – Rothbury Riot took place in which police shot at locked out miners, killing Norman Brown.

1936 – A Brisbane to Adelaide air race was held to commemorate South Australia's centenary. Ivy May Pearce makes national headlines as the youngest entrant who recorded the fastest time of any woman pilot, heavily handicapped and just two seconds behind the eventual winner. In this race she even beat Reg Ansett, founder of Ansett Airlines. Ivy went on to win many air races.

1948 – HMAS Sydney was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy as its first aircraft carrier. HMAS Sydney (R17/A214/P214/L134) was a Majestic-class light aircraft carrier operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). She was built for the Royal Navy and was launched as HMS Terrible (93) in 1944, but was not completed before the end of World War II. The carrier was sold to Australia in 1947, completed, and commissioned into the RAN as Sydney in 1948.

1964 – Melbourne's La Trobe University was founded.

1969 – Prime Minister John Gorton announced that a withdrawal of Australian Army troops from the Vietnam War would begin in 1970.

1979 – Sunday trading in Sydney public bars began.

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Burke, Wills, individual & Gray leave Cooper's Creek, 16th Dec. 1861 (SLV) – Top Right
Ivy May Pearce (8 June 1914 - 26 April 1998) -News paper article is taken from a scrapbook Ivy had put together. The article was written some time in 1936, just after the air race in which she famously beat Reg Ansett (Wiki) – Left
Firefly aircraft on board HMAS Sydney during her Korean War deployment (AWM) – Bottom Right
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ON THIS DAY – 17th December

1794 – Francis Grose left New South Wales for England. His positions as acting governor and commander of the New South Wales Corps were both filled by William Paterson.

1845 – Ludwig Leichhardt arrived at Port Essington, Northern Territory, after an overland journey of 4800 km from Jimbour on the Darling Downs.

1918 – The Darwin Rebellion took place, with 1,000 demonstrators demanding the resignation of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, John A. Gilruth. The Darwin rebellion of 17 December 1918 was the culmination of unrest in the Australian Workers' Union which had existed between 1911 and early 1919. Led by Harold Nelson, up to 1000 demonstrators marched on Government House at Liberty Square in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia where they burnt an effigy of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, John Gilruth, and demanded his resignation. Their grievances were against the two main Northern Territory employers, Vestey’s Meatworks and the Commonwealth of Australia, and concerned political representation, unemployment, taxation and ongoing industrial disputes.

1920 – The authority to issue currency notes was transferred from Treasury to the Australian Notes Board.

1941 – Dutch & Australian troops landed on Portuguese Timor

1967 – Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared while swimming in heavy surf at Cheviot Beach, near Portsea, Victoria.

1980 – Turkish Consul-General, Sarik Ariyak, and his bodyguard, Engin Sever, were shot dead in the street outside the consulate in Dover Heights, Sydney, becoming the victims of Australia's first political assassinations. The obscure international terrorist army, the "Justice Commandoes of Armenian Genocide", claimed responsibility for the deaths only 20 minutes after the shootings.

1982 – Random Breath Testing was introduced in New South Wales.

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Port Essington as illustrated in Ludwig Leichhardt's account of his expedition – Top
Harold Holt pictured with his daughters-in-law in 1967 (Barker Year 10 Vietnam) – Bottom
Black and white image taken on 17 December 1918 showing demonstrators marching through the city of Darwin towards Government House (NTAS) – Middle
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

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ON THIS DAY – 18th December
1894 – Women in South Australia unofficially gained the right to vote. Women in South Australia gained the right to vote in 1894, and voted for the first time in the election of 1896. It is generally recognised that this right occurred with the passing of a Bill on 18 December 1894. However, a letter from the Attorney-General advising Governor Kintore that Royal Assent would be required to enact the Bill, is dated 21 December 1894. The Bill was enacted when Queen Victoria gave Royal Assent on 2 February 1895. South Australia was the first colony in Australia and only the fourth place in the world where women gained the vote. The issue of women voting had been discussed since the 1860s, but gained momentum following the formation of the Women's Suffrage League at Gawler Place in 1888. Between 1885 and 1894, six Bills were introduced into Parliament but not passed. The final, successful Bill was passed in 1894, but initially included a clause preventing women from becoming members of Parliament. Ironically, the clause was removed thanks to the efforts of Ebenezer Ward, an outspoken opponent of women's suffrage. It seems that Ward hoped the inclusion of women in Parliament would be seen as so ridiculous that the whole Bill would be voted out. The change was accepted, however, allowing the women of South Australia to gain complete parliamentary equality with men.

1900 – The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia was opened for traffic.

1902 – The mayors of Sydney and Melbourne were conferred the title of Lord Mayor.

1903 – The first train ran from Rockhampton to Brisbane.

1911 – The Marburg railway line opened in South west Queensland.

1982 – The Kangaroos completed a tour of Great Britain & France undefeated for the first time.

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Australia's first female political candidate, South Australian suffragette Catherine Helen Spence [1825–1910] (Wiki) – Top Left
Puffing Billy (Puffing Billy Railway) – Top Right
Australian Kangaroos 1982 Team (Hull Football Club) – Bottom
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Tradesmen who worked on the construction of the Sydney Opera House lived in caravans on-site at Bennelong Point. June 1960
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ON THIS DAY – 19th December

1865 – Chinese bushranger Sam Poo was hanged in Bathurst, Australia.

1930 – For the first time Perth was linked by telephone to the rest of Australia.

1949 – Robert Menzies became Prime Minister of Australia for a second time, serving until 1966.

1964 – The newly-built town of Jindabyne, relocated for the building of the Snowy Mountain Hydro-electric scheme, was opened.

1967 – Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt was officially presumed dead. Following the disappearance and presumed death of Holt, Country Party leader John McEwen was sworn in as interim Prime Minister pending the election of a new government leader by the Coalition parties.

1980 – The Woolworths Maitland store, near Newcastle, New South Wales was bombed, causing more than $300,000 worth of damage.

1997 – After a series of meetings at the Sydney Football Stadium (now Aussie Stadium), the Super League war was declared over. The ARL & Super League agreed to form the National Rugby League, and the Perth Reds, Hunter Mariners & South Queensland Crushers were shut down to give a 20-team competition for 1998, with the newly-founded Melbourne Storm became part of the unified competition that season. The NRL was to be reduced to 14 teams for 2000 after reform.

1997 – Postcard bandit Brendan Abbott robbed the Yirrigan Drive branch of the Commonwealth Bank in Perth, disguised as a businessman in a grey wig and a false moustache and brandishing a .45 Webley, stealing $300,000.

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Australia's only Chinese bushranger (Daily Liberal) – Top Left
A photo from the last parade over the bridge at old Jindabyne, in December 1964 (Visit Cooma) – Top Right
EXTORTION: A bomb caused $300,000 damage when it exploded in Woolworths on December 19, 1980 (Maitland Mercury) – Bottom
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ON THIS DAY – 20th December

1894 – Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, was born.

1915 – Completion of the ANZAC evacuation from Gallipoli before dawn.

1917 – A second nationwide referendum on military conscription was rejected by the Australian public.

1922 – Geoff "Tangle Tongue" Mack, who wrote the iconic Australian song "I've Been Everywhere", was born.

1928 – Hubert Wilkins made the first flight over Antarctica in his Lockheed Vega San Francisco.

1939 – Radio Australia began overseas shortwave service.

1980 – The Woolworths Orange store received a call from a man threatening to bomb a Woolworths store unless he was paid $1 million.

1991 – Barely a year after starting up, Compass Airlines Mk I was shut down. The shutdown was somewhat controversial, coming shortly before the peak Christmas travelling period and coming about partially as a result of debts owed to a government authority.

1997 – American animated comedy series South Park was launched on SBS becoming the network's highest rating series to date.

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Looking inland from off shore at Williams' Pier, North Beach, just days before the final evacuation of Anzac on the night of 19–20 December 1915. Today this area, dominated by the landform of the Sphinx, is the location of the Anzac Commemorative Site. Terracing that can be seen in this photograph running along the lower slopes of the range was constructed by the Anzacs for dugouts and other dwellings. Juts beyond the pier were large piles of stores laid up against the coming winter (AWM) – Top Left
Poster for the Yes campaign 1917. This poster was created in support of the second conscription referendum put to the Australian people on 20 December 1917 by Prime Minister Hughes. It asked citizens: Are you in favour of the proposal of the Commonwealth Government for reinforcing the Commonwealth Forces overseas?' The referendum was defeated with 1,015,159 in favour and 1,181,747 against. Significantly the poster incorporates a quote by former Prime Minister Andrew Fisher. At the time Fisher was serving as Australia’s High Commissioner in London and opposed Hughes on the issue of conscription. (AWM) – Bottom
Geoff and Tabbi photographed by the Daily Telegraph the day after their arrival in Sydney, sans sidecar (Old Bike Mag) – Top Right
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ON THIS DAY – 21st December

1817 – Lachlan Macquarie recommended the adoption of the name Australia for the continent instead of New Holland.

1837 – Edward John Eyre departed on the first attempted overland venture from Sydney to South Australia.

1889 – The poem "Clancy of the Overflow", by Banjo Paterson, was first published in ‘The Bulletin’ magazine.

1901 – Construction began on the rabbit-proof fence.

1909 – British Field Marshal Lord Kitchener arrived in Darwin after an invitation from Alfred Deakin to review Australia's military and defence plans.

1914 – Lieutenant-General Sir William Birdwood arrived in Egypt to take command of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.

1918 – The Women's Legal Status Act 1918 was given Royal Assent. For the first time in Australian history, women were legally allowed to practise as lawyers in NSW.

1938 – A direct radio-telephone link is established between Canberra and Washington D.C.

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Edward John Erye c. 1860 (SLSA) – Top Left
Australian poet Banjo Patterson c. 1890 (NLA) – Top Right
Lieutenant General Sir William Birdwood (centre, in lighter uniform) introducing Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, British Secretary for War, to officers at Anzac in November 1915. After his visit, Kitchener recommended the total evacuation of British forces (AWM) – Bottom
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ON THIS DAY – 22nd December

1798 – The Colonial sloop Norfolk with Bass and Flinders entered the Derwent River.

1817 – an individual expedition of 1817, to explore and make a rough survey of the northern and north-west coasts of Australia, departed Sydney.

1911 – The Commonwealth Bank of Australia was established.

1915 – Maude Butler snuck on board HMAT Suevic, disguised as a soldier.

1919 – Susan Grace Benny became the first Australian woman elected to a local government. Susan Grace Benny, née Anderson, (1872–1944) of Seacliff, South Australia, generally referred to as Grace Benny or S. Grace Benny, was the first woman elected to local government in Australia when she was elected to the Brighton Council in 1919. She represented the Seacliff ward from November 1919 until December 1921.

1989 – Kempsey bus crash – Two tourist coaches collided on the Pacific Highway north of Kempsey, New South Wales, 35 people were killed and 39 injured. Both the Grafton and Kempsey bus crashes led to calls to make the Pacific Highway dual carriageway.

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Commonwealth Savings Bank in Moore Street, Sydney (Commonwealth Bank) – Top
Maud Butler in uniform (but with the black boots that helped give her away) on her first attempt to stow away to the war in December 1915 (AWM) – Bottom Right
Susan Grace Benny, the first woman elected to Local Government in South Australia; she served on the Brighton Council on behalf of Seacliff ward from November 1919 to December 1921 (SLSA) – Bottom Left
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by Sport » December 22, 2021, 1:03 pm

From your post on 21 December.
"1909 – British Field Marshal Lord Kitchener arrived in Darwin after an invitation from Alfred Deakin to review Australia's military and defence plans".

And imo, Kitchener was a grub, sending thousands of Aussie & others to their certain deaths in the trench's of WW1, and people say he was a hero, pigs ass.

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Post by trekkertony » December 22, 2021, 9:08 pm

Whilst the English nobility sat there eating cucumber sandwiches.

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Post by Earnest » December 23, 2021, 2:06 am

Shocking. :shock:

A cucumber and Philadelphia cheese sandwich is the de rigeuer in Blighty. I don't recall anyone eating just cucumber sandwiches at my public school. Matron always made cheese and cucumber.

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December 23, 2021, 2:06 am
Shocking. :shock:

A cucumber and Philadelphia cheese sandwich is the de rigeuer in Blighty. I don't recall anyone eating just cucumber sandwiches at my public school. Matron always made cheese and cucumber.

Is it time for bed yet, Mummy?
Was the crust cut off ?
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Post by Barney » December 23, 2021, 6:54 am

trekkertony wrote:Whilst the English nobility sat there eating cucumber sandwiches.
Whether they had cheese or not It was in true arrogance of the British high command towards all the empire foot soldiers and with their shear stubbornness to admit the huge error watched on as mistake after mistake was unfolding in front of them with no counter plan. It was an Aussie who eventually was given the task, and developed the evacuation plan to save 1,000’s more lives on that peninsula.
It was, and rightly so, Winston Churchill who was the main arsehole in charge of the whole scenario and took the blame. There were no hero’s in the ottoman campaign who were not in the landing craft.


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ON THIS DAY – 23rd December

1906 – An Australian invention, the surf lifesaving reel, was demonstrated for the first time.

1914 – World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrived in Cairo, Egypt.

1916 – World War I: Battle of Magdhaba – In the Sinai desert, Australian and New Zealand mounted troops captured the Turkish garrison.

1929 – The 1929 Timber Workers strike started from a decision of Judge Lukin of the Arbitration Court to reduce the wages and increase the hours for 20,000 timber workers from a 44 hour week to 48 hour week.

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Bondi Bathers Surf Life Saving Club, December 1906 with the newly modified reel and cork filled vest. (Bondi SLSC - Pittwater Online News) – Top
Camel corps at Magdhaba 1925. Painting depicts mounted troops of the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade with the Egyptian town of Magdhaba in the distance, 23 December 1916 (AWM) – Middle
Outside Darlinghurst Court House where several timber workers were being tried by Judge Lukin for non-compliance with the Award; 7000 workers attended. 1929 Timber Workers strike (ANU) – Bottom
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Post by Earnest » December 23, 2021, 2:39 pm

Earnest wrote:
December 23, 2021, 2:06 am
Shocking. :shock:

A cucumber and Philadelphia cheese sandwich is the de rigeuer in Blighty. I don't recall anyone eating just cucumber sandwiches at my public school. Matron always made cheese and cucumber.

Is it time for bed yet, Mummy?
noosard wrote:
December 23, 2021, 6:52 am
Was the crust cut off ?
Of course, what kind of a brute eats a sandwich with the crust on?

Does anyone have anything jolly to tell me about Australia this morning? How's the Ashes coming along?
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Post by Laan Yaa Mo » December 23, 2021, 9:53 pm

A sandwich is not a sandwich without the crust. Otherwise it is a wimpwich.
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Post by trekkertony » December 23, 2021, 10:03 pm

Earnest's drollness re cucumber sandwiches took my mind back to the 60's when Charles was a student at Timbertop in Victoria. One of the outdoor activities for the students was skydiving. Well the day had come and Charles' class mates all made their respective way to the jump point and leapt. Not our bonny prince Charles, he got to the door and froze, refusing to jump. The parachute instructor, a black american, was heard to say as he unzipped his fly and presented his manhood for inspection, Charlie my boy if you don't jump i will shove this where the sun does not shine. On Prince Charles return to her majesty, he recounted the experience and the Queen asked well did you jump and Bonny Prince Charles responded , "i did a little bit at first".

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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by Barney » December 24, 2021, 7:46 am

ON THIS DAY – 24th December

1792 – The American ship Hope arrived in Sydney; Grose was forced to buy alcohol to obtain other cargo.

1822 – Reverend Archibald Macarthur, Hobart's first Presbyterian minister arrived in Australia and held his first service on 12 January the following year.

1836 – Colonel William Light approved the site for Adelaide.

1875 – 59 people died when a cyclone destroyed the pearling fleet in the Exmouth Gulf of Western Australia.

1919 – The Electrical Trades Union of Australia was federally registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1904.

1938 – Australia hosted the first-ever "official" Carols by Candlelight.

1971 – Cyclone Althea hit Townsville and surrounding islands, killing 3.

1974 – Cyclone Tracy hit the city of Darwin. The official death toll was 71.

1980 – Woolworths' Town Hall store in the centre of Sydney was devastated by a bomb blast – the chain's third store to be targeted in nine days. Authorities received only 10 minutes' warning of the bombing, which miraculously caused no serious casualties after 2,000 shoppers and staff were evacuated from the area.

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Caption: Melbourne's first community Christmas carol-singing concert in the Alexandra Gardens. Thousands of people gathered in the gardens between midnight and 1 a.m. yesterday to join in the singing. Candles were distributed with programmes. The Argus (Melbourne) 26th December 1938 (Trove) – Top
Damaged houses after the passage of Cyclone Tracy on Christmas day 1974 in Darwin, Australia (Wiki) – Bottom
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