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Post by Barney » October 20, 2021, 1:09 pm

On This Day - 20th October

1792 – John Fawkner, early pioneer and rival to John Batman for the title of Melbourne's founder, was born.

1964 – Police drama ‘Homicide’ began a 12-year run. It set the pace for Australian television drama.

1967 – Australia unlinked the Australian dollar from British currency when the British government made a decision to devalue the pound sterling.

1973 – The Sydney Opera House was officially opened by Elizabeth II.

1979 – Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser proclaimed the first section of the Great Barrier Reef (the Capricornia section) a national park, making it the third Australian national park to be declared this year.

1987 – Black Monday: After the largest fall in the Dow Jones's history, stock markets nosedive around the world. Australia was no exception as the All Ordinaries falls 25%, making it the biggest one-day drop in the market's history.

1989 – Grafton bus crash – 21 people are killed and 22 were injured when a tourist bus collides with a semi-trailer on the Pacific Highway near Grafton.

1995 – Brenda Hodge, the last person to be sentenced to death in Australia before the full abolition of capital punishment, was paroled from prison after serving eleven years of a life sentence.

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Portrait of John Pascoe Fawkner, founder of Melbourne, 1856, William Strutt (NLA) – Bottom Right
The original Homicide cast. From left: Lex Mitchell as Detective Rex Fraser, John Fegan as Inspector Jack Connolly and Terry McDermott as Sergeant Frank Bronson (Classic Australian TV) – Top
‘City decorations for opening of Opera House’, Government Printing Office Collection (Mitchell Library, SLNSW) – Bottom Left
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by tamada » October 20, 2021, 1:29 pm

Doodoo wrote:
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AH Tam and his Team jump in as the Canuck cant explain with a simple response as usual
Thanks Dad and Uncle for helping the Little One out
Here ya go dubbeldee.
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by Barney » October 21, 2021, 12:37 pm

On This Day - 21st October

1824 – Joshua John Moore was the first person to take out a ticket-of-occupation for the land which later became the site of Canberra

1944 – WWII - The heavy cruiser HMAS Australia, operating in the Philippines, was hit by a kamikaze aircraft, killing 20 and wounding 54, in what is believed to be the first attack of its kind.

1978 – Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanished in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.

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Joshua John Moore, as depicted by artist James Moore (Wiki) – Top Left
View of the port side of HMAS Australia showing the damage caused by Japanese Kamikaze attacks (Imperial War Museums) – Bottom
Photo of Frederick Valentich from the Australian Department of Transport report (Australian Department of Transportation) – Top Right
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by Barney » October 21, 2021, 2:44 pm

Aussie dollar creeping past 25 bht


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On This Day - 22nd October

1824 – Hume and Hovell converted a bullock cart into a boat in order to cross the flooded Murrumbidgee River.

1872 – The first overseas telegraph messages were received in Adelaide via the newly constructed Overland Telegraph Line.

1894 – Martha Needle was hanged in Melbourne Gaol for the poisoning of her husband, and three children, in an attempt to obtain money from insurance policies.

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Hume and Hovell crossing the Murray in 1825 (POI Australia) – Top Left
Charles Todd and the Overland Telegraph team, c. 1872. Photographer: Samuel White Sweet (SLSA) – Bottom
Martha Needle c1880s/1890s (Wiki) – Bottom
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On This Day - 23rd October

1833 – The town of Mussel Brook (later Muswellbrook) is proclaimed.

1841 – Caroline Chisholm established the Female Immigrants Home to help unemployed new arrivals to Australia.

1861 – South Australian John McKinlay's relief expedition to locate Burke and Wills found the burial site of party member Charles Gray.

1907 – The First Australian Exhibition of Women's Work was held at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.

1942 – The Second Battle of El Alamein, in Egypt, began with a massive artillery bombardment preceding attacks by British and Australian divisions.

1991 – The first general strike in Australia in 65 years took place in New South Wales in opposition to the Industrial Relations Bill.

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Caroline Chisholm, 1852, Angelo Collen Hayter ( Dixson Galleries SLNSW) – Top Left
Charles Gray (Dig The Burke and Wills Research Gateway) – Top Right
Gunners of 2/8th Australian Field Regiment firing a 25-pounder during the July battle. Artillery was used at El Alamein on a massive scale, supporting the infantry when they went forward, and protecting them when they were counterattacked (AWM) – Bottom
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

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On This Day - 24th October

1791 – Britannia and the ‘William and Ann’ set out on Australia's first whaling expedition.

1856 – The Constitution of South Australia was adopted.

1866 – The Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia opened in Melbourne.

1889 – Sir Henry Parkes, 'Father of Australian Federation', made his famous Tenterfield Oration.

1934 – C. W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black crossed the finishing line to win the MacRobertson Air Race, flying from London to Melbourne in an elapsed time of 71 hours. In 1934, Campbell Black and C. W. A. Scott were entered in the London to Melbourne Air Race, officially known as the "MacRobertson Air Race". Recorded as Captain T. Campbell Black in the starters list for the race, Campbell Black and C. W. A. Scott won the "Speed Section" of the race in an extraordinary time of 71 hours and won the First Place Prize of 10,000 pounds. They also won the "Handicap Section" but the race rules didn't allow them to win the two sections. Black and Scott were awarded "The Britannia Trophy" and a Gold Medal by the Royal Aero Club, England, presented "For the British Aviator or Aviators accomplishing the most meritorious performance in aviation during the previous year."

1980 – The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) commenced full-time television transmission in Sydney & Melbourne on VHF Channel 0 & UHF Channel 28, becoming the first station in Australia to use UHF frequencies. Bruce Gyngell, who introduced television to Australia in 1956, introduced the first batch of programs on the new station. Full-time transmission began at 6:30 pm on 24 October 1980 (United Nations Day), as Channel 0/28. The first program shown was a documentary entitled Who Are We?, which was hosted by veteran news presenter Peter Luck.

1986 – The last link of the national microwave telephone system was completed at Kununurra in Western Australia.

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The Honourable Sir Henry Parkes GCMG (Wiki) – Top Left
de Havilland DH.88 Comet racer G-ACSS, Grosvenor House, flown by C.W.A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black, No. 9 of a set of 50 cigarette cards issued by John Player & Sons, 1935 (Wiki) – Bottom
C.W.A. Scott 1932 (Wiki) – Top Right
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by GT93 » October 24, 2021, 8:11 am

I hope Sir Henry wasn't fashionable even for his day.
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by Barney » October 25, 2021, 2:57 pm

On This Day - 25th October

1616 – Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog and the crew of the Dutch East India Company ship "The Eendracht" became the first European to set foot on Australia's western coast. Dirk Hartog left his inscription at Cape Inscription, Western Australia.

1888 – The captain of the HMQS Gayundah, Henry Townley Wright, refused to relinquish his command after being ordered to do so by the Queensland government. The Colonial Secretary orders Wright be dismissed from the Queensland Maritime Defence Force, and has him removed from the ship by Queensland Police.

1938 – Eighteen people died in one of Australia's worst air disasters when the Douglas DC-2 Kyeema crashed in the Dandenong Ranges in thick fog.

1941 – Singer Helen Reddy was born in Melbourne. Helen Maxine Reddy (25 October 1941 – 29 September 2020) was an Australian-American singer, songwriter, author, actress, and activist. Reddy's song "I Am Woman" played a significant role in popular culture, becoming an anthem for second-wave feminism. She came to be known as a "feminist poster girl" or a "feminist icon". In 2011, Billboard named her the number-28 adult contemporary artist of all time (the number-9 woman). In 2013, the Chicago Tribune dubbed her the "Queen of '70s Pop".

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Dirk Hartog (St Stephen’s School, Collinson Library) – Top
Brisbane, Qld. c. 1886. Starboard broadside view of the Queensland gunboat Gayundah (AWM) – Bottom Left
Publicity photo of singer Helen Reddy 1975 (Wiki) – Bottom Right
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by GT93 » October 25, 2021, 4:02 pm

Captain Hartog's plate:

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In a museum in the Netherlands. :(
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

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On This Day - 27th October

1841 – Skjold, one of the last ships with religious refugees from Germany arrived in South Australia.

1896 – The first film shot and screened in Australia was of passengers alighting from Ferry Brighton at Manly.

1897 – St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne was consecrated. In 1858 William Wardell was commissioned to plan the cathedral with a contract signed on 8 December 1858 and building commencing the same year. Although the nave was completed within 10 years, construction proceeded slowly and was further delayed by the severe depression which hit Melbourne in 1891. Under the leadership of Archbishop Thomas Carr, the cathedral was consecrated in 1897 and even then it was not finished.

1900 – Notorious murderer Jimmy Governor was apprehended near Wingham, New South Wales.

1927 – Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor was killed in a shootout with Sydney gangsters (including Snowy Cutmore, who also died) in Carlton.

1962 – Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser became the first woman to swim 100m freestyle in under one minute.

1980 – The Great Barrier Reef was listed as a World Heritage Site.

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St Patrick's Cathedral with scaffolding and St Patrick's School, Eastern Hill c. 1866 (SLV) - Top
Squizzy Taylor on his release from Pentridge Prison in December 1924 (Police Gazette [Victoria], 1924-25) – Bottom Left
Dawn Fraser in 1958 (Dutch National Archives) – Bottom Right
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by jackspratt » October 27, 2021, 2:41 pm

Yipee ..... the A$ is hovering above 25 Baht for the first time since January 2018. 🍾

A far cry from the dizzy heights of 33.2 (August 2012), and depressing lows of 18.8 (February 2020).

Now for (Transfer)Wise to get their corporate finger out, and catch up. :(

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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by GT93 » October 27, 2021, 3:33 pm

The baht gets around.

Jimmy Governor:

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Jimmy Governor was tried for murder and hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol on 18 January 1901. That's less than 3 months after his capture. Wiki notes: "The founding headmaster of The Southport School, the Rev (later Rt Rev) Horace Dixon, was nicknamed 'Jimmy' by the schoolboys in 1903 after Jimmy Governor, and was known as 'Jimmy' for the rest of his life."

The rest of his life? :lol:
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by GT93 » October 27, 2021, 3:55 pm

Over the last 2 months or so there's been an Aussie security guard at my local supermarket. He's a sociable chap in his early 40s and I used to chat about things Aussie with him. I got a big shock today. He told me he's a First Officer for Qantas. :shock:

He hasn't flown a plane for nearly 2 years but has been in a simulator quite a bit. He's off to Oz next week for some more training and he expects to be flying very soon. He thinks aviation is going to pick up very quickly in Australia. He is based in Auckland as are a lot of Qantas people and his regular route used to be across the Tasman.
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On This Day - 28th October

1820 – Governor Macquarie named Lake George after individual George III.

1916 – Australian government held a national referendum seeking support for the proposal of compulsory conscription; it was defeated.

1919 – The Treaty of Peace (Germany) Act 1919 received Royal Assent, confirming Australia's membership as a sovereign nation in the new League of Nations, and indicating Australia's independence from the United Kingdom.

1950 – The ‘Smith's Weekly’ newspaper, founded in 1919, was published for the last time. ‘Smith's Weekly ‘was an Australian tabloid newspaper published from 1919 to 1950. It was an independent weekly published in Sydney but read all over Australia. Mainly directed at the male (especially ex-Servicemen) market, it mixed sensationalism, satire and controversial opinions with sporting and finance news. It also included short stories and many cartoons and caricatures as a main feature of its lively format.

1955 – The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy.

1968 – The Postmaster-General's Department decreased the number of mail deliveries per day from two to one.

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Men of the 10th Light Horse Regiment at Hod Willegha, Sinai, October 1916. The majority of soldiers voted Yes in both referendums. They saw it as a way to make others “do their bit”, to help fill the holes left by casualties, or provide them with the opportunity of a break (AWM) –Top
Drawing for cartoon in 'Smith's Weekly' (AWM) – Bottom
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by stattointhailand » October 29, 2021, 5:55 pm

You just have to smile


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Post by jackspratt » October 29, 2021, 8:36 pm

stattointhailand wrote:
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You just have to smile.....
.... or cry.

Such is the state of the Australian government, when a handful of coal sucking, agrarian socialists can determine the national climate policy of the country.

Fortunately, the states are being far more sensible when setting climate change policies looking to the future. But they are not having their balls squeezed by Queensland National Party troglodytes, who are almost totally dependant on fossil fuel money for their political survival....... which, by extension, also means Scotty from Marketing, and his Lib/NP coalition.

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Post by stattointhailand » October 29, 2021, 9:51 pm

Too many political types all over the world with too many fingers in the pie [-X [-X [-X

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Post by GT93 » October 30, 2021, 2:49 am

Good find statts. It's been fun watching Scotty from Marketing getting squeezed this year between the dingdong Nats and foreign leaders.
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Post by Barney » October 30, 2021, 10:44 am

On This Day - 30th October

1890 – Oodnadatta, in far north South Australia, was surveyed and declared a township, ahead of becoming a significant railway terminus.

1920 – The Communist Party of Australia was formed.

1942 – Australian 9th Division reached the sea in the Battle of El Alamein.

1965 – Jean Shrimpton bared her knees at the Victoria Derby race during Melbourne Cup week. During her career, English model Jean Rosemary Shrimpton, an English model, was widely reported to be the "world's highest-paid model", the "most famous model" and the "most photographed in the world". In 1965, she made a two-week promotional visit to Australia, sponsored by the Victoria Racing Club, and a local synthetic fibre company who brought her out to promote a range of new dresses made of Orlon. She was paid a fee of £2,000, an enormous sum at the time. She caused a sensation in Melbourne when she arrived for the Victoria Derby wearing a white shift dress made by Colin Rolfe which ended 5 in (13 cm) above her knees. She wore no hat, stockings or gloves, and sported a man's watch, which was unusual at the time. Shrimpton was unaware she would cause such a reaction in the Melbourne community and media.

1988 – World Expo 88 drew to a close after a 6-month spectacular.

1990 – A special Premiers' Conference was held in Brisbane. State Premiers agreed with the Commonwealth to streamline transport rules under a historic agreement providing for national registration and licensing.

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Oodnadatta (South Australian History) – Top Left
Troops of the 20th Australian Infantry Brigade in the March Past – Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, Commander-In-Chief, Middle East Forces, Inspected a parade of the whole of the 9th Division at Gaza Airport and praised and thanked them for their part in the Battle of El Alamein 22 December 1942. Pictured: Troops of the 20th Australian Infantry Brigade in the march past (AWM) – Bottom
Jean Shrimpton (model) at the opening on 17 September 1965 of an exhibition at the Galerie Krikhaar in Amsterdam (Nationaal Archief) – Top Right
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