by admin | Jan 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
[This article was prepared for posting in December 2017 but had to be deferred until a problem accessing the website was rectified.] When writing The High Life of Oswald Watt, I mentioned the occasion in November 1901 when the 21-year-old Captain Watt of the New South...
by admin | Jan 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
[This article was originally uploaded on 12 November 2017 but has been reposted following restoration of the website.] Controversy is currently swirling about the number of federal MPs who have been found in breach of Section 44 of the Constitution requiring that...
by admin | Jan 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
[This article was originally uploaded on 26 October 2017 but has been reposted following restoration of the website.] There has been a lot of heated talk in recent times, seeking to label the process of white settlement of Australia that began in 1788 as an...
by admin | Aug 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
I have written before about the images of Outback Australia in the 1920s that my brother and I were given during a visit to Sweden three years ago. These were among a collection of photographs that once belonged to our grandfather, Olof Johanson, and were carried...
by admin | May 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
This weekend Australia will be represented in the grand finals of the 2017 Eurovision song contest being held in Kiev, Ukraine, by a 17-year-old Indigenous singer named Isaiah Firebrace. Whether or not he (or the wider Australian public) knows it, he is almost...
