Lindrum's billiards performances were a show
He stood on a crate when first playing billiards before becoming world champion.
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Uncovering family history from down under
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Samantha Elley
- Oct 18, 2021
- 3 min
Ain't no mountain high enough!
A uniquely spirited woman who loved mountaineering.
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Samantha Elley
- Oct 11, 2021
- 3 min
First Italian to step foot on present day Mackay
His name has disappeared from the gravestone, but his legacy is large.
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Samantha Elley
- Oct 5, 2021
- 2 min
Discovering where our fallen are buried
New technology may help the descendants of Private Inglis find where he is buried in Belgium.
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Samantha Elley
- Sep 28, 2021
- 3 min
Tasmania's most hated public servant
Solomon Blay had a very distinct achievement in the early days of settlement in Tasmania, as the state's longest working hangman.
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Samantha Elley
- Sep 21, 2021
- 3 min
No compensation for Australia's first police woman
Australia's first police woman had to pick up her skirts and run for her life from a cocaine-runner.
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Samantha Elley
- Sep 14, 2021
- 2 min
Teenager feeds and hides Jews from Nazis
A friendship that became deadly but righteous.
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Samantha Elley
- Sep 7, 2021
- 3 min
The mystery of Sophia Stewart, the 'Locked-up Lady'
A forgotten asylum patient, a newspaper article from the 1980s, and a callout on a Facebook page adds up to an intriguing mystery.
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Samantha Elley
- Aug 31, 2021
- 3 min
Vine-dresser gets raw end of the iron spade
A dispute between neighbours turns tragic after a night of drinking and Johann Georg Reitz is the victim.
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Samantha Elley
- Aug 24, 2021
- 5 min
Spanish flu shows how history repeats
It's not the first time Aussies have had to mask up.
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Samantha Elley
- Aug 17, 2021
- 3 min
Poem sparks Poppy Remembrance Project
A poignant poem from a grieving mother in 1923, sparked the fulfillment of a request nearly 100 years later.
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Samantha Elley
- Aug 10, 2021
- 3 min
Aboriginal woman claims and receives her own land
To be assigned to his 16-year-old Aboriginal wife, is definitely one for the books.
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Samantha Elley
- Aug 3, 2021
- 2 min
A family secret for a Prime Minister
Every family has its secrets, but the Hughes family, Australian royalty in the early 1900s, had one with permanent consequences.
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Samantha Elley
- Jul 27, 2021
- 3 min
Bridget Partridge: The Flighty Nun
It was a time where patriarchy ruled and sectarianism between the Catholic and Protestant churches was rife
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Samantha Elley
- Jul 20, 2021
- 3 min
Sole survivor of great peacetime tragedy
James Johnson miraculously survived Australia's worst peace time marine tragedy
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Samantha Elley
- Jul 13, 2021
- 3 min
Reformed drunk builds a church
The story of John Lees is one of redemption and hope.
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Samantha Elley
- Jul 6, 2021
- 3 min
An artist who practiced the occult and worshipped Pan
She was known as the 'Witch of Kings Cross' and Rosaleen Norton confessed to a deep interest in and practice of the occult
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Samantha Elley
- Jun 29, 2021
- 2 min
Chasing Arthur's final resting place
The sun, and a few storm clouds, kept us company this afternoon on our quest for the story of Arthur Beaumont Goard.
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Samantha Elley
- Jun 22, 2021
- 3 min
His death created a community place in his home town
Recently at Broken Head, near Byron Bay on the north-east coast of NSW, the little wooden church of St Oswalds held its final service
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Samantha Elley
- Jun 15, 2021
- 3 min
Dad and Dave creator brought early farming life into Australian literature
Celebrating the life of the writer behind Dad and Dave and the movie On Our Selection.
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