On this day in Steve Waugh became the first person in 50 years to score two centuries in an Ashes Test. This article is about the Australian cricketer. For the American politician, see Stephen Waugh (politician). Waugh in 2002 Personal information Full name Stephen Rodger Waugh Born 2 June 1965 (age 59)Campsie, New South Wales, Australia NicknameContinue reading “Steve Waugh”
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Champion of Champions, True Legend.
Margaret Court AO MBE (née Smith; born 16 July 1942), also known as Margaret Smith Court, is a retired Australian tennis player and former world No. 1. She amassed more major titles than any other player in history and is considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time. She is currently a ChristianContinue reading “Champion of Champions, True Legend.”
Disinformation campaign by MSM destroys the SAS and VC winner Ben Roberts Smith
Date: January 7, 2024Author: Editor, cairnsnews 5 Comments Australian soldiers Sapper James Martin, Lance Corporal Stjepan Milosevic and Private Robert Poate were killed as they played cards at a patrol base in Afghanistan in August 2012. (Photograph: Australian Defence Force) Father of Australian soldier, Robert Poate (right) murdered by an Afghani traitor as he playedContinue reading “Disinformation campaign by MSM destroys the SAS and VC winner Ben Roberts Smith”
History
The Beginning of Our Combined Story Michael Connor Contributing editor There is a war against statues; there is fearmongering against words. Open the National Library’s online catalogue and this chilling prose (or is it just a pose?) spills across the screen: Some words or descriptions in the catalogue may reflect the attitudes of the periodContinue reading “History”
‘Mao’s Last Dancer’ Li Cunxin launches final season at Queensland Ballet
Mathew Westwood The Australian October 23, 2023 Li Cunxin says he has mixed feelings about announcing his final season as artistic director at Queensland Ballet, having announced in June his early retirement because of health troubles. Li, also known as Mao’s Last Dancer, has led the state ballet company into remarkable growth since his firstContinue reading “‘Mao’s Last Dancer’ Li Cunxin launches final season at Queensland Ballet”
Australian Legends
Dame Nellie Melba (1861–1931) by Jim Davidson Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931), prima donna, was born Helen Porter Mitchell on 19 May 1861 at Richmond, Melbourne, eldest surviving of ten children of David Mitchell, building contractor, and his wife Isabella Ann, née Dow. Her father’s business acumen and strict code of behaviour strongly influenced Melba, whoContinue reading “Australian Legends”
Australian Legends
Margaret Court née: Margaret Smith born: July 16, 1942, Albury, New South Wales, Australia (age 81) Awards And Honors: Wimbledon ChampionshipsU.S. OpenFrench OpenAustralian Open Margaret Court, née Margaret Smith, (born July 16, 1942, Albury, New South Wales, Australia), Australian tennis player who dominated women’s competition in the 1960s. She won 66 Grand Slam championships, moreContinue reading “Australian Legends”
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY -THE WAY IT WAS – A NOSTALGIC LOOK AT OUR PAST
Edwina Harris · · A Forgotten Australian Legend – Len Beadell Never heard of Len Beadell? Then you have never heard of the surveyor and road builder who, with a team of eight dedicated assistants (basically bulldozer drivers, mechanics and a cook), in the 1940s and 1950s built more than 6,500 kilometres of roadsContinue reading “AUSTRALIAN HISTORY -THE WAY IT WAS – A NOSTALGIC LOOK AT OUR PAST”
Jacinta Price -a Bright Light Shining Through the Darkness of Australian Politics
Truth-Telling, Botany Bay and Naive Art
Christopher Heathcote Quadrant Online 31st July 2023 In recent decades escalating disapproval has been directed at the discipline of Australian history. The objectivity of many authoritative books is now doubted on racial grounds, detractors alleging the books were written from too “white” a perspective. Calls have been made to remedy this via narrative histories whichContinue reading “Truth-Telling, Botany Bay and Naive Art”
The Voice, colonialism, and historical revisionism
Bill Muehlenberg Flat White Getty Images Bill Muehlenberg 30 September 2023 12:35 PM There is no question that the hordes of Woke lefties consider Australian Senator Jacinta Price to be just another ‘Uncle Tom’, for that is the disgraceful label they use on social media every chance they get. In their eyes, she exists toContinue reading “The Voice, colonialism, and historical revisionism”
Right to Climb
Our mountains belong to all of us. The Right to Climb them and bask in their views that inspire awe and wonder is as old as the human genome. This long-established cultural tradition is under threat by a small group of bureaucrats determined to impose their way on the rest of the world. It isContinue reading “Right to Climb”
Snowy 2.0? Give Us a Break!
Vic Jurskis Flat White Photo from author Vic Jurskis 31 August 2023 5:00 AM I’m very proud of my heritage as a first-generation Australian. I also celebrate our world record, enduring ancient culture and the particular skills associated with it. Surveyor General Mitchell more than once acknowledged the supremacy of those skills over his ownContinue reading “Snowy 2.0? Give Us a Break!”
Why Menzies still matters
Flat White Georgina Downer Getty Images Georgina Downer 21 June 2023 4:30 AM Matthew Bach’s piece Menzies is dead. It’s time for the Liberals to forge a new path in The Age on June 17 was a disappointing contribution from a member of the party that Menzies founded. In Bach’s view, Australia’s longest-serving Prime Minister andContinue reading “Why Menzies still matters”
PICTURES IN HISTORY
I Grew Up in Mortdale 2223 Born #OnThisDay Saturday 27 May 1815, Australian politician and the ‘Father of Federation’, Sir Henry Parkes, was born in Warwickshire, England. It’s a little known fact that Henry Parkes was one of Sydney’s early whistle-blowers, calling out corruption in the colonial customs service. He arrived in Sydney in 1839,Continue reading “PICTURES IN HISTORY”
Australian History
True Australian History
Australia The Enigma of the Australian Pygmies Ted Rule This photograph of two small indigenous men accompanied by two men of more normal Aboriginal stature was taken at Mona Mona Mission, near Kuranda, North Queensland, in 1957. The identity and tribal connections of the men were not recorded. (Original print held by Keith Windschuttle.) ForContinue reading “True Australian History”
The evolution of Anzac Day from 1915 until today
By Joanna Khan•April 24, 2017 Men, women and children line the streets in Brisbane to watch the procession of the 41st Battalion on Anzac Day 1916.Image credit: State Library Queensland Reading Time: 7 Minutes• Print this page Australians have commemorated Anzac Day on 25 April for more than a century, but the ceremonies and theirContinue reading “The evolution of Anzac Day from 1915 until today”
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY REVIEW
Aborigines possibly the tenth race to have inhabited Australia The Torres Strait Islanders are a different race of unrelated people of Melanesian descent, their history goes back about 3,000 years diverging to a mix of Papuan and Lapita people 30,000 years ago. They are a well structured society with agriculture and productive communal industry, andContinue reading “AUSTRALIAN HISTORY REVIEW”
History
Were There Dutch Castaways in Central Australia? Tony Thomas Was there a colony of up to 300 Dutch people living in Central Australia from about 1710 until they died out before 1860? If that were true, a mass of Australian history would have to be re-written. To even suggest it invites the same mockery anyoneContinue reading “History”
Nelle's journey 