Random thoughts and observations
I haven’t done much offline genealogical research since 1999, but I occasionally browse online sources on public holidays, like today. These sources are much more plentiful than they were 10 years ago and most didn’t exist in 1999. Today I checked old digital copies of The Argus on the National Library’s archive. This is a [...]
I’ve just finished reading “Billy Hughes” by Aneurin Hughes (not related). The sub-title is “Prime Minister and controversial founding father of the Australian Labor Party”. It’s not a full biography and tries to paint a portrait of the man, rather than the politician. But Hughes lived for politics, becoming the longest serving elected member in [...]
It’s unusual to commemorate the anniversary of a shipwreck, but as someone with an interest in history I’m strongly in favor of anything like that. One hundred and fifty years ago today the SS Admella ran aground on Carpenters Reef near Mount Gambier. Over the next eight days, 89 people lost their lives, but miraculously, [...]
The Border Watch runs a weekly “looking back” column with news extracts from 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. This week I noticed the town’s basketball stadium was officially opened 40 years ago by Gough Whitlam (photo below). Known today as the Icehouse, the stadium hosts local basketball and the town’s only sporting team [...]
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