Moving story of Queanbeyan’s Boer War memorial
Social historian and journalist NICHOLE OVERALL shares the story of Queanbeyan's Boer War memorial and its long journey from Monaro Street to the Moore Park Memorial Rose Garden.
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"I think it is regrettable there isn't in Canberra a memorial dedicated specifically to the men and women from the ACT who have served our nation in war. This is an omission I feel deeply we should address," writes JON STANHOPE.
Meet Ivy Weber, born in Captains Flat and the inaugural president of the Women for Canberra movement, who proved to be a “remarkably effective force for... Australian unity”. NICHOLE OVERALL looks at the life of this forgotten activist.
‘He was horrific!’: Nearly two thirds of family historians are distressed by what they find – should DNA kits come with warnings, asks SUSAN MOORE.
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Sister shot in brother’s TV-hero delusion episode
"All I can say is that it would be a sad day when a boy of 16, because of what he sees on television, would ever descend to the crime of shooting one of his loved ones,” said the judge, in 1965. It's another "Yesterday" column from NICHOLE OVERALL.
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‘150-year-old’ well unearthed in Queanbeyan
Excavations on the site of Queanbeyan’s planned Civic and Cultural Precinct have uncovered a well potentially dating as far back as the 1800s, opening up new questions about the heritage status of the location.
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Hero cheers on war as the best years of his life
In a change of pace, columnist JON STANHOPE salutes the teenager who went off to wat at the age of 16.
"Yesterdays" columnist NICHOLE OVERALL reflects on the history of the early, first steps of the development of the Woden Valley.
IT'S another sad sign of the times when history repeats to see the annual History Week curtailed in the region for the second year running.
As if it wasn’t difficult enough farewelling a husband or sons to fight foreign battles in far-flung shores, what about having to send the family pooch to join them, asks "Yesterday's columnist NICHOLE OVERALL.
At its 60th anniversary, "Yesterdays" columnist NICHOLE OVERALL shares some of the social and physical history of the Harmonie-German Club.
Onlookers would have been excused for wiping away their eyes, wondering in disbelief among the morning fog had they gone back in time.
"Here is the remarkable story of a West Australian born into relatively humble circumstances in the remote fishing and farming town of Albany rising to the pinnacle where his prime minister offered, then urged him to accept, the role of ambassador to the US," writes ROBERT MACKLIN.
"Yesterday's" columnist NICHOLE OVERALL tells the story ( “among the weirdest of the Canberra district”) of an 1876 murder and a phantom white bull...
Local historian and "Yesterdays" columnist NICHOLE OVERALL looks at three different murders from the district's past...
"Yesterdays" columnist NICHOLE OVERALL updates her series on the mysteries that surround the deaths and disappearances of Canberra women stretching back more than 50 years.
What unfolded along a dark Canberra road on the evening of February 26, 1971, ranks as one of the capital’s oldest unsolved crimes, writes "Yesterdays" columnist NICHOLE OVERALL.
THREE times a week, pioneer mailman William “Billy” Roohan loaded up his horse and made the trek from Queanbeyan to Canberra and on to Goulburn, covering 560 kilometres, delivering mail and building up legendary status along the way.
Journalist and social historian NICHOLE OVERALL follows up an earlier column and previews a new podcast on the mystery murders of Canberra women.
