Goodbye war, hello plague… “Yesterdays” columnist NICHOLE OVERALL recalls the hell of Spanish Flu.
IT was a teetotalling Canberra advocate who proved himself something of an enemy of its people but one of the greatest of friends to Queanbeyan and, in a spectacular fail, its pubs. The preposterously named […]
“As a teacher with the NSW Education Department, I was posted to the Weston school for the last couple months of 1972 (NSW ran education in Canberra back then),” reminices PAUL COSTIGAN
What’s in a name? Notoriety if you’re James Cook; nothing if you’re Joseph Cook, the prime minister who STEPHEN HOLT reckons we’ve all but forgotten.
AUSTRALIA’S greatest sportsperson? While the first thought might be Bradman or Thorpie, it’s a “Queanbeyan girl” who can lay as much claim to that title. Seventy-seven-year-old Heather McKay AO, MBE, has just been declared the […]
“Given the time of year, best keep your eyes peeled and your smartphone at the ready next time you’re hanging out the washing – and be sure to post before the men in black arrive,” […]
“Given the time of year, best keep your eyes peeled and your smartphone at the ready next time you’re hanging out the washing…” writes NICHOLE OVERALL
“He has been seen from the dining room on cold, dreary nights when the breezes whistle down on Canberra from snowbound Monaro ranges. In summer he has been seen digging under an elm tree where […]
IT’S charming and historic and, having just marked a most significant milestone, comes with more than its share of mysteries – and a miracle, too, it seems. Welcome to St Paul’s Anglican Church, Burra, beyond […]
CANBERRANS often the lament the lack of real pubs in the ACT, so preservation of the cherished “Kingo” – the Kingston Hotel – will be high on the agenda at an important meeting tomorrow. The […]
THE skeleton was believed to be 150 years old and since the early 1840s it had lain unknown and undisturbed beneath the homes, businesses and parks that grew above and around it. When unexpectedly unearthed […]
“It would be Whitlam who’d have the last word… his Queanbeyan pronouncement was as quotable as his Canberra one of three years earlier,” writes Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL
Did she? Didn’t she? Ada Bunfield found herself in the dock after her teacher husband met his untimely end, the victim of strychnine poisoning, writes NICHOLE OVERALL
Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL says Queanbeyan punches above its weight when it comes to turning out stars.
HE was a simple farm boy from Michelago and yet it was the commanding persona – physical and otherwise – of the man he would become that saw Maj-Gen the Hon Sir Granville de Laune […]
“It was prideful Britishness that was behind their determination to treat the Chinese migrants as interlopers. Indeed, they even passed a law that they couldn’t marry indigenous Australians!” writes author ROBERT MACKLIN
“Queanbeyan, Queanbeyan, I always long for you…” LAST week marked the 179th anniversary of the official proclamation of Queanbeyan as a township. No, that’s not a typo and, coincidentally doing the rounds at this time, […]
“For years Rusten House has lain forlorn and largely forgotten, its empty corridors and darkened rooms echoing with a history filled with equal parts heartache and happiness,” writes NICHOLE OVERALL
Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL uncovers some of the mysteries of Googong
THE heroism of a World War II US medic during a battle on Hacksaw Ridge at Okinawa was transposed to the big screen with much acclaim by Mel Gibson in 2016, while John Simpson, “the […]
A LARGE mobile crane tipped onto its side during routine maintenance at a business site in Hume today (February 22). No one was injured in the incident, which occurred around 1.15pm. WorkSafe ACT inspectors and […]
IN an ACT government attempt to improve quality building in Canberra, a number of Canberra builders will undergo mandatory exams next week, according to Minister for Building Quality Improvement Gordon Ramsay. “Any applicant who is […]
AS a parliament that will be unmourned winds down to the election, this fortnight has been the season for goodbyes from those departing (voluntarily). The most dramatic was Thursday’s announcement by Julie Bishop that she […]
CANBERRANS might be surprised to know that the black and white swans on the local coat of arms doesn’t represent the Canberra jurisdiction, according to the Legislative Assembly’s Standing Committee on Environment and Transport and City Services. […]
By LORANA BARTELS
