The day Mr Menzies launched Lake Burley Griffin
On October 17, 1964, with the sails of small boats billowing behind him, Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies inaugurated Lake Burley Griffin. "Yesterdays" columnist NICHOLE OVERALL traces the lakes controversial history.
When the dam wall falls, Queanbeyan has 34 minutes
Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL says that emergency procedures suggest that should the googong Dam wall ever fail, residents would have about 34 minutes before their town became a modern-day Atlantis.
Yesterdays / Local plight of Ireland’s ‘Potato Orphans’
Packed off with clothing, a prayer book and a hairbrush, Anne and Alicia Keefe were two of more than 4100 Irish women to arrive in Australia between 1848 and 1850. Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL looks a local link with Ireland’s ‘Potato Orphans’.
Keeping an eye on the night sky for science
In this second in NICHOLE OVERALL’s series on Canberra’s role in observing space, she looks at the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope at Hoskinstown that,...
Righting the Honeysuckle Creek record
Yesterday columnist NICHOLE OVERALL looks back at what was really happening at Honeysuckle Creek when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.
Revealed: the life of flaxen-haired Charlotte Faunce
Artist Jiawei Shen is widely known for his portrait of the Princess of Denmark, Mary. He has also painted a woman worthy of the title of “Princess of Canberra” and for the first time it will be on public display on May 4, reports NICHOLE OVERALL.
Remembering the brave local lads lost to the region
With the centenary of the signing of World War I's Treaty of Versaille, officially heralding peace (not just ceasefire)it's a poignant time to think on those local bots who didn't make it home, says Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL.
Unmasking Mr Laughlin’s link to Mr Lawrence
In some whimsical research, STEPHEN HOLT unmasks his gruff, old headmaster as a cousin of a man who got to look after the great writer DH Lawrence (and his beard) in Thirroul
Yesterdays / Goodbye war, hello plague… the hell of Spanish Flu
Goodbye war, hello plague… "Yesterdays" columnist NICHOLE OVERALL recalls the hell of Spanish Flu.
Opinion / Unmasking Mr Laughlin’s link to Mr Lawrence
In some whimsical research, STEPHEN HOLT unmasks his gruff, old headmaster as a cousin of a man who got to look after the great writer DH Lawrence (and his beard) in Thirroul
Yesterdays / A Royal toast to the teetotalling King O’Malley
IT was a teetotalling Canberra advocate who proved himself something of an enemy of its people but one of the greatest of friends...
Attention! Memories of the wilds of Weston
"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
Is ordinary Joe our most forgotten PM?
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.
Yesterdays / Better than all the rest…
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...
Overall / It’s the season to be looking skywards
"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," writes NICHOLE OVERALL
Yesterdays / It’s that season to be looking skywards…
"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
Yesterdays / The great, ghostly hoax of Government House
“He has been seen from the dining room on cold, dreary nights when the breezes whistle down on Canberra from snowbound Monaro ranges. In...
Yesterdays / Patience proves a virtue for the little Burra church
IT'S charming and historic and, having just marked a most significant milestone, comes with more than its share of mysteries – and a miracle,...
‘Kingo’ preservation on the agenda
CANBERRANS often the lament the lack of real pubs in the ACT, so preservation of the cherished "Kingo" – the Kingston Hotel – will...
Yesterdays / Bones and murder most grisly at Sawpit Gully
THE skeleton was believed to be 150 years old and since the early 1840s it had lain unknown and undisturbed beneath the homes, businesses...
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