Author: Lorraine Day

On this day 80 years ago, war came to Australia – and Darwin suffered unprecedented destruction when aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy began bombing the city at 10 am…

On this day 28 years ago, Australia prematurely lost one of its most respected and revered transport pioneers – Noel Buntine – at just 66 years of age. On the…

a very Happy Christmas and a safe holiday season! Thank you for your wonderful support over the year. The team at Freestyle Publications will be available over the holiday season…

After more than 12 months of being closed to the public, and uncertainty about its future, Dingley Dell Cottage and Museum will now have a new lessee and custodian, and…

On 19 October 1833, at Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham, Adam Lindsay Gordon was born, the third of five children, and the only son of Harriet Elizabeth and Adam Durnford Gordon…

The inaugural ‘Adam Lindsay Gordon Award’ will be presented to the overall winner of The South East Art Society (SEAS)’s 2021 Members Exhibition which has attracted more than 70 entries.…

1 September is Wattle Day in Australia (formerly 1 August) but, either way, we celebrate the wattle as did Adam Lindsay Gordon.

The first Great Western Steeplechase took place in Coleraine in 1858, and was the first steeplechase race in Victoria, and the oldest in Australia. The original course, laid out by…

At 3.30 pm on Monday 8 August 1859 the news of the colony of South Australia’s worst maritime disaster reached Adelaide from Mount Gambier. Less than two years after her…