Happy New Year!
Freestyle Publications would like to wish all our customers, authors, and supporters, a successful and productive 2023. Amid the turmoil in the world, the devastation of floods in Australia, and…
150 years of Undoolya station and Centralian pastoralists
The Northern Territory's oldest pastoral leases, No. 1 and 2, were issued to Edward 'Ned' Meade Bagot in April 1872 to form a property he named Undoolya (Ntuyle) station, believed…
This day, 163 years ago, was the beginning of South Australia’s worst maritime disaster
On 6 August 1859, the iron-hulled screw steamer Admella, on a voyage from Adelaide to Melbourne, under command of an experienced Captain Hugh McEwan, was wrecked on Carpenters Reef, near…
152 years since death of Australia’s national poet
Today, 24 June 2022, marks 152 years since Australia’s national poet, Adam Lindsay Gordon, died by his own hand in tea-tree scrub near his home in Brighton, Victoria, aged just…
2022 Outback Writers’ Festival
The Outback Writers’ Festival IncP.O. Box 116WINTON, Outback Queensland 4735 BOOKED ON WINTON Organisers of the 2022 Outback Writers Festival are claiming that Winton in Outback Queensland has the biggest…
World / National Biscuit Day – 29 May
The Biscuit Factory , launched in the Coromandel Valley Community Centre on 30 May 2021, is one year old, so let's celebrate the ingenuity of our early settlers.. Written by…
On this day 80 years ago …
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…
Noel Buntine – in memoriam … 10.12.1927 to 11 January 1994
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…
Wishing all our supporters, family and friends,
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…
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‘Love a bell at Dingley Dell’
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…