The South East Art Society (SEAS) is holding its annual Members’ Exhibition in the Old Courthouse Gallery, Mount Gambier until 12 November 2023. There were two prize categories – the…
On 19 October 1833, Australia's national poet was born at Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham and the Cotswolds, in Gloucestershire, England. Nineteen years later he left his homeland, never to return,…
With a total complement of 113 on board, including 84 passengers and 29 crew, this would be the beginning of a week-long horrific ordeal, in mid-winter, at the mercy of…
This is a great opportunity to become acquainted, or re-acquainted, with Australia’s national poet – Adam Lindsay Gordon – who, according to fellow poet Henry Kendall, ‘… sang the first…
New book - Bungala House: Historic country home in Yankalilla - available soon. With more than 160 years of history, Bungala House began in the 1860s with the Butterworth brothers,…
Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbour, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things…
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…
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…
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…
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…