An introduction for secondary students to the poetical works of Australia's national poet - Adam Lindsay Gordon - to commemorate his life, 150 years after his tragic death on 24 June 1870. Included is a brief overview of his life plus nine of his well-known poems.
Starting out with one truck, named ‘The High and the Mighty’, Noel Buntine pioneered a new era in cattle transport in the Top End. Within 20 years, his enterprise, Buntine Roadways, was operating the largest cattle-carrying buyisiness ibn northern Australia. Noel’s honesty and fairness in dealings earned ghuim the accolades synonymous with the name of his first Mack truck. He…
The record-breaking 1950 Melbourne Cup winning horse, Comic Court, and legendary trainer, the late Bart Cummings, were remembered during History Month, May 2018, in a photographic display at Normanville. Comic Court spent his first couple of formative years at the Bowyer brothers' Beau Neire Stud at Normanville. He was stabled, along with other horses, in a building which forms part…
Loves Creek Station is one of the earliest pastoral leases in Central Australia, and once covered near 4000 sq km. Gidgee and Grit traces the history of the region from geological beginnings and Aboriginal culture to the early explorers like John McDouall Stuart, and construction of the Overland Telegraph line. Also included is the story of the early pioneers like the…