Fred, a NW aboriginal became a bush circus horse rider and ended up in Victoria where he was long thought to be the model for Pelaco’s “Mine tinkit they fit” shirt advertisements. He w...
Rod Dickson’s idiosyncratic memoirs cover his early childhood in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, his years at Tyler St. Primary and Reservoir and Northcote High Schools and after leavin...
Maureen and Trevor Herbert, on a desert expedition with Dr Bill Peasley, found a half starved desert dingo and he adopted them. This is the story of their times together, enlightened by the ...
The newly created stations in the Upper Murchison became a byword for enterprise and have remained important pastoral properties to the present. A visit by a group of government officials an...
The mining journalist and politician wrote of the changes to the Murchison and it mines in 1895, several years after his first experiences there. Interesting comment on the people, mines and...
Nullagine probably has had more murders per head of population than any other place in Western Australia. The latest openly recorded being that of ‘Old Otto’ in 1983. Nullagine, the blis...
Snowy Rowles was hanged on circumstantial evidence for the murders on the lonely Rabbit Proof Fence.
The story of two journeys by camel, car and foot, with biographical entries on the author.
The life of a Queensland man of varied experiences grew up in the country town of Wondai in SE Queensland, and spent time as an apprentice electrician, sawmill labourer, postman, navy for ni...