History

A survivor links the Scenic Rim timber industry, Ipswich commerce and three heritage Brisbane homes The girl resisted the primal pull to full wakefulness. Still…

Don’t be brash, don’t be faint hearted. Take a deep breath and step out into the centre of the grass green paddock. Raise your eyes…

Michelle Mason-Brown says she competed in high jump just for the fun of it. It’s an unusual admission for an Olympic and Commonwealth Games medallist,…

Members of the Queensland Living History Federation, ate, slept, and marched as soldiers of the Soviet Army while hiking through the D’Aguilar National Park over…

It was the winter of 1972. It was an era before a government car was assigned to Members of the Queensland Parliament. And so, the…

John Gould gave two great gifts to the nation that became Australia – depictions and descriptions of endemic mammals and birds before they became extinct…

Planning has already started for next year’s Box Flat memorial service which will mark the 50th anniversary of the mining disaster. A crowd of about…

One of the homes linked to Grandchester’s long pastoral and railway history stands in the corridor mapped for the Inland Rail project. The home, Brucedale,…

DIED — On August 18, [1841] at Egham, [England] after five days giving birth to a daughter (her eighth child), Elizabeth, the beloved wife of…

For more than 50 years, teenagers have taken part in a touching ritual at the old Goodna Cemetery where they place flowers at the graves…

It was a scrubber. A wild bull, born in the scrub, aggressive and territorial. Lean and muscular, it was thick necked, broad and hefty across…

THIS month marks the 95th anniversary of the granting of the first, large scale ‘permit to prospect’ for oil in the Fassifern. The Adelaide-based Australian…