History
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The ghost of Spicers Gap
THE rain was pouring down as if sent through a sieve. No glimmer of light. No lamp as a guide on the steep mountain track…
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Spinning a yarn: the history of a phrase
This old photograph from a family album of Anton and Pauline Hiller, Pastor and Frau Pastor of Dugandan Church (1919-1951), depicts a domestic scene replicated…
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Queensland’s lucrative fur trade: Part 2
An argument for a regular open season on possums put forward by Joseph Maguire from Miles in central Queensland to the Minister for Agriculture and…
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Queensland’s lucrative fur trade
Sloths, monkeys and bears, three different names for the native creatures first sold as pets by hustlers in the Sydney and Melbourne markets. None of…
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The Pariah: HMAT Boonah
Dictionary Definition: Pariah: A social outcast, a non person, leper, reject, untouchable, undesirable. No, not the town we know and love, but the Australian troopship in World War I,…
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Magdalena’s journey from the Fassifern to SA in 1918
When Betty Crepin lived with her oldest son Des in Boonah, before she moved into the Retirement Village in her last years, she used to…
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The horse, the painter and the kangaroo
The painter was seated in the paddock in front of a giant canvas. His work was nearly complete. There was nothing left to be done…
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Lacemakers: from the Lace Wars to a $40m painting
Between 1669 and 1672, during the Golden Age of Dutch Master Painters, Johannes Vermeer produced a series of paintings that “tenderly showed women absorbed in…
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The great Fassifern marsupial hunt: A dire and dreadful slaughter
IN the 18 months to July 1878, more than 30,000 kangaroos were killed by hunting parties on the Fassifern station run. The countryside was in…
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Award win for walking in the boots of Italian PoWs
The prestigious John Oxley Library Award for 2020 has been presented to an author of a book and website chronicling the time when Italian prisoners of…
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The sad story of Truganini
Some years back now, Merrilyn and I ferried the caravan across the D’Entrecasteaux Channel from the mainland to Bruny Island, below Hobart, south east Tasmania,…
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Aussie fighters harried Japanese in WWII Timor
by GENEVEIVE ISBELL Lt Col Alexander (Alan) Spence. My father and mother, Alan and Dorothy Spence, bought The Fassifern Guardian in the mid 1960’s and…
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