The Captive White Woman of Gippsland can claim more legends than satin petticoats. Who was she? Did she exist? As a decade, 1840s seems the ripest time for rumour, though the yarn persisted for much of that century.
Word of mouth said one bunch of colonials found a pair of knickers plugging a native canoe in [...]
BEECHWORTH, VIC – Behind the Silver Creek Caravan Park is your once-in-a-lifetime chance to visit Heaven and Hell – in a single trip. Begin your walk from the paddock closest to town, aiming for a pair of wooden footbridges. Cross the upstream one, and keep to the trail between the two creeks. After 400 metres [...]
Bloody hell, these things become addictive:
HOBART – Home Of Boags And Rare Tigers
PERTH – Parochial Eagles Rule This Home [thanks Carolynn]
DARWIN – Drastically Anticipate Rain When It’s November
TAMWORTH – Town Adores Music Week (Or Really Tries Hard)
BROOME – Booming Resort On Ocean Mesmerizing Easterners
CAIRNS – Cashed Americans In Residence Needing Snorkels
WAGGA WAGGA – Where Athletes [...]
Imagine your suburb – or town – is an acronym. What would the letters stand for? I dreamt up the following list of soft targets. Feel free to hit the comments button, and add your own skulduggery.
SYDNEY – Sea? Yes. Decorum? No. Egos. Yes.
MELBOURNE – Major Events, Lousy Beaches, One’s Umbrella Required Nearly Everywhere
BRISBANE – [...]
In a posting follow-up, Rosleigh Rose – the mother of convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby – is relinquishing her fish-and-chippery Southport on August 12. Those with an appetite for current affairs – or rock ling – can still pull by the ongoing business (see Out of the Frying Pan) but don’t expect Schapelle’s extended kin [...]
CORRIGIN, WA – Grizzles Boysie Galbraith lies here. So too Twistie Hamilton, Doo Darls Caley and 16-year-old Bubbles – in a dog cemetery with no equal. A terra-cotta kelpie guards the gate, honouring the memory of Bowser, Stubby and Candy-May. Lassie and Snoopy are celebrity neighbours. Snakebite abridged the biographies of yardmates, Rex and Caesar. [...]
PORT MACQUARIE, NSW – Allman Hill is the rise above Town Beach on Clarence Street, looking down on the Sundowner Caravan Park. Allman himself was the first man to fly the British ensign from the crest when the port was a prison colony in 1821. Nowadays the attraction is an enclosure of graves, and three [...]
Old Jack died, leaving his cattle ranch to his daughters, Claire and Tess. Claire has farming in the blood, but Tess prefers to sell her chunk…
So went the telemovie in 1996, the unofficial pilot of the drama series, McLeods Daughter on Channel 9. Of course Tess falls in love with Drovers Run, and the girls [...]
Alan Waddell has worn out some shoe leather in the last two years. This 90-something dynamo has almost lost count of the miles he’s walked around Sydney, aiming to stroll every lane, parade, avenue and alley of every suburb on the map.
Did I say almost? Not a chance. With a pedometer on his hip (not [...]
CAPE TRIBULATION, Q – German made, super-quiet, the crane is a 47-metre giant that’s lodged within the Daintree rainforest to help Professor Nigel Stork, and other scientists, to reach the forest’s canopy.
Stork’s focus is beetles. ‘There’s possibly 1500 species”¦only found up here,’ he told Quantum on ABC TV in 2000, ‘and my guess is that [...]