EIDSVOLD, Q – After the war against Rommel, George Schafer was told to lead a conservative life and keep on a regular intake of stomach pills. Bugger that, thought George, or words to that effect.
The former dairyman took up fossicking instead, roaming the hills in search of agates, Avon bottles and anything else of curiosity. […]
Before websites were born, links had another meaning, known best to Irish golfers. Often hugging the shore, a links course was golf in the raw – high skill, low maintenance – with no fake bunkers, no Popemobiles, and no painted pebbles around the tee.
But you don’t need to jet to the UK to get the […]
The smallest customs house in Oz is now a private residence opposite the pub in Beachport (SA), though not before a brief existence as an ANZ sub-branch.
Our own Lilliput and Claustro chapters in Cassowary Crossing also list one of our smallest pubs (in Beveridge, Vic), our smallest cathedral (in Murray Bridge, SA), the smallest camera, […]
Clare Simons is only nine cms tall. But she knows how to work a room. This hologram gal packs in the whole POW story at the Cowra Visitors’ Centre, 320kms west of Sydney.
As part of her free spiel, Ms Simons lights a candle with a virtual flame, steps behind a three-dimensional bottle and generally hypnotises […]
Harriet has seen empires rise and fall. She’s seen world wars and penny farthings, Errol Flynn and Ned Kelly. As seasons passed, Harriet took in Federation, conscription, the serial fads of yo-yos and hula hoops. As Olympics flew by, Harriet has kept her heartbeat low – and working – eating grass with barely a care […]
At 2am, on November 2 this year, students grabbed their books and ran. One tenant wandered out to his balcony, only to realize his balcony no longer existed. The entire block of flats was teetering on a ‘hole with no end to it’.
Either the hole was an act of God, or Theiss John Holland, the […]
That kangaroo competition is getting keen.
Food Companion, the culinary trade mag, has opened a portal for any chef or dish-pig who can rename kangaroo-on-the-plate without conjuring images of cute little joeys, Skippy or the national emblem.
Marsu - as discussed in an earlier posting - has the jump on other suggestions, such as Yummy, Roadkill […]
William Beavis Randell made his packet growing wool in Gumeracha, a short drive east of Adelaide. Back then, in 1840, Gumeracha was a blank canvas, with no highway, no store, no video arcade and no place of worship.
So being a good Baptist, Randell bankrolled Salem Baptist Church in 1846. To complete the job, the farmer […]
At the Paris end of Collins Street, Melbourne, stands the Sofitel spire, a 50-storey hotel with all the luxuriant bells and whistles.
Valet parking? Check. Ballroom? Check. Fluffy bathrobes? Check…
Penthouses take up the top ten floors, but a few levels down is Cafe La, an eatery open to all well-dressed comers. Unless your bent is […]
On paper, Coolangatta means ‘good outlook’, which the Queensland beach resort certainly owns, but the story behind the name is far more twisted.
The tale begins 1000 kms south, in Nowra, NSW. The year is 1822. Alexander Berry, the first white man of the Shoalhaven district, lived below Mount Coolangatta - the original ‘good outlook’. Enchanted […]