When Woolloongabba was Wattle Scented

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Monday, January 29, 2018

The Queenslanders Squeezed Out of South Bank

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43,45 and 47 Tribune Street, South Brisbane, now gone. Walk through a twenty hectare area in in any major city in the world and you...
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Monday, February 23, 2015

Blessing of Breakfast Creek Holy Triad Temple - 1886 - First-hand Account.

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The Temple Trustees(?) and Priest, and temple exterior, 1886. Its a wonder that one of Brisbane's unique but lesser known historic...
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Sunday, December 28, 2014

Wet Spectators and Dodgy Infrastructure...A Queensland Swimming Tradition

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The lack of roof at the 2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, held in an unseasonably wet August and reports of poor public amenities and...
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Friday, March 22, 2013

Man Eating Tiger Eats Man on George St. Brisbane, 1888. Make Tracks if Tiger Attacks!

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The neighbourhood was all hustle and bustles in the early mornings as Turbot St Brisbane provided the street frontage to the Brisbane Produc...
Saturday, November 3, 2012

Comic Strip Parade - Bluey & Curley, Wally and the Major, Juliet Jones. 1953.

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Source: 1953 'The Courier-Mail STRIP PARADE.', The Courier-Mail(Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), 2 November, p. 14...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

Alexander Graham Bell Visits Brisbane, 1910...Thinks It's a Sh*thole.

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Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, visited Brisbane in June 1910. Since inventing the telephone some 35 years...
Saturday, September 8, 2012

High Cost of Living - Newspaper Cartoons and Comic Strip, 1912-1954.

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The Courier Mail, Brisbane, 1954. Barrier Miner, 1948 The Sydney Morning Herald, 1948. ...
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