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From larrikin to war hero

When Charles Bean described the Australian Digger as an instinctive leader with the capacity to act with initiative, he was describing James Hartley Morgan...

Ragtime queen chose her final resting place in Australia

If the pharmacy industry had claimed her first, the world would have missed out on the incredible musical talent of Una Winifred Atwell.

Unknown corpse becomes Australia's most profound mystery

Usually when someone goes missing, they are reported to police and a search is conducted. What happens, however, when someone is found but no one has reported..

Fatal attempt at mutiny on Norfolk Island

In early September of 1842, news had leaked from the penal colony on Norfolk Island via the government brig Governor Phillip when it landed in Sydney...

Politician had them 'quaking' for the workers

It is a humble headstone in a portion of Rookwood cemetery that is reserved for those who follow the Quaker faith...

Convict had many strings to his bow

Thomas Wells could almost write his own success story. How a convict, charged with embezzlement made it into the good graces of the Tasmanian governor...

Fatal Pulpit Hill convict breakout

The two men gripped hands as if their lives depended on it. For one of them, that was true.

Prime Minister's grandmother met two dukes

At 22 years of age Mary Ainslie arrived in Tasmania with her parents, all the way from Scotland at the beginning of 1853.

Artificial grasses and international thoroughbreds raised in...

Family cemeteries were commonplace in the early days of the settlers to the Northern Rivers before land was gazetted by the government specifically for burial

Bad health couldn't stop him advancing the local community

When David Jarman moved to the Brunswick River, little did the burgeoning area realise what a pioneer they had in their midst.

He was the founder behind a 144 year old newspaper

People complained about this "new-fangled idea of a newspaper", but William Kelleway went on to establish a newspaper that would last in print