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The animal advocate who moved every beast from the disgrace that was Sydney Zoo at Moore Park to the new, world’s best-practice Taronga Zoo, Mosman. The year was 1916, sixteen years before the opening of Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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Bob Dyer had much more than a face for radio. He was one of few contemporaries to make the smooth transition from radio to television. After a rocky road to fame, Mr Dyer made sponsors salivate with his ‘Pick-A-Box’ quiz show, one of television’s early blockbusters, running from 1948 to 1971. A long-time resident of
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Gough Whitlam changed Australia for the better, starting with the abolition of the racist White Australia policy. Decades before the Mosman assassination attempt on Prime Minister Arthur Calwell in 1966, the suburb was home to another Labor prime minister, albeit one who’d yet to start kindergarten. Gough Whitlam, the towering man with the booming voice,
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The shocking incident that rocked Sydney Cove colony eleven years after the First Fleet landing. This is a non-fiction story about my gggg-grandparents, Thomas and Elizabeth Jones. It is the result of extensive research — fuelled by a long-standing, familial cover-up that I’d doubted from the get-go. All ‘scenes’ in this story are anchored in
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It was Australia’s entry into WWI that saw a young widow, Myra Taylor, brace herself as she stood at North Head on a windy night in 1915. There she tested her rayless, light-throwing device to see if it might benefit the Allies, given light just ‘appeared’ in the sky – minus a telltale beam to
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If you caught the Anzac Day fly-past over Sydney Harbour in 2014, then you witnessed Flight Lieutenant Bill Purdy’s skill in the lead aircraft. Behind him, 40 Tiger Moth aircraft flew in formation. Fully licensed, he’d just turned 91. It’s been a while since. In April, Mr Purdy celebrated his 101st birthday. Ahead of the event,
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