epub |eng | 2015-10-28 | Author:Jim Haynes

Such is the account given of this memorable episode involving myself and the Governor of New South Wales. What an awful Cup it was in 1892. I have been at ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Kenneth Morgan [Morgan, Kenneth]

Aboriginal rights Aborigines had the right to vote in some Australian colonies, but Queensland in 1885 followed by Western Australia in 1893 debarred them from voting. The creation of the ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-09 | Author:Rebecca Macfie [Macfie, Rebecca]

NINE Who Will Say Stop? It was almost two decades since Harry Bell, then chief inspector of coal mines, had brought his regulatory authority to bear at the Huntly West ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-26 | Author:Paul Davey

Sinclair was acutely aware that his Cessnock launch on Sunday 21 June was a do or die affair. If it was not well received, if the media reported it negatively, ...

epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Robert Macklin [Macklin, Robert]

epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Hastings, David [Hastings, David]

Notes 1 This account is drawn from Coughtrey’s diary, his medical journal, the transcript of evidence he took against Vesey on 1 Oct. 1873, his report on the voyage, Vesey’s ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Martin Middlebrook [ Middlebrook Martin]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN May the 25th In an attempt to help with the intense air battle, Admiral Woodward had posted two of his ships, Coventry and Broadsword, as a ‘42–22 combination ...

epub |eng | 2006-10-08 | Author:Bruce Gamble

CHAPTER TEN ESCAPE: THE LAKATOI “… after many adventures we arrived at Port Moresby.” —Sergeant Clive MacVean, 2/22nd Battalion The mass murders at Tol and Waitavalo plantations on February 4 ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ray Whitrod

7 Papua New Guinea (1969-1970) LIFE was proceeding normally in Canberra when I was asked by an old colleague who was about to retire from the Police Commissioner’s job in ...

mobi |eng | 2011-07-26 | Author:

1 These words are spoken to Ren6 by the blind Indian Chactas at the beginning of ‘le Récit’ of Chateaubriand’s ‘Atala’ (Fernand Letessier (1962) [ed.] Atala, Rene, les Aventures du ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Patrick Lindsay

We marched along the road in single file keeping to the right under cover of the hedge as much as possible – and about five minute intervals between platoons, till ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:James Boyce [Boyce, James]

expedite the general occupation by the people of this Kingdom or their descendents of those vast territories, in which our national wealth and industry have already, in the last half ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Jill Ker Conway

7. THE NARDOO STONES IN THE 1950S, ONE’S first vision of the University of Sydney from its main gates was of a graceful sweep of lawn curving up a gentle ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-24 | Author:Jeanine Leane

Marching with Hannibal We used to lose our Aunty Bubby sometimes. Aunty Boo would say, ‘She’s prob’ly up on the hill with that bloody book.’ That bloody book was Wuthering ...

epub |eng | 2012-05-31 | Author:Brian Gill

Old specimens in natural history museums, provided they have been carefully documented and faithfully numbered and labelled, tell many such stories—not just of bygone days and remote and exotic places, ...