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The Japanese bombing of Darwin and northern Australia - Australia's Culture PortalMerchant vessels Barossa and Neptuna burning in Darwin Harbour near the jetty after receiving direct hits during the first Japanese air raid on 19 February 1942. During the Second World War, the Japanese flew 64 raids on Darwin and 33 raids on other targ...
Unknown photographer, Freda Thompson (1906-1980), Pictured here in 1934 just before take off at Lympne Airport when she became the first Australian woman to fly solo from England to Australia, 1934. Courtesy of National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame. Avia...
Gp Capt Eaton Charles, CO RAAF Station Darwin. Image courtesy of the Charles Eaton Photographic Collection and Peter Dunn's Australia @ War. Eaton entered Australian aviation legend when commanding the air searches for two lost aircraft, the Kookaburra ...
Image courtesy of the National Trust of Queensland, Hou Wang Temple. The businesses in Chinatowns offered accommodation, medicinal herbs, fresh food grown by Chinese market gardeners and groceries. A Chinese school, a language and culture centre and a Ch...
Ships wrecked in Australian waters during the Second World War profoundly effected the Australian people, both civilian and military. Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial: 304919. The first Australian warship to be lost in the Second World War w...
Women's involvement in air defence forces in a flying capacity was highly limited until the 1970s. For decades, women's roles in air defence were restricted to jobs on the ground and within Australia. Australian women's involvement in air defence servic...
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The Japanese bombing of Darwin and northern Australia - Australia's Culture Portal (website Culture Portal )Merchant vessels Barossa and Neptuna burning in Darwin Harbour near the jetty after receiving direct hits during the first Japanese air raid on 19 February 1942. During the Second World War, the Japanese flew 64 raids on Darwin and 33 raids on other targ...
Author: Januszewski, Tadeusz; Ishiguro, Ryusuke: ISBN: 9788389450128 Description: Mushroom Model Publications 2009 2009 New book, 264 pages, 61 colour profiles, 200+ line drawings, many photos. Japanese Special Attack (Kamikaze) aircraft are well know, b...
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HINDER, ELEANOR MARY (1893-1963), welfare officer and international public servant, was born on 19 January 1893 at East Maitland, New South Wales, third daughter of Australian-born parents Robert John Hinder, headmaster, and his wife Sarah Florence, née ...
After an unexpected turn of events, a part-Aboriginal child, Nullah (Brandon Walters), makes his way into Sarah's life. Nullah reveals that the ruthless station manager, Neil Fletcher (David Wenham), is plotting with cattle baron King Carney (Bryan Brown...
The William Henry Boyce collection consists of a bomb fragment recovered by Nola's father, William (Bill) Boyce, from the bombed Darwin Post Office site in 1942. Just before 10am on the 19 February 1942, a Japanese bomb made a direct hit on a shelter in t...
George Bush's final swing through Europe went fairly well. Fifty million Americans don't have health care insurance and would like some. And two hundred million Americans don't like, don't 'approve' of George Bush any more. ...
ABBOTT, CHARLES LYDIARD AUBREY (1886-1975), politician and administrator of the Northern Territory, was born on 4 May 1886 at St Leonards, Sydney, son of Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, stipendiary magistrate, and his wife Marion, n. Aubrey's uncles,Äî(Sir) Jose...
Description>Small brown-black piece of German shrapnel wrapped in piece of gauze. Description>Small brown-black piece of German shrapnel. Description>Large, linear, piece of rusty brown jagged steel shrapnel from an Imperial Japanese Forces bomb. ...
Nullah reveals that the ruthless station manager, Neil Fletcher (David Wenham), is plotting with cattle baron King Carney (Bryan Brown) to take over Sarahís land. The contribution from the aboriginal cast, namely David Gulpilil and David Ngoombujarra is ...
When Lewis arrived at power the Australian steel industry was tottering and B.H.P. could not compete with imported steel. Unlike Delprat, Lewis encouraged B.H.P. to develop its own steel-based industries, the profits from which proved vital in the 1920s....
Charles Lydiard Aubrey Abbott (1886 - 1975), by unknown photographer, c1930, courtesy of National Library of Australia. ABBOTT, CHARLES LYDIARD AUBREY (1886-1975), politician and administrator of the Northern Territory, was born on 4 May 1886 at St Leonar...
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Allowing the Chinese communist party to use the Olympics to validate its hardline regime is possibly the biggest mistake the world Olympic movement has ever made. I feel sorry for the Chinese Americans who turned up to Justin Herman Place at the Ferry Ter...
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