Samuel Terry: The Convict Who Made it Big in Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 17, 2023
In June 1801, Samuel Terry stepped off Earl Cornwallis in chains. He had come to Sydney to serve out his sentence at the convict’s colony. ...
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The 1956 Olympic Flame Hoax
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 31, 2023
The 1956 Summer Olympics was held in Australia. As was the custom, the Olympic flame was lighted in Olympia, months before the games started...
William And Mary Bryant’s Heroic Escape From Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 10, 2023
The penal colonies that the British established in Australia during the 18th and the 19th centuries were nearly impossible to escape from. S...
Joseph Samuel: The Man Who Couldn’t be Hanged
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 16, 2023
Joseph Samuel was a petty criminal who broke into homes and stole stuff. There is nothing remarkable about his crimes, or about his life. Ho...
The White Woman of Gippsland
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2023
For the past 180 years a legend have persisted in Gippsland, in southeastern Victoria, Australia, about a shipwrecked white woman who was al...
Francis Greenway: The Only Forger to Be Featured on a Banknote
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 29, 2022
Australia owes many of its former convicts, who, through their ability and determination, made substantial contributions to the development ...
How Australia Fought The Prickly Pear Infestation
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 16, 2022
Prickly pear is a common name that refers to a number of large cactus species of the Cactaceae family that is endemic to the Americas. The s...
Murtoa Stick Shed
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2022
In the town of Murtoa, in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia, there is a large grain storage facility that looks rather like an enorm...
Australia’s First Tour of England in 1868 Was Made by an Aboriginal Cricket Team
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2022
Sports has been an important way to bridge different cultures. For the aboriginal Australians and their colonial settlers, it was cricket. ...
Lasseter's Reef: Australia’s Fabled Gold Mine
Anonymous
May 23, 2022
In 1929, Australia got its own living and breathing Indiana Jones. It was Lewis Harold Bell Lasseter, a gold prospector who would become the...
