“We were standing on the deck and you could see smoke rising everywhere. All the major government buildings were destroyed.”
Malcolm Quekett
In darkness, sometimes with a background of air raid warnings, he could hear some of the children sobbing.
Amid fears for the safety of the premier and cabinet ministers, they were shifted out of their offices in the Old Treasury Building and into what was considered a more robust building in the city
For that generation it was a special time, and the memories of music, bands and venues are strong.
What is little known is that Henry Lawson lived in WA in two visits as his views were honed and he was at his most productive
Poodle clipping. Yes, at Paris in 1900. It involved 128 competitors performing in front of a crowd of 6000 where they had to clip the fur off as many poodles as they could in two hours.
Robert Drewe
Work of a trailblazing artist which shows WA over eight decades comes to light
He wears retirement-casualwear: a cap, a cashmere jumper knotted over his shoulders in winter and a polo shirt (with obligatory upturned collar) in summer. His clothing statement says legions.
“A young man purchased this railway ticket with every expectation he was going off to war, (but) he bought a return ticket and he thought he was coming home.”
Rebecca Parish
The Man Who Walked Backward, by Ben Montgomery, was about Plennie L. Wingo (real name), an American who back-walked for 18 months and 15,000 kilometres.
No discussion of sporting sayings is complete without mentioning the crisp one-liners of our own Dennis Cometti, broadcaster par excellence.
Due to his almost front-on run-up using his eastern cut-off style, Winter could move his approach around to find the firmest take-off point.
Domestic circumstances cause me to weigh in today on one of the First World’s most disputed topics, not far behind religious, racial and cultural differences, dangerous weather systems and American politics.
Towns sprang into life almost overnight. Buildings went up almost as fast as new shafts went down in the ‘Golden West’.
Welcome to the first day of winter: June 1. Unless you’re a hairsplitter about solstices and equinoxes and insist that winter doesn’t begin until June 21.
I was pleased that my mosquito-coil and paint-thinner purchases gave Bunnings such delight. Their email hoping that our transaction had opened up a deeper, more meaningful “relationship” was a surprise though.
If they were paid to play for their club, for many it was probably enough to cover the cost of boots and petrol to get to the game, but even that was a topic of some debate.
Stop the presses! Britain is following Australian bureaucrats’ enthusiasm for killing the apostrophe.
With his dashing good looks, flying helmet, goggles and daring deeds, Charles Kingsford Smith was a superstar of his time.
Learning to tackle stairs again, there was much for us to think about. (Like how come I’d never noticed stairs before?)
There he was. Legendary timber worker and axeman Dick Sproge. Standing high in the branches of a giant karri tree. Axe in hand. Not a sign of a harness or protective gear. Ready to work.
Hyena PR has a job ahead of it. Centuries of bad publicity through folklore, literature and films have given hyenas a dubious reputation.
Born in a little Goldfields town, Ronald Monson travelled the world to report on the grand sweep of modern history
The metric system of measurements began in Australia 58 years ago but common usage still often prefers the old imperial system.