People and History

By Krista Schade Robert Ronald’s work “The Riverina - People and Places” is an important record of the settlement of the region around Hay. It was first printed in Melbourne in 1960 by EW Cheshire Pty Ltd. Robert’s younger brother agreed to underwrite the printing costs, after publishers

By Krista Schade 71 years ago Marg Beckwith, then five-year-old Margaret Short stepped off the good ship Dorsetshire onto Australian soil at Sydney Harbour. She was accompanied by her parents and little brother Jim, aged two, and the family had travelled from Scotland as ’10 pound Poms’. Marg was born

By Krista Schade Teenage bushranger, William Brookman was born at Tumut, New South Wales, in 1851. Brookman was not a prolific bushranger, nor is he particularly noted in most history books. He was a member of the gang of Jerry Duce, real name Williams, former lieutenant of Robert Cottrell aka

Joseph Furphy (26 September 1843 – 13 September 1912) was an Australian author and bush poet who is widely regarded as the "Father of the Australian novel". He mostly wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins and is best known for his novel Such Is Life published in 1903, which

When the war was over, the British were all sent home, but because his father was Australian, he wasn’t afforded the same treatment. During this time, he often crossed the border into the Belgian Congo, and enjoyed a lot of big game hunting. During this time, a leopard killed