James Cook University's first computer was as heavy as a house....

Robert Logan Jack was Government Geologist of Queensland for 22 years, and spent most of that time based in Townsville. His great granddaughter Felicity Jack has written his biography based on a collection of letters, maps and charts found in a family attic. ...

The Charters Towers drive-in might be middle-aged but it's holding up against 3D movies and DVD players....

Volunteers are determined to keep the recently re-opened Zara Clarke Museum viable...

Despite his collection taking up the shed and part of the house, the president of the North Queensland Antique Bottle and Collectors Club is yet to satisfy his appetite for collecting....

Hans Post was in the Nazi SS, and at the end of the Second World War lied about his war history in order to avoid prosecution. He was imprisoned in the French prisoner of war camp Thoree le Pins. There he witnessed suicide and starvation and emerged after 6 months weighing only 78 pounds. He found his ...

Hans Post grew up in a German family who were fervent supporters of The Third Reich. He absorbed the ideology almost unquestioningly, joining the Hitler Youth and eventually the SS. He fought with an elite unit of the SS, saw a lot of death, but was also awarded The Iron Cross First Class for ...

Marie Armstrong began her long stage career as a ringleted, Shirley Temple look-alike but went on to become a member of Sydney's popular and notorious New Theatre. During the iciest days of the Cold War some called the New Theatre a front for the Communist party. Marie, like many others to come, ...

Today Robert Gray speaks about his recently released memoir, The Land I Came Through Last. Robert Gray was born in 1945, in Port Macquarie in New South Wales. He grew up in Coffs Harbour, where his mother struggled to keep the family together as his aristocratic, alcoholic father drank away the ...

The thirteenth of August is the centenary of the death of Florence Nightingale, the founder of the modern profession of nursing. Rear Vision looks at the life and work of this remarkable woman....