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The 123 year old Halifax police station failed to meet reserve price at auction....
Monday 15 March 2010 -
The proposed auction of the old Halifax police station has angered some community groups. ...
Tuesday 23 February 2010 -
Back in 1945 when George Pemble caught a train across the Burdekin Bridge to go to a party, he never imagined his night would finish in the river with a steer pulling him to safety....
Monday 15 February 2010 -
630 ABC North Queensland took a trip down memory lane today at the Townsville Museum to celebrate the launch of Northern Nostalgia. ...
Thursday 4 February 2010 -
Once "the most splendid house in Townsville", Duncragan House perched on top of Melton Hill in Townsville has been neglected for several years. But now James Cook University and Mission Australia have joined forces to restore the historic mansion as part of a work for the dole program. ...
Thursday 4 February 2010
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There's been an ongoing thirty year dispute over what is Australia's intact oldest house. Historians and architects are arguing whether Experiment Farm Cottage in Parramatta, was built in 1795 or as the National Trust says, 1835. Regardless, the man who built the house, John Harris, is a ...

Tuesday 16 March 2010 -
The Battle of Fromelles has been called possibly the worst 24-hours in Australia's history....
Tuesday 16 March 2010 -
Private Robert Moncrieff, who went missing on March 21, 1966 during an SAS patrol in Borneo. His remains were found and identified by an Australian Army and Indonesian Armed Forces team in March 2010....
Tuesday 16 March 2010 -
Lieutenant Kenneth Hudson, who went missing on March 21, 1966 during an SAS patrol in Borneo. His remains were found and identified by an Australian Army and Indonesian Armed Forces team in March 2010....
Tuesday 16 March 2010 -
In week four of our special on the 1860 journey of John McDouall Stuart we make some river crossings. The ABC's Stewart Brash and local historian Stuart Traynor discuss John McDouall Stuart's epic journey north....
Tuesday 16 March 2010

