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Built in 1917, Duncraigan house hosted garden parties for the social elite of Townsville until it was comandeered by US forces during the Second World War....
Tuesday 3 August 2010 -
Volunteers are determined to keep the recently re-opened Zara Clarke Museum viable...
Tuesday 18 May 2010 -
Tens of thousands have attended Anzac Day services across the state to remember the fallen heroes of Australian history....
Monday 26 April 2010 -
Townsville Little Theatre's production of Dinkum Assorted might be a musical comedy, but it addresses some serious issues about women in war...
Wednesday 31 March 2010 -
Simpson and his donkey are national heroes and infamous for carrying wounded men from the front line at Gallipoli... but they weren't alone....
Friday 24 April 2009
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It's a place that sends a shiver down a nation's spine, chills its soul and has a people in absolutely no doubt that history does repeat and that lightning indeed strikes twice, in one place. A place called Katyn. It was in this starkly striking forest that 22,000 of Poland's leading lights were ...
Thursday 26 August 2010 -
It's a place that sends a shiver down a nation's spine, chills its soul and has a people in absolutely no doubt that history does repeat and that lightning indeed strikes twice, in one place. A place called Katyn. It was in this starkly striking forest that 22,000 of Poland's leading lights were ...
Wednesday 1 September 2010 -
This year is the 70th anniversary of the voyage of the HMT Dunera, a ship that sailed between England and Australia during WWII and which was to become infamous for the mistreatment of its human cargo -- over two thousand internees who were mostly fleeing Nazism in Europe. To mark the anniversary, ...Tuesday 17 August 2010
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The 70th anniversary of World War II "Albury's Own" 2/23rd battalion....
Thursday 26 August 2010 -
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, ...Monday 19 July 2010

