THE ARCHITECT OF ANZAC DAY Chaplain Lieutenant- Colonel Canon David Garland Our History and the Christian Connection The catch cry of Canon David Garland was “nothing is too good for our soldier boys”. It...
The Sydney Morning Herald Our History and the Christian Connection John Fairfax (1804 – 1877) John and Sarah Fairfax after fourteen years of hard work in growing their business in Leamington, England, stood in...
The Man Who Named Australia – Matthew Flinders Our History and the Christian Connection For over two hundred years, the final resting place of the man ultimately responsible for the naming of ‘Australia’ was...
Cannibals, Kanakas & Florence Young Our History and the Christian Connection The Queensland Kanaka Mission had received a request for help from a place where cannibalism is very much alive. Who would be willing...
Five Dollar Note Our History and the Christian Connection Queen Elizabeth ll – Longest serving English monarch Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II had two ceremonies to mark the beginning of her public office?...
Boxing Day 1903 saw 40,000 people in Wales, mainly miners go to Cardiff for a big celebration and many of them ended up all the worse for their drinking. Boxing Day 1904 saw only...
SAFE WORK AUSTRALIA Our History and the Christian Connection Bob Mellows. A smouldering fire in a timber pumphouse deep underground led to one of the greatest mine disasters in Australian history. It also led...
Australia’s First Newspaper – Robert Howe Our History and the Christian Connection Perched on a stool, bent over trays of typeset, Robert Howe was just eight years old when the King’s Representative inspected the...
Major General Sir Richard Bourke Governor of NSW, 1831-1837 Our History and the Christian Connection The ‘Fair Go’ Governor There were sectarian tensions in County Limerick, Ireland where Richard Bourke and his wife Elizabeth...
NAIDOC Our History and the Christian Connection William Cooper – Bill Ferguson – Aboriginal Activists NAIDOC represents the National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee and is celebrated each year. NAIDOC WEEK is a very...
Bill Ferguson (1882-1950) Our History and the Christian Connection INSPIRING ABORIGINAL CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER. Furious at being ignored by both political parties, Bill Ferguson resigned from the Labor Party and stood as an Independent...
On New Year’s Eve 1999, an estimated 2 billion television viewers around the world watched Sydney’s spectacular millennium celebrations. Sydney was to host the Olympic Games in 2000 and the city was the centre...
ANZAC – Egypt – ‘Banjo’ Paterson Our History and the Christian Connection Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson The line of horses struggled in the soft burning sand, their fetlocks sinking deep in the desert hills....
WILLIAM DAMPIER – Explorer Our History and the Christian Connection Who are they? The dark skinned Aboriginals could not believe what they were seeing. They look human but they look so pale, so ghost...
The FIRST FLEET Our History and the Christian Connection Captain Arthur Phillip The animals were taken on board two by two. Sound familiar? Well would you believe, this is what happened as Captain Arthur...
Our History and our Christian Connection Alfred Deakin – 2ND, 5TH and 7th Australian Prime Minister Two men were walking down a street in Melbourne CBD late one afternoon in 1878, deep in conversation....
