by ColanG0R | Jul 18, 2023 | S
Sydney Folk Clubs & Performers Conscription Malcolm J. Turnbull[ This paper was originally published, in six parts, in TRAD & NOW Magazine]I suspect that debate over the relative merits, importance and long-term influence of the early Melbourne and Sydney...
by Warren Fahey | Jul 8, 2023 | S
Sydney Stories Films “These films are fantastic – entertaining and educational – you have done our city proud!” Clover Moore, Lord Mayor, City of Sydney. A series of twelve documentary films on aspects of Sydney. Approximately 15 –...
by Warren Fahey | Jun 21, 2023 | S
Sydney Suburban Snapshots Sydney is a BIG CITY with a population fast approaching five and a half million. It has grown (and groaned) like Topsy, and with years of dubious planning, it is often a nightmare to traverse. Traffic congestion makes many of us frustrated,...
by Warren Fahey | Jun 21, 2023 | S
Sydney & Town Life Unlike the bush, the history of city and town life shows a different side of Australia. Relatively rapid growth, especially in the 1860s gold rush era, saw many fine colonial buildings, parks and amusements constructed. Life in our cities...
by Warren Fahey | Jun 20, 2023 | S
Sport History & Songs Australians are ‘sports crazy’ and ‘gambling mad’. One possible reason for our national obsession with the bat, ball, pool and net is that, as a nation, we had to create our own myths. Unlike older cultures, we had no epic stories of ancient...
by Warren Fahey | Jun 19, 2023 | S
Sydney Harbour It is difficult to admire the beauty of Sydney Harbour without thinking back to what it must have looked like before the settlement by the Europeans. The indigenous people of the various clans surrounding the bays and inlets were not as nomadic as those...
